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Pqge 2 Spilyqy Tymoo, Wqrw Springs, Oregon August 5, 2004 Jones wins pageant Kayla Essence Jones re cently won the Miss Oregon American Coed Pre-Teen Pageant. Jones, 12, now qualifies to represent the state of Oregon at the Miss American Coed National Pageant. The national pageant will be held during Thanksgiving Week at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. In Orlando she will com pete with other girls from across the U.S. for thousands of dollars in cash scholarships and other prizes. Jones, daughter of Celena A. Gilbert of Warm Springs, serves on the Jefferson County Middle School Stu dent Leadership Council. She is on the middle school honor roll with a 4.0 in aca demics. Her other school ac tivities include basketball, cross country, and track and field. She enjoys fancy dancing, and participating in cultural activities in and around Warm Springs. Earlier this summer she competed in and won the Miss Teen Oregon American Coed Pageant, held in Portland. The Miss American Coed Pageant began in 1983. The state and national pageants are held each year to recog- Y, A. f ' . 1 n't- r I I r id vs Indian art featured on stamps (AP) - A series of stamps and postal cards featuring American Indian artwork will be issued this month by the Postal Service. The stamps and cards will come with 10 dif ferent images, the post office said. The 37-cent, self-adhesive stamps and 23-cent postal cards will be issued Aug. 21 in Santa Fe, N.M., and will go on sale nationwide the following Monday. "These stamps represent a small sampling of the diverse ways that Native Americans created objects used in their everyday lives that were also extraordinary expressions of beauty, " said Anita Bizzotio, Postal Service chief marketing officer and senior vice president. Art featured on the stamps includes: - Two Tlingit sculptures from the Phoebe Appcrson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. The wood sculptures were a fundamental form of artistic expression among the men of the Northwest Coast tribes. - A Mimbres bowl, a black-on-while style pot tery produced about 1100 B.C. by the Mimbres people in what is now New Mexico. From the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, the Univer sity of New Mexico. - A Kutenai parflcche - a rawhide container - , collected around 1900, probably in Idaho. From the American Museum of Natural History in New York. - A detail from a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) bag, from the Cranbrook Institute of Science,, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. ' - A Miccosukee-Seminole doll from the Na tional Museum of the American Indian in Wash-. ington, made in the early years of the 20th cen- f tury in Florida. - A Mississippian sandstone effigy from the .. Frank H. McClung Museum, the University of , Tennessee. - An Acoma pot made by Lucy Martin Lewis, ' from the National Museum of the American In dian. - A Navajo weaving by Daisy Taugelchee, from , the Denver Art Museum. - A detail of a Seneca ladle from the New ' York State Museum, Albany, N.Y., currently on ' loan to the Akwesasne Museum, Hogansburg, N.Y. - A Luiseno coiled basket from the Riverside . Municipal Museum, Riverside, Calif. Kayal Essence Jones Davt MiMuchanbpilyay nize and reward outstanding Over the years the pageant young women for their past and has awarded more than $ 1 1 present accomplishments, while million in scholarships and encouraging them to set and other awards to deserving achieve high goals for the fu- young ladies, ture. District, Council meetings this month The month of August will see meetings of the three districts of the reservation, as well as a General Council meeting. The first meeting was set for August 4, past the deadline for this newspaper. This was a meeting of the Agency District, and an agenda item for discussion was Tribal Council priorities. The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, August 10 at the Agency Longhouse. This is a meeting of the Seekseequa Dis trict. An agenda item for discus sion is tribal enterprises. The next meeting is set for Wednesday, August' 11. This is a meeting of the Simnasho Dis trict at the Simnasho Longhouse. Agenda item for discussion is Tribal Council priorities. These meetings begin at 7 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m. The next meeting is a Gen eral Council meeting scheduled for Tuesday, August 17. Agenda item for discussion is gaming. Twenty-five years ago this week From the August 5, 1979 edition of the Spilyay Tymoo. Careless humans may have been the cause of the grass fire that swept across the reserva tion, threatening several homes and coming within feet of Kah-Nee-Ta Village. But once the fire started the real culprits were an unusually strong wind, dry grass and inaccessible terrain, accord' ing to fire boss Bob Bolton. BIA investigator Mark Werner had nearly concluded that the 1,630-acre blaze was started by a cigarette, but an experiment failed to substanti ate his theory and the investiga tion was reopened Wednesday. A number of people, including a power line crew, were known to be in area when the fire started at 4:45 p.m. on the north side of the road into the Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery. In other news: A federal judge this week declared invalid a 1975 plan for the distribution of a $1.2 mil lion land claim judgment awarded the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs by the Indian Claims Commission. In a 1973 election the tribes voted to end the proceedings before the Claims Commission, and to accept the government payment of $1.2 million for land ceded by the Treaty of 1855. Since the 1973 election, the money has been on deposit in the federal treasury and has been accruing interest. But in November 1975 a number of enrolled tribal mem bers filed suit claiming that the distribution method discrimi nated against 321 members, because they were denied the right to inherit without due pro cess of law. Elsewhere: An adoption election has been set for November 15. Enrollment applications are be ing accepted by Vital Statistics until September 15. To qualify for adoption a person must Be a descendant of a mem ber or former member of the tribes. Be one-eighth Indian blood. Have lived on the reser vation for three years prior to the date of the reservation. And not be enrolled in any other tribe. In other news: About 30 contestants showed up at the Community Center for a dog show staged by the sum mer recreation staff. Action in back of the Community Center resembled something more of a rodeo arena than of contes tants bathing their dogs. One big black dog dragged people for 10 yards before letting them rinse the soap off of him. And this: While Warm Springers are picking twigs and black particles out of their water glasses, Indian Health Services and the BIA are drawing up plans for a new fil tration system and treatment plant for the community. Wkrm Springs M&rktf Indian Arts &nd Crafts 2132 JVb'm Springs SC Whrm Springs, OK $7761 (541)553-1597 (Slut lis ft .,'!. '- El Eminavdmer owner 3240 Walsey Lane, Suite 3 P.O. Box 918 Warm Springs. OR 97761 541.553.1460 . . t ' . .! Am.., . I ft 1 W j t- WW : jf j- 4 V racing at the ffver A Gathering of Natives American Businesses & Tribal Enterprisers - Hosted by OMA3SN & ATNI-Eocoomic Defcbpmcnt CcrpcrJt'co October 27th - 20th, 2004 Embassy Suites Portland Airport, Portland, OR See vAvi7.OWAI8EM.org for registration forms and more information Trs-de Show hosted t't Crcron Native Amcrkrin Chamber of Commerce
