8 January 13, 2000
Warm Springs, Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
The Museum at Warm Springs has new Director-
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Dr. Mry Ellen Conawy
The Museum At Warm Springs
began the year 2000 with a new Ex
ecutive Director, Dr. Mary Ellen
Conaway. The new Executive Direc
tor is originally from southern Cali
fornia where she grew up around the
Mojave Desert area. She has been
working with museum's since 1968,
starting at the Milwaukie Public
Museum.
"Proir to coming to Warm
Springs," says Dr. Mary Ellen, "I
was the Director of the Racine Heri
tage Museum, in Racine, Wisconsin,
which is about half way between
Milwaukie and Chicago and Lake
Michugan. Before that I was in Ari
zona, also at a Museum." Dr.
Conaway and her husband have
moved to the Central Oregon High
Desert area, and are residing in Ma
dras. An Introduction Party for Dr.
Mary Ellen was combined with the
Opening Reception for the "Circle of
Culture" Community Art Show,
which was held on Tuesday, January
1 1.atThcMuscumAtWarmSprings.
The event was free to (he public and
everyone was invited to attend. The
Introduction Party and Opening Re
ception started at 6:00 P.M. and ended
at 8:00 P.M. Refreshments of hot
chocolate, flavored coffees, and bar
cookies were served during the
Opening Reception. The "Circle of
Culture ' Community Art Show, is
the first temporary exhibit for the
year 2000.
The Museum At Warm Springs
Board of Directors, Regents, and staff
are excited to have Dr. Mary Ellen
Conaway as their new Executive
Director. "I'm a anthropologist by
training," says Dr. Mary Ellen.
"I have done anthropologist for
my undergraduate work all the way
through, and that's another reason
why I know I'm really going toenjoy
the Central Oregon and the High
Desert areas," explains Conaway,
"As the next Executive Director for
The Museum At Warm Springs, my
foals for (he museum will change as
learn more about it. We want to
look at ways to make things more
community oriented. We would also
like to have a vareity of things to do
for the community including all ages.
We want people to feel comfortable
about coming here and taking part in
community events, and we also wel
come suggestions from the public,"
said Conaway.
The new Executive Director
brings 30 years of museum experi
ence with her. She attended school
with many Native Americans, mainly
Navajo's, and Pueblo Indians. Dr.
Conaway did her Masters work with
Native American's in the city of
Milwaukie where she helped found
the first Indian Center for the city.
She did gradtuatc work in the Ama
zon where she also worked with Na
tive Americans on migration.
Media representatives were en
couraged to interview Dr. Conaway
prior to the Opening Reception and
Introduction Party. For more infor
mation, please call The Museum At
Warm Springs at 541-553-3331.
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Show, held Tuesday, January 11. Above photo, left to right is Bemice Mitchell, Madeline Mcinturff, and Dr. Mary Ellen.
Art
Adobe Photoshop class offered ece infant center Central Oregon Community college news
nrwun The Central Oregon Community eludes a review of the various popu- Richey Bellinger, M
Central Oregon Community
College's Education department is
offering three two-day workshops in
the Adobe PhotoShop 5.0 software
program from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
on January 22 and 29, February 19
and 26 and March 1 1 and 18.
The workshop is geared for stu
dents who are comfortable using
computers, but are new to the
Photoshop Program. Topics include:
preference settings, the toolbox and
other interfaces, color modes, cali
bration, scanning, selections, com
posing, layers, the history palette,
contrast adjustment, recoloring im
ages, painting, masking, paths filters,
actions and printing. The class is
applicable to both Macintosh and
personal computer users. The in
structor, Chuck Engel, is a profes
sional graphic artist.
The cost of the class is $35.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
are available for an additional cost of
$5 per unit. The recommended test is
available at COCC Bookstore. For
more information, or to register call
383-7270 or e-mail
http:www.cocc.educe.
COCC Native American Club to
present dancing
Central Oregon Community
College's Nad ve American Club will
present storytelling and dancing from
1 to 3 p.m. on Thursday, January 20,
in the Pinckney Center for the Arts
on the COCC Bend campus. ,The
, event is free and the public is wel
come. Seating is limited.
The program will feature Millie
Colwash presenting the creation
myths of the Columbia Basin and
Wasco tribes as well as the High
Desert morality myths of the Paiute
tribes. In addition, Angela, Laurissa
andFarrellynBellanger.LilyaDavis, .
Cory Johnson, Felisia RedDog and
Wiyaka RedDog will present tradi
tional dances accompanied by the
Kalama Drummers.
The event is sponsored by the
COCC Native American Club.
