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4 June 17, 1999 Warm Springs, Oregon Spilyay Tymoo E Coosh EEWA: 77a? way it is - There were 127 diplomas' handed out to the Madras High School class of 1999. A great day for those who have successfully fulfilled their 4 years of high school, and we are all proud of all those who graduated from Warm Springs. Each year the seniorclass seems to be just a little larger than the one a year earlier. Graduation, a day of triumph, a sense of accomplishment for the graduates. The road forks in many directions for a class after graduation. Many will be going on for higher education, many will seek stable employment, others will get married and some may even choose the military before enrolling in college. TUa. f.oA l, I A I "',u 13 ,ai6c 11U wvHJ, anu wniui ever unetuuii one chooses has to be one that has to be well planned and discussed for a better insight of the field of study or what ever venture one takes for the future. Today one must consider everything with careful consideration as this old world is cruel and a person has to be well prepared to survive. A person can never get too much education because this world is so challenging in every way. Times change right along and a person has to prepare for what's in store. Just like in the olden days some kids don't remember when you' had to get up and walk across the room to change the channel on the TV set. Going back even farther when TV came out, it was almost like a dream to have a colored TV. At that time they used to say, "One of these day's we'll have colored TV" going back even farther in the olden days when families all sat around to listen to the radio. Stories similar to the soaps on today's TV, programs. Only during that time of the radio as tne story went along. Stones like ' I he Guiding Light, "Captain Midnight, Gang Busters, and stories like that. Here in Warm Springs, a movie once a week was a big deal, have a short, a news reel, a cartoon and then the main feature. In the afternoon the boarding school children would see the movie and at night it was open to the public. Or a trek to Madras to see a movie in the "Chief Theater." Yep! It was just like right down town to see a movie there. Remember when they had ushers at the movie theaters that sat the movie goe'rs.Timeshavechangedconsiderableforallthekidsfromthe old day s to the present. Usually when kids finished the 8th grade here they went on to a boarding school. Schools like Chemawa, in Salem, Stewart, in Nevada, Sherman, in Riverside, California, and other boarding school around the country. Chemawa is one of the oldest Indian boarding schools in the country today and is still in operation. At first it was located in Forest Grove, before it was moved to Salem. In the past Chemawa used to be quite a contender in school athletics, they had all kinds of sports like football, basketball. boxing, wrestling, track and baseball. In them days the prime Indian Athletes attended Chemawa and that made a big difference. Today all the Indian students attend public schools at home so that leaves just a few who attend school at Chemawa or the other boarding schools. There were a wavs Go den G the finals used to be held in Boston, Mass. each year there would be a student or two to make the finals. Education for the native American students has changed considerably. In the olden days there used to be trade schools for the kids to attend. Learn a trade to make it in the world. There were electrical schools, mechanics, printing, shoe repair, carpentering and just about any kind of trade there is to learn. Today everything is specialized and computerized. Specialties, they even give classes for flagging on road construction. Everything has special titles, like the Sanitation Engineer, at one time it used to be the garbage man. Well at any rate some day we may fly to the moon for dinner or vacation or something. I believe we will have to learn more on what ever comes up. Some day we may even have phones of where you can see who you are calling. "Yikes," would hate to get a call while in the bath tub. "Oh well, we'll just have to live and learn." AHH-NAH-CHI-TOON ! ! ! ! This guy went to the fortune teller to see his exciting future!! "Get up, go to work, come home, watch TV, go to bed. Get up, go to work, come home, watch TV, go to bed. Get up, go to work....YIKES SS SS No Respect: Two down-and-out men were swapping hard luck stories, and one told the other: "I don't even get any respect from junk mail, I received a sweepstakes letter that said, 'You may already be a loser." YIKES SS SS Editor's Note Spilyay Tymoo welcomes articles and letters from its readers. All letters, preferably 300 words or less, must be signed by the author. Letters will not be printed unless signed. Thank you letters and poetry will be published at the editor's discretion. All 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 publication of any material that may contain libelous or malicious statements. l A J ...u:L j- you had to use your imagination ove contenders and in them davs SS SS Community members shares Dear people, As a community member and parent of two Simnasho School students I have a vested interest in the Simnasho School. As parents v.c have all expressed our desire to keep the Simnasho School open to both 509-J School Board and our Tribal Council representatives. In my attempts at finding information on "One Room School Houses" I came across a community in Vermont that has a one room school house which was threatened to be closed. Their community fought off the closure and they remain open to day. I am including an e-mail that I received from the