4 January 27, 2000
warm Springs, Oregon
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S V ThY&Y SVlS&ttS Tribal Member shares concerns regarding Management and Tribal Council
Just-A-Rambling! And than
the snow came! Yep! It crept in
on the night of Jan 23, 00, with
out a sound, and blanketed the
countryside with that white stuff.
It came down pretty good and
piled up to several inches in
places. A beautiful sight if you
are just a sight sce'er, but bad if
you have to work in it.
People digging out to get to
work, to school or just for a fast
run tothe "Rainbow." AyelMany
years ago in the olden days kids
used to go coasting at "Hi
Lookic," the hill adjacent to the
Baptist Church. There still are
traces where the sleds came fly
ing down the hill. In them days it
was during the Boarding school
days. The whole school would
trek up the hill pulling their sled, and you could hear kids shouting
and the bumping sound of their sled as they would come whizzing
down the hillside. Sometimes the sled would tip over and the kid
would go rolling down the slope.
Even the adults would go sledding in the evenings, I guess because
there was no TV, in them daysi In the evenings there would be a big
bonfire where people could warm up as everyone was at the hill
sledding. During the school days the kids would go coasting behind
the boys dorm. There was a small place to sled there. Sometimes a
big snow ball fight would start after lunch, boys against the girls
which would last until school time at one O'clock.
"Well let's see,"The Columbia River Tribes head to Washington
D.C., to make it clear for the restoration of the salmon and trout in
the Columbia River and it's tributaries.
Treaties signed in 1 855, made it clear and guaranteed the Colum
bia River Tribes exclusive fishing rights in all and accustomed
fishing places, as well as to hunt and gather food for their livelihood.
A delegation of representatives from Umatilla, Nez Perce, Yakama,
and Warm Springs were to meet with President Clintons Officials as
well as other federal agencies. The details are unknown at the present
time but its termed as a big meeting according to officials in D.C.
', Court action could be likely if terms are not settled in this meeting,
as tribes are considering litigation if no satisfactory conclusion is
reached.
In attempts to improve conditions for the salmon runs, dam
breachment in the lower Snake River could improve the salmon runs
in that area. As deliberations on whether the dams should be
breached , the Tribal Leaders are never invited and allowed to
participate in these meetings. A scientific study was evident that
breaching dams would be the best way to save salmon especially in
the Snake River.
In the past and probably the present everyone blamed the Colum
bia River Tribes for the depletion of the Salmon runs in the Columbia
River. Where are all those outdoor sports organizations today ? Don' t
they have any suggestions on how to restore the fish runs in the
Columbia River?
The off shore fishermen should be considered as another reason
for the depletion of fish runs. Trollers off shore take tons and tons of
:salmon, while most of the time the treaty tribes don't even get their
fair share during the Spring and Fall runs.
Yep! It's time the Columbia River Tribes do something to be
Iheard in D.C. and across the country.
"Humm...Ta-da...ta-da!" It's a new Pow-wow year once again,
with pow-wow's springing up all across the land. Even the schools
;and universities are staging pow-wow's today. There will be a Pow
' Wow at Portland State, the University of Oregon, and Oregon State
University.
Coming up in February, is a Pow-Wow at the Chemawa Boarding
:school in Salem, one of the oldest Indian Boarding schools in the
'country. There will be a big local Pow-wow in Simnasho in
February, the Lincoln's Birthday pow-wow.
We talk of keeping up on old traditions, sometimes the thought
icomes to mind, "At one time, it was an honor to be able to sing and
drum at a pow-wow." The real traditional ways when all the men
could share their talents in singing and drumming for the public to
;get out and dance and the dancers all enjoyed the social gatherings
of both sexes enjoying themselves.
Today in the front line is the...$...sign, no one wants to do anything
unless they get paid, and we talk of traditional ways....and another
thing people are always having to honor some thing or one, and when
the song goes everyone has to stand. Why go through all that stuff
because everyone knows who did what and when and have already
given their appreciation on that matter. People are at a Pow-Wow to
enjoy them selves and not for glory . So why can't they just sing drum
and everybody dance to have fun in the traditional ways.
