Coosh EEWA: The W3y it is
Spilyqy Tymoo May 3, 2001
Spilyay Speaks Letters to the editor
Spo
irts action eoes
into spring seasons
Just a rambling on what's happening in the day's activities.
First off let's start off by saying, we have a lot of children
going to high school in Madras.
Madras High School has a good basketball program and
almost every year they make it to the state playoffs. Madras
holds the record over all the schools in the state of Oregon for
making it to the state tournament. Sometimes they don't do
well, and are eliminated, but still they have made it to the
state tournament and that in itself is a big accomplishment.
We have been fortunate to produce some good talent on die
basketball team each year. This year was another great year as
we had a boy to be chosen player of the year from the Orcgo
nian All-Star selection and another receiving honorable
mention. Basketball is not the only sport kids can vie in.
Well; what I'm focusing on is during the spring season
there is track, baseball and Softball and we don't seem to excel
in of those sports. Let's look at baseball for instance: Each
year all the baseball fields are full of Minor, Major and Little
League teams. We know there is good talent out there. Each
year they participate well in league play and compete well at
state all-star playoffs.
They may not be state champions but they show well in
the game. They play their heart out and win or lose they do
their best. The All-Star team is picked out of all the teams
from the Jefferson County, and believe me they produce some
good teams. There is a lot of volunteer coaching from parents,
friends and interested individuals that keep the 'ball rolling.
We appreciate those efforts from these people who take
interest in the youngsters.
. It's the same way with the girls' Softball program - there
are always several teams that play real hard and at the end of
the season they choose the All-Star team, that shows well in
the playoffs. There are some exceptional players that play but
at the, end of the season what happens to all those fine players
and as they enter high school they just seem to fade away
. unknown, and when the Softball season rolls around we don't
seem to do well recruiting players for that sport.
What happens to them; have they lost interest in the game
or what? , v "; .'V,'f
It's the same way with the track and field events. There is
no turnout it appears. Each year the team has no depth like
other schools, especially in the running events. In the run
ning events each school has three or four entries to Madras'
one. There has to be depth in each event in order to build up
points. The larger the representation the better chance there
is to take a large team to the state track meet. The schools that
win the state championship are those who have had the most
to qualify for the state meet.
Track is a very fine sport and can be enjoyable if a person
would put hisher mind to it. In each event its an individual
event, you can't depend on another to do the running for
you, or you can't depend on someone else to throw the shot
or javelin for you; everyone must do it on his own. When you
accomplish things like that, it's a good feeling.
. Just think how Billy Mills must have felt after winning the
10,000-meter race at the Olympic games in Tokyo, and to top
it all he was the first American to ever win the 10,000-meter
event. Or what Jim Thorpe must have felt like being pro
claimed the greatest athlete in the world by a king.-
Who knows, if a kid or kids would take interest and work
hard they could see fheir names in all the papers of their
accomplishments. But who knows what's in the future. ...
Thanks to council staff Basketball squad,
To the staff at 'Tribal Council,
, I would like to thank each of you ;'
for your commitment to the depart
ment and the work that you pro
duce. You all deserve pat on the back
for the long hours that you put in
without complaining or griping
about having to. stay in during noon
hour, before eight and after five.
When I need people to depend on
you are the first that come to mind.
Happy Secretary's Day to:
Norma Miller-Heath, Rhonda
Smith, Kristi Miller, Roberta Tufti,
Muriel Suppah, Dinah Mcrrifield
and I.oren Suppah,
Once again thank you.
Myrtle Adams
Prayers touched heart
To all my people,
I just want to thank all the people
that prayed for me and prayed while
I went through my surgery. I came
out good and the little machine that
watches my heart is working good
now after I messed up the first time.
The second time around was a lot
easier then the first. ,
Just a BIG THANK YOU to all
the medicine society Was click
people, and I can't forget my mom
Maxine for standing by me all the
way through and being by my side,
also Phyllis I owe you too. A special
BIG thanks.
