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SPILYAYTYMOO warm Springs, Oregon August 24, 2000 5 Annual Jamboree holds fun times for all ages I it ' 1 ' ' S H i ! I.v : f- - l ! I ' : I i .fi- h: a J L. r i J Jr? it" The Annual jamboree Day was held August 22 at the Community Wellness Center. This annual event gathers youth of all ages to have fun doing various organized activities together. The games began at 1:00 and continued throughout the afternoon with a dunh tank In place and the waterslide. The staff were first to sit and be dunked and children were allowed to sit and be dunked. The evening consisted of a barbecue and powwow before the night street dance held outside In the parking lot of the Community Wellness Center. Public Notice The telephone receptionists are moving to their own office in Administration, room 20 pod A. Patient Registration, A Branch of the IHS business office will move into the main reception area. The business office staff will be notifying the public about a new innovative approach to improve our direct services to the community. W TftV t v Gladys Graybael gets dunked and cools off. gf aKE-1"'": -" 'V i - n .". y .i '. '.. i -, Sonny's Pizza has extended their hours. They are now open from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monday thru Saturday Phone:(541)553-9226 Prices vary-new menu items. Workshop set for Aug.29 A workshop is scheduled for Tuesday, August 29, 2000 fro 9 a.m to 4 p.m. and Wednesday, August 30, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Kah-Nee-Ta Resort. Panelists will discuss the un written laws of our food systems on Tuesday morning. Tuesday afternoon presenters will explain the docu ments, the history of their develop ment and the intent and their impor tance to protecting preserving and enhancing our food systems. Partici pants will receive a packet of materi als including documents relating to our written laws governing the pro tection and preservation of cultural plants and traditional foods. Wednes day morning will focus on brain- Frank, don't be scared. Frank had his turn at the dunking tank. storming and planning for the future and steps to take the assure that the future reflects our needs and desires for food systems and food systems education for the people of the Con federated Tribes of the Warm Springs reservation. The Food Systems Planning Workshop is being hosted by the Edu cation Branch, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation through A -funding received from Partnership 2620 a Food Systems Professional Education Initiative of W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Members of the commu nity are welcome and invited. Please register for the workshop by calling the Education Branch at 553-33 1 1 by Thursday, August 24. Be open to the gift of compassion that comes with grief The waterslide was popular during the jamboree day. Why are tribal members let go To the editor, FREE, FREE, FREE! No, there's nothing free here except information. This was just a way to get your at tention. We would like to correct the figures given in the last paper about WSFPI. The loan figure was $6 million, not $4 million. We under stand there is $ 1 million missing and nobody seems to know exactly where it went. That should be a real cause for concern for tribal members. Also what is being called Reduction In Force (RIF) at the mill is actually replacement of employees. Though mill management is saying they are cutting back to save money, guess what. They have already hired sev eral employees from California em ployees since letting a few long-time dedicated committed employees go. Yes, some tribal members are being let go, and looks like there is no intention to reduce cost of personnel. These let-go employees are replaced by non-Indians of management's choosing. There is discussion going on in general council meetings, and we ask that any WSFPI employee who has been affected by the RIF come to the meetings and let the tribal council know what's going on. Do not be afraid to speak up, be cause this is your livelihood and the way you support your families! Re member that the way (order) of let ting employees go is the opposite of hiring preference. When hiring goes on, this is the order: Tribal Member, Married Into Tribe, Other Indian, then Non-Indian. In a Reduction in Force, it is the opposite. Those to be let go are in the following order: Non-Indian, Other Indians, Married Into the Tribe, THEN Tribal Mem bers last. We hear talk of replacing licensed electrician with one who has no li cense. There are standards that gov ern these types of problems, maybe OSHA? We don't need our WSFPI employees working under unsafe conditions besides everything else that's going on. Also tribal members should be getting involved with meetings regarding the proposed K-5 school. The referendum is scheduled for sometime between September and December. The Education Commit tee did a small survey and the results were just about even for location. About half wanted to leave it where it is now on campus. Other half said ECE. There were other locations mentioned such as the top of the grade along Highway 26 where the new gravel pit is, Wolfe Point, Simnasho and others. There is talk, that building it next to ECE would not be enough room for expansion in case we wanted to add a middle school and high school. Keep in mind that we have other locations that are al ready in tribal status and do not be long to private individuals or adjacent to private ownership. It is your school and you have a choice of where it should be built. Do some thinking on this and tell coun cil your opinion. It would be nice to choose tribal land that has enough expansion room without having to involve purchasing land from a pri vate source. The school is proposed to be built where the garbage