AHH-NAH-CHI-TOON! ! !
To the editor,
Regarding my last letter about the
unfair distribution of the small busi
ness grant money. A couple Tribal
Council Members (old me that there
was more grant funds available and
that everything was supposed to be
taken care of. Well the Small Busi
ness Center again said there weren't
any funds. So is someone lying? Did
the funds get shifted to cover some
thing else again? Or did it go straight
to the grant board and they just for
got to tell anyone? If the recommen
dations of the two fellows that work
there don't carry any weight with the
board what arc they being paid for?
If there are no funds available, ex
cept for the chosen few, why doesn't
the ST just come out and say so and
quit "B.S.ing" everybody.
At the recent Fish and Game meet
ing held 11200, we were told that a
certain "small business" didn't have
tojump through any h(xps. And even
had a Tribal Resolution passed by the
Tribal Council, the ST and the COO
at that time. Now this same "small
business" is said to be violating the
Tribes' Constitution, By Laws and
Treaty Rights. We were also told with
the blessings of higher authority. Is
it because this small business caters
to the well to do NON-Indian
"Sportsmen?" Is our management
trying to show the non-Indian that
they are "NOBLE REDMEN?"
One good thing, this has made
people a lot more aw arc of our Con
stitution, By Laws and Treaty Rights.
Its just Uk bad members have to use
them to defend us, against our own
management. Myself, and I'm sure
that the others who are being jerked
around by the people w ho control the
purse strings, have asked our higher
ups w hat was going on and didn t get
a straight answer, or not response at
all. And our ideas didn't violate any
treaty rights or tribal laws. Just Tribal
members who thought they had a
chance to give their ideas their best
shot.
At the proposed budget meeting
last November, there were some good
ideas brought up to bring money
making businesses to the reservation,
for the tribe. When a small business
was brought up the ST, who did all
the talking, stated that if anybody
every needed a shovel or pair of
gloves, that the small business cen
ter would be glad to help. Kind of
shows you what he thinks Tribal
members are capable of. At the same
meeting when asked, the ST stated
strongly that there would not be any
donations to Veterans doings. But
was read adamant on putting aside
tribal money for another consultant.
How many former ST's have had to
hire consultants? Isn't that why all
these committees were formed, and
w hy does the tribe have these tribal
law vers on the payroll?
I've seen non-Indian and non
members show up to take ov er dif
ferent management positions. After
impressing the Tribal Council by
talking the lingo of the positions, and
learning a few of the ropes from tribal
members, they start sending them
selves aw ay for more training. Now
they are conducting interviews of
tri bal members to sec if they are wor
thy enough to work for "Our Orga
nization". Once they are sctilcd in
they surround themselves with their
own loyal "Noble Rcdmcn", some
not even from here. Then instead of
listening and learning from other
people's views, they find it easier to
chop others down. Because remem
ber, they went to training's and work
shops, so they know about Indians.
I've heard people in positions of au
thority not liking someone because
that person picked on them in grade
school. And other saying a certain
manager staling that now people can
kiss a certain part of their anatomy.
What has the year 2000 brought us?
The "Revenge of the Nerds?" Docs
Tribal Council have any say so? Or
has management turned them into
"Noble Redmen?" Puppets for man
agement, just to rubber-stamp things
to benefit the non-Indians. So far
there has been only one who has spo
ken out against what is going on. That
being the Paiute Chief and he doesn't
seem to be getting any backing ci
ther. What arc they alraid ol
I am ulso referring to a number of
written complaints by Tribal mem
bers about certain management types.
When we do get a response, we arc
told to take it up with that board, be
cause it is a separate enterprise. In
some situations, the board is the prob
lem. For example, when a certain
Kahnccta Manager had tribal vendors
removed from the lodge area, to get
rid of the competition, complaints
were written to all the big shots, in
cluding the Kahnccta Board. Where
was Council? They claim to protect
our senior citizens, because these
were senior citizens that were getting
the boot. Or are certain non-Indian
managers exempt?
