2 January 14, 1999
Warm Springs, Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
Senior Outlook features Clements and Anderson
High School seniors from Warm
Springs featured in this issue are Chris
Clements and Raymond Anderson.
They will graduate with the class of
1999.
Chris's parents are Rudy Clements
and Cassie Caldera. His grandparents
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Chris Clements
on his mother's side are Richard and
Helen Caldera and on his father's
side Jim and Elaine Clements.
He has three sisters Camille,
Chantel and Christy.
Clements enjoys music as a special
interest at home and Baseball while
at school.
He received an award for baseball,
a Batting Award, above .400
Average.
Clements is inspired in his life by
Einstein "he brought up aspects of
science that no one else could and is
proof of evolution of the brain."
He comments on his senior year at
Madras High School, "I think the hat
law was slightly on the stupid side."
His comment to lower classmen
is to, "eat your Wheatics, or salmon
heads will do."
His plans for the future include,
"making comedy movies or a music
producer."
Ten years from now he sees
himself, "either living good in a nice
house or down and out in a cardboard
multiplex eating top ramcn."
Native American descent: Warm
Springs, Wasco
Favorite sport: "Baseball, it takes
more skill and teamwork because
one mistake could cost the game."
Favorite class: "English class with
Mr. Hillis, he's a very intellectual
person and makes you think of
things."
Favorite singer: "The Six Mafia or
Dubee"
Favorite Movie Star: "Chris Tucker"
Favorite Holiday: "Christmas, what
other holidays are showered with
expensive things?"
Raymond's mother is Berni
Watlamet. His grandparents on his
mother's side are Joseph Cassaway
and Dorothy Kuneki, and on his
father's side Perthina White and Paul
Anderson.
He has two brothers Willis
Anderson and Joseph Anderson and
one sister Kristina Cassaway.
Anderson participates high school
sports Basketball, Football and Cross
Country. He has received medals,
plaques, lettermen's jacket for
running.
He is inspired in his life by Foster
Kalama, "because he's there for me
when I need him and he is a very nice
person."
Tribal c onservation video "Protecting Mother Earth" completed
Oregon Association of Conservation
Districts announces a new tribal
conservation video entitled "Protecting
Mother Earth." In conjunction with
several Oregon tribes, the Oregon
Association of Conservation Districts
and the USDA Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS), with
funding provided by the USDA
Environmental Quality Incentive
Program (EQIP), produced this video
reflecting the cultural foundations tribal
members value with respect to natural
resource management on their lands. A
Native American video production
house, Shenandoah Film Productions,
produced this twenty-two minute tribal
conservation video respecting those
values.
A professional actor, Jerri Brunoe
Samson, who is a Warm Springs tribal
member and a celebrity both on and off
the reservation, narrates this video about
tribal conservation efforts. "Protecting
Mother Earth" was shot on location in
the summer of 1998 on the Warm Springs
and Umatilla Indian Reservations, and
in 1997 at a Klamath Indian site. This
video features Oregon tribal landowners
and natural resources staff who offer
testimonials about tribal cultural land
values, conservation practices, and
successes tribal members have had
implementing conservation projects on
their lands.
In addition, this video highlights how
technical and financial conservation
assistance is available to tribal
landowners through EQIP and other
USDA costshare programs.
Although this video targets tribal
members in Oregon, other landowners
may benefit from viewing the
conservation projects. The video is being
distributed to all Oregon tribes, soil and
water conservation districts, USDA
Service Centers, and other interested
natural resource agencies, commodity,
and education groups. We hope to
provide access to as many tribal
landowners as possible in Oregon.
Please contact Craig Schcllsmidt with
questions or to request a video copy at
the USDA NRCS State Office in Portland
at (503) 414-3209.
Margie Tuckta is Linfield graduate
Raymond Anderson
He comments on his senior year at
Madras High School, "The hat rule
stinks." He says to lower classmen,
"Go to class on time and graduate
when you're supposed to."
His career plans are to get a job
full-time at mill or fire management.
Ten years from now he sees himself
with a job and his own house.
Native American descent: "Warm
Springs, Wasco"
Favorite sport: "Basketball,
because everybody can play
basketball. So, when I want to play I
ask anybody and they won't say 'I
don't know how to play.""
Favorite teacher: "Mr. Tollmen"
Favorite song: "Too short"
Favorite Movie Star: "Adam
Sandler"
Favorite holiday: Thanksgiving,
because all you can eat."
