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Indian Language Program receive certificates in Tucson
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Culture and Heritage would like
to share some new ana exciting
information with the people of Warm
Springs.
The Tribe's Language program
now has a complete staff. The new
Program will consist of the following:
Myra Shawaway, Program
Coordinator; Alice Harmon,
Curriculum Developer; Roberta Kirk,
Data Programmer; Arlita Rhoan,
Teacher; Dallas Winishut, Teacher;
and Suzie Slockish, Teacher.
The first assignment for the staff
(with the exception of Alice) was to
attend the American Indian Language
Development Institute, at the
University of Arizona, Tucson,
Arizona. The training was for the
whole month of June. The training
was a normal semester term class,
however it was done in four weeks
time. So, for some of the staff who
haven't been in a school setting for
many years, the training was very
intense.
Everyone took a Linguistic class
in the morning, which helped us to
better understand how to read, write,
and enunciate the Indian languages.
Then in the afternoon, Myra and Suzie
took the Bilingual Curriculum
Development. This class helped in
learning how to develop thematic
units and their lesson plans. Dallas
afternoon class was on Math and
Science in Indian Bilingual
Classrooms. With this class, Dallas
also had the opportunity to develop
lesson plans in the Math and Science
field. Arlita's afternoon class was
Parents as Partners in (Indian)
Education. This course examined the
role of parenting as it relates to
children and their success in school.
Roberta's afternoon class was Media
in Reading Language Arts. This
course assisted in learning how to
use computers and media effectively
to enrich the classroom learning
environment.
The city of Tucson is a nice place,
Fortv federal employees attended
a workshop designed to help
understand the Native American
culture and traditions to work more
effectively with tribes in Oregon.
The workshop was kicked off with
elder Bernice Mitchell of The
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs (CTWS) speaking on her
concerns about the natural resources.
Louie Dick, Jr., of The Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation gave a presentation on
"Introduction to Native American
Culture" highlighting the differences
between his culture verses the
European culture.
Though sponsored by the USDA
Natural Resources Conservation
Service (formally the Soil
Conservation Service), other federal
agencies were invited and
participated. They included the
USDA-Consolidated Farm Services
Agency (formally Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
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Federal employees attend culture workshop
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Moses 'Sufficiency' poem to be printed
nttv nntifipH that a nnem he submitted in the
1995 North American Open Poetry
the Soul. Moses will also qualify for
grand prize, hollowing is Moses suomission.
The Steps to Successful Self-Sufficiency"
For starters the life and times are hard
Whether young or old, the struggles are true
Being active is simply hard as to not to become bored
Especially if your emotions are happy or blue
Sufficiency eliminates defeat
. . One's dreams are never ending .
But daily problems continue to rise
Elders voices of the past echoes and distant melodies singing
Hoping the children of today will make decisions of the wise.
Sufficiency can make one complete
Distance doesn't make the man or woman
Destinies can be big or small
Progress and accomplishments can take a life span
The road to success usually starts with a call.
Sufficiency is a way to express your voice
Whether homeless or unemployed
People and programs will make the difference
Training available and plans to fill the void
Success, awareness, responsibility are steps for your defense.
Sufficiency is a major choice
Spilyay Tmoo
Publisher: Sid Miller
Editor: Donna Behrend
ReporterPhotographer: Saphronia Katchia
ReporterPhotographer: Selena T. Boise
ReporterPhotographer: Bob Medina
Secretary: TinaAguilar
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Spilyay Tymoo 1995
however program members didn't
get to see much oi t. mosi mcir umc
was spent in trying to keep up op
their assignments It would have been
nice to have a little vacation during
this time, yet it was better to have a
dedicated team, who never missed a
day of the school. And everyone did
such an exceptional job that all
attendees left, not only filled with
more knowledge, but with certificates
from each class. Everyone also
received six college credit hours and
all received "As" in each of their
classes. This accomplishment
certainly deserves a large pat on the
Indian Language program staff are located in the trailers behind the Education Center. Their staff completed training
at Tucson, Arizona recently. They are: back row-Dallas Winishut, Roberta Kirk, front row-Myra Shawaway, and
Suzie Slockish. Not pictured is language teacher Arlita Rhoan.
.Service V USDA Forest Service (Ml
Hood National Forest); USDA-Rural
and Economic Community
Development (formally Farmers
Home Administration); Extension
service; the Umatilla, Jefferson,
Deschutes, Hood River, Wasco and
Eagle Valley Soil and Water
Conservation Districts; and the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS).
For four days, July 17-20, the
participants met on Lake Billy
Chinook at Camp Eierely , a property
owned by CTWS. Through out the
week, the participants learned about
respecting elders, Native American
views on natural resources, and the
traditions and values of the tribes.
Participants from the Warm
Springs area included Rich Edlund
and Martin Ramirez, NRCS, Madras;
Patti Bender, Jefferson SWCD; Ray
Curry, Deschutes SWCD, Clint
Jacks, Extension Service, Madras;
Sam Brown, CFSA, Madras; Raven
Contest will be printed in Windows 0t
numerous prizes, including the $ 1 ,000
hack to each of the participants.
