Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
October 20, 2021
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Museum kicks off year-end programs
T
he Museum at War m
Springs—designed and built in
1993 to Smithsonian Institution
standards—is a special place to the
Warm Springs people. This year
the museum’s successes include:
Two exhibitions: Sacred Reflec-
tions: The Art of Umatilla Artist
Ellen Taylor, in April and May; and
Into the Fray: Native American
Wild-Land Firefighters of Warm
Springs and Beyond, June through
September.
The museum in 2021 also
partnered with AdPro, a Native
American woman-owned graphic
design and advertising firm in
Huntington Beach, California to
rebrand the museum with a new
logo.
The museum in June this year
held a membership campaign in
honor of ancestor Kenneth Smith,
quadrupling the museum’s mem-
bership, and met a $25,000 match
from The Roundhouse Founda-
tion. The museum also launched a
a Corporate Membership program.
The museum built stronger re-
lationships with special individuals,
including Ronni Lacroute, and with
several new partner organizations
throughout the state.
The museum held important dis-
cussions and collaborated with the
Native Arts and Cultures Founda-
tion, Oregon Historical Society, the
High Desert Museum, and the
Warm Springs Culture and Heri-
tage Program.
In 2021, the museum received
$633,760 in foundation and other
grants.
On November 2 the museum
will open a new exhibition, the
Twenty-Eighth Annual Tribal
About the museum
Courtesy CTWS MAWS
The iconic Museum at Warm Springs lobby.
Member Art Exhibit.
“We feel great pride in what we
do at the museum, and are hon-
ored to make our home here at
Warm Springs with our strong
family and community ties,” said
museum director Elizabeth A.
Woody (Warm Springs, Yakama
and Navajo).
“The Museum at War m
Springs is an important Oregon
cultural treasure. We humbly ask
you to support us with a year-end
contribution so we can continue
organizing high-caliber exhibitions,
workshops and an array of public
programs and events for all to en-
joy.”
Give to the Year-End Cam-
paign: Visit the site:
museumatwarmsprings.org
Or mail your contribution post-
marked by December 31 to The
Museum at Warm Springs, P.O.
Box 909, Warm Springs OR 97761.
Consider a matching gift to one
of the museum’s partners, the Or-
egon Cultural Trust. A gift to the
trust—up to $500 for individuals,
$1,000 for couples filing jointly, and
$2,500 for class-C corporations—
is a tax credit, a dollar-for-dollar
reduction for any Oregon taxes
owed. Double the impact on Or-
egon culture; tax dollars that are
re-directed to the Trust support
Oregon culture.
The Oregon Cultural Trust is a
generous supporter of the Mu-
seum at Warm Springs.
The Museum at Warm Springs
opened its doors to the public on
March 14, 1993. Built to
Smithsonian Institution profes-
sional standards, the museum’s
mission is to preserve, advance
and share the traditions, cultural
and artistic heritage of the Con-
federated Tribes of War m
Springs.
Regular museum hours are
Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. The Museum is closed
on Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Year’s Day. Admission: Mu-
seum members, free. Adults, $7.
Senior citizens over 60, $6. Stu-
dents 13-18 with student body
card, $4.50. Children 5-12, $3.50.
And children 4 and younger, free.
For more information, visit:
museumatwarmsprings.org
Phone, 541-553-3331.
Museum health and safety pro-
tocols during the continuing Covid-
19 pandemic: The Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs Tribal
Council requires all visitors and
staff to wear masks while in the
museum.
Other health and safety pro-
cedures are in place, which in-
clude allowing only a certain num-
ber of visitors in the museum at
a time and temperature checks
at the entrance. All protocols are
designed to keep the public and
staff safe during the ongoing
pandemic.
Recreation November Fitness Challenge
The Warm Springs Recreation
Department is sponsoring the No-
vember Fitness Challenge. The
goal of the challenge is to encour-
age people to be active and enjoy
a variety of exercises during the
month of November, and con-
tinue to be active throughout the
year.
Contact Joseph Arthur at Warm
Springs Recreation, 541-553-3243.
Pick up an application packet and
drop off at 2200 Hollywood Bou-
levard ,Warm Springs, the Commu-
nity Center.
