Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
February 8, 2023
Another great day of Meadows skiing
KWSO was delighted to
again coordinate the annual
ski and snowboard trip to Mt.
Hood Meadows, Friday Feb-
ruary 3, a no school day.
Folks were invited to sign
up in advance and take ad-
vantage of bus transportation
provided, or to drive them-
selves up to Mt. Hood.
Fifty-three skiers and
snowboarders participated in
the event, and about a dozen
support chaperones came
along as well.
Thanks to Mt Hood
Meadows for the transporta-
tion, teh rentals and lessons,
lift tickets and pizza lunch.
Each year, Mt. Hood
Meadows sponsors a ski and
snowboard day.
Meadows also hosts
Warm Springs community
members for a huckleberry
picking trip, typically in Au-
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Iron Chefs at Academy
The Warm Springs Extension, in partnership with
the Jefferson County School District, will host the
Iron Chefs local competition this afternoon, Febru-
ary 8, from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
The compteition will be in the Life Skills room at
the Warm Springs Academy.
The youth focus on a number of lessons: Food
safety, food prep, cooking skills, nutrition facts, label
reading, and team building.
This hands-on, engaging series gives students an
opportunity to become chefs. They can learn and
bring the knowledge they gain to local cook-off com-
petitions.
At the Warm Springs Academy, the two teams will
compete for the chance to represent the school in
the Regional cook-off. The Regional event will be
this Friday at the new Jefferson County Public Health
Department meeting room in Madras.
Photos courtesy Sue Matters/KWSO
Warm Springs skiers at the Meadows Ski-Snowboard day.
gust each year depending on
the berries.
Mt. Hood Meadows rec-
ognizes Mt. Hood as Confed-
erated Tribes of War m
Springs ceded areas. Mead-
ows partners with the tribes
on being good stewards of
the land.
Arriving at Meadows for Ski Day.
Native art at Portland Art Museum
Dakota Modern: The Art
of Oscar Howe traces the
60-year career of one of
the 20th century’s most in-
novative Native American
painters, Oscar Howe, citi-
zen of the Yankton Sioux.
Howe died in 1983 from
complications due to
Parkinson’s. Dakota Modern is
now on display with another
Native exhibit at the Portland
Art Museum.
Howe, like many Native
artists of his time, studied
at a Santa Fe art school
known as The Studio, where
he studied flat style, also
known as traditional.
In the 1950s, he began
to break out of the tradi-
tional style of Native
American art. But he faced
pushback. Many artists
viewed studio style as the
only acceptable expression
of Native American art.
The new Portland Art
Museum exhibit holds
nearly 70 of the artist’s
original paintings, on loan
from private collections and
museums. Many of the
pieces have never before
been shown in public.
Among them is a copy of
Howe’s response to the re-
jection of his application to
the 1958 Philbrook Indian
Annual art competition,
which said his submission
was a “fine painting—but
not Indian.”
Howe’s fiery letter in re-
sponse helped shape the way
we look at contemporary
Indigenous art.
“Are we to be held back
forever with one phase of
Indian paintings, that is the
most common way?” he
wrote. “We are to be herded
like a bunch of sheep, with
no right for individualism,
dictated as the Indian has al-
ways been, put on reserva-
tions, and treated like a child,
and only the white man
knows what is best for him.
Now, even in art, ‘you little
child, do what we think is
The late artist, Oscar
Howe in gallery.
best for you, nothing differ-
ent.’ Well, I am not going to
stand for it. Indian art can
compete with any art in the
world, but not as a sup-
pressed art.”
Throughout his 40-year
career, Howe challenged the
art establishment’s assump-
tions about Native American
art. He proved that his art
could be representative of
both his Ochéthi Šakówi cul-
ture and aesthetics, while also
being respected in the main-
stream art community.
With his talent and advo-
cacy to show beyond any
doubt that Native art is both
modern and contemporary,
Howe created a movement
that inspired generations of
Indigenous artists to cel-
ebrate their Indigeneity
through their artwork.
They Come from Fire
This month at the Port-
land Art Museum, when Jef-
frey Gibson reflected on the
2020 social uprising embod-
ied by the Black Lives Mat-
ter movement and activism
for Indigenous rights in Port-
land, Mr. Gibson knew he
could create something spe-
cial.