Anyone wishing to attend this
event who has special needs result
ing from a physical disability should
contact Gene Zinkgraf, ADA Coor
dinator, at least three days in ad
vance of the event. He can be reached
at 383-7775 or through the college's
TTY number 383-7708
news
The Infant Center Baby Room
slots are currently filled. There will
be no slots available until July 1,
2000. Should a slot become avail
able, the next family on the Recruit
ment pool will be contacted.
The Infant Center Staff are indi
vidualizing children by assessing the
children and implementing the out
comes into their daily lesson plans.
For more information contact your
child's teacher who will share their
planning with you.
Congratulations ! To Virgil "B ird"
Windyboy and Celia Greene for hav
ing Perfect Attendance in the busy
month of December. Good Job!
Early Childhood Education will
be closed on the following dates for
In-Service Training for the ECE staff:
January 28, April 7, June 30, July 3,
August 3 1 , September 1 and October
13, 2000.
ECE requires parents to fill out a
furlough request for their child by
the 25th of the prior month of the
furlough. This must be done or
charges will be applied to your ac
count. Furloughs may not exceed 3
months and must have a return date.
There will be no exceptions this year.
Reminder: ECE provides a coffee
and cookies for parents and guard
ians in the main lobby on each
Wednesday morning. Please stop in
and enjoy a beverage and snack!
College Library's winter-term hours
will be in ellect January 3, the tirst
day of winter term. The Library will
be open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays
through Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. on Fridays, 1 to 5 p.m. on Satur
days and 1 to 8 p.m. on Sundays.
The library will be closed on
Monday, January 17, for Martin
Luther King Jr. Day.
Winter-term hours will be in ef
fect until March 18. The library is
open to the public.
COCC Honors Martin Luther
King Jr.
In observance of Martin Luther
King Jr. Day. Phillip E. Walker of
the African American Drama Com
pany will present an hour long lec
ture and a play in the Pinckney Cen
ter for the Arts at COCC. Both events
are free and the public is invited.
Walker will present "Martin
Luther King Jr. for the Next Millen
nium" at 1 1 a.m. on Monday, Janu
ary 17. The lecture reviews the legacy
of Dr. King's movement, highlight
ing it's political and legal accom
plishments. In addition, Walker in-
lar culture celebrations of King.
At 7 p.m. Walker will present
"Brother Can I Speak For You?"
This one-man show depicts the his
tory of black American leaders.
Walker portrays a slave, Malcolm X,
Martin Luther King and six other
black leaders, changing characters
with the eras.
"We must use yesterday to build
tomorrow," said Walker. Walker is a
film and stage actor, as well as a
college instructor, who earned a
bachelor's degree in theater and
master's degrees in both theater his
torycriticism and acting. He is pres
ently developing the African Ameri
can Acting Academy, the first Afri
can American master of fine arts
acting degree program.
His wife, Ethel Pills Walker, a 30
year theater veteran and professor at
San Jose State University, directs the
play. The Walkers have been the
driving forces behind the African
American Drama Company of Cali
fornia since 1979.
COCC Ceramics Exhibit opens ,
January 18,
larianna
Crawford and Victoria Shaw will
present an exhibit entitled "COCC
2000: Contemporary Ceramics",
January 18 to February 11 in the
Gallery of the Pinckney Center for
the Arts on the COCC Bend Campus.
The Gallery is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday through Friday and during
evening events in the Pinckney Cen
ter. Bellinger, an instructor of ceram
ics at Portland Community College's
Rock Creek campus, says he special
izes in porcelain pottery "with lus
cious slip patterns and glazes that
move."
Crawford ceramics are hand-built,
low-fired and painted with oil paints
ormilk paint. The pieces in this show,
she says are pseudo-functional and
deal with issues related to inner and
outer spaces.
Shaw, a native of the Pacific
Northwest is recognized as an artist
of the earth. Her sculptures are hand
build and inspired by the organic
shapes found in nature.
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Jefferson Co. Middle School liaison
Seeking poets shares attendance report
Scholarship Fund offers opportunities to students
The Native American Scholarship
Fund (NASF) announced that 186
N ASF-supported Native American
Indian students are attending accred
ited institutions of higher learning
throughout the United Slates for the
Fall Semester.
Of the 186 students, 44 of them
are new to the NASF program this
fall. These students are highly moti
vated, high academic achievers and
have a burning desire to return to their
native communities to help their
tribes when they complete their stud-
ies. The majority of these students are
studying in fields of science, engi
neering, business, math, computers,
and education.
NASF has more than $500,000"
available in scholarship funds for FY
2000, which is available through June
30, 2000. The average scholarship
grant for this fall is $1,600 per stu
dent. The application deadline for fall
semester, 2000 is April 15, 2000.
