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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
COCC celebrates Native culture
The First Nations Student
Union at Central Oregon Commu-
nity College will host the annual
Salmon Bake and Native Culture
Celebration.
The celelbration will be from 11
a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 3
at the Bend campus athletic field.
This is a free community event.
In addition to traditionally pre-
pared salmon by a member of the
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs, the day will feature the
dancing and drumming of Warm
Springs’ Quartz Creek Dancers,
and a magic show by Dr. Delusion’s
Illusions. There will be vendor
tables and a silent auction of Na-
tive American art and crafts to sup-
port the COCC First Nations Stu-
dent Union scholarship program.
“This is a great family event. We
have a bouncy house, storytelling
and crafts for the kids,” said Gina
Ricketts, COCC Native American
program coordinator.
The First Nation Student Union
at COCC is dedicated to cultural
enrichment and fellowship amongst
students and community members
interested in preserving and pro-
moting Native American heritage.
As their mission says: “We pro-
vide a safe, comfortable and re-
spectful place to honor and learn
traditional Native American prac-
tices. We work within the commu-
nity and COCC to educate and
learn more about the history and
the future of indigenous cultures.”
For more information, contact
Native American Program Coor-
dinator Gina Ricketts at 541-318-
3782 or rricketts@cocc.edu.
In advance of college events
such as the Salmon bake or bar-
becue, persons needing accommo-
dation or transportation because
of a physical or mobility disability,
contact Joe Viola at 541-383-7775.
For accommodation due to other
disability contact the Office of Dis-
ability Services: 541-383-7743.
May 24, 2017
Community notes...
The Warm Springs Diabe-
tes Prevention program 5k
Glow Run and Mile Walk is
this Thursday, May 25.
Sign-ins begin at 7:30 at the
Prevention house on campus.
Races start at 8:30.
Diabetes Prevention staff
will hand out some glow items,
but remember to bring your
own glow for the show. Par-
ticipants will be entered into a
raffle when you sign in.
Fruit cups and water will be
provided. And remember to
pick up the May Health Chal-
lenge t-shirts at the Glow Run.
Friday, May 26 will be the
Warm Springs Academy third-
grade fishing trip to Sullivan
Pond.
The Warm Springs Acad-
emy third through fifth grade
Music Concert is set for
Tuesday, May 30 starting at
5:30 p.m.
The Bustin’ Buffalo bas-
ketball camp is coming up in
June. This is for youth in
grades 1 through 8. The camp
is 19-22 at Madras High
School. Early registration rates
are being offered through June
12. The camp will go from 9
a.m. to noon each day, and
provides fundamental instruc-
tion. Kids will get to meet and
work with the high school boys
and girls varsity basketball play-
ers.
Applications are available
online at madrasathletics.org
Through mid June youth
are invited to after-school
open gym time at the Youth
Center. There are physical ac-
tivities, healthy nutrition and
more. The open gym is every
Tuesday and Wednesday: For
kids 6-11 from 5:30-7 p.m.,
and for youth 12 to 18 from
7-8:30 p.m.
Warm Springs Fire Man-
agement has started the
spring bur ning program.
If you have questions con-
cerning burns, please contact
Brad Donahue at Fire Man-
agement, 541-553-8301.
CRITFC grant for safety, memorial
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
Madras High School senior Kalissa Alire and family at Senior Night, earlier in May at Madras
High School. As part of the day, the softball team played Corbett, winning 11-1 in Tri-Valley
Conference play.
Planning for Forty-Seventh Annual Pi-Ume-Sha
The Pi-Ume-Sha Committee
and the tribes are getting ready
for Pi-Ume-Sha 2017, coming up
in one month.
The Forty-Seventh Annual
Treaty Days this year will be Fri-
day through Sunday, June 23-25.
The powwow this year will
mark 162 years since the signing
of the Treaty of 1855: In that
year tribal leaders of the Tenino,
Tyigh, Wyam, Dockspuse, and
Wasco agreed to terms as pre-
sented by Joel Palmer, regional
At this time in Native
history: In May of 1972,
President Richard Nixon
signed an order returning
21,000 acres of forest land to
the Yakama Nation of Wash-
ington and resolving a century-
long dispute over reservation
boundaries.
superintendent of Indian Affairs.
The agreement happened on June
25, 1855, near Celilo Falls.
Pi-Ume-Sha began in 1970, as
a way to honor veterans, still a
main feature at Pi-Ume-Sha.
Pi-Ume-Sha now starts with a
Health Fair earlier in the week.
Then the weekend features:
The Stick Games, all weekend
at the Stick Games Shed. The
Buckaroo Breakfast, Saturday and
Sunday from 7 to 10 a.m. at the
Community Center social hall.
The order returned to tribal
territory the east side of Mount
Adams, a nearly 10,000-foot,
snow-covered peak that is one
of the Yakama Nation’s sacred
mountains. The Yakama
Treaty of 1855, which created
the reservation, erroneously
omitted the mountain.
The Pi-Ume-Sha Endurance
Horse Race, Saturday morning start-
ing at the Shaker Church. The Pi-
Ume-Sha Run, 9 a.m. on Saturday,
starting at the Warm Springs Hous-
ing Authority.
The Pi-Ume-Sha Traditional Pa-
rade is on Saturday at 11 a.m., be-
fore the 1 p.m. Grand Entry. The
first Grand Entry is Friday evening,
June; then on Saturday evening at
7; and Sunday at 2 p.m.
The Pi-Ume-Sha Rodeo is Sat-
urday and Sunday, June 24 and 25,
starting each day at 1 p.m.
Pi-Ume-Sha Boxing, hosted by
the Warm Springs Nation Boxing
Club, is Saturday at 6 p.m. at the
Community Center gym.
The Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission received a $7,500
grant from the Wildhorse Founda-
tion to improve tribal fishers’ ac-
cess to boating safety equipment.
The grant will support a cost-
sharing program to help offset the
expense of personal flotation de-
vices and emergency boat beacons
for tribal fishers.
CRITFC’s safety equipment
cost-sharing program will be un-
veiled at the Indian Fishers Expo
in Hood River this July.
The grant was submitted as
part of CRITFC’s campaign to in-
crease tribal fisher safety on the
river, and create a Columbia River
Fishers Memorial at Columbia Hills
State Park near Dallesport, Wash.
For over 30 years the four Co-
lumbia River treaty tribes have de-
sired to build a memorial to honor
lost fishers, and to encourage safety
for all who use the river.
The Wildhorse Foundation is
managed by the Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Res-
ervation in partnership with the
Wildhorse Resort and Casino.
School: new superintendent July 1
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The Early Childhood Center
Head Start graduation will be at
ECE this year. Instead of one
ceremony for all the graduating
students, who enter kindergar-
ten next school year, ECE will
have graduation days for indi-
vidual classes. These will be over
a number of days, on June 6, 7,
8 and 9, said Cheryl Tom, ECE
director.
New superintendent
War m Springs Academy
Principal Mr. Parshall on July 1
will also take on the responsi-
bilities of 509-J district superin-
tendent.
He will still live in Warm
Springs, focusing on the Acad-
emy. “It’s important we keep up
the positive momentum,” Mr.
Parshall said.
Many districts in the state
have a school principal who also
serves as superintendent, he said.
Nearby, for instance, the Culver
School District has a superinten-
dent who is also principal of the
Culver Elementary School.
(Look in the next Spilyay for
the 2017 Madras High School
graduates.)