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Page 4 Spilyay Tymoo July 22, 2004
A lot to do
and see during
the summer months
By Sid Miller
This has been an interesting summer, as the days were
growing longer from the winter months. As the summer
season came June 21, and that being the longest day of the
year, well the days are growing shorter again
heading toward the autumn and winter months
again.
As June rolled around we saw the high
school graduates both near and far, as there are families
who have children going to school in other areas. It's a
great sight to see the students march in and after the pro
gram of speakers, they file out single file receiving their
diplomas and ready to face the world. Their next step is
enrolling in a university, college, trade school, or some get
ting jobs.
The Rose Festival is another big event in the North
west. It starts out with the Star Light Parade on a Saturday
and runs all week and the Grand Floral Parade the follow
ing Saturday.
Yep! There are oodles of things to see during the Rose
Festival Week. Mid-week the Navy sends in ships that dock
at the Waterfront and are open for tours.
Yep! I can remember when I was just a "cute little tyke,"
we were in the Rose Parade as several of us were decked
out in traditional Indian regalia and riding on a flatbed truck.
Them days the floats were assembled in the stadium, west
Portland, and went down from west to east.
As we made our way past the viewing stand at home
plate our truck stopped and the singers pounded the drum
with a rousing War Dance and all the male paraders jumped
off the truck and thrilled the crowd with a War Dance and
jumped back on the truck and went on down Salmon
Street.
Delta Park Powwow draws many different tribes at the
gathering in north Portland. And after that powwow ev
eryone comes to Warm Springs for the annual Pi-Ume-Sha
Powwow adjacent to the Community Center.
Besides the powwow there are all sorts of activities that
sgQ. pji, A, stick-game tournament, endurance. horse, jace
twhich winds through the hills west jof Warm Sprins,a
"sortoan tourney, ooxing matcnes, a root race up trie lenmo
Valley and back. It's always a pleasure to see the former
governor of Oregon, Vic Atiyeh, who has been to many
Pi-Ume-Sha celebrations. Ever since he was in office he
has made it a point to be here.
During the powwow there are dancing competitions to
fit every age group right from tiny tots to elders of the Rez.
It is a colorful event, the handmade customs made of col
orful material that is an eyeful.
Pi-Ume-Sha is the originator of the Wanna Be Dance,
where all the non-Indians get out and do their stuff. It's
getting so there are some pretty good dancers. Another
colorful event is the Fluffy Dance Contest, where all the
over-weight people dance.
Well, we must not forget the annual Pi-Ume-Sha Rodeo,
where all Indian contestants perform from all parts of the
Northwest, all vying to make points to get to the All-Indian
Finals.
Thanks to the hard work of the Warm Springs Rodeo
Association there's always a good show. There were so many
interesting things that took place, perhaps another section
will come in the next issue of Spilyay Tymoo.
Toe Ness
Joe complained to a friend, "One of the guys on my
league just ran off with my wife."
His friend said, "Don't worry, you'll find someone else
with a 245 average." Yikes!
This guy walked into the house, dejected. "The ortho
pedist says I can't bowl," he told his wife.
"Oh," she replied, "he's seen you play?" Yikes!
Spilyay Tymoo
(Coyote News, Est. 1976)
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Shell dress
We the family of Pat Smith
would like to thank the Pi-Ume-Sha
Committee for their support
of our memorial shell dress con
test during the past three Pi-Ume-Sha's.
We decided as a fam
ily that we wanted to sponsor a
contest to honor her memory
and acknowledge her influence
in the community and in our
family. We would like to thank
the community for their support,
the support of the women who
participated over the three
years, also the Eagle Thunder
Drum for their participation all
three years.
Thank you to all of the fam
ily members that have supported
our efforts and encouraged us
through the process, especially
our elders. Even through it was
more than 10 years ago that we
lost our sister, mother, auntie,
grandma and friend, many times
it was difficult emotionally to
keep going, thank-you to those
who encouraged us and allowed
us to finish our third year. Here
is a partial list of this year's win
ners: First, Sara Scott; second,
Edith Walsey; third, Katrina
Walsey; and Cece WalseyBegay.
We apologize we didn't write
down all of our winners list, so
it may be incomplete, but we
appreciate all of the women
who participated in our memo
rial contest.
We would also like to ac
knowledge Oregon Embroidery,
who had donated toward our
contest in past years also. If
there is anyone we have left out,
please forgive us, your efforts
are appreciated and we pray you
Will all be blessecl for your good
. thoughts and work with us on
this memorial contest.
I was told by the Pi-Ume-Sha
Committee they will be picking
up this contest as a regular cat
egory next year. I wish them the
best of luck in their efforts, and
we look forward to seeing all of
our friends and relatives at next
year's Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty Days
celebration.