"Washumps" aka Alex Tohet
Gratitude for. help
To the editor,
Our family would like to extend
our sinccrcst appreciation to every
one that helped us in our time of
sorrow. We thank everyone that
helped our family throughout the
funeral, be it money, food donations,
giveaway donations, candles or your
prayers. This was all needed and use
ful, especially your blessings and
prayers.
Again thank you all for what you
Class of 2001 thanks
To the editor:
Hlatkhawks Basketball and the
Native Class of 12001 would like to
thank the sponsors, teams and offi
cials who participated in the "Slam
and Jam 2001" held at the Warm
Springs Community Wellness Cen
ter April 20-22. We would like to
thank Warm Springs Forest Products
Industries and Warm Springs Power
Hnterpriscs for sponsorship of the
tournament awards. Also we would
like to thank Bear Prints in Bend for
the printing job done on the awards.
This was a fundraiser tournament to
help in our graduation trip to South
ern California this coming June. We
would like to thank volunteers who
took some time to help out in the
tourney: Verlecn Kalama (score
keeper), Corwin Howtopat (score
keeper), and referees Rick Minthorn,
Jeff Wagnon, Bruce Fidemann and
Alfredo Ivstimo. It's always a hard
job to do and thanks for the help.
We appreciate all the help that you
gave us for the tournament. I would
like to thank Andy Ix-onard for pro
viding the sounds for the tourna
ment dances held on Friday and Sat
urday nights.
I would like to thank the Native
Class of 2001 for the help in this
tournament with providing the con
cessions and doing the admissions,
gate. I hope this tournament helped
, you in raising funds for the trip in
June and I hope you have a good
time down there. Your help in that
part of the tournament was really
appreciated and you did a good job
throughout and also in cleaning up
the gym area. I would like to thank
the teams who came to play, as there
were competitive games throughout
the tournament, some came on a last
minute contact and that was appre
ciated. Parent volunteers who helped
the kids in their efforts are also ap
preciated as they spent a lot of time
could do in and out of the church 7ith the kitk 1 thank 5 and yur
and home. God Bless you all. .'
Sincerely, ,
Lucei family, Hoptowit family,
Hance family, Rudder family &
the Yazzie family
,help is appreciated. Those who
helped were Viola Vaeth, Florence
Scott and also a big thanks to the
Native Class of 2001 advisor Tray
Leonard in helping coordinate the
kids in their jobs throughout the
weekend. If I have forgotten anyone
it is not intentional but all the help
for the tournament is appreciated.
Thanks to all.
Again I thank the Native Class
of 2001: CeCe Hcrrera, CeCc Polk,
Shamona Charley, Matt Yaeth,
I.arry Squiemphen, Jerry Brunoc
and David White. There were a
couple of others but I do not know
the names (sorry), but your help is
appreciated. I lave a good trip in June
and have a good time, as I know that
you have worked hard throughout
the year to make this happen. Bring
me back a Mickey T-shirt (just kid
ding). .
Sam Kcntura,
Tournament Director
Theft caused pain
Letter to the public,
This is a note to the person that
took all the food from the Warm
Springs Shaker church on Monday,
April 23, 2001. Because Janice Lucei
talked against anger and violence
(physical andor verbal), our fam
ily will respect her ways and just say
that maybe you can make it up by
helping a family in need when it will
be needed.
And God be with you and we
pray that God will touch you and
you do not do this again. We- have
to say though that this was a very
hurtful action both to the church
and the family in mourning. We do
thank Warm Springs Marke, Tina
Spino and everyone that helped re
place the stolen food. God Bless you
all.
Lucei Family
Challenge to council
To the Editor
All those high winds that 6c
currcd the day after the elections
wasn't Mother Nature. I think it was
a "sigh of relief" from management,
especially Kah-Nee-TaGaming, a
few incumbents, the White Broth
ers and Sisters of Larry, Curly and
Moe, sometimes Shemp too.
I think the people should remind
our representatives just who they
were elected to be representing.
From the start this time. In fact since ,
the day after, I've seen nothing but
white lawyers with maps of Hood
River, crowding into council room.
