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Dance group:
preserving
tribal culture
(Continued from page 1)
In addition to the instruction
Switzler and Johnson provide,
ciders from the community, like
Adeline Miller, also sit in and
talk about the history and sig
nificance of the dances and
songs.
The 4-1 1 club has repre
sented the community at
events off the reservation, like
the recent Lewis and Clark an
niversary commemoration at
the Columbia Gorge Discov
ery Center in The Dalles,
where they wore regalia and
performed.
"This last year, we've been to
at least a docn events, usually
once a month and during sum
mer, more than that," Switzler
said.
Radio: can
pose risk to
broadcasters
(Continued from page 1)
"It was very sad. I actually
cried. I said, 'This is how our
people felt when The Dalles
dam went in. Elders had to turn
their backs when the water cov
ered their falls and the place
where they grew up.
"I shared with them that the
event was very similar to what
happened to us, having the flood
waters cover our traditional
land. At the very beginning of
the video, she says, I am a strong
person, and I will always be a
strong person because I get my
strength from the land. That was
so moving to see the individual
effort she made."
- Sando-Emhoolah brought a
copy of the recently broadcast
Oregon Public Broadcast special
on Warm Springs, which fea
tured KWSO, to show at the
... conference.
"I showed the part where the
radio station is trying to continue
the languages, and the ways that
we use our radio stations to pro
mote our culture, not just for
ourselves but for outside people,
non-Indians or Native people
who are here but who aren't
from here."
In South America, she said,
"They're trying to do the same
thing."
Another presenter at the con
ference told about her experi
ence as an indigenous person
raised in a city the size of Port
land. She went back to her an
cestral home to be with her
mother, one of the last surviv
ing speakers of their traditional
language.
"The daughter felt there
would never be enough time to
learn the language, no matter
, how hard she tried. She felt she
would never totally recapture
the knowledge her mother had."
Sando-Emhoolah also
learned there is an element of
danger for those who stand up
for their indigenous culture in
South America.
Loris Taylor, executive direc
tor for the Center for Native
American Public Radio, is part
of an organization at Hopi that
has helped people from South
America.
She. knows of a person who
was tortured for almost a year.
He and his family were trying
to leave South America. I le was
broadcasting and producing resistance-type
material for indig
enous people, to resist what was
being done to them.
"He was captured before he
got out of South America, and
he was tortured for almost a
year. His wife and his children
were let go but they tortured
him. Almost a year later they
dumped him off on the side of
the road, in the middle of no
where, naked. Nobody knew
who he was. He was luckv to be
1 i
A group of girls from the Warm Springs 4-H Social Dance
Club gets ready to perform at the Bicentennial
commemoration of Lewis and Clark's landing in Oregon in The
Dalles in October. The girls, from left. Include Rheana Wolfe,
Victoria Godines, Denise Herkshan, Vivian Yazzie, Keeyana
Yellowman, Rosebud Whipple, Analise Whipple, and
Bridgette Whipple.
"X'e try to stay pretty close tor)' of the people. And we do
to our ancestral lands, and we as much language teaching as we
try to teach kids not only the can."
history of dances, but the his-
Mary Sando-Emhoolah stands between Mapuche tribal
members of Chile.
alive."
A goal of the conference in
Santiago was to train people to
train others in their homelands
how to use community radio.
"One question they asked me
was how I would deal with the
political aspect of it," said
Sando-Emhoolah.
She came to the conclusion
that she could teach them the
basics of broadcasting and re
porting, but that only they knew
how far they could go to use
broadcasting to disseminate
their culture.
"Native people know their
communities better than anyone
else, and so I said it would be
up to them to decide how you
use that tool," she said. "It's not
up to me to tell you how. I just
give you the tool, and you go
build whatever you want with it."
She even described the en
deavor of using community ra
dio in the South American coun
tries as a "double-edged sword."
"It's something that can re
ally help you, but there's a big
risk that it can harm you and
your family," she said.
Sando-Emhoolah said she
heard some people at the con
ference describing their use of
pirate, or non-sanctioned, radio.
The government's response usu
ally has been hanging posters in
local communities asking citi
zens to report pirate broadcast
ers. Sando-Emhoolah said the
conference opened with a tra
ditional opening by a group of
Mapuche people from Chile.
She also got to experience a se
cret Mapuche ceremony. She
said their dress and customs, and
use of objects in their ceremo
nies reminded her of Native
Americans in the southwestern
United States.
She also got to visit
Valparaiso, a city on the Pacific
coast in Chile.
Sando-Emhoolah said she has
been asked to become further
involved as a trainer for the in
digenous people in South
America.
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