6 october 2004
Media Contact:
Jeremy FiveCrows
Village Coordinator
(503) 731-1275
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the Appaloosas to Salmon Festival at Oxbow Park
Indian
village at annual event promises discovery and fun.
Portland, Oregon
- Counting the nights
until Indian fry bread, tribal tales and traditional tepees fill your
days? Of course! Back by popular demand, the Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission’s (CRITFC) Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum Village returns with
Metro Regional Services’ 21st annual Oxbow Salmon Festival.
The festival runs from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Oct. 9 and 10, at Oxbow
Regional Park, 8 miles east of Gresham, Ore., with a $7 admission
per vehicle.
Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum Village, which debuted at last year’s Salmon
Festival, welcomes visitors to participate in the traditions of the
region’s salmon cultures, including the Nez Perce, Warm Springs,
Yakama and Umatilla tribes. Riders atop majestic appaloosa horses,
a host of tepees and the savor of fry bread and roasted salmon fill
the village landscape as festival goers learn traditional beading,
net-tying, dancing and drumming. Elders share stories reflecting that
we are all Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum, or salmon people.
Metro’s Salmon Festival celebrates the fall Chinook that spawn
each year in the Sandy River along Oxbow Regional Park. About 10,000
young and young-at-heart visitors will descend on the event to enjoy
guided river walks, music, craft activities and CRITFC’s Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum
Village. For more information about the festival call Metro at (503)
797-1850 or visit www.metro-region.org/salmonfestival.
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About CRITFC
The Portland-based Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission is
the technical support and coordinating agency for fishery management
policies of the Columbia River Basin's four treaty tribes: the Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes
of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes
and Bands of the Yakama Nation and the Nez Perce Tribe.
CRITFC, formed in 1977, employs biologists, other scientists, public
information specialists, policy analysts and administrators who work
in fisheries research and analyses, advocacy, planning and coordination,
harvest control and law enforcement. |
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