District Cultural Student Program
Enumclaw School District, Enumclaw, WA (360) 802-7694
Thank you, Ms. Salgado, for teaching Dance this year!
The Pow Wow Student Volunteer Crew
Tech Time at our Middle Schools
Thank you, Mr. Timentwa for Emceeing ESD Powwow
Thank you, Raymond, Ken and Nate, for making our Culture Assemblies a Success!
Thank you, MIT Executive Education Committee for your continued support!
ABOUT US
HAPPY SPRING!
Many exciting things have happened this year for our Native students and communities.
In this Spring Newsletter, we'll be introducing Jennifer Leatham, the newest member to our District Cultural Student Program (CSP) Staff. Additionally, Sarah Brassard and Silvia Johnson will be sharing a little more about what they've been doing this year. Most important, we will be highlighting our Native Graduates of 2016.
As you read, you will begin to see the different ways we are instituting our "Go Green/Paperless" initiative which is also a part of the School District's "Go Google!" Initiative. The "button" features will allow you to have immediate access to our new online forms for Summer Camp.
We raise our hands to the Muckleshoot Tribe and Enumclaw School District for your endless support in the growth and success of our program.
Have a wonderful Spring/Summer Season and we will see you at our upcoming events!
Malama pono,
Kapiolani A. Laronal, Haida/Tsimshian/Native Hawaiian
Cultural Student Program Manager /Native American Education Coordinator
Email: kapiolani_laronal@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Website: www.enumclaw.wednet.edu
Location: Enumclaw High School, 226 Semanski Street South, Enumclaw, Washington 98022, United States
Phone: 360-802-7694
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESD-Cultural-Student-Program-1018943931504681/
New Chromebooks Available for CSP Computer Loan Program
Along with this official move to "Go Google" the Cultural Student Program is providing Google Chromebooks to replace our Computer Laptops for our Computer/Calculator Loan Program. CSP Staff are also receiving training on a monthly basis in order to best support our students and the district with the transition to Google Chrome.
2016-17 Pow Wow Princess
*NEW* Cultural Student Program Electronic Application (Complete Below Today!)
We are going live with online applications this year. Even if your student is a current participant, we encourage you to complete this form! Providing your information will allow us to serve your student better.
Applications are also available in Spanish. To request a hard-copy please e-mail: kapiolani_laronal@enumclaw.wednet.edu.
Coho Salmon Release with Mrs. Johnson & Southwood Students
Thank you, Renee (Rose) Lozier-Rojas!
On Tribal Sovereignty Day for Muckleshoot Nation, Kiya Renee, met with Ms. Laura Johnson's 2nd & 3rd Graders of Southwood to release Coho Salmon along Green River.
Drumming for the Salmon Release
Jennifer Leatham, Cultural Specialist, sings a song for the Coho.
Frank and the Drum
Students from Mrs. Johnson's class, thanked Jennifer for a job well done!
Mark Your Calendars
Honoring Our Native American Graduates ** June 2 **
On Thursday, June 2 will honor all our Native students who have passed Kindergarten, 5th Grade, 8th Grade and Graduating Seniors. This is an important night, especially for our Seniors, as they will be gifted a high quality Pendelton Wool Blanket and participate in a Blanket Ceremony.
Light refreshments will be served. Join us on June 2, 2016, 6:30-8p in the EHS Auditorium.
2016 EHS Graduates At Muckleshoot Tribal Council, June 3rd @ 9:00a.m.**
Our program would not be what it is without the generous donation and support of the Muckleshoot Tribe.
Each year our graduating Seniors meet with Council members and share with them their experiences here at Enumclaw Schools, their future educational and life goals.
This year Enumclaw High School Graduates will be presenting to Tribal Council on June 3rd at 9:00a.m. All Graduating Native Seniors will be meeting at 8:15a.m. in Classroom #422, where we will meet with Council at the Starr Building.
Eagle Feathers Given to Graduating Seniors at EHS Senior Awards Night ** June 7 **
These feathers that will be given are in honor of Sharon Calvert. Sharon was the person with the vision to create this program we are all so fortunate to belong to. Regretfully, she passed away several years ago, but her legacy lives on in the feathers, the program she implemented and her fry bread recipe for Indian Tacos every Thursday of Summer Camp.
Join us at the EHS Senior Awards Night on June 7, 7-9pm, in the EHS Auditorium. At this celebration, each of our graduating Seniors will be given an eagle feather, that may be worn on their graduation caps too!
** IMPORTANT DATES for our Native Graduating Seniors Listed Below **
Native American Cultural Summer Camp
MEET THE DISTRICT CULTURAL PROGRAM STAFF
New Middle School Cultural Specialist
Aama galaak! Ayaltganu! T’aału Maalsk di waayu. Ts’msyenu.Waabm ana’neext. Gisputwada di pteexgu. Kent di wil waatgu. Paul Ferree waa na di nagwaadu. Diana Ferree waa na di nooyu. Virgil Viereck Sr. waa na di nagwaada nagwaadu. Bobbie Viereck waa di noo nooyu. Black Diamond di wil dzogu.
