Spílyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
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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
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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.
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