PAGE 2 November 25, 1992
Warm Springs, Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
Board reviewing request to reopen Simnasho School
Foster Kaiama, left, Reverend Allen Elston, tenter and Cal Poncho, right,
along with three other men, are headed to Belize December 4. Also going to
Belize art Willie Quinn, Lyle Rhoan, Sr. and Selson ZomonU
The Central American Connection....
Baptist minister, five others
to visit Belize
Six Warm Springs men will be
winging their way south December 4
for a week's stay in the small Central
American country of Belize. The en
tourage will live and work among the
Kckchi Indians in a remote and
mountainous area of the country lo
cated just north of Honduras.
Warm Springs Baptist church
minister Allen Elston and church
members Foster Kaiama, Ly Ic Rhoan,
Sr., Willie Quinn, Nelson Zomont
and Cal Poncho were invited by the
Kckchis in April to visit their com
munity. The individuals set personal
!;oals to each set aside $200 a month
or six months for the cost of the trip.
Other donations from area churches
have been received, as well.
Elston, who has ministered to the
Warm Springs community for over
30 years, says he "never expected to
do this" type of thing. He explained
the group will "learn, help, share
their faith in Christ and encourage
MHS honor roll
The Madras High School is
pleased to announce the first quarter
honor roll students for the 1992-93
school year. These students are:
SENIORS
4.00 Honor Roll
Kathryn Bozarth, Bradley Collins,
Scott Dclamartcr, Jessica Jacks,
Laura Jones, Gary King, Heather
Martin, Jason Potampa, Emily Ray,
Jennifer Runge, Susan Skavlan.
All Star Honor Roll
Kare Bregninge, Tyler Campbell,
Chad Casady, Heather Clowers,
Darin Earnest, Krista Galyen, Spen
cer Gerke, Merrissa Grimm, Shea
Hawes, Jill Ickler, Jeremy Jasa,
Cristine Orcutt, Fabian Roth, Leif
Suppah, Cathy Williams.
Honor Roll
Johnny Boynton, Carrie Burtis,
Juan Escobar, Jennifer Filibcrt, Mark
Harris, Daisy Hoffman, Keven
Hopps, Kelly McCall, Nicole
McConnell, Julie Morse, Eloina
Mouett, Thomas Norton, Shawn
Phifer, Nathan Pollard, Antanacio
Rico, James Sites, Wendy Smith,
John Summers, Samuel Wolfe.
JUNIORS
4.00 Honor Roll
Nicole Alexander, Sarah Badtcn,
Brooke Earnest, Stephanie Harris,
Allison Kirsch, Sarah Vibbert, Rachel
Ward, Daniel Wright, Rafe Wysham.
All Star Honor Roll
Brad Bendele, John Boyle,
Marcella Brunoe, Jennifer Butler,
Christina Candland, Benjamin
Christcnsen, Rachel Clowers, John
Gallup, Kelly Jackson, Kelly Jasa,
Jennifer Marston, Amanda Nassett,
Manda Neilson, Angela Parks, Flo
rence Petock, Erin Potampa, Casey
Ring, Jody Roff, Lindsay Sundberg,
Todd Vibbert.
Honor Roll
Donnie Alire, Amy Anderson,
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people" while there.
Elston added that all of the men
taking the trip are actively involved
in church leadership and that four
regularly take turns delivering Sun
day meassages. They have fulfilled
my dream to have a group of men
active in the Icadcrshipof thechurch,"
says Elston.
The Kckchi people are poor and
live in the mountains of Belize. There
are no cars. Very few other modern
conveniences we all take for granted
exist Even though it is very difficult
for members to attend services, one
church is thriving, noting a congre
gation of 7,000. "There has been a
revival among the Kckchi Indian
people," says Elston.
The Kckchi people are a "rem
nant" of the Mayan civilization
irradicatcd in the 1 500s, Elston says.
They live in all parts of Central
America and have often been perse
cuted by communist infiltration over
recent years.
noted for first quarter
Nicole Becquct, Teresa Campbell,
Scott Cavcndar, Alfredo Colazo,
Angela Cervais, Edward Hagedorn,
Randall Harvey, Mandy Hume,
Trever Johnson, Lisa Key, Timothy
Mennealy, Sunmiet Minnick,
Bonnie Morgan, Jeremy Nilles, Leon
Osterbaan, Anthony Read, Karen
Riley, Melanie Schulz, Wade
Simmons, Jason Thomas, Tammy
Williams.
