The Seventh Project

Today our school had an assembly. The assembly was about this group called "The 7th Project" they talked about how you can make your life better without drugs or alcohol. The assembly had big screen tvs, some stereos, and loud music. They showed some videos on how people where struggling with drugs and alcohol and how they had gotten better after drugs and alcohol.

The Ghost of Celilo

Students at Nixyaawii went to go watch a play at BMCC March 15-16. The play was called "The Ghost's of Celilo". The story takes place in the celilo village on the Oregon side of the Columbia river. Across from celilo it was Fallbridge, a white railroad town on the north bank, in Washington. The play take's place on "the other side" while they are trying to remember what happen when Celilo got destroyed. They remember when they find a whistle in a net. when they blow the whistle, they start to remember what had happened. The story takes place when two teenagers are going fishing their names are Noah Hunt; who plays Chokey Jim, Colton Lasater plays Train. They go to the Warm Springs boarding school, held there because they never went to school before they if they tried to escape,The principle they would call the cops and have them arrested. The other kid is an anorphan kid where name is Train, He's always with Chokey Jim. They are best friends in the play. Soon in the story they find out that the U.S. army is going to blow up Celilo to make a dam for hydro electric power. The two boys they want to go fish at Celilo before it is going down. The cast in order of appearance is Narrator Thomas Morning Owl, Mary (Karen Kitchen), Big Eddie (Fred Hill), The Colonel (Ron Harman), and Inky Kevin (Michael Moore). My opinion on the play it was good showed alot of things i didn't know about celilo falls.

Celilo Falls

On March 10, 1957 the United States government destroyed Celilo Falls with the opening of The Dalles Dam. Last weekend local tribes commemorated the 50th anniversary of this tragedy.Before the flood, local natives would catch huge amounts of salmon, and there were feasts almost every day. The reason Celilo was flooded was to make a dam that generated hydro electric power. To this day the Native Americans are still mad about what happened to the falls, and look back to the days when fishermen came from all over the west coast and Alaska, Canada, Oregon, Idaho, and Washington.

Project Phoenix

Project Phoenix is something where they gather a dozen students around the country and they find out what it takes to make a news paper. They first take these classes on basic journalism, and news writing. They also post there own work on the website for other people to see. To help them out they have some of the best native amereican journalists to teach them about jounrnalism. You can apply to the project phoenix high school students can be able to go 9-12 they pick atleast 12-20 students all you have to do is write a essay and fill out a application. The program provides meals, housing, travel expenses and class meterials. You could also download the application at this website http://www.naja.com/programs/students/project-phoenix/

Flags of our Fathers

In our publications class we watch a movie called "Flags of our Fathers". The movie took place in 1945 in this mountain called "Mount Suribachi" on Iwo Jima Island, near Japan. Its basically a war movie, the directors name is Clint Eastwood The movie was relased in 2006, they had mostly music from the 40's I dont know who they are. The main actors on the movie are Adam Beach who played Ira Hayes, Jesse BradFord played Rene Gagnon, and Ryan Philippe played John Bradley. Most of the main actors in the movie are around there 20's and 30's.

The movie starts out when a old man explains what happens in the war and who set the flag on the hill (There is a picture on the right). But there were actually two flags set up on the hill the original flag was taken down, and a replacement flag that they put up on the hill and they took down the real flag. There were six men that put the real flag up and got there picture token and the main actors that had survived the war where famous and the other three had died later on in the movie. The title says it all about the movie, which was based on a true story. Well if you like war movies you should watch this, it's filled with lots of action, and I thought the movie was good.