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Medicine Talk for the Indian Family seminar newsletter, 1980
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THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE
MARCH, 1980
f,1EDICitlE TALI{ for tlte INDIAN FAMILY SEfl1INAR
Marclt 13-15,1980
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MEDICINE TALK FOR INDIAN FAMILIES
A seminar entitled ''Medicine Talk for
Indian Fami 1 ies" wi 11 be held March 13-15,
at Evergreen State College, Olympia,
W~ The event is sponsored by the Northwest Indian Women's Circle and will focus
attention on the needs of the Indian family
in a time of rapid change and increasing
cultural pressures.
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Speakers will include Tallalah Pinkham,
Yakima; Katsi Cook, Akewesasne Notes, WARN,
Mohawk Women's Dance; Phillip Deere, Muskogee traditional elder; Thomas Banyacya, Hopi
Interpreter; and Pat Ballanger, Minneapolis
Chapter of Women of .A11 Red Nations (WARN).
Discussion at the seminar will explore
how we can use both traditional teachings
and contemporary skills to strengthen Indian
families. Medicine talk, healing words
from knowledgeable, traditional elders will
help to clear troubled minds and teach
inspirational techniques so that Indian
~ eople can cope with life's mounting stresses.
A unique feature of this seminar will be
the emphasis on topics of concern and interest to Indian women. Among the issues to
be addressed are:
V A Woman's Duty to Herself: Too often
women tend to lose themselves in the many
roles they must assume in life , such as
wife, mother and worker. When this happens,
she loses her sense of identity as a whole
human being . How can this be overcome and
how can women learn to cope responsibly
with their many duties?
Sexual Roles of Women and · Men: What is
the generally acceptable and traditional
sexual behavior of Indian women and men?
This discussion will cover childhood sexuality and how to deal with it; premarital
sexual behavior; monogamy; polygamy; adultery and promiscuity.
Man's Inhumanity to Women: Violence
against women is epidemic in today's world.
What can Indian society do to cope with
the problems of battered women, sexually
abused girls, rape victims and abandoned ·
women?
Women's Health: Self-healing methods,
including nutrition, herbs, sweats and other
~aditional remedies, will be discussed.
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Public schools often teach values confli~,<ZJ"' t ~
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in behavioral problems for our children.
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What can Indian mothers do to balance the
conflicts? What educational tools can
"' mothers use to help their children?
Social Service Programs for Indian
Women: Indian women face many health
abuses, including forced sterilization
at the hands of racist and sexist medical
and social service programs. Who designs
and runs these programs? Do they help or
hurt? . Where do programs exist for Indian
women--and are they visible, accessible
and accountable to the women they are set
up to serve?
The Spiritual Identity of Human Beings:
The importance of elders within Indian
social life, the purpose of meaning of life,
the Hopi message to humanity.
Registration
and Travel Expenses
In order to help pay travel expenses
for the speakers--who will come ·from many
parts of the United States--a registration
donation is requested to help defray the
cost of this seminar. For tribes or
Indian organizations who want to bring
their tribal people to this event, reduced
group rates are available. low-income
Indian women, elders or students may
request a waiver of the registration donation. Non-Indians are also encouraged to
attend .
Pre-Registration Donation
$10.00 per day or/
$25.00 for three days
Registration Donation at the Door
$15.00 per day or/
$40.00 for three .days
The donation will cover lunch on Friday and
a feast on Saturday night. The seminar
will end \'lith a mini pow-wow celebration
Saturday night following dinner.
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~LUATIONS DUE
It's that time of the quarter again.
Winter Quarter ends on March 22. Evaluations are .due by March 15th. All students
'eaving the program at the end of the Winer Quarter need to turn in formal evaluations. These students have an asterisk
beside their name in the lists below. All
other students on the lists need to turn
in an informal evaluation to their designated faculty. All Nature of Communitg
faculty members can be reached at 866- 334.
Maxir.e Mimms
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*Barbara Ann Arnold
*Alphonso Hall Beverly
Joseph Willis Boston
*George Wesley Boston
Pherris Ray Chapman
Wanda Ruth Cromartie
Betty Jean Davis
Rona 1d Gi 1ven
Nader Hafezi
Brenda Rita Hurtado
Melvin Jenkins
Lillie May Johnson
Eddwynn Jordan
Jacquelyn M. Joseph
A1 i reza Kazem in i
Richard Lester
Daniel Lee Lunsford
*Arthur McChristian
James S. McKethan
~~Hernon Mosely
Yvette Nobe 1
Jesse Willard Price
Alexander Reed, Sr.
Jacqulyn M. Reed
Beverly Jean Roberts
Larry Dean Roberts
Richard Burton Rolle
John James Saunders
Robert Simmons
Carolyn Yvonne Smith
Henry Smith
Stephen Philip Smith
Mary P. Stevehson
Teresa Francine Stone
Clarence Taylor
Carlton Bruce Tucker
*George Standley Turner
Ronnie Eugene Watkins
Margaret Greene/H. Hillaire
Gary Dean Beaver
Shirley Bob
William Lyle Davis
Lena F. Dunstan
Andrew Elwell, Jr.