SOPHOMORES
4.00 Honor Roll
Emmalee Brown, Rebecca Grote,
Crystall Guiney, Erika Harris, Becky
Harrison, Holly Jasa, Adriana Ward,
Jennifer Williams.
All Star Honor Roll
Erin Conway, Betsy Cordill.Kelli
Danzuka, Brandon DuReue.Krystal
Filbert, Kristina Granby, Kristina
Gregg, Brook Luther, Lisa Methany,
Angela McConnell, Amy McNamee,
Phillip Miller, Eric Samsel, Ryan
Stewart.JulieUtter.MelissaWeisen.
Honor Roll
Micah Anderson, Kelli
Cathcrwood, Jennifer Cooke, John
Gervais, Douglas Green, Curtis Hall,
Brent Harrison, Carrie Hawes, Amy
Hunt, Sarah Hunt, Jeremy Jacks,
Jamie Johnson, Rurik Lindner, Marie
Long, Shawna McConnell, Stephanie
Merritt, Irma Serrano, Eli Smith,
Jake Suppah, Norma Thompson.
tKESHMEN
4.00 Honor Roll
Stephen Blankenagel, Christopher
Lieuallen, Melissa Nartz, Liberty
Taylor.
All Star Honor Roll
Christopher Carpenter, Christo
pher DuPont, Khara Krause, Shallyn
Morlan, Timothy Neilson, Melissa
Thompson, Heather Titus, Todd
Weigand, Mima Woll.
Honor Roll
A petition signed by 300 Warm
Springs and Simnasho parents and
community members requesting Im
pact Aid funds to reopen Simnasho
School was presented to the 5CW-J
Board of Directors at their Novem
ber 9 meeting. The petition accom-
?anicd a letter from the Warm springs
ribut Council indicating concerns
over education given to Indian stu
dents in the District.
The great amount of travel time
required by some students to attend
Warm Springs Elementary
school. was one of the reasons given
to reopen the two-classroom
Simnasho School which was closed
in 1982. Many families live in the
Simnasho vicinity which is approxi
mately 25 miles northwest of Warm
Springs. New homes are scheduled
to be built in the area as well.
Responding Board members were
concerned about the cost entailed in
reopening the school and staffing it
relative to the number of students
that would be aticnding.Thc v decided
to look into the number of families
that might have children attending
the school in the future and have
scheduled time to discuss the re
opening plan.
The meeting held in Warm Springs
focused on Impact Aid funds and its
distribution for educational activities.
ThcDistrictrcccivcs$2.6millionfor
the school year which is paid by the
federal government in lieu of prop
erty taxes on federally-owned land
or trust land. These lands include the
Warm Springs Reservation and North
Unit Irrigation land in this District.
The letter submitted to the board
by Warm Springs Education director
Mike Clements for Tribal Council
follows:
The achievement level of tribal
member students in School District 509
j is not at an acceptable standard It i
impression that tribal member students
are being processed through the 509-J
system while achieving and obtaining
sub-standard education levels. We rc-
Bonfilia Baltazar.Lcah Candland,
Melissa Cavendcr, Annmaric Cham
bers, Jillian Cook, Samuel Crow,
Manuel Dahlke, Aerie Gibson, Mat
thew Gordon, Johnathan Gregg,
Kevin Guiney , Somcr Hamrick, Scth
Johnson, Amy Kraus, Chad Lindner,
Jennifer Loman, Niki Lusc, Aaron
Martin, Lisa Motley, Christopher
Nelson, Victoria Parks, Frank Patcl,
Allen Pine, Cassandra Sanders,
SSS'S
wicicnam, josnua wuuams, reicr
Zumwalt.
Special Ed Honor Roll
Donni Farley
Art show on tap
A wildlife Art Show will be held
in Klamath Falls, Oregon in con
junction with the 14th Annual Bald
Eagle Conference in February, 1993.
