Warm Springs, Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
Green receives award for Most Outstanding Graduate in Law Enforcement
8 January 25,2001
Starla Green jutt recently
graduated with the Class of 2000 with
her Bachelors Decree in Criminal
Justice from Western Oregon Univer
sity and a minor in AnihroHlogy
with a 3.5 CJI'A. Starla relumed to fin
ish her degree alter working for the
tribes for four years. Prior to gradua
tion, Scat la w as honored w ith an
uward for Most Outstanding Gradu
ate in Law hnloreeinenl, presented It)
her from ihe program professors. She
also received a recognition award for
her participation in WOU
Multicultural Student Union. Starla
took pan in activities such as a pan
elist of the Women of Color Confer
ence, opened ceremonies during cul
tural activities on campus and was
guest speaker in neighboring elemen
tary school classrooms. Also during
her time at WOU, she held the office
as President of the Criminal Justice
Club and remained active with the
club until her graduation in June. She
is also a member of the National
Criminal Justice Association.
While away at college, Starla
continued her career in criminal jus
To all High School Students,
The Education Committee would like all students
in High School to turn in their report cards from last
seminar (June 2000) with 3 point and up for Incentive
GPA's. Bring to the Tribal Council office to Education
committee Secretary no later than February 8lh, 2001,
Thank you for your cooperation.
Warm Springs Elementary
School news update
Calendar Updates
January
26'" - No School Bldg Inscrvice
& report card preparation
February
1 - Awards Assembly K-2
8:50 and 3 & 4 9:30 a.m.
I9'h - No School President's
Dav Holiday
Winter Carnival
The Winter Carnival held on
December 14,h had a net profit of
$2,050.20. Proceeds from the carni
val will go toward the purchase of 4
scanners for the Accelerated Math
program currently being used by
WSE. Thank you for1 your1 suppMt'at
the carnival. t. "
Blazer game raffle tickets for 5
different games are still available in
the WSE office until January 12,h.The
tickets are $2 each. The tickets were
$2 each or 3 for 5. There were one
tick drawn for each of the t games and
each win received 4 tickets. The
drawings were held on January 16lh.
The games were: Blazers vs Bulls 1
3001 ; Blazers vs Timberwolves 21 3
01 ; Blazers vs Nuggets 2200 1 ; Blaz
ers vs Clippers 32601 ; and Blazers
vs Warriors 41001.
It's not too late to fill out a
school meal application
Has someone in your house
hold recently become unemployed?
Do you have a new baby or person
that has been added to your house
hold that you are supporting with your
income? If either of these situations
Indian Health
The Indian Health Scholarship
Program is now accepting applica
tions for the academic year 2001
2002 awards cycle. Full-time and
part-time academic scholarships will
be funded for each of the three (3)
scholarship programs listed below:
Health Professions Prepatory
Scholarship awards are made to
American Indian or Alaskan Natives
( 1 ) who have successfully completed
high school education or high school
equivalency and (2) who have been
accepted for enrollment in a compen
satory, pre-professional general edu
cation courses or curriculum. Support
is limited to 2 years for full-time stu
dents and the part-time equivalent of
2 years not to exceed 4 years for part
time students. Eligible academic pro
grams being considered are:
a. Pre-Dietetics
b. Pre-Engineering
c. Pre-Medical Technology
d. Pre-Nursing
e. Pre-Pharmacy
f. Pre-Physical Therapy
g. Pre-Social Work (Jr. and Sr.
undergraduate years)
Health Professions Pregraduate
Scholarships awards are made to
American Indian and Alaskan Natives
( 1 ) who have successfully completed
high school education or high school
equivalency and (2) who have been
accepted for enrollment or are en
rolled in an accredited pregraduate
program leadig to a baccalaureate
degree in:
a. Pre-Medicine
b. Pre-Dentistry
Support is limited to 4 years for
full-time students and the part
timeequivalent of 4 years not to ex
tice and public safety. She holds a
national instructor's certificate in
Child Passenger Safely. She is the
only Native American Technician
Instructor across the nation. While at
college, she had been invited to speak
and spoke at the National Highway
Administration's national l.ifeSavers
Conference about her involvement in
traffic safetyeducation programs in
diverse communities. Alter speaking
at that conference, she had been in
vited to help teach and share her
know ledge w ith smaller tribal agen
cies across the northwest. Starla has
also apivared on television and radio
stations throughout Central Oregon
regarding traffic safety issues. She is
also a Traffic Strategies Instructor that
instructs police officers across the
Slate on traffic safety issues.