Sincerely, Wissie and
Donna Smith and family,
Alfredine Smith and fam
ily, Tom and Jeanine
Kalama and family, Mark
Stevens Sr. and family,
Mary Sando-Emhoolah
and Mike Emhoolah and
family, Geraldine and
Wilfred Jim and family.
Aloha
Good day everyone. My ten
ure with Kah-Nee-Ta High
Desert Resort and Casino has
ended. I have choosen to move
back to Hawaii to be closer to
my family. Thank you for the
opportunity to work with you,
it has been my pleasure. Best
regards and aloha, Catherine
Kamau.
Congratulations
Hi there, I'm writing this let
ter to congratulate my little niece
Martika Saluldo Kelly for her
perfect attendance. Keep your
head up, baby. Take care. Love,
your uncle I. Kelly.
Thank you
The Pinkham Family would
like to express a deep heart-felt
thank you to the community at
Warm Springs. Our parents, Joe
Jay and Tallulah Pinkham were
involved in a head-on car acci
dent on June 27.
They were vey lucky to sur
vive this accident My brothers
and sisters wish to thank all the
wonderful, kind and consider
ate people, Indian and non-Indian,
who stopped and helped
our parents at the scene of the
accident
Also a thank you to the
EMTs and medical providers
Letters to
who came so quickly and took
special care of our parents. And
a very special thank you to
Charlotte Herkshan. She was
able to be at my parents' sides
until we were able to arrive from
the Yakama Reservation.
Thank you all very much.
Sincerely, the Pinkham Fam
ily. Bake sale
I would like to express my
gratitude to those who bought
our bake sale items. The sale was
to help cover the cost of my
basketball camp fee. The people
I would like to thank are Ellen
Thompson for buying lots of
pies. My aunts Lucelia Berry and
Jessie Adams, a big thanks to my
sisters Jessica and Bridget
Longknife for making the bake
sale items. My biggest thanks
goes to Rafael and Nola
Queahpama for helping the
most, I love you grandpa and
grandma. Thanks to my mom
for supporting me and taking me
to the camp. A big thanks to my
aunt Louella Heath for getting
me a sponsor to help pay for
some of the cost. Love,
BethAnn Longknife
Family, friends
Dear friends and family, A
ho my people. Just thought I'd
write to let you know I'm doing
all right. I'm alive and making
the best of my time. I've been
taking classes up here, getting
that education for when my feet
touch solid ground. Besides the
life skills on who I am, I've
learned a lot more about respect,
and other people's boundaries.
I can tread without stepping on
somebody's toesi I've bedh' talk
ing to the Creator, finding my
way back slowly to the Red
Road. We don't get much reli
gion right here, where I'm at, but
I take advantage of what us
Native brothers are given. So,
smile for me.
I'm waiting my sentencing
right now. Looking at 60 months.
I'll get credit for time served.
Right now I've got 14 months
in altogether. I'll get sentenced
August 26. I been needing to
and meaning to get a hold of
my family, which is the reason
for this letter. And I'd like to
congratulate my lil' sis P.Jay for
finishing high school on time.
And to say keep going, don't
waste any time, and keep push
ing for what you see in your
future. There's only one life to
live, and so little time, take ad
vantage of what life has to give.
Happy birthday, July 3.
I also want to tell my girl that
I love you. And on July 21 will
be two years! I've been missing
you a lot. Especially our two
lovely baby girls.
My address is:
Sampson Price, No.
67651-065, Federal Detention
Center, P.O. Box 6000,
Sheridan, OR 97378.
In these walls
Dear tribal members, family
and friends,
Life within these walls ain't
no life at all, just heartache and
nun Inrino nmnfmir i lira
jjdltl. a aniug mammal .) a iiiv
lived in constant disaster and tur
moil. I've had a rough life. I am
not very proud of the way my
miserable life has been going, but
then again it hasn't been that bad
either.
I am writing this letter to
those of you that know me and
that know my family. I would
like to apologize to my family
(Tom, Marlon, Wallace, Gina
and Denise), and to my adopted
mother and father Les and
Perthina White, because I have
expressed my desire to
straighten my life out and get a
job, make a better life for my
self, instead of torturing my
the Editor
body with alcohol and drugs.
These people have been a part
of my childhood and teenage
years. I am very sorry to have
placed upon you any burden
andor mental or emotional an
guish. Because of my alcohol
ism I have been in and out of
jails, probation violations. And
yet today here I am writing this
letter in hopes that I can find
some encouragement, com
mencing a better way of being
clean and sober. I would also like
to take this time to apologize to
Stoney Miller for letting him
down. I am sorry. I never meant
to show irresponsibility or lack
of trust. I made a bad decision
and am feeling absolutely terrible
because of my bad decision.
