Labeled "Cinemex Warm Springs," this film consists of both silent and sound footage depicting the Warm Spring Reservation and the city of Madras, Oregon in the early 1970s. The silent footage includes shots of the landscape surrounding Warm Springs as well as scenes of community life in Warm Springs and Madras, with particular attention paid to schools in both locations.
At minute 5:57, the film moves to an interview with Barbara Bowman, the "Indian counselor" at Oregon State University. Bowman speaks of efforts to build unity and community among Native American students at OSU, including a forthcoming Native American Cultural Center to be opened in a campus quonset hut in the coming fall. Bowman also refers to new classes with a Native American focus, including one taught by English professor Roger Weaver which sought to record Native American folklore for preservation in the new cultural center. Bowman's interview concludes with remarks on a statewide effort that would include both the Warm Springs and Klamath tribal communities, and that would intend to give high school students and their parents the support that they would need to move on to higher education.
A minute 8:55, the film switches to an interview with Maury Jimenez (director of the Warm Springs internship program); Rudy Clemens (municipal manager of the confederated tribes) and Dr. Donald Kip (superintendent of Madras/Jefferson schools). The audio and video are out of sequence during this portion of the film. All three narrators speak on education and human resources initiatives being pursued at Warm Springs.
Digitized from a film original held in the KOAC-TV Films (FV 207:003), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.
