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The annual All-Indian Tygh
Valley rodeo is "alive and well,"
according to the Tywama Saddle
Club. Rumors have circulated that
there would be no rodeo this year
and to discount those rumors the
saddle club rodeo posters state all
is "alive and wcll"as far as the 38th
Annual Rodeo goes.
The Tygh Valley rodeo is held
annually at the Tygh Valley All
Indian Rodeo grounds located just
north of the town of Tygh Valley
and 30 miles south of The Dalles
on highway 97.
The two-day rodeo will have
daily shows starting at I p.m. on
Saturday and Sunday. On Friday,
May IS and Saturday, May 16,
western dances will be held at the
dance hall located on the grounds
Buckaroo breakfasts will be held
on Saturday and Sunday from 6:30
to 10:30 a.m. with a cost of $4 for
an adult and $2 for a child. The
queen selection will be open to all
tribes. All entrants are to be on
horse back and in full Indian regalia,
single and between the ages 13-18
years of age. The contest will be
held Saturday, May 16 at 1 1 a.m.
The annual Indian arts and crafts
fair will be held at the grounds.
Indian dances will be held Saturday,
May 16.
Admission for the rodeo shows
will be S3 per day per adult with
kids fee of $2 per day and small
children free. People interested in
advance tickets sales for groups of
ten or more people will receive
$1.50 off each ticket. Send mone"
Bill postponed In D.C.
to Nella Price, Route I, Box 39,
Tygh Valley, Oregon 97063.
A special day for the Senior
Citizens will be held on Sunday
witTi rodeo tickets at half price.
This year, the rodeo will be
sanctioned by Western States Indian
Rodeo Association and all other
recognized Indian Rodeo
associations.
Events featured in the rodeo will
be I. saddle bronc, 2. bareback, 3.
bull riding (open to the first 32 paid
entries). 4. bull dogging, 3. calf
roping, 6. wild cow milking, team
roping (entry fee $90 per tcam-2
loops must enter as a team). 6. girls
barrel race (one go-round), and 7.
wild horse racing (team fee of $43
limited to the first 16 teams, no set
ups, no trade outs). Each event will
have an added purse of $500; in the
wild horse racing the purse will be
split with $250 for each day. All
entry fees for events is $45. A $5
office fee drawn from each entry.
Buckles will be given to the winner
of each event.
A "top hand" saddle will be
given to the cowboy entered in a
timed event and a judged event
totaling the most earned.
Entries open May 7, 1987 and
close May 9, 1987 at 5 p.m. Mail
entries to Rodeo Secretary Ginger
Smith. P.O. Box 54 1, Warm Springs,
Oregon 97761. Enclose entry fees
and WSIRA card number. Entry
fees must be paid with money orders
or cash, no Canadian money will
be accepted. Call Ginger at (503)
553-1482 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. All
entry fees must be paid by May 9,
1 987. All permits must be purchased
by 12 noon on Saturday, May 16.
All phone entries must have a
current WSIRA card to enter.
For general information on the
rodeo and related events call (503)
544-2581 or (503) 544-2681.
New Officers Hired
The H arm Springs Police Department recently hired two new special
officers, (left to right) Ivan Brown Otter, 27, and Larry Tashquinth, 25.
Both men are Indian and are working the day shift.
Mingle featured on KWSI
A game of skill and strategy
combining luck and brain powerto
win. FM 96.5 KWSI radio presents
the return of Mingle this month.
Radio mingle is based on the Oregon
produced word game Mingle Word
Roulette. With each spin of the
Mingle Word-Roulette wheel, let
ters are randomly selected and each
listener is challenged to build the
"best word" within a time limit
then to call it in and win.
No storehouse of trivia is needed
to play just a game card, some
thing to write with and a radio.
Tony Aceti, of Silver Lake, Oregon,
Mingle Word-Roulette's creator and
producer describes the game as
"fun-filled, educational and
exciting!"
All are invited to catch mingle
fever on KWSI!
Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D.
Hawaii), Chairman of the Senate
Select Committee on Indian Affairs
recently announced that the com
mittee has indefinitely postponed a
hearing scheduled for March 12,
1 987 on S. 555, a bill to provide for
federal regulation of gaming on
Indian lands.
