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December 7
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Tribal member shares youth
experience with COCC students
However, she said, living as
the only Native Americans in
their town wasn’t always with
out the exposure to prejudice.
“We would hear things like,
W ell, all you Indians just live
o ff the government,”’ Quaid
said.
After her high school gradu
ation, she said, she moved to
Warm Springs—-but knew that
she would always pursue higher
education.
In high school, she told the
crowd, her teachers challenged
her to take difficult classes and
to succeed.
“Fortunately I had a lot o f
teachers who really just saw me
as a person,” Quaid said. “They
saw that I had some potential.”
While her teachers encour
aged her to go to college, Quaid
said it was also something that
was encouraged by her parents.
Quaid went on to complete
a year at Mt. Hood Community
College. After that, she returned
to Warm Springs and got mar
ried at the age o f 19, she said.
For two years Quaid worked
at the local grocery store, but
knew she would eventually re
turn to school— especially after
the owners o f the store encour
aged her to move on.
“You grow up a little bit out
in the real world,” Quaid said.
“You realize you’re not going to
bag groceries the rest o f your
life.”
A fter she tran sferred to
Lewis and Clark College and
earned her bachelor’s degree,
Q uaid also com pleted her
master’s degree.
H er understanding o f the
need to belong to a community
led her to work with those in
volved with Early Childhood
Education.
According to Quaid, “The
most important thing to me was
to create a sense o f belonging
for every child that was in our
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Pizza and slumber parties
used to be foreign to Ju lie
Kalama Quaid.
W hen her fam ily m oved
from Warm Springs to Sandy,
Quaid was 12 years old.
She soon found out that she
and her siblings were the only
Indian students at her school—
something that led to a struggle
to belong and the acceptance o f
values and beliefs that Quaid
carried throughout her life.
She shared those beliefs with
a crowd o f students at Central
Oregon Community College on
Nov. 29.
Quaid shared her personal
mantra with the students: “Be
lieve, belong, become.”
For Quaid, the process o f
belonging and believing started
early on while living on the res
ervation.
Growing up, Quaid said, “We
had this great sense o f belong
ing.”
“To me it was a way o f learn
ing how to cope in both worlds,”
Quaid* explained.
B u t her m ove to Sandy
wasn’t without its difficulties.
According to Quaid, “Jump
ing into that whole other kind
o f culture, that Americana, was
very difficult.”
It took time, she said, but she
eventually learned about things
like pizza and slumber parties.
In Quaid’s opinion, “It’s al
most like living in two whole
different worlds.”
Quaid also spoke o f the dif
ference between societies relat
ing to tribalism versus individu
alism.
She found the difference as
she lived in Sandy during the
school year and visited Warm
Springs during the summer, she
said— something that led to her
understanding o f both cultures.
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It was especially important,
she said, in order to teach the
children that they could be loved.
“To me that’s really what it
was— to really love these chil
dren unconditionally,” she said.
Quaid also spoke o f a project
with adults, where the adults
were asked to take a piece o f
paper and draw their dream.
Some adults were unable to
complete the task, she said.
“I think that’s just a tough
concept for people who feel
they’ve been oppressed for so
long,” Quaid explained. “They
don’t believe they have a dream.”
Quaid spoke to the crowd
about these experiences, and ex
plained that the sense o f be
longing is what leads to the abil
ity to believe and the ability o f
a person to become what they
want to be.
Quaid also spoke o f a recent
effort to get Warm Springs com
munity members to vote— a
project that led to a turnout o f
44 percent o f voters.
“It really got the attention of
people,” she said. “To me it was
like the ultimate belonging ex
perience.”
Quaid believes that the high
amount o f voters helped to af
fect some o f the recently politi
cal decisions.
As a community, she said,
“We can make a change.”
Quaid has spoken at COCC
twice before: she was a featured
speaker during the Oregon D i
versity Institute and also a dis
cussion leader during a staff
retreat.
Locally Quaid administers
the tribal trust fund and the
Johnson O ’Malley trust fund.
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