dump area used to be. Who knows what health and safety hazards still exist there? Do you remember people dumping rubbish, including car bat teries etc. there? This article is real short this time. But again, if you have concerns, you're not able to bring to a meeting contact one of us and we' 11 present it for you. Thank you "Life to the full." The theme we adapted from Scripture for our wed ding seemed wonderfully appropri ate. On that brilliant autumn day, celebrating our marriage with the rich traditions of our religious community and cultural heritages (his Italian, mine Polish), blessed with loving family and friends, John and I felt enveloped by life's abundance. Less than nine years later, at 37, John died from lymphoma. My be ing ached with a sense of devastation. This didn't feel like the fullness of life that the Gospel had promised. Instead, there was emptiness, power lessness, despair, anger, and sadness - the painful legacy of loss. Find your way Loss of all kinds hurts. The end of a life, the end of a relation ship, unwanted changes in the way you live or work, health or financial problems whatever loss you're ex periencing, the pain can be powerful, crushing your spirit and casting a shadow over each day. To ease your hurt, it seems re quires nothing less than the impos sible to return to how things were. While that is not possible, there are ways to find comfort in your time of loss. Give yourself over to God's care You're not alone in your pain. God is present, surrounding you, fill ing you, holding you. Let yourself go into God; rest in the grace of the Eter nal. There may be times when you feel only God's absence, or when your anger and despair make you doubt God's goodness, usefulness, or even existence. But stay open to the possibility that God is with you and will bring you through, that God is there to comfort and heal. Speak to God in prayer; read the words of Scripture. The Psalms and the Book of Isaiah have some particularly con soling passages. Comfort can come in many dif ferent, and sometimes surprising forms the meaning or memory that a song, a sermon, a film stirs; the ut ter peace of a sunrise, a rainbow, the ocean; the consolation of a person's smile or arm around your shoulder or willingness to listen. Pay attention and relish each experience. Confront the reality of your loss Loss can disorient you, plunging your into a sense of unreality, shock, and numbness. When the Challenger space shuttle exploded in 1986, we watched the tape repeatedly as we came to grips with the disaster. You need to replay your loss over and over within your own heart, talk about it to others, work through the what ifs and might have beens. Then, as the numbness subsides and the pain comes, stay with it. You won't find real comfort in keeping too busy, escaping with distractions, or trying to bring back the numbness. That will only push the pain deeper in side you where, unexamined and untended, it can fester and poison your spirit. The only way out is through. If only by running the Challenger tape backwards we could have brought the shuttle safely back to earth! Your many long intensely for the past; you may want to turn back time. Let yourself feel the longing it's normal and natural and ill prob ably, to some extent, always be there. Grieve for what's gone. Then make what's gone a part of you with your memories, with the awareness of how you're different now because of the past, with the joy that was once ex perienced, is yours forever. Let your loss lead you to awareness of what matters A hidden 'gift' of loss is that it can jar you out of the everyday flurry of activity all those endless details of living that can overwhelm your consciousness and cause you to lose sight of what' truly important. Now your sharpened awareness of loss can help you recognize what does endure: beauty, truth, integrity, goodness and above all, love. Do these ultimate values and vir tues fill your soul and mark your life? Do they flow out from you to others? Be open to the gift of compassion that can come from your wounded ness ; and use it to help others who are hurt ing. Hold to the promise of the Res urrection Out of disintegration comes re newal. Out of chaos comes meaning. Out of endings come beginnings. Out of death comes rebirth. If your life seems devoid of light, remember that growth also happens in night. Allow yourself to learn from your past, to grow in wisdom from your loss, to stay open to all the possibilities ahead, and you'll know first hand the reality of Resurrection. Come home to hope You may never quite make sense of your loss and your pain. The an swer to "Why did this happen to me?" may always elude you. But even as you accept the mystery of suffering, ' know that you can provide meaning to what you've experienced by be coming better, wiser, more loving; by growing ever more into the person God calls you to be. Know that your can move beyond your loss by allow ing life to unfold its glorious surprises for you. The people are the ones that can turn things around To the editor, As I read the article in the last Spilyay about the Tribal Budget cuts, mill etc. and about the jobs going to non-Indians and it was time that I wrote another article. When I first wrote my first ar ticle about tribal foster care, I was black listed from working on the rez for 2 years. With a family of 9 to sup port. When I wrote my last article about racism on the rez and Daisy Ike's position on the peoples commit tee, Daisy Ike, Wilma Picard and Gin ger Smith permantly excluded our two youngest daughters so they can't even come home to visit. Would you call that abuse and neglect? They ig nored my rights as a parent and a Tribal Member. Are you really sure that you want these people speaking for you? They don't speak for me and I know there are lots of