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Warm Springs, Oregon Spjlyay Tymoo mm E Coosh EEWA: 77;e vay ft is 4 October 21, 1999 SV tliY&X "What would you do if you had to choose between a Gi raffe or a Buffalo, or an El ephant and Flowers?" "Oh Well.!" "Decisions, decisions." There has been a lot of talk about activists who are going to stage a protest at the Atlanta Brave baseball game, because of the use of the Tomahawk Chop and the mascot name, "Braves." All the athletic teams have used Indian names for as long as I can remember and there has never been any gripe be fore. It's only natural to call the football team from Washmg- ton, D.C., the Redskins, or the Cleveland Indians. In the past no one has given it a second thought because it was there all the time. Now, why should we have to listen to Vernon Bellecourt, and Michael Haney, who are heading up a protesting group because of the name Atlanta Braves. I think it's down right stupid, because us real Indians who live on a reservation and have a home base, .... .i have never gave it a thought or get an snooK up over me names xo the editor, used after a Indian tribe or group. As a matter of fact it's pride To my wife Shelia, I would like to what we look at as the team owners pick a mascot of great strength wish you a Happy First Anniversary and leadership .which all to Indian ate. are. Someone "ha. is great and it makes us feel like winners when ever the Redskins or fm WillamJtte university on May the Cleveland Indians are winners. 16. Attaining a college degree is a Take teams like the "Fighting Irishmen, or the Vikings," you tough obstacle for anybody, but to never hear or see the Irish getting all shook up because their race graduate after all you' ve been through is used as a mascot of a athletic team or mascot of the school, or 1S commendable Forsuch an achieve the Anglos for the use of the name "Vikings," There are the ffijSS&Zgi Quakers, Generals and what else as mascots and people are all mainstay in this group. I sup proud of the mascot they have chosen They use their mascot with ported your academic endeavors, but pride and dignity, they are proud to be known as a power and neglected your emotional support, leader for their schools. When ''friend members of my fam- Yepllt'swhatpeoplelookuptoasagreatleaderandpowerful iSSSSinZi in its own way. you, I should have stepped in to stop ; Here in Warm Springs, we have the "Warm Springs Braves," it. I'm sorry I took so long before andanearby Boarding School near Salem, Oregon, the Chemawa intervened! I'm not sure how many Braves rumors are circulating, so I'll only Braves. uu address the two that are the most Here m the state of Oregon, we have several schools who use ridiculous m rumors that you Indian Heritage as mascots, like in the Portland area, there are the t0 sh00t me and run over me with Cleveland Warriors, the Aloha Warriors, Roseberg Indians, the your van are laughable. The fact that Lebenon Warriors, Scappoose Indians, Banks Braves, The Dalles this rumor is still circulating is not a Indians, Reedsport Braves, Philomath Warriors, Rogue River Chieftains, Mohawk Indians, Oakrigde Warriors, North Douglas pnr Coin w amors, to name some ui uic scuuuis uuu u uiu way an auwsa the country, and its been that way for years and no-one has ever given it any thought of rudeness but with highest respect for the mascot. There is the Bay Area Warriors, most of the real Indians have never given it any thought because we have more important things to be doing in life that to worry about anything like this. Bellecourt and Haney are not speaking for all the Indians in the nation, they are speaking for them selves. There some people whn havp. nnthinr to do hut lav around and think ud bad thines they can do to stir up trouble for all the real Indians. What are they going to do about all the states, counties, cities and towns that have Indian names, go all over and have them change their County Seats names, or the cities to change their names??? No matter what I'll always call them the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins, or the Atlanta Braves. iii.l' ! 1:1 n -11 itt Alltnis isjusi my upimuuiiKC not trying to persuade anyone everyone has his own mind and wants to. AHH-NAH-CHI-TOON ! ! ! Toe There was this guy who went into a Restaurant and asked the Waitress, "Do you serve Crabs here?" The Waitress: "Oh yes, We serve everyone." YIKES SS SS Ole Joe just returned from France, his pal asked him, "did you have any trouble with your French when you were abroad?" "No. but the French did." YIKES SS SS The missus was angry when he came home. "I saw you wink at that girl this morning." Something got in my eye." "Something got in your car too." 