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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Schimmel, Dream in playoffs
by Pattie Tanewasha
Spilyay Tymoo
August 20, 2014
Water Hoops
dian Country.
Great rookie season
Shoni Schimmel and the
Atlanta Dream will play the
Chicago Sky in the WNBA
Conference playoffs starting
this Friday, August 22, at 4:30
p.m.
The Friday game will be
in Atlanta, then they play at
Chicago on Sunday, August
24. The conference playoffs
are a best-of-three series.
Atlanta is the No. 1 seed
in the East for the first time
in team history.
P a t t i e Ta n e w a s h a / Sp i l y a y
In the recent game at
Seattle.
Strong end of season
Shoni had her best game
of the year earlier this month,
when it counted the most.
The 5-9 rookie guard had 24
points last week against Phoe-
nix, giving Atlanta the top
seed.
The Dream won even with-
out their leading scorer An-
gel McCoughtry, as Shoni
stepped up.
Schimmel scored 20 points
in the second quarter, as the
Dream turned an eight-point
first-quarter deficit into a 55-
41 halftime lead.
Earlier this season, she
scored 29 points in the
WNBA All-Star game, earn-
ing her MVP honors.
At Seattle
Atlanta played at Seattle
earlier this month, and the
Key Arena was a near sellout.
There were 9,686 fans in at-
tendance, many cheering for
the Dream even though At-
lanta was the visiting team.
A huge number of the fans
were from Northwest Indian
Country, including the Warm
Tribal members who
graduated
high
school in 2014 should
bring a diploma and
transcripts to the Vital
Stats office. This is a
requirement for Trust
Fund disbursements.
If you have questions,
call 541-553-3252.
Springs Reservation. Some
Native fans traveled from
Montana and even Wyoming.
Just before the first quar-
ter, Schimmel was recognized
at center court as the All-Star
MVP. As she was handed the
award, you heard loud
screaming and war-hooping
from the stands; and they
gave her a standing ovation.
In the end Seattle won the
game 88-68. Shoni had 14
points, four rebounds and six
assists. She played 37 minutes.
This was the first game in
three years that Schimmel
had played in the Pacific
Northwest. The previous
time, in December 2011, she
was with the Louisville Car-
dinals.
In early August the Dream
were on a West Coast, three-
game tour, playing in Phoe-
nix, Seattle and lastly in Los
Angeles.
The Phoenix and Los An-
geles games also saw many
Native fans in the stands, as
Shoni is now a national sports
figure, renowned across In-
Shoni’s WNBA career has
been every bit as spectacular
as her time at Louisville.
In her first two games at
the pro level, Shoni accumu-
lated 21 assists, setting a
Dream franchise record. She
also tied the WNBA record
for most assists in a two game
span, a record that went back
to 1998.
At the half-way point
through the season, the
WNBA announced that Shoni
had the number one selling
jersey in all of the WNBA.
The league also announced
that, for the first time in fran-
chise history, the Atlanta
Dream was in the number
one spot for best-selling team
merchandise. This was attrib-
uted to Schimmel’s popular-
ity.
Prior to this announce-
ment, Shoni was voted as a
starter to the WNBA All-Star
game. She garnered over
25,000 fan votes, good
enough for the third most
votes, and highest rookie vote
getter for this season.
She became just the third
reserve to earn a start in a
WNBA All-Star game.
Whether she gets the
league’s top rookie award or
not Shoni’s impact on the
court and off the court is
something that everyone
around the league has taken
noticed. She has not only
earned her right to play in the
WNBA she has also earned
the right to be respected as
one of the up and coming
stars of the league.
Head Start fall schedule
Warm Springs Head Start
is closed for pre-service train-
ing August 25-Sept. 5. There
will be a mandatory open
house on Friday, September
5, for all Head Start families.
You’ll need to plan on an
hour at the open house
which will be from 9 a.m.–4
p.m. The Head Start program
resumes for the fall on Mon-
day September 8.
