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News from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation
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Pitt receives fellowship from First
Community Spirit-Five Ameri
can Indian artists have been awarded
$5,000 fellowships from the First
People's Fund. Community Spirit is
an expression that speaks of the un
selfish generosity and reciprocated
love these artists have for their Indian
community. Community Spirit also
describes the teaching of gifts that
promote and sustain indigenous cul
tures. The 2000 recipients were nomi
nated by members of their communi
ties and were found to exemplify the
Community Spirit by an independent
panel of American Indian reviewers.
The recipients are: Murial Antoine,
(Sicangu Lakota), Rosebud, S.D.;
Anna Brown Ehlers, (Tlingit) Juneau,
AK; Nora Naranjo Morse (Santa
Clara Pueblo), Espanola, N.M.;
Lillian Pitt (Warm SpringsYakama
Wasco), Portland, OR and Diane
Schenandoah (Oneida), Oneida, N. Y.
Juanita Espinosa, Director of
Native Arts Circle in Minneapolis
COIC asks for additional funds to assist millworkers
In response to recent widespread
layoffs in the timber products indus
try, Central Oregon Intergovernmen
tal Council (COIC) has asked the
Department of Labor for $500,000 in
additional federal funds to help dis
located timber workers. The latest
request is double the amount of the
last grant COIC received to help dis
located workers find new employ
ment. Several local companies, includ
ing Bend Millworks, Ochoco Lum
ber, Crown Pacific, American Pine
Products, and Warm Springs Forest
Products Industries, have announced
layoffs recently in Bend, La Pine,
Prineville, and Warm Springs. About
265 workers have been affected, and
industry officials expect the layoffs
Drive safe and have a very Merry
Christmas & Happy New Year!!
Snowfall coats the reservation in layers
It's a beginning to
Minnesota and a member of the se
lection committee said, "finally a way
to acknowledge our community art
ists who operate with a set of native
values that allows them to reach out
to their communities artistically to
ensure cultural continuance." She fur
ther added, "too often artists awards
recognize artists for their individual
ity which forces them to self-promote."
First People's Fun is an organi
zation committed to sustaining the
creative work of American Indian
artists. Community Spirit honorees
have demonstrated their commitment
and dedication to core values of First
People's Fund. Those values are
deeply rooted and maintain direct ties
to an Indian community, a history of
actions dedicated to building the
strength of native communities and
an artistic practice that passes on the
traditions and the life ways of the
people.
Recipients of the Community
to continue. COIC is ready to help
workers find new jobs.
"COIC offers dislocated workers
three viable options," Rik Mackay,
COIC Executive Director, said. "If a
workers has skills that can be mar
keted in Central Oregon, we'll help
them find a job here. If they want to
use their current skills elsewhere,
we'll help them relocate. If their cur
rent skills can't be applied to another
type of job, we'll help them develop
new skills so they can find work. This
new funding request allows us to con
tinue doing that and to do it for more
people.
"COIC wants to provide a rapid
response to changing conditions in
the local workforce, and this is one
example of how we try to do that. Our
a lot like Christmas
People's Fund
Spirit Award were honored Novem
ber 2, 2000 at a formal ceremony and
opening exhibit at the Denver Art
Museum entitled, "Deep Roots. . .In
dian Artists, Community Heroes."
Photographer and 1999 Community
Spirit awaardee , Hulleah
Tsinhnahjinnie traveled to her fellow
awardees' communities and photo
graphed each artist in their own envi
ronment. Her images Will be dis
played alongside the artist's art me
dium. The exhibit celebrates the
memory of Clyde Estey, a respected
elder and recipient of the 1 999 award,
who passed on to spirit world this past
Spring. I
The ceremony ana exhibit was
sponsored by First People's Fund, the
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
and Western American Indian Cham
ber, Denver, CO. Formore informa
tion contact Lori Pourier, FPF at 605-393-1053.
FPF website
www.firstpeoplesfund.org.
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staff is knowledgeable and experi
enced in helping people in just this
kind of situation," Mackay said.
