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Coyote News, est. 1976
May 22, 2019 - Vol. 43, No. 11
M u s i c i n M a y is Thursday
through Saturday, May 23-25 at
the high school. Junior ROTC
awards ceremony is at 6 p.m. at
Crosskeys Station in Madras.
Wednesday, May 29: Last day
of school for seniors. All semester
2 coursework is due: Please turn
in textbooks and clean out your
lockers. Senior final grades are due
by 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 30: Seniors
must report to the high school by
7:45 a.m. for line-up instructions.
Senior awards and scholarship cer-
emony begins at 10 a.m. in the Per-
forming Arts Center. Seniors will
be wearing their caps and gowns
to this even (caps and gowns only,
no stalls, cords or tassels for this
event please). This event in man-
datory for seniors wanting to walk
at graduation.
A school staff barbecue is
scheduled for Thursday, June 13.
At the Academy
A War m Springs Academy
Eighth Grade Celebration Day is
this Thursday, May 23 from 1-2:30
p.m. at Trout Lake. The students
will attend the Classical Music
in the Wild concert with pianist
Hunter Nowak.
The Third Annual Ich’inun
Summer Jam Powwow Slam is
coming up on Thursday, May
30 at the Warm Springs Acad-
emy.
The social powwow will be
from 6-9 p.m. honoring all 2019
graduates. All drums and danc-
ers, and the public are welcome.
See STUDENTS on page 7
Boarding schools focus of upcoming exhibit
Today, the Chemawa Indian
School near Salem is the only
Indian boarding school in the
Northwest.
An accredited high school,
Chemawa is now the oldest con-
tinuously operated off-reserva-
tion boarding school in the U.S.
In the late Nineteenth cen-
tury the situation was different.
At that time there were a
number of the Indian boarding
schools: On the Warm Springs
Reservation, at Umatilla, Siletz,
Grand Ronde and Yakama, for
instance.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
built the Warm Springs Indian
Boarding School in 1874.
A typical daily schedule at a
boarding school began with an
early wake-up call followed by a
series of tasks punctuated by the
ringing of bells.
Students were required to
march from one activity to the
next. There were regular inspec-
tions and drills, outdoors with
platoons organized according to
age and rank. Everything hap-
pened by bells, ‘triangles’ they
were called.
The Museum at War m
Springs will examine the Indian
Boarding School, and Warm
Springs schools in particular,
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Warm Springs, Wasco and Paiute boys in uniform at government boarding school, Warm Springs.
with a new exhibit opening in June.
The exhibit is Resilience: The
Boarding School Experience of
Warm Springs and beyond. Ac-
cording to the museum litera-
ture leading up to the exhibit
opening:
Boarding Schools have had last-
ing impacts good and not so good
for many Native American chil-
dren.
You will see and hear first hand
observations from some that
have lived the boarding school
experience.
Some memories will be heart-
felt, poignant, sad, bitter, but most
important, it will be the truth, as
remembered by the students, now
parents and grand parents.
In the decades past, families
were not given the choice for their
children to attend boarding schools.
Over time, it became a choice,
tribal high school students are
now opting to attend boarding
schools, finding positive learn-
ing experiences. You will see
and hear their memories as
well.
You do not want to miss this
meaningful, candid account of
Boarding Schools, then and
now.
The museum will open Re-
silience on June 27.
Tribal Council hearing organization reports
The Twenty-Eighth Tribal Coun-
cil has been at work becoming fa-
miliar with all of the departments,
enterprises and projects of the Con-
federated Tribes. By the end of
May they will have met in cham-
bers with the department, enterprise
and project heads.
On the agenda this week, for
example, are Natural Resources,
Health and Human Services, Edu-
cation, Public Safety, Development
and Tribal Court; gaming, TEERO,
and Kah-Nee-Ta.
They met earlier this week with
Warm Springs Ventures, the eco-
nomic development corporation of
the Confederated Tribes. Ventures
includes Construction, TERO, Geo
Visions, Eagle Tech, and projects
such as carbon sequestration and
cannabis.
