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Page 4 Spilyay Tymoo
May 2, 2002
Rez dogs,
soup dogs,
family pets
By Selena Boise
of the Spilyay Tymoo
The Warm Springs population is
4,040 people, and 4,050 dogs. Or it
seems that way when you drive
around Warm Springs and you see a
dog everywhere you go.
You wonder
how all these dogs
got here in Warm
Springs.
Most of them
probably have lit
ters of puppies.
The adult dogs are not all that attrac
tive to begin with, but their puppies
are cute. So they're given away to rela
tives, friends, or whoever will take
one.
Spilyay
Speaks
When children want a puppy and
they see one, they probably bring it
home. It's such a cute puppy and they
just really love it.
Then it grows into a dog and loses
that cuteness. Do they love it and give
it the same attention?
I've seen this situation not only in
my own home but in other homes as
well. My kids played with their puppy
for a while. It grew in size but, even
while still a puppy, lost that cuteness.
It would wait for the bus with
them and greet them at the bus stop
each day and they were glad to see it.
But it was still bored because they
didn't play with it as much as they
did when it was cute. So what does a
bored dog do?
These bored dogs develop bad hab
its like tearing up trash in your yard.
Ours tore up diapers. Or they chase
cars. When I pull out of the driveway,
there are at least three dogs that chase
my cat.
What becomes of these big dogs
that are ho longer puppies and de
velop these unwanted behaviors?
Some take a one-way ride into the
country. Then what do these animals
do?
In some communities they run to
gether in a pack. Some are lucky
enough to find a family that will take
them in and keep them.
Recently, as in the past, the police
have received many calls regarding
dogs. Dogs are biting children, run
ning in packs and killing calves and
bothering cattle.
Police are now required to take
drastic measures to reduce the popu
lation of the dogs.
Dogs are being captured and
checked for licenses. If a dog has a li
cense the owner can be notified, but
if the dog does not have a license, the
owner may never see the dog again.
Everyone's dog should have a license,
and this requires vaccinations.
I believe this measure would reduce
the population of dogs in the com
munity. It is possible these dogs are un
wanted and don't have a home, and
removing them from the dog popula
tion is the best thing.
But, if you have a dog and want to
keep that dog, then it should be taken
care of, vaccinated, licensed and fed.
These pets should be like members
of the family, not only when they're
puppies but always.
As a child I remember having a few
dogs. One dog did tricks and he was
obedient, but he was killed by a pack
of dogs. One dog was playful and we
took good care of him.
When I left for boarding school I
received regular updates about the
dog. I Ic was gone when I got back. I
don't have a pet dog at the moment,
my kids have a cat, and she's getting
the attention she needs from my chil
dren. But it's interesting that a cute little
puppy could become a problem for
the community.
If you are thinking about getting a
dog, I would wait a while until the
dog population problem is under con
trol. That'i only my opinion.
Slam and jam
To the Community,
I would like to thank some
people at this time, who recendy
supported and helped out at the
Blackhawks "Slam and Jam" tour
nament held on April 12-14 at the
Warm Springs Community
Wellness Center.
First of all I would like to thank
the sponsors for the awards that
were presented. The sponsors are:
Warm Springs Power Enterprises,
Warm Springs Forest Products,
Warm Springs Composite Prod
ucts, Warm Springs Market, Ma
dras Produce, Bright Wood Corp.,
Erickson's Sentry, and a few inde
pendent sponsors, Gary Thomas
of Prineville, Marcia Soliz (second
place sweatshirts), and Bruce and
Barbara Jim.
I would like to thank Eagle Eye
Designs and Bear Prints for print
ing the awards, and Bend Awards
and Engraving for the All-Star
Medals.
I would like to say a big "thank
you" to Roland and Verleen
Kalama for helping out the whole
weekend, and for Foster Kalama
for helping out on Friday night. I
want to thank my mother Carol
Craig and sister Mariam Tias for
jumping in at the last minute and
doing the concessions for me, and
also my nephews and nieces for
helping with cleanup during the
tournament.
Last but not least I want to
thank all the fans for coming down
to watch the tournament and
cheering their favorite team or
player. It was supposed to be an
eight team only tournament but I
received a tremendous response
from teams that wanted to enter,
so I opened it up to a 12-team tour
nament, f. . . : ' '
I want to thank the Commu
nity Wellness Center staff for the
set up of the gym for the tourna
ment. I look forward to putting
together the "2003 Slam and Jam"
Tournament, and watch for a pos
sible tournament this fall,
Blackhawks "Elite Eight" Men's 6
and Under Open Tournament.
Again, a big Thank You to all who
helped, and take care.
Samuel J. Kentura,
Blackhawks Basketball
A thank-you
Family and friends,
We really appreciate all the
prayers support and donations that
were received during this time of
the loss of our dear loved one,
Tommy Lee Dickson.