teacher that has key issues that should be discussed prior to a School Board decision being made. Please take the time to read it. They make sense and at the bottom line the child's interests are put in front. One final comment. The other day I received a letter from Wells Fargo Bank informing me (as a bank customer) that because of public aham U..II0 Cnrnn mill nsit ilnra wuiicciii T.tua i oij,v, ... .ui v.v. the Madras Branch in lieu of opening a more economically feasible office at the local Safeway. Yet 509-J . . I HSnK yOU lOl ninn trihl ito tf Raying lllUUlu IU o nrpctorS For the young people, JJSft fflHS for paying tribute to the memory of their ancestors by cleaning the graves on Memorial Day. We hope more of the voun8 Pe0Pe follow suite and d0 m. Ttaie Committee Members Haida-Wasco Ice Creams makes request To the Warm Springs Community, This is a request from Haida Wasco Ice Cream. Parents, will you please tell your children to keep off the ice cream cart and 10 not Pen the freezer themselves There are a few kids up t0 get off. Hes been sJpped They may be smaller than him, but tnat does not mean tnev navc a ri8ht t0 do anything physical. If this Congratulations to Dawn Roland & James Smith on their new son James Adrian Smith the III. From Pamela, Stuart & the brat! Have fun! WGCld i PI Q dclt6 i . CN3nCj6Q For those of you who received invitations to Stuart Smith and Pamela Saunder's wedding, the date has been changed due to a matter beyond our control. We re sorry. The date is July 3rd, 1999 at 3 p.m. Same church. All friends and family are welcome to attend. Pam S. & Stuart S. Questions? Call 553-7719. Happy Birthday Mona-June 14 Brad-June 25 From SuYenn & Martin Happy 20th Birthday Auntie Kel-Rack June 25th Don't be trying to run up the hill!!! Have a good one and take care. Love Lennox Lewis Happy First Birthday June 16th to my cousin Bryson Felix George Love, Lennox Lewis Happy 18th Birthday Auntie Delores D. Picard June 26th Take tare & have fun... Love Lennox Lewis Happy Birthday Uncle Ray Wesley Picard June 13th Love, Lennox Lewis School Board has "determined" that closing a school makes financial sense regardless the need of the students on the Northend. Now isn't that ironic that a major corporation who is in the business of making money sees fit to satisfy the needs of the community versus their bottom line profit. To those who have offered their support, thanks. Captain. Dear Raymond, My Sincere apologies for having taken so long to get back to you. I've been under a deadline that I've only just met. In 1990, Granville School was threatened by closing because of a few very vocal members in the community thought that low enrollment numbers meant high per pupil costs. Here are some of the things we told them to convince them that we should keep our school. 1 )The babies should stay at home. Almost every educational consultant will tell you that elementary children do best when they are educated in their own communities. Going to school can be traumatic for the early irimary grades. Making them travel ong distances to do it can irrevocably Oral History program offers thank you To the editor, The Oral history Team would like to thank all those who attended the Oral History meeting on May 27, and a special thanks to the guest speakers Bernice Mitchell, Robert Charley, Margaret Boise, Sam Culps and Jim Crocker. Our mission is to increase efforts in locating, documenting and evaluating historic cultural use sites and materials which are fundamental in the recognition of traditional life continues, I will give him permission to skip that whole loop altogether. I don't know who the children are, so I can ' t refuse them service for a short amount of time, so the next thing is ! refuse service to the whole street. i , I'm sorry for sounding so harsh but my son does not have to put up : with it and I won't let him take any . kind of abuse no matter how trivial it may seem. Lessa Wainanwit Haida- Wasco Ice Cream Congratulations Nicole Garcia 11 from SuYenn & Martin Teens go through To the editor, Hello from Pastor Rick. Some more on teens. From a guy named Robert Havinghurst. Teens go through ten jobs to become adults: 1 . They establish mature relation ships with other teens of both sexes. 2. They establish a mature sexual role. 3. They begin to accept ones own body. 4. They accept emotional inde pendence from parents. 5. They develop a plan for finan cial independence 6. They investigate and prepare for a job or career. 7. They learn patterns for his or her personal future family life. 8. They develop appropriate be havior and civil skills. 9. They develop social skills to know appropriate behavior in vari ous situations. And 10. They develop a workable set of personally held values about life. So what does a parent do during all of this process going on in their teen. For sale or take overpayments For sale or take over payments on 1995 Ford Four Winds RV, the re mainder of the loan is $31,888. Be cause of my age I may not have time to pay off this loan, and I do not want to burden my family. I enjoyed trav eling on this RV to powwows. If interested come check this RV out at Wolfpoint 6604 or call house phone 553-8439 or IHS 553-2460. Happy Belated Birthday to Fay H. on June 6. Happy Birthday to Dustin S. w mm 17 Happy Birthday to Jay S. on June 20 Love always, Deece R. Suppah concerns for school closure deepen that trauma. 