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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks so much for your comment. I grew up
in Burns and worked on the Warm Springs Rez for 10 years (lived on it for 3)
and interviewed many people about many topics for public affairs programs at
the station including discovery of remains, etcetera during my 6-year stint at the
tribes public station KWSO Radio 91.9 fm there years ago.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> I agree with your statement –
culturally things are viewed very differently than a scientist might view them
and the reception of such a correction, whilst academically correct, might
further the sometimes-present cultural distrust of archaeologists by native
peoples.</span></font></p>
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[mailto:or_archaeology-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Paul Claeyssens<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Wednesday,
August 26, 2009</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Susan White<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b>
or_archaeology-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us; Archaeology Listserv </span></font><font
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [OR_Archaeology] Fwd:
Re: Interesting article inBend Bulletin newspaper features pictographs in Mil</span></font></p>
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</span></font><font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:sans-serif'>While academically interesting to some, I would think
the Northern Paiute (be they at Warm Springs, Burns Colony or with the Klamath)
would find such statements, especially coming from an archaeological
list-serve, as culturally offensive and insensitive.<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:
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</span></font><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>>>
"j. a" <johnvallison@yahoo.com> 8/24/2009 </span></font></tt><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>7:42 PM</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> >>></span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">I think that this article needs to be subject to a
review article based</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">upon what is known about the time-frame of the
expansion of the</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Numic-speaking peoples into that is known to have
been the long-standing</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">territory of the Klamath peoples since at least
10,000 years ago. The</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">date for the entry of the Numic peoples is address
in a number of works,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">see especially Theodore Stern, Chiefs and Chief
Traders and Young and</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Bettinger, The Numic Spread; and for the relation
of the Klamaths to the</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">area see Tom Connolly's work on basketry of the </font></tt></span></font><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ft.</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Rock</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Basin</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>. The new</span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">article then should be sent to the same audience
to address the errors</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">which attribute these sites to Paiutes rather than
to Klamath people.</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">This is not to say that these sites are not of
importance to all Indian</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">peoples, but just to attribute the work to those
who did it.</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">John Allison</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">--- On Mon, </font></tt></span></font><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>8/24/09</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>, Susan White
<susan.white@state.or.us> wrote:</span></font></tt><font size=2
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<tt><font face="Courier New">From: Susan White <susan.white@state.or.us></font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Subject: [OR_Archaeology] Interesting article in
Bend Bulletin</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">newspaper features pictographs in </font></tt></span></font><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Millican</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Valley</span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">To: "Archaeology Listserv </font></tt></span></font><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Oregon</span></font></tt><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>"</span></font></tt><font
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<tt><font face="Courier New"><OR_Archaeology@listsmart.osl.state.or.us></font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Date: </font></tt></span></font><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Monday, August 24,
2009</span></font></tt><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span></font></tt><tt><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>8:51 AM</span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090822/NEWS0107/908220383/0/NEWS01</span></font></tt><font
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<tt><font face="Courier New">Protecting our ancient pictographs</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Site in Millican Valley is now listed on National
Register of Historic</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Places</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">By Hillary Borrud / The Bulletin</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Published: August 22. 2009 4:00AM PST</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">Over the last century, vandals damaged pictographs
at an American</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Indian spiritual site in the Millican Valley by
drawing on top of them</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">with chalk, among other things. Now, some people
hope the site’s</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">listing on the National Register of Historic
Places will help protect</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">it.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">In the 1950s, Minerva Soucie’s parents often
stopped at an American</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Indian spiritual site in the Millican Valley,
where they showed their</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">children the pictographs that Northern Paiute
people painted hundreds</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">of</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">years ago.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">“It was a place (where) people come and look
for direction, or to be</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">used maybe in a spiritual quest process for their
lives,” said</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Soucie,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">who is a Burns Paiute tribal elder. Her father
explained the meaning</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">of</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">some paintings, although others were a mystery.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">“It was in very good condition when I was a
child,” Soucie said.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Two decades later, she saw that change. People
damaged the site during</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">what appeared to be parties.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">“I liked going there until I went one time
and it was vandalized,”</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Soucie said. “It looked like there were
panels trying to be chipped</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">off, and that to me was a desecration of our
teachings or our</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">spiritual</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">way of life.”</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">After years of work by local archeologists and
other concerned people,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">the site was listed on the National Register of
Historic Places in</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">mid-July.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Soucie and others said they hope the new status,
which is relatively</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">rare for archeological sites in Oregon, will bring
heightened public</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">awareness of its importance and encourage people
in the area to keep</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">an</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">eye out for vandals.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Paiute Indians, who are associated with the
Confederated Tribes of</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Warm</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Springs, the Burns Paiute Tribe and the Klamath
Tribes, continue to</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">use</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">the site today. The site is on private property,
and the owners played</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">an integral role in seeking the historic
designation for the site, but</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">they could not be reached for comment.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Archeological sites</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Cara Kazer, an architectural historian in the