Tommy has hit the hearts of
many and will be greatly missed.
As a son, brother, nephew, grand
son, boyfriend and best friend. We
would like to thank the Emt's,
Airlifc, Doctor, nurses and the Pas
tor for their help. A huge hug and
thank you to my family for being
by Tommy Lee's side through his
last days with us.
Thank you auntie Shirley, Neda,
Liza, Larry Dick, Priscilla
Blackwolfc, Jaime McKinley, Ellen
Thompson, Alex Tohet, Jimmy
Wesley and to those who traveled
from Washington. And a huge
thank you and blessings for the
foods, drummers and all the danc
ers. There were so many people with
us I cannot name you all but you
know whom you are. To those
whom were unable to attend be
cause of circumstances that were
out of your control, we felt your
grief and prayers (incarcerated, sick
or in the hospital).
We all remember that Tommy
xt was a person whom liked to
visit and was very free spirited and
each and everyone of us have that
special memory of his unique per
sonality. This is one of the hardest things
to do is really understand he it
Letters to
gone. That's why all your prayers are
so important There is one song that
helps me release Tommy physically
and believe he is in the hands of our
elders. It is sung by Motley Crue,
Home Sweet Home. Tommy is home
now and is smiling.
Thank you again and God
bless. Mae, Edgar, Curtis, and
Theodore; Nettie and family; Laura
and family; Gary and family, Warm
Springs. William and family,
Redmond.
Albert and family, Salem.
P.S. Gwen Leonard and Gladys
Graybeal for bringing hot food. Any
one whom did not get a memory card
can pick one from myself (Mae) sorry
we ran out during the funeral.
We thank you
To all who kindly helped celebrate
the life of Charles Rutschow both at
High Lookee Lodge in Warm Springs
and at the Camp Polk Cemetery, we
thank you.
Your cards, expressions of care for
us and your presence are gready ap
preciated. The flowers and gifts to
Hospice and the Salvation Army in
his name will continue his love for
community and survive. Thank you.
Pearl Rutschow, Jerry and Jane
Kirkpatrick, Craig and Barb
Rutschow.
Thinking of you
As I sit here inside this lonely
prison cell, I watch the ones who love
me go through hell. I never thought
I'd be locked up like this before. Sur
rounded by barbwire fences, towers
and slamming doors.
To have my parents visit me not
being able to touch. Seeing my
mother walk away tears falling from
her eyes cause she misses me so much.
Not recognizing my brother's voice
because I've spent half a year in the
hole with no contact at all.
Hearing my home-girls tell me to
keep my head up down the hall.
Knowing that when I parole, the man
I wanted to meet me at the gate won't
be there cause he's doing time along
with me.
Losing everything and having
nothing to get out to, because that's
what I choose for it to be. I can only
pray that "my brothers" and others
can learn from my mistakes or at least
see that I've only hurt the ones I love.
They're the only ones who had to
suffer because of the crazy thangs I've
done. As I sit here counting down the
days, I thank god for my family and
the people who love me who had
enough respect to stay.
To all the natives doing time, es
pecially Ronald McKinley, keep your
head up boo, cause this female is
thinking, praying and loving you.
One love.
Jolena Warner, 13389804
Nursing home
We have National Nursing Home
Week on the horizon again in May. It
will be celebrated May 11 through
May 17. Saturday May 11 we will
have a float in the parade, and will
take residents to watch the parade. On
Mother's Day, Sunday, May 12, we
will celebrate our mother's with a
mother's day strawberry cake and tea
at 1:30 p.m., in the activity room.
Everyone is welcome.
On Monday, May 13, there will be
an open house, Health screening,
with blood pressure and blood sugar
testing will be provided. Then a
wheelchair race will be held to finish
up that day.
Tuesday, May 14, will be "Pet
Day". We encourage all with pets to
bring them down to show our elders.
Wednesday, May IS, will be our
Hawaiian day and talent show. The
talent show will get underway at 1
p.m. If you have a talent you would
like to share please contact Diana
Clark at CTCC.
Thursday, May 16, will be our an
nual yard sale, bake sale and car wash.
the Editor
Come down and get some goodies
and get your car washed all at the
Convalescent Center.
The week will be completed on
Friday, May 17, with Western Day
and our hotdog barbecue. This will
start around 11:30 a.m. and last until
about 1:30 p.m. Stop by and enjoy
some good food and a visit with our
elders.
We hope to see you there for all
the week's festivities.
A big thank you goes out to
Connie Shaver from Trail of Dreams.
She has donated numerous items,
which we used as "giveaway" during
our Winter Spiritual Dance.
We encourage you all to come
down for a visit and to see what we
are doing. Remember the doors are
always open for you. If there is some
thing that you would like to see our
elders do, please let us know. We are
open to any suggestions. See you next
month.
