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Spilyay T ym o o , W arm Springs, O regon Page 6 O c to b e r 31, 2012 White Buffalos gain postseason berth the Rangers out. A nd so it began, like many gam es b efo re, except this Estacada would dare to kick to Devin Ceciliani, who let the ball go by for a touch back. Q u a rte r b ack Steele Hagen would run for 6 yards, Joe Hisatake would touch the ball twice for 12 yards, and then on the fourth possession o f the game Ceciliani would break free on a 61 yard pass from Steel Haugen. Ceciliani cruised into the end zone for the first score o f the night. D errick P acheco w ould add the first o f four extra point kicks, and the stage was set for another im portant Tri Valley League win. By W ill Bobbins f o r the Spilyay I f you are a fan o f high school football, fundraising barbecues, raffle draw ings and glitzy evening gowns, then last Friday at M adras High School was a doozy. The chilly fall air was not enough to contain the smell o f a B B Q fundraiser, and you could literally feel a cer tain bit o f excitement com ing from the grandstands, which filled up early in antici pation o f a large hom ecom ing crowd. It was also Senior Recog nition N ight, w hen 18 fo o t ball players and two cheer leaders .stood before the ca pacity crow d to be reco g n iz e d b e fo r e fam ily an d friends. A nd o f course there was a little football game in be tween, a game as big as they get for the W hite Buffs. Yvonne Iverson/Spilyay Team meeting before start of Homecoming game. A tale of two teams Friday night’s Tri Valley League season finale couldn’t have been scripted any bet ter. The H om e team W hite Buffalos were looking for a win that would place them in a state play-in game. O n the o th er side w ere the Estacada Rangers, who were in a similar situation: A win for Estacada would ex te n d th e ir seaso n by on e m ore w eek-and knock the White Buffs out. A win by Madras would extend the White Buffs’' sea son b ut not necessarily knock Improved defense In this final game o f the season the Madras white Buf falos would try some differ ent plays. They would also step; up defensively. All season M a dras struggled against the run. O pponents would capitalize on the White B uff weakness and run up yards like they were on a close out sale. It seemed that no matter w hat the White Buffs did, op posing offenses would simply run, run, tun... until they were satisfied Madras w ould not be able to catch up. Last Friday, Madras held Estacada to fewer than 100 yards rushing and receiving. The Rangers did get oh the score board near the end o f the first quarter, but were si lenced the rest o f the way. Estacada also made a long 18-play drive that chewed up the game clock, b u t netted zero points for the visiting team. Coach Rick Wells said af ter the game, “Every play, our kids understand that we can m ake a play a n d do things right. We just stepped up and did w hat we needed to do w hen we needed to do it.” See WHITE BUFFALOS on 12 Concert kicks off Big Brothers Big Sisters recruiting Sarah J. Frank Big Brothers Big Sisters Tribal Partnership Coordinator A traditional Prayer Song by Carlos Calica opened the Star Nayea concert at the Warm Springs Community Center. Star Nayea is the national Native spokesperson for the Big Brothers Big Sisters P ro gram. She is also a N ative Grammy and Native Ameri can Music Awards, artist. H er mission is to educate, cultivate and m otivate the m inds and hearts o f com m unities w ho need to em b ra c e th e v ita l a n d lif e changing im portance o f b e co m in g a y o u th an d teen m entor. Star shared her story o f being stolen from her people and raised in an abusive fos- te r h o m e. S tar o v ercam e a life o f abuse and alcohol addiction. She had a m entor who encouraged her and gave her the confidence to reach her goals. “W hat do you w ant to be?” Star asked the W arm S p rin g s y o u th , a n d th e n asked th e E lders and pre- E lders, “W hat advice w ould you give them to reach their goal?” • Stories were shared by at least three tribal Elders. N a tio n a l re se a rc h has shown that positive relation ships betw een L ittles and Bigs have a direct and mea surable impact on children’s lives. Landm ark research con ducted by public-private Ven tures found that Littles, when c o m p a re d to th e ir n o n - m entored peers, are: 52 percent less likely to skip school; 46 percent less likely to begin Using illegal drugs; and, 33 percent less likely to hit someone. In addition, a survey com pleted by Harris Interactive on adults