2 February 29, 1996
Warm Springs, Orickon
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Famed flutist to perform at COCC March 1 1 Third Annual Children 's Art show begins March 15
Native American flutist, educa
tor and story teller, R. Carlos Nakai,
will appear March 1 1 at the Pinckney
Center for Performing Arts on the
Central Oregon Community College
campus. The performance begins ut
8 p.m. and all are welcome.
Nakai's music is heavily influ
enced by his personal tribal stories
and the history of his culture. Over
the past two decades. Nakai has
melded his classical training with his
expertise on the cedar flute to form a
complex, sophisticated sound that
covers the spectrum of musical genres
including jazz, piano and guitar col
laborations, and classical music, He
also is a pioneer in integrating Native
American flute with electronic tech
nology such as synthesizers and
digital delay. Nakai crafts his own
flutes and views each of them as " a
sound sculpture, a piece of art that
also creates sound."
While Nakai may not have been
"born to the flute", it was curiosity
about his heritage that led him t it.
Along the way, he relied more on
research and innovation and less on
his Navajo-Ute heritage. The Dine'
had a strong flute playing tradition,
although it was lost when they mi
grated from the Northwest Plains of
Canada to the Southwest.
A Canyon Records recording art
ist, Nakai's collaboration effort in
1 994, "Ancestral Voices", was
nominated for a Grammy award for
best traditional folk album. A pro
lific artists, during one 1 2-month
period, Nakai recorded over eight
albums and in all, has 23 albums in
commercial distribution.
As a part of an on-going cam
paign to promote and explore cultural
diversity, this event is jointly spon
sored by the Associated Students at
Central Oregon Community College,
COCC's of fice of Student Life and
with help form the Native American
Student Union of COCC.
Tickets arc $10 for the general
public and $8 for students. Tickets
will be available in Bend at the Curi
osity Shoppc and Boomlown Records
and in Warm Springs at the COCC
office at the Education Center.
Senior Day set for May 2
The sixth annual Warm Springs Honor
Seniors Day will be held Thursday, May
2, 1996 at the Agency Longhouse. The
popular event, which draws hundreds
from throughout the northwest, was
moved from March to May so as to
eliminate conflicts
with other senior
events and to avoid
possible bad weather.
This year's event coincides
with the National Seniors
Health and Fitness Month.
The theme for this years Day
is Hooray tor Hollywood!
Individuals are encouraged
to come dressed as their
favorite Hollywood movie
star.
Following is the day's schedule:
8 a.m. Registration
10 a.m. ECE Children's Powwow
11:30 Flag Ceremony, welcome and sack lunch
1:30 p.m. Special Awards and games galore
5 p.m. Festive Honor Dinner
7 p.m. Hollywood Style Powwow with special
entertainment and numerous fun events.
Contributions for dinner are encouraged. $2 for
those under 60 and $.50 for those under 12.
Special dance performances will be featured throughout the day.
Participants are encouraged to bring something soft on which to sit
as seating is wooden bleachers.
Vendors sales must benefit senior citizens, either individual or
programs.
For further information, call the Warm Springs Senior program at
553-3313.
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Suggestion boxes
placed in areao
Suggestions boxes have been
placed out in the community for your
convenience to voice your concerns
with the various branch of opera
tions. Please feel free to submit your
concerns, comments or issues you
would like to sec addressed by the
Management Team. You may also
include compliments if you like!!
Your input is important to the
Team and would help us correct,
improve or develop strategy in the
services provided to you as a Tribal
Member or an employee of the Con
federated Tribes. You may submit
suggestions anonymously or include
your name if you would like a per
sonal response. The issues could be
addressed in the Spilyay Tymoo for
input from the community.
Also, public meetings will be of
fered through the year for the com
munity to present their concerns or
share ideas on improving our ser
vices to you.
Title IX to meet
March 12
The Title IX Parent Advisory
Committee will meet at the Warm
Springs Elementary Library on Tues
day, March 12, 1996 at 7 p.m. A
report will be given on the efforts to
improve student attendance at WSE
and on the success of the full day
Kindergarten program.
Creative drawings, pottery, masks
and other artwork will he featured in
the Third Annual Warm Springs
Community Children's Art Show set
for March 15, 19 through May 27,
1996 in the Museum At Warm
Springs Changing Exhibit Gallery.
