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Page 4 Spilyay Tymoo April 18, 2002
Gaming issue,
first time around
By Sid Miller, Publisher Emeritus
In the beginning when we decided to go ahead with
gaming, everything was up in the air, everyone was
undecided on the location. So an election was held to
determine a suitable location for a gaming establishment.
The alternatives were to build near Warm Springs, at
Kah-Nee-Ta, or at some other site. At that time everyone
was somewhat bewildered and unedu
cated on the gaming situation, and in
order to get things going sooner it was
decided to try the gaming out at Kah-Nee-Ta
for five years to see how things
would work out.
Well it's been more than five years,
and this has proven to be a big dud, so
far. So isn't it time to consider the other alternatives from
the beginning, and move our gaming establishment to a
more productive area.
As it is, we are pouring money down the drain with our
gaming a Kah-Nee-Ta.
Now don't get me wrong on this and think I want our
whole gaming here along Highway 26, it's just the one at
Kah-Nee-Ta. We've tried it now for more than five years
and we've gotten nowhere; if we made any movement it
would surely have to be deeper in the hole.
Now these are my thoughts and you can tell me to go
jump in Shitike Creek, but I'm going to give my thoughts.
We should still pursue building in the Gorge. That would
be our main gaming site and our secondary gaming would
be here on the reservation along highway 26.
Let's do something intellectually for once and make
some smart decisions and close down the gaming at Kah-Nee-Ta
or build along highway 26, but still build the main
one in the Gorge for our prime income. We all know it
takes money to make money and that's our goal, to find a
source of income.
Lets get on the bandwagon and do something right and
productive. If we did this there could be all sorts of
options that would benefit our tribes. What we want is to
generate income, and we shold not be the ones to support
our enterprises as we are doing at the present time.
It may sound outrageous but that's the best route. We
should make the best choice for a better future.
Give it some thought. "AHH-NAH-CHI-TOON!"
Toe Ness
There was this guy who, rilling out a form with a space
next to the word "SEX" he wrote in "Yes". YIKES....
Bullying at
(Editor's note: The following
informatoin is from the North
west Regional Education Labo
ratory.) Given the serious effects
bullying behavior has on both
students and schools, we can't
afford to simply dismiss it as a
"normal" or inevitable part of
childhood.
There is nothing "normal"
about ongoing incidents of ha
rassment, violence, and intimi
dation. Bullying not only leads to
depression, anxiety, and low
self-esteem in students who are
targeted, but also causes other
students to feel unsafe at
Letters
reminder
The Spilyay again
would like to remind read
ers, please limit Letters to
the Editor to 350 words or
fewer. litters longer than
350 words may be cut
starting with the last sen
tence. Also, no statements
can be published that are
libel against another per
son. Deadlines
The next Spilyay
issue publishes
Thursday, May 2,
with a Friday, April
26 deadline for let
ters, news items, an
nouncements and
birthday wishes.
Spilyay
Speaks
school causes many problems
school and significantly inter
feres with learning.
Long-term effects of bully
ing on students who bully,
such as aggressive behavior
continuing into adulthood,
cannot be ignored either. Stu
dents of all ages deserve to feel
safe and supported at school.
Taking bullying behavior
seriously is an important step
in working toward safe and ef
fective schools.
Through training, collabo
ration, and carefully designed
programs, educators,
policymakers, parents, and
students can work together to
ensure that schools are a place
where students feel welcome,
included, and where they are
ready to learn.
A free booklet called
Schoolwidi Prevention and Bul
lying is available by writing to
Newspaper Column, North
west Regional Education
Laboratory.
You can write to the Labo
ratory at 101 S.W. Main, suite
500, Portland OR 97204.
A great deal of information
is also available at the website
at www.nwrcl.orgrequcst.
The bullying prevention
booklet is a part of the fij Re
quest scries, a quarterly book
let scries produced at the Labo
ratory. These reports briefly ad
dress current educational con
cerns and issues as indicated by
requests for information that
come to the laboratory from
the Northwest region and be
yond. Across the country, bully
ing is receiving increased atten
tion in school board meetings,
in the media, and in state leg
A bad scene
A very unpleasant scene re
cently occurred in the new
Apple Peddler Restaurant in
Madras that I would like to
bring to the attention of the
general public, as well as to
other minorities in Central
Oregon. While attempting to
have a meal at the restaurant
with my wife and daughter, a
waitress became extremely ver
bally abusive after I requested
the salad that had not been
served before the main course.