Eagle Tech is the unmanned
aerial systems project of the tribe,
established a few years ago, when
the FAA designated the reservation
as a UAS, or drone testing area.
This project is taking time, as the
FAA has not yet established full
regulations for the commercial use,
as opposed to hobby use, of drones.
It could be a few years before the
regulatory system is in place, said
Ben Bisland, of Warm Springs Ven-
tures.
Once the rules are established—
expected to be extensive—the de-
mand for use of the reservation for
testing will be great, Mr. Bisland
said.
Laurie Danzuka updated Coun-
cil on the cannabis project. This will
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Students getting ready for graduation
The Madras High School gradu-
ation is coming up on Saturday,
June 1 starting at 9 a.m. at the high
school stadium. Doors will open
at 6 a.m. for seniors.
Graduating seniors must report
to the high school Commons by 7
a.m. Stadium gates open at 8 a.m.
for family seating. Some other
items and dates for students to
keep in mind:
Senior speaker and performer
tryouts are this Wednesday, May
22 at 3:30 p.m. in the high school
Choir room.
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be a non-THC grow and extrac-
tion facility at nearby tribal trust
property.
The non-THC hemp products,
or CBDs, will be much less regu-
lated than recreation marijuana,
able to moved across state lines
and overseas, Ms. Danzuka said.
An issue is that the USDA has
not yet developed the regulations
implementing the 2018 federal
Farm Bill, which established the
CBD products as similar to regu-
lar agricultural crops.
This might not happen until
2020, she said. So there is an-
other waiting element in imple-
menting the 2015 tribal cannabis
referendum. Until the USDA
Farm Bill regulations are ap-
proved, a tribal CBD operation
at the trust Schoenhagean
property would have to fol-
low the more stringest THC-
cannabis regulations, Ms.
Danzuka said.
Meanwhile, Ventures is
minimizing costs associated
with the project, while work-
ing on opening a bank ac-
count for the project. This
would allow negotiation to-
ward the financial transaction
that would fund the start-up
of the CBD project.
The $2 million start-up
money for the grow and ex-
traction operation would
come from the carbon se-
questration revenue, which
over time is expected to bring
in several million to the tribes.
Health
team earns
national
recognition
Immunization vaccination is
an important part of health
promotion
and
disease
prevention.
A vaccine, or immunization, is
a way to build up the body’s
natural immunity to a disease.
Especially for young people this
helps prevent the contracting and
spreading a disease.
The Confederated Tribes’
Community Health Nurse team
works with the nursing and
medical teams of Warm Springs
Indian Health Services in assuring
that children and adolescents
receive scheduled vaccinations.
Recent data by Oregon
Immunization Alert—comparing
immunization rates in the state—
demonstrate the success of this
partnership.
Warm Springs Comprehensive
Immunization rates for 24-
month-old children was 81
percent. This exceeds the Health
People 2020 goals. By comparison
the Jefferson County rate for this
was 71 percent.
For adolescent immunization
the War m Springs rate also
exceeded the Health People 2020
goals
for
all
required
immunizations.
Eighty-four percent of Warm
Springs adolescents had up to date
HP (human papillomavirus)
vaccinations—a significantly
higher rate than the Jefferson
County rate of 57 percent.
Meningitis vaccine rates for
Warm Springs adolescents was 98
percent in contrast to the 87
percent for all Jefferson County.
Clearly, the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs Community
Health nurses with the IHS medical
and nursing teams are working
together to keep children and
adolescents healthy.
For this effort, the team has
received national recognition,
earning the 2019 IHS Area
Director’s Award—Fostering
Relationships. The award
presentation will be in June.
The Confederated Tribes
Community Health team includes
the program manager Katie
Russell. The Community Health
Nurses: Marc Mason, Sandra
Franks, Brenda Howe and Jane
Seaders.
The IHS Medical Providers:
Dwight Carpen, Thomas
Creelman, Raneva Dowty, Rachel
Locker and Ruth Willis.
See HEALTH on page 7