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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?”
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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.