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i.Pi!yjyJymo' Warm Springs, Oregon
October 28, 2004
Portland exhibit to feature tribal art
Ancestral art of the Confed
erated Tribes of Warm Springs
will be part of an exhibition in
January at the Portland Art
Museum.
The exhibit, People of tlx Hirer:
Nutiit Arts of the Oregon Terri
tory, will run from January 22
through May 29, 2005.
This will be the first major
exhibition to focus specifically
on the art created by the Native
Americans who lived from time
immemorial along the shores of
the Columbia River, said Bill
Mercer, curator of Native
American art at the Portland Art
Museum.
Cultures featured in the ex
hibit will be those of the Con
federated Tribes of Warm
Springs, and the Umatilla,
Yakama, Grand Ronde and Chi
nook. The exhibition has been care
fully assembled to present a com
prehensive overview of the ar
tistic traditions that emerged
over thousands of years and
countless generations along the
Columbia River. "This region
has been continuously populated
from time immemorial by the
direct ancestors of our current
tribal communities," Mercer
said.
The exhibit, he said, will be
divided into three sections:
sculpture, beading and basketry.
The goal is to present a com
prehensive examination of the
artistic traditions that emerged,
while emphasizing the unique
ness of these traditions and how
they emerged independently of
any other cultural region in
North America, said Mercer.
People of the VJivr consists of
204 objects dating from the pre
contact era to the middle of the
Twentieth Century.
The objects are being brought
together from private collections
and museums around the coun
try including the Portland Art
Museum, Field Museum of
Natural History, Yale Peabody
Museum of Natural History,
Maryhill Museum of Art, and
the Burke Museum of Natural
History and Culture, among oth
ers. There has never been a ma
jor museum exhibition that has
examined the arts and culture
of the Columbia River before,
and this will be the most exten
sive collection of these art works
ever assembled, said Mercer.
Many of these objects were
collected more than 100 years
ago, have been stored away in
museums and private collec
tions, and have never been on
public display before.
People of the Hirer will identify
School board to meet
Nov. 8 in Warm Springs
The Jefferson County
School District 509-J Board
of Directors will meet in
Warm Springs at 7:30 p.m. on
Monday, Nov. 8.
The meeting, in the library
of Warm Springs Elemen
tary School, will be in regard
to Impact Aid funds.
The public is invited to at
tend. Parents and guardians
of students who reside on
the reservation are encour
aged to ask questions and
state opinions regarding dis
trict 509-J programs and the
use of funds.
The school district board
meets annually in Warm
Springs to discuss federal
Impact Aid funding. The
funds are in lieu of property
taxes.
People who have disabili
ties who wish to attend the
meeting are asked to contact
the district 509-J office. .Call
Cindy Harris at 475-6192 to
discuss special arrangements,
which may allow full partici
pation in this public hearing.
Lecture series at High Lookee
Suzie Slockish of the Culture
and Heritage Department will be
the featured speaker this after
noon, October 28, at High
Lookee Lodge.
Slockish will speak as part of
the Celilo, Salmon, & Smoke
lecture series, presented by the
Warm Springs branch of Cen
tral Oregon Community College.
For the occasion, High
Lookee will serve a salmon
lunch for $3. To reserve a lunch,
call 553-1182. The program be
gins at noon.
and trace specific stylistic char
acteristics that through time, and
from one medium to another,
further cmph isize the unique
nature of Columbia River art.
The first section of the exhi
bition focuses on sculptural
works made from stone, wood,
horn, bone, and antler, includ
ing some that pre-date European
contact
Highlighting this section of
the exhibition is a four and one-half-foot
tall anthropomorphic
figure carved from basalt that
is the largest prc-contact Native
American stone sculpture ever
found in North America.
The second section of the
exhibition will feature the vari
ous basketry forms and tech
niques used by the people of the
Columbia River.
Included in this portion of
the exhibition are rare Nineteenth-Century
Chinook bas
kets, as well as finely woven cyl
inder baskets created by the
Wasco and Wishram.
The final section of the ex
hibition consists of beadwork,
a major form of artistic expres
sion, with an additional focus on
the art of a rare type of woven
beadwork made only on the
Columbia River and nowhere
else in North America.
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Truancy
meetings help
address lack of
attendance
Are you concerned about
your youth's education?
If you are, then Flossie
Wolfe of the Juvenile
Coordinator's Office encourages
you to attend a Community Tru
ancy Board meeting.
Attending a meeting is a good
way to begin doing something
about a potential problem in a
student's school attendance, said
Wolfe.
Community Truancy Board
meetings are held at the Juve
nile coordinator's office, upstairs
at the Tribal Courthouse. The
meetings are from 6 to 8 p.m.,
the first of every month until
the end of the school year.
"If you live in the commu
nity of Warm Springs,
Simnasho, Sildwalter or
Seekseequa, then please come
and join us," said Wolfe.
"We have been having these
meetings for the last two years
now, and we have only a few
interested members. We need
more people to show interest in
our children's attendance," said
Wolfe.
For more information, call
Wolfe at the Juvenile
Coordinator's office, 553-3335.
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