2) Towns that lose their schools disappear from the map. In Vermont you can see this very clearly. Just a few miles down my valley a once flourishing village is withering away. Why? Because schools can and should help knit a community closer 9IIUUIU IIWip Mill a WUIIIIIIUIIIIJ hwjwi together. Thev are often the focal point of a town. And what family would choose to move to a community that doesn't have one? 3) Once a school is gone, it's gone. Is your community really willing to close the doors in light of a national trend toward a baby boomlet. We were able to show that even though our enrollment would be small that year (at the time, we thought it would be 12 but by September it has miraculously increased to 16), that recent births in the community would soon swell the numbers once more. This year we have 27 children in our school. It's true our per pupil costs were high for a couple of years, but having borne that, we now have a very reasonable cost and we still have our school. 4) It's not necessarily cheaper to tuition everybody-and I'm not just talking financials. If you close, what new costs will you incur? In our case styles, values, and histories of the Tribes through oral narrative. The documentation will include sacred sites, traditional food and resources areas habitation sites, burials and cemeteries and location associated with historical events. We encourage anyone with information to contact us, we would be happy to speak with you. We are planning to have anther Oral History meeting in three to four months so plan to attend, come and share your thoughts. Thank you. Scott Stuemke, Trisha Stradley, Brigette Whipple, Elaine Clements Stoncsetting and Memorial for Christopher Courtney Heath Sr. (May 19, 1968 to December 16, 1997) on June 19th, 1999-Saturday Stoncsetting 10 a.m at the , Simnasho Cemetery Memorial Dinner & Give-a-way at the Simnasho Longhouse Elders, family and friends all welcome. Also stoncsetting for Delores Heath Seelatsee (mother) at the same time. ten stages before 1. Be consistent. 2. Maintain positive contact with your teen. 3. Offer reasonable, but definite structure. 4. Know thyself. From the Bible comes a passage that talks about laws, rules and grow ing up. Take a look at Galatians 3:22 4:5. See what the Father of Heaven and all creation has to say about us kids. Big news from the Presbyterian Church. Next week begins our Vaca tion Bible School. It begins June 21 to 25, from 9 a.m. to noon, at the Presbyterian Church. Five years of Memorial for Floriene Grace Davis "Babe" also stone setting 8 a.m. for Alexzina Davis "Goldie" June 26, 1999 at the Warm Springs Shaker Church Dinner to follow Happy First Birthday to our Baby Boy Lennox Awan Lewis June 22 We love you with all our hearts. Love U Always, Mom & Dad v3 the increased transportation costs would have been fairly significant- not more than operating the school, but enough that it made the school look slightly more economical. Also, at least you control your local school budget. If you kids are tuitioned elsewhere, your town will simply .-w y --- ( have to pay what others demand. There's another control cost too. If you cnnurcn micnu unuiuci community's school, what voice will you have in what they are taught and whom they are taught by? Does the other community snare your community's values? 5) Bring your community into the school. We did (and do) this in a number of ways to build interest in our children and facility. We did a lot of outreach (musical programs, interviewing community members and writing reports about them, and the web site which made huge waves for us) and it actually worked. Now all of Granville has a great deal of pride in our little school. I hope some of these ideas are useful to you. Probably you've already thought of most of them, but just in case. . . Let me know how it goes. Kate Tribal Council and Secretary-Treasurer actions unfair and unacceptable To the editor, The middle of May the Council and Secretary-Treasurer met with logging people to discuss debts owed. Out of this meeting a resolution was passed to help a couple of loggers get out of debt in the amount of over 3 million dollars (maybe more). The Secretary-Treasurer stated that the only people who needed to know, met on this matter. My concern is the Council and Secretary-Treasurer can and will use your tribal dollars to get a select few out of debt. My understanding of the Council is to work for and be concerned about ALL OUR PEOPLE. This is not fair or acceptable. Shirley Sanders Happy First Birthday Cameisha L. Smith June 24th Love, Lennox, Marcy & Ty adulthood age through the fifth grade. All are welcome. Our guests to lead Vaca tion Bible School will be SmithMe morial Presbyterian Church youth group coming back for the 12 year running. Also for your calendar is July 1, a Red Cross Blood Drive. To be held at the Social Hall. So, keep beer and tobacco away from the kids. Buckle-up the little ones in your rigs. Ask for help if your kids scare you or threaten you. Don't hit each other.. ..hug. And see you in Church. Worship at 10 a.m. Warm Springs Presbyterian church-on the campus. Rev. Rick R. Ribeiro Upcoming Powwows 5th Annual Wildhorse Powwow; July 2, 3, & 4, 1999; Pendleton, OR For more info contact: Sandy or Linda Sampson 1-800-654-wild (541)278-2274 Southern California Indian Center, Inc. 31st Annual Powwow; July 30, 31 & August 1, 199; Costa Mesa, CA. Contact: Susie Yellowhorse Jensen (714)663-1 102 Inipi-Oyati-Ki Powwow at the Oregon State Correctional Insti tution is Sunday, August 1, 1999. Looking for dancers, singers and sup port. Dancers need to be at the facil ity at 10:30 a.m.; Grand entry at 1 1 :30 a.m an d closing will be at 3:30 p.m. For more information call: John Sipple at (503)373-0175 The White Swan Indian Sum mer Celebration Powwow is Octo ber 1, 2, & 3, 1999 at the White Swan, WA Pavillion grounds. For more info call: Russell Billy Sr. (509)874-2596 r
