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Spilyqy Tymoo, W3,rrn Springs, Oregon Alircb 8, 2001 Artist to be honored by governor l our individual, including a Warm Spring tribal member, one Oregon business and me music pro grams of the Sulem-Kcizer School District will be honored with (lovernor's Arts Awards from (lov. John Kithuher on Thursday, March 15. The awards, presented since 1977 in partnership with the Oregon Arts Commission, give official recogni tion to those whose work on behalf of the arts has significantly contrib uted to the growth and development of the cultural life of the state. Kitzhabir will present the awards in the State Capitol Rotunda in Salem. "The Governor's Arts Awards honor Oregonians whose contribu tions to the arts have been exem plary," said Norm Smith, Arts Com mission chair. "The beneficiaries of their commitment, energy and phi lanthropy stretch across the state from Portland's Interstate l-'irchouse Cultural Center to the Cascade Fes tival of Music to the Pendleton Arts Center. Their efforts contribute to the liveliness of Oregon and our quality of life. It is fitting that we gather each year as a cultural com munity to salute their commit ment." Selected for the 2001 Governor's Arts Awards are: Pat Courtney Gold, Sandra Miller of Bend; Port land General Llectric and the PGH Enron Foundation in Portland; Dr. Robert Pamplin Jr. of Portland; Dan Pavillard of Eugene and the Music Programs of the Salem-Keizer School District. Pat Courtney Gold is enrolled in the Wasco Nation of the Warm Springs Confederated Tribes of Or egon. She lives part-time in jet" """ .Y "V " " : ) ) 3s3 Zi C I Pat Courtney Gold's baskets have earned her widespread acclaim. Scappoose and Warm Springs. Tra ditionally, the Wasco people lived along the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington for thousands of years. They were a river people, liv ing with the salmon the river and the Plateau Tribal Nations., The Wascos were known for the great trading market in The Dalles area. After the 1855 Treaty the Wasco People were forcibly moved to the semi-arid region of Central Oregon. Much of their culture was lost as they focused on survival in this hos tile environment. Pat grew up on the Warm Springs Reservation and spent her youth surrounded by the beauty of the Cascade Range. To this day, Pat en joys hiking in the Cascades, enjoy ing the forests, the mountains, the waterfalls and the animal and bird life. She says, "this is my spiritual time; it is like being in the great ca thedrals of Europe". Pat never knew any Wasco per son who wove the intricate Sally Baskets. Pat's mother made colorful beaded napkin holders and watch fobs. Her Dad taught her to respect the environment by driving miles to protect stream banks from erosion. Dad once drove the family 100 miles to see the frozen Columbia River, and woke them early to see the snow on July 4. Pat enjoyed the frequent trips to the Columbia River to visit relatives, watch her extended family catch then butcher salmon to be pre served for future use. She attended Indian Boarding School for one year and eventually graduated from Madras Union High School, Madras, Ore. She earned a B.A. in Mathematics-Physics from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash. Pat taught mathematics at Portland area community colleges, and then worked for 12 years as a mathematician-computer specialist. When she hit the glass ceiling, Pat turned to a career in art. She now devotes her time to creating art, and lecturing on Plateau Tribal Art The Wasco traditional art of full-turn twined baskets with geometric hu man figures and motifs was a dying art. This basket twining method and designs are unique to the Co lumbia River area. Pat helped revive this art, and her goal is to preserve this technique and record the tradi tional designs for future generations. Her career highlights include: Invited Lecturer, Pcabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Invited Speaker, International Weaving Conference, Rotorua, New Zealand ; Artist in Resident, Mil lennium Project, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD; Art-ist-in-Residence, National Museum of the American Indian, New York City, NY; Invited Artist, Women's Caucus for Art, Professional Artists' trip to China. Recently, The Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, asked Pat to write an article on the Wasco basket collected by Lewis and Clark in 1805. This article will be in the catalog accompanying the National Lewis and Clark Traveling Exhibit, 2004 to 2006. I n I x' v.- I I i i S fiMiti nrt minima I '. I Student wins contest At a brief ceremony in Ms Moore's fourth grade classroom on March . 