Kay D. Fassler
*Michael 0. Finnegan
Joseph Robert Frank
John Wm. Friday
Audrey M. George
Evelyn George
Joel W. Greene
Edna Dorothy Hi)laire
Ruben G. Hillaire
Georgina M. Knight
Faye Cabrini Lapoint
Charles Soper Learned
Stella Mary Long
June Maria Lumbert
*Kevin James Macleah
Terri Lee McCloud
Alvina McGuire
Andre Jacques Mollet
Debra Lynne Moore
Patrick Paul
Joseph Edward Washington
Joseph L. Washington
ttl J ton G1enn
Russ Fox
Deborah Ann Bradford
*George A. Burkhart
Vickie L. Caparoon
Dorsay Fischer
*Gregory John Hall
Julie Louise Hubben
1:Joan Ke 11 y
~':Ellen Kissman
Karen Sue Lohmann
Vickie D. Matheson
*Francis Ann Morgan
David Herbert Nilsen
Peter Robert Olson
Fonda D. Ray
*William Joseph Schneider
Grace Simone Schumann
*Amy Beth Shapiro
Roger Allen Stritmatter
*Pamela Ruth Thornhill
Daniel Wekselblatt
Dorcas Ellen Whealan
David W. Whitener, Jr.
Jane Sherrill Williamson
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David Whitener
Mario Alvarado
*Charles Aurthur Cantrell
Wayne Fred Cantrell
·. Edward Gordon Chi nneth
~·,Emmerson Keith Coker
David E. Cox
James Howard Doble
Terri Anne Gibson
~·,Anthony B. Gi 1
Leslie R. Gribi
Charles Cecil Haines
Walter Daniel John
Charles Carrol Mathews
Melvin Eugene Moon
Jaylene F. Oehrling
Mark Ronald Olson
Wesley Christ John Penn
*Diane Carol Rautio
Bernadine Lynn Robb
David Weeks
Robert Wesley Whitener, Jr.
Betsy Diffendal
Ingrid Fabbe Bauer
Nancie Ann Blahm
Haywood Butler, Jr.
Willie Roy Chapman
Nancy Chelemedas
~·,M i che 11 e Rache 1 Coh i 11 -·· .1 . d.·
Birdie Louise Viola Davenport · t u ·
*Sylvia Nora Fuerstenberg
Karen Kay London
~·,Nancy A. Maule
*Lind~ Kay McChristian
Barbara Ann McClarren ' ,, ., . . ,. •·' :Kent Leslie Moore
\_____, Judy L. Roberts
John H. Rodriguez
Jan Louise Schneider
David Wayne Snyder
Bennie Tate
Char 1 i sa Be a Wade -Catherine Louise Wilson
Evelyn L. Yellowbird
Lovern King
Rudy Amesquita
*Maria Ofelia Anorga
*Maria Teresa Borja
Nancy Ann Cress
Susan Davenport-Moore
Abelardo De La Pena
Dianne Mary Devlin
Rosaline McCloud
•': She i 1a McCloud
•'<Mi 1es McEvoy
Scott Daniel Medbury
Steve Bradley Rosenthal
~·, Terra Solove
Kelly Jean Stevens
Rafael Villegas .
~ •'<Donna Dixie Wood
Maureen Elsie Yocum
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A5eminar Poetry Writing is being held
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Thursday from 10:00-12:00 in L1406.
~ent student poetry follows :
~ nflower
sharpened strife
withered heart full of life
piercing, pinning, painter's spear
spilling over oily tear
Ravine reflected reach
painful eyes full of speech
staring, suffering, silent shrill
spine contracts, addicting chill.
Scot Medbury
Sometimes I feel as lone1y
as the etching I bought
last Friday-She Still Has Her Cat
woman
sepia so 1 ita ry
clutching her cat
she sits quietly, a symbol
future.
Private
Unshared secret
Kept by some
When discovered, no longer
Mine.
Greg Hall
Tatami
Mats golden
Arranged in geometric
Fashion, for kneeling knees and bowing bodies
Oriental augment
Mats golden
Gleaming rice fields
Pleasant paddies of sacred white
Munching on raw fish and tsukimono
Japan.
Gleaming rice fields
Flocked outside the train
Amidst the glistening rain
Fearsome Fuji flying by
Memories.
Kelly Stevens
Ellen Kissman
Electric
Jasmine
Kazoo
Childhood Bedtime
Closed away
Unhappy thoughts
Possessions taken,
Scolding parents
The can'ts and don'ts.
Chores taking
Away from play
Hard work
Kid work
Then sleep .
Margaret Greene
I know how it feels to need.
I have needed forever.
My head spins in circles
As I go from 'friend' to 'friend'
Crying for compassion,
A hug
Or
a cup of tea.
Michelle Cohi 11
After Vincent
Done or said,
I know when it's come out wrong
I sit; how deep is this
striving after striving
that my father's father taught him,
him me entwined inside ...
It's thick.
There is beauty.
Let go of all that.
Dave Weeks
Outside my window
Birds singing a new day
Learning from the woods
Listening to the river riffle
Watching mallards fly
Where do I go
The wind blows past.