OSU Extension hosting Fruit Loop Tour in Sept.
The Warm Springs OSU
Extension Service will host
the annual Fruit Loop Tour
on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The
tour will leave the Education
building at 7:30 a.m. sharp,
and will return at 5 p.m.
The tour will stop at sev-
eral orchards on the Fruit
Loop, where you can pur-
chase fresh fruits and veg-
The Recreation
Department’s Family
Jamboree Day
featured swimming
pool basketball
(above), and rock
climbing (right). A big
theme at the
Jamboree Day was
water, as the day was
warm. So the water
slide (below) was
popular.
etables (some orchards accept
the EBT card).
Lunch is not provided.
Pack a lunch and bring it with
you. The tour will stop at the
park in Parkdale to eat.
The following day, Thurs-
day, Sept. 11, one of OSU
master food preservers will
be teaching food preserva-
tion classes that include: Can-
ning, drying and freezing.
Join them at the Education
building that day to learn how
to safely preserve nature’s
harvest.
Space for the tour is very
limited. Sign-ups are required
for the tour and the preser-
vation classes. Please call the
office at 541-553-3238 to
reserve your spot.
A Look Back
Courtesy photo.
Recognize any of these players, from the Madras basketball some years back?
Answer in the next paper.
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
Diversity:
promoting growth as community
(Continued from page 5)
Overall, Ron asserts,
“This is a special community
to be part of and I think ev-
ery distinct part of the com-
munity makes it a precious
community.”
In order to grow as a com-
munity, Ron and Jolene also
speak of the need for our
communities to heal. Specifi-
cally, Jolene speaks of her
own family.
“If I came from these
families of leaders for hun-
dreds, even thousands, of
years of leadership, then to-
day my family is basically bro-
ken. I had to ask myself at
one point: what happened to
this great heritage?”
She adds, “I live it every
day. I think the thing that
has been distinguished for
our family, and a lot of fami-
lies, is the breaking of the
people from their land and
[therefore] being lost. The
reservation is one thing, but
I know this is not where we
really come from. I know
where we come from and
that is on the Columbia and
the Snake rivers.
“So for me, going back
there gives me that sense of
who I am and that wholeness
again. It took me a lot of
years to accept that this is
where we were put and this
is where most of my family
now lives. I’m working on
restoring all of that healing
in the family. It’s going to be
an inter-generational healing
process.”
She says, “Our healing as
Native American people is
very different than other
communities. It starts with
our family, then our ancestors
before them and the connec-
tion they have to the land,
and then as kind of the last
thing—the individual. So, now
I’m beginning to be educated
about who are, the original
people from each area, and
then getting to grieve for
them. Now it’s a regular prac-
tice and a teaching. That’s the
first thing you do, respect the
place, the land, and the an-
cestors that were there.”
“Healing is a huge process,
not only with myself and my
family, but with the whole
community.”
Ron echoes Jolene’s words.
“We aren’t just healed and
then we’re done and take the
rest of our lives off. It is an
ongoing experience and train-
ing and equipping. But it is
very much community. It’s
family; it is not just the indi-
vidual. I think that’s impor-
tant. There are two sides to
that. There’s being culturally
relevant but also recognizing
that there are things for me
to understand. It is within the
community that we long to
see healing. We want to see
wholeness and health and hap-
piness for our community.”
As Co-Chairs of the Let’s
Talk Diversity Coalition, Ron
and Jolene are working to-
wards just that: the healing of
past and present wounds and
building stronger relationships
and community in Jefferson
County and the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs.
The Warm Springs Library is offering Summer Sci-
ence Events on Fridays. This is for Youth 17 and
under. Children under 10 must be accompanied by a
guardian. This Friday they will learn about why kites
fly and everyone can build a kite from 10:30-11:30 a.m.
This is a free activity for you at the Warm Springs
Library in the Family Resource Center. For more in-
formation call 553-1078.