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A Navajo family enterprise in Arizona, a New Jersey medical doctor, and a prominent Colorado educator today were selected by Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall to receive Conservation Service Awards from the Department for outstanding contributions in safeguarding natural resources.

The award to the Navajo conservationists was the first family group award in the Department's history.

Denet Tsosie and Willie Shirley of Chinle, Ariz., along with the 12 members of their families, were cited for their pioneering work in improving a large area on the Navajo Indian Reservation for grazing. Their efforts were characterized as "an example of unusual moral courage, together with technical and management skill applied in the highest traditions of the Department's concepts for conservation of the Nation's natural resources."

The clearing, seeding, and fencing pattern developed by Denet Tsosie and his son-in-law, Willie Shirley, began in 1955 and has become a model for livestock farmers on and off the reservation.

Dr. Paul H. Fluck, 73 N. Union St., Lambertville, N. J., was selected for the award because of his many activities associated with nature preservation and the Washington Crossing Nature Conservation Center in Pennsylvania and for his exceptional record in banding wild birds for scientific purposes. Dr. Fluck has given nature lectures to hundreds of thousands of people at the Center, where he established a bird-banding station in 1952 and since has banded nearly 100,000 birds.

"The message you have so effectively delivered at the Washington Crossing Nature Conservation Center has increased the interest and participation of thousands of people in working toward better wildlife management," Secretary Udall said in the citation for Dr. Fluck.

Jack V. K. Wagar, 415 E. Laurel St., Fort Collins, Colo., was honored for his 40 years "as an educator in the field of recreation policy, wildlife, wilderness, and wildland resources management." Mr. Wagar is Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Head of the Department of Forest Recreation and Wildlife Conservation, Colorado State University.

"Your formulation of the Forest Recreation program at Colorado State University has gained a national reputation and many of your students have secured responsible positions in Federal agencies responsible for land management," his citation reads. "Indicative of your constant work for conservation have been your activities in the Wildlife Society, American Forestry Association, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the United Nations Scientific Conferences on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources, and the Inter-American Conference on the Conservation of Renewable Natural Resources."

Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall announced today that the Department's Distinguished Service Award will be presented June 4 to 42 outstanding employees and former employees and Valor Awards to 9 others for acts of bravery in which they risked their own lives in successful rescues. Award ceremonies will be in the Interior Building Auditorium, Washington, D.C., at 2 p.m.

Six of the Valor Awards will go to seasonal employees of the National Park Service, who formed a team that plucked Lorraine Hough, 21 years old, Sandwich, Ill., and Gaylord K. Campbell, 26, Mahopac, N. Y., from a narrow ledge on the sheer north wall of the Grand Teton, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, and last August.

Campbell suffered a broken leg and bruises when rock showered down from the peak as he and Miss Hough were within 600 feet of reaching the 13,766 foot summit. Miss Hough was not injured.

Those comprising the rescue team, which worked August 22 to 24, to bring the pair to safety, were: Hans M. Ermarth, 5419 University Ave., Chicago Ill.; Ralph H. Tingey, 789 8th Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah; Richard L. Reese, 2390 E. Ashbury, Denver, Colo.; Robert W. Irvine, 2002 E. 21st South, Salt Lake City, Utah; Leon R. Sinclair, University of Washington English Department, Seattle; and Ted L. Wilson, 2537 South 18th East, also Salt Lake City.

The Interior rescue group was aided by Leigh Ortenburger of Palo Alto, Calif., who was vacationing in the park.

A citation for the Interior employees noted that the rescue of Campbell "required an unprecedented stretcher evacuation down the precipitous North Face of the mountain, one of the longest, most difficult and dangerous mountaineering routes in the United States."

Richard J. Francis, principal teacher of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Elim Day School at Elim, Alaska, was named for a Valor Award for rescuing a fourth-grade pupil, Linda Nylin, from the frigid waters of Norton Bay of the Bering Sea after her small boat capsized last October 9.