Wes Penn
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FEBRUARY 25 ALL DAY CLASS WITH STUDENT
PRESENTATIONS
by Susan Davenport-Moore
We started the day at ten 0 1 clock with
a short lecture by Betsy and a film concerned with moral reasoning development.
These generated a great class discussion
with many people contributing thoughts
and feelings about morality, an individua1 1 s
choice and many other topic~.
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We stopped for lunch and to take the
time to look at some of the visual displays
of student work on the walls around the
room.
Karen Lohman had done a series of landscaping plans for naturalizing the parking and other outside space around the
F.O.O.D. Co-Op. One of the drawings was
a plan for three 20 ft. carrots to be
carved out of a cedar log. What a concept!
Abelardo De La Pena contributed a series
• of autobiographical photographs with short
· poems to describe the images. All of these
were interesting and skillfully done.
Fran Morgan had hung up two large charcoal drawings \<lith poems woven into the
\..._.,·ketches.· Beautiful!
After the break, Michaelle Cohill talked
about her study of Judaism, the Olympia
Jewish community and her feelings about
being Jewish in this community. Then she
served us all her first attempt at chicken
soup with Matzoh balls. Delicious. After
the soup, Abelardo came up to explain the
process he went through to create his series
of photographs. He also read a poem that
Maxine asked him to reread in Spanish.
He did, with some translating help from
Rafael and Rudy.
During this second half of the day,
Rafael Villegas and Nancy Cress were
utilizing their video camera technique,
so we have a video tape of part of the day.
Then Billy Davis, who works in Tacoma
with the American Business Association gave
an interesting mini-seminar on the 11 drug
scene,•• the games people play to get prescription drugs to sell on the street,
their value and lots of other information.
He also talked about how he is making a
~ living by giving seminars to the medical
profession of his knowledge of the drug
world .
We had another good discussion a
his presentation with many viewpoints
expressed.
Birdie Davenport showed some of her
forged iron work and a wonderful wood
carving of two clasped hands which wi 11
eventually be
door pull for the door
of a cabin she plans to build in the
near future.
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We ended · the day listening to singing
and guitar playing by Sylvia Fuerstenberg
and a friend. Some people joined in the
singing on familiar tunes--especially
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Happy Birthday 11 for Maxine, Lovern and
Rudy Amesqu ita. They each sang an i mprovised verse of Happy Birthday about
themselves (and their age) to the enjoyment of all of us listening.
We ended eating chocolate birthday
cake. The best demonstration of the day.
Yum!
The next student presentation will be
on the afternoon of March lOth. Donna
Wood, Terra Solove, Steve Rosenthal and
David Weeks wi 11 present a who 1 i st i c
health workshop. A wholistic health food
potluck will be held at noon preceding
the presentation. Rafael Villegas and
Nancy Cress will also show video clips of
their taping of El Centro Chicano Community Center in Seattle. Everyone is
welcome.
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wholistic health:
Everything affects our health--all factors
physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and
environmental. Today more than ever environmental conditions play an important role on
the effects of our body. A disharmony in
life will in turn reflect upon the body.
The body communicates to us through subtle
hints and early warnings, we should try to
listen and be aware of this.
Many people when emotionally upset will
develop a slight sore throat . When people
are afraid of approaching something, whatever it may be, a sickness of some sort will
develop. In most cases instead of dealing
"wholistically 11 with the problem from which
the physical symptom derived, the physical
symptom is treated with a drug. The drug
works well to relieve the physical symptom,
but what of the roots of where the physical
symptom came from? What happens to them?
Images of myself
Sections of seconds
When the reflected light
etches on silver
Expressed replicas
Staring into the unlying glass eye
Self inflicted shots
during serious moments
These probes into portraiture
These egocentric excursions
Aid in the exploration
Explaining my existence
Photo graphic self-therapy
Abelardo de Ia Pena
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"1 CHANGE
The Nature of Community seminars on Mondays have moved to Room 1612 in the Library
building. The time remains the same, 10:00
AM to noon.
Usually, these roots are buried even
deeper within the person, which in turn
creates chronic illness suer as cancer,
heart disease and hypertension. These
diseases are very prominent in our western
culture. Stress has been linked directly
with cancer, heart disease and hypertension.
We must learn to allow ourselves to relax,
rest and reflect with the emotional symptom(s), as well as the physical, that was
ORIGINALLY responsible for the disease.
Approaching the sickness wholistically
envolves the whole person, not just the
physical symptoms.
Our life is like that of a river, flowing
freely, gently. However, when the river has
been dammed up, it causes blockage. The
dam could be old (early childhood and childhood) or new (present life); the dam or
blockage causes . illness and contamination
to the freely flowing river.
Wholistic is defined as a state in which
an individual integrates all his levels of
being--mind, body and spirit. When dealing
wholistically we must examine who we are
and where we came from and what we are
doing to and with qurselves. We must
accept the responsibility of ourselves
and to ourselves and recognize everything
that comes to us has meaning, purpose,
importance and is useful in healing ourselves
and each other.
- Terra Solove
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