NASF has awarded scholarships to
448 students since 1987 and helped
produce 208 graduates. The student
goal is to be funding 1,500 students
by the FY 2010.
All NASF scholarship awards are
based on merit. In addition to general
scholarship assistance available to
any qualifying Native American stu
dent, several categories of funding are
also based on specific criteria estab
lished by the donor. Those categories
include:
Funds restricted to Native Ameri
can students of Southern Cheyenne
tribal registry.
Funds restricted to Native Ameri
can students of Native Alaskan tribal
registry.
Funds restricted to Native Ameri
can students attending college in the
states of California, Florida, Illinois,
Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Ohio, New York, Texas, Washington,
and any state in the northeast United
Stales.
Funds restricted to Native Ameri
can students majoring in math, sci
ence, or engineering in the stale of
Minnesota or majoring in health care
in the state of Arizona.
Funds restricted to Native Ameri
can students majoring in English,
math, science, engineering, or com
puter science.
"Few students are presently re
ceiving scholarship assistance from
donor-restricted funds," Lucille
Kclley, NASF Recruiter said. "We en
courage eligible students to apply for
these restricted scholarship funds
immediately."
To request a scholarship applica
tion, call the contact number above
or write to:
Native American Scholarship
Fund, 8200 Mountain Road NE, Suite
203, Albuquerque, NM 871 10; E-mail
Nschol arsh aol.com.
A $1000.00 grand prize is being
offered in a special religious poetry
contest sponsored by New Jersey
Rainbow Poets, free to everyone.
There are 28 prizes in all totaling
over $2,000.00.
"We think great religious poems
can inspire achievement," says
Frederick Young, the organization's
famous Contest Director, "we're
especially keen on inspiring begin
ning poets and we think this com
petition will accomplish that. Oregon
has produced great poets over the
years and we'd like to discover the
new ones from among the Warm
Springs area grass roots poets."
To enter, send one poem only of
21 lines or less to: Free Poetry
Contest, 103 N. Wood Ave., Suite
70, Linden, NJ 07036. Or enter
on-line www.freecontest.com.
The deadline for entering is Feb
ruary 1 8, 2000. Poems may be written
on any subject, using any style, as
long as there is a spiritual inference.
A typical poem might be a love poem,
or nature poem, one that inspires.
Winners will be notified by the end
of March 2000, an invited for free
publication. All entrants will receive
a winner's list.
by Butch David,
Attendance Liaison
There are 386 Native American
students enrolled at Jefferson County
Middle School following is the re
sults. Fifth Grade
There are 108 Native American
fifth graders attending school 13
school day in the month of Decem
ber. Perfect attendance-41 students; 1
2 days absent-44 students; 3-4 days
absent-10 students; 5-6 days absent
6 students; 7 days absent-2 stu
dents. Sixth Grade
There are 100 Native American
sixth graders attending school. 6
Native American students are being
home-schooled or dropped for lack
of attendance.
13 school days in the month of
December
Perfect attendance-37 students; 1
2 days absent-33 students; 3-4 days
absent-16 students; 5-6 days absent
3 students; 7 days absent-4 stu
dents; 1 moved.
Seventh Grade
There are 87 Native American
seventh graders attending school. 13
school days in the month of Decem
ber. Perfect attendance-45 students; 1- .
2 days absent-24 students; 3-4 days
absent-9 students; 5-6 days absent-5
students; 7 days absent-4 students.
Eighth Grade
There are 96 Native American
eighth graders attending school. 2
Native American students are being
home-schooled; 4 students will be
returning to school in January; 13
school days in the month of Decem
ber. Perfect attendance-37 students; 1
2 days absent-23 students; 3-4 days
absent-1 5 students; 5-6 absent-7 stu
dents; 7 days absent-7 students;
Moved-1.
Bereaved family wishes should be considered
To the editor,
Much deliberation and thought has
prompted me to write this article. I
am sincerely hoping that someone
sees themselves through it. First I am
my own person, very set in my ways
and very opinionated. A young lady
approached me crying, "Can you help
us? Why did the cooks and the per
son caring for my grandmother's dish
at her funeral wouldn't allow us to
server her final meal with sacred
food?" They told us "only the root
diggers and huckleberry pickers
could serve the table !" "Did the cooks
know who provided the roots, ber-,
ries and meat? Evidently Not! The
myself to be anybodys assistant. The
table was shabby, the food was taste
less. A family member came into the
kitchen and asked me "Why? Did we
not provide enough cash for the
food?" I didn't know. This sweet
family member opened his wallet
and set 2 $100 bills in front of me. I
told him I was only the helper. The
head cook took the money but was
too busy to ever go for more food.
