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Show Indians Attend Consortium Holds University Workshop XT' . O I J I - , B iii,,.,- -, (; TTUTTT 'Hll l'llll!M"JMP.llMMlimmi i I y ' ' c ' J By TOM CLOYD Eighteen American Indian representatives repre-sentatives from eight Western reservations res-ervations will attend today the final day of a week-long communications communica-tions workshop conducted by the University Bureau of Indian Services. Serv-ices. This is the second such workshop work-shop to be held at the University in recent months, and is instructed in part by the University Department Depart-ment of Journalism. Concentrating on techniques of writing, producing, and managing inter- and intratribal newsletters and regular newspaper releases, such workshops are but a small part of the effort of three Western universities to assist the American Indian in improving his relationship relation-ship with the dominant non-Indian culture of America. THE U.S. OFFICE of Economic' Opportunity last year granted an $811,000 contract to the University to work specifically with the 70,000 reservation Indians of six Western states. The University Bureau of Indian Services, which includes a University office and a full field staff, is part of Consourcium, which includes similar bureaus at the University of South Dakota and Arizona State U. in a massive effort ef-fort to improve the ever worsen- ' These American Indians representing eight Western West-ern states have been attending a communications workshop conducted by the University Bureau of Indian Services. The workshop ends today. Visitors Say-Goodbye; Say-Goodbye; Co On U.S. Trip An American History seminar and a tour of downtown Salt Lake were the concluding events in a two-week visit to our campus by 11 Japanese students, winners of an academic contest sponsored by the Nagoya Broadcasting Company in Japan. During their stay the students, stu-dents, aided by the Summer School Committee and Lee Burnham, attended at-tended seminars, visited regular class sessions, and toured various interest spots in Salt Lake, Heber, Provo and Park City. IN THIS first visit to the United States, the young men celebrated Independence Day with a canyon picnic and water-skiing (a first for most), then attended a fireworks display. Most of the days, however, were scheduled with academic activities ac-tivities for the 11 who are here to investigate problems and procedures pro-cedures within their particular fields of study. Last weekend was spent by each young man in the home of an American family. Toshiki Asano, a j medical science student, and Mi-noru Mi-noru Kanie, an economics major, stayed with the families of professors profes-sors whose classes they had been I attending. Others were invited by families of students and members of the administration. This was a highlight of the two-week period. They participated in the families' regular week-end religious and recreational rec-reational events. The group, none of them Christians, attended LDS, Unitarian and Presbyterian church services. OUR VISITORS noticed one striking strik-ing aspect of American family life: the independence of each of the family members. According to Keisuke Isobe, the American children chil-dren have established an independence independ-ence of values and attitudes, acquired ac-quired in school or some other source than the home. The students visited the Kenne-cott Kenne-cott Copper Mine, the old Park City silver mine, Hansen Planetarium, Planetari-um, Pioneer Village and downtown Salt Lake. They were especially impressed with the clean, wide streets. Japanese city streets, they noted, were always crowded and noisy. THEY ATTENDED "You Can't Take It With You" at the Pioneer Memorial Theatre, which, because of the universal appeal of slapstick slap-stick comedy, was enjoyable for them even though some of the rapid dialogue was difficult to understand. un-derstand. Koji Kawate pointed out that there are very few plays of this type in Japan, and most are limited to the university festival productions there. The Nagoya students will spend the next three weeks investigating universities and commercial centers throughout the United States, after which they will return to our cam-Pus cam-Pus on August tenth for another week of seminars, receptions and debriefing sessions before returning to Japan. almost all of whom live in the Western U.S. The results of the last Communications Communi-cations Workshop were impressive. Within 30 days of the representatives' representa-tives' return to their reservations, two thirds of them began publishing publish-ing newsletters. The main problem encountered in the effort to establish estab-lish a tribal news media is a lack of funds and equipment. ONE OTHER facet of the University Uni-versity Bureau's Consourcium effort ef-fort is a program to extend the educational attainment of the Indians In-dians of these eight reservations, an attainment which averages one-half one-half that of the average American. This particular program is especially especial-ly concerned with the problems of economic and cultural isolation and deprivation which predestine Indians In-dians to education failure. Dr. Lyman S. Tyler, director of the University Bureau of Indian Services, "comments that the most basic and immediate aim of Consourcium Con-sourcium is to simply help make available to the Reservation Indian those services which the rest of the nation takes for granted. |