I would like to let you all
know that I will be entering an
alcoholic treatment program as
soon as my alcohol counselor
can get me into one. I am not
proud to be an alcoholic and
seriously am sick and tired of
being sick and tired. I am going
to do my very best to be a bet
ter person.
With your encouragement
and help I will accomplish my
life change. Much respect,
"Penguin," aka F.T. Jr.
Other side
This is a letter to say thanks
to family and friends who have
been supportive during my in
carceration. I don't ask for
much, just a letter now and then
and some pictures. Thanks. To
my friends, we've been on the
flip side of the coin and weren't
very supportive at one time
when friends were locked up -now
I'm just experiencing the
otheside. Once again, thanks .
Mom, brothers, sisters, I love
you and my kids, I miss you and
I'll see you in a couple months.
Bye. Stuart Smith Sr.
Our family
George, LaDonna, Denise,
Woody, and Clem,
When I look back at the
years, talking to Michael and the
kids. I am blessed to have five
brothers and sisters (still living).
I know it has been a struggle in
each of our lives and hard to
be respectful, after everything
we haveare going through.
I have learned to think about
Dad, (first) how he copes, lives,
depends on our love to get him
through each day and see his
children talk makes him happy.
We are all different individuals,
that's what makes each of us
"special" in our own way.
The one thing we all have in
common is our father, George
W. Picard Sr., let nothing or no
body get in the way. Love is what
is important, and continue to
give love to one another. Giv
ing thanks to God for each of
our lives and another day clean
and sober.
It is easy to look at the bad
in people, the challenge is to find
the good in somebody (their
qualities), the words you share
choose reflect on dad. Let's
Birthday dtld Other WiskeS...
S
Happy belated birthday, June
4, to my friend Tamera J.
Kalama. From Pengie.
Congratulations to
BethAnn Longknife,
Jillisa Suppah, Kristy
Olney, Noreen Sampson,
Marissa and Susan Ahem
for their completion and
a job well done at Cas
cade Sports Basketball
Camp.
Bobbi Jo Berry, Jessica
and Bridget Longknife.
Happy anniversary, CheryL
make him a proud father, each
and everyday of our lives, be
ing responsible by working to
wards that education and work
ing for what we want. After all,
we all love dad and he loves us
too. For our children, what they
say and do is also important. It
is all building towards what type
of fathergrandfather he is.
None of us are worse or better,
we are equal. We can choose to
change and work through things
together, or be like the millions
of other families and not speak
to one another, carry that into
the next generations to come (our
children and their children).
Love builds family unity, anger
destroys families.
I love you all for who you
are, as you do my family and
me. Twink
Fire danger
Fire Management would like
to remind everyone to please be
careful when using fire. The
conditions at the lower eleva
tions are very dry. Here are
some tips to avoid a wildland fire
from happening:
Drive only on improved
roads. Vehicles driven across dry
grass may start a fire from a hot
muffler or other high-heat com
ponents under the vehicle.
Use extreme caution when
smoking and only smoke in an
enclosed vehicle. Never throw
matches, cigarettes, cigars or any
other burning material from
your vehicle. Please use your
ashtray. Never smoke while
traveling through wildland areas,
whether on foot, horseback or
on an ATV.
Start campfires only in des
ignated areas. Make sure camp
fire's are dead out before going
to bed of leaving camp. Keep a
shovel and a 5-gallon supply of
water close to the campfire area.
Please check the fire precaution
level before starting a campfire,
even in a designated area.
Charcoal briquettes should be
immersed in water until they are
cold to the touch.
Debris burning is still permit
ted, however, before ignition,
please call Fire Management to
check conditions and let them
know your situation.
If you should see a fire, note
its location, get to a phone and
call 9-1-1. Warm Springs Fire
Management is aggressive in its
attack on wildland fires, and the
sooner they can reach a fire the
chances of the fire turning into
a large wildland event are de
creased. Enjoy the summer time
and stay safe. Suzy Macy,
Warm Springs Fire Manage
ment. Letters policy
Letters to the Editor
should be no longer than 350
words in length, in order to
allow room for all letters.
Also, no letter may contain
libel against another person
or a business.
Thank you for writing.
Happy birthday T & C!
Love you lots, Mom, Tilden,
Erickson, Shannon and
Davina.
Tyrone
Elvis Frank
Watkins turns
9 years old on
July 28.
CaroIAnn
Rene Frank
Watkins turns
8 years old
July 31.
sr.