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April 6, 2022
Telecom upgrading network
The War m Springs
Telecom recently conducted
a major network update.
Telecom general manager
Tim York said the update
addresses the internet-broad-
band ‘dropping’ issue that
many customers have re-
ported.
Customers have also re-
ported difficulty in stream-
ing movies and using online
gaming the past few months.
The recent update also in-
cludes more bandwidth.
York notes that in the past
this has been limited due to
the restrictions of the previ-
ous equipment.
The update allows
Telecom to take advantage
of a recent purchase of eight
gigabytes of bandwidth that
is on the way.
Going forward, the plan
is to move as many custom-
ers as possible to 25-mbps.
If you are still having tele-
phone calling issues after this
past weekend, call the
Telecom, 541-615-0555.
Reckoning with the boarding school era
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An old photo shows 11
Native American children in
traditional dress, staring into
a camera, as they paused near
the end of a 400-mile jour-
ney across the Northwest.
Researchers say the pic-
ture was taken in July 1881
in Portland, as the children
were being taken from East-
ern Washington to Forest
Grove, to attend one of the
U.S. government’s first Indian
boarding schools.
By the time they posed for
a second photo the following
March, their hair and clothes
looked different. And one of
the students—a tall girl stand-
ing in the back of the first
photo—was missing.
Historians believe Martha
Lot, the daughter of Chief
Lot, was the tall girl in the
back row. She died in Forest
Grove, and is believed to be
buried in an unmarked grave
in the city cemetery.
In the 19th century, the
United States was at war with
Native American tribes all
across the country. Federal
agents were coercing tribal
leaders to sign peace treaties
and move their people by the
thousands onto reservations.
At the same time, the federal
government was building
boarding schools for Indig-
enous children and forcing
young people to leave their
Courtesy of Pacific University
Photo from 1881, helps illustrate the challenges.
families and their culture, to
learn English and adopt co-
lonial ways of dressing,
working and living.
“Many in the United
States had the thought that
the best way to change the
Native Americans of this
continent was to change their
children first,” said Warren
Seyler, former chairman of
the Spokane Tribe of Indi-
ans, in a recently recorded
documentary from Counting
Coup Media.
What’s informally termed
the ‘boarding school era’ be-
gan in 1879, with the estab-
lishment of the Carlisle In-
dian Industrial School in
Pennsylvania, and lasted at
least through the mid-20th
century. The schools were
often run directly by the fed-
eral Interior Department, or
by cooperating religious in-
stitutions, such as the Catho-
lic Church.
Conditions were often ter-
rible. Many children died. But
until now, the federal govern-
ment has not attempted a for-
mal reckoning of that dark
period—of the number of
school sites, the extent of
burial grounds and the num-
ber and tribal identities of
children who died. The Fed-
eral Indian Boarding School
Initiative, announced last
June, is the first attempt to
fix all that.
The initiative from Interior
Secretary Deb Haaland—the
first-ever Indigenous person
to lead the agency—followed
the discovery in Canada of
remains of hundreds of In-
digenous children in British
Columbia last year.
This article is courtesy of
Oregon Public Broadcasting.
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Ballots are going out this
month for the May 17 Pri-
mary Election. The timeline
is as follows:
April 8: Out of state bal-
lots mailed.
April 26: Last day to reg-
ister to vote, change your po-
litical party or request an In-
dependent ballot.
April 27: Ballots mailed
out.
May 17: Ballots must be
in an official drop box or re-
ceived by the Elections Of-
fice by 8 p.m. on Election
Day, or postmarked by the
U.S. Post Office to be
counted. There will also be
the 24-hour drop-box in
Warm Springs.