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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 2014)
r P.0. Box 870 Warm Springs, OR 97761 ECRWSS Postal patron Voi. 39, No. 4 U.S. Postage PRSRTSTD Warm Springs, OR 97761 February - A ’A’mi-Ushátch - Winter - Anm 50 cents February 19, 2014 Coyote News, est. 1976 Awakening premiere event at local cinema T he short film A w akening by. C entral O regon N ative LaR onn Katchia will be showing one night at the Madras Cinema 5. The cin ema will feature the film on Satur day, March 1. This will be an exclusive event for 135 people. The event will in clude a showing o f Awakening, plus five recent music videos directed by Katchia. This will be complemented by live performances by the music art ists themselves: Reservation Sensa tions, Bigg B & N8, Portland Hype Yung Rob, and a special flute seg m ent by Foster Kalama. Katchia will be on hand to sign movie posters and photos. There w illbe t-shirt giveaway to attendees only (one p e r p e rs o n ), an d a photoshoot The lobby will open for attend ees at 9 p.m. for meeting and greet ing the cast and staff. This will be followed by seating at around 10:30 p.m., ending the show at 12 a.m. sharp. LaRonn Katchia, m em ber o f the C o n fed erated T ribes o f W arm ing away, and with them goes the knowledge o f our sacred ways.” The story Courtesy photo. Awakenings director LaRonn Katchia Springs, premiered Awakening last summer at the Hollywood Theater. M ore than 500 people, many from Warm Springs, attended, supporting Katchia and other A rt Institute se niors. Awakening stars Foster Kalama, S o lo m o n T rim b le, an d L o u ise Katchia. The film is about a Native Ameri can teen who is sent to a Shaman by his grandm other in hopes o f re storing his faith in his culture. “This film is im portant to me because I feel my culture, along w ith m any cultures, are drifting away due to technology,” Katchia has said. “Elders o f tribes are pass- O n a cold w inter day in the b a ck w o o d s o f th e W arm Springs Indian reservation, a young adolescent Native Ameri can teen is sent to a Shaman by his grandm other in hopes o f re storing his faith in his culture. The Shaman sends the young boy on a spiritual quest in order to face and defeat his modern Self by becoming one with the environment aropnd him. The boy is set to the ultimate test o f survival while overcoming his fears and defeating the violent force that opposes him , ulti mately restoring his culture and faith. Sponsorships, tickets sales and other contributions are still being sought to help with the Madras showing. All potential sponsors please co ntact 541 460-3004. O r email: makevisionsreal@gmail.com School construction work on schedule Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Progress on UAV, other projects Warm Springs Ventures is work ing tow ard establishing the u n manned aerial vehicles test range on the reservation. Ventures has already been in con tact with a num ber o f companies in the UAV developm ent business«^ ‘W e’ve had a lot o f interest frorh the industry,” said Ventures chief executive officer Je ff Anspach. J H e has also m et this year with Federal Aviation Administration of ficials, and representatives from the test ranges planned for Tillamook and Pendleton. The University o f Alaska is the base for the UAV test ranges in the Western states. The UAV test-range program has the potential to help a num ber o f enterprises on the reservation, from Composite Products to Kah-Nee-Ta. G eo Visions and Construction may also find new business opportuni ties. O ne limitation is the absence o f an available building at the indus trial park. C om p o site P ro d u cts evaluated some acreage at the east corner o f the industrial park, ini tially considering a 100,000-square- foot building. Composite determined to wait on th e new b u ild in g , an d rem ains housed by the mill. A new building at the industrial park would p ro b ably require the use o f a drain fields so there are some limitations as to size. Carbon sequestration A t th e W arm S prings K -8 Academy the construction crews worked through the stormy Feb ruary weather. . “It’s moving right along, and they’re still making very good p ro g re s s ,” said G le n n a DeSouza, school principal. Painters are already at work in some o f the classroom wings, she said. A nd the teachers are invited to an open house at the new school in mid-March. Construction at the 22-acre site is scheduled for completion in A ugust. T he teachers and other staff will m ove in, then the 2014-15 school year Will begin in September. D eSouza meanwhile has been meeting with the teachers and com munity members, determining the curriculum aud other aspects o f the school. . More than 700 students will be attending the W arm Springs Acad emy. This num ber includes all o f th e W arm S p rin g s E le m e n ta ry School students, and all or m ost o f the W arm Springs m iddle school students. Students have a choice o f which school to attend, and som e may choose to continue at the Jefferson County Middle School. Currently, i M eanw hile, co n stru c tio n about 250 students from the reser work at the high school contin vation attend JCMS. ues on pace. The high school will have a new performing arts Mascot and colors center, athletic facilities, foot The school district held a com ball field and grandstand. petition among students to come up “I t’s amazing,” said Darryl with a mascot for the Warm Springs' Smith, 509-J director o f hu Academy. § m an resources and operations. Taylor A rthur drew the i m a g e - “T he walls are up on the main featuring an eagle— that the board p art o f the perfo rm ing arts and com m ittee chose am ong the center and the athletics facili many designs. Taylor, an eighth- ties. We’re still on track to open grader, is working with Mark Quan in mid November.” to finalize the image for use as the The new football stadium is mascot logo. Students also chose o n schedule for com pletion red and white as the school colors. before the 2014-15 season. The N atural Resources Branch and GeoVisions are working on the carbon sequestration proposal. The first phase o f this project is to de termine the potential for marketing carbon offsets. T he forest land on the reserva tion makes this project possible, as is true for other tribes with large forested land bases. The Yurok Tribe has entered the carbon sequestra tion market, for instance (seepage 4). Carbon sequestration is the pro cess o f capturing and storing atm o spheric carbon dioxide, a green house gas. Certain forestry practices can be a m ethod o f capturing and storing carbon dioxide. I O ffsets could be m arketed to companies in California, where new re g u la tio n s are re s tric tin g th e am ount o f greenhouse gases that companies may emit. The emissions trading, or “cap and trade” regulations, took effect in California just last year. Ventures has also been looking at the possibility o f a company de veloping a data center on the reser vation. These facilities require wa ter for cooling, and the tribes have sig n ific a n t w a te r rig h ts in th e Deschutes River. T he water is used for cooling the data systems, and can then be returned to the stream flow. Open 24 hours Gaming - Entertainment - Dining Warm Springs, Oregon »/ I’M I 4 4
