Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
May 5, 2021
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Fine coffee and gifts at Painted Pony Espresso
P
ainted Pony Espresso offers
great coffee, plus gifts, artwork and
crafts—all from a great location
next door to Indian Head Casino.
The shop manager is Emily
Courtney, business and marketing
director with the Warm Springs
Community Action Team.
The Community Action Team
purchased the coffee shop last year.
Part of the business area is the cof-
fee shop, and the front space is for
the display of works by members
of the Tananáwit art co-op.
Painted Pony Espresso is open
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
Working with Emily at the shop
are young people who are part of
the Melinda Poitra’s WIOA—
Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act—program. The crew
had their training day last week for
the upcoming season.
Stop by Painted Pony Espresso,
or order a coffee by phone, 541-797-
9688.
relocating and restoring the historic
Old Commissary building.
The Community Action Team
has funding in place for the Com-
missary project. On-the-ground
work was close to starting early last
year, when the pandemic put a tem-
porary halt to the project. The
schedule now calls for the move to
happen in 2022.
Some of the gift items; and The
Root Digger painting series by
Emily Courtney (below).
D.McMechan/Spilyay
At the recent WOIA training session at Painted Pony Espresso,
Ione Jim, Sha’Rita Johns and Treauna Blueback (front from left); and
Xariya Holliday, Niya Bagley, Emily Courtney, WSCAT business and
marketing specialist, and Whitney Kalama (back from left).
At Tananáwit
Jaime Scott recently re-joined the
Warm Springs Community Action
Team as the new executive director
of the Tananáwit art co-op. Mr.
Scott is a former coordinator of
the WSCAT Outdoor Market.
Tananáwit membership is now at
more than 160 artists from the tribal
community. To learn more about
Tananáwit call the Community Ac-
tion Team at 541-553-3148.
The co-op members are talking
about hosting a street fair sometime
in the future, taking the covid pre-
cautions into consideration. The
long-term home of Tananáwit will
be at the WSCAT Commissary
small business incubator building.
This is the project that will involve
‘Game changer’ at St. Charles Madras
A new 3D mammography
machine in the Central Oregon
Radiology Clinic at St. Charles
Madras will be a “game-
changer” for breast cancer
screening in Jefferson County,
says mammography technolo-
gist Stefanie Brown.
“The statistic that always
jumps out at me is that one in
eight women will develop breast
cancer in her lifetime,” said Ms.
Brown, who has worked at the
Madras hospital since 2018.
“In my family, we have at
least eight women, and so I look
at them and I know the odds
are one of them will get breast
cancer. As a family member and
as a caregiver, I want them to
get 3D mammograms.”
Until late April, Madras had
a 2D mammography machine,
which produces a flat image of
the breast. Now, it has a 3D ma-
chine—made by the medical tech-
nology company Hologic—that
creates 50 to 80 millimeter
“slices” providers can flip through
like the pages of a book.
This gives providers a much
clearer, more comprehensive
look at the breast, which means
they have a chance to catch can-
cer earlier, said LeeAnn Ford,
mammography supervisor with
Central Oregon Radiology As-
sociates.
And with breast cancer, early
detection is key: Women who
are diagnosed early have a 98-
percent or higher survival rate
in the first five years.
“With a 2D image, you have
a lot of superimposed breast
tissue, so you’re kind of just
watching for shadow changes,”
Ms. Ford said. “With 3D, you’re
actually seeing inside the tissue,
so you can see little things hid-
ing in there.”
In addition to earlier diag-
noses, the 3D, more detailed
images mean more certainty
and fewer false positives.
“For two weeks, people say,
‘What is it? Do I have cancer?’”
Ford said. “There’s anxiety,
when really it was just a tissue
clump that might’ve been more
easily seen in a 3D image.”
Many women in War m
Springs and the surrounding
areas have been driving to
Redmond or beyond for 3D
mammograms. The new ma-
chine means they can get the
care they need closer to home.
Unique Native art on maps of North American
Raven Makes Gallery in Sisters
presents an exhibition of Native
American narrative art on antique
Western world cartography.
Twenty Indigenous artists from
across North America have cre-
ated works on sixty antique origi-
nal maps from the seventeen- and
eighteen-hundreds. The name of
the show is The Homeland Collec-
tion, First Edition.
Participating artists include
three masters with works on per-
manent
display
at
the
Smithsonian’s National Museum
of the American Indian in Wash-
ington, D.C.
The artwork goes beyond a new
interpretation on a traditional me-
dium, ledger art, to establish a
new artform that parallels a two-
decade long movement within the
fields of Geography and Cartog-
raphy known as ‘Decolonizing the
Map.’
Due to covid restrictions, no re-
ception will be held for the open-
ing. The exhibition goes on dis-
At top: Héstaneheo'o - The People, George Curtis Levi, Southern
Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho on 1852 No. 5 Map of the United
States. And above: Something’s Missing Here, Dwayne Wilcox,
Oglala Lakota, on 1889 Map Showing the Territorial Growth of the
United States. And at right: The Creation of the Nations, Terrance
Guardipee, Blackfeet, on 1882 map of North America.
play at the gallery this Friday, May
7. Raven Makes Gallery is open
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Satur-
days 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and closed
on Wednesday.
The gallery is in Sisters.