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 f -tements. . " I " ...... S E & if S I T the St. Louis Chiefs, like I said Delictum i anu nancy s.anui in one way or the other because can choose which ever way he Ness SS SS SS Thanks to our team and sponsors To the editor, I apologize for the delay in get ting this letter out. It's been a really hectic time for everyone. I especially want to apologize to the team mem bers and to our sponsors for being so slow! Well, we went and did it again! We had a team entered in the annual Hood to Coast Relay Run, held over the week-end of August 27-29, 1999. I got to work with a great bunch of people this year. The runners were Cal Poncho, Naomi Dick, Robyne Ike, Chip Calica, Heddy Engel, Shawn Harry, Tray & Monica Leonard, Vernon "Wolfman" Suppah, Cecil Dick, Kerri Lopez and Cami Lewis. I really appreciate the fact that Vernon and Cami were last minute recruits. I'm surely glad they were able to run with the tarn. Every one did a great job. I appreciate everyone's understanding when we had to do some last minute changes in the leg assignments. Hopefully, everyone felt that it was worth the effort to try to change our strategy this year. Basically, in previous years Husband congratulates wife 1997 Ford 4x4, 5 spd, 460, short box with extended cab, dual tanks, custom wheels and leather captain seat with elk picture, 5th wheel and trailer hitches, 67,000 miles$18,500. jable and,4 chf 33 d wiffutSngS bS in storage for over one (1) year $190. oak, double or queen size, lighted bedroom head board with mirrors and a detached lighted side shelf and drawer storage unit $250. Call 553-1471 if interested. For sale If you have a kid that want to play in the band, I am selling a clarinet for $300.00. For more information call Lucy at 553.3222 Reward offered Lost on August 31st, a 22 mag. Marlin rifle serial 05285549. Left at the rifle range by the dump. Offering a $50 reward for it's return. Phone 553-1030 (message). Eagles stolen Two golden eagle wings and a tail from residence at 256 1 Mt. Jefferson, Greeley Heights. If someone is try ing to sell these items. It is illegal. If you have them or know their where abouts, please return them. I waited a long time for my eagle. These items were stolen during the funerals. Lucy Suppah Happy 4th Birthday Wisdom Tufti October 29th Love Always, Mom, Dad & Sister Happy Halloween to the family of the Tufti's From Wisdom & Shauquan own legs, but his year, after some careful thought and influence rrom Tray, we tried to integrate some of the slower runners with the faster runners, hoping that it would even out the wait time and help in the overall time. I think the overall time reflected the change...it worked! We had some major changes in the roster right at the end. We had 4 people drop in the month before the run (including "yours truly"). Talk about panic. ..and as usual we were looking for a van at the last minute. We've already gotten promises from a couple of people to buy vans before next year. We're keeping our fingers crossed! I would like to thank our sponsors and other people for their assistance. Every year, we are able to do this because of the help we receive from them. THANK YOU to WARM SPRINGS FOREST PRODUCTS, JR SMITH LOGGING and BRUCE B RUNOE LOGGING, who were our most distinguished sponsors, THANK YOU, Dave & Julie John son and Vickie Whelan for the use of laughing matter, though. I love you and know that this has never hap pened! It's too bad that people are so busy looking for the negatives about community members that the posi tive traits are often overlooked. The fact that you struggled through both the Army and college while raising kids is overlooked when a false bit of information is given. Even though you care more about this res ervation than many of the tribal mem bers, you are still treated as an out sider who can ' t be trusted. You would be a positive asset for any commu nity and I'm glad you chose Warm Springs. I know you will make an immediate impact wherever you choose to work and I'm proud of .you. Sometimes I can't believe or understand why you chose me, but I'm proud of you. Sometimes I can't believe or understand why you chose me, but I'm glad you did. You have made me a very happy man