PAGE 2 WARM SPRINGS, OREGON AUGUST 6, 1976
Bravettes Build Team
“We’re the best kept secret
in Warm Springs,” says Elton
Greeley about the Bravettes.
Greeley is manager of the
women’s fast pitch softball
team which has been involved
in tournament play all /sum
mer. The team has a small
following of really devoted fans
who help out financially and
morally, but for the most part
the Bravettes have been lost in
a sports scene dominated by
males.
This hasn’t been the most
inspiring season for the Brav
ettes, according to coordinator
Romona (Teddy) Tanewasha
whose husband Vernon is the
coach. But the twelve or so
girls and young women who
comprise the team have stuck
with it. They have past glory
to look back on and some
promising young rookies to
look forward to;.
The Bravettes are no long
er in a league although they
hope to return to league com
petition. Irregular tournament
participation leaves the players
unprepared and un “psyched”
and they must be in top form
to meet the challenge of tough
competition — of which there
is plenty in Oregon.
This has been a growing
season for the Bravettes as
several players have shown
great promise. Julie Mitchell
has been with the team for
three years but she just tried
her hand at catching for the
first time this summer. Now
the coach is pushing her to
invest in a catcher’s mit be
cause “she’s it.” Althea Scott
is a rookie pitcher this season
and Teddy says she’s adjusted
well to the pressure of stiff
competition and having no re
lief pitcher. “She’ll be good,”
says Teddy.
The rest of the team is
a pretty solid bunch of veter
ans. Among the players are:
Becky Quinn - 1st base, Aur-
olyn Stwyer - 2nd base, Liz
Suppah - 3rd base, Wanda
Charley - shortstop, Liliane
Suppah - left field, Fran
Moses, Lorraine Suppah and
rookie Mina Shike - right field,
and Janice Farley - catcher.
Coach Vern Tanewasha be
moans the fact that, the Brav-
As a result of intensive
deliberations at Kah-Nee-Ta
Lodge, the American Indian
Policy Review Commission’s
Reservation and Resource De
velopment and Protection Task
Force has arrived at some of
Port-A-Cans Save The Day
One would scarcely have
known anything was amiss in
Warm Springs on a hot Thurs
day and Friday (July 29 and
30) had it not been for the
three strategically placed port
able cans around the commun
ity.
Actually, Warm Springs
was without water for the
better part of two days. Resi
dents and employees were
without sanitation facilities
(not counting the three port
a-cans), water, water-cooled
air conditioning, and the clinic
had to close for the day on
Friday.
The possibility of fire was
a hazard but forestry was
called and a 1000 gallon tanker
was up there standing by in
case. Also, Mutual Aid was
notified of the situation in case
of fire in the community.
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they like the responsibility, the
challenge of competition, meet
ing new people, and traveling.
Some of the Bravettes’
high points in their eight year
history were the winning of the
NIAA (National Indian Athlet
ics Association) regionals in
Seattle last season, and the
Junction City Tournament vic
tory when Warm Springs beat
Junction City at its prime in
an extra innings game.
(Continued on Page 12)
Year-Long Study Offers Plan, Changes
restored to the Warm Springs community. No
one seemed anxious to be photographed near
the little structure.
Photo by Sandy Rangila
CREWS BEGAN REMOVING the emergency
“outhouse” from the front of the administration
building late Friday afternoon when water was
ettes seem to be plagued with
the frequent loss of key play
ers. Veteran 1st baser Geri
Frank broke her arm this
spring and was unable to play.
Several other players, includ
ing Buttons Miller, Merda
Charley, Elizabeth Reese, Dora
Gowdy, Lisa Suppah, and Toni
Smith have been lost (tempor
arily it is hoped) for various
reasons.
But the team plays on
because the ladies enjoy it —
According to Cecil Seyler
of facilities management, the
problem started on Thursday
at about 2 p.m. when there
was a break in the main water
line by the Shaker Church.
Water was shut off to do
the repair work and by Thurs
day evening when the pipe was
fixed, facilities management
proceeded to fill the reservoir
again.
Then, just as the reservoir
was filled, the coupling in the
booster pump station came
loose. Due to the broken coup
ling, water leaked under the
floor of the pump house wash
ing the dirt out from under the
floor in the pump- house caus
ing extensive damage.
