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3.5c P.O. Bo 870 Wrm Springs, OK 97761 Address Correction Kequested lit J J VI I I . ' 1 1 c it . . UK LULL L . 6 a v. 14 no. lo Sep 0, 19JlJ Spilyay Tymoo jj J 4 EUGENE, OR 37403 News from the Warm Springs Indian Reservat.. VOL. 14 NO. 18 P.O. BOX 870 WARM SPRINGS, OR 97761 Coyote News In Brief Rosebud representatives visit Delegates from the Rosebud reservation visited Warm Springs to study the working relationship between the Warm Springs tribes and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Page 2 Celllo Powwow October 20 to 22 The Mid-Columbia River Powwow in Celilo will offer over $15,000 in prizes for dancers and drummers. Page 2 NIEA Conference set October 7 to 11 in Anchorage, Alaska Indian educators will meet to discuss education concerns. The theme this year is "Unity in Indian Education." Page 3 COCC classes posted Both credit and community education classes are being held in Warm Springs. Take time to review the schedule and see if something appeals to you. Page 3 Photographs displayed Historical photographs help relive days gone by. Page 5 MHS Schedule provided Madras High School volleyball, football and cross-country schedule is listed. Try to attend some of these events. Page 6 Listening helps Helping a distressed person may be as simple as listening. Suggestions to help a friend in need are given. Page 7 Deadline for the next issue of Spilyay Tymoo is September 15 Weather August HI LOW 23 70 52 24 69 46 25 74 46 26 80 52 27 82 53 28 82 48 29 82 50 30 82 60 31 76 44 Sept. 1 74 50 2 70 46 3 74 40 4 85 45 5 77 54 i 1 r 1 .J- t . 1 1 mr . t - r. -f E : ; m t'T . T S t Possibly to help relieve the "Back-to-School" excitement, youngsters at Warm Springs Elementary spent some time before school jumping rope. SEPTEMBER 8, 1989 Qulnault lawsuit settled out of court An 18-ycar old lawsuit over the federal government's management of timber on the Quinault Indian Reservation will be settled out of court for $26.6 million. The agreement ends years of lit igation that has twice gone to the U.S. Supreme Court, and has spawned a dozen other lower-court opinions. The settlement was approved overwhelmingly by surviving lan downers of the reservation forest lands. But as many as 300 of the original 1,465 plaintiffs died before seeing any compensation. The reservation, situated on Washington state's Pacific Coast, is home to vast stands of Douglas fir, hemlock and Western Red Cedar. The main complaint in the lawsuit was that the U.S. goven mcnt, acting as a trustee for the Indian landowners, failed to sell the timber at market prices and, once the trees were harvested, failed to ensure that the land was prop erly replanted: ' . - Pendleton Round-up set for Sept. 12-16 Summer Work Program a success nv0vement needed The Summer Youth Work Pro gram came to an end on Aueust 1 1 . Program coordinator Levi Bobb states, "I have a lot of people to thank for the hard work that they put in to make the program a suc cess." Bobb lists Sophie Manion who directed the program; Mr. Walter Ponsford, summer school teacher; and, Tommy Kalama and Paul Henderson, crew bosses. The Educationand J.O.M. Com mittees need to be commended for funding the students summer school program in which six out of 12 stu dents attended classes from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, Monday through Friday, for seven seeks to meet school requirements for credit, Bobb explains. The Summer Program ended with a barbeque, dance and swim for all students in attendance. Twenty-nine students kept per fect attendance throughout the summer. Those students are: Desi- ree Allen, Kendrick Arthur, Linda Bryant, Keith Charley, Jr., Charlie Chee, Juan Colazo, Joseph Culps, Jabbar Davis, Luanne Foltz, Cecil Govenor, Starla Green, D.W. Hud son, Jodel Johnson, Morningstar Johnson, Otis Johnson, Rhonda Johnson, Jocelyn Moses, Scott Moses, Vanessa Orange, Carol Saludo, Danny Smuels, Talya Scott, Kanim Smith, Regan Smith, Victor Smith, Jr. James Teeman, Merlin Tom, Serina Winishut and Tim Yahtin. As 40.3 million students enter public school classrooms this fall, they are finding that innovation is "in." The creative instincts of the nation's teachers and administra tors are being given greater latitude. The result, according to the Sep tember issue of NEA Today, is school programs that demand more of students and encourage stronger parental involvement. The cover story in the education community's largest circulation news paper, which reaches two million teachers and education support work ers, features innovative strategies at South Mountain High School in Phoenix, Arizona. The 2,600 student school, with a student body