PACE 4 December 23, 1992
Warm Springs, Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
Editorial
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Where have all the Angels gone? Where are all the Shepherds who
watched their flocks at night? Where are the Three Kings, who traveled
to visit a new born king?
They say it's against the law to practice religion in school today.
What's come over the people, wasn't it religion that brought them over
from the old country in the first place? A place where man can partake
and worship as he pleased. Freedom of religion was what everyone
was looking for.
In the olden days the Christmas play was a message to the young
sters the meaning of Christmas. Where the Angels told the Shepherds
of the new born King, and where they would find him lying in a
manger. The three wise men who traveled so far following the star that
led them to the new born King. They brought gifts to the Christ Child.
Today people look to the holiday season as a money making ordeal.
Kids think of presents and a few days vacation from school. The Jones
trying to out do everyone on buying gifts with out the true meaning of
Christmas. Now day's you see Christmas adds early in the fall, big
stores trying to out do the other on Christmas sales. By the time
Christmas rolls around there isn't any meaning to Christmas. The
schools refer to what used to be Christmas programs, they call them
winter concert, no mention of Christmas any more.
Even the music is all crazy. No more Christmas Carols. Maybe you
hear a, "Woof, woof, woof, bow wow, bow wow! " or "Dig that Crazy
Cat in Da Red Suit, Bam, bam! Boom boom!" or "Grandma got run
over by a reindeer because she drank too much egg nog! Toe good
music.
Yep! Everything is really mixed up. There are just a hand full of kids
who go through the motions of the Christmas story and that's those who
go to Sunday school. And that sure isn't very many nowdays. Well
anyway I'll still wish everyone a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year." AHH-NAH-UN-WI!!
Toe Ness
There was this little girl who went with her pa to the golf course.
After a while on the green she asked. "Daddy, why don't you want the
ball to go into the hole?" YIKES
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These caddies were listening to this golfer bragging about his game,
when one caddy said to the other. 'This is the game that turned the
cows from the pasture and let in the bull!" YIKES
SS SS SS
After getting home broke the guy tells his wife, "Something terrible
happened on the way to the race track today, I made it." YIKES
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IN-MI-MAH-TUN-NUN-MAH!
At this time I would like to
take a moment to express my
gratitude to all the readers of
Spilyay Tymoo.
Season's change, timcschangc,
the whole world is in such a tur
moil where everyone is running
around like a chicken with it's
head cut off. All year long every
one is so wrapped up in their own
daily activity, trying to make ends
meet, we never seem to realize
what our neighbors arc doing.
Yep! Wc have so much to look
back on at this time of the year
and perhaps there arc some who
say to themselves, like mc for
instance, think, I shouldn t be so
selfish and think of others during
the year." Well that thought quickly slips away as soon as another year
gets underway.
But as the script goes, "Tis the season to be jolly and all that stuff."
So we here at Spilyay Tymoo wish everyone a merry Christmas and
a prosperous New Year!
There have been so many things that happened both good and bad.
It always appears though that no matter how tough things get wc all
stick together and try to help one another all we can. That should be
graded an "A" plus for everyone here. It's like if wc are all going to sail
or sink together. Unity such as this can take us a long way.
We must prepare for another year as 1992, is about to slip into the
ages of the past. We've all got to stick behind the leadership here as
they work on all the complex problems wc face. They must also be a
lot of protecting our resources for future purposes. Yep! We've got to
stick behind our Tribal Council on what ever happens and hopefully
things will work out for everyone. Hope they don't "Chush-we-sha,"
like the politicians are doing today! Ayee! Ahh-Nah-Chi-Toon!
Merry Christmas
& Happy New Year
Pat Brown
from, George, Abby, Roxanna,
Daniel, Jr., Salonia (Ul Pat).
We love & miss you.
King earns
GED at U of 0
Kyal King, son of Judy Kalama
King, successfully completed the
University of Oregon HEP curricu
lum. Graduation ceremonies were
held Friday, December II. He will
be attending Lane Community Col
lege winter term.
