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r Pdge 6 M^y 18, 2011 Spilydy Tymoo, W^rrn Springs, Oregon High school golfers compete at KNT The 4A Varsity Boys’ District Golf Tournament was held at KNT last week, with five stu dents participating from Madras High School, three o f which were from Warm Springs. Justin Queahpama-Melberg, Devon Thompson, and Cyrus Conner competed against 36 golfers, total. “They did a good job,” Coach Butch David said. “The boys gave it their best shot. We didn’t get in there to qualify for state, but I know that they got their best scores.” Madras had 420 for the first time around. On the second day, their score was 377. And on the final day of the tourna ment, they were at 370. Schools p articip atin g in cluded La Salle, Estacada, North n Youth hoops tourney this weekend The Seventh A nnual Squiemphen-Yazzie Youth Basketball Tournament hap pens this Friday and Satur day, M ay 21-22 in W arm Springs. This is a boys 19 and un der tourney, 10-team limit, 8- man roster. Double elimina tion. C ontact A m anda Squiemphen Yazzie for in form ation: 541-325-1572. Secon d ary contact: Val Squiemphen, 541-325-6412. Special award: “For Love of the Game” Award. This award is presented to the one special person who demonstrates a com mitment to the youth of our reservation. Previous winners are Earl and Rita Squiemphen, Rosa G raybael and Tony Holliday. T ourney aw ards include leather sleeve jackets (first- place), hooded sweatshirts (sec ond), crew neck sw eatsh irts (third), A ll-Stars, MVP and Sportsmanship. Players must show proof of age (birth certificate and/ or photo identification) in or der to play, no exceptions. Entry fee is $250. Money orders may be made payable and mailed to: Squiemphen- Y azzie Youth B asketball Tournament, PO Box 734, Warm Springs, 97761. Must be paid in full be fore the first game, no excep tions. No personal checks— money orders or cash ac cepted. Duran Bobb/Spilyay Devon Thompson (at right) with school golfers at KNT. M arion, G ladstone, M olalla, Marshal, and Roosevelt. A ustin Landis from Gladstone got first place. La Salle took second. — Duran Bobb In Training for Pi-Ume-Sha Schimmel documentary airs on TLC The documentary film O ff the Rez, about college basketball star S honi Schim m el, p rem iered last Saturday on TLC (The Learning Channel). Check listings f o r futu re b ro a d ca sts o f th e film . D avid Knowles o f the H ollywood Reporter gave O ff the Rez a grea t review, as follow s: Does the anguished history of a people inspire future gen erations to achieve new heights or is it a millstone around one’s neck, ensu ring a continued legacy of hardship and despair? For Shoni Schimmel, a top fe m ale high school basketball p ro sp ect who grew up on Oregon’s Umatilla Indian Res ervation, that question is at the center of her quest to make it in a sport w ith few N ative American participants. W ritten and d irected by Jonathan Hock ("Through the Fire, 30 fo r 30), O ff the Re^ paints a deeply affectin g p o rtrait o f Schimmel and her family as the fledgling star makes the move from the reservation to Portland, where she ascends to national stardom as a junior at Franklin High School. “Shoni has been taught a lot of the history,” Lillian Moses, Shoni’s grandmother, says in one of the many one-on-one inter views threaded throughout the engaging film. “So when she plays, it’s almost like she plays for the Indian people, and she plays hard.” Ancestral pride is often not a clear-cut matter, however, as the film’s most fascinating char acter, Shoni’s fiery mother, Ceci Moses, illustrates. “The reservation life is a good thing, but it also can be a bad thing,” Ceci says. “It can hold you down, it can hold you back, because there are a ton o f Indians that have a lot of talent, and they just don’t do anything with it.” Once a basketball prodigy in her own right, Ceci is convinced Shoni Schimmel she was passed over by college scouts because of her ethnicity, and her reflections about her own career are by turns bitter and defiant. “People don’t usually believe in Native Americans,” Ceci says. “But really probably the hard est part is most of the Native Americans don’t believe that they have a chance because of what’s happened in the past with the Native American people.” Like Steve James’ award-win ning basketball documentary Hoop Dreams, the sport itself serves as a metaphor and the conduit for a story about perse verance, racial politics and inner conflict. It also fills O ff the Reg, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, with an abundance of ready-made drama. Ceci accepts a coaching job at Franklin so that she can per sonally foster Shoni’s develop ment, and their impact on the formerly flailing team is imme diate. It’s thrilling to watch Shoni light it up in her first game, scor ing a school-record 42 points. After finishing dead last in the conference the year before, Shoni and her younger sister Jude lead the team to the state tournament, and Shoni is soon ranked as the eighth-best high school player in the nation. But not all of her new neighbors prove so welcoming. “We’ve had to endure racial slurs in the stands,” Shoni’s white father, Rick, says. “We had a note brought to our door that said, ‘Go back to the reserva tion.’ ” After losing his job back on the reservation, Rick struggles to pay the mortgage on the Port land home where Ceci and the couple’s seven children now live. The bank threatens foreclosure, and Ceci—having sacrificed so much for Shoni— seems to fal ter under the pressure. “They work really hard to m en tally defeat the N ative A m erican, then the N ative American gives up and quits, and a lot of them will go drink ing and drugging,” Ceci laments, and for a moment you wonder whether that fatalism will send the family back to the reserva tion once and for all. Despite scholarship offers from many of the nation’s top colleges, Shoni puts off making a decision as to which she’ll at tend, and the film invites us to think she m ight opt out of school altogether to stay close to her family. “We have been conditioned to fail,” an elder back on the res ervation says. “But Shoni has caught a chance. This whole his tory of athletes not making it is riding on Shoni’s shoulders. Ev erybody is watching her.” Shoni does persevere, o f course, as a human being and as a player. Despite its hard dose of reality, there’s plenty of up lifting payoff in O ff the Reg, and viewers who are not basketball fans will be riveted by the film’s tightly edited, climactic scenes of conference playoff games. W ithout giving away what happens to Shoni and her fam ily, the most satisfying part of O f the R eg is entering the lives of characters seldom seen on Am erican television screens. Their struggles, self-doubt and, yes, triumphs make for an en grossing film, whatever one’s race, gender or tribe. 3hn I c • J e w elry • C ell P hones • C lothing & S hoes L o cated N ext to the T eepee D eli 5 5 3 -1 0 0 6 *T u e sd a y -F r id ay 10 : 0 0 - 6 : 0 0 pm * "wsE t Dave McMechan/Spilyay Warm Springs boxers are training for the Pi-Ume-Sha bouts, held on the Saturday of the powwow. Pi-Ume-Sha this year will be Friday through Sunday, June 24-26. Fry Bread golf tourney to tee off The Kah-Nee-Ta Golf Asso ciation w ill present the Fry Bread Open Golf Tournament, in conjunction with Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty Days, on June 25-26. Here is the schedule o f Fry Bread Open events: Friday, June 24: A fter 10 a.m ., schedule your practice round. Call the pro shop for tee times, 541-553-4971. Saturday, June 25: 8 a.m., driving range and registration. 9-11:30 a.m ., tee times (call Janell Smith at 541-325-2167). As part o f Pi-U m e-Sha, the horse race is at 4 p.m. on this day, followed by dinner at the lodge at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 26: 8 a.m., driving range; shotgun start at 9:30 a.m. Awards following the final round— cash payouts! Flights: ladies, seniors, cham pionship and first-flight. Handi cap: maximum for men is 24 and ladies is 36. Handicap must be current and verifiable, no exceptions. Please be prepared to show your current handicap card. Special events: KPs, long- putt, skins, long-drive, deuces, blind-draw and best ball. Entry fees: $150 per person includes: tournament entry, Saturday and Sunday green fees, tee prize, Saturday barbecue dinner. For tournament information, call Janell Smith of the Kah- Nee-Ta G olf A ssociation at 541-325-2167. You can email her at: nativglfr@yahoo.com The pro shop number is 541 - 553-4971; or 800-831-0100 ext. 3371. Rialto hosting Schjoll memorial tourney in June The Rialto Tavern w ill present the Wayne Schjoll 8- Ball Tournament on June 3- 5, mixed doubles, two-man two-woman. Fifteen dollars per person, no free subs. First-place: 50 per cent, trophy, jackets. Second: 30 percent, trophy jackets; third, 20 percent, trophy, jackets. Sports manship, top-shooter awards. Winners race to seven, losers race to five. Limited to first 24 paid teams. For informa tion call Karla Bagley at 541- 325-3315; or Clint Smith at 541-419-8675. The Rialto number is 475-6341. 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