COIC's request for additional
money is part of a larger request made
by The Oregon Consortium and Or
egon Workforce Alliance to serve
dislocated workers in 23 rural coun
ties in Oregon affected by a recent
wave of layoffs in the timber indus
try. For more information on COIC
services for dislocated timber work
ers, please call one of the following
COIC offices: Bend, 389-9661;
LaPine, 536-5380; Madras, 475
7118; Prineville, 447-3119; or
Redmond, 504-2955. Or visit COIC's
website at www.coic.org.
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International
An international group repre
senting 13 foreign countries were in
Warm Springs December 1 1 to gain
insight on local community and its
culture.
' The group, participating in the
International Visitor Program, was
touring the United States to learn how
local communities preserve their cul
tural heritage. The trip to Warm
Springs focused on tribal culture and
how it is passed from generation to
generation.
Presentations were made at the
Tribal Relations office, Warm
Springs Elementary School and the
Museum at Warm Springs. The group
wanted to examine the extent to
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Meetings scheduled
to discuss timber harvest
outside commercial base
The Branch of Forestry will host
three meetings in January to discuss
a Tribal Council directive authoriz
ing the harvest of 4 million board feet
of timber above the annual allowable
cut in 2001.
A downswing in the timber in
dustry has created a financial crisis
and forced Warm Springs Forest
Products Industry to lay-o(T65 work
ers, effective Feb. 2, 200 1 . The 4 mil
lion board feet of timber will be used
to keep a swing shift working at the
mill through January.
The decision to harvest timber
above the annual allowable cut is
based on a recommendation from
tribal and BI A representatives. The so
called "Gang of Four," selected to
research short-term and long-term
solutions to the industry downswing,
recommended taking timber outside
Shooting incident claims life
Wednesday afternoon at 5:16, The victim was pronounced dead
November 29, 2000, Warm Springs at the scene. A physician from Indian
Police responded to a call of a shoot- Health Service, Warm Springs Fire &
ing incident at a residence in the Safety, and representative from Cri-
Seekseequa area. On arrival, police sis Intervention all responded to the
officers found a 13 year-old female scene.
victim not breathing and unconscious. The body was transported to Bel
It was determined that there had Air Funeral Home in Madras,
been a family altercation prior to the The Warm Springs Police and
incident. The incident involved the the FBI are conducting an investiga-
victim and her 12-year-old brother,
The brother attempted to scare the
victim with a rifle when the weapon
discharged.
Deadline
for the
next issue
is Friday,
January 5,
2001
group visits Warm Springs
which local institutions and individu
als were involved in research, pres
ervation, conservation and education
of American cultural heritage.
The visitors learned about tribal
sovereignty, treaty rights, trust re
sponsibility, language classes, out
reach programs, and tribal traditions.
Most of the visitors were mu
seum directors or curators in their
country of origin. They came as rep
resentatives of Algeria, Armenia,
Belarus, Canada, Guatemala, Israel,
Kuwait, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova,
Saudi Arabia, Slovenia and Zambia.
The International Visitor Pro
gram is sponsored by the World Af
fairs Council. Each year approxi
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the commercial forest base in re
stricted areas such as riparian buff
ers, visual corridors and conditional
use areas.
Employees with the Forestry and
Natural Resources branches have lo
cated several areas that contain the
type of trees needed to keep the swing
shift operating. Some of the stands
would be considered a high priority
for harvest if they were located in the
commercial forest base, meaning they
are considered to be overstocked or
diseased.
The staff will present maps
where the harvest could take place
and discuss potential methods for ob
taining the 4 million board feet at the
January meetings.
Times and dates of the meetings
will be announced through the For
estry Branch and the media.
tion into the shooting. Further mfor-
mation will be released, as it is avail
able.
Three Warriors Market
In Simnasho
Open Christmas Day
7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday the 31st,
New Years Eve
Regular Store Hours
Phone:553-2242
mately 4,500 foreign visitors, identi
fied by U.S. embassies as future lead
ers in their countries, participate in
study tours to the United States. The
visitors typically represent over 100
countries and a wide range of profes
sional interests.
Each visitor spend approxi
mately 30 days in the United States
and visits 4-5 different states. Nearly
500 visitors come to Oregon each
year.
The World Affairs Council of
Oregon arranges personalized tours
for each visitor. The program build
international friendships and pro
motes international understanding.
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