Gibson is a citizen of the
Mississippi Band of
Choctaw who also has
Cherokee ancestry.
Kathleen Ash-Milby is the
curator of Native American
art at Portland Art Museum.
Ms. Ash-Milby and Mr.
Gibson saw an opportunity to
use the vacant pedestals that
once held statues of presi-
dents like Abraham Lincoln
and Theodore Roosevelt.
And they wanted to reclaim
those spaces with visual rheto-
ric and performance.
Gibson and Ash-Milby, a
citizen of the Navajo Na-
tion, were surprised when
138 people showed up to a
call for portrait subjects.
With so many willing par-
ticipants, Gibson and pho-
tographer Brian Barlow,
spent three full days photo-
graphing children, distin-
guished elders, LGBTQ+
artists and activists.
The outcome—a series of
portraits that radiate with
transformative energy—re-
veals the sense of kinship
that exists in Indigenous com-
munities.
North End tourney in Feb.
The North End Express
All Indian Men’s 19-29
years/30 and Over Basket-
ball Tournament, and All
Indian Women’s Basketball
Tournament are coming up
February 23-26 at the Warm
Springs Community Center
and the Youth Center gyms.
Entry fee is $300 for the
Men’s (eight-man roster)
both divisions, payable by
certified check or money
order by Tuesday, February
14.
The Women’s Division
tourney will include: Eight
Championship embroidered
jackets. Eight r unner-up
hooded sweatshirts. Eight
third-place crewneck t-shirts.
Eight fourth-place t-shirts.
Plus the Most Valuable Player
Award, and All Tourney.
The Men’s awards, 19-29
and 30 and over division:
Eight Championship em-
broidered jackets. Eight run-
ner-up hooded sweatshirts.
Eight third-place crewneck
t-shirts. Eight fourth-place
t-shirts. Plus the Most Valu-
able Player Award, and All
Tourney.
For more information
contact Austin Greene at the
Recreation office, 541-553-
3243. The email is:
austin.greene@wstribes.org
Notice of election of district board members
Notice is hereby given
that on Tuesday, May 16,
2023 an election will be
held in Jefferson County,
Oregon for the purpose
of electing board mem-
bers to fill the following
positions and terms, in-
cluding any vacancy which
may exist on the boards of
the following districts:
Ashwood School Dis-
trict #8:
Position 1 – 4 Year
Term
Position 3 – 2 Year
Term (*unexpired term)
Position 5 – 4 Year
Term
Culver School Dis-
trict #4
Position 2 – 4 Year
Term
Position 5 – 4 Year
Term
Jefferson County
School District 509-J
Position 4 - 4 Year
Term
Position 5 - 4 Year Term
Jefferson County Edu-
cation Service District
Ashwood, Position 1 – 4
Year Term
Culver, Position 2 – 4
Year Term
Black Butte, Position 3 –
4 Year Term
At-Large, Position 6 – 4
Year Term
Jefferson County Li-
brary District
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ter District
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Position 5 – 4 Year Term
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Rescue
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Position 4 – 2 Year Term
(*unexpired term)
Position 5 – 4 Year Term
Jefferson
County
Emergency Medical Ser-
vices District
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Madras Aquatic Cen-
ter District of Jefferson
County
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Position 5 – 2 Year Term
(*unexpired term)
This election will be con-
ducted by mail.
Each candidate for an of-
fice listed above must file a
Declaration of Candidacy
including a $10 filing fee or
file a Declaration of Can-
didacy and a Petition for
Nomination with 25 sig-
natures (6 signatures for
Ashwood School District)
of eligible Jefferson
County voters at the Elec-
tions Department of
Jefferson County, Or-
egon, no later than the
61st day before the date
of the regular district
election.
The first day for filing
is February 4, 2023. The
filing deadline is 5:00
p.m. on March 16,
2023.
Filing forms
are available at the
Jefferson County Clerk’s
Office, 66 SE D St. Suite
C, Madras, OR 97741,
the Jefferson County
website (www.jeffco.net/
cc) or the Secretary of
State’s website at
sos.oregon.gov/elec-
tions/Documents/
SEL190.pdf
For more information
541-475-4451.