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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Culture & Heritage adds to learning video
T
he Confederated
Tribes’ Culture and Heritage
Department is featured in a
newly released education
video, Culturally Responsive In-
digenous Science: Connecting
Land, Language and Culture.
Culture and Heritage—
and members from the
Couer d’Alene and the
Colville tribes—worked last
year with Washington State
University and other partners
on the project.
The video is now among
education series that debuted
this month on the on-line
platform All Video Show-
case: Learning from Research
and Practice. This is a pro-
gram of the National Sci-
ence Foundation Science
Technology Engineering and
Mathematics (STEM).
Representing Culture and
Heritage in Culturally Re-
sponsive Indigenous Science
are Dallas Winishut,
CarlaDean Caldera and
Rosie Johnson. An empha-
sis on the Warm Springs seg-
ment is the importance to
the tribes of water and the
first foods.
To begin, Culture and
Heritage asked elders the
question, “What would you
want our youth to know
about the water, about first
foods?” said CarlaDean.
“What would you want them
to know?”
During a summer youth
camp, the group collected
water from the reservation,
specifically Shitike Creek.
The students then tested the
water for contaminants, and
were surprised at the level
of impurities—the exercise
making the students aware
first-hand of the need to pro-
tect this most important re-
source:
Chúush
iwa
Waqishwit—“Water is life,”
explains Dallas.
A narrator of the video
is Zoe Higheagle Strong,
Washington State University
assistant professor of edu-
cational psychology, and the
university’s executive direc-
Courtesy
Scenes from Culturally Responsive Indigenous Learning: A demonstration on
the importance of water to the community (above); while CarlaDean (below)
demonstrates an interactive learning application.
tor of Tribal Relations. She
says of this learning ap-
proach:
“If you go into Native
communities, and you
watch them engaging in fish-
eries or forestry or differ-
ent Indigenous knowledge
systems, you can see this
excitement and engagement
of students learning,” Ms.
Strong says. In many public
school approaches, “We’re
missing that component:
Indigenous ways of know-
ing and teaching. Not only
is it hurting Native students,
it’s hurting all students.”
You can watch the video
at the website:
stemforall2020.videohall.
com/presentations/1835
The Washing State Uni-
versity-Tribal presentation
is made possible by the Na-
tional Science Foundation-
funded Culturally Respon-
sive Indigenous Science
(CRIS) project, weaving to-
gether traditional Indig-
enous learning with western
learning.
Project lead Paula
Groves Price, Washington
State professor of Cultural
Studies and Social Thought
in Education, said CRIS is
unique. “Part of what’s dif-
May 20, 2020
During the shutdown
at Natural Resources
Like the rest of the tribal organization the Branch
of Natural Resources has adopted the safety mea-
sures to protect employees from exposure to the
coronavirus.
Some parts of the branch have been able to oper-
ate, with safety measures, said Robert Brunoe, gen-
eral manager. There has been ceremonial fishing;
and tree-planting and logging could happen in the right
weather conditions, for example.
Most of the Natural Resource employees, though,
are staying home, working remotely when possible,
holding meetings by teleconference or Zoom.
Hatchery staff have also been on duty at the
Parkdale facility on the Hood River; and the tribal
farm has been in operation. Most of the branch
employees, though—about 90 percent—have been
away from their usual places of work, Mr. Brunoe
said.
An important project now at the branch, and
for the managers is the planning for eventual re-
opening and resumption of normal operation, he
said.
W.S. WEDD offering online
construction training
ferent, I think, about this
project, compared to many
other National Science
Foundation grants, is that we
are working primarily with
tribal language and culture
teachers.”
Also included are faculty
and graduate students from
Washington State’s College
of Education, as well as its
Center for Digital Scholar-
ship and Curation.
The project activities are
designed for students and
teachers to critically prob-
lem-solve local issues related
to the environment and
sustainability from the per-
spective of traditional
knowledge, stories and lan-
guage. The learning mod-
ules include a heavy tech-
nology emphasis, including
web and iPad applications.
Working with the National
Science Foundation on the
video series is the non-profit
TERC—‘Because math and
science build futures.’
A free Construction
Trades Online Training is
coming up, as announced by
the Warm Springs Workforce
and Economic Development
Division (WEDD) office.
The four 8-hour classes will
be via Zoom.
When the classes are suc-
cessfully completed, the
trainee will attend a hands-
on training at the Northwest
College of Construction in
Portland in July or August,
expenses paid.
Anyone interested can
apply with WEDD as soon
as possible for enrollment.
Applicants should be willing
to complete the training.
Contact Melina Poitra at
WEDD:
melinda.poitra@wstribes.org
Or text 541-460-1245.
Identify yourself when
texting. Information on class
enrollment and WIOA—
Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act—will be by
phone; and other information
will be provided.
For those interested, some
of the guidelines are:
WIOA eligible, and apply
with WEDD for WIOA; open
to males over the ages of 18,
and must be registered with
Selective Service.
Complete the intake (can
be done by phone). And
other requirements, such as
low income, in need of re-
training from being laid off,
etc.
Dave McMechan
A Thank
you to our
Clinic
Workers
D.McMechan/Spilyay
From the Community Action Team to reservation essential workers.
Crystal Greene photos/Warm Springs Police Department
On a day of Nurses Appreciation, Warm Springs
officers delivered gifts including cinnamon rolls
from the Eagle Bakery.
Reservation Census reminder
The 2020 Census is un-
der way on the reservation
and among tribal members.
The easiest way to com-
plete the 2020 Census dur-
ing the Covid-19 pandemic
is to do it online. Got to:
my2020census.gov
If you don’t have the
ability to do the census
online, you can do the ques-
tionnaire by phone. Call
844-330-2020. They will
begin by asking you for your
census identification number.
(You may be on hold for a
while, so please be patient.)
Because the letters with
the ID number were only
mailed to people who get
their mail at a street address,
most people in War m
Springs do not have the cen-
sus ID number: On the
phone, just say you don’t
have one.
They ask for your street
address, if you rent or own
your home, your sex, age and
date of birth, your heritage
and race.
They will also ask about
who was living in your home
on April 1; how they are re-
lated to you, their age and
so on.
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