Spilyqy Tymoo, Wqrm Springs, Oregon
March 5, 2005
Chemawa students prepare for change
Head Start taking applications
Head Start is taking applications for the Head Start 2005
06 school year. Head Start is offering 3- to 4-ycar-olds a pre
school experience. Head Start provides children with activi
ties to grow mentally, socially, emotionally and physically, as
well as giving them kindergarten readiness.
For registration, please be prepared to present the follow
ing: verification of income, birth certificate or tribal letter,
physical and immunization papers, custody or placement pa
pers. We will need all of the paperwork in before the child is
selected for the school year. For information: Jodi Orr or
Shirelle Thomas, 553-3242.
(AP) - After four years of
federal education reforms, ma
jor changes are coming to the
Chemawa Indian Boarding
School in Salem.
Next year, the school's focus
will shift to becoming a college
preparatory academy, the latest
makeover in a 125-year history
of shifting mission statements.
Chemawa administrators are
embarking on the latest change
without a guarantee of new fed
eral money.
"We'll still teach every kid that
walks in our door," said super
visor Larry Bycrs. "We'll hold
them to a higher commitment
of learning."
The change is just the most
recent for the school, which has
gone from mandated assimila
tion of Indian children in 1880
to providing an alternative edu
cation in 2005.
Considered a "failing" school
under the federal No Child Left
Behind Act, Chemawa will at
tempt to create a "leadership
academy" in the next several
years.
The school plans to lengthen
the academic day and require
study hours in the evenings.
Chemawa will also seek
more partnerships with local
community and four-year col
leges to create dual-credit classes
and help ease students' transi
tions. But the school intends to re
main a place for students who
cannot thrive in traditional high
schools.
Pqge 2
Horse club hosting dance to raise funds
The Rockin' 4-H Club of
Warm Springs, along with the
Riders of the Confederated
Tribes, both youth equestrian
clubs from Warm Springs, will
host a dance this Friday, March
4, from 7 to 11 p.m. at the
Jefferson County Fairgrounds.
Proceeds go toward helping
send 12 riders from the clubs
on a trip to Southern California
March 16 to 21.
While on the trip, the clubs
will participate in a parade in San
Juan Capistrano, Calif.
A disc jockey will play dance
music, and pizza and fry bread
will be sold, as will Pepsi drinks.
Admission is $4.
The group will camp out at
the O'Niel Ranch during the trip,
and Methodist churches in the
"area will help provide meals to
the group. Chris Buller, the
Rockin' 4-H leader, is youth
pastor at the United Methodist
Church of Madras.
The Los Angeles County Fire
Department is also participating
in the group's outing in South
ern California, in helping arrange
meals, arrange logistics, and, in
providing the San Juan
Capistrano fire hall, giving the
group from Warm Springs what
he called a "safe spot" as a base
during parade and festivities.
To participate in the trip, the
students had to take part in
group activities, maintain a 2.0 .
grade-point average in school,
and fulfill a behavior contract,
both at school and at home,
Buller said.
"We'd like to do something
like this every year," Buller, who
started the Rockin' 4-H Club in
April last year, said.
His group has rode in two pa
rades since its beginning, Pi-Ume-Sha
in Warm Springs and
at the July 4 parade in Madras
last year.
Buller said he has been work
ing to arrange for a chaplain
from U.S. Marine Corps Base
Camp Pendleton to bring Aus
tin Smith, Jr., of Warm Springs,
who is currently stationed at the
base, to join the Warm Springs
group for breakfast and either
walk or ride in the parade.
Buller said he had been to the
parade in San Juan Capistrano
before, and that his wife knows
people involved in the parade's
organization. Through talking
with different people, Buller got
in touch with Glenn Laub, fire
captain of the Los Angeles Fire
Department, and Dr. Peter
Czuleger, an emergency room
physician and horse enthusiast.
Czuleger's home is on the
gated Three Arch Bay near La
guna Beach, and, Buller said, the
doctor has provided for the
group from Warm Springs to
meet a group of kids from the
area for some fun in a beach
where scenes from movies have
been shot.
"We wanted, to make it a
whole Southern California ex
perience for the kids," Buller
said.
Youth invited to submit
artwork for contest
The Warm Springs Hous
ing Authority is seeking art
work from youth of the local
community. The coloring con
test, on the theme of fire pre
vention, is in conjunction with
Amerind.
There will be prizes for the
poster winners. There are
three divisions: K-third grade;
fourth through sixth; and sev
enth and eighth.
Artwork can be submitted
to the Housing office at 1238
Veterans Way. Deadline is
April 22. Paper size: 8 and
half by eleven inches. Paper
is available at the Housing
office.
Any questions, call Hous
ing at 553-3250, or stop by.
"It's a chance for the kids to
meet a lot of different people
who have a passion for horses,"
Buller said. He said he also
wanted the group to meet people
who he said "care about youth,"
no matter where they come
from.
In turn, Buller said people
outside the reservation have
been encouraged by the efforts
of the club.
"A lot of people have been
touched by the reservation and
the youth," he said. "There are
a lot of people who care about
them."
Jason Smith, manager of the
Confederated Tribes' Range and
Agricultural Department and a
noted local horseman, has of
fered to transport the club's
horses to Southern California,
and Butch David, the tribal com
munity liaison at Jefferson
County Middle School and a
horseman, is also making the
trip south. While the group is in
Southern California, the group
will auction off the horses at
O'Niel Ranch it rides to good
homes.
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