6th, Kathy Dunton, representing Madras' Elks Lodge 2017, pre sented Brandy Hcrkshan with the winning award in the "F.Iks' Eye Injury Prevention Poster Contest". The contest offers a prize to one fourth, fifth and sixth grader in Jefferson County. Keith Haworth of the Madras Klks commented that Warm Springs Elementary has the highest participation in the county. He added that he was proud of Hcrkshan and the other students ; who entered and thanked the teachers for their support. Fvach child who entered the contest received a certificate of appreciation and . Brandy also received a $50 U. S. Savings Bond for her winning effort. Museum exhibit to feature Celilo, salmon Re-training ... April 14, the day before Easter, a major exhibit opens at The Museum At Warm Springs. The focus is on Celilo Falls, salmon, water and fishj which figure significantly in the cul ture of members of The Confeder ated Tribes of Warm Springs. In ad dition to the exhibit, which runs through May 29, several presenta tions and ongoing activities are part of the seven week long event. The exhibit contains multi-media and historic materials, arts and crafts, and fish stories from the community. One major focus is photographic images from the collection from the collection of Wilma Roberts, life long resident along the Columbia River and renowned photographer. She is a member of the Photographic Society of America, has been a na tional judge for the Society and is a member of The Dalles Camera Club. She has been taking photo graphs since she was a child which lead, naturally to college art and photography classes. Ms. Roberts reproduces and sometimes colorizes, photos taken of Celilo Falls in the 1890's by Benjamin Gifford. Her own photos of the Falls date from tJieT950'i.Moko he ittiagei the, exhibit will be for sale with a per centage of sales supporting The Museum's Gift Shop. On opening Day, April 14, 2-2:30 and 3:30-5:00, Ms. Roberts will sign the book, Celilo Falls: Remember ing Thunder. Photos from the Col lection of Wilma Roberts, which is for sale in the Gift Shop. From 2:30 3:30, she will give a multi-media pre sentation of Celilo Falls and the Columbia River. The exhibit has two more facets. Photos from the Museum's archive collection of Celilo Falls will be ex hibited and some will be posted in an area by tables asking people to make identifications of location, view and people. Individuals are in vited to bring personal photos of the Falls and fishing at the Falls for the exhibition. If they want the Museum to have a copy of their photo for the Archives, it can be put On Loan to The Museum so a copy can be made and their photo returned to them. The exhibit is open to a variety related to salmon and fishing. There is a limit of two items per person, unless available space allows for more. The Museum welcomes origi nal art in any medium and crafts such as fish nets, examples of nettings, special handmade poles, hooks, baskets, instructions for dry ing and preserving fish, and actual preserved fish and canned fish. ' Written fish tales will be incor porated in the overall exhibit. People are encouraged to write down their funniest, scariest, most interesting fish story and sent or bring it to The Museum. The Curator will prepare them for the exhibit and not be for sale. The Museum is including items used by those who fish or process fish. Such items can be art, craft, adapted items, things handed down through a family or newly made. These include such things as a spe cial beaded cap worn for fishing, fish carrying container, knife, chair or item for sitting while waiting for a bite. ,M A video, The Last Salmon Feast of The Celilo Indians, can be seen throughout the exhibit by contact ing the admissions staff at the Gift Shop. If you want to enter an item in the exhibit, please call Natalie Kirk, Curator, if you wish to submit pho tos or have photos copied for the archive, contact the Archivist, Alberta Comedown Libby. Both can be reached at (541) 553-3331. Items for the exhibit must be at The Mu seum by April 10, 5:00 p.m. and re main through May 31. Artists may sell their works. For details, consult the Curator. The Museum At Warm Springs, 2189 Highway 26, Warm Springs, OR is open 362 days a year, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission for adults is $6, Seniors $5, students with identifica tion $4.50 and youth 5-12 is $3. For special tour rates call 553-3331. Continued from Page 1 Jackson emphasized that the re training effort is to supplement - not replace - the efforts already being made. "We're not trying to duplicate what's going on here " Jackson said.. "Business has a role and a responsi bility, and they've done that. Now government has a responsibility." There are currently a limited number of jobs available on the res ervation and many more in sur rounding communities. The task force will be exploring