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Octobei- 302003 Vol. 28, No. 22
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Homecoming
Royalty
The Madras High School
Queen this year was Tatum
Kalama, a senior at the
school.
Matthew Ellsbury was the
Homecoming King.
The Homecoming football
game this year was a
pleasant surprise.
Madras won Homecoming
for the first time since 1 998.
The game was an exciting
24-1 7 victory over
Sherwood. (See page 6 for
more on the game.)
The victory on the football
field was a high-point of a
week filled with school
spirited activities at Madras
High Schoo.
Hunter
By D. "Bing" Bingham
Spilyay Tymoo
The story of bighorn sheep
and the reservation moved one
step further when tribal mem
ber, Joel Santos, killed a large
ram on the Deschutes River.
Terry Luther estimates he is the
first native to kill a bighorn
sheep there in a hundred and
fifty years.
A second bighorn sheep tag
was issued to tribal member
Robert Warner, who has not
returned from his John Day
River hunt at presstime.
Nettie Shawaway
passes away at 102
The eldest member of the
Confederated Tribes, Nettie
Shawaway has passed away.
She was 102.
Mrs. Shawaway was born
on Nov. 3, 1901. Her father
was Frank Queahpama and
her mother, Skwi empt,
whose English name was
Swan or Millie. They had a
homestead in Happy Valley
near Simnasho.
Nettie was born in a home
at Tenino while her parents
were on a trip to Warm
Springs. As a young woman,
Mrs. Shawaway attended
Chemaway Indian School
near Salem.
Later, she returned to
Warm Springs to marry Wil
liam McCorkle.
For some, first step to
By D. "Bing" Bingham
Spilyay Tymoo
This past month has been
Domestic Violence Awareness
Month. National statistics indi
cate that one in four women -Indian
Country numbers arc
slightly higher - will be abused
or sexually assaulted.
The cycle of domestic vio
lence begins when a child is
young. "Violence is a learned
trait," says Shauna Queahpama,
Warm Springs Victims of Crime
Services advocate. "They didn't
grow up knowing this."
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gets a bighorn sheep
Bighorn sheep have been a
long term project in Oregon
since the 1950's. That was when
a breeding herd was brought to
Hart Mountain from British
Columbia. As the populations
grew they were added in other
parts of the state until in the
' early 90's'then they were trans
planted to the John Day River
Basin and on the lower
Deschutes River. Two years
ago bighorn sheep were trans
planted into the Mutton Moun
tains. This is the first time in
generations that bighorn sheep
They were married in
1939. They had two children
together, but the children
died in infancy.
Nettie later adopted chil
dren. She had many relatives
and friends. Mrs. Shawaway
was greatly respected by tribal
members for her generosity
and wisdom. With her pass
ing goes a wealth of tradi
tional knowledge.
But over her many years
Mrs, Shaway shared with
friends and relatives her
knowledge of traditional In
dian language, religion, food
and cooking, songs, dance
and traditional crafts.
J?HOWLAKTICIIUM
on page 10
This article includes com
ments from tribal members.
Names and details have been
changed to protect the individu
als who chose t share their ex
periences. am a survivor of domestic vio
lence. Of course, I let myself get
beaten up by my husband for years.
It started out only a couple times a
year- then it got to when be would
beat me practically senseless once,
sometimes twice, a week.
Why wouldn't I let him bit and
have run free on the Warm
Springs Reservation.
As the bighorn sheep popu
lations gained ground in Oregon,
about 4-5 years ago then
Govenor Kitzhaber offered na
tive Americans a chance to work
with his department heads to
discuss their 'needs, issues and
problems. Both groups would
work on ways to increase coop
eration between the tribes and
state government.
"We'd been trying for a num
ber of years to get pronghorn
antelope tags for tribal members
Students to represent state
Prcnincia anPelt and Ashley
Aguilar will be heading to North
Carolina soon, representing Or
egon at the National Indian
Education Association confer
ence. Both VanPclt and Aguilar are
seniors at Madras High School.
Earlier this year, they gave
speeches during a contest at
Portland State University. The
contest was sponsored by the
Oregon Indian Education Asso
ciation (OIEA).
Aguilar took first place in the
competition, and VanPclt took
second.
Aguilar gave a speech en
titled, "My Culture Dictates
Who I am."
VanPelt's speech was on the
better life begins at Victims of Crime Services
kick me? It was what I deserved. . .
Years later I decided I didn't
want to live that way anymon. I
found my inner self with the btp
of Cod and my family. Now I
understand that I didn't have any
thing to do with the death of those
childnn.