The public is invited to the show's
opening reception scheduled Thurs
day, March 14, 1 996 from 6 to 8 p.m.
in the Museum's lobby area. Stu
dents, parents, teachers and commu
nity members are especially encour
aged to attend to get a sneak preview
of the event.
The show features Native Ameri
can student artwork from schools in
the 509-J School District. The an
nual event gives students from pre
school through high school an op
portunity to showcase their ait.
The current show in the Changing
Exhibit Gallery, "Quillets of the
Wasco, Warm Springs, Paiu(c,"cnds
March 8, 1996. For more informa
tion contact The Museum at (541)
553-3331.
Fashion Show will feature tra
ditional and modern iiltire
"Traditional Treasures Through
Time," a fashion show featuring both
traditional and contemporary regalia
is scheduled Saturday, March 16,
1996 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at The
Museum At Warm Springs.
The fashion show will feature tra
ditional antique outfits, contempo
rary fashion outfits, powwow rega
lia, along with Indian cowboycow
girl outfits. Local, regional and inter
national regalia will be featured.
Event coordinators are Museum Edu
cationTour Coordinator Jeanne Tho
mas and Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs tribal member
Bridgelle Scott.
For more information contact
Jeanne Thomas at The Museum at '
553-3331.
Stuff is updating its mailing list
Because of the increase in mail
ing costs, The Museum At Warm
Springs staff is updating its mailing
list and is asking all local box holders
and others to please notify The Mu
seum, if one wants to remain on the
mailing list.
The Museum staff is asking people
to call or return the following form to
the Museum with a correct mailing
address to continue to receive Mu
seum mailings. If someone is not
currently receiving mailing but would
like to, then also notify The Museum
by telephone call or return the form.
For more information, call The
Museum at 541-553-3331.
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The submissions deadline for The Museum
At Warm .brings Tribal Member Art .how
Is ftiday, April 26, 1996.
The show Is scheduled June 3, 1996 through
eptember 20, 1996.
for information call The Museum
at 553-3331.
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Tribes, CRITFC meet to discuss variances
The Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reservation, the
Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon and
the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish
Commission, provided testimony on
February 16 in support of a variance
of Oregon state water quality stan
dards that would allow sufficient
water to be spilled over dams to as
sist juvenile salmon migration to the
Pacific Ocean. When spill is used,
the young salmon do not go through
turbines where many of them are
injured or killed.
Variances were requested by the
National Marine Fisheries Service
and the United States Fish and Wild
life Service. They involve modify
ing the states Total Dissolved Gas
Standard for the mainstcm Columbia
River to allow for gas saturation lev
els above 1 10 percent for a number
of spills between March 14, 1996
and August 31, 1996.
These variances arc necessary
because when water is spilled over
dams it traps nitrogen, a gaseous
chemical, from the air and creates
concentrations higher than arc nor
mally found in the river's water.
When young salmon are exposed to
very high levels of dissolved nitro
gen for prolonged periods, they can
develop gas bubble trauma, a condi
tion similar to "the bends" that divers
experience. Critics of spill have
claimed that even very low concen
trations of dissolved nitrogen pose
extreme risks to juvenile salmon and
have advocated the use barges to
transport juvenile salmon past the
hydrosystcm.
Joining tribal speakers were rep
resentatives of Oregon and Idaho fish
and wildlife departments, the Pacific
Fishery Management Council, the
Fish Passage Center, the Northwest
Sportsfishing Industry Association,
Trout Unlimited, Idaho Rivers
United, Oregon Trout and the Or
egon Natural Resources Council who
testified at the Oregon Department
of En vironmenta! Quality hearing on
the fallacy of that claim. In fact,
tribal representatives requested that
the Environmental Quality Commis
sion (EQC) approve levels of total
dissolved gas even higher than re
quested by the federal agencies.
"We do not make this recommen
dation lightly," said Jim Griggs,
speaking on behalf of the Confeder
ated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon and the Co
lumbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Com
mission. "The importance of salmon
to the tribes cannot be overstated. If
we thought the threat of gas bubble
trauma was even remotely similar to
the threat posed by passage through
turbines and barges, we would not be
here today."
