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Spily^y Tyrooo, Warm Springs, Oregon Page 3 March 2, 2 0 0 6 Museum announces award recipients The Museum at Warm Springs is pleased to announce that Ken Smith is the recipient of the 2006 Twanat Award, and Richard Kohnstamm will re ceive the museum’s first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award. The awards will be presented during an honor dinner sched uled for May 20 in Portland. Ken Smith holds a special place in the hearts of Many Native Americans, said Carol Leone, museum executive direc tor. He served as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs under the Reagan adm inistration, where he worked tirelessly for Indian people across the nation. Ken Smith served in the po sitions of general manager, sec retary-treasurer and chief ex ecutive officer of the Confed erated Tribes of Warm Springs. He helped to establish a strong, effective government and self- sustaining economic develop ment program. Smith was instrumental in the construction of the museum, the Early Childhood Center, and the Health and Wellness Center, said Leone. He signed a joint- venture agreement that launched a breakthrough in di- atomaceous earth technology, helping create Warm Springs Composite Products and initi ated the gaming enterprise pro cess. He currently served on the board of directors for the mu seum, Warm Springs Ventures, Kah-Nee-Ta, and the Coquille Economic Development Corpo ration. In addition to the Twanat award, the museum this year is presenting the Lifetime Achieve ment Award, honoring the per son who provided exceptional support to the museum. This year the award goes to Richard Kohnstamm, who has been ex tremely active with the museum, serving for many years on the Board of Regents. He also helped to nurture and encourage tribal member artists. He was a major sponsor of the Annual Tribal Member Art Exhibit in its early years. $10,000 grant for the museum The Museum At Warm Springs has received a $10,000 grant from the Dorothea M. Lensch Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation. The grant will underwrite tribal dance and dance-related classes and programs, and help fund the Toi Maori Exhibit at the museum. The grant will be used to pay dance groups to perform at the museum on various weekends, and pay tribal members for sharing their knowledge and teach dance-related classes such as how to make items used in traditional dance regalia. The Toi Maori exhibit will be at the museum in June. The ex hibit, called the Eternal Thread, is from New Zealand. The Eternal Thread exhibit will include woven items from the Museum at Warm Springs permanent collection, along with many woven and other items from the indigenous Maoris. The opening reception in mid-June will include a panel dis cussion of weavers from New Zealand, Warm Springs, and Yakama. The reception will be open and free to the public. A bout ten Maori artists, weavers, and dancers will visit for about two weeks and do live demonstrations at The Museum starting on June 17. The Eternal Thread will make its final stop in the United States at the Museum At Warm Springs, and will be on display through Sept. 9 before return ing to New Zealand. The mission of the museum is to preserve, advance, and share the knowledge of the cul tural, traditional and artistic heri tage of the Confederated Tribes. The museum achieves this through exhibitions and pro grams that raise and inspire awareness of the tribes and other indigenous tribes. Class teaches dip net making The Museum at Warm Springs Education Program is sponsoring a class for men or boys to learn traditional net making for dip nets. The dip net making class is on March 18 (pole gathering), and 20, 21, 22 and 23. Instruc tion will be by tribal member Russell Charley. A field trip on March 18 will get the dip net “pole.” For this trip, meet at the museum’s load ing dock area at noon. The class is March 20-23 at the museum Education Room from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Reserve your space now by calling 553- 3331, or you may visit the mu seum Education Room. A registration fee of $5 per individual is required. Please bring 12 feet of “farmers wire” for hoop. A possible resource is Madras Builders. (Additional supplies will be provided by the Museum at Warm Springs.) How to make a wing dress A class on sewing and cre ating the cultural dress, the wing dress, is taught this month by Violetta Vaeth. The classes will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., March 6, 7, 8 and 9 at the Museum at Warm Springs. Make your reservation by calling the museum Educa tion Program at 553-3331, ext. 407. A registration fee of $5 is required. 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