M A R C H 10, 1978
To Those Who Helped,
To Those Who Couldn’t Help,
To Those Who Want To Help
by Eagle Wing
“For those of us interested
and involved in education it is
critical that we understand hu
man development and matura
tion. Every human constantly
carries and presents a complex
network of physical, social, emo
tional, and intellectual develop
mental patterns. Learning oc
curs in relation to all of these
and there is no logical way to
single out any one area to the
exclusion of others. It is one of
the marvels of human function
ing that all of these factors are
interrelated and interact in any
learning situation. Therefore,
whatever our role in the edu
cation of young learners, it is
crucial that we reach out to
every discipline and every sour
ce of knowledge possible.’’
With the above quotation, I
want to express my heartfelt
emotions regarding young teen
agers of our community who
have been so tragically involved
in the taking of a life and the
youngsters who lived and died in
a hurry without learning about
the good things, of the world.
The deaths of these young
people have been personal to
me. I have searched for reasons
why kids go wrong-or right; for
explanations of such tragedies
and the disappointm ents we
sometimes encounter in our
work with young people. I have
been asking many questions
since then and getting some
answers.
Who is really responsible for
those misspent lives and young
George and Jareen’s untimely
deaths? Yes, the bullets took the
lives of George and Jareen, but
who really killed them?
I wonder if others are not
really responsible. Is it partly
our society which seems to
condone so much recklessness
and lawlessness among our
young people? Are not our
courts in part to blame because
of their laxity in issuing verdicts
and sentencing? What about the
churches? Aren’t they partly
responsible because of their
indecision and lack of compas
sion, their failure to meet human
need or reluctance to rescue
young people?
I tell myself that despite the
Culpus In Seattle
Spilyay T y m o o was in
formed that Harold Culpus went
into the Seattle Public Health
Service hospital Wednesday for
tests to determine if a by-pass in
his heart will be necessary.
When questioned about the
tests, Culpus laughingly stated
he was just going in to “get his
fuel pump checked.’’ H o p e
you’re on the mend, Harold.
We’re looking forward to seeing
your flashing smile around here
again.
T rib a l C ouncil
A gen d a
fact that 1 had of necessity parents have problem children?
arrived at certain conclusions Why do children grow up to steal
about parents, I do not really and kill? What goes wrong to put
understand where we have gone a teenager behind bars? Why do
wrong and where society, the even ministers, judges and psy
school, and the church had gone chiatrists send juvenile delin
wrong. I decided to go on a quents into the world? Who is to
TRIBAL COUNCIL
one-man mission to find out, not blame for the critical and tragic
AGENDA
from theorists, not from special delinquency problem that now
March 1978
ists, but from parents them exists in this community and the
nation?
Mar 6 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
selves.
Although there is nothing
1. Mill Manager
I am fed up with blame put
2. Resolutions: Funeral Grants-Death Benefits - Nonmembers
on our teen-agers. “ What’s new about blaming parents for
Tenneson Engineering
wrong with our teenagers?” juvenile delinquency, it is im
3. 1:30 p.m. - Kah-Nee-Ta Report w-Ken Smith, Ed Manion,
Isn’t it time to ask, rather, possible for those who deal with
Dan Myles
“What’s wrong with the parents these youngsters to ignore the
who are producing our problem fact that parents, in one way or Mar 7 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
1. Data Processing
children?” Perhaps it is p ar another, must share at least
2. 10:00 a.m. - Harold Culpus Lease-Clint Jacks
ental delinquency we should be part of the responsiblity for the
3. 2:00 p.m. - Amendment-Law & Order Code - Bob Nash
concerned about more than ju moral landslide a m o n g our
youth.
venile delinquency.
Mar
8
-
Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
Admittedly there are p ar
It is for this reason that the
1. Approval of Minutes-February
ents
who
have
difficulties.
There
following is w ritten: I am a
2. 10:00 a.m. - Exchange Student Program-Delson Suppah
parent myself and although I are divorced women with child
3. 2:00 p.m. - Realty
ren.
Emotional
illness
accounts
make my share of mistakes I
March 13 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
* like to think that all parents are for a percentage of parents who
1. T-A’s and Unfinished Business
not bad ones-or at least I like to have children under court juris
2. 10:00 a.m. - Robbins Law & Order Study
diction.