Another Valor Award goes to Therman "Pat" Ingram, a BIA employee at Juneau, Alaska, for rescuing Susan Patterson, 13 years old, and her brother, Stewart, 3, from their burning home in Juneau on April 20, 1967. The fire took the lives of their mother and two other Patterson children.

James B. Garner, a Bureau of Land Management official, 2020 Sandy Lane, Bakersfield, Calif., will receive a Valor Award for risking his life in rescuing a small girl, April 16, 1967, from the heavy surf of the Pacific Ocean near Morro Rock, San Luis Obispo County, California. The girl vanished after the rescue and her identity was not determined.

Those who will receive Distinguished Service Awards are:

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AREA

Washington, D. C.

Eugene D. Eaton, Associate Director, Office of Water Resources Research, 4514 Davenport St., N. W.

Sidney D. Larson; Office of the Secretary, 3001 Beazey Terrace, N. W. (posthumous).

Mary A. McColligan, Office of the Solicitor, 1301 15th St., N. W. Clarence F. Pautzke, Commissioner, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Deputy

Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, 2121 P St., N. W. Robert A. Vaughan, Office of the Assistant Secretary-Public Land Management, 3311 Rittenhouse St., N. W.

Arlington, Va.

Ralph C. Baker, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, 3027 N. John Marshall Dr. John A. Carver, Jr., Vice Chairman, Federal Power Commission, who served Interior as Assistant Secretary-Public Land Management and as Under Secretary, 4421 25th St., N.

Charles E. Remington, Bureau of Land Management, 2005 Columbia Pike. Harold G. Smith, National Park Service, 5629 34th St., N.

Falls Church, Va.

George F. Baggley, National Park Service, 6129 Leesburg Pike.

McLean, Va.

Gilbert G. Stamm, Bureau of Reclamation, 1049 Balls Hill Rd.

Oakton, Va.

John Ricca, Deputy Director, Office of Oil and Gas, 11342 Vale Rd.

Springfield, Va.

Newell B. Terry, Director of Personnel for Interior, 7411 Grace St.

Bethesda, Md.

Douglas R. Woodward, Geological Survey, 4603 Woodfield Rd.

Ernest F. Hom, Office of the Solicitor, 6711 Loring Court.

Robert C. Horne, National Park Service, 9432 Rose Hill Dr.

A. Bruce Wright, Office of the Solicitor, 6216 Wedgewood Rd.

Silver Spring, Md.

Ray C. Erickson, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, 13009 Collingwood Terrace

Rogersville, Ala.

R. Ethelyn Miller, Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Juneau, Alaska

Urban C. Nelson, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife.

Phoenix, Ariz.

William W. Head, Area Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1342 E. Georgia Ave. Frederick J. Weiler, Bureau of Land Management, 724 E. Haywood.

DeQueen, Ark.

Norma C. Runyan, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 922 W. Vandervort Ave.

Los Altos, Calif.

Warren W. Hastings, Regional Hydrologist, Geological Survey, 551 Hawthorne Ave.

Fresno, Calif.

John M. Davis, National Park Service, 5052-B N. Wishon.

Sacramento, Calif.

J. Russell Penny, State Director, Bureau of Land Management, 3249 Clairidge Way. Joseph F. Poland, Geological Survey, 1357 4Qth St.

Golden, Colo.

Harold G. Arthur, Bureau of Reclamation, 1730 Zinnia Court.

Lakewood, Colo.

Graydon E. Burnett, Chief Research Scientist, Bureau of Reclamation, 22537 W. 26th Pl.

Largo, Fla.

Charles Butler, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, 107 Oakwood Dr., Harbor Bluffs.

Watertown, Mass.

Edward P. Furber, former Chief Justice, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

Ann Arbor, Mich.

James W. Moffett, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, 1204 Brooklyn (posthumous).

Stillwater, Minn.

Robert A. Uppgren, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Rt. 2, Boom Rd. (posthumous).

Winona, Minn.

Donald V. Gray, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, 67 E. Howard St.

Omaha, Neb.

Nelson Murdock, former Chief, U. S. Park Police.

Morristown, N. J.

Francis S. Ronalds, National Park Service, 2 Hamilton Rd.

