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Spilyay Tyrnoo, Wqi-rn Springs, Oregon
June 24, 2004
Gold named to cultural fellowship
Waco Msket weaver Pat
Courney 'old continues to re
ceive natnal recognition for
her wo in preserving tradi-tional-rrwork
anc culture.
Gd is among five Ameri
cartodian artists chosen recently
tt participate in a cultural com
munity outreach program.
She was among the artists
chosen to receive a Cultural
Capital Grant Fellowship from
the First People's Fund.
The First People's Fund, es
tablished in 1995, honors and
supports creative community
centered Native artists.
The Cultural Capital Grant
program continues the impor
tant cultural work of artists, such
as Gold, who have received a
First People's Fund Community
Spirit Award.
The Cultural Capital Grant
Fireworks,
parade on July 4
The Warm Springs July 4
parade is set to begin at 10 a.m.
The parade will begin at the
Warm Springs Elementary
School. Line-up is at 9 a.m.
Following the parade will be
a barbecue and kids games at
the community center grounds.
Fireworks will begin just af
ter dark.
lit
Pat Courtney Gold
program will provide the five
artists with resources to carry
out a one-year community out
reach initiative.
Along with Gold, those cho
sen for the Cultural Capital
Grant Fellowship are:
Pura Fe Crescioni, a
Tuscarora musican; Elaine
Timentwa Emerson, and Omak
basket weaver, Rose Kcrstetter,
an Oneida potter; and Kathy
Wallace, a Karuk basket weaver.
Gold has received wide ac
claim for her Wasco basket
weaving. She has had her bas
ket work displayed in the
Smithsonian Museum of Ameri
can Indians.
Originally from Warm
Springs, Gold has played an in
tegral part in bringing back
Wasco-style basket weaving
techniques.
"We have had a loss of our
culture," she said. "My first ex
posure to some of our baskets
was when I went to the Peabody
Museum, where I realized I was
the seventh generation from the
weaver of that basket. Since
then, about ten years, I have
been weaving, using the old tech
niques with geometric images. I
am keeping it going for my
people."
The First People's Fund is
designed around core values -integrity,
responsibility, generos
ity and respect - that reflect the
Native arts.
The fund is supported by the
Ford Foundation's Media, Arts
and Culture New Works, and
the Indigenous Knowledge and
Expressive Culture initiatives.
The Cultural Capital Grant
fellowship will help strengthen
the artists' connections to the
community, as well as support
their commitment to pass on
their skills and talents to others.
Library hosting
summer youth activities
The Warm Springs Library
is featuring summer activities
for kids. Next week, for in
stance, an airplane pilot will
visit and teach kids about avia
tioa "Put on your flight goggles
and strap yourself in for an
hour of high-flying fun with
a real pilot as our guide," the
library flyer says. The Aviation
Adventure is at 2 p.m. on
Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, June 29-July 1.
The theme this year of the
library summer reading pro
gram is "Discover New Trails
- Read!"
Each year the Jefferson
County Library puts on a sum
mer reading program to keep
children reading all summer
long, because reading is like a
lot of other skills - you have
to keep practicing.
If children do not read dur
ing the summer, they are likely
to have more difficulty read
ing when they go back to
school in the fall.
There are two parts of the
summer reading program:
reading, and weekly activities.
There are reading prizes for
those who register. Anyone
can attend the June and July
reading activities, but to be
eligible for a prize, you have
to register.
For information call the
Jefferson County Library at
475-3351.
Farm committee preparing for election
The Farm Service Agency
will be conducting an informa
tion meeting on the upcom
ing county committee election.
The meeting will be at the
Eugene Green Sr. Natural
Resources Building on July 7.
A Farm Services Agency
representative will be available
from 9 to 11 a. m. to provide
information and answer ques
tions regarding the election pro
cess to anyone interested.
This year's election will be
held in the Local Administrative
Area, which includes the reser
vation. If you or your neighbor is
interested in running for the
county committee, a nomination
petition can be obtained at the
Eugene Green Sr. Natural
Resources Building.
Nominating petitions can
be picked up beginning Aug.
1, and must be returned by
Sept. 3.
For information call 923
4358, ext. 2.
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25 years ago this week
From the June 29, 1979,
edition of the Spilyay Tymoo.
Eligible voters are urged to
cast their ballots Tuesday, July
10, when the Deschutes Domes
tic Water System again comes
up for voter approval.
In the last try on June 5,
people approved the project
five to one but not enough vot
ers cast their ballots invalidat
ing the election. The count was
70 short of the required num
ber of voters.
Vital Statistics supervisor
Edith Danzuka noted that it is
expensive for the Tribes to hold
an election and that is frustrat
ing when the people do not
bother to vote. The Tribal
Council feels the project is very
important to the future of the
Tribes and they would like to see
it pass in time. In other news:
Within a matter of months
the executive director of the
National Congress of American
Indians was elected by the mem
bership, given by the executive
committee and asked to resign
by the president.
Andy Ebona left the NCAI
mid-year conference on Reno
two weeks ago without a job as
the result of an eight-month
chain of events that also left
NCAI without the dollars to
hire a new director. Ebona of
fered his resignation only after
executive committee members
who had once enthusiastically
supported him stood up one by
one an reluctantly backed presi
dent Veronica Murdock's action.
And in other news:
In a move that has stunned
reporters, attorneys and tribal
officials, Federal Judge Robert
C. Belloni disqualified himself
from hearing any more Indian
fisheries cases involving the U.S.
vs. Oregon.
Belloni was scheduled to hear
a suit filed by the four Colum
bia River Indian Treaty Tribes
who were attempting to stop
ocean trolling for salmon off the
coasts of Oregon and Washing
ton. And this:
It was a tough choice but the
superintendent and the Tribal
Council have agreed on an indi
vidual for the special law en
forcement officer position that
was vacated two years ago by
Del Eastman.
Homer White Buffalo, 35, a
Standing Rock Sioux, was se
lected from a group of five In
dian applicants who visited the
reservation June 48 to meet
with Bureau and Tribal officials.
The five spent a day and a
half with the superintendent Jim
Cornett and met with the Coun
cil and municipal manager Rudy
Clements for brief interviews.
And elsewhere:
Things will start popping in
Warm Springs come July
Fourth, as many activities have
been planned for spectators as
well as participants.
The theme of this year's pa
rade will be "Kids Do the Great
est Things." The four categories
for parade entrants will be Gov
ernmental, Equestrian, Senior
Citizens and Kids. If you want
to enter a float, bike, horse, car
or anything else you can think,
call the Community Center.
Trophies will be to the first place
winners in each division. Also
this:
The last edition of Spilyay
Tymoo was our first homegrown
issue.
Our readers may not have
noticed anything except that it
was a week late, but to Spilyay
staff it was a landmark publica
tion Vol. 4 No. 12 was the first
paper to be composed entirely
in Warm Springs. Well, almost
entirely. There are still a couple
of technical chores we cant
accomplish here, but 95 percent
of what you saw was created in
our offices.
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