Some
disturbed
parents
tell myself that I am not a bad
3. General Manager Report .
parent. I do not wish to' ap abuse, abandon or neglect in
4. Sanders-Rickard Budget Adjustment
nocent
children
and
many
par
proach this subject as an expert
5. Williston Mill Study - Progress Report
on family relations, but I do feel ents, it is safe to state, are just Mar 14 - Tribal
Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
that as a parent who has dealt simply passive when it comes to
1.
Committee
Reports
the
development
of
their
child
with many teenagers in trouble
including our own, as an in ren and somehow cannot man Lower 2. 2:00 p.m. Conditional Use Areas: Beaver Creek,
terested individual and as an age to love them in a way that is
Metolius
angry person who is concerned, vital if they are to be motivated March 15-17 AFFILIATED TRIBES
properly.
I have grounds for focusing on
During my years as com Billings, Montana
parents in my efforts to find
answers that might help other munity worker when the parents Mar 20 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
1. T-A’s and Unfinished Business
youngsters in our community have finally been forced by the
2. 10:00 a.m. - Enrollments
cold facts to acknowledge that
today-Now!
3. Report on Sherars Bridge Property
I have listened to their their own sons and daughters
4. General Manager Report
complaints against society in were thieves or narcotic addicts
general and their parents in or in some other trouble, I have Mar 21 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m., Kah-Nee-Ta Lodge, Coun
cil Room
particular. My soul had been found their reaction often is
1, TREATY WORKSHOP - 2nd Session
ignited a thousand times over by “what did I do to deserve this?
ALL COMMITTEE AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE
the ugly revelations of adult Whereas they might ask, what
REQUESTED TO ATTEND
neglect, hostility and apathy did I do wrong? Where did I
fail? P arents come up with
toward youngsters.
It seemed to me that more ready answers, but seem to Mar 22 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
than half of all the teenagers I indicate they are out of touch,
1. Unfinished Business
had talked to were angry, un- . and unable to cope with the
2. 10:00 a.m. - 509-J Report
certain, confused and rebellious burdens of patience and disci
3. Education Committee
to some degree, and I noticed pline,
2:00 p.m. - Tribal Court: 5-Year Plan
What I am writing did not
especially that they had lost
Justification for Assistant Judge
confidence in an adult society come from books or classroom Mar 23 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
that, through blindness^ ignor lectures, but from the actual
1. JOINT MEETING re WATER RESOURCES
ance, and lack of concern, had experiences of troubled teen Mar 27 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
helped to bring about the most agers. They related their prob
1. Unfinished Business
critical youth problem in the lems, how they got started, how
2. 10:00 a.m. - Hildress Vanegas, NAIWA
history of this community. One they feel their parents influen
3. 11:30 a.m. - Mormon Church
has only to look at the facts and ced their lives, and what they
4. 1:30 p.m. - General Manager Report
figures on juvenile delinquency hate. Sometimes I have been
5. 3:00 p.m. - Bear Springs Agreement Celilo-Wy’am Board
to feel concern for this com shocked by their comments. Mar 28 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
Sometimes
I
have
been
hurt,
munity.
1. Master Health Plan
Why do apparently “good” too, because I am a parent
Orientation on new rules and regulations
myself.
Portland Area Health Bd
H&W Committee-Planners
Happy Birthday Mar 29 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
1. Management Reports
To Lewis Henry Sr., whose
birthday was on March 4, here is
a belated Happy Birthday wish.
From your daughter
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Nick Kalama
78
Elmer Quinn
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Tribal Council Report
Your Council took office last
.year on May 1st with many
freshmen members. Many pro
jects and activities were suc
cessfully supported and con
cluded by the end of December:
all of which have been faithfully
reported in the Spilyay Tymoo
or weekly newsletter published
by administration, so they won’t
be repeated here. However, fol
lowing is a recap of the total
number of meetings and the
number each member attended:
TOTAL COUNCIL MEETINGS
HELD (May 1-December 31): 92
Coun. Member No. of Meet. Att.
Eugene Greene
61%
Larry Calica
90%
Delbert Frank, Sr.
63%
Zane Jackson
62%
Rita Squiemphen
68
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