Starla travels across the state
and is a part of an elite team that cre
ates technicians to assist in the
struggle for the proper use of Child
Safely Seats. She also (ravels across
the Slate and assists in operating Car
Seat Clinics for several different
agencies. She has made contacts
apply to your family and your chil
dren are currently on a reduced or
full-price meal plan, please contact
the WSE school office as soon as pos
sible t see if you are eligible for free
or reduced meals. Applications are
available in the office throughout the
school year. Assistance is available
to help you fill out your application
even if your children are attending
another school(s) within the 509-J
district. If you have any questions
regarding the application process,
c please don't hesitate to call Chcle at
the school office at 553-1128.
Accelerated Readers Family
NighfU'n)'H '' c ' -:
i v --! Warm Springs Elementary
hosted an Accelerated Readers Fam
ily night on January 17, 2001 onJanu
ary 17lh from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Parents
were invited to come to their
children's classes to learn about the
Accelerated Reader program that
Warm Springs Elementary students
are using. Books will be available in
the classrooms for parents to read
(with their children and the teachers
were on hand to explain the program
to the parents.
School Report Cards
On January 1 8lh the state Super
intendent of Public instruction will
issue report cards for every public
school in Oregon. The report cards
will be available at all school district
offices and schools and will be sent
home by January 31st. they also will
be posted on the Department of
Service offers
ceed 8 years for part-time students.
Health Professions Scholar
ships are awarded only to individu
als who are members of a Federally
recognized tribe and (2) must be en
rolled in an appropriately accredited
school and pursuing a course of study
in one of the health professional pro
grams as follows:
a. Associate Degree Nursing
b. Chemical Dependency
Counseling
c. Civil Engineering, B.S. De
gree d. Clinical Psychology, Ph.D.
Program Only
e. Coding Specialist, Certifi
cate Program
f. Dentistry
g. Dietician, B.S. Degree
h. Environmental Engineering,
B.S. Degree
i. Health Education, Masters
Degree Program Only
j. Health Records, R.H.I.T.
and R.H.I.A.
k. Injury Prevention Specialist
1. Medical Social Work, Mas
ter Degree Program Only
m. Medical Technology, B.S.
Degree
n. Medicine, Allopathic and
Osteopathic Programs
o. Nursing, B.S. Degree
p. Nursing, M.S. Degree
q. Nursing, R.N.A.
r. Optometry
s. Para-Optometric
t. Pharmacy, B.S. Degree,
Pharm D.
u. Physician Assistant
v. Physical Therapy
w. Podiatry, D.P.M.
x. Public Health, M.P.H. Pro
Starla receiving award from Doctor Stevenson for Most Outstanding
Graduate in Law Enforcement at Western Oregon University, class
of 2000
Remembering Our Indian School Days:
The Boarding School Experience
Phoenix, Ariz. A
groundbreaking exhibition exploring
the deep and lasting impact of board
ing schools on Native Americans
opened at the Heard Museum on No
vember 18, 2000.
"The boarding school experi
ence is crucial to understanding Na
tive America today," says Margaret
Archuleta, PuebloHispanic, curator
of fine art for the Heard Museum and
Remembering Our Indian School
Days: The Boarding School Experi
ence. 'This exhibit allows visitors -both
Native and non-Native - the
opportunity to understand the collec
tive history of Indian boarding
schools, and to understand how that
history has influenced contemporary
Native American life.".
Remembering Our Indian
School Days is unique because it is
the first exhibition to explore the role
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
with relation to education. A multi
sensory experience that incorporates
voices, music, tactile elements and
visual images along with textual in
formation, the exhibit engages visi
tors by presenting the common expe
rience of education in the uncommon
setting of the boarding school and
blurs the distinction between Indian
and non-Indian.