If the Council has no say so, and
authority is being given to managers
and consul tan is, and the Tri bal mem
bers voice not carrying any weight,
who knows, w e may wake up some
morning and find out we don't have
a reservation anymore.
It seems like the only time that the
tribal member's votes count for any
thing is during the Tribal Council
elections. It looks like we are the ones
to blame for letting things get out of
hand; maybe hoping somebody else
would fix things.
Victor Moten
Tribal member
Tribal member preference should apply to contractors
To the editor,
Organized Labor, I think it is time
w e, WSCT and any other laborer that
might live in our home of Warm
Springs REZ, organizing our labor
force into an entity that will make
sure that Tri-West (liars) or any other
company that comes into our home
must hire at least 50 WSCT and
other community members, keep our
dollars here. , ,
, We create these jobs in the first
place. Our people of Warm Springs ,
create thousands of jobs all through
Central Oregon that generates mil
lions upon millions for other people's
communities while most all of our
local WSCT people continue to suf
fer. Living in pain, hunger, poverty,
drugs, alcohol, violence, death, etc.
Too many social ills.
It only takes a few of us to create
a Warm Springs Confederated Tribes
Labor Force Organizations that can
protect our jobs. We can utilize our
local, tribal attorneys to help us or
ganize our WSCT Labor Force Or
ganization on paper. We can Vote to
pass resolutions to create a law have
on our WSCT Rcz that will guaran
tee our WSCT people jobs for gen
erations to come.
We can all (hundreds of us) picket
any business that does not comply to
our WSCT standards, 200-500 geno
cidal years.
Let's vow to agree to disagree, to
distinguish business from personal.
Lets vow to come together, work to
gether as a team so w e can take care
of each other.
Let's vow to stand up for our
WSCT people. Create our own stan
dards that meet the needs of our
WSCT people. Live our lives on our
WSCT people terms. We, WSCT lire
entitled to at least 50 of our jobs,
created by our WSCT people, fi
nanced by our WSCT people.
People get it done or they don't
get it. I don't care if you have any
number of college degrees or how
many computers, consultants; reor
ganizations our WSCT lawyers go
through people are still the backbone
of any business, company, Indian
tribe.
Our WSCT people care more
about our REZ and people. We live
and die here. This is home. It isn't
just an 8 to 5 job to us. This is our
life.
Tri West Co. If you're so smart,
why are you working and stealing
from a bunch of poor ignorant Indi
ans? If you're so smart why won't
your own people employ you? Is it
because you are unable to compete
in your own society and are forced
to work on our WSCT Rez? Our
WSCT people need jobs too.
Not only are we building a home
for our WSCT Seniors it is also too
obvious that we are building homes
for a certain few Tri West employees
that steal inventory (lumber, nails,
etc.) from the work site.
For those 200 plus WSCT people
that are still waiting on Tri West to
hire you forget it. Liars-all lie, cheat,
steal, are the first lessons taught to
mainstream society.
We must organize our labor force
into an entity that will influence,
make, outside companies hire WSCT
people in the future. As the construc
tion is just starting here on our WSCT
Rez.
We, WSCT workforce, have to
lead our leaders into realizing that we
must have built in safeguards in the
contracts that ensure that any com
pany doing any business on our
WSCT Rez are required to hire 50
WSCT people. Our leaders seem to
just take care of themselves and their
immediate family instead of caring
for all WSCT people. Our WSCT
people need jobs to make life better
for all our people. Jobs for WSCT
people.
We, WSCT people have to lead
Hello, from Pastor Rick-
our so-called leaders into understand
ing that our WSCT people need jobs
too. Why do we give jobs to all out
siders while our own people continue
to struggle, suffer, die? Your living
is our WSCT peoples dying.