T'oyaxsm nuusm! Sa Aamł waalsm.
That was my formal introduction to you in my native Tsimshian language, Sm’algyax. Here is the translation: Good Day! I am Fortunate! T’aału Maalsk is my Tsimshian name. It literally means “I have History”. I am Tsimshian and of the House of the Blue Billed Duck. Killerwhale is my Clan. My parents are Paul and Diana Ferree of Covington, and my grandparents are Virgil Viereck and Bobbie Viereck. I currently live in Black Diamond. (My Tsimshian grandmother was from Prince Rupert, BC, while my current family, those not in Seattle, live in Metlakatla, AK.)
Thank you all. May your name always be good.
If we haven’t already met, some of you may recognize me from my involvement in the Black Diamond PTA a few years ago. I am very excited to be formally on board the Cultural Student Program team. My daughter, who has been a part of the program a total of 8 years, has always benefited greatly from the opportunities she’s had with Sarah, Cathy and Sharon over the years and now, this year, with Kapiolani.
Just a little about me… I have been a youth pastor at a local church for the past 18 years. It is there that I found my passion for advocacy for our youth of all ages. I look forward to meeting and working with you. Outside of my time at school, most of my activities are family-centered. My daughter, my mother and I belong to a Tsimshian dance group in Seattle called Tsimshian Haayuuk. It means the "Spirit of the Tsimshian". We dance with cedar hats, button robes, masks, and other props you would find typically used at a Potlatch.
Sa Aamł waalsm,
Jen Leatham, Tsimshian
Cultural Specialist for Middle Schools
9am-3:30pm
Email: jennifer_leatham@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Website: www.enumclaw.wednet.edu
Location: Enumclaw High School, Semanski Street South, Enumclaw, WA, United States
Phone: 360-802-7745
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESD-Cultural-Student-Program-1018943931504681/
Latino Specialist Brings New Tradition to Pow Wow
Hello families,
I am Silvia Johnson, Latino Specialist.
As I am entering my second year with the District Cultural Student Program, I have had the opportunity to help our Latino students and families as well as our Native students and families.
It has been an amazing year being an advocate for our students and families and building trust and academic support for them. I look forward to next school year, to take our students on field trips and events that will benefit their future and also to continue the academic support for our students and families.
Thank you families for letting us be a part or your students lives.
Silvia Johnson
Email: silvia_johnson@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Website: www.enumclaw.wednet.edu
Location: Enumclaw High School, Semanski Street South, Enumclaw, WA, United States
Phone: 360-802-7792
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESD-Cultural-Student-Program-1018943931504681/
At this year's Pow Wow, the Portillo family did an amazing job demonstrating a Latino Dande called Jalisqueno.
Come to the ESD Cultural Student Program's 2nd Annual Fiesta on May 13 to experience more Mexican Dancing, Mariachis and Delicious Food!
Please meet the Portillos: David (3rd Gr), Kitza (5th Gr), Isla (10th Gr), Keira (K), Samuel and Gladys
Native American Specialist in her 7th Year
I have been the Native American Specialist for the Enumclaw School District for the past 7 years. I have enjoyed working with all the Native American students in our district and I look forward to working with them for many more years.
My job has been to have classes with our students in the Elementary schools and Middle schools. We have gone on around 6 field trips a year with the Elementary, Middle, and High school students. I have cultural lessons and cultural hands on activities with the Elementary students.
In the past we have taken students to Salmon days, Potlatch, Basket weaving, Supaman, College fairs, Living Voices, Muckleshoot Career Day, Wild Waves, and Seattle Aquarium, just to name a few.
Here is a list of things we are working on or are just wrapping up:
- We have Native dance class January-March then the students dance in the assemblies at our schools and then we end with a huge Pow Wow in March.
- We take our seniors to visit the Tribal Council at Muckleshoot.
- Finally we end the school year with a summer camp for 1st - 8th grade students.
Email: sarah_brassard@enumclaw.wednet.edu
Website: www.enumclaw.wednet.edu
Location: Enumclaw High School, Semanski Street South, Enumclaw, WA, United States
Phone: 360 802-7743
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESD-Cultural-Student-Program-1018943931504681/
Dream Catchers Created by Our Elementary Students
The Ojibwe Legend of the Dream Catcher...
A woman watched a spider spin its web patiently day by day above the place where she slept. One day, her grandson saw the spider and tried to kill it.
“Don’t hurt it” the woman said.
“But, grandmother, you shouldn’t protect this spider” said the boy who didn’t kill the spider, after all.
When her grandson left, the spider thanked the woman and promised to spun for her a web. “The web I will spin you will hang between you and the moon, so that it will snare the bad thoughts while you sleep and keep them from you”.
At this, the woman smiled and watched the spider spin its web.
Thank you, Drum!
We give thanks to Ken Gopher and his Drum. Raymond Kingfisher and Nate Brien, we give thanks!