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Spiiygy Tymoo, Wgrrn Springs, Oregon Page 14 July 11, 2012 Culture Class resumes next week Parade Day ■ The Culture Classes will resume on Tuesday, July 17, and will continue through Sept. 6. The classes are on Tues days, Wednesdays and T hurs days in the basem ent room o f the Education Building. 5 Classes are open to the community, employées, and defendants w ith the Tribal C ourt. F or defendants the classes can be used as alter native sentencing. All are en couraged to attend all three language courses, because in tribal history members spoke the three languages. ' L eona Ike, d ire c to r o f tribal Parole and Probation, explained the foie o f the Cul tural Classes: It was tribal practice, she said, whenever a person was in trouble or was in crisis, for the tribes to surround that person to offer support and guide him or her to be a posi tive part of our community. T h e classes are from 3:30-5 p.m., with languages as follows: Tuesdays, Paiute language; Wednesdays, Wasco language; and Thursdays, Warm Springs language. The first hour is language and the last half-hour will uover tribal history, tribal cul ture and tribal practices, to vary throughout the course. Success o f the program will be m onitored by atten dance; and attendance is con fidential. Well-behaved chil d re n are w elcom e. N o te: classes are subject to cancel lation should there be a death in the community./ Dáve McMechan/Spilyay Revonne Johnson (front) and parade floats arrive at the community center ball field on July 4. Wash, tribes in opposition over casinos, land S tates and n o n -In d ian s have o p p o sed som e land- into-trust proposals by tribes. But increasingly, tribes are also fighting one another in the off-reservation gam ing battle. In the state o f Washing ton, the Spokane Tribe wants to open a casino in Airway Heights. The Kalispel Tribe, which already operates an off-res ervation casino in the same city, is in opposition. The Kalispels are one o f only three tribes th a t have w on federal and state ap proval for an off-reservation casino. T he Cowlitz T ribe isn ’t technically seeking an off-res ervation casino in Washing ton. As a new ly reco g n ized tribe, the Cowlitz don’t need state approval for the Cowlitz Casino Resort. B ut the tribe’s project is being challenged in court by the Confederated Tribes o f G ran d R onde, an O reg o n tribe that was term inated in ‘...a broken system that allows either Congress or the bureau o f Indian Affairs to pick the winners and losers— and who will get the big-money casinos. ’ the 1950s and then restored to fed eral re c o g n itio n in 1983. T he G rand R onde were the main opponents o f the C o n fe d e ra te d T rib e s o f W arm Springs’ proposal to develop a casino at Cascade L ocks, p a rt o f th e W arm Springs tribes’.Ceded Lands. Warm Springs supported G rand Ronde in the 1980s in G rand Ronde’s effort to re gain federal recognition. Also in Washington, as the Bellingham Herald newspaper reports: the Duwamish Tribe (as yet unrecognized) ceded nearly 55,000 acres o f land to th e federal gov ern m en t $ 1 ,000 BLACKJACK TOURNAMENT Friday, July 20th at 7pm over a century ago. Today that property is some o f the priciest real estate on the West Coast, the land that makes up metropolitan Seattle. With the tribe’s rich history and a membership o f nearly 600, m em ber Cecile Hansen says it makes little sense for the U.S. governm ent to main tain that the Duwamish have gone extinct, according to the Herald report.. But H ansen, tribal chair w om an since 1975, u n d er stands why the tribe can’t win recognition: The bigger neigh b oring tribes fear th at the D uw am ish w ould use their new status to try to open a casino in downtown Seattle, the Herald reports. T h e b igger trib es d o n ’t w ant the competition. T he bigger tribes in oppo sition are the M uckleshoot, ■ Puyallup and Tulalip tribes. In Washingtonstate, where 23 tribes already operate 32 casinos, the Duwamish are all but locked out: They are “the victims o f a broken system that allows either Congress o r i $ 1 ,000 SLOT TOURNAMENT Saturday, July 21st at 6pm WIN A NEW 7-PIECE MARTHA STEWART LIVING PATIO SET. Friday Nights (Sat. at lam ) DINING SPECIALS AT THE COTTONWOOD RESTAURANT • Prime Rib Special - Thursday Nights, 5pm - 8pm, $17 • Saturday Night Dinner Buffet; 5 p m - 10pm, $1 9 • Sunday Lunch Buffet, lla m - 3 p m , $ 1 5 BRINKMANN BBQ GRILL GIVEAWAYS Thursdays in July at 8pm and 10pm Highway 26, Warm Springs I indianheadgaming.com I 541.460.7777 W * ** wl the Bureau o f Indian Affairs to pick the winners and los ers— and who will get the big- m o n ey c a sin o s,” as R ob Hotakainen o f the Herald re ports. T h e r e p o r t co n tin u e s: W ashington trails only Cali fornia and Oklahoma in the n um ber o f Indian casinos. The state has come to exem plify the growing warfare in the $28 billion-a-year indus try, “with tribes throwing mud and money at one another to gain advantage,” according to the Herald report. S (Note: some information this report from indians'.com) Artist bio workshop for upcoming member exhibit To artists w ho are consid erin g e n te rin g th e T rib al M em ber A rt E xhibit at the Museum at Warm Springs: P at C ourtney-G old will lead a workshop about how to write an artist bio and state ment. The w orkshop will be of fered at the museum this Sat urday, July 14, from 1-3 p.m. T here is no charge for the 'workshop, but please call the museum at 541-553-3331 to sign up to attend. T he Tribal M em ber A rt Exhibit opens in O ctober and runs through January. This will be the Nineteenth Annual m em ber art show at the m u seum. The museum will publish ’a catalog showing the work o f the artists w ho have en tered the exhibit. The exhibit is being spon sored by the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, which began in 2009 after a decade o f visioning. The foundation strives to make a lasting, positive im pact on the arts, Native com m unities and society as a whole. This is the first year o f awards under the Bridge Initiative for the Native Arts grant program , which sup ports local arts organizations and communities. T h e i M useum a t W arm Springs is honored to be a recipient o f a Bridge Initia tive award and excited about publishing a catalog honoring Warm Springs artists. NWS issues red flag fire warning for Oregon (AP) — T he N ational W eather Service recently issued a red flag warning for fire danger in O regon’s upper H ood River Valley and the western Columbia River Gorge. The warning issued early in the week states that thun derstorm s were expected to develop, producing lightning in the eastern slopes o f the northern Oregon and South ern Washington Cascades. According to the warn ing, the com bination o f lightning, strong winds, low humidity and w arm tem peratures will create “ex plosive fire growth p o ten tial.”
