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September 14-, 2006
Spíly^y Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Youth worker enjoys
experience as camp counselor
Smith teaching 2nd grade at Madras
By Dave McMechan
By Sara Joy Vaeth
Spilyay Tymoo
Helping kids to learn, and
making a difference in their
lives are the reasons why
Ardis Smith loves teaching.
Last week she began teach
ing second-grade at Madras
Elementary School.
Smith had been living in
Ashland, where she went to
college. She graduated college
two years ago with a degree
in sociology.
She then worked a couple
o f years as a special educa
tion assistant. She went back
to school to earn her teach
ing certificate.
She moved back to Cen
tral Oregon just a few weeks
ago, after finding the teach
ing job at the Madras E l
ementary.
Smith grew up in Warm
Springs. She went to Warm
Springs Elementary School
and Je ffe rso n County E l
ementary School.
She graduated from Ma
dras High School in 1998,
and went college at Southern
O regon
U niversity
in
Ashland.
She wanted to come back
to Central Oregon, and when
she got the job at the elemen
tary school, she decided to
make the move. “As long as
I ’m teaching kids I ’m happy,
Higher Education Youth Worker
& Camp Counselor
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
Madras Elementary School second-grade teacher Ardis Smith.
and I love Central Oregon,” she
said.
H er parents are Warm
Springs Elementary School Prin
cipal Dawn Smith, who was a
teacher for many years, and
Darryl Smith, o f the Purchas
ing Department.
Simnasho hosting annual
September
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Simnasho’s Annual Septem
ber Shindig will be Wednesday,
Sept. 27 at the Sim nasho
Longhouse. Potluck dinner is at
5:45 p.m. Social dancing and the
good time starts at 7 p.m.
Specials: Clown dance, three
places, cash prizes, “silly style”;
drumming contest, “49 style”;
Students from fou rth-
through seventh-grades recently
attended 4-H Cultural Enrich
ment Camp at Peter’s Pasture.
The camp consisted o f four
classes a day, recreation time,
and campfire fun.
Some o f the classes included
language, basket weaving, felt
ing, canning, beading, drumming
and dancing.
For many campers, this was
their first time being introduced
to their cultural language. The
language classes were offered
for three days for one hour each
day.
I ’ve always wanted to learn
my Indian language, but partici
pating in school sports, I wasn’t
able to join the language class
here in Warm Springs.
W hen I was in M ontana,
many o f the-college students
spoke their Salish language. I just
wish that our schools around
here would offer the language
class like Montana does.
Neda W esley taught the
campers how to butterfly dance,
bear dance, and the root-digging
dance.
During recreation hours, the
campers were able to sweat in
the sweat lodge, swim and con
tinue working on their craft
projects. The campers were able
to sweat early in the morning at
6 a.m., or in the evening around
4 p.m.
Johnnie Wesley, a fourth-
grade camper, said, “I never got
Wewa to present during
Archaeology Celebration
Wilson Wewa will conduct
a program this Friday, Sept.
15, at the Oregon Archaeol
ogy Celebration at Smith
Rock. The presentation, from
7 to 8:30 p.m., will be at the
V isitor Center located at
10260 N.E. Crooked River Dr.
Topic o f discussion will be
“Keeping traditions alive —
Sweep Your Teepee Champion
ships, “Simnasho style”; and
other specials as available.
This event is sponsored by
the Simnasho community. For
more inform ation, or if you
want to volunteer, contact Cap
tain at 553-7014; or Roy Heath,
Katie, Mike Collins or Austin.
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the efforts and challenges o f
preserving tribal traditions,
language, crafts, hunting and
gathering in modern times.”
Wewa is the director o f
the Warm Springs Senior
Center, and a former cura
tor o f the Pyramid Lake
Nevada Paiute Reservation
Museum.
to sweat before, and sweating
was my favorite activity.”
Johnnie never missed an oppor
tunity to sweat all week.
The young campers were
brave jum ping into Shitike
Creek’s freezing cold water.
While the campers were par
ticipating in other events, the
adults would have their own
craft time.
They would bead a purse or
a tiny moccasin with Violetta
Vaeth.
A fter dinner, we all sat
around the camp fire singing,
acting, or just listening. Enthusi
astically, we all sang camps songs
like “B o o m C h icka-B oom ,”
“Bongalow” and the Humpty
Dumpty nursey rhyme.
Campers would role play and
put on funny skits. Ken Smith
(Tuk’ash man) had a story to tell
about every subject.
O n Friday afternoon the
campers went to Trout Lake.
The campers had a choice to
fish, swim, hike or pick huckle
berries. Everyone left Trout
Lake
u n h arm ed
ex cep t
Violetta, who was stung eight
times by bees while huckle
berry picking.
Sunday, the day o f departure,
was a sad tim e. Sabrina, a
camper, said, “I don’t want to
leave.” The friendships that be
gan at camp will never be for
gotten.
Next year, please encourage
your family and friends to par
ticipate in this fun and educa
tional camp experience.
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