Ina Harry
Dedicated
Why I am 100 percent dedicated
to my recovery.
I am a head-injured survivor from
an alcoholic-related automobile acci
dent. I was in one March 17, 1987, and I
am very much grateful for how I now
am. I am still alive for a special, un
known purpose.
I don't drink alcohol like I used to
no-more. I want to be 100 percent
dedicated while I'm in recovery. I
want to focus on everything I can do
now, not on everything I used to do.
That is all in my past.
In a way I'm a little grateful for
the kind of physical traumatic head
injury I'm told I have. I am still alive!
Focus on what you can do now.
Evette Patt, 689 W. Thirteenth
Ave., Apt. 11
Eugene, OR 97402; phone 242
0591. Tribal jobs
Attention Tribal Council and Tribal
Members:
There are two things that I would
like to tell the Tribal Members that
the Tribal Council hasn't really fol
lowed up on, keeping someone
(Tribal Members) in line to replace
management heads who are non
tribal members to take over when
they're ready to retire or leave. We
have seen nothing done about this
and we should be looking into this
cause we have people Tribal Members
that are educated to take over in these
offices or departments. But no one
has been placed into all departments
to be taught, it started out all right
but as things go on, they forget to fol
low thru with it and nothing done
about this. You (Tribal Council) rely
on management to do things for you,
but as far as we (Tribal Members)
concern is one of the problems in
management by playing with our
tribal budget not letting us (Tribal
Members) know that he can't run his
department without digging into
other department's budget. You have
a set budget to stay in the budget of
that department, if you can't let the
Tribal Council know, you can't
handle it. I suppose you'll want to get
a consultant to do the research on
how to handle a budget but your edu
cated right. Mr. ST What your do
ing isn't right and don't forget you
work for us (Tribal Members) don't
mismanage everyone's budget. Tribal
Council stress education most of the
people that come home have to leave
cause they're turned away cause they
get so far in management and show
they can handle the department. But
management always feels threatened
with a new face wanting to help man
agement at Tribal Council with their
views and they get rid of them that's
always the way management handle
these situations, that I've seen all my
life. So far as long as I've been around,
Letters reminder
The Spilyay again would like
to remind readers, please limit
Letters to the Editor to 350
words or fewer.
Letters that are longer than
350 words are cut starting with
the last sentence. Also, no state
ments can be published that are
libel against another person.
management always hired a consult
ant to do their work for them. You're
the one with an education we (Tribal
Members) are looking at you to help
lead us and. run the Tribe.
But things aren't panning out.
Second issue is I hear that Gaming is
using our reserved funds without
Tribal Members vote that's 20 million
dollars out of our Tribal Monies be
ing used. To so call helping Gaming
but who can say that person will win
the election that we're lining his cam
paign with, to be the future governor
if he's not elected we're left in a tight
spot and we lost those monies and
we're told that we're in financial prob
lems already.
Sincerely yours,
Lloyd G. Smith (Shag), Tribal
Member
For the Heart
I would like to apologize to the
readers for the error in the last Spilyay
edition on a misspelled word. My one
sentence submitted was to read: I
would like to thank all my sponsors
for their support in "Jump for the
Heart" not "Jump for the Hearth."
I am 9 years old, and jumped over
200 times in the Jump for the Heart
event. This raised over $200from
sponsors. I also qualified for the
Disney World trip.
I enjoyed meeting people, and
learned information about what a
heart attack is.
Thank you, Larry Spino II
On gaming
To our Warm Springs people
Tribal Council,
Good morning. Water, water, wa
ter, I think most of you would agree
that water is the first necessary ele
ment, resource, necessary for life be
sides our Creator.
Gambling is a diversionary tactic.
Gambling is made so easy to come
by in Indian country by our great
white fathers that red flags pop up in
my mind.
Our so called white bro is using
gambling to distract our Indian na
tions from developing our natural
resources, namely our choo'ish.
Develop our water resources, an
amusement park, water world in
Warm Springs, Oregon and a barge
on the Columbia River before it gets
to crowded.
This would be more valuable to
our Warm Springs nation than any
gambling. As I've said before gam
bling is our white bro's Trojan 1 lorse.
When the day is done with gam
bling, what do we have but a piece of
paper with numbers on it saying we
have X amount of money, liars.
When gambling and money runs
its course all we got left is a empty
building and paper. If we develop our
water and other rez resources in the
future when Safeway closes it's doors
we will still have our rez.
1 lunt, fish, pick, dig for our foods,
our Safeway is our mother earth and
if our Treaty tribes Warm Springs,
Yakama, Umatilla, Lapwai, would
come together and buy some barges
for the Columbia River this would
be more beneficial for our future gen
erations then gambling. Think about
it.
Bobby Eaglcheart
(Tht Letters to tht Editor art tontiimtd
on page 10.)