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4 February 17, 1995 Warm Springs, Oregon SpilyayTymoo E Coosh EEWA: The way it is Traditional ways not being carried on to younger generations To the editor, or what we learned. And when I didn't matter because the main things have paid more attention, I : Well, the Simpson case is sort q ot mellowing down and the trial is getting underway and things seem to be at a stand still at the present time. The gang situation is still in the air all around us all the time and will be present until some solution can be made on the prob lem. As things seem to be at a even flow now the Bob Packwood, situ ation is beginning to come back into light as lobbyists are testify ing on the matter. The whole is sue seems to stem from accusa tions that Bob Packwood solic ited jobs for his Ex-Wife, in order to lighten the alimony payments for the Senator. It was reported that a job was offered to Mrs. Packwood as a purchasing agent for American Arts and Crafts for a Japanese clients, but there is nothing definite on the rumor. The Senate Ethics Committee is investigating the allegations against Packwood, along with charges from more than two dozen women that Packwood made unwanted sexual advances. Come on now ladies, remember, "A Good Man Is hard to Find." What started this anyway? Packwood's opposition during the last election who could not un-seat the Senator are probably at fault, trying to dig up all the dirt they could to get him out of office. Everyone has their own opinion and this is what I think: Some old lady who no one pays much attention to now days as all the young chicks are getting all the attention stated that Mr. Packwood made unwanted sexual ad vances years ago. Some of these allegations happened some twenty years ago. Yun-Wyee-Packwood. Yep! Sexual Harrasment could be damaging to just about anyone, depends on the cercomstences of the situation. Take High School Coaches, especially for girls sports. Things could get pretty shakey being around the girls during practice and actual game time. It was said that one time if a coach put his hand on the sholder of one of his girl playres, it was a mark of his approval of fine play. But today a coach has to be very careful on how he congratulates his players. There are always those people with asick mind and make mountains out of Mole hills saying the coach had his hands all over the girls during the game. Also if a girl gets repremanded and maybe put off the team, the girls . gets mad and says the reason she quit the team is because the coach made sexual advances to her. Who's to know the real truth but the public would redicle the coach no matter if he was innocent or not. Yep ! "This is a dog-eat-dog world." Huh? SS SS SS Well, it's time to nominate Tribal Councilmen once again as there are District meetings popping up all around. For the Simnasho, district it will be held in the Longhouse with the usual routine, dinner a 6 p.m. and the meeting to start at 7 p.m. and so on. This will be the same pattern for the other two districts. The Seekseequa district will be meeting in the Community Center Social Hall, and the Agency district will meet in the Longhouse. These are very important positions to be filled as the representative must work for the Tribes as a whole and it's not an easy task. It's a tough job to serve on the Tribal Council. We need to look at the best people we have to serve and act in our behalf on all tribal business matters. So If you are in doubt, look no further for here I am ready to serve at any capacity. AAAYYYEEE!!! Chi-Toon... No Kidding, we have to be very careful and select the best people we have for the Tribal Council seats. We can't go by saying, "Hey, It's your turn to be a councilmen, I'll nominate you. Sometimes I feel that we don't need the districts anymore because we are not isolated like it used to be in the Olden Day's where the people had to travel by horseback to come to the meetings. So when they got back to their districts they held council meetings to discuss what took place or voted on what should be brought up at the next meeting. The districts are just trouble makers now days as everyone is inter-married and live in different districts and everything is all against our constitutions as it is read today. Why bother to have districts when we are all Warm Springs people? We all lookout for one another no matter where we may come from. Just don't include the "Dirty Moc." Yep! The Councilmen