Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
February 5, 2004
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Funds earmarked for Indian education center
(AP) - A proposed $30 mil
lion center for improving the
education of American Indian
children nationwide will get
$500,000 under the federal
spending bill recently approved
by the Senate.
The National Native Ameri
can Professional Development
Center is planned for develop
ment in the state of Wyoming.
The $500,000 appropriation will
allow supporters of the project
to pull together private, state
and additional federal funding
to make the project a reality.
A total of $20 million in
funding would come from the
federal government. The rest
would be provided by local and
national foundations, charitable
organizations and possible the
state government.
The center will help improve
educational opportunities for
thousands of children, Wyo
ming Schools Superinten
dent Craig Dougherty
Said, "The center has been a
vision of mine for the last five
vears. The essence of this ini
tiative is the foundational belief
that Native American students
have every right, and need ev
ery opportunity, to take advan
tage of the best instructional
practices available in learning to
read, write and do math."
I le said the center will be the
first of its kind devoted solely
to improving education oppor
tunities for all American Indian
children. The center will recruit
schools that currently serve
American Indian children and
train their kindergarten- through
third-grade staff in early literacy
and math learning frameworks,
The training will be conducted
in partnership with the St. Labre
Indian School in Ashland, Mont.
The center will also work with
Sheridan College in Wyoming to
develop a campus for a four
year teacher education program
focusing on literacy and math
skills and targeted at college stu
dents who want to teach on res
ervations. Both programs would
be independently monitored and
evaluated by Stanford Univer
sity to ensure accountability and
effectiveness, he said.
Preparing for root season
Students learn about good bugs, bad bugs
By D. "Bing" Bingham
Spilyay Tymoo
How do you make fourth
graders learn about bacteria
when they can't see the little
creatures?
That was the question facing
Rhonda Simmons, faculty re
search assistant at the Central
Oregon Agricultural Research
Center, as she gathered the
fourth graders around her at
Warm Springs Elementary.
But Rhonda Simmons is a
resourceful woman - and she
has glitter.
She explained to the kids what
happens when you sneeze on
your hand and then don't wash
it. Those bacteria are spread into
some pretty unlikely places:
doorknobs, pencils, other
people's hands, food, even to
your head when a person
scratches it.
And she demonstrated the
spread of bacteria by asking one
child from each group to cover
1
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Students learn about germs.
Bing BinghamSpilyay
their hands with hand lotion, to the demonstration with the
Then she sprinkled glitter on that rest of the students.
hand and told them to go back Before long there was glitter
all over the classroom, on other
students, on the desks and
chairs, even on the teacher. It
was an eloquent display of the
way that harmful bacteria can
pass around among people.
"I think the kids are going to
think twice about it when they
leave the bathroom." said
Rhonda Simmons. "It only takes
a tew seconds to wash vour
hands, and when they go to grab
the door to leave, they're going
to think. 'Did the person in front
of me wash their hands?"
She continues. "I think it will
really sink in that they should
be courteous to other people. If
you have a cold, use a handker
chief. If you happen to cough
into your hand and you're going
to get something to eat, wash
your hands. They're very simple
rules, and and simple rules are
a good thing. Courtesy is even
better. Now we'll see what the
janitors think of all the glitter
around the elcmcntarv school.
The Culture and Heritage
Department is hosting Friday
afternoon classes in prepara
tion of the Xnit (Root) Sea
son. All classes are at 1 p.m.
at the Education Building,
first floor training room.
Classes are as follows:
Feb. 13 and 20s "Mak
ing a xushxushli (yarn belt)."
You will need a size G or J
crochet hook and yarn. Cul
ture and Heritage will have
some yarn available.
Feb. 20 and 27, and
March 5: "Making your
wlq'am (moccasins)." Bring
your buckskin, glovers, beads,
thread, and scissors. Culture
and Heritage will have some
materials available. Two styles
of moccasins will be shown.
March 12 and 19: "Fin
ish Your Projects."
This time will be for fin
ishing projects, or if you have
something that was not
shared, Culture and Heritage
will do their best to share that
information.
After these projects, and
during the time spent to
gether, Culture and Heritage
will be planning for root dig
ging trips, after Root Feast.
If you have questions,
please call 553-3290, or stop
by the Culture and Heritage
Department, 1110 Wasco St.
Learn lifeguarding at Kah-Nee-Ta
Lifeguard classes are begin
ning Sunday. Feb. 8 at Kah-Nee-Ta.