Deschutes watershed forum workshop planned for Febuary
In our October 21, 1998 letter, we
informed you that the Deschutes Watershed
Forum (DWF) Workshop planned for
October29, 1998 would be re-scheduled for
early in 1 999. The added time was necessary
in order for us to complete the huge job of
analyzing the over 100,000 data sets
developed just for the spring chinook in the
Basia The thirteenth andfinal fish Ecosystem
Diagnosis and Treatment (EDT) Fish
Technical Workshop will be held January
13-14 to evaluate draft alternatives. The
wildlife EDT technical team has analyzed
the terrestrial recourses within the Project
area based on habitat conditions and will
report on that analysis. TheRecreationLand
UseVisual Core Team has completed a
Final Comprehensive Management Plan.
We are now ready to call the DWF
together again to look at the culmination of
the efforts you initiated beginning with your
Visions and Values developed at the DWF
workshops on February 25 and 27, 1997 for
fish recourses andFebruary 3 and 4, 1998 for
terrestrial recourses. On September 16 and
17, 1998you gathered to rankstrategy blocks
and alternatives for fish and wildlife
respectively.
During the upcoming DWF we will
present the findings and conclusions of the
various studies and planning process. You
will be asked for your comments relative to
your visions and values and any other
considerations you may wish to share with
us. The focus of this workshop will be to
reviewourstudies and share the findings that
have been generated through our
collaborative process.
We are calling you together again:
FEBRUARY 10, 1999
9:00 AM TO 4:30 PM
KAH-NEE-TA
Call Bob Rose or Heather Shaw at 541-553-1046
to RS VP for lunch or if you have
any questions.
Sincerely,
Jim Manion, GM
WSPE
Bobby Brunoe, GM
Natural Resources
December 20 was graduation day
for Margie Tuckta at linfield College
in McMinnville. Margie received her
Bachelor of Science degree in Business
Management. Typically to earn such a
degree takes four years, but Margie
completed it in three! All along, she
has had her sights set on business
management and never wavered from
it. Prior to earning her bachelor's, she
received her Associates degree in the
summer of 1997 from Central Oregon
Community College.
Margie works at Indian Head
Casino, starting her employment with
the enterprise in May of 1 995. She was
hired as a management trainee and
received an endorsement by the
enterprise to begin her education in the
fall of 1995. Demands were great on
Margie as she had to balance school,
work and a family life that includes
five children. Rudy Clements, Indian
Head Casino Chairman of the Board,
said, "Its good to see a tribal member
be so motivated to go the extra mile,
working hard gaining experience and
attending school to increase her
knowledge. AH done with considerable
hardship to Margie and her family."
Clements continued, "She has shown a
real desire to improve herself, and in
the process she is helping her Tribe,
bringing skills and expertise to the
workplace. I am very proud of her."
Margie typically gets involved in
an assortment of issues for the casino
enterprise and works closely with all
managers. She has experienced "a little
bit of everything". Currently, she is
guiding fellow tribal members through
a comprehensive intern program and
actually taking additional
correspondence classes with them
specific to the gaming industry. Margie
is contemplating taking all gaming
electives and earning yet another
degree offered through the University
of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Through education and the
management trainee program, Margie
feels she has gained a considerable
amount of knowledge and experience.
In the future she hopes to advance to an
executive level position within the
industry, preferably with the Tribe's
gaming facility.
She has expectations of sharing an
understanding of gaming and the
industry to other tribal members,
bolstering their own knowledge and
commitment to the enterprise, as well
as enticing some of them to enter the
employment ranks of gaming.
What's next? Margie wants to
continue her learning of gaming
operations and gaming in general. And
she definitely has aspirations of
continuing her education and seeking
a Master's degree. She is in the process
of finding a program that evolves
around independent study rather than
a class room orientation.
Congratulations to Margie and good
luck in future endeavors!
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Margie Tuckta pictured with parents Gene and Noreen Greene after
graduation ceremonies.
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What are your feelings regarding the petition against the Public Safety Branch?
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Marissa Stradley, "I don' t know
much about the Public Safety refer
endum or the effects it would have on
the tribes, but I do know I wouldn't
like to be in the high stress situations
the department demands. The Public
Safety Branch employees hold haz
ardous jobs that require exceptional
emotional and physical skills on a
daily basis. They have to respond to
car accidents with fatalities and se
verely wounded men women and
children, investigate domestic dis
putes, drugalcohol abuse, and in
vestigate automatic weapon dis
charges. Definitely a job they could
not pay me enough to do. I would
rather they discipline those immedi
ately involved (whoever they are)
and proceed to improve department
service as quickly as possible. I would
like to see a major push to restrict
drug and alcohol activity, otherwise,
how can we possibly become a
healthy nation."