A few words exchanged
should have been enough and
I could have chosen not to tip
for the bad service. Instead, the
waitress chose to insult my race
and me, yelling so the entire
restaurant could hear. She fur
ther humiliated me by insinu
ating that I had been drinking.
(I have been sober for nine
years). She then threatened me
with the police before she was
taken from the room by her co
workers. This waitress was not
fired; she was merely put on
suspension for two days. I did
not finish my meal, nor will I
go back to the Apple Peddler
for the free meal offered as
compensation.
This is not an isolated inci
dent of prejudice or unequal
treatment toward Native
Americans in Madras.
It has gone on for years and
will continue unless minority
citizens, particularly Native
Americans, refuse to do busi
ness in establishments where
they are not treated with re
spect. I urge anyone who wit
nesses any incident of disre
spect toward Native Ameri
cans or other minorities to
stop frequenting that establish
ment. And I strongly urge the
islatures. '
Between the years 1999 and
2001, at least eight states con
sidered andor adopted legis
lation directing schools to de
velop anti-bullying policies or
programs.
In some states, statewide
bullying programs are already
in place, while in other states,
such as Michigan, Colorado,
and Oregon, schools are scram
bling to build programs and
comply with new laws.
To be sure, bullying is not a
new phenomenon.
What is new is the growing
awareness that bullying hat
serious consequences for both
students and schools.
Bullying behavior contrib
utes to lower attendance rates,
lower student achievement,
low self-esteem, and depres
sion, as well as higher rates of
both juvenile and adult crime',
Consider the following statis
tics: Approximately 160,000 stu
dents miss school every day
due to fear of attack or intimi
dation by a bully; 7 percent of
eighth-graders stay home at
least once a month because of
bullies.
Approximately 20 percent
of students are scared through
out much of the school day.
Fourteen percent of eighth
through 12th-gradcrs and 22
percent of fourth- through
eighth-graders surveyed re
ported that "bullying dimin
ished their ability to learn in
school."
Ten percent of students
drop out of school do so be
cause of repeated bullying.
Without question, the mot
effective means of addressing
Letters to
manager of the Apple Peddler
Restaurant to fire that waitress
and find staff that will treat all
customers with respect.
Charles Frank
An apology
Dear Spilyay Tymoo:
I would like to apologize to
the community of Warm
Springs once more for not be
ing there to drum for my In
dian people.
I am also still hurt and sorry
for what I did last year to the
one person I love the most. To
Judy Kalama I am still very
ashamed and hurt for what I
did.
Please understand that it's
going to be a long time before
I can walk with my head up
high and be proud to be an In
dian let alone a man.
Only God knows how
ashamed and hurt I truly am,
and I'm never going to forgive
myself for what I did to the
person I care so deeply for.
I am very sorry to everyone
that I have hurt over the years
because of my drinking, jeal
ously and anger.
I feel like I have shamed my
people.
I am truly hurt by every
thing I am telling.
This is no lie. You never
realize it until its too late how
much people and dear friends
mean to you. Alcohol and
Drugs are no good.
This is a person speaking
from experience.
So you younger generation
please listen to your elders be
cause they are right. I took my
happiness away from me.
Thanks for your time to
read this.
bullying is through compre
hensive, schoolwide programs.
Although teachers, counse
lors, and parents may be able
to deal with individual cases of
bullying as they come up, it is
unlikely to have a significant
impact on the incidence of bul
lying in the school.
For one thing, bullying of
ten goes undetected by both
teachers and parents.
Adults typically identify
less than 10 percent of bully
ing incidents.
In addition, many teachers
and administrators fail to un
derstand the dynamics of bul
lying. Without adequate training,
tome educators may actually
endorse bullying behavior, ei
ther by sending students the
message that bullying is "part
of growing up," or by simply
ignoring the behavior.
Perhaps the most important
reason for developing a
schoolwide anti-bullying pro
gram, however, is to engage and
empower "the silent majority."
These are the large percent
age of students who regularly
witness bullying at school but
don't know what they can do
to help.
Programs that teach stu
dents to recognize and inter
vene in bullying have been
found to have the greatest im
pact on curbing incidents of
bullying and harassment at
school.
