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October 16, 2003
Spirits Keep Whistling Me Home
Pitt displays artwork at High Desert Museum
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Chemawa fills stage
with popular Native acts
In honor of Native American
Awareness Month, the Third Annual
Chemawa Indian School Benefit Con
cert will be held Nov. 21. The concert
will be held in the Chemawa Audito
rium. Doors open at 6 p.m.
This year's concert is being held to
raise funds for the Chemawa School
to Work program, which allows stu
dents to work on campus. Other ben
eficiaries are the Chemawa Athletic
Scholarship and Campus Athletics Sup
port program.
The concert is free and open to the
public. Donations are welcome.
This year's concert headlincr will be
the Gary Small Band.
Gary Small, Northern Cheyenne,
was the Native American Music Asso
ciation Songwriter of the Year for
2002.
The award was in recognition of
Small's release Wild Indians.
The Willamette Week newpapcr says
Small's guitar playing is "so reminiscent
of Carlos Santana it's stunning. In fact
it wouldn't be unfair to say Small could
become the Santana of Native
America."
, Also appearing will be the singing
duo Cedar Rose, featuring Nico Wind
(Assinaboine Ojibwa) and Karen
Kitchen (Osage). Nico Wind has toured
with Ray Charles, and is a music direc
tor for the NPR radio program "Wis
dom of the Elders."
i Kitchen recently starred in the Port
land Children's Theatre production of
Sacagawea at the Keller Auditorium in
Portland.
Indian flutist extraordinaire Ward
Stroud (Yauui) will be appearing as well.
Stroud is an international recording
artist and an acclaimed Indian flute
maker. Stroud's flutes arc some of the
most beautiful found today and will be
on display.
, The show will also include appear
ances by Indian poet and grass dancer
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Jerry Raining Bird (Chippewa Cree); per
forming Native Fancy Dance will be
Rebecca Payne, who competes in and.
teaches Fancy Dance.
Performing interpretive dance will
be Rebecca Rank, a graduate in dance
from the University of Oregon. Both
Payne and Rank were runners up in
the Miss Native American Oregon
Pageant last summer.
Chemawa Indian School is located
just south of Salem. The school is one
of only four off-reservation boarding
high schools in the country operated
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Many of the students who arrive at
Chemawa do so with a very limited
family and community network. The
typical Chemawa student does not have
a regular allowance from home, nor
have they worked over the summer.
Chemawa is accredited by the
Northwest Accreditation Association as
a four year high school, recognized by
the State of Oregon as a "Special Pur
pose High School."
The school exists to provide a struc
tured residential setting for Native
American youth. For more information
regarding Chemawa history search the
internet at www.chemawa.bia.edu.
Chemawa High School student
school enterprises offer limited on cam
pus school to work job opportunities,
whereby students are employed on
campus in various jobs managed by the
"School to Work Program."
These students are encouraged to
engage in learning experiences while
earning a wage.
The School to Work opportunities
are a non-funded program supported
largely by donations and by several
school enterprise activities such as the
school store, snack bar, Christmas tree
farm and billboard sign revenue.
For more information or questions
please contact Chemawa Indian School
at 503-399-5721.
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BEND - The High Desert Museum
is featuring a temporary exhibit of
works by tribal member artist and
Warm Springs native Lillian Pitt.
The exhibit is called Spirits Keep
Whistling Me Home: The Works of
Lillian Pitt, and will run through early
January.
Spirits Keep Whistling Me Home
was first assembled by the Museum at
Warm Springs. The collection repre
sents the full range of Pitt's art, and
embodies her growth as an artist over
more than 20 years.
The collection includes masks,
sculptures and etchings created in clay,
metal, paper and wood. Pitt describes
her pieces as "primordial art," with in
spiration coming from childhood
memories, tales and stories that vali
date the history, knowledge, beliefs and
practices of her Wasco, Warm Springs
and Yakama people.
Pitt is represented in the region by
Frame Design and Sunbird Gallery of
Bend. Select pieces of her work are
available for purchase through the gal
lery. The High Desert Museum would
like to recognize the partnership and
support of the Museum at Warm
Springs in making the exhibit possible.
The High Desert Museum, open
daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., is located
just south of Bend at 59800 S. Hvvy.
97.
Admission rates are $8.50 for adults,
$7.50 for seniors (65 and over) and
youth (13-17), $4 for children (5-12),
and free for members and children 4
and younger. All admission prices are
good for two consecutive days. Annual
memberships start as low as $35.