Registration is open now
through November 5. November
1 will be the Kickoff Poker Walk
starting at the Community Center
walkway. The entry fee for the chal-
lenge is $5. Additional $10 for t-
shirts. Some requirements:
Must be 18 years or age or
older. Five members to a team, one
being the captain. The captain will
be responsible for the fees, con-
tact information, and collection of
registration forms, timesheets and
weekly fitness sheets.
Any person affiliated with the
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs by enterprise, employment
and departments and committees
may participate.
Each team will be responsible for
keeping time of exercise done. The
weekly exercise forms will be pro-
vided. All form sheets will be due
on December 3. Please note: The
Community Center building is
closed and not available for use due
to building maintenance until fur-
ther notice.
Vaccine, covid cases across Indian Country
The Indian Health Service up-
dated its coronavirus data, show-
ing Covid-19 vaccination distribu-
tion as of October 11 across In-
dian Country.
IHS has administered 2,126,975
covid vaccine doses across 11 ar-
eas of Indian Country.
The Oklahoma City Area, where
Covid-19 cases have increased con-
siderably since the availability of
the vaccine, continues to account
for the most vaccines at 541,460.
The Navajo Area, where the
Warm Springs:
Then and Now
pandemic has exacted a dispropor-
tionate toll since the spring of
2020, comes in second at 305,025
doses; while the California Area
comes in third at 254,605.
These three regions account for
the largest number of IHS users,
with the Phoenix Area also account-
ing for a large number.
The virus in Indian Country
IHS also updated its coronavirus
data, showing results through mid
October. According to the data
acros Indian Country, 260,314 tests
have returned positive for Covid-
19
Altogether, IHS has administered
3,111,256 coronavirus tests.
Based on the cumulative percent
positive, the highest rates have been
seen in five areas. Two of them in-
clude the state of Arizona, indicat-
ing a disproportionate toll of Covid-
19 in the state:
Navajo Area, 13.6 percent posi-
tivity. Phoenix Area, 12.7 percent.
Oklahoma City Area, 12.5 percent.
The Oregon Cultural Trust
is helping fund a project—
Wa r m S p r i n g s : T h e n a n d
Now—to tell the stories of
tribal members of the reser-
vation, through a series of
photographic portraits and
essays. The more recent por-
traits will be paired with his-
torical photographs taken
some decades ago.
The Cultural Tr ust
awarded $21,210 to Oregon
ArtsWatch for Warm Springs:
Then and Now. The award is
part of more than $3.25 mil-
lion that the Cultural Trust
granted this year, during its
Twentieth Anniversary. The
$3.25 million is a record-
breaking total for the Trust,
funded by an also record
$5.2 million in 2020 dona-
tions by Oregon taxpayers in
return for cultural tax cred-
its. The Trust has awarded
more than $36 million in cul-
tural grants since it was
founded by the Legislature in
2001.
The awards break down in
several ways. The Trust’s five
large partner organizations—
the Oregon Arts Commis-
sion, Oregon Heritage Com-
mission, Oregon Humanities,
Oregon Historical Society
and the State Historic Pres-
er vation
Office—split
$813,610 among them.
Another $813,610 is di-
vided among the state’s 45
tribal and county cultural coa-
litions, which in turn make
grants of their own. Ninety
individual cultural groups
from across the state share
in another $1,627,220, in
amounts ranging from
$5,000 to $33,728, and aver-
aging $18,087.
In addition, grants are
awarded across nine geo-
graphical areas that cover the
entire state. The allotment in-
cludes $455,411 for admin-
istrative costs, making a total
disbursement of $3,709,952.
“In its first 20 years the
Cultural Trust has proven it-
self as a stable source of
funding for Oregon’s arts,
heritage and humanities com-
munity,” said Niki Price, chair
of the Cultural Trust board.
California Area, 10.5 percent. Al-
buquerque Area, 9-.6 percent.
Across Oregon
Earlier this month Oregon
paused to remember the more than
4,000 lives lost to Covid-19
This painful milestone happend
just two months after the state
marked 3,000 Covid-19 related
deaths.
Courtesy
Example of historic Warm
Springs portrait.