Bartlesville, Okla.

Richard W. Hurn, Bureau of Mines, 802 Winding Way.

Portland, Ore.

Wade M. Ramsey, Bonneville Power Administration, 8414 N. E. Brazee.

Pittsburgh, .Pa.

Joseph H. Field, Bureau of Mines, 3177 Shady Ave.

Brigham City, Utah

Dorothy Hanlon, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 76 N. Fourth West.

Leetown, W. Va.

Stanislas F. Snieszko, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife.

Laramie, Wyo.

Gerald U. Dinneen, Bureau of Mines, 2040 Holliday Dr.

Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall today urged the tens of millions of visitors who will enjoy Interior-administered recreation areas this year under the “Discover America" slogan to "discover, also, that safe travel begins with the traveler."

Secretary Udall estimated that a record high of approximately 185,000,000 visitor-days of use will be recorded in areas managed by the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Reclamation. The 1965 total was about 173 million.

"The upswing in sales of the $7 Golden Passport to Federal recreation areas indicates that more people than ever before are preparing to move into the countryside and enjoy the hundreds upon hundreds of beautiful spots dedicated to their use by Interior,” Secretary Udall said. "At the same time, safety experts in the Department are becoming increasingly aware that the wholesome outdoors is not always the most healthful for those who ignore the basic rules of accident prevention."

Under the President's Mission Safety-70 program, calling for a reduction of injuries not only among Federal workers, but for users of Federal recreation areas and other sites, the Department has added many safeguards the past several months. The Job Corps has had a leading role in speeding this work, Secretary Udall added.

But, he said, new hazards develop quickly.

“Typical of these," Secretary Udall said, "are the dangers of asphyxiation while camping. Last year--in outdoor settings--six people lost their lives in our national parks because they heated their tents or trailers with charcoal-fired units, usually barbecues. The coals depleted the air of oxygen and death resulted. These six deaths in a single year from a single cause can be compared with the preceding 19 years in our parks when a total of only five such deaths was recorded."

Following are summaries of recreational opportunities on Interior-administered areas and some basic safety rules:

National Park Service

The National Park Service, which administers 225 areas and anticipates 128 million visitors during 1966, its 50th Anniversary Year, offers these tips:

1. See a Ranger, especially if it is your first visit to an area, to become acquainted with unusual weather conditions, terrain, wildlife, or other features.

2. Let Park headquarters know if you plan a trip away from the "populated" areas of a park.

3. Stay away from wild animals--they may attack without warning. Keep food safely stored to prevent raids.

4. Children should be watched so they won't become lost or venture into dangerous areas.

5. Drive carefully. Be prepared to stop for animals. Be alert for natural hazards, such as loose rocks. Guard against "freezing" at the wheel because of precipitins cliffs. Even in daytime driving, keep your headlights on. Drive defensively; others probably are also strangers to the road.

6. Don't over-exert. Wear proper clothing and low-heeled shoes when walking.

7. Be extremely careful with fire; do not build any kind of fire in an unventilated or poorly ventilated space.

8. Never swim alone. When you do swim, avoid dangerous water.

9. Ask a Ranger's advice before boating on any park water.

The Park Service points out that motor vehicle accidents and falls of persons lead in causes of nonfatal injuries in Park areas. Fatal accidents are almost evenly divided between motor vehicle accidents and drowning. Falls rank next.

Bureau of Land Management

About 460 million acres of public land, administered by the Bureau of Land Management, await vacationers. More than 100 developed campgrounds are ready for use in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. You are welcome to make your own camp, away from developed facilities, if you observe a few rules. Some safety tips:

1. Be extremely careful with fire.

2. Observe regulations and common-sense rules regarding firearms.

3. Watch for wild animals on roads. Give logging trucks ample room.

4. Do not go into remote areas without leaving word as to your destination and your intended length of stay. Take ample water, a good map, compass, first aid kit, spare rations, extra clothing.