Schoolwide anti-bullying
programs can take many
shapes, as the programs pro
filed in the Northwest Sampler
section of the Sdwouide Pre
vention and Wnllying booklet
indicate.
the Editor
Hurt and most of all
ashamed,
Michael Meanus (aka) M
Tone The following is a poem I
wrote to Judy Kalama:
Heavy Is The Heart That
Cry's
I was partying and drinking
all the time.
Finally lost everything and
everyone I thought was mine.
Heavy is the heart that
cry's.
I never meant to hurt my
people
And especially the women
I love.
I just hope and pray that we
can be together in the heaven
alone.
Heavy is the heart that
cries.
I keep pleading and crying
asking the Lord why?
They say time will heal the
pain but right now I could die.
Heavy is the heart that
cry's.
I write this with hurt and
shame in my heart and I tell
you no lies.
Because heavy is the heart
that cry's.
M-Tone
Fishing time
It's fishing time salmon
are at the mouth of the Colum
bia River! Every fishing site
had been given an Indian name
a give away, dinner would fol
low of the sacred traditional
fishing practice.
Why? Because (Na-Mi-Pi-Up)
had given us river people
this rite - then anyone of the
river people had been allowed
to fish on the fishing site...
When a fish was caught he
Hoping for
Our five-month-old male
rottweiller was taken from our
yard.
He answers to the name
"Pup Pup."
At the time of disappear
ance, he was wearing a blue
harness.
This was our children's
Dealing with
anger and guilt
I want to talk about an
ger and guilt. Why is there
so much anger? You know
the kind I'm talking about.
It is old anger, things said
and done from long agu An
old anger not taken apart
over time but made a part
of a life structure. An anger
that is in the eyes, or the
walk.
And what of the guilt.
Anger turned inside. The
structure of anger that is
added on to life and then
remodeled with more guilt.
Anger and guilt that at times
seem to control life itself.
I turned to the Bible for
wisdom about anger and
guilt. What I found was a
difference between anger
and wrath. God's wrath.
The Lord getting mad. An
ger hat the power to change
us and our world to the bad.
God'i wrath it his tool to
deal with evil and tin. It
does n6t change God. You
see our anger can hurt us,
Gods wrath can change us
for the better.
So, what to do alnuit an
ger and guilt? Forgive. For-
would move his net for the
next person to fish, using his
own fishing gear.
Elders, widows, sister-in-laws,
those that could not fish
would be given fish - the men
had this duty, that are of the
Columbia River SEE: Cus
toms. Tribal Law and Order
Code.
This teaching had been
taught to many generations
still applies to us now! Just be
prepared when you're ap
proached by a request to get
fish. Sincerely,
(SUE-WY-Y)
Martinez Charles
Appreciated
Thank you for allowing in
mates to cook at the Warm
Springs 1910 Indian Shaker
Church for Easter weekend.
Without your assistance it
would have been hard to feed
the people all the delicious
meals all of them prepared.
Cleaning and polishing the
main church and setting up
candles for help were things
that everyone made possible.
We really appreciated all
and may they receive a bless
ing meant for each of them.
Sincerely,
Patricia Tanawasha,
Assistant Minister, Mem
bership of 1910 Indian Shaker
Church
A thank-you
I would like to thank all my
sponsors for their support in
"Jump for the Hearth." j
Sincerely,
Larry Spino II
pup's return
Christmas present and would
very much like to have him
returned, because they all have
grown attached to one another.
There will be a reward for
his safe return.
If you have any informa
tion, please call the following
number: 553-1101.
Hello, from
Pastor Rick
give others, forgive yourself,
forgive.
Forgive and move on.
Ixivc and move on. Forgive
and love.
Forgiveness and love arc
at the root of God's wrath.
It sounds funny but the
lord's love is so much that
he turns his wrath upon
himself to deal with sin. I lis
wrath is called Faster. I Ev
eryone - let go, let God.
Hug someone you dis
like. No alcohol or tobacco
for children. One day at a
time. Buckle up the kids and
yourself. Don't hit and beat
on yourself or others. Pay
your bills before gambling,
then stay home. Read the
Bible for its effect on the
heart.
Pray to God to the point
of your hearing him. Honor
someone each day. Love
yourself. Like yourself. Sec
you in church.
Pastor Rick R. Ribeiro,
553-1237.