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Warm Springs, Oregon
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Beaded bags
Made by Tilda Totus of Yakima,
Beaded bags exhibited in glass cases and drawers for easy viewing.
Warm Springs
Hello from the Warm Springs
Healthy Nations Project!
Thank you Warm Springs for bear
ing the heat to attend another suc
cessful Healthy Nations event. The
Fourth of July Celebration was an
other great turn out. To begin the
thank yous, I wouldn't know where
to start. There are so many good
people who don't hesitate to volun
teer their help. My first thanks to the
Tribal Council and the staff , who
funded the fireworks this year. And
to the Fish & Wildlife Committee for
the Bear tags, and the donation of the
deer.
Another big thank you toTommie
Smith for his time and hunting ex
pertise of the two bears. The Bear
Barbecue is the main subject for the
Fourth of July it wouldn't be the
same without the bear, and prepara
tion of the cooking procedure.
Thanks a million, trillion to all the
Utilities staff who took part with the
bears, cutting & wrapping the meat,
and the groceries, and the set up of
tables & benches, for the barbecue
grills, and for the pit, and for the PA
Thank you for
prayers
To the editor,
Friends and Neighbors, thank you
for your prayers for Wayne Saunders.
He is doing a lot bett, still confused
about everything. Hopefully he will
recover soon! Thank you agian.
From Wayne's family
Samantha & Drew s
Yard Sale
July 26th; 10 a.m. to
dusk
6361 Crestview Drive
Sunnyside
Lots of clothes, toys
& other stuff.
Happy Birthday to
Celestine Charley July 9,
We wish you the very best ever.
With much love for you always,
From Dad, Mom, Jolene, Robert Jr.
& Michelle Hugs & kisses always!
show beauty
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Healthy Nations update
system, and the clean up, and
whatever else that I may not write,
to: Herb Graybael, Roy Spino, Lee
Tom, Cecil Brunoe, Joey Cooke,
Albert Charley Jr., Oliver Moses.
Pyro Presentations for coming back
to Warm Springs to put on another
display to the people here that they
enjoy returning to. Thank you to all
the parade participants! Parade
watchers.
Thank you Recreation Depart
ment for the tug-of-war rope and
gunny sacks. Sorry about the bot
toms tearing out, Lois and I tried to
quickly sew them up. Kind of hard
without a needle! Thank you Kelly
Beymer for the short notice, and
delivery of the trough for the pop
and watermelon . Thanks to the Warm
Springs Forest Products Industries
for the wood chips for the children
Coin Search and for the generous
contribution. Kahneeta for their
prize donations. Joe Endres for the
use of his truck in the parade that
Li'l Miss PiUmeSha rode on with
her friends. Fire & Safety, Fire
Management, the Police Patrol.
Happy Birthday to:
July 3-Grandpa Russell Smith
July 6-Fabian Sutterlee Jr.
July 7-Mazers
July 8-Angela Smith
July 8-Donna Sue Anstett
July 26-to my Dad Aaron Smith
July 26-to Aaron Smith
With lotsa love, Angie, Donte &
Aaron
Congratulations to Loren & Analeah
on their baby girl Maliah Florendo.
With love, Angie, Donte & Aaron
July 7th-Sorry so late!
Happy Belated Birthday
Kayleen Clements!
With love from Sheilah, Samantha,
Drew & Nolan
July 22nd-Happy Birthday to my
mom, that I love very much, thank
you for everything!
Sheilah, Samantha, Drew & No-No.
July 22nd-Happy Birthday to
Denise Clements!
With love from Sheilah, Samantha,
Free training
offered
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Carol Allison for agreeing to be
urand Marshall, the kids were so
proud of you! Rudy Clements for
the use and delivery of your barbecue
grills. Rodney and Albert Adams for
trying their best to fill the little bitty
water balloons. Sorry Lana, I didn't
know Albert had a cast on till later!
AND Thank you, Thank you
Thank you Dorothy Kalama, Kate
Jackson, Richard Craig, Wilson
Wewa, Carol Wewa, Vivian Wewa,
Lois & Francis Lesarley, Travis
Wells, Tammy Wells, Charolette
Herkshan, Marci & Ron Clements,
Kuny a and Leslie Squiemphan, Carla
Charley (Tewee) , Darloo Foster and
SpiritFest Friends, Nadine Scott,
J'Dean Kalama, Wiggy Sooksowit,
Marcia Flynn and anyone else that I
may have overlooked. All the help is
greatly appreciated. Tho nobody was
paid, even the Utilities crew, it shows
people really enjoy and care about
being a part of a Healthy Community
Unity with a BANG! See you next
year!
