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Show Head Start Highlights Bits and Tidbits WMtarocks Caatar On Feb. 22, th e Whiterocks Head Start-' Center had a Bazaar for the purpose of buying some things for the center. Bingo, fish pond, and a cake walk were among the activities. Bazaar items and 23 cakes were donated by the parents. Chili and other food was donated. A box of groceries, donated by Swains Store in Neola, was raffled off and won by Esther Pinnecoose of Randlett. A quilt, which was made by Thelma Sathers and her mother, Mrs. General, was raffled off and by David VanderKraats Just in case ennyone is wonderin its almost spring kids are flittering here n there, noticed a couple of them without shoes even. Thet reminds me! You know what with the energy crisis an the high cost of livin staring us in the face for the next couple of years, it seems like it is high time (no pun intended) to consider a family garden. Now I ain't taklin bout one of them kind thet will take two men, six women and fourteen kids to keep up. I'm su jesting thet it would be a good idea for each family to plan pi planting a small; easy to manage garden what will provide some tasty vegetable treats fer yer family, plus, save them what do like fresh greens straight frum the garden a considerable sum of panaka. For those thet are interested I heard thet you could be a green thumber" cause the Utah State University Extension and Nellie Johnson's crew are planning a Family Garden Workshop for the 25th of March at 4:30 p.m. at the Ute Tribal Learning Center. (For those that dont know where it is- - straight east of the Multipurpose Building). Ennyone Ken come, even if its only to git the book I done writ bout them garden fellers. If you wants And out more 1 is the number. Plantin's the won by Sarah Mountain. PHOENIX, Ariz. Indian and country Chib Invites On Feb. 20, 1974, the.Lapoint-Tridel- l parents sponsored a Chinese dinner at New Members the center in Lapoint. There was good ' New members may still join a attendance. A program was presented Club which M.C. with James Esplin as sponsored Wrestling began . We deeply appreciate the attendance last week. The club meets each Thursday of the Head Stall office staff and their, at 6 p.m. at West Jr. High School. Young men between the ages of nine partners. We want to express appreciation to everyone who attended and those and 19 interested in the club may call who helped with the dinner and the instructors Mike Wardle and Richard program and everything in general to Jenks or the Extension Service at Fort Duchesne at make our social a success. -- (AIPA) -- thats Both Sisseton Sioux Singer Floyd Westerman, who calls himself a country ballad expressionist" and who since 1970 has become one of the most admired and sought-afte- r Indian men in America. Westerman grew up orphaned in Dakota Sioux country, where country music blended in with the land. Country, was the music he heard in his boyhood, and the music he heard in the bars. Now he likes the pure sound of the acoustic guitar and not the electricfied kind. He has FRAGILE signs pasted all over his guitar case, which goes with him whenever he goes on the concert and powwow trails. At 37 years of age, with two albums behind him entitled Custer Died for Your Sins and Indian Country and with the experience of many hectic and turbulent years of new Indian history in his mind, Westerman is staying plugged into the Indian scene, seeing a lot rtf it, and turning it into music. Today the tall, slender and craggy Sioux, whose braids now reach down to his waist, says he is a transient Pm living out of a suitcase. Hes in demand and constantly on the move. Lately hes' been getting across the country from one Indian Awareness Week on one college, campus to another, performing benefit concerts, and visiting the Eastern establishment universities. ''There in the East," says Floyd, they have more mythic feelings about us there like the ftoic withdrawal of the Indian. Sometimes the travelling slacks off. Im not really happy taking a place and calling it home. Pm usually in and around Denver looking toward Phoenix." He recently gave up a home in deep south California only 14 miles north of the Mexican border, where he lived with a bounding, shaggy dog. , , - . . H -- lf too. Hats Off Boy have you noticed how Orson and his crew have spiffed up TOM CORNER. Hats off to you all! - Betcha yer gonna plant a gardenr, Huh? Registration Still Open For Dance. Class - Though classes began Monday registrations for a modern dance class, cosponsored by Utah State University Extension and .the Ute Tribe are still in being accepted. Persons interested course k may enrolling in the contact the Ute Tribe Education office or the USU Extension. The course, is held in the West Jr. to all High school cafeteria and is open are Classes older. persons six years and 14 6 to with those divided by age groups 5:30 to p.m.; 15 meeting from 4:30 p.m. 6 from p.m. to 7 to 18 year olds meeting over and 19 meeting p.m. and adults meet All classes 9:30 to 8 from p.m. p.m. three times a