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Spilyay Tymoo
Feb. 17, 1995
Vol. 20 No. 4
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Coyote News
In Brief
A new Miss Warm
Springs
Twenty-two year old
Agnes Wolfe was
crowned Miss Warm
Springs during
ceremonies February 1.
Annual powwow
draws big crowd
Even the cold weather
couldn't keep the
powwow crowd down.
Heart to Heart
celebrates love,
devotion
Hundreds of Valentine's
Day wishes speak of
love, romance and much
more.
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Housing information
given
The upcoming multi
million dollar housing
referendum would
provide for additional
housing on the
reservation, officials say.
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Nettie Shawaway
featured elder
Simnasho elder speaks
of the past, her youth
and her dislike for
gambling and alcohol.
Potpourri offered
Elementary news, a new
chief of police, children's
dental health clinic and
sports are featured.
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Control of
cholesterol may
elongate your life
Watching the amount of
cholesterol you consume
may add years to your
ire.
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Middle school on its
way
construction of the new
Jefferson County Middle
School is underway and
officials say the school
will be open for school
next fall.
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To aft of you who
did not receive a
special valentine,
Here it is!
Wewishyou
continued
Happiness, love
andpeace.
Sptyay Tymoo Staff
Deadline for the next
Spilyay Tymoo is
Friday,
February 24, 1995
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The Whiteplume brothers participated in the 3 handdrum contest
District strategy includes no-nonsense measures....
Madras High School facing serious issues
While most students at Madras
High School were receiving balloons,
gifts and flowers on Valentine' s Day,
one high school student was arrested
for having a loaded weapon at the
school.
Madras City police officers re
sponded to the high school at 10:30
a.m. after being notified by school
personnel that they had located a
student in possession of a semi-automatic
handgun. High school offi
cials detained the student in the
school office until officers arrived.
They arrested the student and a .380
semi-automatic handgun was recov
ered. No threats were made with the
weapon and no injuries were sus
tained. The student was transported
and released to Jefferson County
juvenile authorities. The youth was
charged in juvenile court with car
rying a concealed weapon and pos
session of a weapon in a public
building.
The student faces an automatic
year's expulsion as is required by the
federal Gun Free School Zone Act.
However, Madras High School vice
principal Scott Marquardt said it is a
"sticky issue" because Oregon law
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differs from federal law in that Or
egon law requires that a student be
expelled for a semester. The federal
law allows state laws to supersede
the federal law. "We will recom
mend a year's expulsion," said
Marquardt, "in compliance with the
federal law." However, the final de
cision will be in the hands of District
superintendent Phil Riley.
Marquardt feels the entire
Jefferson County community is
committed to sending a "very, very
strong anti-gun message."
This latest incident occurred just
one day after the 509-J School Dis
trict school board decided to hire a
full-time security officer to patrol
the halls of the high school and junior
high school. Student lockers and cars
parked on campus will be subject to
random searches without notice
with the aid of a drug-sniffing dog
whenever school officials establish
"reasonable suspicion that illegal or
unauthorized materials are contained
inside."
The school honors the "due pro
cess provided for in the Constitu
tion," said Marquardt. School offi
cials, with "reasonable suspicion,"
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during the 19th Annual Lincoln's
can conduct "student and locker
searches," he said. However, police
must have probable cause. "We op
erate at a school level while the po
lice must operate at the legal level,"
Marquardt added.
The full-time officer will be on
the job sometime in March and will
work "where needed." Marquardt is
hopeful that the officer will empha
size an "educational role rather than
just another vice principal standing
in the hall," he said. The officer
should have good rapport with the
students and possibly have DARE
experience.
A Warm Springs community
member, who wished to remain
anonymous, said he contact school
officials and suggested that an inter
vention be done for students. There
may be 50 or 100 "bad kids" at the
school, said the community member,
but there are another "500 victims"
who may not know how to handle the
stress of possible violence at school.
Marquardt said he has noticed a
"lot more concern more the majority,
who are doing what they should,
rather than" attention being focused
on "those who are disruptive."
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Birthday Powwow.
Tribal Council
nomination
meetings
Seekseequa District
February 21
Agency Longhouse
Dinner at 6 p.m.;
meeting at 7 p.m.
Agency District
February 22
Agency Longhouse
Potluck dinner at 6 p.m.;
meeting at 7 p.m.
Simnasho District
February 23
Simnasho Longhouse
Dinner at 6 p.m.;
meeting at 7 p.m.
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5th Annual Honor Seniors Day
in Warm Springs
Friday, March 17, 1995 at Agency Longhouse
Theme "Cowboys & Indians"
prizes will be given for best dressed cowboys
and Indians
A horse drawn carriage will be available
for your riding pleasure.
8:00 a.m Registration opens
10:00 a.m Early Childhood Education Powwow
11:30 a.m sack lunches
Numerous games throughout the afternoon
5:00 p.m Dinner
7:00 p.m Evening Powwow with other fun
activities mixed in.
Emcee will be 8-ball Jim and Wilson Wewa
The Warm Springs Boy Scouts will be
posting colors, and invocation will be given by
Pastor Bruce Williams
Follow the signs as you come into Warm
Springs, they will lead you to the Agency
Longhouse. where all activities will take place.
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ATNI draws
leaders from
Northwest
The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest
Indians Mid-Year confcrance covered
many issues of what Tribes face in the
Northwest. Among the issues discussed
were Housing, Governance, Veterans
Affairs, Natural Resources, Health,
Education, Economic Development,
Gaming to name a few of the important
topics.
The change in the administration
has had quite an impact on all the tribes
in the Northwest. The question is, "Who
can we work with?" Who understands
the Indian problems today. We've got
to go to the Republican Party and edu
cate them of what the Native American
problems are. If we don't, they will
never know how to deal with these
problems. In the past the Democratic
Party dclt pretty well with the Native
American problems, where as the Re
publican Party sort of wrote the Indians
off. So today we must find someone to
work with in the Republican party and
will be an asset to the new Administra
tion as the Tribes as time passes.
Another strike against the Native
Americans was when the Committee
on Indian Affairs was completed, Sena
tor Mark Hatfields name was not among
those who were elected to the comittee.
Many leaders felt that Senator McCain
of Arizona, might be the person who
would have knowledge and understand
ing of the Indian problems and may be
the person to work with.
The Task Force on the re-structure
of the BIA, has been in effect for some
time now. With all the studies and leg
work by the Task Force, it was said that
the Assistant Secretary of Indian Af
fairs, Ada Deer, was going to come out
with a plan of their own excluding all
the work what the Task force has been
doing. There was a lot of objection to
this plan.
At this time of the year there will be
the Budget hearings going on and the
Leaders here from the Northwest know
we need a voice in all the happenings in
Washington D. C. If the Indian people
have no voice in the matter they will be
the ones who will take all the cuts in the
budgets as it has happened all along
from year to year.
In preperation for the trip to Wash
ington D.C., the Affiliated Tribes of
Northwest Indians prepared around 3 1 ,
resolutions to be submitted for consid
eration at the meetings back there. All
the resolutions pertain to issues from
the Indian Nations. As they say the
Indian programs are the hardest hit
with the Ax during budget processing
in Washington D.C.
The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest
Indians mid-year conference held in
the Air Port Holiday Inn, concluded at
noon February 9, 1995.