Rose Mary Charley
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Rosemary Charley is Tyx-Pum from the Tygh Valley area and lives on the Warm Springs Reservation. She is a member of the Confederate Tribes of Warm Springs. Her father taught her that as a member of the Three Coyote Clan she had a responsibility to her people as well as her immediate family. Rosemary’s mother, father, and grand aunt taught her many traditional art forms such as beading, weaving, basketry, dancing and cooking. She strongly believes in the importance of passing on these traditions to the next generation.
Area: Portland, Madras Warm Springs, Hood River, Dalles Grades: 3-12 and adults Native American Cultural Foods and Gathering Practices Rosemary shares samples of cultural foods and native teas and teaches how to identify various plants as ingredients for both cooking and weaving of wapus bags. Beading Students will make a good luck pouch necklace from leather which is edged with a beaded necklace. Parfleche Bags Parfleches, also called shaptaki, were folded and brightly painted tanned rawhide envelopes used by men to store headdresses and outfits. Students will learn to make either a paper or rawhide parfleche decorated with traditional geometric patterns. They will learn the symbolism behind various patterns and about the natural dyes from indigenous plants such as huckleberries, chokecherries, sassafras leaves, dandelion root, etc. Weaving with Jute Students will learn how to weave with paper, jute and rug yarn. They will weave a miniature cylindrical wapus basket. CONTENT STANDARD CONNECTIONS: The Arts: Aesthetics, Cultural & Historical Connections Social Sciences: World History; Geography Math: Geometry |