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Spilyqy Tymoo, W3rrn Springs, Oregon
July 7, 2005
Page 5
Second semester
was a real challenge
(Spiljay summer joulh worker
Ashley Aguilar continues her
article about her first jiar at
Haskell Indian College in Kan
sas.) When we went back to
school for the second semester,
we had a car. It was nice. A car
makes a big difference when
you're living on your own. When
I started the second semester in
January, I was showing and my
belly was getting big. It looked
like I had a basketball in my
shirt.
We weren't even there a
month when our car broke
down. It cost us $1,790 to get
the car out of the shop. I really
thank the Confederated Tribes
for people like Jo Ann Bryant,
because she did her best to get
us an emergency loan through
tribal credit.
I'm really appreciative of
tribal programs that helped me
out in school. I never realized
how much support the Confed
erated Tribes give to its mem
bers until I left for school. Some
students I talked to at school
didn't even get assistance from
their tribes, just a pat on the
back.
Things seemed to be work
ing out at school for both John
and me. Wc were in good stand
ing By the end of February I had
a couple of months until my due
date. Then when March came,
I was talking to my teachers
about my pregnancy. The teach
ers said they'd know when I had
my baby because I wouldn't be
in class.
Mia Roe Kalama was born
on March 7, 2005 at 7:07 p.m.,
at the Lawrence Memorial Hos
pital. She was four pounds, 12
ounces, and 17 inches long.
" 'They took her blood sugar,
arid it was low. Her complica
tions worried the doctors. Un
like most mothers that get to see
their babies after they are bom,
mine was taken away and I was
taken to a resting room. At 1 1
p.m., they brought her in to me
and I fell asleep with her in my
arms. It was comforting. They
took her a couple of hours later
into another room, where they
fed her and kept her under a
bed warmer because she
couldn't maintain her own heat.
That day Joe and Melinda
came to visit me after I deliv
ered. They were good to John
and me. They are the true defi
nition of best friends, and they
did everything they could for us.
I called all my professors and
the counselors and told them my
situation and said I wouldn't be
coming back for a week.
After that I hobbled into the
room, they had my baby in and
visited with her for a while. That
whole hour I saw her I cried,
because I thought that I was the
reason why she had so many
complications. It hurt me to see
her getting poked to test her
blood sugar and to see her
wrapped in so much wire.
My mom was there the next
day. Joe and Melinda picked her
up at the airport. On the third
day the nurses announced that
my daughter had to go to a dif
ferent hospital because her
problems were more than they
could handle. She was five or
six weeks premature. They trans
ferred her to Children's Mercy
Hospital in Kansas City, Mis
souri. I went back to school and my
professors excused me from
classes. I fell behind and it was
hard, because John and I were
driving on a daily basis to go to
school and also to see my daugh
ter in the hospital, a 100 mile
round trip.
Mia stayed in the hospital
longer than expected, and my
sisters Gcorgie and Evelyn
came to support me for two
weeks. A week after they left my
sister Mayanne and brother-in-law
Allen Mitchell came to help
us with baby.
It was exciting because the
day that they came, Mia was get
ting discharged that next morn
ing, and I got to stay the night
with her.
After Mayanne and Allen left,
I didn't know what to do. I had
to go to class, but I had no one
to watch Mia. Finally I got a hold
of Sajari, a friend I had met my
first semester. She was nice to
watch Mia on such a short no
tice. It was expensive, though,
so I got a job with federal work-
study. I worked in the Haskell
kitchen for about five weeks. 1
Final exam week was very
stressful for me. I was under a
lot of pressure to do my best.
My public speaking profes
sor Dr. Hanson was so gener
ous, she made my baby a beau
tiful quilt and embroidered the
whole thing. So many people
had touched my life at school it
was amazing. My English pro
fessor made a positive impact
on my writing and corrected all
my grammatical errors. When I
was finished with all my classes,
I said my goodbyes and started
packing up my apartment.
We left the school, ready to
get home. It took us 29 hours
to drive straight home. John
woke me from sleeping and we
saw the first mountain in Wyo
ming. It was good to see a hill
of some sort. It wasn't flat land
anymore.
It feels good to be home with
a nice chunky baby.
Scientists to study ancient skeleton
(AP) - After nearly a de
cade of court battles, scien
tists plan to begin studying the
9,300-ycar-old skeleton
known as Kennewick Man as
early as this week.
A team of scientists plans
to examine the bones at the
University of Washington's
Burke Museum in Seattle,
according to their attorney,
Alan Schneider.
Four Northwest Indian
tribes - the Vakama, Umatilla,
Colvillc and Nez Perce - had
opposed the study, claiming
the skeleton could be an an
cestor who should be buried.
The Interior Department and
the Army Corps of Engineers
had sided with the tribes.
But a federal judge in Port
land, backed by the 9th US. Cir
cuit Court of Appeals, ruled that
the researchers could study the
bones to determine how the
man died and to find clues to
prehistoric life in North
America.
The bones quickly attracted
attention from scientists after
they were found in 1996 on a
Columbia River bank near
Kennewick, Wash.
The skeleton is one of the
oldest and most complete skel
etons ever found on the conti
nent. The long, narrow shape of
the skull shows characteristics
unlike modern American Indi
ans, raising questions that re
searchers hope to answer with
extensive study.
"Understanding human
variation is really critical," said
Cleone Ilawkinson, Portland
anthropologist who founded
Friends of America's Past to
support scientific access to the
ancient remains. "Wc can't close
off an entire chapter in history."
She noted the eight anthro
pologists who filed the original
lawsuit seeking access had to
pay for their legal costs and the
research, or seek funding for it
No government money was in
volved. "It's all coming out of the
scientists' pockets," I lawkinson
said.
The researchers plan to do
what is called
"taphonomic" examination
of the skeleton, taking mea
surements and making obser
vations about the processes
that affect animal and plant
remains as they become fos
silized. Further study is planned
based on the initial findings,
Schneider said.
'Taphonomy is really a fo
rensic examination,"
Schneider said. "You try to
determine everything that
has affected the skeleton
from day of death until you
study it"
Living Traditions
demonstrations
The following are the upcom
ing demonsrtations of the Liv
ing Traditions program at the
Museum at Warm Springs. The
demonstrations are Saturday
and Sunday at 1 p.m., unless oth
erwise shown.
July 9-10: Bead tapestry,
Wanda VanPclt. July 10: dance
performance by Unity at 10:30
a.m.
July 16-17: Cedar root bas
kets, Ante Pamperein.
July 23-24: Willow baskets,
Viola Kalama.
July 30-31: Tule weaving,
Adeline Miller.
August 6-7: Cedar bark bas
kets, Annette Jim.
August 13-14, Women's tra
ditional regalia, Ginger Smith.
August 20-21: Drum making,
Emerson Squiemphen.
August 27-28: Corn husk
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