Warm Springs. Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
Sahaptin language lessons-
6 December 3, 1998
Sahaptin Language Lesson
Christmas Songs
Kyi
Little Drummer Boy
Puzzle
O' Come. All Ye Faithful
Walptaik natfitait
Walptaik pinakw'alasha
Haulaak natfitait pinakw'alasha
Ayayatmsha namf anilaxiki
Auna awatawfsha
Auna awatawfsha
Auna awatawfsha, nami piap.
O' Come. All Ye Faithful
0 come, all ye faithful
Joyful and triumphant
0 come ye, o come ye to Bethlehem
Come and behold him, born the king of
angels,
Oh come let us adore Him
Oh come let us adore Him
Oh come let us adore Him, Christ the
Lord.
Tov to the World
Kw'ala miyanash wiyanawi
Ticham pinachaxulpn
Achaxlpawak imfin tmna
Haulaak ticham walptaikt
Haulaak ticham walptaikt
Haulaak haulaak ticham walptaikt
Tov to the World
Joy to the world, the Lord is come
Let earth receive her King
Let every heart prepare Him room
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven, and heaven and nature
sing.
kj'iwc .irfc J'lWc 'UlWf'
The drummer boy lost his drum. Can you help
him find it?
November 25, 1998
Culture and HeritageLanguage Program
update MYRA SHAWAWAY
Our Culture and Heritage program has been
quite active lately. If the news hasn't reached your
ears. We've had to understand Wilson Wewa Jr.,
decision to resign from his position as Culture and
Heritage Director. He has been an asset in many
ways with his cultural knowledge. Although there
are many who will miss him, we can only wish him
the best with his new journeys. The program will
look forward to working with him in the future as
his knowledge is expanded.
The program has faced issues regarding the
growing need for more language classes, especially
in the school district. We would like to be able to
address the Spanish required for the Fifth and Sixth
graders at the Middle School. With our current staff
being busy at Warm Springs Elementary, we would
like to offer Wasco and Paiute as an option for the
Middle School in the 1999 school year. We do face
the problem of acquiring two full time instructors
for this project. Myra met with Jody, Wendell,
Jamie, Jeff, and Charles Jackson to discuss options
for adding two new teachers positions for the Wasco
and Paiute languages. Currently, our program does
not have permanent full time employment instruc
tors for both of these language areas. The Wasco
and Paiute languages are the two that are most in
peril of being lost. With the loss of theses lan
guages, the cultural aspects will also disappear.
Most important, is how do we get these languages to
our most important resources, our children.
Even though the group agreed the importance
of the language and culture of each of the Tribes
was a priority, the group suggested looking into our
own budget and finding available moneys to help
assist. Our program has taken budget cuts for the
past two years, and would have appreciated being
able to move moneys around to accommodate. Jody
suggested bringing together other oral histories
grant moneys to tap into. How would grant moneys
provide for a stable environment for development
of teachers in the three languages? And would that
meet the need to develop teachers for using the
languages today? Researching and corrections of
word usage in the languages is very different than
retrieving oral histories.
Myra met with Diane Boley on developing a
internship position with a student from Oregon
State University linguistanthropology. Student will
be applying for a grant to come and do some work
with the language program to develop a CD-ROM
game for our computers that entice young people to
line up to visit our language lab.
Alice, Val, Anna and Myra had the opportu
nity to attend the Prevention Conference at Sunriver
at the first of the month. Following in some infor
mation that we would like to share from that confer
ence. Highlights: Saturday, November, 7, 1998
1. Syliva Castillo, Program Director, South Cen
tral Prevention Project, Los Angeles, California.
General Session on "Neighborhoods fighting Back",
and how she organized the neighborhoods to ad
dress the devastation that was happening with the
crack cocaine. Coalitions were formed to begin
watching over their own areas. Liquor stores were
hangouts for dealers, so they worked on shutting
them down. More lighting was put in the most
frequented places. The strength in coalitions was
evident in her speaking.
2. Workshop: Aha! It's Not Just Anger". Brought
awareness and skill to understand and manage
anger, hostility, and aggression in classrooms.
