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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 2006)
Pgge 8 December 7, 2006 Spilyay Tymoo, Wgrm Springs, Oregon Howlak Tichum A p o lo n i a S u s a n a S a n t o s September 30, 1954 — November 17, 2006 A polonia Susana Santos, known to m any by several names, stepped from this world to the next in the wee hours of the morning on Friday, Novem ber 17, 2006. Susana was sur rounded by many members of her family and her loved ones. A member of the Tygh Band and Yakama Nation, her ances tral homelands are located along the Deschutes River at Tlxni (Falls of a Woman’s Hair) also called Shears Bridge. She held great pride in her traditional fish ing family and encouraged all who fished to respect the river and the salmon. She was an enrolled member of the Con federated Tribes o f Warm Springs. An accomplished artist for 30 years, Susana worked in sev eral mediums including: large scale p ain tin gs, sculpture, silkscreen, graphic design, ce ramics, photography and poetry writing. Her work has appeared in 26 gallery exhibitions, and three traveling exhibitions including Artistas Indigenas U.S. Tour in Leningrad and Moscow, Russia; the Pacific Northwest Lewis and Clark Traveling Exhibition; and the ‘Honor the Earth’ Indig enous Peoples Tour. She partici pated yearly in the Tribal Art Show at the Museum at Warm Springs. For over 20 years, Santos has Apolonia Susana Santos been an active organizer of en vironmental summits and cul tural events. These public and intertribal events were educa tional and civic responses to leg islation on indigenous peoples’ and broader civil liberties pro tections. Santos worked as a Green Peace Fellow on national fisheries legislation and as a pub lic education campaigner. Susana established the Sacred Earth Coalition in the late 1980s. Her mission was to bring to gether Native and non-Native activists and artists to work for the protection of the Mt. Hood areas from destination resort development and the logging of Finóla Hill. Together with the Coalition, she established ‘Culture Shock Gallery’ to showcase the work of Native artists, women and MEMORIES IN STONE Custom Designed Memorials Hand Engraved In Goldendale For Over 18 Years Pioneer Rock % other disenfranchised groups. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Or egon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Susana returned to the reservation to try to help her community. And help she did. Santos es tablished the Kah-Nee-Ta Gal lery of Art at the High Desert Resort and Casino encouraging local artists to not only present their work in this public forum but also to stretch and grow ar tistically. She established a Na tive youth summer arts program coordinated with the Oregon College of Art and Craft for Warm Springs youth to study in Portland. This program has grown to include Native youth in Portland and other Oregon Tribes. As art and cultural liaison for the Warm Springs tribe, Susana authored “Tribal Initiatives” that include her vision for an Artists ATllage Complex with artist painting and printmaking stu dios, sound, film and video stu dios and an Indigenous Medi cine Lodge. Her vision also in cludes a healing symposium and gathering o f healers to take place at Kah-Nee-Ta in 2007. She has inspired many people in Warm Springs and through out the Northwest to come to geth er and com plete these projects. Santos’ art work and writings appeared in several publications: ‘We, the People’ NYC 1987, Faces of a Reservation, Oregon Historical Society 1988, Women Of Power Magazine, 1990 and The Indigenous Woman Magazine, 1995. Her artistic awards include: 2006 Potlatch Fund Award for Native Arts, 2006 Com m unity Spirit Award, F irst Peoples Fund, Rapid City, South Dakota, 2004 Spirit of the Arts Award, The Museum at Warm Springs; 1982 Births Timberline Purchase Award - The Museum at Warm Springs; circa 1980, second place award - UNESCO Visitation, Univer sity of California Davis, Calif. Susana attended the San Francisco Art Institute (1979- 82), and earned a Bachelor of Fine Art’s Degree (BFA) from the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Pordand, Oregon (1998- 2001 ) . Apolonia Susana leaves a large family and hundreds of friends who loved and respected her. Her generosity of heart and spirit touched everyone she met. As an artist, activist, community leader and loving friend, she wove these parts of herself into a remarkable woman who al ways thought of her People and family first. From her signature hats and contagious giggle to her Warrior like determination, she leaves us all with a call to ac tion. Susana wrote of her art, her illness and her hope for the fu ture generations... “I create art in an effort to manifest and explore the human spirit and to heal the ‘wounded spirits’ of our people. To seek higher vision is an ancient way to m anifest our art through spiritual quests, to understand natural phenomena and the ani mal world. I only hope that my art serves to depict strong im ages of Nature, Women and our M en, in order to recapture memory. Perhaps when we re member our clan families, our Relationship to Mother Earth and to each other; our strength, art and cultural attributes will, in time, regenerate. “I am just boiling inside. I want to explode. I have to tell these stories in my paintings. As an artist, I have to take respon sibility to rid myself of this pain, and the impact on the people who are seeing it. I don’t always live in this world. I live in the other world. That is why I paint. I am trying to document history, document us. To document we are alive... How you live and conduct your life is a part of the solution. Only when men start to respect women is it go ing to happen. I want to see a strong land base back, a living band of people. I won’t settle for anything else in my life time. .. You can’t make compro mises anymore. You can’t settle for less.” Her family and loved ones include: mother Lena Teewee Santos, sister Juanita Villa and her husband Gary Villa, sister Irene Jim enez and her fiancé David Felver, and sister Theresa Howe; brother Rueben Santos and his wife Paula; brother Rick Santos and wife Sue; brother Albert Santos and wife Brenda. N ieces: D onetta Sm ith Squim phen, R achel Santos, Alyssa Santos, Janelle Santos, and Ashley Jimenez. Nephews: Buddy Denny, Loren Denny, Richie Denny, Gary Villa, Jr., Aaron Vasquez, Bobby Howe, Carl Howe and John Howe, D onovan Santos and w ife Makoni, Chip Santos, Brandon Santos, Ian Santos and Kierin Santos, Albert Santos Jr. and wife Jennifer, Joel Santos and Karla Kalama, Issaic Santos and Anthony Santos, and her Life Partner Cheri Hyde. Great nieces and nephews: K iara K alam a-Santos, A lyia Vasquez, Angie Stacona and Rachel Denny; James Santos, Scout Santos, Ryan Denny and Sean Denny. And numerous great-great nieces and nephews. Other members of Susana’s family who have gone before her are Carlos Santos, Margie D ansuka Sm ith, M ichael Santos, Eligio Santos, Donovan Burns and Grandmother Mabel Eyle (Taktwipum). H unter Dean Bearsford-T'olt^ Joseph Foltz and Kaleja Mae Castiileja are pleased to announce the birth of their son Hunter Dean Bears ford-Foltz, born No vember 22, 2006. Hunter joins brother Jermaine. The maternal grandpar ents are Julie Seelatsee and Lee Arquette, and Jose Castiileja. The paternal grandparents are Esther G eorge and R ichard Garcia-Foltz. Toby Ryan Bowden Bryce Bow den and Heather Gossling of Cul ver are pleased to an nounce their son Toby Ryan Bowden, born No vember 26. M athias O wen-Jaj M artin G regory M artin and M adeline Jim o f Warm Springs are pleased to an nounce the birth of their son M athias O wen-Jay Martin, born November 20, 2006. The father’s parents are H erm an M artin and Shirley M artin o f Fort Wingate, New Mexico. The mother’s parents are Barbara and Bruce Jim of Warm Springs. Order museum gifts, wreaths Order a one-of-a-kind handm ade C hristm as wreath and/or gift basket from the M useum at Warm Springs. Wreaths start at $20, and gift bas kets at $25. 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