Regular schedule times will
be discussed at this first meet
ing. In this course, you will learn
about the duties and responsi
bilities of a lifeguard and how
to earn- them out in a profes
sional manner.
You will also learn a number
of lifeguarding techniques, such
as how to use surveillance tech
niques; how to use rescue equip
ment: and how to manage a sus
pected spinal injury victim.
To participate you must be
15 years old. able to swim out
2' i yards, do a surface dive and
bring up a Ill-pound brick, then
swim back with the brick. Swim
a distance of 5hi yards, using
the crawl stroke and breast
stroke.
Register at Kah-Nee-Ta Re
sort Village Pool.
Call 553-1112. ext. 3453 for
information.
Committee to screen candidates
Workshops help prepare for graduation, college
The Board of Directors of
Jefferson County School District
509-J seeks letters of interest
from people interested in par
ticipating on a committee se
lected to screen candidate ap
plications for the position of
school superintendent.
The screenings will be the
week of April 5-9. A letter of
interest may be submitted to
Cindy Harris at the school Sup
port Services Building, 445 S.E.
Buff St.. Madras. The letter of
interest should state how jour
serving on the screening board
will serve vour communitv.
Madras High School and the
Tribal Education Department
will provide a series of work
shops for tribal high school se
niors and their parents for the
purpose of meeting graduation
requirements and preparing for
a smooth transition into college
by maximizing the use of all
available resources and services.
The Madras High School se
nior class advisor John Reynolds,
and Julie Quaid and Ramona
Tanewasha of Tribal Education
will partner to provide monthly
Workshop topics. ' .! : .
The topics are transcript re
view and graduation require
ments, financial aid application,
college selection and applica
tion, tribal scholarship applica
tion, trust fund education re
quirements, and fundraising for
the Disneyland; graduation, ;trip
for ihterested seniors.
The next workshop is sched
uled for Thursdav, Feb. 19 at
6:30 p.m. at the Family Resource
Center. Tedi Tanewasha from
the Tribal Higher Education
Department will review the pro
cess and deadlines for applying
for the tribal scholarships. A light
snack will be provided. If you
have questions, please call Julie
Quaid at 553-3241.
Resort needs stables contractor
Umatillas abandon housing project
MISSION, Ore. (AP) - An
eastern Oregon tribe abandoned
plans for a housing development
on Indian land after two sets of
ancestral remains were discov
ered on the site.
Members of the Confeder
ated Tribes of the Umatilla In
dian Reservation voted to stop
construction on the Wyit View
housing subdivision. Of the 398
tribal members who voted in the
special election, 217 voted to
halt the project whiie 181 said
they wanted the project to con
tinue. The "no" vote means the
project will be abandoned,
which will cost the Tribes an
estimated 1.37 million, includ
ing repayment of about $1 mil
lion in federal grant funds.
The tribes' Board of Trust
ees had initially supported the
subdivision as a way to provide
housing while promoting
homeownership.
When two sets of ancestral
human remains were unearthed
during construction, the project
was halted and redesigned in
accordance with the tribes' own
procedural guidelines.
But some tribal members
voiced concerns about whether
the project should continue at
all after the remains were found.
"We need to protect the land
that contains the bones of our
ancestors," a group of 15 indi
viduals wrote in the Confeder
ated Umatilla Journal. "Our be
lief system the very thing that
has kept us united through all
aspects of adversity should
not be lost at the expense of
money" The site for Wyit View
was selected in 2001 as the most
viable of eight tribally owned
sites for the subdivision due to
its proximity to water and sewer
lines and cultural resources.
Following a lengthy approval
process and testing for human
remains with ground-penetrating
radar, construction began in
September 2003.
The remains were uncovered
last Oct. 24 and construction
was immediately halted. They
were reburied Nov. 14 with the
original soil after no lineal de
scendants claimed the remains.
Ad for Spilyay?
Call 553-3274.
Kah-Nee-Ta is looking for a
contractor to oversee the High
Desert Resort and Casino's
horse stables from March 1 to
Oct. 15. i ,
' ..The contractor will provide
one-hour guided horseback
rides.
Requirements: Own 15-25
horses with 15-25 saddles and
tack (horses need to be broke
and very tame).
Have commercial general li
ability and workers compensa
tion insurance and show proof
of.
Stables are required to be
open seven days a week.
Contact: Kah-Nee-Ta Hu
man Resources, P.O. Box 1240,
Warm Springs, Oregon 97761.
Call (541) 553-1112.
The email address is as fol
lows: khdrchrkahneeta.com.
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