Sheilah Wahnetah, Coordinator
Warm Springs Healthy Nations
Project
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Salmon issues facing federal, state
Representatives of the Nez Perce,
Warm Springs, Umatilla and Yakama
tribes sat down to talk with member
of the Northwest Power Planning
Council (NPPC) about the some of
the "big picture" salmon issues facing
federal, state and tribal policy makers.
Both NPPC members and tribal
representatives stressed their
intention to try to work together to
solve some of the difficult issues that
were brought up during their
discussion, which took place as a
part of the NPPC meeting in
Missoula, Montana.
The issues included fish and
wildlife restoration funding, the role
of science, law enforcement and
governance (or how to get the state,
tribal and federal parties to work in
unison).
01 ney Patt, Jr., Warm Springs Fish
and Wildlife Committee member,
noted that "restoration of Columbia
Basin fish and wildlife is a daunting
task, but when the states, the tribes
and the federal government attempt
the job separately, it is impossible."
Wendell Hannigan, Yakama
Tribal Council and Vice-Chairman
of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission, asked NPPC to
join the tribes in a regional effort to
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thankful to all
To the editor,
To all friends and family. I am
writing this long overdue letter of
Thanks. Thanks to all whom pro
vided support emotionally, finan
cially, & spiritually when my daugh
ter passed over May 10, 1996. When
she became ill, it was my sisters
Marlena and Annette whom took her
io the clinic for me, and waited with
her. Thanks to my nieces, Marcie &
Joanna whom sat with her until I
arrived, she knew you was there and
it helped her.
Thanks to the clinic staff whom
responded. Dr.'s Creelman, Man
ning, Life and Donnell, and the nurses
Onte and 3 others, I don't know their
names butl'll neverforgettheirfaces.
Thanks to my sisters and brothers
whom came to St. Charles to sit with
us and pray for her. Thanks to my
Aunts Lydia Murphy, Pat
Tanewasha, Maxine McKinley for
the prayers and just being there to
support us with your presence and
love.
Thanks to Yahtin's wife, Sheila &
Lorraine, Hilda, Alicia, Josephine
for helping in the kitchen. Thanks to
my uncle Jacob and my aunt Winona
for being present and all my cousins
Mariel, Melinda and Jeffrey. And to
secure sufficient funding for fish and
wildlife restoration. Currently there
is a cap on fish and wildlife spending.
"As it is currently structured, the cap
has already begun to strangle
restoration efforts," Hannigan said.
"If extended, the spending cap will
reduce the NPPC fish and wildlife
budget to almost nothing by 2006 as
principal and interest become due on
Corps capital construction projects."
The spending cap proposal made
by the Bonneville Power
Administration would, according to
Hannigan, "plunge the Northwest
into another round of intense
litigation; would abrogate the United
States' treaty obligations to Canada
and to Columbia River tribe; would
provoke reinitiation of consultation
under the ESA that could demand
more water from Idaho, Montana,
and Grand Coulee; and could
potentially trigger a "God Squad" to
determine whether the federal
government should let Snake River
salmon go extinct."
OIney Patt, Jr. added: "We must
remember that fish and wildlife
restoration is not a luxury. It is a
legitimate cost of doing business that
has been ignored. To forego that cost
is to steal from the people of the
Northwest in general and from the
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Made by Evelyn Scott of Warm Springs, 1980s.
one of many teachers, Maria
all that came to the services, funeral
and Shaker meetings. It wasn't until
after the funeral, as a matter of fact,
six months later that I realize how
much family and friends supported
us with their presence. Too many to
name individually. Thanks for the
cards.
It is very difficult excepting the
death of a child. She had hopes,
dreams, plans, years to live, or so we
assumed. The Creator knew differ
ent. We will always miss her and
pray daily, morning and night, for
strength & guidance from the Cre
ator. Her passing has been very diffi
cult experience for all my sisters,
brothers, nieces & nephews. We are
a very strong family and care deeply
for one another, it hurt us all.
