Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
October 9, 2019
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Prevention coordinator takes position with Health Authority
Michael
‘Mykee’
Martinez has resigned his
position as Prevention Co-
ordinator with the Confed-
erated Tribes. His resigna-
tion becomes effective No-
vember 19.
Mykee has accepted a
position as the Health Pro-
motion and Chronic Disease
Prevention Program Analyst
3, Tribal Alcohol, Tobacco
and Other Drugs Policy Spe-
cialist position with the Or-
egon Health Authority.
He will be working in
Portland. This position is
assigned to ser ve the
Health Promotion and
Chronic Disease Preven-
tion section, Center for
Prevention and Health
Promotion of OHA.
Mykee is an enrolled
member of the Confeder-
ated Tribes of War m
Springs. He has worked for
the tribe in several capaci-
ties. His current position as
a Certified Prevention Co-
ordinator started in Decem-
ber 2009.
Mykee is a sought after
speaker in Prevention top-
ics. And during the 2018 Or-
egon Place Matters Confer-
ence, Mykee received the
Joe Weller Guardian Award
in recognition of his ongo-
ing work in tobacco preven-
Courtesy HAPPI
Michael ‘Mykee’ Martinez
tion.
Mykee has mentored
many youth workers during
the summer youth program,
and never passes up an op-
portunity to stop and answer
questions or offer words of
advice during the planning
of community classes or
events.
Although we wish him
much success in his new en-
deavor with the dtate, we will
miss his expertise and will-
ingness to take on the chal-
lenges in the work we do in
Health and Prevention Pro-
motion Initiatives (HAPPI).
Ron Hager, program
director.
Film festival in Madras features two Native screenings
T
wo of the films at the
upcoming Bend Film Festi-
val showing in Madras fea-
ture Native American sto-
ries. The festival will be this
Friday and Saturday, Octo-
ber 11 and 12 at the Ma-
dras Performing Arts Cen-
ter at the high school.
The first of the four
films is Native Wisdom: The
Peoples of Eastern Oregon.
The show begins at 5:30 p.m.
Friday, running until 6:55
p.m.
The film’s director Tim
Keenan Burgess, and pro-
ducer Kunu Bearchum are
scheduled to attend the
showing.
The film features the
voices of indigenous scien-
tists and elders from several
Oregon interior tribes, in-
cluding the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs, the
Confederated Tribes of
Umatilla Reservation and
Confederated Tribes of
Grand Ronde, as they share
obser vations of their
changing environment,
natural resource issues, and
the beauty of tribes’ tradi-
tional arts, music and
storytelling.
The evening showing
serves as the Central Or-
egon premiere of the film.
The show I Want My
MTV will follow the show-
ing of Native Wisdom.
The movie chronicles
the cultural impact and
early days of MTV. The
innovative channel became
a touchstone for young
people in the 1980s, and a
Courtesy photo
Once Upon A River, the story of a Native American teen who journeys down the Stark River
in search of her estranged mother.
new format for musicians
and filmmakers.
The showing begins at 7:45
on Friday, with a runtime of
86 minutes and will be ac-
companied by a 9-minute
short film, Pie in the Puss: A
Brief Histor y of Pieing in
Film.
The second Native-theme
movie is Once Upon A River,
showing on Saturday, Octo-
ber 12 at the Performing Arts
Center.
Set in rural Michigan in the
1970s Once Upon A River is
the story of Native Ameri-
can teenager Margo Crane,
who is forced to journey on
the Stark River in search of
her estranged mother.
As Margo uses the skills
she was taught by her fa-
ther to survive, she meets
many characters along the
way.
Despite the challenges,
Margo is able to stay true
to herself as she discovers
what it means to live.
The film’s appearance at
the festival is serving as its
Oregon premiere. The Ma-
dras showing begins at 5:30
p.m. and runs until 7:08 p.m.
