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Coyote News
In Brief
Learn the languages
The Confederated Tribes
are committed to
preserving tribal
languages. Lessons will
begin next month.
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Firefighters enjoy
their jobs
Members of the local
Fire Management crew
say they like their jobs
and would like to expand
their careers.
Texaco star goes up
Delford and Marita
Johnson recently
switched from Space
Age to Texaco at the
station located on
Highway 26.
Lake clean-up
successful
The second annual
event was a great hit for
all Involved. ... .... ..
Jackson relates her
history
Louise Jackson came to
Warm Springs in 1947
as a music teacher at
the boarding school.
Parent committee
seeks input
Completed
questionnaires
concerning the needs of
Indian students will help
establish a plan for the
future.
Buffs lose again
The MHS football team
is having a tough time
gaining a win this
season.
Nez Perce re
establish horse
breeding program
The Young Horseman
Project is helping tribe
set up a quality horse
breeding program.
OSU offers
gardening tips for fall
October is good time to
get the yard and garden
in shape for winter.
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4-H clubs prepare for
new year"
4-H is popular among
Warm Springs youth.
Work is underway to get
ready for the upcoming
4-H year.
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Deadline for the next
Spilyayjymoo is
Friday,
October 6, 1995
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A reception for SpokarteCoeur d'Alene author Sherman
Alexie and Colville musician Jim Boyd will be Wednesday,
October 11, 1995 at 7 p.m. at The Museum At Warm Springs,
Book signing and a performance by Alexie and Boyd will
also be a part of the reception that is being sponsored by the
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Men's Wellness
Committee, Kah-Nee-Ta Resort, Madras Jefferson County
Chamber of Commerce and The Museum.
The pair will be in Warm Springs as guests of the Men's
Wellness Conference scheduled October 9-11, 1995 at Kah-Nee-Ta
Resort.
Sherman Alexie is an award winning writer and his first
novel, Reservation Blues, is now on sale at bookstores
throughout the country. His first two books include short
story collections The Business of Fancy Dancing, and The Lone
Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. He has won the Pen
Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction and the
winner of the 1994 Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writer's
Awards.
Alexie resides in Seattle but grew up on the Spokane
Indian Reservation in Wellpinit.
installment ot a two-book contact with the Atlantic Monthly
Press.
Jim Boyd is a Colville tribal member from Inchelium on
the Colville Indian Reservation. He had performed with
several Indian music groups including XTT and "Greywolf".
Boyd says his music fits into the Native American
contemporary category and mixes contemporary music with
lyrics of Indian issues (contemporary and traditional). As a
solo artist, he has performed for concerts throughout the
Northwest including four shows at the Met in Spokane, WA
and a more recent concert in Portland, OR, "Honor the
Earth", 1995 with the Indigo Girls. He has also performed at
several colleges and festivals such as Folklife and the Chicago
Humanities Festival.
The public is invited to the reception and for more
information contact Sheilah Wahnetah at Public Relations
553-1338 or Lori Edmo-Suppah at The Museum at 553-3331.
JOM receives
The Warm Springs Johnson
O'Malley Parent Committee has been
awarded a small grant from the U.S.
Department of Education to conduct
a study on the feasibility of
developing a local library for the
community. The primary purpose is
to determine the level of interest
among tribal community members
and determine what kind of services
might be most important for a library
to offer. A secondary purpose is to
gather information to support fund
raising efforts with public and private
agencies.
The $4232 grant will be used to
conduct a survey on a sample of 400
randomly selected, resident tribal
member households. The survey
questionnaire was developed during
the summer with assistance from the
Northwest Regional Educational
Laboratory (NWREL) in Portland.
The NWREL provided technical
Fish should not pay price
"The salmon should not have to
pay for Bonneville Power
Administrations bad business
decisions," said Ted Strong,
executive director of the Columbia
River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
at a public hearing September 22 on
BPA power sales contract with the
Direct Service Industries. "At the
Women's
Conference
set
Mark your calendars for the Fifth
Annual Local Women & Wellness
Conference, "The Rites of Passage
II," October 4, 5, 6, 7, 1995, at the
Warm Springs Community Center.