5. If you are on a hike--or are walking back from a disabled vehicle, walk on the left--facing traffic.

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Indian tribes, which operate recreational areas in 22 States and are planning to be hosts to 7 million visitors this year, have been busy installing additional safety devices, including warning signs, fencing, and guardrails.

Because many of the recreation areas have expanses of water, Bureau of Indian Affairs safety officials urge guests on reservations to observe normal precautionary measures. These include: Remain on shore during inclement weather. Permit only experienced handlers to operate boats. Be watchful of children and do not permit inexperienced swimmers to go beyond safe depths. Do not "horseplay."

"Horseplay," add the Indians, "is for horses--not for humans enjoying water sports."

In addition to water activities, outings on reservations can be devoted to sightseeing, picnicking, scientific-historic studies, attendance at Indian ceremonials and dramas, fishing, hunting, hiking, and mountain climbing.

Some of the reservations offer horseback riding and golfing.

Fish and Wildlife Service

Scattered throughout the United States are 297 National Wildlife Refuges totaling 28 million acres, which are expected to be the scene of 16 million visitor-days of use this year.

While these areas, which include lakes and streams, are managed primarily for various species of wildlife, they are open to the public as long as basic purposes of the refuges are not jeopardized. Activities available include picnicking, swimming, boating, fishing, hunting, camping, hiking, and wildlife observation.

Water safety and fire prevention are stressed along with the warning: "Do not feed or handle any animals,"

Designated swimming areas will be roped-in during periods of peak use. Roads have been improved for safety, but not for high-speed use.

Public awareness has helped prevent damage to signs and other safety installations, but vandalism still remains a problem.

Bureau of Reclamation

The Bureau of Reclamation, which has created 200 recreation areas encompassing over 4.5 million acres in the 17 Western States while developing water-resource projects primarily for irrigation and power, expects a considerable increase this year over the more than 35 million visitors who enjoyed these spots last year.

Reclamation has a carefully planned safety program, "Operation Westside" which is conducted in cooperation with the American Red Cross. Thirty-six community water-safety councils have been created to educate and protect the public in recreation areas throughout the West.

Chief among causes of drowning at Reclamation sites are children swimming without adult supervision, overloaded boats, and insufficient water safety equipment in boats.

In predicting increased use of Reclamation-created water areas, the Bureau points out that one of its new lakes--Lake Meredith, created by the recently completed Sanford Dam--drew approximately 250,000 fun seekers to the Texas Panhandle the first six months it was open to the public.

In the Navajo tongue December is the month of "increasing cold and wind." When that "increasing cold and wind" is accompanied by eight days of snow, as it was last December, the Navajos are in trouble.

From December 12 to 20 it snowed, and the wind blew, on the Navajo and Hopi Reservations. Farther south, more than seven inches of rain fell on the Papago Reservation, which normally gets 11 inches in an entire year.

Many Navajos live in small adobe or rock "hogan" scattered over a reservation the size of West Virginia. Under the best of conditions many homes are isolated by most American standards. Add snow that drifted up to seven feet on the level and to 40 feet deep in some highway cuts, and a real emergency situation exists.

That this emergency did not turn into a major disaster was the result of a widespread and concerted effort by tribal officials, the Federal Government civilian and military -- State and local governments, and a host of private organizations and individuals.

This is the analysis of a special Storm Evaluation Committee appointed by Robert L. Bennett, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to survey the storm-buffeted reservations to check on the efficiency of emergency rescue programs.

The five-man committee, which included two Navajos, visited the areas early in January while final mop-up operations were still in progress.

"The consensus was that the program initiated had been needed and had resulted in saving lives and livestock," the committee said.

"There were some criticisms that it took some time to get the program rolling and c90rdinated and that some areas did not receive the emergency aid which they wanted, but the results achieved indicated that in general the most serious emergencies were adequately dealt with."

As of January 12, the date of the Committee report, known Indian storm connected deaths totaled nine, all on the vast Navajo Reservation and all as a result of exposure and freezing. The U.S. Public Health Service's Division of Indian Health reported that at least 10 more Indians would have died of illness or exposure if they had not been airlifted to safety.