the potential of placing laid-off workers in posi tions at Kah-Nee-Ta Resort, Indian Head Casino, tribal government, and the soon-to-be-built prison in Jefferson County, among others. There are a number of projects within the community that could be activated to assist laid-off workers jn their transition back into the job market. Tribal members are making requests for home improvements and laid-off workers could be used to meet this demand. - Home improvement, projects could include interior and exterior painting, roofing, deck construc tion, outbuilding repair, lawn maitv tenance, landscaping and wintcrizaj tion, to name a few. Workers could also be used to implement other projects such as park development and maintenance, longhouse mainr tcnance, and natural resources manr agement activities. i Support services will be struc tured to assist with the special needs of laid-off workers in areas such as counseling, medical coverage, plan--ning and severance pay. Tectonics ... Spilyay Tymoo (Coyote News) Publisher: Executive Editor: Management Successor: ReporterPhotographer: ReporterPhotographer: Media Advisor: Sid Miller Mike Van Meter Selena T. Boise Tina Aguilar Martha Lawrence Bill Rhoades Founded in March 1976 Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confed erated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located in the white house at 1 100 Wasco Street. Any written materials to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761 (541) 553-1644 or 553-3274-FAX No. (541) 553-3539 E-Mail address: spilyaytymoowstribes.org Annual Subscription rates: Within U.S.-$ 15.00 Outside U.S. or 1st Class in the U.S.-$25.00 Spilyay Tymoo 2001 copyright The next issue publishes March 22, with a March 16 deadline. The April 5 issue has a March 30 deadline. The April 19 issue has a April 13 deadline. Continued from Page 1 "We've received comments from those very knowledgeable in the in dustry that the Sci-Tech system solves many problems and should be a winner." According to Tylman one of the leading trade publications, The Concrete Producer, is scheduled to do a story featuring Sci-Tech Building Systems this month. Sci-Tech is currently bidding on a number of jobs. Bids have gone out on a 5-story office building, a Marriott Hotel in Texas, two multi level parking garages and 4,000 hous ing units. With increasingly more strict building standards because of earthquakes and tornadoes, Sci-Tech wall and roof panels compare very favorably with the competition. Sci Tech panels have superior wind-load capability, they can be manufactured with a variety of materials for the "skins" such as high-tensile steel, concrete, strandboard and other material. This flexibility provides options to meet a variety of strength requirements and allows the builder to more easily meet the local build ing codes. Charles V. Jackson, the Tribe's Secretary-Treasurer, stated that he is also encouraged by what he saw in Las Vegas. "Tectonics International has worked hard to refine their ce ment technology and develop new products, and this is a good example of what they are capable of." Jack son, who has been exploring ways to resolve the Tribes' budget crunch, said this type of investment can help to diversify our local economy and has the potential to create new jobs and revenues that can help us be come more resistant to an economic downturn. "We have relied on natu ral resources in the past to provide for our economic needs. Tectonics International and Warm Springs Composite Products provide an area where we can diversify and insulate ourselves from being hit so hard when the timber market takes a dive or when electric power prices fall." Jackson said that the success of Sci Tech Building Systems will not im pact the Tribe immediately, but ip the future it could provide an ecor nomic cushion with royalties to TJ. It will take some time before we know what the initial exposure of Sci-Tech's building systems panels will mean to the company and its stockholders. The World of Con crete trade show in Las Vegas was the tilt-up industry's first look at Sci Tech's innovative panels. Vince Tylman and his Sci-Tech staff are very optimistic. Terry Turner and Phil Rodda, of Tectonics Interna tional, feel they have helped develop the best tilt-up concrete panel in the industry. Charles Jackson sees it as' a way to diversify the Tribe's economy. Raymond Tsumpti knows if Sci-Tech's panels are a success it will add to Tectonics Internationals growing reputation as an innovator and developer of state-of-the-art tech nology. Both Jackson and Tsumpti feel strongly that there may be a day when Sci-Tech Building Systems will open a plant on the Reservation, providing jobs for the people and adding to the Tribal income with rovalties to Tectonics International.