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TRIBAL MEMBER NEWS
Pigsley Earns
Wrestling Awards
Timmy Pigsley enjoyed a lot of
wrestling success this year.
In collegiate style, he won the
championship at 75 pounds, 9-10 years
old, at the Oregon Classic. He finished
third in the Northwest Collegiate
Championships.
In collegiate style, he had a 42-8
record and was only pinned two times.
He took third in state free-style and
took first in state Greco-Roman style.
He placed sixth in the Western
regionals in Pocatello, Idaho, in
Greco-Roman.
Timmy’s parents are Tim and Sara
Pigsley of Salem, Ore.
Rafting and the People
from France
by Walt Klamath
On Aug 16, we took a group of people from the Portland, Salem, and Siletz
areas on a rafting trip. It was interesting in a way. Everyone seemed to have a
good time. On these trips, safety is the byword to everything, to be done in a safe
way and anytime that one is in the water, to have on a life vest. Of course, there’s
always a water fight and in this case, the French people and our people did get a
little doused.
There was only one real rapids though, a class “C.” This has the potential to
tip a boat or throw someone out, neither of which happened to our rafts, dam it.
Here I was with a camera just waiting. Bad thing was I didn’t have a telephoto
lens, so it s hard to see who was in the rafts. Incidentally, I do have releases from
all of the people to show their pictures.
While waiting at a bridge to take pictures, I noticed a group of young people
there so I casually went over to make some conversation. They started gibber-
gabbering away and left me dumbfounded. They were French.
So I sauntered away and did what any self-respecting photographer would do
- nothing. When the rafters came out a little wet around the edges, the French
came out too. One of the chaperones came over to where I had the car. She said,
“This is a government car.” “Yep.” Then she said, “This means it belongs to the
public.” “Yep, of the people, by the people, and for the people,” I replied.
"Well,” she said, “I can sit in it if I want.” I said, “I guess so.” Then she started
trying to identify who we were. After several different acronyms, she came up
with “IRS.” I said, “No, we are not the Irish Republic.”
I then brought out one of my cards and gave it to her. Then she yelled out,
“They are real Indians.” Yep, that’s us. We did have a lot of fun with them.
The next time that I have the good luck and misfortune to go on a trip, I’m
going to take the video camera. It has a telephoto lens and many other good
things. Well, I hope to get another group together again soon to maybe do it again.
I'm spoiled, however. I like the Deschutes, a much faster stream and besides,
I’ve been on it 11 times, not by choice though. My idea of a perfect raft trip is to
take them to point “A” and meet them at point “B” and fish out the cadavers as
they go by. It only happened once on the Deschutes, twice on the Mackenzie.
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October 2001
An
Enjoyable
Day of
Rafting