week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings. is 610 class Tuition for the for teenagers and $20 for for children. $15 Bofl WHfcoot Foorfly " ten-wee- non-cred- it idylt,. ton Wroslfing 722-245- 1. Sioux Ballad Expressionist Tells New Indian History in Songs Katherine Jenks and Edith Sireech are crew in the office now. If any of the a small you want your children to raise club projet you should family garden as a You might also consider contact them. Garden having the kids at the Family 4:30 at p.m. Well Workshop, March 25, Tribal Learning Center. meet in the Ute the youngsters to remarks Ill direct my 4-- Fort Duchosm Confer On Feb. 28, Bonnie Slagle brought some prize winning rabbits for the children to see and hold. She will return at Easter time with them. County Nurse Marilyn Thacker gave the parents a lesson on first aid at a Adult Edacotioa Several folks have asked me whats happened to the Adult Education Program thet I talked about at White rocks in the middle of December. Well! I called Washington D.C. about it and it seems that we can not get any word one way or the other until after April 16th. However, Fred Conetah was back there several weeks ago and he sed thet the readers liked it very much and it looked purdy good for fundin. However I'm a skeptic so I won't count the chickens before they are hatched. I promise Ill let you all know as soon as I do. I know that you supported the program, and believe it will work. So do I! Education is a precious gift- - this will be an opportunity for all of you adults to demonstrate this to your children be attending classes and improving your own skills and tallents. 4-- LopoioMrMol Cottar MytoaCootor Dr. Lynn Ravsten came over and observed the children on Feb. 26. He really enjoyed the center and he said we had everything well organized. 4-- H . 722-245- game! ' parent meeting on March 6. Oh March 19. we had a parent meeting with Dr. Lynn Ravsten. Assistant Teacher Elaine Lee had the misfortune of breaking her leg and has had to be off work for about a month. We look forward to having her return in about a week. Utedancers Boots Sireech and Adriana Ignacio are teaching the course, ; was born without a family, he explains. He attended Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools in his Dakota boyhood, and at Wahpeton Indian School there one of his friends and classmates was Dennis J. Banks, a Chippewa who is now a national figure, in the aggressive American Indian Movement (AIM), Floyd has sung with pain about the experiences of the Indian young people in the boarding school life, Being without a home is not hard for me to get along with. I never fully einjoyed being tn a boarding school-th- at was something I had to resolve myself to. But now An no more nomadic deep down than Pin stationary. Thats why I dont have too much of a conflict. " Hes not married so theres no wife to tie him to one place. I see chicks in several parts of the country, " he admits. expressionist. Ifind that most people like music, and Pm turned on by the sound Indian out. They have different understandings, of it. Whatever Indians in me and it keeps a different intelect, hear, Floyd believes, they traditionalize. him that points out the greater To are check. Indian features just fantastic be to and and beautiful ability" of the Indian to learn the ways always good and language of another culture, but yet around. A world of white faces makes you to make those his own. Those whites be to Indian yourself. glad want to be a half of one percent Indian Mostly I use country sounds. I was influenced by Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, themselves. Kris Kristoferson-an- d Johnny Cash, Floyd says time has increased the " until entitled his album recently. first popularity" of Around the country he sometimes uses Custer Died for Your Sins," derived songs to start people talking. A lot of from and named for the book by his good Indians get interested when I sing and friend Vine Deloria. thats a conversation starter. They stop But past history is one thing. Custer by and in 20 minutes well be carrying on said it enough. Now with Watergate, the and relating. "Asa public figure, he finds has those and of songs meaning power that people often think they own a piece increased. Now Pm going to try to of him. In crowds, people yell at him to approach America from all sides-fro- m the John Birch Society to the Liberal sing and play their favorite songs. sides and of left Everything comes out of experiencing Left, and from the right ' " he a too. mood, the Indian community explains. Tics not something that comes automatically. More often than not I will sing, and sing more readily Coantry Sooids "Theyre similar, maybe, but really different from me. It helps balance me I guess I use " a lot of styles in my singing, be muses. Traditional Indian music I sing only at powwows. I dont record it. I guess Pin a country ballad Forty-Nin- e for Indian people than for others. Psychologically, we have to come together first before we can make any " of real statement to (CasHased on Hgs C) kind non-Indian- s. |