are the Board of Directors for the REZ. and should act accordingly. Toe Ness Wife: The maid just quit. She said you spoke insultingly to her on the phone. , Husband: Good heavens! I thought I was talking to you! YIKES SS SS SS Wife: I got this girdle today for a ridiculous figure. Husband: I know that, What did it cost? YIKES SS SS SS Wife: My husband has three Moods...hungry, thirsty, or both. YIKES SS SS SS Johnny: Mother's Bible must be more interesting than yours. Father: Why do you say that? Johnny: She reads it more than you read yours. YIKES I'm generally a quiet person and have total respect for my elders and most people in general. But right now I feel I need to speak up and voice myself. Not only for this thing that the court system is calling a traditional way. Sometimes we forget the old ways and how it used to be or the teachings that our elders tried to instill in us so that we can carry on the ways of our people. But today we forget or shrug it off on excuses we're too busy or just plain don't have the time to deal with a lot of what goes on in family, or well you brought all this on yourself. I guess in reality it doesn't work that way. Because when you start letting it go then so goes the ways we were brought up, the values we should be sharing, with our family and most of all the love, respect, and understanding of what goes on in todays families. Most of the time we don't look back at how it used to be . A i V 1 think back now there's so much more I could be sharing, showing, and being there for my family, always there's excuses and that's where I shrug. Now my family is almost grown and I feel sorry that I did that to them, most of all I need to let them know, that all of this isn't completely their fault but mine too if I would have done more listening, doing, understanding. Then maybe we wouldn't be going through this. I've heard a lot of different expressions of ways to describe the reasons, the purposes of us being here on earth. I guess mainly I remember that we're here only on borrowed time. Seems a lot of the things we do or accomplish here are borrowed. Even the second language we use is for a reason. So much of what we do, say, learn and accomplish is to fulfill the needs of our lives here today. Not looking back and seeing how it used to be and how the accomplishments really Happy Birthday February 26 to Nicole Ann From Sheilah, Toot, Samantha & Drew Happy Birthday "Alexa Rae" February 26th All our love, Auntie Sarah, Uncle Curtis, & your cousins Joslah, & Jr. Happy Birthday Monica, Feb. 24 From Sheilah, Toot, Samantha & Drew Happy 5th Birthday; February 16, Brandon Thompson From Auntie Sheilah, Toot, Samanatha & Drew w 4r JJh Happy First Birthday Tahmaira Elaine Clements February 22, 1995 Love, Mom, Dad & Sister Happy First Birthday Tahmaira 2-22-95 Love, Dad Happy Birthday Daughter, Sis, Mom, Auntie Blah February 27, Love ya Why was I denied funding? To the editor, Thank you to the Siletz Tribe for the emergency scholarship, shoes for my kids, and school supplies that allowed me to stay in college. Warm Springs Education & Committee would not accept my mother's death or my surgery as an excuse for withdrawing one term. They denied tribal funding. I lost everything. Only Ken, Zane, and Fritz even bothered to listen. Thank you. Why is our tribe denying funding for higher education and throwing money at gambling? Judy Kalama King, Tribal member U of O Senior To Jacqueline Whiteplume of Lapwai, ID From one mother to another, Your sons are truly a blessing to our family The granddaughters hold heaarts in their hands. Reflections of you, your sons must be, loving parents, and grandfathers yet to be. Congratulations on a job well done. With wishes for future joy and fun. From The Gram'ma from Warm Springs, Annie Heart-healthy dinner, bingo set The IHS Diabetes Program and the Senior Program would like to invite you to a "heart-healthy" dinner and bingo while you learn more about how to eat for a "healthy heart". Please bring your family and friends and join us for dinner and bingo at the Senior Center on Wednesday, February 22, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EDITOR'S NOTE SpilyayTymoo welcomes articles and letters from Its readers. All letters, preferably 300 words or less, must include the author's signature and address. Thank you letters and poetry will be published at the editor's discretion. AH letters are the opinion of the author and do not reflect in any way