Facilities management
then shut off the pump and
valve at approximately 11 p.m.
Thursday night. Not only fac
ilities management, but land
operations, tribal utilities, and
a plumber from Madras went
to work, as speed was of the
essence. If water was to be
restored to the community by
the weekend, the job had to be
done as quickly as possible.
“Everybody was pretty
good-natured about the incon
venience,” said Seyler. “A lot
of people in the community
even volunteered their help.”
the most far-ranging and com
The report, now in final
prehensive recommendations
draft form, has been entitled
for improvement of Indian ec
“The Kah-Nee-Ta Plan”, ac
onomic development in con
cording to Peter MacDonald.
temporary times.
Aside from bearing the name
The discussions held in the of the location where the re
Council Room at Kah-Nee-Ta port was drafted, there are
were chaired by the following
significant reasons the report
Task Force members: Peter is called “The Kah-Nee-Ta
MacDonald - Task
Force Plan”.
chairman (Navajo), Ken Smith
The Council Room is the
- General Manager of the Con
place
where the Task Force
federated Tribes at Warm
began a year ago, and where it
Springs, and Phillip Martin -
held its last meeting Friday
former chairman (Choctaw
July 30, 1976. It is also where
Nation),
the concepts for a Trust Pro
The Task Force has, for tection Council and American
one year, studied the barriers
.Indian Development Authority
and obstacles to Indian eco were conceived and crystaliz-
nomic development by re ed.
searching and making site
visitations to 32 Indian Reser
“Because Ken Smith has
vations. The purpose of the had such an influence, it is
study is to propose solutions, Mappi:^Briate and significant
make recommendations, and that the Kah-Nee-Ta name be
offer suggestions.
used,”, said economist Jack
Two new powerful entities, Peterson, a Task Force assis
an Indian Development Auth tant. “No one has appeared
ority and a Trust Protection more often and made more
Council, have been proposed site trips on behalf of the Task
and are in. final draft form.
Force than Smith,” he said.
The final recommendations,
however, have not been re
“He has always insisted
leased at press time.
that the integrity and strength
Included in the report are of tribal government be a focal
three conditions the
Task point of Task Force delibera
Force deems necessary for In tions and recommendations,”
dian economic development. according to MacDonald.
The Task Force met Wed
They arq:.
control, capital,
and management. The report nesday, Thursday, and Friday
indicates that under the pre of last week to discuss their
sent system these three condi findings and research of the
past year, and to finalize the
tions are not being met.
The character and thrust report.
The Kah-Nee-Ta Plan will
of the final recommendations
be submitted to and reviewed
(to be released soon) reflect
the expertise and experience of by the Task Force Commission
Kén Smith and Péter Mac in Washington D.C., and will in
turn be forwarded to Congress
Donald, according to Task
for consideration.
Force consultants.
Reporter’s Life Spared
Dan Macy pardoned a re
porter guilty of misrepresent
ing local history on the condi
tion that the facts appear in
the next issue of Spilyay Ty-
moo. There will be no hanging
as planned, for the true story
is now available to readers.
In last issue’s article about
Macy’s store, the history of the
existing store and the neigh
boring building was a bit
bungled. The ancestor of the
current store is in fact the
Mecca Trading Company, but
it was built by a man named
Chaloupka, not Klupke. This
store was located at Mecca on
the Descutes River, not Shitke
Creek, and was sold to H.E.
Massey who brought it up to
its present site around 1924.
The old See Mercantile
store is the descendant of Will
See’s trading post which he
bought from the army around
1890. This was the store that
was located “under the hill’
behind the site of Macy’s. See
sold it to Chaloupka who sold
it back to the See family in
whose hands it stayed for
years. The building was aban
doned (the foundation can still
be seen) and rebuilt at its
present site next to Macy’s. -In
1955 Dan Macy bought the
building. Recent history was
(hopefully) printed correctly
the first time.
Also in need of revision is
the reference to gunny sack
shoes. Dan informed the mis
taken reporter that everyone
had regular shoes and boots
back in Depression Days but
that when the snows were es
pecially deep, which wasn’t
very often, people devised ex
tra protection from gunny
sacks and bailing wire.
Sorry, Dan, and my apol
ogies to those who know the
local history better than I.