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Spilyqy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
November 11, 2004
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Chief honors friend at Portland Meadows
By lrinn Mortaisen
. Spityny Tymoo
Dr. Glen "Doc Dickey"
Vandervort of Ridgefield,
Wash., was regarded as a kind
and generous figure on the Or
egon horse racing circuit.
But more importantly to
Chief Delvis Heath, the veteri
narian was a friend, and that is
why Chief Heath is singing a
Native song of prayer on Sat
urday during a three-day week
end of memorial for Dr.
Vandervort at the Portland
Meadows racetrack.
"They've planned a whole
weekend for him, Friday, Satur
. day and Monday," Chief Heath
; said of the weekend called
; "Doc Dickey Days."
Dr. Vandevort, a former
: president of the Oregon Thor-
oughbred Breeders Association,
died Aug. 24. He was 82.
The chief was originally
asked to contribute $100 for one
: of the blankets that is awarded
; to a winner of one of the more
than 30 races during the week
end, but he was also interested
: in paying his respects in person,
and in voice.
"I said, 'I'd like to come down
and honor him with one of our
songs," he said. "I told them I'd
-like to give him a prayer of
j thanks for the short time of
knowing him."
iTribe approves 42 words to replace
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(AP) - The word "squaw" has
long been considered an offen
j sive term for women by Ameri
' can Indians. Yet that is the name
jof Squaw Creek, which
traverses the ancestral land of
j,the Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs.
Now, after years of internal
debate, the Tribal Council of the
j Confederated Tribes has finally
approved a list of 42 words that
; could be used to rename the
' creek and other nearby squaw
; place names.
The Tribal Council passed a
;. resolution accepting the transla
tion of 15 of the 42 words into
' the three distinct languages of
their people.
1 Although the tribes have long
wanted to change the creek's
: name, this is the first time the
I tribal council has approved a list
of possible replacements, said
Vet's Day powwow
in Washington
A Veteran's Day celebration
and powwow is scheduled for
iNovember 11-13 at the White
,Swan Pavilion, White Swan,
Wash.
j A special Crown Dance will
'take place this year to honor
Betty J.M. Moses. This will be
women's traditional, ages 25 and
over. All women must be in re
galia, including traditional cloth,
shell dress, ribbon dress, plain
jbuckskin or full beaded buck
skin. The main emphasis is for
;'headwear, or crowns (royalty
rcrown, metal crown, southern
krown, northern crown.) No
jhats or headbands.
, The special will pay out to six
places. First place is $600 and a
jacket sponsored by Carl, Esther
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. Chief Delvis Heath
The chief, who has been
Chief of the Warm Springs
Tribe, one of three chiefs of the
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs, since 1984, said he
asked that the song not be re
corded. "We never tape the songs,"
he said, adding that the songs
have been handed down over
the centuries. "Nobody com
poses them, nobody writes
them."
Chief Heath and Dr.
Vandervort knew each other
from their travels and experi
ences traveling around Oregon
racing their horses.
The circuit used to take them
to Grants Pass, where they
would stay for most of May and
June, to Prineville, to the State
Fair in Salem, to Tillamook, to
Bobby Bruno, the tribes' direc
tor of natural resources.
The names were decided by
a group of tribal elders, Bruno
said. They include the words for
animals, plants and physical fea
tures that can be found near the
creek.
To balance the formerly of
fensive name, the tribes also
made sure to include positive
references to women, said Sally
Bird, an archaeologist for the
tribes.
The word laughing was in
cluded to signify "happy women
working together."
Translated, it appears as
akqyaulal in Wasco, ti-yat in
Sahaptin, the language of the
Warm Springs tribe, and
soowi'ena in Paiute.
Although the creek doesn't
flow through the reservation, it
does run through the ceded
and Clifford Moses Sr.
Second place is $500 and a
jacket sponsored by John and
Susie Moses, Minetta and Alan.
Third place is $400 and a jacket
sponsored by Clifford, Kat
Moses, and William Moses.
Fourth place is $300 and a
jacket sponsored by Cheryl
Moses, and boys and girls. Fifth
place is $200 and a jacket spon
sored by Roland Jack Spencer
and Darwin Moses. Sixth place
is $100 and a jacket sponsored
by April and Eya Moses and
families.
For more information about
this special contact: Carl Moses
(509) 941-3654, John Moses at
(509) 865-5322 ext 5179 after
8 p.m., or Eya Moses (509) 945-1185.
(541) 475-2519
108 NW 4th Street
Madras, OR 97741
Burns, and then to Portland
Meadows.
"We knew each other quite a
bit," Chief Heath said. "When
he started getting into horse rac
ing, he didn't believe I could
breed (race) horses.
"He asked me, 'Where'd you
get that horse.' I told him, 'I bred
itm
"He said, 'You can't breed
horses. Indians don't breed their
own horses.' He came up here
and I showed him the papers,
and he just smiled."