Thanks to all whom attended her
memorial and stone setting on May
10, 1997 at the Shaker Church. This
has brought the circle to a close, this
past year of mourning. The sorrow is
ever present in our longing for our
time to come, and we shall all be
together again as one, with the Cre
ator. May the Creator bless each and
everyone of you, wherever your day
may take you.
Carol & Pedro,
Priscilla, Tarivia & Luis Jr.
and Erica Parra
and tribal policy makers discussed
tribes in particular."
Alphonse Halfmoon, Chairman of
the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish
Commission, talked about the
successes his tribe, the Umatilla, has
had in restoring salmon to the
Umatilla River (in Northeast Oregon)
which for more than 60 years had no
salmon spawning in it. He asked,
"Can we repeat that success today?
Or would we be stymied by science
and economic?"
"Thirteen years ago, we had to
overcome the objections of the
dominant science in the Columbia
Basin about putting spring chinook
from Carson hatchery into the
Umatilla River," Halfmoon said. "We
were told that it would not work. But
it did. And it does. The offspring of
those fish are spawning in the
Umatilla Basin today." He went on
to explain that the tribe only put fish
back in the river, but it also began
restoring natural conditions to the
river. The tribe addressed other
ecological problems. Halfmoon also
noted that the tribe worked w ith other
agencies, landow ners and community
leaders to get the job done.
Halfmoon said that such successes
can be repeated in the Columbia Basin
and urged NPPC to use the Umatilla
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Classes held during
the Glass Tapestry
exhibit
In conjunction with the Glass
Tapestry exhibit The Museum At
Warm Springs is teaching beadwork
to ten children in order to keep the
craft alive in the Warm Springs
culture. There are ten children signed
up to learn various kinds of bead work.
In their first week July 7-11 the
children learned Looming. The
second week Peyote stitch was taught
and in the third week String work.
The fourth week they will learn
mocassins, which will continue into
the fifth week. Week six they will
learn necklaces and chokers and week
seven they will learn daisy chains,
zigzag, etc. In their final week they
will finish any unfinished projects.
The beadwork teachers are local
women Lois Smith, Esther Culpus,
Maria Hicks, Neda Wesley, Cordelia
Miller, Nadine Scott, Brenda Scott,
Tammy Kalama, Dorothy George,
Patricia Miller, Rosalind Sampson. .
Kw'Alani Wiyanawitpama (Happy
Birthday)
Inmi (my) Naimuma (relatives):
Lps's (bros) Bronsco Jim Jr.,
Harriman Palmer, Sam Wolfe, Wil
son Bcgay, Yaiya Chuck Dick
Itsh (nephews) Jerome Antone,
James Walsey
Pshi (nieces) Felicia Reddog
(Chauntie Heemsah)
Asip (younger sister) Marcie
Clements, Liz Culps
Inxtwai (my friends) Valerie Alisia
Aguilar & everyone else that is hav
ing their birthday in August. We
love you all, with all our hearts. May
God Bless you always and watch
over you. No matter what you do in
your life. May He guide you in the
right way from wrong. I encourage
you to do the best that you can in
your life.
Atauwishamash tmna'kni awata
a'watawishaash-"I love you from
my heart"
PaxtwaitTamiinwa-'Triendship for
ever" Rosie, Christine, Calvin, Dee, Ed,
Isha
Birthday Wish
Happy Birthday on July 28th, to
Lucy A. Smith
From Meleah and gang!!!
River restoration as a model.
Another issue discussed this
afternoon was fisheries law
enforcement. Arthur Taylor, Jr.,
Chairman of the Nez Perce Fish,
Wildlife and Water Subcommittee,
said if tribal fisheries enforcement
received substantial cuts as has been
proposed, it would compromise the
level of salmon protection now
provided. Tribal fisheries law
enforcement, funded by the Columbia
River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
and by BPA funds, includes a habitat
protection component as well, he
explained.
"Without the funding,
enforcement would be forced into a
reactive mode, which constrains
enforcement to responding to
resource degradation and
encroachment after the damage is
done," Taylor said.
Currently tribal law enforcement
on the Columbia has created a
significant deterrent effect w hich has
resulted in high rates of compliance
by tribal members, according to
Taylor. "For example, this year
during the tribes' ceremonial and
subsistence fishery for spring
chinook, our tribal member
compliance rate was 98.3 percent,"
he said.