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March 8, 2023
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Celebrating 30 years at museum
The Museum at Warm Springs
is 30 years old this year, and is cel-
ebrating the anniversary with a
number of special anniversary
events. First is the Spring Clean-Up
at the museum grounds on Satur-
day, March 18. This will be from 1
to 5 p.m. with a reception to follow
at 5 to 6:30.
The museum grounds also in-
clude the foundation, under con-
struction, of the Veterans Memo-
rial project: This area will also be
part of the March 18 clean-up.
Next: The spring exhibit—An
Eye for the Rez: Edward Heath Pho-
tography—is opening in early April.
Mr. Heath has become a renowned
photographer of the reservation. At
the exhibit opening, on April 6, there
will be a reception that afternoon,
followed by classes for youth.
Then in the summer and fall will
be the exhibition A Thirty-Year
Museum Retrospective. This will in-
clude the designs and artwork of
Donald J. Stastny, representing the
architects of record, Stastny &
Burke Architecture. Mr. Stastny
during a July 26 presentation, will
revisit the origins and progress of
the design process that created the
museum.
Traditional arts classes for tribal
members will also start in the sum-
mer, celebrating the anniversary.
A fall event will be the museum
gala fundraiser, tentatively sched-
uled to happen in Bend. And then
will be be the Thirtieth Annual
Tribal Member and Youth Art Ex-
hibition.
A message from W.S. Social Security office
Rosemar y ‘Mushy’ Alarcon, the
Warm Springs Social Security—
Aged Persons with Disabilities rep-
resentative, would like to share the
following recent announcement:
The Inspector General for the
Social Security Administration has
designated this Thursday, March
9 as National ‘Slam the Scam’
Day—an outreach campaign to
raise public awareness of Social
Security scams and other govern-
ment imposter scams. This is part
of National Consumer Protection
Week through March 11.
Last year, the Federal Trade
Commission received over
191,000 complaints of government
imposter scams. Of the total num-
ber who reported scams, 14.6 per-
cent said they lost money to a
Languages:
Hosting
conference
this month
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The Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs, Education and the
Culture and Heritage teachers are
leaders nation-wide and beyond in
the field. Just last fall, for example,
the tribes’ Language teachers re-
ceived the National Indian Educa-
tion Association Cultural Freedom
Award:
“Your program is a testament to
the strength of our tribal commu-
nity leaders by showing both humil-
ity and passion for this work in giv-
ing our Native students access to
culture, language, history and the
education they need,” the NEIA
president said at the awards cer-
emony last October at Oklahoma
City.
The teachers, Culture and Heri-
tage, Education and the tribes this
month will host a four-day confer-
ence—Healing Through Our Lan-
guages—March 26-29 at the Oregon
State University Cascades campus
in Bend.
This will be a chance for the
teachers and other Language
educators to share in their ex-
periences, wisdom and teaching
techniques. Speakers and guests
will arrive from the Oregon
tribes, plus from California,
Washington and Idaho.
The list of speakers is impres-
sive in each of the conference
t o p i c c a t e g o r i e s : Te a ch e r t o
teacher; Linguistics Computer
Technology; Youth Leadership;
and Native Lifeways in Educa-
tion. In addition to the discus-
sions, there will be a salmon
bake at OSU-Cascades, and
nearby field trips. See the Agenda
at right.
For more information contact
Lori Switzler at 541-553-3290. Or
a at email:
lori.switzler@wstribes.org
Gina Ricketts at:
gricketts53@gmail.com
Or email Valerie at:
valerie.wwitzler@wstribes.org
scammer. Total loss was estimated
at $508.96 million.
To prevent further losses, the
Social Security Administration urges
everyone to use caution when re-
ceiving calls or messages from
someone claiming to be from a gov-
ernment agency.
Recognizing the basic signs of a
scam is helpful in stopping fraudu-
lent activity. Remember:
· Scammers pretend to be from
an agency or organization you
know, in order to gain your trust.
· Scammers say there is
a problem or a prize.
· Scammers pressure you to act
immediately.
· Scammers tell you to pay in a
specific way.
Social Security will never:
· Threaten arrest or legal action
if someone does not immediately
send money to resolve an over-
payment.
· Promise to increase benefits
or resolve identity theft issues for
a fee or by moving money into a
protected account.
· Require payment with a re-
tail gift card, prepaid debit card,
cryptocurrency, wire transfer,
internet currency, or by mailing
cash.
· Send text, email, or social me-
dia messages that contain personal
information.
Visit the Social Security
Administration scam
awareness and social media
resources web pages for addi-
tional resources and information
on how to report Social Security
Scams.
Edward Heath photo
A new exhibit—An Eye for the Rez: Edward Heath
Photography—opens Thurday, April 6. This exhibition
will feature new photographs by Warms Springs
photographer Edward Heath.
66 years after Celilo flooding
Celilo Falls—or Wyam in sev-
eral Native languages, meaning
‘echo of falling water’ or ‘sound
of water upon the rocks’—was the
central tribal fishing area on the
Columbia River.
The name refers to a series of
cascades and waterfalls that existed
at the location where The Dalles
dam now stands. Before the inun-
dation, Wyam was the longest con-
tinually inhabited community on the
North American continent.
On March 10, 1957, The Dalles
dam was closed, while hundreds of
observers looked on, and the ris-
ing Lake Celilo rapidly silenced the
falls, submerging the fishing plat-
forms and consuming the village
of Celilo, ending an age-old exist-
ence for those who lived there. The
small community, Celilo Village,
exists nearby, overlooking the
former location of the falls.