3. Workshop: "McParents". Building on paren
tal skills to develop creative ways of raising their
children. j
4. Evening: Aztec Dancers, with dance after to !
the 50's, 60's music. :
Highlights: Sunday November 8, 1998 ;
1. Workshop: "I Didn't Grow Up To Be a Grant j
Writer". Tips on how to apply for various grants, j
corporate, national, state, and local.
2. General Session: Clay Roberts, national j
speaker on children at risk. '
3. Lunch: Met with others from the Jefferson ;
County area. Jackie Maitland, coordinator for the I
Madras area open to working projects together. '
4. Workshop: "Community Mobilization A Cul- !
turally Competent Approach". Focus was on phi-
losophy, development and implementation of
Project Intervention grants.
5. Workshop: "American Indian Cultural Risk
Protective Factors." The impact historical events
have had on the generational life of American In
dian people. How protective factors can be imple
mented in prevention projects.
6. Dinner: With various leaders in the preven
tion field.
Highlights: Monday, November 9, 1998 ;
1. Workshop: "A Practical Prevention Program '
that Fosters Self-Understanding, social competence, :
and Responsibility in Children". An active demon
stration of adaptable methods and material de
signed to enhance the total development of chil
dren. Learning how to apply STFA (Stop, Think,
Feel, and Act in a kind way).
2. General session: Mervlyn Kitashima, District
coordinator for the Parent-Community Networking
Centers in Hawaii's Department of Education, very
moving and inspiring speaker on her own person
account of the factors that contributed to her ability
to overcome the odds. Was able to relate to all her
experiences from a Native American perspective.
3. Afternoon meeting with Pacific Northwest
Prevention Coalition teams, to share and give new
ideas to other groups. People showed approval of
our triad moving to enhance self-identity to
strength resiliency factors. ,:. , ,
Tuesday, November, 10, 1998 -: -
Myra Was invited to sit on the panel for
today's subject "Summit on Environmental Strate
gies for Substance Abuse Prevention", presented by
Michael Klitzner, Ph.D. Shared basic orientations !
concerning the "rightness or wrongness,' acceptabil
ity or unacceptability, andor deviance of specific
behaviors for a specific group of individuals. Panel
shared about the ways that this concern is being
addressed. Felt comfortable that this is what the
Tribes have been moving towards.
The Program staff in attendance had identi
fied the conference to be a needed support for the
well being of themselves and the program.
The Language Program met with key leaders
of the Foreign Language Department, Oregon State
University. Beginning with a 7 A.M. breakfast with
Joseph Krause, Tony Truijillo, Diane Boley, Clint
Jacks, Michael Hammond, Viola Kalama. The profes
sors were full of questions about how can they be of
assistance to the Tribes and the Language Program.
They paid a visit to Dallas' class. Visited with Dawn
Smith. A visit to ECE, where Julie toured the group
through the building. (Hat off to Julie, for last
minute notification!). To the Museum for a visit and
tour. They seemed to be very impressed with the
visits that they had made this morning. Took them
to the Education Branch Thanksgiving lunch, where
they had a chance to meet Branch employees. Jo
seph was not shy about moving about and visiting
with Language Program staff. We then moved to the
trailer, where a discussion took place on various
issues. Teacher Certification, Materials Develop
ment, Language Acquisition and Retention, and a
visit to OSU from the staff of our Language Program
to network further. Professors left with a sense of
this is something that they can assist with and was
looking forward to taking the information back and
beginning to work on plans.
Myra and Val went to Buff administration to
pick up the three new computers and a CD-ROM
writer purchased through Charter School dollars.
After the setting up of these computers, the pro
gram will be moving three computer over the Warm
Springs Elementary School for language enhance
ment. We have been very happy to see children
learning language, and will do as much as possible
to continue that growth for our young people. We
would have one request for parents, and that would
be for you to talk to your students and learn from
them. We also encourage you to take language
classes to support your child in building a stronger
sense of identity and being proud of their heritage.