"In view of the Supreme Court's
decision in the California v. Caba
zon case recently," said the Sena
tor, "we need to give tribes and
other interested parties time to
assess the impact of the decision on
the pending legislation."
Under the decision, which Inouye
said is viewed by the nation's Indian
tribes as a "substantial victory,"
the court held that states have no
right to interfere with tribal regula
tion of Indian bingo operations.
Because the pending legislation
provides a strong federal role in
regulation that is preemptive of
states, tribes have generally viewed
this as a compromise.
The senator has advised the
nation's tribal chairmen of the post
ponement and is awaiting input
from all interested parties on the
future course of legislation.
Participants
sought for July
11 parade
A parade will be held in Oregon
City Saturday, July II, 1987, to
commemorate the end oftheOregon
Trail. Indian groups and individu
als are encouraged to participate in
the parade. Anyone interested in
being in the parade should contact
JohnRiggs, 16251 So Swan, Oregon
City, Oregon 97045 or phone him
at 656-3893. Deadline for entrants
is June 10.
ACTS airs on local
channel 13
Photo exhibit precedes book by Stowell
An exhibition of vivid portraits
of Warm Springs Indian from the
book, "Faces of a Reservation," by
Portland photojournalist Cynthia
Stowell is open to the public through
September at the Oregon Histori
cal Center, 1230 SW Park Avenue,
Thomas Vaughan, executive direc
tor, has announced.
Admission is free. Hours are 10
a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday through
Saturday.
The book, published by the Oregon
Historical Society Press for release
in mid-May has an introduction by
U.S. District Court Judge Owen
M. Panner, a member of the OHS
board of directors.
Stowell, now editor of alumni
and faculty publications at Port
land State University, lived on the
Warm Springs reservation for nearly
seven years and worked as a wai
tress, tutor, reporter for the tribal
newspaper Spilyay Tymoo, and
a free-lance writer and photographer.
Her 220-page book is the culmina
tion of her 12-year association with
Warm Springs.
In her introduction to the exhi
bition of 26 photographs with inter
pretive captions, Stowell explains:
"My efforts to document the cul
ture, lifestyle, and concerns of the
Warm Springs, Wasco and Paiute
people were colored by my rather
ambiguous role on the reservation
as both an involved community
member and a respectfully detached
observer.
"By introducing some of my
friends and acquaintances to the
public, I am sacrificing a bit of
their valued privacy (with their
permission) in the hope of foster
ing some knowledge and under
standing of a people who were
placed and kept at a geographic
and social distance from the rest of
Oregon's population. Warm
Springers find it a bit uncomforta
ble to be singled out for individual
attention; leave it to a non-Indian
to choose this face-by-face approach!
But I still believe it is the best way
to encourage the kind of personal
engagement that is necessary when
cultures become acquainted."
The Warm Springs Indian Reser
vation, now 639,898 acres, was
created by a treaty in 1855. Well
into their second century on the
reservation, the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs have created a home
and economic base for themselves
out of the rugged north central
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Oregon land. "Faces of a Reserva
tion" offers for the first time an
in-depth personal photographic and
historic veiw of the largest reserva
tion in the state.
Stowell details the cultural and
anthropological differences between
the Wasco, Sahaptin and Paiute
people who make up the Confed
erated Tribes. She writes about tTie
maze of treaties, counter-treaties
and acts that placed the tribes on
the reservation and then whittled
away at the landbase. The strains
of retaining the values of the past
while moving into the future come
through clearly in her prose.
The oldest statewide cultural insti
tution in Oregon, the Society has
been publishing trade and scho
larly books since 1873. This is but
the latest of its publications on
Indian history. Others include an
authoriative atlas, "Oregon Indi
ans: Culture, History and Current
Affairs," (1983), a map showing
locations of Indian languages, a
Warm Springs Indian Reservation
historic map, and a book on Klick
itat basketry.
Warm Springs cable teevee cus
tomers can now tune to channel 13
and finds "ACTS", a Christian
education and entertainment chan
nel sponsored by the Southern Bap
tist Convention.
The American Christian Televi
sion System is the biggest telecom
munications efforts by a religious
denomination and reaches more
than six-million homes.