others. Construction holds logo contest The Tribal Construction Depart ment is seeking local artist input in our search for a logo. We are offering a $100.00 cash prize to the person who comes up with what we judge as the best logo. The logo, to be used along with the Tribe's three teepee logo, is an effort to establish a recognizable symbol in the construction industry and to promote pride within the de partment. We would like the logo to People of Warm Springs. We've missed the point. Leadership is Hpnlptino nnr fnnHc roniK flnr Daisy Ike, Shirley Sanders, justjce system is bleeding our heart V,...S OM..IM, an(J joy, w,tn j,- UstCe a . Kp Squiemphen dispensed especially for those who desperately need help with alcohol and drug addictions, abuse etc. Our community has been plagued with at least 17 deaths in the past 2 months because of accidents, illness and crime. In a community of this size, all of these things are a fatal combi nation. We are so divided on issues that we are allowing our reservation to become history one verdict, one de cision, one resolution, one mvestment at a time and we don't even have a clue that the key to all the solutions represent each area of our depart ment including heavy construction, engineering and home construction. All entries can be submitted to the Tribal Construction Department or sent to P.O. Box 1168 in Warm Springs. The contest deadline is September 1 , 2000 with the judging taking place on September 5, 2000. Feel free to contact the Construction department with any questions at 553-3207. and the remedy to this mess lies with us. The people! In our anger, whining and blaming, we have forgotten to take responsibility for all that is happen ing and has happened. We elected leaders with no te nacity, no strength and no spine. Leaders who have abused their posi tions by appointing and encouraging our judicial system and management in its corruption and ignoring our people's cries for help and their an ger. Leaders with no integrity. Everytime a child is harmed by parents or family, it is our responsi bility. Everytime any man, woman or child winds up in our system, it is our responsibility. Everytime someone breaks the law or steals including management, it our responsibility. Everytime someone buys, sells or uses alcohol and drugs regardless of their status in the community, it is our responsibility. Everytime someone dies on this reservation for whatever reason, it is our responsibility. Everytime a resolution is passed, money is spent, someone is hired or fired, someone succeeds or fails, it is our responsibility. We have elected leaders who refused to clean house and keep it that way. I don't need to go to a council meeting to state my point of view and watch our councilman and chiefs dance around the issues as if they were at a powwow. I see it ev erytime. I'm out and about when I run into one of these leaders and they can't look me in the eye because they know the harm and mistrust they've caused and they know exactly what their doing when they spend tribal funds for per sonal reasons. They always look up or down or turn away, because they know that they've done. But these leaders do know too that if you are not part of the solu tion, you are part of the problem. We the people have been part of the prob lem long enough with our bickering, racist views, our lack of sensitivity to our families and our inability to unite for the common good of all who live here. Now, there is no middle of the road and time has brought us down to the wire. If we don't come together as a community and accept our re sponsibility for all of this terrible mess and start helping each other, being kinder and elect officials and leader ship who will listen and act accord ingly and who aren't afraid to take this place apart from the CEO on down and clean it up by replacing these defective, infective, selfish, people, with people who truly care about us all, as well as our interests. If we can't unite to stop what we put in motion by putting these people in their positions, then our reservation, our sovereignty and all that we need to be who we are, will be lost to us forever, and we will have to accept responsibility for that too. Because of the current power minded maniacs I'm being forced to choose between my home, my chil dren, my grandchildren and my life here and our youngest children who want to come home and can't Be cause of them we have lost family members to illness, crime, death and exclusion. Because of the people, our leaders and administrators have the power to lie, steal, ruin lives and ig nore us and that needs to be changed soon. We are the only ones who can turn this around. I accept my responsibility in allowing things to go this far. And I am sorry for my part in what has hap pened here. I know I have done my share. When our son and grandson died this past June, in an accident, which left his girlfriend, paralyzed, we were heart-broken. I also knew that my old ways were coming back to haunt me and that while I cannot change what has happened I can work . everyday to be a better person, and ' do a better job which is what I've been trying to do for some time now. c Like many ot you, I remember when this was a different place and people cared for one another, helped each other and the leadership wasn't trying to crush us. But our children and children's children do not re member and that is our fault We must have change soon. For our children, our grandchildren, our future. It is going to be interested to see what the Tribe will do to my fam ily or me over this article, but I am not afraid to say what I think and I won't hide behind a title, lie down or go away. In my heart I am now and always w ill be a warrior with great love and respect for my home. The reservation. Keith V. Charley, Sr. Kus-Lic-Cun 553-5302. K