Happy 2nd Birthday
Julia M. Begay
Love, Mom & Dad
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Carnegie training included fish to risMToa
row: Mike Stepton, Arnout nwyer, e jrou,
Oram Smith, Sr., Cyrut Katchia, Lloyd Smith,
Sr unknown; Second row from lop: llarvty
ToheL Jacob Frank, Sr., unknown, Neda
Brown Wesley, Elanor Kalama Henry, Arlent
Bruno Boilieu, Nanci Queahpama
Tailfealethers, Kate Keo Jackson, unknown.
nd unknown. Third row: Verbena Tone!
Greene, Serena Miller Raboin, unknown,
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MillerTanawasha, Shirley Charley Saunders;
Bottom Row: Addonit (Pow-yow-wil) Scott,
Don McBride Miller, Elivibeth McBride
Rhoan, Adeline Moset Miller, Iris Kalama
Smith , Aridonna Aguilar Seylor, Ruthie
Damuka Smith , Prosanna Tohet Williams,
Josephs Adams, Smith. Huckleberry Feast
Celebration included: Laura Dick Crowe
(right) and her grandchildren Ijiura Kaye
Crowe, David Crowe, Lenora Starr Doney.
Photos courtesy of Daisy Ike.
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Fire and Safety notes many improvements over last few years
To the editor:
I have some things I bcl ieve people
in this community need to know about
Warm Springs Fire and Safety. The
department has come a long way in
the last few years; we now have three
EMT Ill's, which is a great accom
plishment in the EMS field. It takes a
lot of hard work and commitment to
obtain this certification. This enables
these three people to administer life
saving drugs and better manage the
airways of the sick and injured.
The department also has four EMT
II-D's, which means these medics
can start IV'sordcfibrillatc patients;
both of these procedures are critical
in life-threatening emergencies.
We also have two EMT II's, which
enables them to start IV's. With the
distance we must travel to the hospital
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after 5:00 p.m., this could mean the
difference between life and death.
Weal so havenineEMTI's, mostly
volunteers, who have spent their own
money and lime to become state cer
tified medics. I might add that the
EMT Ill's, EMT II-D's and EMT
II's also gave their own time and
money to obtain this certification.
; At 3:00 a.m. in the morning when
your beeper goes off, and the call
sounds really bad, it is sure a relief to
arrive at the scene and have a vol
unteer already there, ready to help
(or to see them pull into the firchall
just as you're pulling out). Volunteers
sacrifice a lot of hours as far as
training; it takes a lot of time to make
the quota of hours necessary to keep
the ccrtificauon. It's not easy it
takes a special kind of person to do
this job.
People come to the firchall need
ing help in the middle of the night.
Usually the first question they ask is,
VAre you the only one here?" Just
recently we hired two trainees who
work 24-hour shifts every other day;
regretfully, these positions are only
temporary. Other than that, any time
after 5:00 p.m., the on-duty fire
medics are left to hold down the fort.
Sometimes we get lucky and have
volunteers with spare time to spend
the night.
In the past, we have had a problem
arise when the on-duty medic is on a
call enroute to Mountain View Hos
pital and a second call comes in. OH,
NO! Now what? Someone else called
and they are expecting and ambu
lance. We do have a backup ambu
lance, but it takes time to get some
one to respond from home, get the
ambulance and go to wherever the
call is. It is really hard to explain why
it took so long; we all know when
something has happened and you
have called for help, minutes turn
into hours. All they know is that it is
our job to be there.
I don't think there is one person
affiliated with this department who
would not want to be there to help
someone if they needed it; that's what
this job is all about helping people
and saving lives.
When we're on duty for a 24-hour
shift, that is exactly what it means.