If you fire all these so called lead
ers that come into our WSCT Rez
every day to steal all they can using
our WSCT vehicles to do so, not to
mention the gas, wear & tear on our
WSCT budget.
Fire, down size," our useless out- '
side work force and use our resources
to offer our own people jobs, experi
ence, hope.
In sports you win with people, a
team. You create a team over time and
experience, which you don't get in a
classroom. I think business, any kind
of business succeeds with its people,
good leader equals good team people
as egotistical bad leaders equal ego
tistical bad lazy people.
Everything is about people; it isn't
the tennis shoe that creates a good
team as it isn't the computer class
room, lawyer, consultant, etc. that
creates a good whole some workforce
for our WSCT people.
It is time to face the truth and
downsize our two top heavy WSCT
workforce and put our resources back
into our own people & community.
Bobby Eagleheart
Tribal member
To the editor,
First off: Wanted, all seventh
grade and up young people. I want
you.
On Tuesday nights from 7:00 to
8:00 p.m. at the Warm Springs Pres
by terian Church there is a youth
group meeting. I want you there. We
arc at this time a small group-we need
you there.
I w ant young people w ho want to
talk about life issues seen through
pages of the Bible. Some games,
some food (it helps if you bring some
food), and some prayer.
I have no youth budget to spend
money. I have the time on Tuesdays
and 20 years experience of being a
student of God and a student of
people. So to all seventh grade
through 12th grade young people
bring you bibles to a youth group. If
you don't have a bible, I will give you
Toe Ness
Lawyers sometimes tell the truth they will do anything to win a
case. YIKES
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one.
A friend of mine here on the res
ervation had a close call about los
ing his sobriety after many years. We
talked and had prayer and as of this
letter he is still sober. How is your
sobriety? How is your time away
from drugs? Is a clean life going
strong? Is one day at a time working
for you?
Remember the steps: Let God
clean house, tell someone. That is the
short version of the 12 steps. Where
are you in the steps? If any of these
"steps" business means nothing to
you and y ou w ant to leam more about
jt call the Warm Springs Counseling
Center, or call me.
Now a personal message to some
one here in the Warm Springs Com
munity. I have seen y ou around a lot
lately. I have seen you at the Post
Office, Admin, Jail, store, walking
down West Hills road. You are be-
NaNa
If you love someone, you will be
loyal to him no matter what the cost.
You will always believe in him, al
ways expect the best of him, and
always stand your ground in defend
ing him. When I read this it reminded
me of how much you love and be
lieve in me. Thanks for everything
you have done for me and just by
being their for me. I hope that you get
everything you deserve in life you
have a truly beautiful spirit. Happy
Birthday January 9.
Love,
Alexandria
Happy Birthday to three special
men
Raymond Shike Jr.
Tony Torres and
Donnie Winishut
January 25th
From Charlotte &
Ray mond Shike Sr.
Thank you
Roads crew
To the editor,
Thank you! Roads Maintenance
Crew: Alley, Don, Hobo, Marvin,
Merle and Les (I guess), for what
seems like a thankless job. You keep
the roads sanded and have to get up
early in the morning to do this. You
do it not only because it is your job,
you do it for the public's safety. I
want you to know that I appreciate
all your hard work not only as a BIA
employee but also as a tribal mem
ber. Thank you!
Dorina D. Surface
coming a great force in our commu
nity. You are becoming more and
more powerful. Your very presence
changes good people into something
they don't want to become. Yet, you
make them change. My message to
you is this. I love you, and Jesus loves
you. And so, to you Mister Anger it
is time for you to leave Warm
Springs.
Soooo, hug someone you love.
Hug someone you dislike. No alco
hol or tobacco for children buckle
up the kids and yourselves. Don't hit,
or beat on yourself. Pay your bills
before gambling, then stay home.
Read the Bible for its effect on your
heart. Pray to God to the point of you
hearing him. Honor someone, love
yourself, like yourself, and see you
in church.
Pastor Rick R. Ribiero
Warm Springs Presbyterian
Church
(On campus)
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