Roosevelt Heath, "I don't agree
with it, because it's against our sov
ereignty issue. If this petition gets
voted into a referendum, chances are
our tribal police department might
have to shut down. What's going to
happen to our community? What's
going to happen to the Public Safety
police officers like myself that didn't
have anything to do with the situa
tion? I'll tell you what's going to
happen, Public Safety Branch em
ployees, will be out of a job ! We will
then have to depend on outside assis
tance to protect our community. My
personal feelings are, if there are
people that need to be dealt with,
follow the proper channels and deal
directly with them. Why poison our
whole Public Safety Branch? It just
doesn't seem right. It puts my posi
tion in jeopardy as well as my
co-workers. I have served with the
police department for the past 6 years.
The thought of Losing our police
department is a very scary thought.
Even as we speak, under paid and
fed-up police officers are talking
about leaving."
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Earlene Tufti, "I'm a tribal
member as well as a community
member. I am also an employee with
the Public Safety Branch as a Com
munity Oriented Police Officer. My
feelings towards the petition is thatif
our budget is cut, what will the com
munity members do when there is no
one to turn for help such as the Public
Safety department. My main con
cerns not only as an employee but
also as a concern tribal and commu
nity member is for the safety and
welfare of our whole community."
Avex (Stoney) Miller Jr, "I feel
that the people who put the petition
together have some valid concerns
with some of the points brought up.
The elders of our tribes who were
charged with putting our Constitu
tion in place did give the people the
right to voice their concerns, as a free
society should and that is what this
petition is about. There are those in
power who have either ignored or
chose to not take action on issues.
This has gone on for a long period
that people felt this was the only
means to get something done. The
sad part of this situation is that there
has been a Referendum vote sched
uled to decide whether the budget for
Public Safety will stand or not, but if
the budget is voted down what will
transpire in the days after, without
the services that the people have come
to depend on from Public Safety?
Time will only give that answer. The
actions of a few, those being neglect
ful in their duties, may come to cost
the majority a great deal."
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Dana Smith, "I think that every
thing should be equally fair to all
points of view and the only way to
resolve a lot of the issues in the
petition is to help the community be
aware of what is going on. Start
working together and getting in
volved with the community and it's
programs, so that the same issue will
not happen again.
Redine Kirk, "I have been the
Records Officer with the Warm
Springs Police Department for al
most 2 years. I signed the petition
because I felt it was the only way to
get the attention of our tribal leaders
and management to improve working
conditions within this department I
have several concerns in reference to
the WSPD. But considering those in
management, it would be a joke to
attempt to voice my concerns. Al
though the petition did get enough
signatures to qualify for a referen
dum, I doubt that w e will get enough
tnbal members to vote on it"
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Marcella Clements, "I have had
many fears and concerns about this
petition. Many things are in question
to myself. I am unsure of the motiva
tion of the people who wrote this
petition. Was this petition written for
the benefit of the people or for the
benefit of those who are politically
correct? If this is passed, how long
will it be before more tribal members
or non-tribal members become a tar
get and have to worry about losing a
career. Many people are unable to go
without pay no matter how long it
takes Tribal Council and the peti
tioners to reach an agreement. How
will we the people be compensated
for the time we went without pay?
The officers and EMT's were given
a punishment and that punishment
was fulfilled. I feel that these people
should be allowed to continue the
careers they have built over the years.
The Public Safety Branch should take
ownership of the poor leadership
provided and rightfully compensate
the children of the snake bite victim.
I have seen leaders come and go from
the WSPD seemingly frustrated be
cause they were unable to make
changes needed, tired of fighting
politics or just plain getting "The
Boot" We need a Public Safety
managerCOP that knows how to be
a leader and I think the man for the
job is Raymond Tsumpti.
Ronnie Suppah, "There are'
problems within the Public Safety ,
Branch just as there are in all the rest
of this organization. The difference
is that the principle of life and death
are a part of that problem. I believe
that there needs to be changes, but
those need to be done through the
tribal administrative process. If the
tribal management plan directs the
, tribal management team to be re
sponsible and accountable for their
respective areas and they aren't, then
what is the recourse? We pay high
salaries to these professional people
and expect their best and focused
attention to accomplish what is for
the tribal memberships benefit. To
choose to sit on top of the fence and
not make any decision exemplifies
the tribal leaderships poor judgment.
The leaders need to either be advo
cates or adversaries to the issue. We
also elect them to take on these prob
lems. The problems have come full
circle back to the tribal council and
they in turn have come back with a
question for the tribal membership.
Realistically this should have went
to the top level tribal management to
render a decision."
Pageant
rescheduled
The Miss Warm Springs Pag
eant is rescheduled to January 29,
1999 at the Agency Longhouse.
Dinner will be served at 5:30 D.m.
and the pageant will begin at 6:30
p.m.
This is hosted bv the Miss
Warm Springs Committee and the
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs. There will be gift draw
ings throughout the pageant. The
first 1 50 guests to the pageant will
receive a surprise!
Lome and support the candi
dates and have fun. We hope you
can join us. Everyone welcome!
Reception to follow.