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warm Springs, Oregon
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Annual Jamboree holds fun times for all ages
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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.
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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
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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.
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