State Historic</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Preservation Office, said Oregon has about 33,000
known archeological</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">sites, but only between 120 and 130 of those are
listed on the</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">National</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Register of Historic Places.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">“It’s pretty rare that we list an
archeological site,” Kazer</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">said.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Oregon has 1,902 listings on the National Register
of Historic Places,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">and 34 of them are in Deschutes County.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">The site’s place on the national register,
which is maintained by</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">the</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">National Park Service, will add to existing
protections for</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">archeological sites under Oregon law, said Susan
Lynn White, assistant</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">state archeologist with the State Historic
Preservation Office.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">For example, it is a misdemeanor for a person to
remove an</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">archaeological object or “excavate, injure,
destroy or alter” an</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">archaeological site or object in Oregon without a
permit from the</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">state.</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Another law protects American Indian graves and
objects.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">The location of the site is not being identified
more specifically by</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">The Bulletin to protect the artifacts. The State
Historic Preservation</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Office also redacted large sections of the draft
nomination form</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">before</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">releasing it to The Bulletin, citing the need to
keep the exact</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">location</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">of the pictographs secret.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">History of the site</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">In prehistoric times, the Millican Valley east of
Bend was covered at</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">one point by a large lake. Water in the area
fluctuated over time,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">creating marshes and other water features.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">The water attracted people to the area, although
they spent less time</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">there as the water dried up.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">The pictographs, which were mostly done with red
paint, probably date</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">from 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1900, “When access to
the site by the Paiute</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">became limited due to their removal to
reservations and further</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">intrusions by Euroamerican settlers,”
according to the nomination</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">form</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">released by the State Historic Preservation
Office.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">People who stopped at the area might have been
hunting, trading or</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">traveling to Northern Paiute gatherings. But in
addition to practical</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">aspects such as water at the site, people also
considered it a</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">powerful</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">spiritual site, as the pictographs indicate.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">The latest paintings at the site were probably
created by Northern</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Paiute people who moved into Central Oregon within
the last 1,000</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">years,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">although there is also faded pigment underneath
some of these that</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">could</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">come from earlier paintings and suggests people
used the area even</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">earlier, according to the nomination form.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Images include human and animal stick figures,
lizards, tally marks</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">and</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">abstract paintings such as grids, zigzags,
chevrons and ladder</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">figures,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">according to the nomination form.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">One image consists of two red-tailed circles with
yellow centers and</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">two yellow dots.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">“The tailed circles suggest meteorological
phenomena, especially</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">lightning, which represented a source of strong
and dangerous</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">spiritual</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">power for the Northern Paiute,” according to
the form.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">“The highly abstract drawings of mazes,
rectilinear grids and rakes,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">and stylized spirit figures of humans and animals
likely reflect</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">dreams</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">and visions associated with the acquisition of
guardian spirits. ...</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Some may represent hunting magic or the record of
a successful hunt;</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">others suggest the more powerful spirit helpers of
shamans who could</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">cure illness, control weather, or direct the
communal antelope</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">hunt.”</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">A large boulder shows grinding wear, polish and
other marks that</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">indicate people used it to grind plant foods, as
well as possibly</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">butchering animals and preparing hides.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Vandalism</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Graffiti and other vandalism of the site include
initials that people</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">scratched into the rock and bullet holes in one
animal pictograph,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">although the bullet holes were the only direct
damage to a painting.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Since the 1920s, visitors outlined the images with
chalk to make them</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">more visible for photography, and the chalk was
offensive to American</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Indians who use the site, according to the
nomination form. In 1988,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
restored the</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">pictographs by removing the chalk with water and
brushes.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Many of the paintings are faint and difficult to
see, said Pat</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Kliewer,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">the former historic preservation planner for
Deschutes County.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">“It depends on the time of day and lighting
whether you can see them</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">at all,” Kliewer said. “It’s
really important that people never</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">touch them.” Even brushing against the
images with clothing could</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">damage them, Kliewer added.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Soucie, the Burns Paiute tribal elder, started
working to protect</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">cultural resources in the 1980s, after she saw
that happened to the</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Millican Valley pictograph site. Now, she hopes
the historic</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">designation</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">will help protect the site.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">“I think having it on the federal register
will help preserve the</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">site,” Soucie said. “I believe that
the rock art that was left was</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">from people long, long ago, and they were trying
to provide us with</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">direction.”</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Hillary Borrud can be reached at 541-617-7829 or
at</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">hborrud@bendbulletin.com.</font></tt><br>
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