and I can try my best to do the same for you. Love Forever & a Day, Orvie Tribal member This letter was submitted to the SecretaryTreasurer & Tribal Coun cil with no response. " Dear Mr. Jackson: This letter is written regarding the Micro Grant money that I applied for in 1998. At the end of 1998, 1 was told the "Grant" money had run out, but I was being put on the "waiting list" until more funding was avail able. I was told by Mitch Connally, of Small Business, that I had a good business plan to open a Barber Shop and that he was recommending that it be approved. He also stated that I was thirteenth (13th) on the "list", for the money. Which will be used for equipment, that I could be using at the school I am attending now for . barbering. Then, I was told that funds would be available after the first part of 1999, after the trouble caused by Public Safety personnel was resolved. I had to apply for a personal loan to continue at the school, after I had taken a necessary medial leave of absence. Which, a certain credit man ager turned down, at first, even though I had letters for the school that I was still accepted and what I owed the Credit department was down. After going over her head, with other letters from the school and with the help of a few people, she reluctantly "OK'd" the personal loan, but hacked off some of what I asked for. I don't know why, since I have to pay it back. Was this her last "dig" to try to make things more difficult? I've take part-time jobs, to keep go ing to school. Then, I was told by someone at the Small Business Office, the Micro Memorial & namegiving set Oct. 29 and 30 Family and friends of Bernice (Buns) Colwash are having her me morial and dinner at Celilo at 1 0 a.m. on October 29. Everyone is welcome to attend. Begay Namegiving An Indian name will be give to Dillon Xaslu Begay at Celilo Longhouse, Celilo, OR on October 30, beginning at 9 a.m. We are inviting his relatives and friends from Yakama, Warm Springs and Umatilla reservations to come and witness this event He is the son of Roger "Rod" vour vans, vvt utr-iiNiitbi COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU! Our biggest sup porters are always our families and friends. Thank you to these people. I'm sure the runners appreciate it! You are what keep us going! Congratulations. ..to Sandra & Jerry Sampson, who had a team en tered in Hood to Coast and to IHS, which had a women's walking team in the Hood to Coast walk. It's al ways nice when we run into people from our own area! Even though everyone's on different teams, they're out there rooting for each other...it's really great! I hope that all of the team mem bers had a great time. It's always a major project to get 12 people coor dinated and at a point where every one knows what I'm doing! We've already started our 2000 roster, I certainly hope everyone is looking forward to next year. See y'all on August 25th & 26th, 2000! Val, Captain "Native Reign III" Thanks for the To the editor, Thank you for your support and prayers in our time of loss of our "father: Kenny Blackwolf '. The entire family would like to extend our Thanks to the following persons for all their help and contri butions and for their prayers for the family. CTWS Tribal Utilities depart ment, Museum At Warm Springs, CTWS Tribal Print Shop, Elaine BoehmeBroken Bow Trading Post in Madras, OR., Wilfred Jim Sr. and Rosie Johnson for officiating. Larry Dick and Alex Tohet for the dress ing. Roberta Kirk, all drummers, all cooks, Randall Minthorn, George Spino, Douglas & Brenda Palmer shares small business story Grants were being held up, because of some kind of shortage of funds. Did the twelve (12) people ahead of me get most of it? Or where did the funds go? I've heard managers of other departments tell others that Small Business has funds, but the people involved with Small Busi ness tell another story. Now, I was told the Grant Board is requiring their business courses be taken. These courses are part of this schooling I'm taking. Other Tribal members have told me about the ob stacles that they have had to get over and when they get over one, this "group" just throws up another one, for them to get over. Why is this group of "experts" making things so difficult for Tribal Members? Are they trying to dis courage everybody so much that the people will just give up? And there would be more funds for just a "cho sen few"? The people know that when this "hoop" is jumped through, an other "hoop" will be