who participated in o u r p ro g ra m as ch ild ren , found: 90 p ercen t agreed their Big m ade them feel b etter about themselves; 81 percent say their Big caused them to change what they thought possible in life; 77 percent set higher goals than they would have on their own; and, 42 percent earned a de gree from a four-year college compared to just 22 percent o f their fathers and 25 per cent o f their mothers. Start something H o w can you s ta rt som ething? Be a Big o r a Litde! Warm Springs Big B roth ers Big Sisters are seeking both Bigs and Litdes to par ticipate. Applications will be sent o u t w ith all W arm Springs Elem entary students in the near future. - . ' I f you want your child to participate, please complete the application and return it to me. I f you have any questions feel free to call me at 541- 553-0497. P lease leave a message, your call is im por tant! O r you can e-mail at: ■sfrank@ bbbsco.org G et started at:' www.bbbsco.org Courtesy photo. Star Nayea performs at community center. News from Indian Country Scientists testing salmon as space food K O D IA K , Alaska (AP) - Astronauts in space may soon enjoy freeze-dried salmon if a Kodiak researcher’s project goes as planned. Alexandra Oliviera, asso ciate p ro fesso r o f seafood chemistry for University o f A laska F a irb a n k s at th e Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center, is conducting re s e a rc h to see w h e th e r freeze-dried salmon makes a tasty space meal. OEviera came up with the idea to freeze-dry salmon af ter noticing that stores sold freeze-dried vegetables for b ab ies. She fo u n d th e re wasn’t m uch research about freeze-dried salmon, so she w orked to obtain an initial research grant from the U.S. D epartm ent o f Agriculture. A fter concluding the ini tial project, Oliviera wanted to find a way to add flavor to the freeze-dried salmon, so she continued her w ork and received a grant from the Alaska Space G rant Program to support the research. “The idea was that it would be an interesting application for ah astronaut because it is highly nutritious,” she said. In order for a food to be considered for NASA, the p ro d u c t has to u n d erg o a lengthy testing process. The product has to be stored for a year, then undergo micro bial and chem ical analysis. A n o th er study m ust d eter mine how the meal behaves when stored in different con ditions, O liviera said. She started storing the salmon test samples eight months ago and will soon be able to conduct the final tests. “Every m onth we’ve been m aking observ atio n s,” she said. “I ’m looking at if the product is changing.” T he salm on used in the p ro je c t is A laska sockeye salmon from Kodiak Island. The K odiak Regional Aquac ulture A ssociation donated salmon from the K itoi Bay Hatchery. T he salm on, w hich was cubed and freeze-dried can be served in two ways, dried o r rehydrated. The cubes are also infused with spicy sea sonings like garlic pow der, onion powder, salt or cayenne pepper. “O ur idea was to adjust the flavoring ingredients to w hat astron'auts may be m ore in clined to like,” Oliviera said. “T hey like Spicy fo o d s in space.” Oliviera isn’t sure w hat the cost would be to produce the freeze-dried salmon commer cially, since larger equipment would be needed to produce it in quantities big enough to sell in stores. I f fre e z e -d rie d salm o n does fly to sto re shelves, O liv ie ra said th e salm o n cubes can be used in soups, salads o r pastas, and are a healthy alternative to bacon bits. “T he ultim ate goal is to prove that this is a good prod u c t, a v iab le p ro d u c t, a healthy p ro d u ct,” O liviera said. “It adds value fo Pacific salmon and it’s highly nutri tious as well.” Teaching children to speak Lakota younger S IO U X FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Several projects are under way to teach chil dren to speak Lakota at a younger age and hopefully rev italize th e A m erican Indian language. Lakota is spoken prima rily by Sioux Native Ameri cans in N o rth and South D akota. Few er th an 6,00Q people speak it fluently, which is less than 14 percent o f the Lakota population in the D a kotas. The average age o f a Lakota speaker is 60. A n im m ersion day care targeting children as young as 15 m onths is set to open on the Pine Ridge Indian Reser vation in South Dakota, while a day care for 3- y ear-o ld s has already started on the Standing Rock reservation. P ro g ra m o rg an izers hope to immerse children in the language earlier, so they learn Lakota as their first language.