Chief Davis said he isn't
clear how long he had known
Dr. Vandervort but that he had
known him as long as he had
been involved in horse racing in
the 1950s. He describes the doc
tor as a man who would call
anyone his friend.
"He'd always be with the In
dians, always sit with the Indi
ans," he said. "One year they
were honoring him and they
wanted to put him up on the
stage, but he said, 'this is fine
enough with my friends. I'm
good enough with my friends."
One of the stories Dr.
Vandervort used to tell was that
he used to ride for a man from
the Yakima Indian Reservation.
Dr. Vandervort was going to
ride in the races at Burns, but
his parents caught up with him
and told him, "You're not going.
lands of the tribes. That means
the tribes may get preference
when the Oregon Geographic
Names Board chooses the
name, said Champ Vaughan,
president of the names board.
The board will also listen to
input from the U.S. Forest Ser
vice and city of Sisters, Vaughan
said.
But Sisters City Manager
Eileen Stein said some of the
names the tribes submitted may
be too difficult to pronounce.
Several of the Wasco names
use unconventional symbols,
such as an "1" with a diagonal
line through it, that aren't in
cluded in most word processing
programs.
Bird, the tribe's archaeologist,
counters that even spellings that
seem difficult can be pro
nounced by non-Indians.
"What I don't want them to
do is to discount Wasco words
because they think they're un
pronounceable," Bird said, not
ing that "wixat," the Wasco word
for road, is pronounced "wicut."
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"He found out the horse he
was supposed to ride that week
end got in a wreck," Chief
Heath said. "A Burns Paiute kid
rode him, and it killed him."
"He said,' It probably could
have been me if I'd went on if
my parents didn't take me.'"
Chief Heath said the doctor
was willing to help out people in
racing who needed help.
"Some of the Indians like
Franklin Suppah, he ran for
years and I rode for him," he
said. "He'd be having money
problems. He wouldn't have all
the money right -away because
his check had come in from the
races, so he wouldn't be able to
pay him.
"(Vandervort) goes, 'just
bring me a deer once in a while.
That's all right,' so we'd have to
come home and make sure we
got a deer, and he'd be smiling."
. After he'd volunteered to
sing at the memorial service,
word had apparently gotten
around, Chief Heath said.
"People down a the track,
every time I'd see them, (they'd
say), 'I've never heard one of
your (memorial) songs.
"I've heard the pow-wows,
but they told me it's a special
song and I want to be there," he
said.
"It's nothing special for us,
graphic Names board will take
six to 12 months to give final
approval, Vaughan said.
Because of that lag time, it's
unlikely the tribes will meet an
Oregon deadline for changing
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that pass on, people that pass
on from the world.
' "Indians always talk about the
people that pass on, honor the
people that pass on."
In the past, Chief Davis has
sung for then-First Lady Hillary
Clinton and Tipper Gore at the
Vice Presidential mansion in
Washington, D.C., and for Sen.
Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), the
vice-chairman of the Commit
tee on Indian Affairs.
"Doc Dickey Days" is be
lieved to be the first three-day
weekend devoted to the
memory of one person, Juanita
Jones, a trainer at Portland
Meadows, said.
Prior to the post parade each
day, "Taps" will be played, the
flag lowered to half-mast.
A caparisoned, or riderless,
horse will be led in Dr.
Vandevort's honor.
In addition to Chief Heath,
a number of families involved
in horse racing from the Warm
Springs Reservation will be on
hand during the weekend, in
cluding Jacob and Muriel Frank,
Jay and Joyce Suppah, and Tom
Estimo, Jones said.
Anyone interested in attend
ing the Saturday evening spa
ghetti dinner are asked to call
Jones at (425) 345-0145 to re
serve a seat.
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the squaw names.
The Oregon Legislature
passed a law in 2001 banning
cities and other public bodies
from using the term "squaw" in
organization or property names.
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Dec. 11
The 29,h Annual Warm
Springs Christmas Bazaar
will be held from 8 a.m. till
4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11 at
the Warm Springs Commu
nity Center, sponsored by
the Recreation Department.
On hand for the event
will be Native American
crafters of the U.S. and
Canada, and non-Native
crafters of Oregon and be
yond. There will be over 70
craft stands and a variety of
holiday treats and conces
sions. Anyone interested in
setting up a vendor's booth
at the bazaar should contact
the Recreation Department,
(541) 553-3243.
Raffle for
giant stocking
This holiday season, a Christ
mas stocking raffle will benefit
the Thurman Squiemphen Wild
Horse Race Memorial in June,
2005. The raffle drawing will be
held Dec. 24. You need not be
present to win. The prize is a
giant stocking valued at $400.
See the following people for
raffle tickets: Rita Squiemphen,
Monica Leonard, Val
Squiemphen, Gladys
Squiemphen.
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The law set a deadline of Jan.
2, 2005, for changing the name.
In the Deschutes National
Forest, there are 26 squaw place
names, with eight of those in the
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