Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
August 30, 2017
Native crew wins film award
A n all-Native American
film team won two of the
top awards at the recent Port-
land 48 Hour Film Project.
The short film Missing In-
digenous won Best Film and
Best Cinematography in the
Portland 48 Hour Film
Project
Film producer is Isaac
Trimble, and the director is
LaRonn Katchia. Cast and
crew are known as Team
RedFawn, bringing authentic
Native American and Indig-
enous issues to the forefront
of mainstream cinema.
About Missing Indig-
enous:
Set in a rural reservation
town, the story begins as two
detectives—played
by
Solomon Trimble (Sam Uley
of T w i l i g h t ), and Isaac
Trimble—investigate the ho-
micide of a young woman
marked with a killer’s deadly
signature.
With the assistance of en-
tomologist Brett Rivers,
played by actor David
Velarde, the detectives soon
realize Brett may have a lead
on this murderer’s lethal
trademark.
Taking them on a myste-
rious journey through the
dense forests of the reser-
vation, the detectives are
soon on the trail of an elu-
sive, faceless killer.
What unfolds is a heart
wrenching story of a silent
epidemic, the disappearance
of Native American and In-
digenous women.
You can see the director’s
cut at the website:
drive.google.com/file/d/
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view?usp=sharin
As the team prepares for
Filmapalooza, held in Paris,
France in March 2018, they
plan to enter Missing Indig-
enous into other film compe-
titions and festivals.
They invite you to share
in and experience this re-
markable and ground-break-
ing achievement. Their
gofundme account is at:
gofundme.com/
SendaFilmTeamtoFrance
Neither Wolf nor Dog
opening in Madras
Courtesy Steven Lewis Simpson.
Dave Bald Eagle.
48 Film Project
The back story
Native
American
women are murdered at
more than 10 times the na-
tional average. The true
number of these missing in-
digenous women is un-
known.
While many of these
cases go unsolved, and are
forgotten or ignored by
American governments,
these women are more than
just statistics: they are
mothers, sisters, grand-
mothers, aunties and daugh-
ters.
Missing Indigenous cap-
tures the emotion that con-
tinues to burden the fami-
lies and communities af-
fected by the loss of these
women.
Bringing an all Native
cast and crew together was
paramount in making the
emotional connections in
representing the authentic-
ity of Native American
people, LaRonn Katchia
said.
As Missing Indigenous
gains exposure throughout
the industry, he said, team
RedFawn
remains
humbled by authentically
and accurately representing
Native American lives,
communities, and realities
through film.
Team RedFawn describes
the recent festival:
The 48 Hour Film Project
is a wild and sleepless week-
end in which a team makes a
movie—write, shoot and
edit—in just 48 hours.
On Friday night, teams
draw a genre from a hat.
They are then given a char-
acter, prop and line to include
in their films.
On Sunday night, in a wild
dash to the drop off event,
the film is turned in—and
teams celebrate. The film is
then screened at a local the-
ater in front of an audience
of filmmakers, friends and
families.
The 48HFP is the world’s
oldest and largest timed film-
making competition. The
48HFP is all about creativity
and fun. It’s also about com-
munity.
For years the 48HFP has
been helping local creative
people connect to make
films. These connections go
beyond filmmaking—taking
part in the 48 helps people
find friends, collaborators
and jobs. There are even
some couples, including mar-
ried couples, who met
through the 48.
Public notice
Open committees meeting
Attention all War m
Springs and Simnasho
Schoolie Flats water users:
As a public water sys-
tem, we are required by
the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, under
the 1996 amendments to
An open joint tribal com-
mittee meeting is coming up
this Friday, September 1 at
the Agency Longhouse.
The meeting, hosted by
the Land Use Planning Com-
mittee, will be most of the
the Safe Drinking Water
Act, to publish the Con-
sumer Confidence Re-
port. Copies are available
by calling the water treat-
ment plant at 541-553-
1472.
Legal help for elders
The Central Oregon
Council on Aging and Legal
Aid Services of Oregon are
working together to offer le-
gal services to low-income
older adults living in Central
Oregon including the reser-
vation.
The services are provided
to adults 60 years and older
with preference to those in
greatest social and economic
need, with particular atten-
tion to low income, minority
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and frail individuals.
To schedule an appoint-
ment and to get more infor-
mation, call Louise Muir at
541-475-1148. The follow-
ing list of priority services
will be offered to seniors:
Income maintenance,
health care, food and nutri-
tion, housing and utilities. Ad-
ditional services may include
correspondence, negotia-
tions and preparation of le-
gal documents.
day, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The agenda includes com-
mittee updates, Sutton
Mountain tour, and IRMP3.
Light refreshments and meal
provided.
Water meeting postponed
The tribes’ Water Con-
trol Board was planning
a public meeting this
Thursday, August 31, at
the Greeley Heights Com-
munity Center building.
The meeting has been
postponed, as details of
proposed changes to the
tribes’ water quality stan-
dards are finalized.
When rescheduled, an
agenda item for the meet-
ing will be changes to Or-
dinance 80.
Any questions please
contact Roy Spino or
Delford Johnson of the
Water Control Board,
541-553-3246 or -3247.
T he Native film Neither
Wolf nor Dog will open
at Madras Cinema 5 this
Friday, September 1.
The film stars Lakota
elder Dave Bald Eagle,
who passed away last year
at 97.
A priority for film-
maker Steven Lewis
Simpson has been to
make the movie available
as close as possible to Na-
tive communities.
Three of the first six
theatres where the film
premiered are owned by
tribes.
On some occasions
entire schools on reserva-
tions have gone to see the
film in theatres. The film
is excellent for youth, el-
ders and all others.
Steven Lewis gives
some insight into what to
expect with Neither Wolf
nor Dog:
During the films cli-
max, the character Dan,
played by Dave Bald
Eagle, takes us into the
heart of Wounded Knee.
Mr. Bald Eagle’s fam-
ily connection to the mas-
sacre was even deeper
than that of the charac-
ter he played.
“The film is fiction but
the script was thrown
away at this point,” Mr.
Simpson said.
“Dave then delivers
the most powerful of
improvised scenes. At
the end of filming this
scene, he said he had
been holding in those
words for 95 years.”
N e i t h e r Wo l f n o r
Dog , based on the book
by Kent Nerburn, is a
tribute to the amazing
legacy of Dave Bald
Eagle.
Film critic Colin Co-
vert says, “By the time
the end credits arrive, the
characters of this mod-
est, crowd-funded fea-
ture are practically un-
forgettable. It’s im-
mensely serious but no
downer.”
Besides Dave Bald
Eagle the cast includes
Christopher Sweeney
(The Veil, Chasing Mav-
e r i c k s ), Richard Ray
Whitman (Barking Wa-
ter, Drunktown’s Finest),
Roseanne Supernault
(M a i n a , B l a c k s t o n e ),
Tatanka Means (Tiger
Eye s, I n t o T h e We s t ,
Saints and Strangers),
Zahn McClarnon (Fargo
TV Series, Mekko, Red
Road, Longmire, The
Son).