Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
September 30, 2015
Coming to Light at PAC
The Madras Performing
Arts Center will host a free
showing of the documentary
Coming to Light: Edward S.
Curtis and the North Ameri-
can Indians. The showing be
at 4 p.m. this Saturday, Oct.
3.
Created by Native Ameri-
can director Anne Peace-
maker, the documentary tells
the dramatic story of the life
of self-taught photographer
Edward S. Curtis, who spent
30 years photographing
scores of North American
tribes at the turn of the cen-
tury.
As he documented the
lives of Native people
through intimate portraits,
scenic tableaus and quiet stud-
ies, Curtis found his own life
forever changed.
Curtis’ 20-volume collec-
tion of photos includes pic-
tures of Wishram, Yakama,
Nez Perce, Umatilla and Kla-
math people. In the movie,
Hopi, Navajo, Cupig,
Blackfeet, Piegan, Suquamish
and Kwakiuti people, many
related to those in his photos,
tell stories about the people
in the photographs.
The movie premiered at
Sundance in 2000, and was
an Academy Award finalist
for best feature documentary
in 2001.
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Ventures to host information meeting
Please join War m
Springs Ventures in the
Warm Springs Community
Center social hall next
Tuesday, Oct. 6, or
Wednesday, Oct. 7, for a
discussion about tribal eco-
nomic development op-
portunities with cannabis.
There will be a presen-
tation about the investiga-
tion and research con-
ducted to date, examining
the legal and jurisdictional is-
sues, regulations, cultivation,
and sale of medical and rec-
reational marijuana and
hemp; and the potential tribal
revenues and jobs.
Ventures staff and board
will discuss draft language for
a possible tribal referendum
vote this fall or winter.
The meeting will not ad-
dress the issue of personal
use or criminal laws on the
Warm Springs Reserva-
tion. That issue will be ad-
dressed at a later date.
Ventures will share what
infor mation they have
been able to gather, fol-
lowed by a question and
answer session. Your opin-
ion is very important, Ven-
tures welcomes your in-
put. If you have any ques-
tions please call 541-553-
3565.
4-H preparing for Science Day event
Wisham bride photo by Edward Curtis.
Coming to Light presents a
complex, dedicated, flawed
life, and explores many of the
ironies inherent in Curtis’s
story, the often controversial
nature of his romantic im-
ages, and the value of the
photographs to Indian people
and to all Americans today.
Madras Performing Arts
Center director Shannon
Ahern partnered with the A6
Galery and Studio in Bend,
and the Museum at Warm
Springs to bring the docu-
mentary to Madras.
The A6 Gallery has orga-
nized a two-month exhibit on
Curtis, featuring over 50 of
his original photographs,
move showings and speakers,
including Elizabeth Woody.
The A6 Gallery show runs
through October 31.
Warm Springs 4-H will
host and present the Annual
4-H National Youth Science
Day on Friday, Oct. 9.
The day starts at 10 a.m.,
and is held in the OSU base-
ment kitchen at the Educa-
tion building.
Youth in grades fourth and
older are welcome to regis-
ter to participate. October 9
is a statewide in-service day,
and there is no school.
National Youth Science
Day is an annual event in
which clubs and groups from
all over the U.S. get together
and complete science experi-
ments exploring real life sci-
ence issues. This year’s
project is called Motion Com-
motion.
This will be a physics-
based lesson exploring the
effects of forces such as
speed, reaction time, and
gravity of objects in motion.
The final discussion will
look at applying the experi-
mental data to real world is-
sues, such as distracted driv-
ing. Please call 541-553-3238
to register. A light and healthy
snack will be provided.
It is not necessary to be
enrolled in 4-H to participate.
Call the above number for
any questions as well.
Nutrition education in schools
The Warm Springs OSU
Extension SNAP Education
staff are gearing up for nu-
trition education at the Eagle
K-8 Academy and the Early
Childhood Education Center.
The focus will be on
healthy foods and increasing
physical activity for children
and families, garden-based ac-
tivities and lessons, and the
OSU Food Hero Social Mar-
keting campaign. Stop by the
Extension open house Oct. 8
at 6 p.m., featuring samples
of the 4-H Iron Chef team’s
winning smoothie recipe, and
the famous smoothie bike.
