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Page 4 Spilyay Tytnoo August 5, 2004
Log Springs
fire under
control
By Selena T. Boise
I was at the fire camp the
other day and saw that they are
moving things out and shipping
the fire fighters to the next big
fire.
Very hard,
strenuous work
that the
firefighters are
doing in such hot
weather conditions. We should
Seems we take for granted the
work it takes to take control of
a fire burning with conditions
such as wind and fuel.
Lucky for us that the fire
fighters are so much into their
work that they do this through-
: out the United States for so many
communities.
When I arrived at the fire
, camp I was stopped by security
and my brother was paged and
sent to my vehicle. I was told
: that they were being cautious
about supplies being taken out
of camp by non-employee visi
tors. I was a bit offended but then
maybe there are people who
would take supplies.
Anyway I was amazed at the
set up of the fire camp. There
were logistics, supply tent, medi
cal tent, and they were all set up
along the road. There were a lot
of tents surrounding the area
where the firefighters were stay
ing. Before containment of the
fire there were many more fire
fighters and the camp was larger.
I remember in previous years
being evacuated from my home
j, a couple times, and I was thank
' ful thit it vdidn't come' to that -this
time.
' I want to express my thanks
to all those who traveled here
to fight the flames of the Log
Springs fire. There are many
homes on our reservation and
there weren't any that were
damaged or taken by the fire.
So, thank you.
Cooperative
By Ron Suppah
Tribal Council Chairman
Secretary of Interior Gale
Norton recently congratulated
Portland General Electric, the
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs, and other long-term
combatants in the decades long
controversy over salmon conser
vation on the Deschutes River.
We joined together in the
spirit of "cooperative conserva
tion" to creatively solve one of
the most difficult conflicts over
salmon restoration: safely mov
ing young fish around the Round
Butte Dam. Today, we see the
Bonneville Power Administra
In regard to
The Native American Hous
ing and Self-Determination Act
(NAHASDA) materialized after
years of tribal gov
ernments lobbying
Congress for more
direct input into fed
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eral housing program
development, and allowable
funding expenditures to meet
housing needs unique to specific
tribes.
In Region 6 the Northwest
Office of Native American Pro
grams in Seattle administers the
various federal grants for tribal
housing. The office also admin
isters other grant programs by
which tribes can supplement
NAHASDA dollars.
One administrative function
of Northwest Office of Native
American Programs (the North
west Office) is to evaluate how
Rez Express
This is a letter of thanks to
those establishments who spon
sored the 14 year old boys bas
ketball team Rez Express in the
State Games of Oregon this
year. The team came out of the
tournament in third place and
should be commended for their
efforts.
Thank you to Warm Springs
Forest Products Industries; DE
Composite Products; Earl and
Rita Squiemphen; Val
Squiemphen and Tony Torres
for their support. Also, Priscilla
Squiemphen-Yazzie for lending
team jerseys. Lastly, thank you
to the community for support
ing the car wash on July 4 and
our various bake sales. Sammie
Squiemphen.
Appreciation
To our people here, a heart
felt thanks to you from the bot
tom of our hearts. There have
been some very major losses in
our lives, with the loss of my
husband Elliot Switzler that im
pacted our home, that we are
trying to deal with on a daily
basis. This took some time to
get done. Thank you Tommy
Fuentes and Warm Springs For
est Products Industries employ
ees who my husband enjoyed
working with. He loved his job
there. For John and Helen
Smartlowit, coming from
Yakima Valley to take care of
the beautiful services that went
accordingly, and for nieces
Sandi, Martha, Leah and grand
son Trevor for cutting up fish
and meat.
If I missed anyone, it's, not
my intention. Everyone pulled
together and became my
strength to see this through.
Thank you for everyone com
ing together at our home for
prayer services. For Dr.
Creelman, Hospice volunteers,
Dialysis staff, and Workforce
Development staff Cory
Clements, Frances Allen,
conservation
tion and the U.S. Army Corps
of engineers planning to kill in
large numbers the fish we just
cooperated to save.
Cooperation over this impor
tant economic and environmen
tal issue is essential if the fall
chinook salmon run is to be
saved.
I urge the BPA and the Corps
to enter into the spirit and the
practice of cooperative conser
vation with the region's tribes,
sport and commercial fishing
and environmental groups to
spill the water necessary to make
this happen.
The BPA and Corps are in-
developments
well the tribes have adapted to
NAHASDA in its first five years
of existence.