In addition, the tribes asked the
EQC to assist them in urging the
Army Corps of Engineers to improve
operations, including the installation
of flip lips, in order to reduce levels
of total dissolved gas."(The Com
mission) can also take a leadership
role by calling on the Corps to fully
fund and implement a good monitor
ing program to ensure that spill is
done safely and effectively," said
Raphael Bill, Confederated Tribes
of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Fish and Wildlife Committee mem
ber. "You can call on the Corps to
make the design and structural
changes that can reduce any poten
tial gas problems from spill."
FSA program aims to help
farmers
Powwow canceled; girls continue to sell raffle tickets
Sam Brown of the Jefferson
County FSA Office announced re
cently that the Farm Service Agency
has been authorized to implement
the Emergency Conservation Pro
gram (ECP) on the Warm Springs
Indian Reservation and in Jefferson
County. The ECP program is to be
used to rehabilitate farmlands dam
aged by recent flooding. Funds are to
provide cost share assistance to eli
gible agricultural producers who
have suffered severe damage to their
farmland that will be so costly to
rehabilitate that federal assistance is
needed.
The Jefferson County FSA Com
mittee has implemented the program
and the following ECP practices will
be available:
Removing debris from farm
lands Grading, shaping or releveling
farmland and re-establishing veg
etative cover.
Restoring permanent fences
Restoring structures
The Jefferson County FSA Com
mittee decided that to qualify each
producer must have suffered at least
$400 of flood damage to be eligible
for cost-share assistance.
Producers wanting to apply should
call 475-3869 to make an appoint
ment. Applications will be taken at
the FSA office in Madras. In March
the Farm Service Agency will be in
the tribal Natural Resources office
on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to take
applications. Producers who request
assistance and begin restoration work
must understand that cost share un
der ECP will be contingent upon
necessary funds becoming available
as there currently is no money for
this program. Don't forget you must
make application before starting any
work. The deadline to apply is April
30, 1996.
Title IX meeting set for March 12
The Title IX Parent Advisory
Committee will meet at the Warm
Springs Elementary Library on Tues
day, March 12, 1996 at 7 p.m. A
report will be given on the efforts to
improve student attendance at WSE
and on the success of the full day
Kindergarten program.
litie IX meetings are open to all
members of the public. The commit
tee meets at 7 p.m. at the WSE Li
brary on the second Tuesday of each
month. If you have a disability, please
advise the District 509-J Support
Services office about special arrange
ments that may allow you to fully
participate in the meeting. Please call
Georgia Sosa at 475-6 1 92 if you have
any questions.
The 1996 Lincoln's Birthday
Powwow and Sovereignty Celebra
tion was canceled this year due to
flooding.
There was a strong message in the
flood and rains. It is an old Indian
tradition that we mourn one full year
when we lose a loved one. We lost a
beloved elder who was the founder
of the powwow late last year when
Matilda passed on. Additionally, the
powwow committee chairman
Pierson Mitchell was in mourning
and coordinator Rudy Clements has
been ill and could not attend this
year's event.
The powwow will be held next
February with added money and three
specials. We expect the 1997 pow
wow to be bigger and better than
ever.
Junior and senior queen candidates
continue to sell raffle tickets with the
drawing scheduled for Root Feast
Sunday at the Simnasho Longhouse.
(The date for Root Feast has not yet
been set.) The queens will be crowned
during feast weekend. Senior queen
candidates are Barbie Jackson, Edna
David and Crystal Scott. Valerie
Suppah and Larita Greene are junior
queen candidates.
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Edna David and Barbie Jackson are senior queen candidates for the
Lincoln's Birthday powwow.
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Larita Greene and Valerie Suppah are candidates for the junior queen title. All girls will continue to sell
tickets until Root Feast, later this spring.
Crystal Scott is a candidate for
the senior queen.
Raffle tickets can be pur
chased from any of the queen
candidates for $ 1 each or 6 for
$5.
Items include: Pendleton
blanket, Pendleton coat, Bike,
Fringe shawl, Buckskin vest,
Ribbon shirt, Shell dress, Hand
drum, Quilt, $100 cash (two),
$50 cash (two), $25 cash.
Need not be present to win.