Billed as "the channel families
can trust," ACTS offers original
family and Christian entertainment
and inspiration in a variety of TV
formats. It has been on the air since
June, 1984.
While other religious broadcas
ters have developed satellite-fed
TV networks, Southern Baptists
are the first to link a national net
work with local churches. Accord
ing to Warm Springs Baptist min
ister Allen Elston, the "possibilities
are endless," as far a local pro
gramming is concerned. Future plans
include broadcasting local news,
tribal knowledge, health, education
and sports as well as the possibility
of running a film series.
Presently, the weekly program
schedule include a talk show, news
magazine, children's show, musi
calvariety programs, an offering
for senior, adults, a live call-in
counseling program, a country music
show, and how-to program on cook
ing, outdoor sports and gardening.
Although the network is oper
ated by the Southern Baptist, ACTS
president Jimmy Allen sees ACTS
as a TV ministry that all mainline
Christians, which now number 100
million in the United States, can
call their own. Other denomina
tions already are producing pro
grams for the network, including
Episcopal, Presbyterian, Desciples
of Christ, United Methodist, Luth
eran and Catholic groups.
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The photographs of Cynthia Stowell are featured at the Oregon Historical Center in Portland and precede her
book on Warm Springs, titled "Face Of A Reservation". This photo of Ellen Squiemphen is just one among 26
photos appearing at the center through September.
Spilay Tymoo .Siaff
MANAGING EDITOR Sid Miller
ASSISTANT EDITOR Donna Behrend
PHOTO SPECIALISTWRITER Marsha Shewczyk
REPORTERPHOTOGRAPHER Pat Leno-Baker
TYPESETTERCIRCULATION Priscilla Squiemphen
FOUNDED IN MARCH OF 1976
Spilyay Tymoo is published by-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs. Offices are located in the basement of the Old Girls
Dorm, at 1 1 15 Wasco Street. Any written materials to Spilyay Tymoo
should be addressed to:
Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. BOX 870, Warm Springs, Oregon 97761
Phone: 553-1644 or 553-1161, ext. 274, 285 or 321. The
darkroom can be reached at 553-1161, ext. 286
Subscription rate: Within the U.S. $6.00 per year
Outside U.S. $12.00 per year
ONI teams noted,
state results given
Lack of space prevented the print
ing of the names of all Jefferson
County participants in the Olym
pics of the Mind competition in the
last issue of Spilyay Tymoo. Besides
the three groups mentioned going
to State the following students were
also part of the Olympics of the
Mind district competition:
Coached by Camille Harris and
Chenette Fischer one team con
sisted by Staphani Harris, Erika
Harris, Becky Fischer, Heather
Fischer, Randall Harvey, Allison
Sites and Jason Thomas.
Yvonne EarL Lizzy Smith, Manda
Neilson, Rafe Wysham, Zach Druc
kery and Nate Hamilton were in a
group coached by Ben Hamilton,
Kevin Tracy and Mark Johnson.
Paul Finlay coached Melinda
Casady, Joel Neilson, Kim Busl
ach, Jennifer Samsel and Juanita
Wickham.
Members of Jefferson County
Olympics of the Mind teams com
peting at the state tournament held
in Monmouth, Oregon April 4
brought home a second place and a
fourth place. The team consisting
of Brandon Durette, Eric Samsel,
Sunmiet Minnick and Ryan Ste
wart finished second in Division I,
Decision structure. Dawn Behrend,
Brad Posey, Allen Jones and Ricky
Weston finished fourth in Division
II, Division structure. Each team
was also recognized for creativity,
in solving the spontaneous prob
lem, building a five-inch bridge out
of clay and toothpicks.
Car for sale
For Sale: Yellow 1970 Torino
station wagon, 351 CU, inches, V
8, automatic, new all season spare,
runs good. $500.00.
Blue 1978 Chev. Malibu station
wagon, V-6, automatic, snow tires,
runs good. $900.00.
Contact Tommy Kalama, Seek
seequa road, end of Kotnum road.
OK. . . .you may think you've
heard enough about safety belts.
But do you wear one? Every time
you get in a car? Despite an ava
lanche of public information, mil
lions of Americans still neglect to
buckle up.