Remembering Our Indian
School Days celebrates the spirit of
survival. Originally established to
"civilize" Native Americans into
mainstream society, Indian boarding
schools became a shaping force of a
national Native American identity.
"This is not just a part of Na
tive American history; it is an impor
tant element of American history in
its entirety," Archuleta says. "Indian
or not, this exhibit is an important
examination of our society both past
and present."
1879 to the 1990s Federally
run Indian boarding schools became
a key element of the widespread na
tional effort to "Americanize" Native
Americans beginning in the late 19th
Scholarships
gram
y. Public Health Nutrition,
Masters Degree Program Only
z. Radiologic Technology,
Certificate, Associate Degree, B.S.
Degree
aa. Respiratory Therapy, Asso
ciate Degree
bb. X-RayUltra-sonography
Support is limited to 4 years for
full-time students and part-time
equivalent of 4 years not to exceed 8
years for part-time students. The
Health Professions Scholarship re
quires a payback obligation that
equals each year of support given,
with a minimum of 2 years.
Benefits
$1,018.00 Monthly living
stipend
Direct "full" tuition pay
ment to Recipient's school
Payment of reasonable edu
cational expenses (as determined by
the school)
Available $400.00 for tuto
rial expenses (annually)
Scholarship renewed if Re
cipient maintains good academic sta
tus The Deadline for applications
is Monday, April 2, 2001. Applica
tions for the 2001-2002 Indian Health
Service Scholarship cycle can be re
quested from:
Division of Personnel Manage
ment Portland Area Indian Health
Service
1220 SW Third Ave., Room
440
Portland. OR 97204
(503) 326-20156499
century. The BIA's first official
boarding school, Carlisle Indian
School, was established in 1879 in
Carlisle, Pa. Because a comprehen
sive listing has never been created, the
actual number of Indian boarding
schools is unknown. The number of
Indian boarding schools established
since 1 879 is estimated to be in the
hundreds. Today, four BIA boarding
schools - Chcmawa Indian School at
Forest Grove, Ore., Sherman Indian
School at Riverside, Calif., Flandreau
Indian School at Flandreau, S.D., and
Riverside Indian School at Anadarko,
Okla. - are currently in use.
Indian boarding schools have
operated parallel to the mainstream
education system historically. Cur
riculums changed emphases accord
ing to the changes in mainstream cur
ricula, emphasizing agriculture from
1879 to 1910, vocational education
from 1910 to 1960, academia from
1 960 to 1 990, and reform and college
preparation in the 1990s. Cultural
programming generally was limited
until the 1960s, when many tribes
began to oversee the schools.
The primary difference be
tween Indian boarding schools and
the mainstream education systems
was segregation. Historically, only
two groups - African Americans and
Native Americans - were segregated
from mainstream education systems.
African Americans were integrated
with the Civil Rights Movement. To
day, Native Americans continue to be
segregated from mainstream educa
tion systems, reinforcing misunder
standing and stereotypes. Remember
ing Our Indian School Days breaks
down the walls of misunderstanding
by presenting the common experi
ences of the American education sys
tem. Acculturation and Assimila
tion Boarding schools separated chil
dren from their families and tribal cul
tures and required conformity to
Euro-American society. The board
ing school experience thrust Native
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Six-week Bereavement
Recovery Seminar to begin
Mountain View Hospice is
sponsoring a six-week Bereavement
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through death. This Bereavement
Recovery series is at no cost and will
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throughout Oregon and is well known
for her knowledge, involvement and
dedication in traffic safety and child
passenger safety.
Another great accomplishment
that Starla has completed is her in
volvement with the Oregon Depart
ment of Transportation. During an
internship with the Traffic Safety Sec
tion, Starla was given the honor and
responsibility of researching and de
veloping Oregon's curriculum for the
Alternative Sentencing Program. This
Slate program is being used through
out the stale in 'Traffic Schools". In
dividuals that c!hk)sc to go to traffic
school, in lieu of paying a fine, will
sit in a class (hat Starla has developed.
We are very proud of Starla and
her most recent and greatest accom
plishments. She has higher goals that
she is now setting out to accomplish.
