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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 2012)
Branch Matthew 1200 SW Park Ave. P.O. Box 870 arm Springs, OR 97761 ECRWSS Postal Patron . Coyote News, est. 1976 U.S. Postage PRSRTSTD Warm Springs, OR 97761 Au3ust 22' 2012 VoL 37' No' 17 50 cents A u g u s t-S h a tm -S u m m e r-S h a tm Crews keep busy with blaze Waterfalls 2 Gearing up O ver 500 fire fighters and sup port crew personnel are deployed in response to the Waterfalls 2 fire. T he blaze has b u rn ed across m ore than 6,000 acres on the res ervation. T he fire is located 3.5 miles northeast o f the sum mit o f Mt. Jefferson, about 22 miles west o f Warm Springs. Windy conditions and rough ter rain made Waterfalls 2 a problem for responders. “The fire was pushed by ridge- top w inds o f 20 m iles-p er-h o u r from the southwest, which started spot fires as far as a mile away,” Ross Williams, incident commander, said earlier this week. “Because o f the intense fire be havior, planned burnout operations were delayed while crews and equip m ent retreated to safety zones,” he said. The response team is using two airplanes and four helicopters to make water drops. As o f earlier this week, there were 13 crews, 21 engines, five doz ers, and 16 w ater tenders assigned to Waterfalls 2. T here was as yet no containment o f the fire on Tues day m orning o f this week. The fire started during a light ning storm on A ugust 4. Water falls 2 was am ong a num ber o f fires that broke out in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. In Washington state, 70 homes were destroyed. In Idaho, one fire fighter was killed by a falling tree- In O regon, Gov. K itzhaber de clared a state o f emergency due to volatile w eather conditions. E xtrem e heat in m id A ugust, and the w ind, helped create the d a n g e ro u s co n d itio n s . Som e good news is th at high tem pera tu r e s in th e a f t e r n o o n are cooler this week, in the m id- to low-80s. T h ere was even som e rain. W aterfalls 2 is in the vicinity o f P e te rs P a s tu re , re q u irin g C am p N aim u m a to m o v e to H eH e (see page 2). T he Pacific Coast Trail and Olallie Lake Sce nic area were closed, along with G ibson Lake and other trails. Photo courtèsy Ríce, Forest Manager/BNR/CTWS. Renso Rodriguez, of Warm Springs Fire Management, was among the many emergency responders to the Waterfalls 2 fire on the reservation. Prevention Gamp envisions brighter future By Dave McMechan Spilyay By moo Y o u n g p e o p le are asked, to-it nag ine a b etter community. What: would they w ant to see, and what w ould they like to eliminate? Things they like: powwows,; rodeos, baseball, jobs, hunting and fishing, the longhouse, ar cades, to name a few. Things they don’t like: trash, drugs, racism, graffiti, gangs, cer tain people such as drug dealers, poverty, among other things. The exercise is called “Mak ing and Ideal Community,” ex plains Michael Martinez, Warm Springs prevention coordinator. T h e sug g estio n s fro m th e young people will be presented tq the Tribal Councils and preven tion program s o f the tribes o f O regon, Martinez said. T he suggestions, he said, “are incorporated into our programs, so this is n ot just a theory. The ideas are put to use.” Sixty N stive youth from across Oregon gathered last week for the Prevention Camp at HeHe. The young people— ages 13 to 18—-were from different tribes in the state: Some came from the Portland area, Umatilla, Burns- P a iu te , a n d W arm S p rin g s, among others. Suicide prevention was the overall them e o f the gathering. Suicide am ong Native youth is a tragedy that all tribes are aware of, and all are trying to eliminate it from reservations and other Indian communities. ‘ The HeHe Prevention Camp teepees by the Warm Springs River; and (below) the youth meet in small groups to come up with their visions for a better a community. School is starting a few days later than usual this year for students in the Jefferson County School D is1- trict 509-J. T he district is n o t cutting the num ber o f school days, but is in stead holding the in-service training days at the beginning o f the year. In previous years, the district held the in-service days throughout the school year. In previous years, students re- turned to school on the Wednesday or Thursday following L abor Day Monday. This year, the students will b® returning to school at the start o f the week following the week o f Me? morial Day. Some dates to keep in mind: T h e W arm S prings B a c k to S c h o o l Yard Sale is set for this Sat urday, August 25 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Community Center. T he sale is presented by W arm Springs Rec reation. C ontact Carol for m ore in form ation, 541-553-3243. T h e W arm S prings B a c k to. S c h o o l B a rb ecu e is at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6 at the campus. Please see SCHOOL on page 8 Counselors and youth at the cam p discussed m any topics, such as A ID S prevention and ' substance abuse prevention. An overall theme, though, was the p rev en tio n o f suicide am ong Native youth. It has been known for some time that youth suicide in American Indian communities is an epidemic. Suicide has been the second- leading cause o f death among the youth. Native communities have the highest rate o f suicide for males and females, ages 10 to 24, o f any racial group, according to-the Indian H ealth Service. T here are many factors— b oth present and historic—-that lead to this high rate o f suicide. Reservations, for instance, experience higher rates o f p o v e rty an d s u b s ta n d a rd housing. This can lead to higher rates o f substance abuse. A nother factor is generational trauma, involving the legacy o f boarding schools, which weak ened parental influence; and dis location from native lands, un derm ining tribal unity and re moving many safeguards against suicide that Native cultures might otherwise provide. Some tribes, such as W arm Springs, have developed their own prevention programs. O utreach and listening to youth are key pre vention methods. T he camp at H eH e last week was a step tow ard making a b et ter com m unity w here the trag edy o f youth suicide is elimi nated. Dave-McMechan/Spilyay for new school year Museum seeking member artwork T he M useum at Warm Spring's is preparing for the N ineteenth A n nual W arm Springs Tribal M ember A rt Exhibit. This exhibit is sched uled to start on Oct. 11, and runs through Jan. 6. T he m useum is inviting tribal artists to participate. Item s subm it ted can be traditional o r contem po rary, and will be displayed in the museum Changing Exhibits Gallery. This year, the m useum will pub lish a catalog showing the w ork Of W arm Springs artists. T he artists w ho plan on entering their art in the exhibit are encour aged to subm it an artist biography along with images. Professional pho tographer and graphic artist Thomas O sborne will be at the m useum this Wednesday and Thursday, August 22 and 23, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tq take images for the catalog. T he catalog is m ade possible through an award from the Native A rts and Cultures Foundation. T he m useum will select a tradi tional and contem porary w ork for the Judges Choice Award along with four H onorable M ention awards. 6 The m useum recognizes the pa tience and talents o f artists by se lecting awards each year by an out side visual arts judge. I f you would like your art to be judged for the exhibit, please subm it your w ork on or before the deadline. T he dead line to subm it art is Friday, Sept. 21 at 5 p.m. I f you have any questions; please contact N atalie M oody at 541-553-3331 ext. 412. 1 TECH THURSDAYS Win a Toshiba Satellite Laptop PC! Thursdays in August at 8pm and 10pm See p a g e 12 Indian H Ead C A S IN O for other exciting offers. Highway 26, Warm Springs 4