the opinion of Spilyay Tymoo. Spilyay Tymoo reserves the right to edit all copy OR refuse publi cation of any material thai may be libelous statements. Happy Birthday Vernon Ray Spino (Aka: Simba, Vernie, Bern, Barney, Snoopy) From Johnson, Lei, Derek & Chartene Business course to begin Feb. 21 ONABEN'S starting a successful business course. This will begin Tuesday, February 2 1 , 1 995 at 6 p.m. This 14 week course will discuss business topics including the following: Bookkeeping; Tax Compliance; Marketing; Financial Management and Business Plan Development For more information or to sign up contact the Small Business Center at 553-3593 or stop in at 2107 Wasco Street Formerly Greenhouse program didn't matter because the main things that mattered was family and staying alive and together without all of the possessions and high tone values we see and look at today. Things are so different, the values are so high that it hurts everyone who things they're doing okay or breaking even. Yet their heads are still under water, and the ways of our culture are at a big time loss. I often wonder what will we do when our elders are no more and us as middle age don't know how to show, or learn or teach our own children how or what to do. How to survive not only now but for the future. How to deal with the ways of how things are now in todays world. Now I can say the same thing that my grandmother said to me, "Just wait until you have children of your own and you'll see exactly what I meant when I was trying to show, teach, and keep you on your straight road." Boy! I can really say just from these experiences that I wish I would have paid more attention, listened, and done more of what she was try ing to instill in me and my family. I'm so glad I know some of her teachings and can still take time to learn if I have to. We as the next and younger generation need to take a good look at ourselves and stop trying to be someone you can't be. We re a people with a beautiful and wonderful culture that others too can only wish to be. We need to preserve what we were born to and if we don't understand or know something then get out and find someone to help. They'd be more than glad to share the knowledge of our own. I guess I've shared more than enough of my opinion and hope I haven't offended or hurt anyone's feelings with this. I'm not a perfect person, just someone who cares about my family, people, very much and hope they can understand me too. And be patient with me also. Thanks for your time. Winona M. Sohappy Lewis The Eagle Cries Listen to the natives, hear them singing their ancient songs, songs their ancestors sang, as the years rolled on. So much love for culture, but yet, it is dying, we are losing a little more, their spirits used to fly way up high, but now the eagle is alone, for now, only he can touch the sky. For his brothers the eagle cries, because he can no longer speak their native tongue, they call them savages, which is nothing but lies. Don't these people know what they're doing is wrong? For with the eagle, no one flies, so he tells how he feels in his songs. In the years to come, will they still know the ancient ways? Or will it disappear, like the morning frost? When the culture dies will the natives feel nothing, not even dismay? The animals and nature, for the future, will their death be the cost? Listen to the natives, before their culture disappears, the ancient ways, in the natives is where it lives. by Vanessa Knight Submitted by Vanessa Knight's grandmother, Freda Wallulatum Name Giving Saturday, March 4, 1995 at the 1910 Shaker Church, Warm Springs, Oregon. Everyone is welcome to come. Happy Birthday BrotherUncle Butch February 25 Love always, Byron, Missy and Larry Happy Birthday to Lil Roy Darrin B. 224 From Larry, Missy, Byron Happy Birthday Charly "Sweet 16" Love, Mom, Dad, Mia, & Paleena i Look who turned 9 February 101 Happy Birthday, son Jerome E. Henry Love you! Mom ; Happy Birthday Monica, Nikkl, Sam & Brandon from, Chris, Irma, Haley, and Charisse Happy Birthday Nat Shaw February 27 from Sheilah, Toot, Samantha and Drew Happy Birthday, Son, Brother, Nephew, Cousin Tony Gilbert, Jr. February 18, Love ya! - - Happy Birthday! Son, YaYa, Uric, Big L March 1, Love ya! Happy Birthday "Josiah" "5 years old" February 2Z 1990 We love youl Dad, Mom, and your lil bro Curtis, Jr. Happy 80th Birthday "Grandma Flora' January 25th, 1915 We love you & think of you everyday. Sarah, Curtis, Josiah, and Curtis, Jr.