Do you know that you could be
killed driving only 30 mph on Main
Street USA? Most people have
visions of horrific, high-speed motor
vehicle accidents that happen on
the nation's highways, but the truth
is that 80 percent of all serious and
fatal injuries occur in crashes at
less than 40 mph and within 25
miles of the victim's home.
Motor vehicle accidents are the
leading cause of death for people
under the age of 40 and kill and
disable more children than any dis
ease. Each year more than 36,000
people are killed in motor vehicles,
but about 9,000 of them could sur
vive if they wore safety belts, accord
ing to the National Safety Council.
A safety belt anchors you in one
place, and that function is a life
saver for a number of reasons. The
most obvious is that a buckled
safety belt keeps you from slam
ming into the vehicle's interior. In a
30 mph collision with a fixed object,
an unbelted person is hurled for
ward at a force equal to that of
falling out a third-story window. A
safety belt can be the only thing
between you and death or disfigure
ment. Drivers often are forced to swerve
to avoid a sudden hazard in the
road. Unbelted passengers especial
ly children can be thrown around
or even out of a vehicle. Not only
can they be seriously injured or
killed, an unbelted passenger also
can hurt someone else. In a swerve,
an unbelted driver can be thrown,
too. A belted driver stays behind
the wheel and in control.
Some people are afraid that they 11
be trapped in a car if their belt is
fastened and that they will not be
able to escape if the car is on fire or
submerged. This fear is unfounded
less than one-half of one percent of
all injury-producing crashes involve
either of these situations. Even
when such accidents do occur, a
safety belt can keep a person unhurt
and alert enough to escape the veh
icle. Contrary to popular belief,
you are 25 times more likely to be
killed if you are thrown from a
vehicle.
Other nations that have strict
safety belt use laws that have wide
spread public acceptance are proof
that safety belts save lives. A Swed
ish study of 28,000 traffic accidents
occurring at crash speeds less than
60 mph showed no fatalities involv
ing safety belt wearers. Since Great
Britain passed its use law in 1983,
that country has seen the number
of deaths and injuries decline by 25
percent. These countries have strict
seat belt laws, the citizens wear
them, and many more people sur
vive accidents and avoid serious
injuries.
Life and the quality of life can be
saved by a safety belt. So can
money. Motor vehicle accidents
cost America more than $50 billion
every year, and employers bear a
significant portion of that economic
burden. The combined costs of
medical insurance, worker compen
sation, unemployment taxes, and
lost work days resulting from motor
vehicle accidents add up to about
$2 billion a year for employers.
A safety belt protects you so
your injuries are less severe and
you miss fewer work days. Medical
costs for accident victims who were
unbelted are estimated to be two to
four times higher than for those
who were belted. The University of
Stockholm reports that Sweden's
belt use law saves the country
between $22 million and $40 mil
lion each year in medical costs.
Safety belts save lives and money.
It takes only a moment to put them
to work. The National Safety Coun
cil urges you to take that moment
to protect yourself and make sure
everyone in your vehicle is protected.
Raffle to beheld
A registered quarter horse will
be raffled at the Warm Springs Lil'
Buckaroo Rodeo Club's first jun
ior rodeo May 23 and 24. The
newly formed club will sponsor its
first rodeo for 6-18 years of age
youngsters. The rodeo will be held
at the Warm Springs rodeo arena
located on the Kah-Nee-Ta road
north on highway 3.
Tickets for the raffle are being
sold for $1 each by members of the
club: Ray Florendo, Joel Florendo,
Evans Spino, Jr., Justin Tom, Cor
bett Tom, Shirley Allen and Su
yenn Smith. Monies made from
the raffle will be used to defray cost
for the May rodeo.
Recently two of the club's
members, Justin Tom and Flint
Scott won first place awards in
their age divisions of bucking ponies
at Prinville's Central Oregon Pee
wee rodeo. Winning first place has
put each of the boys leading in
bucking ponies in the Central Oregon
Peewee Rodeo Association.
Interested girls and boys between
the ages of 6-18 years of age and
theii parents are invited to attend
the next business meeting of the
Lil' Buckaroo Rodeo club Wed
nesday, April 8 at the 4-H Center
located in the basement of the
Daycare Center at 6:30 p.m.
For more information contact
Lee or Chery l Tom at 553-1009.