Currently the program is working
with the Early Childhood Center to
bring the language program back.
There arc also other projects that
they are working on, so that the three
languages will become available for
the whole community. The over all
strategy for Language Renewal will
be based on four programs, with
similarcurriculum outlines and using
overlapping support. Those four
programs will be based on
Community, Family, School and
Computers.
Program memocrs inviic anyone
Summer, RECD, Madras; and Ron
Davis, NRCS, Pnneville.
"I wouldn't call it a workshop or a
training session, I would call it an
experience, a very, very rewarding
experience. An experience that I
would only hope that others would
have the opportunity to have," says
Leonard Jordan, assistant state. ,
conservationist, NRCS. "It's about
sensitivity, it's about respect. We
can't have enough of that."
Elders participated in the
workshop through out the week--sharing
their wisdom and insight with
the participants. On Wednesday
night, elders Gladys Thompson,
Madeline Mclnturff, Irene Towe, and
Charlotte Shike prepared a traditional
dinner of salmon, elk steak, elk stew,
eel, bitterroot, wild carrots, and
huckleberry cake. A pow wow
followed featuring The Stone People
Singers from Portland, Or. Joe Tuckta '
of Warm Springs traveled to the camp
to dance for the group. NRCS Native ,
American employees Gerald Allison,
The Dalles, and Martin Bales,
LaGrande, also danced and sang for
the group.
"It really opened their
participants eyes to how we work
in Indian country," says Bobby ;
Brunoe, range and agriculture
department, Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs. "Its really opened up .
some good communication lines."
This was the tenth workshop put
on by NRCS in the United States. :
Others have been held in Montana,
Utah, New York, Idaho, with two
more scheduled later this year in'
South Dakota and Colorado.
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Enqine crew members enjoy
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Joel Thompson
I have been a firefighter three
years, including this year. I started
on the Helitack Crew, then the Engine
rvou fnr the nast two vears.
I really enjoy fire fighting, you
get to work outside and you do
different things just about every day.
I plan to be in the field of fire fighting
for a long time if possible.
Troy C. Kaska
I'm from Grand Canyon, Arizona.
This is my second year working with
Fire Management and my eleventh
year as a firefighter.
I moved from Grand Canyon to
the Virde Valley, where I went to
school up to the eighth grade. I went
to high school at Stewart Indian
School where I graduated in 1980.
Started my career as a firefighter
in 1986 up until now, and enjoy my
work very much and would like to
continue this line of work until I'm
no longer able to. I also enjoy working
with the employees who are also
employed here at Fire Management
Joanna Brisbois
I am an enrolled memberof Grand
Ronde. I have lived here in Warm
Springs for twelve years.
I have worked seasonally w ith the
Warm Springs Branch of Forestry
since 1990. .
I graduated from Madras Senior
High School in 1991, and received
my Associates Degree in Natural
Resource Technology, June 1995.
This is my first season with Fire
Management, as an Engine Operator.
to come and visit the program. And if
you don t, come visit anyway 10 sec
what they're up to. The Language
Program is located in the trailer
behind the Education Building in the
Public Relations trailer. We're
thankful for the space given to us to
use at the trailer. However, we are
part of the Culture and Heritage
Department and not Public Relations.
All the staff can be located there,
except for Roberta. Her office is
located at the Culture and Heritage
office. Office numbers are 553-2200
2201.
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Wewa sues over Oregon wetlands project
. ...
A massive wetlands restoration
project made possible by an earthen
dam on the Chewaucan River in
southern Oregon was considered a
model until human bones were found
in the dirt.
Now, the project is the subject of
a $6.5 million lawsuit filed by a Warm
Springs tribal member who claims as
many as 67 American Indian cultural
sites were disturbed or destroyed.
Tribal member Wilson Wewa, Jr.,
39, whose lawsuit seeks $500,000
for emotion distress, said the case
highlights the difference between
treatment of their ancestors' remains
and that of white society.
"How would white people feel if
I went to Arlington National Cem
etery and dug up the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier?" Wewa said. "I'd
be in prison."
Wewa, whose great-great-grandfather
was chief of all the Paiutes in
the Great Basin, is a recognized
spiritual leader in his tribe. He wants
the dam removed and the earth sifted
for more remains or artifacts.
"There was gross negligence on
the part of all the federals for not
ensuring the steps were taken that
were necessary to protect cultural
area, but Wewa and several Indians
from various reservations said they
found obsidian flakes and bone
fragments while touring the dam a
year ago. , ,
"Later, it was determined from ot
those bones were human," Wewa
said. "Artifacts were literally strewn
throughout the construction site.
"To me, the tragedy of destroying
this site is as bad as the bombing in
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News from cocc
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Getting Started
Central Oregon Community
College is offering two free "Getting
Started" sessions in August to help
prospective students with their
questions about how to get started in
college.
