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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 2002)
Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Pgge 8 November 28, 2 0 0 2 THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES LANGUAGE LESSON—---------------------------- Gangadix galuxidlaitix idasq'u idelxam kana'amdmax iwimatba. Meo’o nume Numuwitoo yadoakwe. We will be talking more about who we are. Long ago the Wasco people lived along the Colum- bia River. Nonotse pesa nasoopedyana. Be proud o f who you are. Nanesootuhina. Always have a prayer. Mu moomooatupu nobene, pesa mu matuguna, Visit your elders and take care o f them. Gangatbama enshgigamxanawnxt enshait. Pesa mu nanapuama sooyugwena. We treasure our heritage. Qidau engi kanawa enshxengiqnan awawat kiksht engi qadagachi anshxengiglaya qengi adasq'u idait. Respect your mother and father. U Numu yadoana nesoopedakwatoo. And today, we are learning to talk Wasco so we can understand our Wasco ways. Learn your Indian language. Gangadix idelxalxam daichkengi galduxichginan kanawi dan bama kanawi ittalxam. In the old days our people themselves created everything for all their people. Ittatxlem galuxtkiax ixshaqt igunat kwadau dulapx ittxlem kwadau idac'imam itlxlem. Our main foods were dried salmon, roots, and berries. Kanawa idelxalxam gatgigamxanawa’nxt shaxel ishtamx-yamt. All our people looked up to our Creator. Kanawa idelxalxam ilxashtamx gachdelxlut kanawi dan. Qidau engi kanawa alxemgaba bama it'ukdi alxilaida. We recognize that Our Creator has given each tribe special gifts that, when recognized and used together, will provide and preserve a happy life for this generation and generations to come. Gangatbama enshgigamxanawnxt enshait, daminwa gigad pu aliximaxida iqakmit idelxalxambama. We treasure our history and want it preserved. Pesa mu pupua’a matuguna. Treat your friends with much respect. ‘Uwit quuix tananmana pawinawiya nami tichamyau. Chauna pawatmaina chitiya awa pamiin tananmami ticham. Aukuna pauyatina, yalmilk pauyasap’awiya ticham. Ku naxsh nch’i tichami nch’iyata tananmamipa wariiçhii, Supatantnt ohuul Palma, pataimuna aupam palkw’chta quuix yanawitama. Auku itwata chailwit papanaktutit tichamki. Aupam anita Pa’aniixwatTimash tichamyau. Auku pam tananmasim kwna nichaichta watwa. When the white people first arrived in our aboriginal territories, they were disrespectful people. They would confront our people un friendly for our land. The new comers would select and claim land as they pleased. Superintendent, Mr. Joel Palmer, govern ment worker over the Native Americans arrived with news about making treaty with the U.S. Government for a Indian Reservation. There is more people coming, ”He said” they will cause bad confrontation between you and them on land issues. If you make a treaty for the land ydu choose you will be safe and protected there. No’oko hemma soopedakweatoona ono mu toamu tunedyooe. Continue learning your cultural ways so that you can teach your children. Poonedoa! Language Classes: Wasco: Mondays from 3:30 to 5 PM in Language Trailer. Paiute: Wednesdays from. 3:30 to 5 PM in the Language Trailer. Sahaptin: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 to 5 PM in the Language Trailer. Home Base Classes: Sahaptin: Thursdays from 5 to 8 PM. Held in the Simnasho Area. (For info, call Suzie Slockish at 553-2201.) The Language Program Enters the Fifth Grade Beginning in December, the Jefferson County Middle School will see a couple new faces: Arlita Rhoan and Dallas Winishut Jr. In its pilot run, the Warm Springs Language Program will offer exploratory lan guage courses to inter ested 5th graders. Only Ichishkiin will be offered until the other two lan guage groups have pro gressed into the 4th and the 5th grades. The Warm Springs Culture & Heritage Dept. and Education Committee will continue nego tiations with District committees and Middle School administrators to introduced Warm Springs languages into new grades year-by year! \Ne will share short information about the treaty of 1855 between the U.S. Government and The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs of Oregon. Beginning with the middle-school grades (5th and up) the class-room emphasis will shift from “diversity” to “fluency”. Our tentative curriculum plans call for two distinct teaching models, as mentioned earlier. The lower grades (Kindergarden through 4th) will introduce students to the three tribal lan guages and cultures. The goal of the Kindergarden to 4th years is to give the children a general feel of their heritage and languages. The middle and upper grades, 5th through 12th, will focus on developing fluent speakers in the language of the students’ choice. Cultural elements, with their close tie to language, will naturally be included in the middle and upper grades as well as fluency in a students’ language of choice is built. So expect to hear more from this De partment and the Middle School as Warm Springs students continue their language classes there! Auku paxatwanana nami ‘antananma ku pa’aniya pa’aniixwat tamanwit. Ishax iqwn timani tichamyau nami wiyawat’witama patmiyuna, ku paikwstumiya ticham anakwna pawiyaninxana tkwatatyau, Q’uainatawa nch’nch’imami tmiyut anii tamanwit. Namiyai watwa nichishtash. Our people followed the request to make a treaty with the U.S. Government for our tribal • land, named indian reservation in the month o f June, 1855. The treaty also includes ceded land to the U.S. Government for our aboriginal territo ries where we traveled for our food needs and other things for our lively hood. This is what we call our home and our aboriginal territories to continue to meet our life needs. Q’uinatawa xtu pa’anixwat tamanwit. Tamanwit nawa anamat wana iwaipxta. Ku awa Nch’i Tichami tamanwit napuyunait nami pa’anixwat tamanwit. Chauna anch’a wata iwiyaninii shuyapumamikii tamanwitki. Nch’i tichami tamanwitnmna inaknuwisha watwa. Our treaty with the U.S. Government is very powerful to protect our soverein rights with the agreement in the treaty. U.S. Government is responsible for our tribal peoples to live in peace, and meet the law agrèements mentioned in the treaty. Nch’i nawa tamanwit timanii chauna wa’au pamashapanaktutita timani tichamki awata anakwna wa ticham umchrii timanii tichamkni. Q’upn tamanwit nawa napayuni nch’i tichami tamanwitki. Kwna ‘antananma pawiyaninxana tkwatatyau. Chauna mun panaktutita stitnm awata countinm pamakiin tamanwitki. Nami nch’nch’ima ku Nch’i Tichami tamanwitma pa’aniya Pa’anixwat Tamanwit namiyai ahai nichaitshtash. Chi tamanwit chau iwa tmiyutsim iwa nwiik’a xtu tamanwit. Our Treaty o f 1855 is written as law, which is protected by the U.S, Government. We are not to have the State law o f Oregon or any county have jurisdiction over our rights on the reservation p r the ceded land in our treaty agreement. This is law in our treaty not a promise.