there. Are they trying to get the people to give up, to cover up a misuse of funds? My application, like the others, were rec ommended for approval before this snag. Others have told me what was actually said by a Board member after she got her manager position. It shows to me that his "group" is on one BIG POWER TRIP. Real pro fessionalism. Did this Grant money come from the Federal Government or the State? It would be even worse if it was Tribal funds. Tribal Mem bers being denied their own money, by a few "professional experts." Enclosed are letters from the school, I'm attending and the Chief Begay and Cecelia "Cece" Walsey Begay of Celilo, OR. r:i1- L- An rf T nnaf and Lucille (Jim) Begay; Richard Walsey Sr. and the late Anita Totus Walsey. His Great-grandparents are Howard Jim and the late Maggie Waters Jim; Doyalitee Begay and the late Christine Kascoli Begay; the late James Walsey and the late Gladys Polk Walsey; and the Great-Great-grandparents are the late Watson and Tilda (Onepennee) Totus. Reader seeks help To the editor, Dear Tribal Members & Tribal descendants: As some of you know my father and Klamath Tribal Mem ber, Joseph F. Coburn, passed away in May of this year. During my father's career he worked as Director for the Northwest Regional Educa tional Laboratory in Portland, Or egon. He helped to develop The In dian Reading Series. A series of grade school books published and distrib uted between 1977 and 1981 in the Northwest Tribal Grade Schools, I am looking to obtain copies of these 8 12" x 11" paperback readers as a keepsake of my father's work. There are six levels with 18-20 books in each level. I have Level I, but would like to complete the entire series. If you have information on where I might be able to obtain read ers from Levels II, III, IV, V and VI or the Teacher's Manuals for these Levels, I would like you to contact me. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Joseph F. Coburn, Jr. (503)829-3605. PO Box 1031 Molalla, OR 97038 or E-mail: Ijcoburnhotniail.com. prayers Sr., Virgil & Pat Culps, Rita Dave, William Wesley, Jack & Irene Towe, Tommie & JoAnn Smith, Ruth Tewee, Ellen Thompson, Suzie Slockish, Flossie Wolfe, Lois Smith, Marena Florez and to all the sisters and brothers and the nephews and nieces for all their help and support and prayers. Also to the community that could not make it in person but did have our family in their thoughts and prayers. Thank you, Hiram & Pam Yaw Sr. & family Avery American Horse & Rachel Frank & family Lillian Blackwolf & Eddie Sconowah & family Angeline Blackwolf & Aaron Smith & family Operations Officer (COO) concern ing my business venture. Others, In dian and non-Indian, have all been encouraged me to start my business, but how can I, without proper equip ment and having to make do with what I have. With a bigger population on the Reservation, jobs are more limited. Does this "certain" group want the People to wait in line at the Mill? I' ve heard the ideas of other Tribal Mem bers, and they sound good to me. They all were enthusiastic and will ing to work on their ideas. I believe given a chance they could all do it. That was awhile back, no w you sense a "what's the use " attitude. Is that what management wanted? Seems that if the People in charge didn't think of it, it was a bad idea. Then, later certain people would just "hap pen" to get a bright idea, and get backing. While in school the owner told me some gal from Warm Springs called to check out the school. When she told me what this person said, I swear it was word for word what my letter to Education said, when I first decided to do this. Non-Indians have traveled through Warm Springs have asked me, "ho w many Indians live in Warm Springs, and what do they do?" All they see is a store and gas stations and restaurant. Wasn't one of the Tribal Council's priorities, to pro mote more business on the reserva tion, owned by Tribal Members? If that was true, why all the obstacles? Why the "hoops"? Or were they just more empty politician's promises for votes? Please advise. Victor Moses, Tribal Member ADOlOQV QlVeil I. Bruce Miller would like to apologize for anything that I may have done or said that I have done in the past. Offending you friends, rela tives, & family. I'd like to say that I was under the influence of alcohol & drugs and that I'm trying to unlearn my bad habits so that I won't be a butt in the community anymore. Thank you for your time in reading this. Bruce Miller AKA Sell Oat i