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W ewa
Winston Eugene Wewa
passed away on July 22,
2006 at his home.
Mr. Wewa was born on
June 29,1962 at Redmond
to parents Wilson Wewa
Sr. and Eugenia Wolf.
Winston Wewa was a
lifetime resident o f Warm
Springs. Ele thoroughly
enjoyed being involved in
rodeos. He was a wild
horse racer.
Mr. Wewa is survived
by his daughter Serena
Wewa o f Lovelock, Nev.;
grandsons Landon Cody
Smith and Tristan Wewa,
both o f Lovelock; nephew
Smokey Wewa o f Warm
Springs; niece Erica Wewa
o f Warm Springs; brother
Wilson Wewa Jr. o f Warm
Springs; and sister Arlene
Bryant o f Warm Springs.
A dressing ceremony
was held on Tuesday, July
25
at
the
Agency
Longhouse. Burial was
Wednesday, July 26 at Up­
per Seekseequa Cemetery.
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July Special
M adeline M cln tu rff was one
o f last fluent W asco speakers
(AP) — T he late atwai
Madeline Brunoe M cln tu rff
was one o f the last three fluent
speakers o f the Wasco tribal lan­
guage in the Northwest. She
passed way on July 11 at age 91.
Following her passing, the
Tribal Council o f the Confed­
erated Tribes passed a resolu­
tion honoring her effort to pre­
serve tribal languages.
“I had great appreciation for
the tenacity she had in making
sure the Wasco language stayed
alive,” said Myra Johnson, di­
rector o f the culture and heri­
tage department for the Confed­
erated Tribes o f Warm Springs.
Mclnturff was born in Warm
Springs to Jerry Brunoe, a tribal
judge, and his wife, Sophie, in
1915 and spent most o f her life
on the reservation, said her son,
Ted Brunoe.
In the 1930s, M c ln tu rff
went to w ork for the
reservation’s Indian Health Ser­
vice Clinic, starting as a clerical
worker and eventually becom­
ing a nurse’s aide helping older
tribal members connect with
unfamiliar doctors^Brunoe said.
“It got to be they would have
to go through my mother’s in­
doctrination as to how to doc­
tor to the old Indian people be-
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Madeline Mclnturff
cause they did not trust the
young doctors,” Brunoe said.
After she retired in 1984,
M clnturff dedicated her time
to preserving her tribe’s lan­
guage and traditions.
With her death there are just
two fluent Wasco speakers — a
man who lives on the Yakama
Indian Reservation in Washing­
ton and Warm Springs tribal
member Gladys Thom pson,
who is in her 90s, Johnson said.
The tribes are still working
to reintroduce the languages o f
the Wasco, Warm Springs and
Paiute people, through classes
for preschoolers and older stu­
dents, but the loss o f fluent
speakers is a blow to the effort,
Johnson said.
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