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Page 4 April 30,1982 Spllyay Tymoo Editorial E Coosh EEWA: (The way it is) Letters to the editor Thank you for sharing Sir, I’ve been living here on your reservation for slightly over a year and a half. Although not all my experiences with tribal members have been successful, due greatly to my lack of understanding as well as to the understandable distrust of outsiders here, many of my contacts with the culture have been warm and caring. I am a runner and have enjoyed running on youf many beautiful roads throughout the reservation. In my brief stay I’ve learned to love this land perhaps as much as many of the original inhabitants. I have also learned to care about the people and the culture with which I come into contact every day. There is much of great value here in Warm Springs and, as I am to leave your midst in a short while, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the people o f this area for experiences 1 will carry with me for the rest of my life. I thank all of the people of Warm Springs and Simnasho for extending their kindness and hospitality to me and allowing me to grow into a fuller understanding of myself in relation to another set of values, another way of looking at things. Sincerely, Jim Kernaghan Smith recognized for superior actions TWs letter was sent to R. Gene Smith, a member o f the Confederated Tribes o f Warm Springs. H e has been serving as Captain o f Police on the Bois Forte Reservat ion. Captain Smith: This is to personally convey my deep appreciation fo rth e superior manner in which you fulfilled your responsibilities as Captain of Police for the Burea of Indian Affairs at Minnesota Agency, with a duty station on th e B o is F o r te In d ia n Reservtion. Your voluntary acceptance of reassignment from Red Lake Agency and entry on duty at Boise Forte on December 18, 1980 occurred during a period o f considerable confusion and hectic efforts on our part to re establish the Law Enforcement program following retroces sion by the tribal government Lloyd Smith named to committee To the Editor, To: Educators and Persons In terested in E du cation al Equity During the past year, the State Board of Education has been reviewing existing rules and policies o f the Department of Education dealing with equal educational opportunity to make certain they are functioning in the best interests of all students in Oregon s c h o o ls and c o m m u n ity colleges. To help assure that the Department’s administrative rules and policies best serve the needs of students, I have appointed an ad hoc equal e d u c a tio n a l o p p o r tu n ity review committee to make recommendations to my office. The members of the committee are: Rev. John Garlington, Portland; Mr. Lloyd Smith, Warm Springs; Ms. Ardyth Christianson, Independence; Mr. Bob Gutierrez, Corvallis, and Ms. Jewell Bell, Eugene. The committee has sche duled two hearings in order to obtain public input on these issues, the dates are as follows: April 27, Portland 7-9:30 p.m. Martin Luther King Com munity Center 4906 NE 6th Avenue May 5, Eugene 7-9 p.m. Lane ESD 1200 Highway 99N Thanks for help To the Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW, I’d like to take this time to express my thanks for your monetary help when my son needed his ear operation. With only a few hours notice you made arrangements to help and were kind and did it gladly. Thank you very much. Know some grads? The Education Committee is planning a third annual g ra d u a -tio n b a n q u e t to recognize all tribal member graduates. The com m ittee requests information concern ing any tribal member who is th o r o u g h ly p r o fe s s io n a l manner in which you directed and led the Law Enforcement operational response to the seriou s civil disturbance occurring in Nett Lake in June, 1981, was highly commendable and effectively curbed the potential for even greater public danger and damage to property. Our Law E nforcem ent personnel and the job they do is a source of great pride to this Agency and the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa. It is to your ersonal credit that we now ave a fully staffed and highly skilled and efficiently operating Law Enforcement Program. R.N. Mayotte Superintendent Editors note: Smith is now working with the police force on th e R o s e b u d In d ia n reservation in South Dakota. Thank you for caring To all who helped, the loss of our loved one, Clifford. Our heartfelt thanks to all the relatives and friends who helped in every way they were able to. Thanks to the people for the words of comfort, for it helped ease the pain we felt for Sincerely, Laura (Crowe) Stwyer Esther Stewart, Ramona Starr and David Crowe Verne A. Duncan State Superintendent o f Public Instruction Thanks for $$ To T ribal Members, C o u n cil and The amount of appreciation cannot be expressed in words to the council for supporting the Warm Springs Bravettes basketball team at the NIAA national tournament held last week. Our team is comprised of members who have numerous have blue backgrounds. job responsibilities and fund The third missing bag is an raising as known in our older style, beaded on both community is demanding and sides. time consuming. If anyone is trying to sell The financial support made these bags please call 553-1182. available has contributed to k e e p in g th e B r a v e t t e s Basketball and Softball teams together at a time when we tend CAMERA PERFECT to grow apart. Thank you for graduating from high school*, letting us represent our tribe. Salmon, barbecued buffalo and fried bread were just a few o f the items recently prepared fo r the N ational P M Magazine. Kah-Nee- boarding school, college or Ta will be featured on the P M Magazine in late summer or early GED out of the Warm Springs Julie Mitchell Julie Mitchell fa ll along with Timberline L odge and the Columbia Gorge. or Madras areas to contact the Fran Moses, A bove, Kah-Nee-Ta chef Ivan Rebensteiger shows p a rt o f the education office at 553-1161, and th e B ravettes team crew salmon that was cooked around an open fire. Ext. 252, before May 21. Spity ay Tymoo photo by Behrend members Mr. & Mrs Doug Crane and Family Bags missing Someone has stolen three beaded bags. One bag has three ducks on a stream. The second bag is heart shaped with two or three deer on it. Both of these If you have any concerns, ideas or suggestions and would like the committee to hear them, please mark these dates on your calendar. If you cannot attend but would like to make your views known, you may submit written comments to the committee in care of this office. All letters will be considered if they are received prior to May 10. If you would like copies of the Department’s current rules and policies dealing with nondiscrimina tion and equity, please contact Mr. Larry Mylnechuk at 378- 8532, who will be happy to answer any questions you might have. and reassumption by the Bureau of formerly contracted activities. From the beginning you exhibited a keen desire to do a good job and your enthusiasm, leadership and dedication to duty made a difficult task considerably lighter for myself and other su p e r v iso r y m a n a g em en t personnel. The first few months of your assignment, you, as we, had to contend with severe budgetary and personnel constraints and a need to “make-do” with untrained, unskilled personnel w h o w ere te m p o r a r ily appointed on a short-term basis as funding permitted. In s p i t e o f th e o b v io u s program m atic d ifficu lties p r e s e n te d d u r in g y o u r assignment with this Agency, your technical knowledge and «kill enabled effective, efficient performance of all duties and was a source of personal reassurance for me. Finallv. the