Film explores reservation life
The Bend Film Festival
will show Songs My Brother
Taught Me on Friday, Oct. 9,
at the Madras Performing
Arts Center.
The show starts at 6 p.m.,
and admission is free.
Songs My Brothers Taught
Me is a 2015 American drama
film written and directed by
Chloé Zhao. It is Zhao's de-
but feature film.
The film is set on the Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation,
and explores the bond be-
tween a brother and his
younger sister.
Here is a part of the
director’s statement:
Songs My Brothers Taught
Me is a contemplation of the
time I spent on the Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation
during the four years of mak-
ing this film.
One of the most common
questions people ask when
they hear about some of the
difficulties facing Pine Ridge
is “Why don’t they just leave?
If life is hard, why don’t they
just leave the reservation and
go somewhere else?”
When considering how fre-
quently I have moved around
Courtesy photo.
Scene from Songs My Brother Taught Me.
in my own life, I must con-
fess that at times I have of-
ten wondered the same thing.
I was born in Beijing and
left home when I was 14, and
have been moving from place
to place ever since.
As a result, there isn’t one
particular place in the world
from which I cannot just up-
root myself and leave behind.
‘Home’, to me, feels like only
a concept, and I find myself
often exploring its meaning in
my films and writing.
During my time on Pine
Ridge, as I became friends
with some of the Lakota
people living there, I became
increasingly intrigued and al-
most envious of the deep
connection they have to their
homes, families, communities
and their land.
This bone-deep attach-
ment also has its conse-
quences, and over time I also
became aware of the various
struggles and isolation they
face because of it.
I found this very simple
question has an increasingly
complicated answer, one that
I find difficult to express in
words. So in many ways I
made S o n g s M y B r o t h e r
Taught Me to explore this
question—How do you leave
the only place you’ve ever
known?
Set against the backdrop
of the Badlands and the
Great Plains of South Da-
kota, Songs is also a kind of
poem dedicated to my love
for this wild, magnificent, yet
marginalized piece of the
American west...
We are completely in-
debted to our cast and friends
on Pine Ridge, most of them
were acting for the first time,
and were born, raised and
residing on the reservation.
They trusted us com-
pletely, and welcomed us into
their homes and their lives.
The film would certainly not
have been possible without
their kindness and support.
This trust touched on ev-
ery aspect of the shoot. Sadly,
during production, the child-
hood home of one of our
leads (13-year-old Jashaun)
was burned down in a snow-
storm.
After much reflection, and
talking with Jashaun and her
family, I decided to rewrite
the script and reshoot scenes,
incorporating this event into
her character’s story.
We filmed Jashaun seeing
the ruins for the first time,
and what was at first supposed
to be a brief pickup, devel-
oped into something more as
Jashaun decided to keep go-
ing, searching in the ashes as
she tried to recover her things
that were lost in the fire....
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
Young dancers at the Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs - Mt. Hood Ski Bowl Fifth Annual
Tribal Celebration, Saturday, Sept. 26.
Water: meters project
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The ratio was 39,400 gal-
lons of water per hookup
each month on the reserva-
tion; compared to the aver-
age U.S. household usage of
5,000 gallons per month.
That is not to say the av-
erage residence on the reser-
vation uses eight times as
much water as the national
average. Instead, the number
indicates significant leaks in
the system, though some resi-
dents may be over-using wa-
ter, especially in the summer.
With no water meters,
there is no cost for residen-
tial water usage among reser-
vation households. For this
reason there is no incentive
to conserve water.
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The tribes may look at
implementing a water rate
system, on a scale based on
usage. Currently, the Confed-
erated Tribes spend more
than $1 million per year on
domestic water. This money
comes from the general fund.
There are some paying
customers, such as the casino,
museum and commercial
buildings. But this covers only
about 15 percent of overall
water cost on the reservation.
The water meter-water
rate project would relieve the
expense to the general fund,
and would take pressure off
the water treatment plant,
saving money on repairs and
extending its years of opera-
tion.
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