Spiiygy Tymoo, Wgrrn Springs, Oregon
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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
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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
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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.”