­The Committee, in its report to Commissioner Bennett, said that leadership roles in the emergency were taken by the Navajo and Hopi Tribal Councils, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Division of Indian Health of the U.S. Public Health Service, in launching protective and life-saving programs.

The Committee noted that the "roll call of major participants in the emergency life-saving, food supplying, fuel providing and other actions is long. We would list as major participants the Air Force, the Army, the Navy, the Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Surplus Food Commodities, the Forest Service, the Soil Conservation Service, the Air National Guard, the Navajo and Hopi Tribal organizations, the Geological Survey, the National Park Service, the Farmers Home Administration, the Office of Emergency Planning, the General Services Administration, and various State and county agencies in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico."

Rescue equipment ranged from military helicopter and Air National Guard C-119 Flying boxcars through trucks, jeeps, and horses, to mechanical snow vehicles donated and supervised by their Wisconsin manufacturer.

More than 400,000 pounds of food were delivered by, air of a total of 900,000 pounds supplied the reservations. Several hundred tons of hay were airdropped to livestock. There were 2,578 helicopter sorties. The total rescue operation involved 2,000 people, including Air Force reservists from as far away as Oregon and Virginia.

The supply operations even managed to provide turkey with all the trimmings, a half-pound of candy and nuts, and a gift for each of the several thousand Indian children stranded in boarding schools over Christmas. Some of these children found time to stamp out a "Merry Christmas" message in the snow for passing airplane crews.

The Evaluation Committee noted that the full effects of the storm could not be assessed, and that further snows or rains could compound the problems created by the original emergency. On the Papago Reservation the heavy rains so eroded the walls of many adobe houses that their roofs caved in and the structures were completely destroyed.

The Committee met in Phoenix, Tucson, Window Rock, and Chinle, Ariz., with Navajo, Hopi, and Papago tribal officials and representatives; Bureau of Indian Affairs Area and Agency officials; a member of the staff of Governor Jack Williams of Arizona; traders and many others involved in the rescue operations.

Serving on the Committee: W. Joynes Macfarlan, Chief, Office of Public Information, Bureau of Indian Affairs, who was chairman; Thomas H. Dodge of Phoenix, former Navajo Tribal Council Chairman and retired BIA Agency Superintendent; Newton Edwards, staff assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Public Land Management, Department of the Interior; Arthur J. Hubbard, Sr., of Phoenix, a Navajo and Arizona State Indian Program Officer for the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration; and Ken Nishimoto, Chief, Management Appraisal Services, Division of Indian Health, USPHS.

The results of storm-related activities were expressed in these words to the Committee by Navajo Tribal Council Chairman Raymond Nakai:

"My position today is that we have done an outstanding job between the Tribe "and the Bureau here. We had a time getting some things going, and some technical difficulties. We were fortunate in making the moves as we did. We averted a major disaster. We did an outstanding job with the resources that we had on hand to do it with."

The Bureau of Indian Affairs today announced the award of a $161,960 contract for road improvement on the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon. The reservation was among those hard-hit by floods in 1965 which washed away several accesses to Indian communities.

The contract calls for construction of a 135-foot bridge over the Warm Springs River, replacing an unsafe suspension span that has been condemned for heavy equipment. The work will also include grading and crushed rock surfacing of a four and one-half mile stretch of the lower Warm Springs River-Webster Road, about 12 miles northeast of the town of Warm Springs, Oregon.

When completed, the project will provide an all-weather road along the River, serving both reservation residents and the visitors to reservation recreational facilities.

Sixteen bids were received, ranging up to $244,355. The low and successful bidder was W. &W. Construction Company of Stayton, Oregon.

Responsibility for the administration of the Federal Water Pollution Control program was transferred today to the Department of the Interior from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall began immediately to exercise his new authority by issuing guidelines to the States for the setting of water quality standards on the Nation's interstate waters.

Under the Federal Water Quality Act of 1965 Congress required the States to set quality standards on interstate waters by June 30, 1967. If a State fails to set adequate standards, they will be set by the Secretary of the Interior. To date 27 States have indicated their intention to meet the '67 deadline.