The hour-long sessions will be
held at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, August
24, and at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday,
August 30. Both will be held in Room
161 of Boyle Education Center at
COCC.
The sessions will answerquestions
about how to be admitted, the
resources available at COCC and
other schools, and who to contact for
more information about specific
concerns. In addition, assistance will
be offered on clarifying goals and
determining what is needed to
accomplish these goals.
For more information on these
sessions or to sign up, call the COCC
Counseling Center at 383-7580.
Career Workshops
Central Oregon Community
College will be offering career
planning workshops from 1:00 p.m.
to 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August
23, and from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on
Thursday, September 7 in Room 1 06
of the Boyle Education Center on the
COCC campus. The three-hour
session is designed to help
participants make effective career
decisions by evaluating their
interests, work skills and values;
exploring the Career Information
Center; and taking one of the career
assessment inventories.
There is a $5 fee for the workshop.
For more information on this session
or to sign up, call the COCC
Counseling Center at 383-7580.
Forestry Scholarship
Applications are now being
accepted for four full-tuition Service
to Community Scholarships to be
awarded to Central Oregon
Community College forestry students
Oklahoma Citv ." Wewa said.
The 1,400-acre wetlands project,
initiated by the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife and the US Fish
and Wildlife Service, was intended
to benefit waterfowl and migratory
birds.
"The benefits of restoring this
wetlands right in the middle of the
Pacific fly way are just phenomenal,"
said Oliver Spires, who agreed to
have the dame built on his 6,000-acre
ranch.
"It was such a sound project. The
state and federal agencies came to
me with it and asked me to participate.
They drew up all the paperwork, all
the leases," Spires said.
"I was looked on as quite an idiot
by the ranchers in the area," he said.
"They felt I would end up giving the
government the ranch. Well, it looks
like they are exactly right."
Larry Conn, a state wildlife bi
ologist, said state and federal wildlife
officials were excited by the project.
"Everyone felt this project was
like America, apple pie and mother
hood," Conn said. "They were all for
it. Then it went to hell in a hand
basket."
Roger Nesbit, an attorney repre
senting the US Fish and Wildlife
Service and the Bureau of Land
Management, said he could not dis
cuss the case because of the lawsuit.
Spires said he and his wife have
spent nearly $100,000 in legal fees
this year. "It's crazy," he said. "We're
spending thousands of dollars to try
to stay out of jail and not to go broke
on a wetlands project that was or
chestrated by the government."
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Joel Thompson, Joanna Brisbois, and
for the 1995-96 academic year. The
first screening ot applicants win ocgin
on August 25 with subsequent
screenings for additional awards in
September and October.
Each scholarship will pay for one
year's tuition ($1600). The
scholarships will be awarded to
COCC students based on several
criteria. Recipients must be from
Deschutes, Crook, Jefferson or
Klamath counties. Preference will
be given to family members of
employees of wood, products
businesses. Financial need as well as
promise of academic success will
also be considered. Applicants must
be enrolled, or plan to enroll, in a
minimum of nine credit hours of the
Forest Resources Technology
program or be taking courses toward
a bachelor's degree in resource
management.
The scholarships are sponsored
by the members of Paulina Hoo Hoo
220, a lumbermen's fraternal
organization, which has been active
in Central Oregon since the 1940s.
Its 75 members represent all aspects
of the wood products industry, such
as sawmills, remanufacturing,
trucking and marketing.
"Our board of directors feels that
it is important to invest in education
for industry," said Loren Irving, a
member of the organization's
scholarship committee. "We believe
that COCC has a tremendously
successful forestry program."
Through COCC's Service to
Community program, as well as the
national AmeriCorps program,
students receive financial assistance
in exchange for serving nonprofit
agencies throughout Central Oregon.
Last year, 85 students participated in
community service scholarship
programs.
For more information, call the
COCC Service Learning Center at
383-7590.
But Spires said he saw not human
skulls or bones. "I worked on this
things for several months and the
only bones we ever ran into were
cow bones, dog bones and coyote
bones all animal bones."
Spires said no one intended to
disturb cultural sites, but some small
artifacts were bounds to turn up as a
result of the digging.
"From a common sense point of
view, anywhere you find water and
wetlands, whether it's white settlers
or native Americans, you are going
to find artifacts," he said, adding that
he did notice several arrowheads in
the dirt pushed up from the reservoir
bottom. Spires said he would like to
see everyone work toward a settle
ment that would both protect any
cultural sites and preserve the wet
land. "Do you condemn all the wildlife
in this area and dry this up because
there are some white settler bones or
Indian bones that could have washed
down the river?" Spires said. "For
what? What happened to common
sense.?"
AP story reprinted from
Yakama Nation Review
School age program
powwow
August 30, 3:00 p.m.
at the ECE Grounds
(longhouse, if weather is bad)
All community members,
drummers and dancers are
welcome
Troy Kaska, firefighters with