The show is open to all tribal mem
bers in the western states. Both two
dimensional and three-dimensional
works will be accepted; them should
reflect wildlife or man 's relationship
to wildlife. For entry information,
send a self addressed stamped enve
lope to: Rich Bergstrom, 1222
Eldorado Ave., Klamath Falls, OR
97601 or call (503) 883-2009, eve
nings. Candidates for
The 34th Annual All-Indian Warm
Springs National Holiday Indian
Basketball Tournament will be held
December 30, 31, 1992,January 1,2,
1993 at the Warm Springs Commu
nity Center. Currently there are three
girls running for the junior court who
are currently selling raffle tickets for
$2 each. They are thirteen year old
Esmeralda Lawson, fourteen year old
Charmaine Watts and thirteen year
old Marissa Kaiama. There are also
currently three candidates for the
senior court, they are Romelle
Speakthunder, Angeline Blackwolf
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Community members presented a
Simnasho School, closed In 1982.
quest our tribal member student
achievement levels be identified by
grade, and reported back to us is soon as
possible.
"Our tribal parents are concerned that
our children are receiving education ser
vices that are not equal to children in the
Madras community. We request that i
third party take an objective look at this
and report back to you and us its find
ings. "We are very concerned that facili
ties for educating our children are not
being given equal consideration and in
fact funds received because of our chil
dren will be used to construct educational
facilities in Madras. We have asked year
after year for the School Board to give
consideration and think seriously about
the long distance our children have to
travel each day. This has arrived at
point where our children are away from
their family setting from ten to fourteen
hours per day and that is not acceptable.
We ask that the school Board re-open the
Simnasho School at this time as there are
HOT program
The 1 10T program at MHS is alive
and well. The HOT board planning
session earlier this month was a great
success. We established "Empower
ment through Involvement" as our
goal for this year.
The board is working to involve
people not only with HOT projects
but also with other aspects of social
life, (clubs, sports....)
As a result oi our planning session,
several HOT (and we mean hot)
projects were formed. Because the
completion of these projects would
mean something to students and
faculty alike, we feci that people will
want to become involved.
Museum hopes to
The Museum at Warm Springs is
happy to announce that they will be
purchasing artifacts for their Tribal
Collection. It is asked that the finest
pieces are submitted, andor "one of
a kind items." The Museum is espe
cially in need of the following items:
1. Older beaded, shell, and den
talium hair tics
2. Old time fur hats
3. Cornhusk handbags
4. Beaded Floral shell dresses (on
material)
5. Sally bags of hemp, (wdesign)
6. Long otter fur braid wraps
7. Men's buckskin beaded shirts
8. Cornhusk hats, (old no yarn)
9. Women's Paiute clothing
10. Men's Paiute clothing
11. Men's floral beaded vests (on
material)
12. Men's leggings, beaded
The Museum policy is, One item
per household or family. Please pick
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Romelle Speakthunder
and Alyssa Macy who are currently
selling admission tickets, the session
tickets are $3 and the season tickets
are $15.
Seventeen year old Alyssa Macy
is of the Wasco, Hopi and Navajo
descent. She is the daughter of James
and Luana Macy of Warm Springs.
She is currently a Madras High
School senior and has attended school
in this area since the fifth grade. She
enjoys cross country, basketball,and
forestry class. She is a member of the
petition to the 509-J School Board of
many children presently in the area and
additional (20) homes scheduled in the
next two years.
"We believe our childrcn'i self-esteem
is at an all time low at this time due
to the fact that they are away from the
Warm Springs community so much. We
ask that the 509-J School Board take a
lead role in working with us to figure out
how we can improve our children's
learning conditions. The attendance ratei
and suspension figures are indications
that something is seriously amiss. The
low drop-out rate seems to be the high
point of reports we've seen and we lend
to believe that is due to the value of the
student rather than the desire to maintain
the student in the system for further help.
This may not be the case, but after years
and years of the same request we cannot
think otherwise at this time.
"We have read, along with you we're
sure, that our School District has the
worst attendance rates in the State and
that the achievement levels are not
amongst the best. It disturbs us that we
involved with
These are the projects you will be
hearing more about as they grow and
succeed. Wc encourage you to be a
part of their success.
POP TAB COLLECTING
There are many people who are less
fortunate than us. Their kidneys do
not function properly. By collecting
the tabs from pop cans, we can pro
vide lime on a dialysis machine for
those people.