In a letter addressed to the 50 Governors, Secretary Udall urged a Federal-State partnership approach aimed at assuring the Nation the supply of clean water necessary for its continuous growth. Secretary Udall enclosed copies of the guidelines developed by the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. The guidelines require that economic, health, conservation, and aesthetic values be considered in determining the most appropriate use of a stream. They also require that the States hold public hearings before setting quality standards.

In issuing the guidelines, Secretary Udall said, "President Johnson has made it clear that 'no one has the right to use America's rivers and America's waterways that belong to all the people as a sewer."

"The standard of purity we are asking the States to provide for our rivers constitutes one of our best tools for upgrading our waters, and for drawing the line against any further abuse of our water resources," Udall said.

The internationally famous exhibition of American Indian arts and crafts which was shown in Europe at International Festivals of the Arts in both Edinburgh, Scotland and Berlin, West Germany, is to have a Latin-American tour, starting this spring.

The exhibit has also been shown in London, England; Ankara, Turkey; Santa Fe, N.M.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Alaska, during last year's centennial there.

The unusual show, containing 200 pieces of traditional and contemporary Indian and Eskimo arts and crafts is sponsored by the State Department, U.S. Information Agency, and the Department of the Interior.

Twenty-five different tribes from across the Nation are represented in the exhibit which includes the work of 45 individual artists.

The works, including paintings and sculpture, printed and woven textiles and pottery, will appear in Buenos Aires, March 29-Apri1 21; Santiago, July 14- August 17, and Mexico City, September 15-November 2. Ceramics, basketry, wood carving and jewelry will also be featured.

Demonstrations of Navajo weaving and sand painting will be given by Fred Stevens, Navajo sandpainter, and his wife Bertha. In addition, scheduled readings of ancient Indian legends and modern poetry- and prose will be given.

The exhibit has been compiled by James McGrath, art director and instructor at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe. Eighty percent of the artists in the exhibition are either present or former students or faculty of the Institute.

The exhibit, according to McGrath, has as its intent showing "some of the mystery, some of the soul and much of the love of the American Indian for his communication between the spirit of man and the spirit of the cosmos."

Travelers who are planning a trip to Washington, D. C., next month, can add an Indian Dance Festival to their itinerary. The Department of the Interior's Center for Indian Arts in America will stage a performing arts program made up entirely of Indians and scheduled for Carter Barron Amphitheatre on June 1, 3, 4 and 5. It will be produced by the staff and students of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and includes 75 performers representing 31 Indian tribes from all over the United States.

Thousands of vacationists viewed this Dance Festival last year and came away marveling at its color, its humor, its authenticity and its charm. This year's program, staged in a five-thousand seat outdoor arena, will offer even more in the way of spectacle and native talent. The drama is under the direction of Rolland Meinholtz of the Santa Fe Institute with a musical score composed by Louis Ballard, a Cherokee pianist and composer, who heads the Performing Arts Department there. Neil Parsons, a Blackfoot, has designed the sets, and the overall producer-director is Lloyd New, a Cherokee, who is Arts Director at Santa Fe.

A modern dance group, directed by Rosalie Jones, also of Indian descent, connects the various native dances into a complete story. The drama is called SIPAPU, based upon the doings of Coyote, who appears in one form or another in most Indian legends. Coyote is sometimes a kind of Reynard the Fox, another time a good person who teaches the Indian the ways of nature. The plot develops as Coyote weaves the story about man and life's experiences.

The title of the production derives from a Pueblo word meaning "opening in the earth," and has its concept in the religious myth, common to Indian groups, that man evolved through a number of underworlds of various colors and conditions, finally coming out of chaos into a world of light.

The entire SIPAPU production was designed to utilize the old, authentic forms of dance, song and pageantry, and to introduce new, creative approaches. The result is that the unique qualities of Indian culture are being extended into contemporary life by young Indian artists who value their tradition and are able to relate them to their own times.

NOTE: Mail orders should be addressed to: Indian Festival, Super Music City Box Office, 1344 F Street, NW., Washington, D. C. 20004.

