Spilyay Tymoo, W 31 m Springs, Oregon
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August 17, 2006
Camp Sap-Si-Kwat educates children and their parents
By Leslie M itts
work: she specializes in grief
work, suicide prevention, crisis
and trauma work, and working
with veterans.
“I feel like I ’m training all
these young people,” she said,
and some of the participants are
people in recovery.
According to Herkshan, “I
think it’s the greatest interven
tion we can do— preparing for
life with our children. Teaching
them skills and traditions other
than their video games.”
A big part of the camp’s suc
cess has revolved around work
ing with families.
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Camp Sap-Si-Kwat has been
around for awhile, but this year
some changes were made.
For the first time, the annual
children’s camp was open to
families and adults.
Char Herkshan is responsible
for organizing the camp that
took place August 7 through
August 11 in Elmer Quinn Me
morial Park.
“This has been an ongoing
camp here for many, many
years,” she said. “This is the first
year that we’ve called it a fam
ily camp.”
This year approximately 125
children and 80 adults attended
the camp, though Flerkshan said
the number often varied. Tribal
C ourt sponsored this year’s
camp.
The camp is based on teach
ing people about culture, and
Herkshan said they spend the
week doing a variety of activi
ties.
For girls, that involves activi
ties like making moccasins and
m edallions,
or
beading
headbands or doing loom work.
For boys, the activities range
from making bows and arrows,
to painting rocks and making
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Girls demonstrate the beading they learned at camp.
dream catchers.
All of the kids go huckleberry
picking, and Herkshan said it
was one of their favorite activi
ties— though sometimes a chal
lenge to tran sp o rt so many
people.
“We were literally begging
people with big vans,” Herkshan
said with a laugh.
“There’s a whole spiritual and
traditional talk that we give out
there about protecting the ber
ries and the land,” Herksan said.
“It’s an important thing to do.”
“When the kids get their first
picking they have to give it to
an elder or a widow or an or
phan,” she said. “That was a
really wonderful day for us to
do that.”
Herkshan added, “Our basic
foundation is our spirituality.”
Because o f that, they spend
time teaching children the mean
ing behind bell ringing or prayers.
When kids hear the bell ring
ing, they always come running,
Herkshan said with a laugh, be
cause “Either we’re going to eat
or they’re going to tell us some
thing.”
For Herkshan, the camp is a
bigger part of what she does for
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Falls fishery open to tribal members
The 2006 fall Chinook fish-
ery at Sherars Falls is open for
the Warm Springs Tribal mem-
bers.
The fishery will remain open
for subsistence fishing until a
harvest cap of 600 wild adult
chinook salmon is reached.
The 2006 pre-season predic-
tion indicates that a run o f
Upriver Bright fall Chinook in
the Columbia River mainstem is
estimated to reach 249,100.
Larry Holliday, fisheries har-
vest manager, said “The fishery
at Sherars Falls for fall Chinook
and steelhead is pretty slow at
this time.”
According to Holliday, “Fish-
eries staff have been monitor
ing the Bonneville Dam fish
counts and there is approxi
mately 300 to 500 Chinook
coming over the dam daily at
this time.”
However, Holliday said, “The
fishery will possibly pick up in
the next two to three weeks.”
as many people as possible.
Herkshan’s favorite part is
seeing the children evolve over
the week.
“Sometimes when the kids
come here they’re really appre
hensive. They don’t know the
kids here,” she said. “Then as
you watch them through the
weeks it is such a wonderful
experience to see them become
friends.”
In the end, Herkshan said,
“You know you make a differ
ence. Everything you do here
touches hearts.”
This year the camp became
family-based because of actions
in prior years.
Before, Herkshan said, par
ents would come with their chil
dren and wouldn’t know how to
do things like make moccasins
or other types of traditional or
cultural activities.
“They would feel uneasy or
uncomfortable,” Herkshan said.
“A lot of the families lost that
knowledge.”
This year parents have the
opportunity to learn alongside
their children, and Herkshan
believes it is important to teach
In recognition of traditional
fishing, tribal fishing will not be
allowed from Sunday at 12:00
a.m. until Monday at 6:00 a.m.
Fishing will be allowed dur-
ing the remaining six days per
week for both scaffold and hook
and line fishing.
Pacific lamprey (eel) harvest-
ing will'be allowed during the
entire fall fishing season,
The commercial sale of fish
is not allowed, and the use of
alcohol or drugs is prohibited,
The Department of Natural
Resources, Ranger Program and
the police department will moni-
tor the Sherars Falls area to en-
sure that these regulations are
not being violated.
In addition, the Department
of Natural Resources Fisheries
staff will monitor the tribal har-
vest and fish escapement over
the Bonneville and the Dalles
dams and fish escapement above
Sherars Falls to determine if in-
season harvest medications will
Senior Picnic at the Cove
The Senior Picnic will on Thursday, Aug. 24, at the Cove
State Park. Come join the elders for a picnic and cruise the
lake on patio boarts.
Volunteers are needed to help with the picnic. The cooks
will be starting at 9 a.m.
For additional information call the Senior Building at 553-
3313.
be necessary.
Tribal Council approved and
passed R esolution num ber
10648 for the fall Chinook fish
ery, which opened on August 1.
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