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June 12, 2003 Pa$c9 THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES LANGUAGE NEWS Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon June 23rd - June 25th Working Together: The Worm Springs Community, Its History, and Its Future Have you marked your calendars? The Culture and Heritage Workshop is coming up and Culture and Heritage Department is excited to invite you! This is a joint project between the Tribes and Portland State University. The languages and cultures of this commu nity are beautiful, precious, and blessed. We hope this workshop will light the way to a better cooperation and understanding be tween off-Reservation friends and our community. Anyone may come to the Culture and Heritage Department to look at some books and articles written by our vislt:P'" 'iich as Kay Frer.cn, Dell Hymes, Leanne Hinton, and others. Here are some greetings frcm: i special firsts who will be attending the conference. (Dell Hymes) I grew up in Portland, and c: know David and Kay French whilo , I Reed College I came to Warm ri for the first time in the sxzz.zz 1951, after a year of graduate vz at Indiana University, and got to ,v , -know Hiram Smith, and his family. I stayed in a trailer below4 the Jinbc: Cafe with Ed Harper, also a Reed stu-' dent. A ' , In 1954, Virginia Hymes and I CT.3 to Warm Springs, staying in a house of Avex Miller on the reservation, lly work again had to do with Wasco,, 'and stories, and with Hiram. I also got ., to know Lucinda Smith, Ruth and Joe Estabrook, Viola Kalama, Alice Florendo, Charlie Jackson and Honey, Philip Kahclamat and others. One of my warmest memories is go ing to The Dalles with Hiram. In 1954 I was lucky enough to see fishing from platforms at Celilo, before the Dalles Dam was built. In 1972 Virginia and I were able to get a place near Rhododendron. Sometimes people visited us there, especially Hiram and Hazel Suppah. Later I prepared Wasco materials for Nathan Jim and the language program. A, 1 j. - -' ' . (Susan Philips) Crcetings to the V.iTTX Springs Community , rrcn Susan U. Philips cri leaking forward to returning :r:.i Carinas after many years. I c : : to the reservation in 1968 . "i r.ty-five year old graduate x.-jrMng with Dell Hymes. I Z c N. t:t reservation from 1969 V.itii th3 ideas and support of '.zs J'cltson and people in the Tritl education Department, I did my . Hi.D. dissertation research on styles of tr "thirty and learning in the Warm'. JTrirjj ercia school and in the com- r ;.!t; I.y dissertation became a book '-11; V Invisible Culture: Commu nis t'V in Classroom and Community on ihq rra Cprings Indian Reserva tion. t: licited this work to Velma Frank, oneof.the Charlie sisters, who generously took me under her wing and made me a part of her family life. X.: X ' . ' " I have often wondered what hap pened to the kids I worked with while I was on the reservation. If you were a student at the Warm Springs grade school in 1969-1970, then what I learned was especially about your time there. (Tim Thornes) I began work on the Northern Paiute language in the summer of 1994 with a speaker from the Yahooskin, or Yapatuka'a band. Together, we devel oped an introductory phrase book and accompanying v tape on the language. In December of ,,1996, I was invited to work with the Burns Paiute, the Wadatuka ' a , and their Elders Group on a variety of projects relating to language. I, continue to work with speakers by recording and writing the language, and assisting others in de veloping these skills. I also try to share what I have learned about how the language works in the Tribal , Newsletter, am a founding member of Numu Apechaadu Sumunna (People Speak ing Together) -a language enhancement working group in Burns), and have taught linguistics at the Northwest Indian Language Institute for the past 3 years. I just received my doctorate in linguistics at the University of Or egon, but plan to remain in the state to continue workingoiv. Northern Paiute and teaching for the forseeable future. Workshop Program and Schedule This schedule Is also available on-line at: www.oidec.netlansworkshop.htm Sharing Stories of Our Favorite Languages June 23rd Portland State University Smith Memorial Center: Rooms 327328 Facilitator: Wendell Jim, General Manager of Education Branch, Warm Springs Teaching Our Languages June 24th Kah-Nee-Ta Resort Mt. Jefferson Room Facilitator: Rudy Clements, Director of Public Relations, Warm Springs K Talking Together (Small Group Sessions) June 25th Warm Springs Campus Education Building (Training Roomj 11:30 - Noon Noon -12:30 Registration 11:30 -Noon Registration Poetry Reading Noon -1 :00 Blessing by Elders Elizabeth Woody Clifford and Nelson Moses 12:CU1:00 Blessing by Elderr-- (from the Tribes in Yakima) T- ' lldeiTv . . . Opening Welcome r2 c,ooVs Tticzxr : Introduction to the i" C Madenhe'Mclntffir:T-' ' Language Program - s.v r StiirleyrtitlMttsiAo ? jGuest Speakers PSU President Provostb&iif'i - , r " " Leanne Hinton ""Guest Speakers NST9 2:45 : Break VS;- . Derji:J:?:P-..-Honoring David and -V;. b- Virginia Hymes ' ' v - Kay French situational Navajo 9:00-10:30 10:45-12:15 1:303:00 1:15-2:30 Some Stcrto Cv Orel Hi;tcry zX Vrm Spring (Slide Show) -,; i Hajda IdcsfcrTHljil:; V " University 1 ; Collfibcrctlon TomBlolsl Situational Navajo Agnes Holm Wayne Holm Tim Thornes 3:00-5:00 3:00-3:15 , Break . 3:15- 4:45 Breakout Sessions Room 333: Sahaptin Language Room 323: Wasco Language Room 329: Paiute Language 4:45 - 5:30 Open Discussions Wrap-up 5:00 5:30 Workshop.. Agnes and Wayne Holm Open Discussions Evalutaions, Closing .. .... ;.y3T-- " AoencV Loncthouse . i.-, ..r .-v Cjf:h (Wijn Springs Campus) 6:00 8:00 Efcning Dinner and Social Dance.