It will be preceded by the
short-six-minute film Elohi,
which is “an attempt to
translate the voice of the
place the stories call Chero-
kee Country.”
The final portion of the
Word workshops in Warm Springs
Warm Springs Education
will host two free Microsoft
Word workshops this
month—Word I and Word
II.
Education is hosting the
workshops in partnership
with the tribes, War m
Springs Workforce Innova-
tion and Opportunity Act
(WIOA), WorkSource and
Central Oregon Intergov-
ernmental Council.
The Word I workshop is
this Friday, October 11 at 1
p.m.; and the Word II ses-
sion is on Friday, October
18, also at 1 p.m. Both work-
shops will be at the Educa-
tion building, 1110 Wasco
Street.
As seats are limited, to
reserve a place please call
Melinda at 541-553-3324;
or email Deanna at:
dfender@coic.org
Word I: An introduc-
tory level class on word
processing using Microsoft
Word 2019. Learn how to
open, create and save a
document, and how to use
the Word prog ram for
checking spelling and
grammar.
Word II: Review of in-
formation from the first ses-
sion, then learn some addi-
tional features including us-
ing indents, line spacing,
bullets and numbering, and
inserting tables. You must
attend Word I to take Word
II.
Participants must 18 or
over. Bring picture ID or
other proof of date of
birth.
Warm Springs Good News Club starting
The Warm Springs Good
News Club is starting this
week, and goes through
April of next year. The club
meets at the Warm Springs
Baptist Church.
Students in grades 4
through 8 will meet from
1:15 to 2:15; and grades k-
3 from 2:15 to 3:15.
Registration forms are
available at the War m
Springs Academy, the
Warm Springs Market, the
Family Resource Center,
and the Behavioral Health
Center. Vans are available
for transportation from the
Academy to the Good
News Club meetings. Spon-
sored by the Ponderosa
Chapter of the Child Evan-
gelism Fellowshipo.
film festival in Madras will
be a screening of several
short films, ranging in length
from two minutes to 28 min-
utes.
The films include, We Are
Forbidden, Motherland, Gun
Shop, Singing for King , All
on a Mardi Gras Day, The
Flip, and Ground Rush.
The short film screening
begins at 7:45 p.m., follow-
ing Once Upon A River.
For full descriptions of
the short films, information
about other films being
shown in Bend, or to buy
tickets ahead of time, visit
bendfilm.org/madras
Tickets can be pur-
chased at the door on the
night of the event as well.
Admission is $5 per
screening and cash or
credit cards will be ac-
cepted on site.
Community
notes...
Warm Springs Red
Cross is having a meet-
ing this Thursday, Octo-
ber 10 for anyone inter-
ested in becoming a vol-
unteer with the Warm
Springs smoke detector
program.
The meeting will be at
noon at at the Family
Resource Center.
They will also be talk-
ing about the upcoming
smoke detector check
and replacement effort.
The class on how to be-
come is a volunteer is
very easy, taking about
10 minutes, said Rose
Alarcon, program coor-
dinator.
Confronting Rac-
ism is the theme of a
series of events being
held at Central Oregon
Community College dur-
ing the month of Octo-
ber.
There will be a panel
discussion, a presenta-
tion and a film. These
events are free and open
to the public.
A panel discussion
that will examine recent
white nationalist inci-
dents, the impact of
these incidents on local
students, as well as a
look at ‘double-think’ in
American society, is
scheduled for next
Wednesday, October 16,
from 3-4:30 p.m. at
COCC’s Wille Hall.
Double-think is a
concept created by
George Orwell to explain
the central mechanism
of author-itarianism, ex-
plained local artist Isaac
Peterson, one of three
presenters on the panel.
“It is the ability to be-
lieve two ideas that are
in direct conflict with one
another without resolv-
ing them.
Other presenters are
Murray Godfrey, assis-
tant professor of history
at COCC, and Kelsey
Freeman, the college’s
Native American college
prep coordinator.