While most was on "travel status"
again. It appears tribal members le
gitimate complaints are on the back
burner as usual. Because when we
asked, after being put on the agenda
and then getting bumped, a certain
re-elected councilman told me they
had more pressing matters to take
care of. What I'm saying is that we
all helped elect them, so we should
all keep putting that proverbial boot
in that part of their anatomy to make
them work for all tribal members.
Regarding the casino after the
merger, that the majority of voters
didn't want, why did our wise coun-.
cil allow the old Kah-Nec-Ta staff
of Indian Fighters to remain? Just
because they are under a new tide,
you think they are going to change?
All I see them doing is contaminat
ing the new merger worse than it
already is. After this, the only Indi
ans to be seen at Kah-Nee-Ta will
be tribal members stuffing the ma
chines, just to support these people.
Look at all these different depart
ments, who are now separate from
the tribes. All called separate
moneymaking enterprises. The only
people they can prey on is tribal
members, who aren't part of this
management's inner circle. Under
Larry, Moe, Curly and sometimes
Shemp, hopefully this council won't
declare itself a separate money mak
ing enterprise.
This same council is always
brawling about education. Why
wouldn't they chip in a little of their
travel per diem to honor these kids
that went to the state tournament?
Were they worried about being re
elected, or was it because these tribal
members weren't old enough to vote.
People have asked me why a few
of this council members is so ob
sessed with putting the casino in
Hood River, where it will mostly
benefit non-Indians and just a few
of our leaders, with the reservation
getting a few scraps that our gaming
enterprise decides to throw our way.
All I could think of was that they
heard that Hood River was once the
"Apple Capital" of the Northwest,
and thev think that it means them.
Victor Moses j
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Fountain
of life
Spring runoff courses
through Badger Creek on a
recent damp and gray day.
Although recent rain and
mountain snows have
slightly improved the
outlook, it is expected that .
streamflows will drop to
very low levels this
summer because of the
unusually dry winter.
For the fiiture, look for the loving truth
Hello from Pastor Rick,
On March 25, 1 was reading the
Sunday Bulletin. It was. in 'the "Per
spective" section." Its titfe was "The
geography of growth." - H "
The article was the findings of the
2000 Federal census. It was the com
parison of the 1990 census versus the
, new '2000 .census,1? The numbers
showed, tremendous growth, except
Warm Springs and the Warm Springs
Reservation. Warm Springs grew 6
percent, the reservation grew 9 per
cent. My thoughts had been that there
were 5,000 or 6,000 people riving on
the reservation. Were the numbers
wrong? I knew when the census was
being taken in W arm Springs Vesta
Miller had a strong crew working
' really hard to get the numbers. And
you know if the numbers were '
; wrong. If the growth was 12 percent
and 18 percent, that still is small
'growth for a 10-year period. Is the
f community dying?
Human history is full of stories
of towns, cities and nations dying.
' They become a part of an archeol
' ?ogy dig, or a tourist attraction.
' Is the future of Warm Springs one
. hundred years from now a dig loca-
tion for an archeology group? I
thought and prajed to our God what
. is the truth?
Warm Springs is in such a great
.. time of decisions. Its leadership has
so much to do. Is the commumtv
dying? Well, I had a talk with people
in government. The Planning De
partment is a small group who are
saying "NO" to the question of dy
ing. They know that a community
in financial trouble or even rolling
in money still needs a plan for the
future.
A people always needs to know
that there is a reason for getting up
in the morning. A future keeps a
person, a town, or a nation from
dying. You knojv after talking to
planning the answer to the ques
tions; "Is Warm Springs a dying
community?" for me is NO.
If you want to work on the fu
ture of the community get involved
in the government. Go to commit
tee meetings. Ask questions. Finally
look for the truth. Look for the lov
ing truth.
And also do this (I am so pushy):
Hug someone you love. Hug some
" one you dislike. No alcohol or to
bacco for children. One day at a
time. Buckle up the kids and your
selves. Don't hit or beat on your
self. Pay your bills before gambling,
then stay home. Read the Bible for
its effect on your heart Pray to God
to the point of your hearing Him.
Honor someone each day. Love
yourself. Like yourself. See you in
church. Warm Springs Presbyterian
Church Worship at 11 a.m. On the
campus.
Pastor Rick IL Ribciro