The Women & Wellness Conference
is sponsored by Community Health
Promotion, Human Services General
Manager, Home, Health Program and
the Community Health Education
Team.
Visiting guest include: Liz
Woody, tribal member, Stella
Washines, Yakama, Washington, and
Lisa Tiger from Muskogee,
Oklahoma.
Child care will be provided, for
more information contact Cheryl
Tom at 553-3225, Human Services
Department; or Marci Clements at
(503) 553-3291.
Reservation Blues is the final
U.S. Postage
Bulk Rate Permit No. 2
Warm Springs, OR 97761
grant
assistance from library and evaluation
staff specialists.
The survey consists of 31
questions which will ask where a
library should be located, what a
facility might include, and should
tribal funds be used for library
development. NWREL staff will
conduct the analysis of the
information when gathered and
compiled and facilitate the
community meeting. The November
meeting will share the survey analysis
and provide those who were not
surveyed with an opportunity to share
their opinions on a Warm Springs
Library. Surveys will arrive in mail
boxes the week of October 2nd.
Please return the surveys as soon as
possible.
For more information, please call
Julie Quaid, Project Coordinator at
553-324 1 or 3242 or Shirley Sanders
at 553-1769.
same time the Bonneville Power
Administration is proposing an
arbitrary limit on what can be spent
for salmon restoration, the agency is
also planning to expand subsidies to
the Direct Service Industries."
Strong said that the subsidies may
not be the long-term interest of the
region, and called for a more open
and deliberative process to make such
determinations. "With so much at
stake for the public, back-room deals
with privileged, big business interests
are not appropriate."
Julie Davis, Nez Perce Tribal
Executive Committee Vice-Chair,
Alphonse Halfmoon, Umatilla Board
of Trustees Vice Chair, and Wendell
Hannigan, Yakama Tribal Council,
joined Mr. Strong in speaking out
against "trying to balance
Bonneville's WPPS debt on the backs
of the salmon," as Davis expressed
it. "Bonneville is a far greater threat
to salmon than salmon have ever
been a threat to Bonneville," she
said.
"We need to honestly address what
ails BPA, look to strategies that are
truly designed to recover salmon and
move boldly forward," Strong said.
"If we don't, we may find ourselves
without salmon, without the
Bonneville Power Administration,
without an aluminum industry, and
with the stigma of a $7.1 billion
federal WPPS debt."
Alcohol essay
contest open
to students
The Oregon Liquor Control
Commission is sponsoring an essay
contest for Oregon students in grades
7 through 12. The theme of the contest
is "Why is Oregon's legal drinking
age 21?" There are two categories,
grades seven through nine and grades
10 through 12. The OLCC is offering
US Savings Bonds, provided through
a grant from the Licensed Beverage
Information Council, for the first
three winners in each category.
Students are asked to write an
essay no longer than 400 words dis
cussing the basis for the legal age
requirement to buy and drink alcohol.
Students are encouraged to include
such factors as history, social
changes, the effects of early alcohol
use on physical and mental devel
opment and the impact of alcohol on
the death rate of young people. En
tries must be non-fiction.
The deadline to enter is Friday,
October 27. Entries should be sent to
Essay Contest, Oregon Liquor Con
trol Commission, PO Box 22297,
Milwaukie, OR 97269-2297.
Guidelines concerning the contest
are available at Spilyay.
Seeking twelve
volunteers
Healthy Nations seeks 12 volun
teers of six men and six women.
Would you like to work hand in
hand with the Warm Springs Preven
tion Team? Would you be interested
in attending a prevention conference
at Sunriver. October 28-31,1995?
Please call Valerie at Healthy Na
tions 553-4914 to register. (Regis
tration is on a fir.st cone first serve
basis.)