After that I have never made myself
available to "help" any other
headcook.
Like I admitted earlier, I am too
set in my ways, I care how my table
looks all the time especially at home.
young ladies are the grandchildren I will neverforgetmy aunt May John
of the late Prosanna Williams. Prunie
taught her children and grandchil
dren all that was to know tradition
ally from infancy;
Too many times we as designated
cooks don't think before we talk. I
for one feel very honored when I am
asked to cook for a funeral and will
go out of the way to meet the families
wishes. I am not the person who
drops my other duties to run and
cook for funerals. I will not profit
from our people's sadness and loss
of a loved one. Once I w as asked to
be an assistant to the headcook. That
was the last time I would imposition
who always spoke philosophically.
Herteachings were to wait on every
one first before yourself when cook
ing for memorials and funerals and
to take time for your self after.
I have never felt so sad for Marge's
young children. I had spent a lot of
time at the hospital during her illness
hoping that my presence was com
forting, as was the Katchia family.
Know ing there was no more hope for
her, I came home to prepare her un
dergarments for her dressing. She
silently slipped away that day. I re
ceived a call from my nephew Tiger
VanPelt who said, "Aunty, can you
make her buckskin outfit?' "I will be
only too happy to," I said. Later her
children asked me to take care of the
kitchen for them. I had to bow out for
somewhere a long time ago, I over
heard two elders discussing the do's
and don'ts of traditional etiquette
during funerals. I would one day have
to face this challenge of making the
outfit or the cooking. I advised the
family of my teaching and DearTates,
Wimpy, Danni, Frank, Sky and
Damion, forgive me.
In my own heart I feel during a
deceased's last rites that the family
deserve to serve the final meal with
out opposition from the self pro
claimed, "root diggers and berry pick
ers. I don't done a ceremonial hat to
serve during those times even when
I am cooking but that is by choice,
my choice.
I hope in the future that we will be
more considerate for the bereaved
families wishes. And to all the loss of
loved ones families, grasp onto all
the pleasant memories, do what you
believe in for a memorial. Only then
will you begin to heal. It is really
hard to let go and I am glad Danni
that your Ulla prepared you tradi
tionally for it.
Nye,
Neda B. Wesley
To Elizabeth Marilyn
Whiteplume,
Happy Birthday Granddaughter!
December 30, 1999 this birthday wish
is belated, but it does not diminish
the importance of your day of birth.
We could not be together for that
day,-but we had you in thought and
prayer. Thank you for being who you
are. You are a special one.
The happiness you bring to my .
eyes when I see you is treasured.
Here's hoping it was a good one!
Your grandmother,
Annie & family, Faron, Scott,
Tatum, & Levi Kalama
To Amelia "Millie" Irma John
Colwash,
Happy Anniversary! January 11,
2000. Mother, I know he is not here
with you, but these thoughts are! I
remember this important day and how
much love it represents! May your
memories bring joy to your heart.
May your memories help you through
the lonliness!
The love he has for you is still
here with you. through your children
and grandchildren. Now through the
"Great" grandchildren. We love you
Mother, Grandmother and Great
Grandmother. (
Love & Prayers,"
your daughter Annie
Book signing set
The Simnasho Faith Outreach will
host a book signing with author Betty
Eadie on January 25, 2000 at the
Senior Center. Eadie is a Lakota In
dian with three books on sale, "Em
braced by the Light", "Awakening
Heart" and newest release "Rippling
Effect".
For more information call Aurelia
Stacona at (541) 553-6504.
To: Gilbert "Gib" Kalama, Sr.
Happy Birthday Dad! 1-29-2000.
We love you and hope you have a
enjoyable day. Thank you for being
our Dad! Thank you for loving us.
Thank you for attending our birthday
celebrations and acknowledging us
like that! Wishes for enjoying your
company for a long time to come!
Love & Prayers,
Your Children,
Faron, Scott, Tatum, & Levi
Kalama
To Traci Mikayla Colwash,
Happy Birthday niece. January
22, 2000. The day approaches of
your birth and this Auntie wants you
to know she remembers.
Wishing you an outrageously
wonderful day. Happiness and good
health are among those w ishes. Have
a good one with lots of presents.
Love & Prayers,
ECE sets
Inservice dates
The Early Childhood Education
will be closed for inservice Training
on Friday, January 28, 2000. There
will be no child care services. We
will re-open on Monday, January
3 1 st. Please call 553-324 1 with questions.
Family memorial
for Tiffany
Wolfe, Wilkens
Leonard, and
Nelson Ike, will
be held at the
Agency
Longhouse Sat.
February 5, at 10
a.m. with lunch
to follow, for
more info, call
(541)475-4834
Tatum,
Kalama