We have a two-minute response time,
which means we have two minutes to
get out of the station, regardless of
what we are doing at the time. It could
mean we are in the shower or sound
asleep in bed. I have been on some
shifts where I would give my whole
paycheck away for 20 quiet minutes
to eat a meal or catch a nap, but I
always manage and I always show up
for my next shift.
I think that is enough for now. I
hope a few people took the time to
read this so they will better under
stand what goes on at Fire & Safety.
Fire Medic,
Karla Bagley-Tias
Have good thought and prayer for not only
patients but the firemedics who help them
To the editor:
Did you know that an ambulance
that comes to your house and helps
you to get to a doctor with bandages,
fluids, and heart drugs has only been
around for about twenty years. Be
fore then an ambulance was usually
run by the local funeral home, or
hospital as a taxi service. It was a ride
only ...Now in 1992 it is not a one day
first aid course with C.P.R. that puts
you in the back of an ambulance to
help someone. It is four months of
class work and a lot of tests to pass.
To do more for someone means more
class work; fluids in thearm...another
three months; heart drugs...anothcr
four months. To work to the top, to be
a paramedic is equal to two years of
college taking the hard courses. Yet,
and this is a big yet... The average
time a firemedic lasts in their work is
six to eight years in the cities and
eight to twelve years in rural America.
Why all that class time to then not put
in thirty years of service. Well for one
thing it is hard to be 62 years of age
Continued on page 8
Happy Birthday
Toya!
3 years old
December 28, 1992
Lovz you,
Ttom and Dad
Eliminate the negative, accentuate the positive
Happy Birthday
Eileen Dick
From Nancy, Lester &
Julia
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To the editor:
With the Holiday cheer on
everyone's mind, it's easy to forget
I'm sorry for actions-
To the editor:
To the community of Warm
Springs, I sincerely apologize for
driving under the influence of alco
hol. A. Gilbert
Please turn in tags
To Hunters:
Please return your reservation and
or ceded area hunting tag(s) to the
department of Natural Resources. We
need hunt results back to the depart
ment so that they can be eligible for
next years tags.
Department of Natural
Resources
553-3233 or 3234
the problems that the Tribes will be
facing this coming New Year. The
enormous deficit the Tribes are
having to endure because of what
happened in 1990 and 1991, brings
about the obvious question, how do
the Tribes re-coup the loss. When we
stop and think, there is nore-couping,
a loss is a loss, no matter which way
its viewed. However, we are capable
of re-building. Under the watchful
eye of the Tribal Membership, re
building is possible. First, we need a
couple of projects that are legal and
workable by the Tribes. Something
that will provide additional employ
ment for qualified Indian people.
Something that has proven to be
beneficial to the individual and to the
Tribes of other reservations. It has to
be something that will help the Tribes
prosper, something that would add
revenue to existing programs, and
provide capital for new programs.
Revenue for new projects could, and
should, include room to hire our own
doctors. These are only two of the
possibilities. And one of two projects
that are in mind is gaming. Gaming
seems to be working for other Tribes.
Gaming on a scale large enough to
benefit all Tribal Members, no mat
ter what our walk in life. Gaming, by
no means is a new idea, gaming has
been on the minds of Top Tribal
heads for some time. What the hold
up is, is a mystery to me. But, there's
that old cliche, gaming will attract
organized crime, violence, corrup
tion. Say what? We have all that here
already. Weshouldn'tlctagood thing
slip by for fearof attracting an clement
already present. Gaming is but one
means of recovery for the Tribes, and
if we take time to look around at the
passing world about us, we'll see
other Tribes are doing just fine once
they take the plunge. Tribal heads
needs to know your opinion on the
gaming idea. If you are a public
speaker, attend the Tribal Council
meeungs and be a voice, if you are a
writer, write letters and have friends
and relatives sign the letter along
with yourself. Once we were in lead
ers, now we are in debt and loosing
ground. Let's eliminate the negative
and accentuate the positive.
Sincerely,
Amos Switzler, Jr.