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Spílyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Page 14 July 5, 2 0 0 7 News from Irxfran Country Nez Perce to rebuild sweat lodge Leslie Mitts/Spilyay Students and faculty at museum art uneiling. Students’ glass-cast art featured at the museum In her opinion, the class offered a welcome change of pace. T he Museum at Warm H 7f|t was actually something Springs hosted an unveiling different,” she said. ‘“It was of artwork created as part of something I’d never done be a glass-casting workshop last fore.”’ week. , With the prográm, teach 8 The unveiling revealed ers and chaperones also had pieces completed as part of the opportunity to create art- the “Journeys in Creativity: work with the help of Scott E xplorations in N ative Schroéder, an artist whti American Art and Culture” works with glass. program through the Oregon The students traveled to College of Art and Craft, the ÓCAC campus for two ;• Felisia Red Dog, 17, and days of molding recently—* Della Squiemphen, 19, both but it’s all part of a very long participated in the program process, Schroeder said. and unveiled their artwork at After that, the pieces had the museum last week. to spend a week being heated Red Dog said her father in a kiln. In fact, the students was a painter, and that is what only finished their projects prompted .her to become in shortly before they unveiled terested in artistic mediums. them at the M useum at “I kind £>f just got into Warm Springs. art,” she said. Drawing is her “The first day we had to. chosen medium. think up som ething to She chose tO' create her make—which takes the most piece, which she calls “Star time,” Schroeder said. in the Night,” because of the But after some hard work design aspect. from the students, he said, “I The piece is a square was thrilled with how the shape that features a geomet pieces turned o u t” ric design in the glass. “My m While the program was whole family is always work originally only open to stu ing with designs,” she ex dents from Warm Springs, it plained. is now open to Native Ameri Red Dog said her favorite can students throughout the part o f the class involved country. creating the mold. The program originally be | Squiem phen created a gan in 2004 after the late piece that features the head Apolonia Susanna Santos, an o f an Indian girl w ith -a , alumna of OCAC, decided to feather. She calls it “Onward seek opportunities for local Toward the Sunset.” students interested in art. Squiemphen, said she This year OCAC will com chose to create the piece be plete two' programs: in addi cause it represents “just the „ tion to' the advanced pro beauty of a Native girl.” gram in class casting, they Her favorite part involved will host another camp for taking the piece out. o f the students that will involve pho mold to see what it looked tography in October. like, She said. The pieces created in the Squiemphen mainly draws workshop will be displayed at and paints. “I’ve always been the museum throughout the summer. an artist,” she said. B y L eslie M itts Spi/jaj Tymoo LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) - A Nez Perce Tribe sweat lodge damaged by a flash’ flood two years ago is being rebuilt with about $80,000 supplied by the tribe, state o f Idaho and the federal government. “For us, it's really the .recog nition that the people that b e lieve within the traditional circle o f life, they still exist,” Virgil Holt Sr. ,told the Lewiston Tri bune. The May 2005 flood caused about $40,000 in damage to the: sweat lodge and more than $1 million in damage to Nez PerCe County roads, bridges and cul verts.' After the flood*'President Bush signed.a federal disaster. declaration, a fenove that prô1 vided-federal money for repairs. H olt is working with the Spring Creek Society, a group of tribal members who want to - preserve sweat lodge practices. “It* s a place where you go and cleanse, whether its physically, spiritually,” he said. Takingpart in theproject are the? tribe, Federal Emergency M anagement Agency, Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security, TJ.S. Forest Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmo spheric: Administration. Work-also includes^Mstalling a new highway culvert system that will let fish move upstream, j “In terms o f this kind o f : structure, I've never encoun tered a request from Idaho from one of the Indian nations,”; Muscogee Nation gets $3.8 million federal grant said Bill Bishop, director o f the Idaho Bureau o f H om eland Security. “I was certainly pleased to support the tribes request in this regard.” Bishop Said the ne\V lodge it WASHINGTON (AP) — The Oklahoma-based Muscogee (Creek) Nation will receive a $3.8 million grant from the U.S. D e partment of Labor to be used for technology-driven regional education and eco nomic development activi ties, U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said Friday. The tribe, which has its headquarters in Okmulgee, is . working with the non profit Global Trade,and •Technology Corp. to im- prove education and career opportunities in the tribe's 11 -county region in eastern Oklahoma. designed to be less vulnerable to‘floods, j The^O-foot by 50-foor sweat lodge isl being designed in the manner o f ia traditiomal Nez Perce winter lodge. Holt said ft will be stronger than the lodge that was destroyed in the flood. “Flood, wind, this building hopefully will be able to with stand quite an impact from ad verse weather conditions,” Holt said. The area where the sweat lodge is being built has been the site of numerous sweat lodges in thé past, Holt said. No credit applications till August Automotive & Towing The tribal Credit De partment is not accepting applications through July 31, 2007, bemuse of the current backlog. The' only exception i£ funeral lpan requests. Other applications may be turned in starting Au gust 1. since { ( fjf 755 S.W. 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