Sonic people arc able to
break the cycle of abuse, but
decades later they never forget
what happened. For them the
beatings and rape stop; the
trauma and shame continue. l or
the community the costs mount
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Selena BoiseSpilyay Tymoo
for their use on ceded land and
also big horn tags," says Terry
Luther.
The tribes had been getting
deer and elk tags since 1986.
Two years later pronghorn tags
were allocated for tribal mem
bers. Bighorn tags were another
matter. In Oregon, the public
draw for all bighorn tags. Ex
perts estimate that a person
seeking a bighorn tag has about
one chance in two thousand of
a successful drawing.
See BIGHORN on page 10
Speech
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Ashley Aguilar (left) and Prenencia VanPelt will represent Oregon
at the national speech competition In North Carolina.
importance of the federal No speeches based on these earlier
Child Left Behind Act. ones, but with updated informa-
At the North Carolina na- tion and a slightly different for-
tional competition, they will give mat.
in health care and psychological
damage to the children who are
exposed to violence. As the cycle
of pain continues, it affects the
lives of young people on the
reservation.
"I feci date rape is expected,
an expected experience for
women," says Glen
Dunsbergen, Victim of Crime
Services investigator.
Expectations are important,
particularly for young people.
"Young women tell me that
ninety nine percent of the time
when a man asks you out,
School district
has new liaison
By Selena Boise
Spilyay Tymoo
A scary thought turned into
a successful transition for Lana
Leonard, who has taken a step
away from the tribal organiza
tion to become the Warm
Springs community liaison for
the Jefferson County School
District.
Her decision to change jobs
was a difficult one, because
Leonard had been an employee
of the tribes for the past 17
years.
As the new school district li
aison, Leonard works with stu
dents at the Jefferson County
Middle School in the mornings
and Madras High School in the
afternoons.
"I have received a lot of help
from (Warm Springs liaison)
Butch David while I'm here at
the middle school, and I'm
thankful for that," says Leonard.
First task at hand for
Leonard is to improve student
attendance at the middle school
and high school.
She is currently monitoring
student attendance, and will con
centrate on a number of indi
vidual students to improve their
attendance and tardiness.
Students with attendance
problems will be added as nec
essary during the school year,
and students making improve
ments will be released from the
concentrated program.
Leonard will also be working
with students at the middle
school, and possibly the high
school, on math and reading
skills necessary for students who
want to continue their educa-
Makers
at national competition
they're asking for sex," says ad
vocate Shauna Queahpama.
"They're asked, 'Wanna go do
something?' Well, what is some
thing?" Young women need to be
specific with men. According
to Queahpama, if a woman is
asked to a movie, she needs to
tell him exactly what he can and
cannot expect after the movie.
"They don't like it," she ad
mits, but it might help her stay
out of a dangerous situation.
I'm not a party girl. I do good
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Lana Leonard
tion. Leonard plans to work on
this effort with teacher assistants
at the middle school.
Great at athletics
Leonard is a 1985 graduate
of Madras High School, where
she played all four years as a
starter for the basketball team.
She returned to the basketball
courts to assist coach Osborne
with the girl's basketball team.
She has also coached the girls
at the middle school with coach
Luanne Foltz, also from Warm
Springs.
After high school she at
tended Linn-Benton for one
year on a basketball scholarship.
She returned to Warm Springs
and was hired at the courthouse
for a short term, before being
transferred to the Housing of
fice as a secretary.
In her ten years at the I lous
ing office Leonard advanced
from secretary to collections,
and her final job held there was
as a housing counselor.
See LIAISON oh page 10
Both of the girls say they
enjoy public speaking.
Their trip to North Carolina
is being sponsored by the Warm
Springs Education Committee.
The committee is paying for the
airline tickets, food and hotel
rooms.
The trip will likely take four
to five days.
Between 2,500 and 4,000
youth and educators, and tribal
leaders will be attending the an
nual conference.
In the future, VanPclt is con
sidering studying criminal justice
or marine biology. She is also
interested in dance choreogra
phy. Aguilar is planning to pursue
a career in journalism.
in school. I stay at borne a lot so I
tan keep doing good in school.
One time 1 was invited to a
party for a friend who is going to
college. He wanted to keep the party
small with Just a few close friends.
"e were at his auntie's house.
Everybody was doing straight
shots and I felt pntty wooy. loiter
I started getting sick so I told a
friend I bad known all my life that
1 was going to bed. When 1 found
a bed be came in (he bedroom to
check on me. 1 told him 1 was fine a
and just wanted to sleep. f
See VOCS on page 10