that is 52 percent Hispanic and 36 percent Black, began keeping together, or "cor ing," students, especially freshmen, last year. Two or three teachers Continued on page 2 Leaders meet to discuss repatriation, museums Smithsonian Institution Sec retary Robert McC. Adams met with leaders of American Indian communities, museum profession als and collectors of Native Ameri can art August 19, 1989 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The meetine was called to share perspectives on the proposed national Museum of the American Indian. The meeting took place during Indian market Days at a reception at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. Co-hosting the reception were J. Edson Way, director, Wheelwright Museum; Herman Agoyo, chairman, All Indian Pueblo Council; John Gon zales, president, National Congress of American Indians; Mrs. Wilmot H. Kidd III, chairman of the board, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation; Edmund Ladd, chairperson, Indian Advisory Panel, Museum of Indian Arts and Cul ture; and Douglas W. Schwartz, president, School of American Research. "The power and creativity of the American Indian cultural renais sance that is under way is evident today to anyone who has visited the Santa Fe Plaza," Secretary Adams said, pointing out that this is the "national context of the exciting developments that bring us together here." Commenting on the changing role of museums in today's society and the role of the proposed mus eum Adams said, "Museums began a few centuries ago as cabinets of curiosities, jumbled assemblages of what caught some princely collec tor's fancy, shown to visitors only at his whim. As museums went on to become national collections, they took on a more systematic charac ter. But all too often they con tinued to impose from above a vision of a uniformly harmonious and glorious past. Like our Ameri can melting-pot image, that com mon experience was usually well short of reality. The museums focused on symbols and icons that were proclaimed to be all embrac ing and unifying but that were in fact all too often partisan and exclusionary. Now, we are em barking on a great experiment, appropriately beginning with the First Americans and placing them at the heart of an effort that will launch a flagship of American cul ural diversity." On May 8, the Smithsonian and the Heye Foundation signed a mem orandum of understanding to trans fer the foundation's world-famous collection to the Smithsonian to form the basis of a National Mus eum of the American Indian in the Mall in Washington, D.C. Legisla tion is currently pending in both houses of Congress to establish the museum. Secretary Adams reviewed the status of the pending legislation, as well as plans for the new museum, which include, in addition to the museum in Washington, an exhibi tion facility in New York City in the old Custom House and storage facility at the Smithsonian's Mus eum Support Center in Suitland, Md. He noted that the museum r will have training and outreach programs to encourage museum development in tribal communities. 1 he new museum will be unique, he noted. "It is only natural that it should be Indian-led and, hence, it will have a special sensitivity in its presentation of the spiritual and symbolic dimensions of Americn Indian history. But the museum is not a commemoration of the past. It is a celebration bridging the past, present and tuture." In the context of the new museum, Secreatry Adams also expressed the hope that the Indian commun ity and the Smithsonian can suc ceed in considerably narrowing their differences with regard to the issue of repatriation of American Indian skeletal remains. Exploratory dis cussions toward that end have al ready been held, and he noted that there is keen Congressional inter est in finding a way to bridge scien tific and cultural concerns. There is full Smithsonian accep tance, he observed, of the principle that living tribal groups should be given the opportunity to reclaim any individuals for w hom substan tial historical and scientific evidence indicates that they can be reasona bly identified as among that group's direct ancestors. While there are often difficult, specialized and laborious matters of judgment in making such determinations in part icular cases, he emphasized that a way needs to be found for Ameri can Indian representatives to par ticipate fully in reaching the judgments. Annual Timber Tour Tuesday and Wednesday September 12 and 13 Meet at the Community Center at 8:30 a.m. Tour will visit: Active and proposed timber sales and other forestry projects Sponsored by the Tribal Timber Committee and BIA Forestry Transportation and lunch will be provided.