PEER MEDIATION When
conflicts arise, the peer mediation
program is ready to help solve the
problem. Students have been taught
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purchase artifacts
up your applications at the Museum
office, located at 2148 Kota Street.
Deadline for submitting your appli
cations and artifacts is Thursday,
December 3, 1992. If you have any
questions please contact the Museum
staff at 553-3331. Thank you.
Wires help protect trees
Prevent fall and winter winds from
blowing over your landscape plants
by providing support with some
strong wire and a few securely placed
stakes.
Installing supports against the
wind is especially important in the
case of young or recently planted
shrubs and trees, and for landscape
plants recently damaged by high
winds.
The number of guy wires needed
depends on the size of the plant. Use
a turn-buckle if you want to tighten
the pull of the wires when they be
Native American Student Union and
on Student Council. She also enjoys
traveling and meeting people.
Macy is seeking the title of the
WSNHIT because she is hoping to
win the title so that she may be able
to represent the Warm Springs Tribe,
and also get the chance to meet new
people in Warm Springs and other
surrounding areas. Her future plans
after graduation are to attend a Uni
versity and major in criminal justice,
and seek a masters degree along with
running cross country in college.
Sixteen year old Romelle
Speakthunder is of the Warm Springs,
Wasco, Yakima, Assiniboin Souix,
and Siletz descent. Her parents are
Pat and Robert Speakthunder of
Warm Springs. She is currently a
junior at Madras High School and
has attended school in this area all of
her life. Her hobbies include, shop
ping, enjoying the company of her
friends, cooking, and cruising in the
night.
Speakthunder is seeking the title
of the WSNHIT so she can represent
Warm Springs and also because she
has never sold any kind of tickets
before. Her future plans are to finish
high school and go to college.
Sixteen year old Angeline
Blackwolf is of the Warm Springs
descent. She is the daughter of Ken
neth Blackwolf and Josie Redfox of
Directors requesting the reopening of
have not heard anything from the School
Boars or School Administration on how
we plan on dealing with this situation.
We did meet with you in 1989 and agreed
to work together, but we have not heard
back from you. We request that the 509
J School Board meet with us to follow
up on our previous goals and bring us up
to date on the present conditions in the
School District including: attendance
rales (Grades K-12); achievement re
sults of all students and tribal member
students; what the present plan and strat
egies are; and, where the District is
headed in the coming years. We would
like to share with you our plans and
strategics also.
This should keep us all involved and
busy. It may sound like we are upset, but
please be assured upset can be converted
into concerned and frightened because
of present conditions. A response will be
greatly appreciated as we feel we must
work together to face the challenges we
see."
many projects
Christmas Bazaar to
be held in December
Seventeenth Annual Christmas
Bazaar set for December 12. Save
your Christmas spending dollars, arts
and crafts people are coming to townt
It's the 17th Annual Christmas
Bazaar and Warm Springs will be
"THE PLACE" to be in Central Or
egon Saturday, December 12, 1992
at the Warm Springs Community
Center.
Have that hard to shop for person
on your list? Check out the annual
bazaar. All types of crafts, art work,
homemade articles, wood work, bead
work, the usual and the unusual,
clothing, food - everything imagin
able will be on sale.
Doors open to the public at 10
a.m. and close at 4 p.m. No admis
sion charge and plenty of parking
space.
Call Carol Allison at 553-3243
for more information.
from wild winter winds
come loose.
Place guy wires high enough in
the tree or shurb that wind blowing
against the top of the plant won't
loosen them. A crotch in the tree or
large shrub is a good place to anchor
support wires.
Use a short length of rubber hose
around each wire to protect the bark
from injury. Do not wrap the wire
loop so tightly that the growth of the
bark is restricted.
Fasten the wires securely to sturdy
stakes or other solid anchors. Place
one anchor against prevailing wind.
Warm Springs. She is currently a
junior at Madras High School and
has attended schools in thisarea since
the second grade. She enjoys taking
pictures, traveling and reading books.
The reason Blackwolf is seeking
the title of WSNHIT is to run for
some kind of candidate because she
feels it sounds fun to be able to meet
a lot more people that she has never
met. Her future plans are to be a
photographer and finish high school
and attend school in Santa Fe, New
Mexico.
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Angeline Blackwolf
Alyssa Macy