For more information contact: 541-382-4754,
or look on the Internet at
www.highdesertmuseum.org.
Top photo, Lillian Pitt greets visitors
during an opening-day reception of
the exhibit.
At left are masks that are displayed ,,
on the walls of the exhibit room at ,,
the High Desert Museum.
Museum to close
The Museum at Warm Springs has
announced its winter schedule for the
months of Novermber through Feb
ruary. During the winter schedule, the
museum will be open to the public
Wednesday through Sunday, from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m.
The museum will be closed to the
public on Mondays and Tuesdays dur
ing the winter schedule. The closure will
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BestCare director awarded
Heather Crow-Martinez of Warm
Springs has been recognized by the
Oregon Department of Human Ser
vices for her work in the field of
mental health and addiction services.
Crow-Martinez is the program
director of BestCare Treatment Ser
vices in Madras.
Crow-Martinez received the Men
tal Health and Addiction Services
2003 Award for Excellence. She re
ceived the honor at a ceremony in
Salem last week.
The excellence awards are be
stowed annually during Mental
Health Awareness Week. The awards
recognize exemplary dedication and
hard work toward building commu
nity reladonships, determining men
tal health needs, and responding to
those needs.
Crow-Martinez has worked with
Tribal language
The Culture and Heritage Depart
ment this month is starting tribal lan
guage classes.
Classes are open to all who are in
terested. The following is a list of the classes
that are being offered to the commu
nity: Kiksht language classes, Mondays
and Thursdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. The
Monday class is at the Language Trailer,
and the Thursday class is at the Com
munity Center.
Ichiskiin language classes are Tues
Student center dedication set
Dedication of the Native American
Student and Community Center at
Portland State University (PSU) is
scheduled for Friday, Oct. 24.
Grand Entry is at 1 1 a.m., dedica
tion of the building will be at noon,
and a feast is set to begin at 4 p.m.
The Native American Center is on
the Portland State University campus
at Southwest Broadway and Jackson
Street.
n i When it opens this month the Port
land State Native American Student
and Community Center will be the only
facility of its kind in the Portland area,
Mondays, Tuesdays for winter
allow for maintenance and cleaning of
the permanent and changing exhibit gal
leries, and other public areas.
Exhibits containing cultural artifacts
and related objects will also be changed
during the winter months. The winter
. schedule will allow for inventory and
inspection of the cultural artifacts and
objects on display, and the cleaning and
conservation of the objects and exhibit
space.
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BestCare Treatment Services since
1998.
After becoming program direc
tor, she worked hard to improve the
quality of chemical dependency and
mental health treatment provided in
Jefferson County.
BestCare opened in 1997, and is
a comprehensive mental health and
addiction services provider for
Jefferson County.
Mental Health Awareness Week
was Oct. 5-11, and Crow-Martinez
was honored in Salem at the State
Capital Building on Oct. 8.
The celebration, held in the gal
lery of the Capital Building, was
jointly sponsored by the Office of
Mental Health and Addiction Ser
vices, the Oregon Psychiatric Asso
ciation and the National Alliance for
the Mentally 111 of Oregon.
classes offered
days and Thursdays at the following
times and places:
From 2 to 3 p.m. at Natural Re
sources. From 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Language
Trailer.
From 6 to 8 p.m. at the Simnasho
Longhouse.
Numu classes arc from 3:30 to 5
p.m. on Wednesday at the Language
Trailer.
Also, afternoon cultural projects are
scheduled on Fridays from 1:30 to 3
p.m. at the Education Building.
where approximately 14,000 Native
American people reside.
The center will offer a variety of
learning and cultural opportunities for
the community, and will serve as a cul
tural home for Native students, sup
porting their enrollment at PSU, and
enriching their academic studies. The
center will also provide a resource room
equipped with computers for students,
meeting and conference spaces for
tribes, and an opportunity for all who
visit the center to learn about Indian
people, their history as well as contem
porary Native American issues.
This special time to care for the ar
tifacts and the building is directly tied
to the museums mission statement. It
will also result in more enjoyment by
guests of the exhibits and facilities.
So for the winter, visitors are wel
come Wednesday through Sunday.
The museum is located at 218')
Highway 26 in Warm Springs. For in
formation about the exhibits and
events, call the museum at 553-3331.
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