One is to eventually complete her
master's degree and she will soon be
teaching at Oregon's Police Acad
emy, again teaching police officers
from across the slate. Currently, she
children into an unfamiliar environ
ment. Children were abruptly taken
from their families and homes and
placed in government-run boarding
schools around the country. Convers
ing in one's Native language was
strictly forbidden, and students were
required to wear standard-issue Euro
American clothing.
Many students who arrived at
the schools with long hair, which is
spiritually symbolic for many Native
cultures, received haircuts immedi
ately following their arrival. Tradi
tionally an act associated with spe
cial ceremonies, hair cutting became
one of the most immediate and dev
astating experiences of boarding
school life for Native Americans. The
wearing of long hair has served as a
powerful symbol of personal identity
throughout the boarding school his
tory. Making the Schools Their Own
Although initially operated from a
fundamentally Anglo-European
structure, Indian boarding schools
evolved with the national Native
American identity. Sports, music and
arts programs provided students with
an important means of achieving
competency in a world previously
unfamiliar. The students' successes in
these programs became a source of
pride not only for the students but for
the community as a whole.
Carlisle Indian School student
Louis Tewanima, Hopi, is one such
example of the students' individual
and collective successes. Tewanima,
a silver medalist in the 1912 Olym
pics, is remembered every Labor Day
weekend at Shungopavi, Ariz., where
a race is run in his honor. The event
attracts runners from across the na
tion. His classmate and acclaimed
Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe, Sac and
Fox, was a football star at Carlisle
Indian School.
Another phenomenon of the
boarding school experience is the "In
dian Princesses." Originating with the
strict Victorian values of feminine
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Each weekly meeting will pro
vide information that serves as a
building block for the next session,
as well as opportunity for discussion,
questions, and fellowship. Children
and adults will have separate groups,
which meet at the same time and
cover a variety of topics.
If you are interested in attend
ing any District community or patient
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is eligible for an advanced certificate
as a police office and is waiting em
ployment with top police agencies in
the stale. She just has to decide which
agency she will choose to go to work
for. I am sure that which ever agency
she decided to go to, they will be most
satisfied with the knowledge and
abilities that she possess.
Starla has set many of these
goals when she was a young girl. It
has taken her a few extra years then
she expected to accomplish them, but
she has. Now that she has conquered
many tasks and cleared many barri
ers, she is now in search for much
higher goals and dreams. She still
lives by her words: "If you want it
bad enough, you can do it. No matter
who you are or where you come from,
all you have to do is try. There is noth
ing you can not do." We are very
proud of Starla and wanted to share
our happiness and honor with our
people, for she is very modest and will
not tell people what she has been do
ing these days.
behavior instilled in Native students
at boarding schools, the princesses
became an expression of pride and
Indian identity. With the creation of
each student's royal clothing, it also
became a vehicle for the continuation
of traditional Native art forms such
as beading and silverworking. A
simple parallel can be drawn between
the transition from the simple royal
sash to full regalia, and the transition
from "boarding schools for Indians"
to "Indian boarding schools."
Remembering Our Indian
School Days incorporates a variety of
audio and atmospheric elements to
immerse visitors in the experience of
Indian boarding schools. Each of the
exhibition's 10 sections is constructed
to emulate different boarding school
experiences and environments, from
the arrival to classrooms and dorm
rooms. Hands-on stations will also be
present throughout the exhibit, en
abling visitors to interact with the
exhibition.
Remembering Our Indian
School Days: The Boarding School
Experience is generously supported
by the National Endowment for the
Humanities, with additional support
from The Rockefeller Foundation,
Bank of America, Intel Corporation,
The Arizona Republic and Mr. &
Mrs. William Freeman.
Remembering Our Indian
School Days: The Boarding School
Experience is a long-term exhibition
that will remain on display for sev
eral years. The publication that ac
companies the exhibition - Away
From Home: American Indian
Boarding School Experiences - is
available from the Heard Museum
Shop and Bookstore for $29.95.
A variety of color slides and
black and white photographs are
available. Please call Rebecca
Stenholm at 602251-0218.
Heard Museum-Native Cul
tures and Art, 2301 North Central
Ave., Phoenix, Arizona 85004; Pub
lic information 602-252-8840; .
www.heard.org.
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