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< S pilyay T ymoo November 8,1985 Page 3 Indian business conference set Thursday and Friday, Novem ber 21 and 22, are the days set aside for the Oregon Indian Business Development confer ence co-hosted by the Oregon Commission On Indian Servi ces, O regon D epartm ent of Economic Development, Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon State World Trade Council. The two-day confer ence will be held in the.state Capitol building. The purpose of the meeting is to provide information on how to turn ideas into a business in an organized and successful man ner. Also, the conference will provide a forum for reflecting on the past and considering the future. Information will also be S p ily ^ Tymoo pnoto by behrenu provided on state and other The administrative staff o f the Warm Springs Police Department m oved into their new quarters last financial and technical assist week. ance programs that can help to develop Indian businesses both on and off reservations. In addi ction, domestic and international We will be accepting applicar accept applications. All, paper business opportunities will be tions for winter term on a first work by the student must be explored for the development còme, first serve basis. Eligibil complete: forms turned in, FA F’s ity for each participant will de completed and mailed, accep- The Wednesday night Warm pend if they meet the standards tance by colleges/universities Springs Bowling League needs set by the Confederated Tribes. (copy must be in our file), test a team to fill a vacancy left by November 15, 1985 5:00 p.m. ing through A dult Learning the Brightwood Bowling team jl The fisheries program in who were forced to withdraw will be the last day we wiP Center (COCC-Geoff Bury). Warm Springs is focused oft because of shift changes. increasing anadromous fish pro Anyone interested in spon soring a team can contact the duction. Studies throughout the M aternal grandparents are Pelton Lanes in Madras. The year provide data necessary to Greg and Patti (Green) Pearce, of Palouse, W ashington áre Jean Green and Dave Green of fees and other details can be evaluate the production, com proud to announce the birth of M adras and paternal grandpa worked out at that time. The pare it with previous years and their first son, Kenneth Lee, rents are Mr. and Mrs. Al Pearce team is needed by November who was born October 23,1985 of Bellevue, Washington. Great 20, the start of the second round - in Pullman, Washington. Ken grandm other is Julia Green of of league action. neth weighed in at seven pounds Madras. Winter term applications due Team needed Of Indian businesses. space must be made. The conference will also fea Registration for the confer ture the Success Exchange Cen ence is $20 per person with ter, which will be open each day banquet and luncheon tickets of the conference to provide a optional, which are $11 and $8, informal meeting for network respectively. Early registration ing, sharing experiences, dialo is encouraged. gue, making invaluable contacts, For more information con solving business problems and tact. Kathy Gorospe or Peggy other pertinent information. Exhi Wubker at the Oregon Corm bit space will also be available. mission on Indian Services at Exhibitors must register for the 378-5481. conference and reservations for W/C schedule changed - U ntil the Nutritionists’ posi tion is filled at IHS, Maggie Lindsay from Madras will be filling in at the Clinic. She will be working each Tuesday from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. start ing on November 5 th. Tips means that WIC applications (certifi cations and recertifications) will only be done on Tuesday. The clinic workup (heights, weights, hematocrits, etc.) can be com- pleted by the nurses, Monday through Friday, but you will have to see Maggie to complete the application. No vouchers will be given out until the appli cation is completed and received by our office,. Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any further ques tions, please contact RuthTeWee at 553-1161, ext. 291. Data helps evaluate production Birth announcem ent plan for the future. One method used to estimate chinodk populations is to count the number of redds in streams and rivers. Redds are sites in the streams where chinook deposit eggs. Characteristics that make redds identifiable, according to f o u r oz, Continued front page 1 Thanksgiving mini-powwow set annual Thanksgiving dinners Will be held at the Simnasho and Agency Longhouse. The schedule for the mini powwow and dedication are as follows: Friday morning—tradi tional Indian dedication cere monies of thé Longhouse: six a n d under girls anti boys con- test ; a n d 7- J 2 y ears girls a n d boys contests. Saturday sche dule is