Prices: $1.75, $2.50, $3.00, $3.85

"SIPAPU" B. drama of authentic American Indian tales, dances and chants, will be presented at the Carter Barron Amphitheatre in Washington, D. C., June 1, 3, 4 and 5 at 8:30 each evening. The show will include a cast of 75 performers representing 31 Indian tribes from virtually all over the country. The drama is sponsored by the Center for Arts of Indian America.

SIPAPU draws heavily upon the religious myth structure inherent in American Indian culture. The name stems from the Pueblo language meaning, "opening in the earth" and has reference to the belief, common to Indian myths, that man evolved through a number of underworlds of various colors and conditions, finally arriving out of chaos into this world of light.

To move the story along, "Coyote," another common figure in Indian lore is used. Coyote is a mystical figure capable of assuming various roles, sometimes malevolent, often beneficent, and always a kind of tricky Reynard the Fox. Coyote tells about man's struggles, his relationship to nature and the supernatural, leading up to the great day when Coyote ~teals fire for the benefit of mankind. Later, he teaches man how to weave, to plant, to build homes, and how to survive in the world.

Traditional music and language serve as the background for a number of Indian dances performed in authentic style in SIPAFU. Included among them are the Navajo Yei Bei Chei, the Navajo Fire Dance, Oklahoma Stomp Dance, Plains War Dance, Chilkat Witch Dance, Apache Mountain Spirit Dance and the Hopi Butterfly Dance. A unique musical effect is provided by the E-Yah-Pah-Hah Chanters, a student choral group featuring creative arrangements of traditional songs.

The overall impression that one comes away with after seeing SIPAPU is that the American Indian has retained unique cultural patterns despite some 400 years of melting-pot influence. The result, handed down by way of this richly mounted pageant-drama is to illustrate untapped sources of creative ideas available to all.

SIPAPU is under the direction of Rolland Meinholtz of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, who researched and developed the scenario, plotted the dramatic structure and coordinated the music, dance and total theme.

Music was composed by Louis Ballard, a Cherokee pianist and composer, who heads the Performing Arts Department at the Institute. A modern dance group that helps to weave the thread of the authentic dances and stories together, is under the direction of another Indian, Rosalie Jones, who received her Masters degree in the dance from the University of Utah.

Set designs are by Blackfoot Indian, Neil Parsons, who teaches painting at the Santa Fe school, and the entire production is under the supervision of Lloyd H. New, Arts Director, and Dr. George A. Boyce, Superintendent of the Institute of American Indian Arts.

The current production is an experimental search for a theatrical form within which to present a dramatic content that is unique and inherent in the daily life of the American Indian. Utilizing old, authentic forms of dance, song and pageantry while at the same time introducing new, creative approaches, it offers the modern, young Indian artist a chance for expression and a new pride in his traditions and culture.

Tickets for the production are on sale at Carter Barron Box Office, and Super Music City box office, 1344 F Street, NW., Washington, D. C.

Art students in the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs high schools and post-high schools will enter a travel poster contest, beginning with the new school year, which has the theme: "Discover America with the First Americans."

The program is sponsored by the Education Division of the Bureau, and Arrow, Inc., a tax-exempt corporation which supports commercial projects that benefit the Indian people.

Robert L. Bennett, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, said that the poster theme is in line with President Johnson's request that Americans spend their tourist dollars in the United States to help solve the balance of payments problem.

"Many of our Indian reservations, the homelands of our First Americans, l.re ideal vacation spots," said Bennett, observing that this was a good and lignified way to help the Indian economy.

"In addition, the poster contest offers an outlet for our Indian art student talent."

The winning poster designers will receive cash prizes of $150, $100, and $50 for first, second, and third place, respectively. All entrants also may be considered for expense-paid trips to major cities to visit art schools and museums.

An exhibition of all the entries is planned in Washington, D.C. in 1969. The winning posters will be printed in quantity and sold through retail outlets, both here and abroad.

Profits from the poster sales arranged by Arrow will be applied to Indian projects sponsored by the corporation.