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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-
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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
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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.
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