as follows: m orning-^ specials, name-giving cérémo nies. giveaways and other cere monies; afternoon—to be an nounced, grand entry, 13-17 years of age girls and boys con tests; team dancing for girls and boys 17 and under. On Sunday Senior lunches W ashat services will start at 10- 10:30 a.m.; grand entry at 2 p.m.; fancy dance for 18 and up; ladies shawl/cloth dance; mens dance; traditional 18 and up womens circle and mens, and the traditional senior division for men and women. Each even- T u esd ay , N ovem ber 12—Punch, franks, macaroni and cheese, relish dish, peas, fruit. Thursday, November 14—Pear grape juice, tripe and hominy, green salad, brussel spropts, french bread, fruit: in g a b la n k e t d a n ce will be h e ld . d a y ,N o v e m D e r 19 - D r u m m e r s w il 1 b e p aid a n d .. Lemonade, pork ehops and apple so m e lo d g in g w ill b e p ro v id e d sauce, rice, broccoli, tossed for visitors. Meals will be served salad, wheat rolls, fruit. during the three-day ceremonies Thursday, November21—Ap and powwow. For more infor ple pear juice, oven fried chicken, mation contact Pierson Mitchell, potatoes, corn, coleslaw, wheat 553-1406 or M ona Jim , 553- bread, fruit. 1322. Anyone who wishes to Tuesday, N ovem ber 26- make a donation can contact Orange juice, ham and baked Mona. salmon, fruit salad, sweet pota toes, corn, rolls. T h u rsd a y , N ovem ber 28—Punch, meatloaf, potatoes, peas and cauliflower, Carrots salad, white bread, fruit. Two (2) percent milk served at each meal. All meals served with coffee, tea and milk. General Council Meeting November 12 and November 20 Dinner at 6:00 p.m. Meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. tribail fish biologist Cris Stain- brook include: gravel is small to medium in size; water current at redd locations is moderate; depth of water is 6-24 inches. Counts are made during spawning sea son usually extending from (ate August through September. Uftfortunately some stream areas are virtually impossible to reach, says Stainbrook. Surveys in the same areas over the years provide data which indicates chinook preference for certain spawning areas. Stainbrook points out out that redds, now are appearing in areas which have recently been opened up to chinook, such as above Straw berry Falls. This year’s low water condition appeared to keep redds lower in each stream. Counts for 1985 show that redd counts in index areas is down. Redds totaling 390 wefe* Counted a s c o m p a re d io (9 8 4 ^ to ta l of 429 a n d 198^ with 421. a Although total production in the Warm Springs River system has increased over the years, a major problem has come about in not being able to separate wild from hatchery stock. The fin clipping program authorized by the Tribe with Bonneville Power Adriiinlstration funding provides a means for identifica tion. The system allows wild Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk fish to escape upriverwhile hat Collecting data—Counting redds to estimate chinook populations chery fish are used as brood are tribal natural resources fishery technician aides Cassie Cle stock. Over the years wild fish ments (left) and H obo Patt. Observing from the raft is Carla may have been taken unknow ingly. By next year., returning Conner. fish will show fin clip marks enabling accurate wild and hat chery counts. Indian columnist’s anger wins award This article reprinted from the Oregonian. Martin, South Dakota—It still1, pains him, deep in his gut, to remember how the priests tried to beat the Indian out of him. “We, were punished for speak ing Lakota,” he said. “We had to bite down on a heavy rubber band. And while we held it in our teeth, the priests would pull it back, and snap it across our lips. It made a believer out of But Tim Giago never forgot the language, or the anger that began to stir within him. And years later, when he had the skills, he struck back with words and skewered his tormentors, and many like thein who, in ignorance or malice, belittled the Native American. Recently in Washington, D.C., Giago was honored for his words, born of his anger, with the pres tigious H.L. Mencken Award fior Newspaper Column Writing. “ He speaks with some out rage—and some sympathy,” said Reg M urphy, publisher of the Baltimore Sun, the award’s spon sor. “He was direct and straight forward. Mencken didn’t believe in pulling punches.” Giago, whose weekly column, “Notes from Indian Country,” is published in seven newspap ers, most of them in South D akota, beat out some of the biggest names in American jour nalism, including Jimmy Bres- lin of the New York Daily News. Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko is a previous winner. “I am writing for Indians, Giago said, “But whites read it, too. I hope they’ll learn some thing. They may not always agree, but it has given them another point of view.” In Indian country, the voice of the American Indian is still largely silent. It was that way in 1979 when Giago was hired to write a column in the Rapid City (S.D) Journal. Suddenly there were stories about successful Indians in the . White author ities no longer were the only source of information on the Pine Ridge Reservation.. In his column the American Indian, so often a caricature with feather and war whoop, became human. “From that small beginning, it absolutely amazes me how attitudes have changed in South D akota,” Giago said, “At a time when racial feelings were bit- ter—from the 1973 Wounded Knee takeover—I was given an opportunity to write a column from my heart, and put down opinion I grew up with. An Indian opinion. W ithout cen sorship. It gave me confidence.” It was self-esteem that Giago, now 51, had lost as a youngster. He grew up in a Lakota home in a timé before welfare, a time of family farms and peace on th e ' reservation. But a time also of acculturation and assiipilation, national policies that sought to rid native Americans of their Indianness, to force them in the white mainstream. The schools were the laboratories. Attended Jesuit school O n Pine Ridge, children at tended boarding schools, run either by the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Catholic Church. Giago went to the Holy Rosary Indian Mission in,Pine Ridge, run by Jesuits. It was like the military, with captains and marches to supper. He learned Latin and English and a got a good education. But he read from texts that called Indians howling savages and South D akota ap uncivilized, unoccupied wilderness. He did well in writing and read vora ciously. But still he was forbidden to speak Lakota, the language of his home. And he was told, in so many ways, that he and his ancestors were rotten. rim Giago, Editor-Publisher o f the Lakota Times in Martin, South Dakota, he is also the Chairman o f the Native American “I was part of a guard exper Press Association. H e received the Mencken award fo r Newspaper iment that failed, but it des Column writing just recently in Washington, D.C., beating out troyed a lot of Indian lives,” some highly noted column writers in the country today. Giago said; “It confused the hell out of me. 1 came out of Holy television station. It was his Rosary with a total lack of self- writing that attracted the edi tors of the Journal, in search of confidence of who I was.” an Indian voice. At the same time, discrimina With early success, Giago be tion was ram pant in border towns. Indians were not permit came a full-time reporter. With ted to drink, and in nearby growing confidence, he quit to Rushville, Nebraska, they had start his own paper, the Lakota to sit in the balcony in the movie Times, on the reservation. Using a 1946 Chevy owned by his theater. wife’s cousin as collateral, he “You felt you were worth got a $4,000 bank loan. Today, five years later, the less,” he said, “I was also angry. I had a hard time adjusting. It Times is the largest weekly in wasn’t until my early 40s that I South Dakota, with a circula began to settle down. The Indian tion of 7,000 and the largest male has a very difficult time independent Indian weekly in finding himself, what he wants the United States. This year it to do'. Too often he takes the will gross $340,000 and employ direction of alcohol or suicide.” 13 persons—all Indians. It is Giago’s proudest achievement. Giago fled Holy Rosary a I n his entry for the Mencken year before g raduation. He aw ard , he su b m itted th ree joined the Navy, tried various columns: life at Holy Rosary; colleges, worked for J.C. Periny alcoholism on the reservation; Co. Inc. in California for sev and an attack on the “Washing eral years and eventually re ton Redskins,” Indian bureau turned to the reservation to crats who run the Bureau of work for the tribe in economic Indian Affairs. They are typical development. He also began of his columns, which range writing poetry. from nostalgia to attacks on trib a l go v ern m en t and the American Indian movement. The Poems published judges said the columns con “I found a real release for my tained “compelling emotion and anger,” he said. The poems piled compassion.” “This award will open a lot of up in a shoe box until a friend urged him to publish them. “The doors, for me and Indian peo Aboriginal Sin,” a collection ple,” Giago said. “I hope it will about life at Holy Rosary, came cause editors to look at us in a different light: that we can put out in 1978. By this tiriae, Giago was writ things down on paper that peo ing occasionally for Indian pub ple will enjoy. Indians have a lications and had begun an inter hell of a lot to teach white view show on a Rapid City society.”