The Northwest
Office randomly se
lected Warm Springs
Housing to see how
well the tribe had ad
justed to the revised HUD hous
ing program. The tribes' five
year housing plan and one-year
housing plan are the govern
ment standard used in this evalu
ation process.
The review of Warm Springs
Housing operations identified
deficiencies pertaining to policy
or operations that didn't fall
within federal guidelines. This
report had accompanying rec
ommendations from the North
west Office to remedy the com
pliance issues.
Recognizing that Warm
Darlene Trimble, Ollie Smith,
Melinda Poitra and Verlecn
Kalama, for being there for me
with support and understanding.
I also want to thank my fam
ily for encouragement, to take
care of our mom Geraldine
Blodgett memorial and
stonesetting. I left everything to
my brother to handle, so Boo
Boo done a great tribute to our
mother. Thanks to Millie
Colwash and family for cook
ing. The drummers who came
that are always ever willing when
called. May God bless each one.
Family of Elliot Switzler,
Laura, Norma, Bill, Gerri,
Lucille, Sallie, Randy,
Lawrence, Maria, William
and Alice.
Stolen items
The following items were sto
len out of a black briefcase in
the trunk of my car:
An iPaq 6350 Pocket PC
with Memory Expansion Sleeve
and 256MB CF Card. This unit
has stopped functioning by now
and will not power up until I
enter a code. Both the Pocket
PC and Sleeve are engraved
with my name and phone num
ber. A Vivitar Digital Camera w
256MB SD Card. This unit will
not function without the cable
or software that came in the box.
An RCA Lyra MP3 Player
Model RD 1071 (white). This
unit was filled with songs and
cannot be reprogrammed with
out the software and cable that
came with it.
A Uniden Handheld Radio .
Frequency Scanner with re
chargeable batteries. This unit
may have my name and phone
'number; engraved, in the casing.
These items vanished when
my car was used without per
mission, being taken from Fos
ter Street in West Hills on the
night of July 12. Other items
are missing, but the items men
tioned above have sentimental
value, or are irreplaceable
(memory cards hold data which
needed at Bonneville Power and the
Ron Suppah
sisting not to spill the water nec
essary to allow the young salmon
to pass Bonneville, The Dalles
at the Warm
Springs Housing was slow to ad
just to the flexibility of
NAHASDA, the Housing Board
of Commissioners determined
that filling the assistant housing
director position was vital and
necessary.
Exercising authority granted
by Chapter 400, the Housing
board chose to hire the appli
cant with technical expertise
necessary to benefit Warm
Springs Housing.
The board had anticipated
some resistance to hiring a non
Indian over tribal applicants, but
had seen this hiring practice
many times throughout all of
our tribal enterprises, even with
the affirmative action policy.
The board also had antici
pated receiving some support,
but instead met with resistance,
skepticism and micro-manage
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I would like returned).
Please return the items, no
questions asked. The police have
been furnished with the details
of their disappearance and digi
tal photos of the items that were
stolen. If you have information
regarding any of the items listed
above, please contact the Warm
Springs Police Department.
There is a reward for the return
of the items stolen, payable to
anybody who was not involved
in the theft. Thanks and God
bless, Frederick Duran Bobb,
PO Box 653, Warm Springs,
97761, phone (541) 980-1913.
Works crew
I would like to take this time
to thank the Community Works
Crew consisting of Ada Billey,
Michelle Thompson, Frances
Smtih and Marian Miller. They
did an exceptional mowing and
grooming of my parents Lyle
and Arlita Rhoan and Marilyn
Wagner's yards.
Thanks to the Community
Works Program, which is avail
able for assistance to any senior
living in the Warm Springs com
munity. I just want to acknowl
edge to the crew I appreciate
your hard work, early hours and
commitment that you posses to
service and meeting the needs
in this area of my family.
Thank you and keep up the
good works. As always, William
McBride Rhoan.
Hit and run
My vehicle was hit during the
Pi-Ume-Sha Powwow. The per
son who did this should have told
me or left a note. Sure is shame
ful because all I was doing was
delivering some cherries to an
elder' who had requested some
from the Yakama reservation.
I told my softball team that
was the last time I will be play
ing in tourney when someone
cannot confess to what they did
wrong. So whoever drives a
white vehicle and did this, thank
you very much. Raemelle E.
Kiona.
and the Snake River Dams. The
power generated by running this
water through the turbines may,
or may not result in a few cents
savings on the average house
hold electric bill.
The consequences for the
fish, the tribal and the commer
cial and sport fishing businesses
and the economies of the small
towns they support are devas
tating. If the BPA and the Corps do
not spill the water at the dams,
then over half a million young
salmon will die in the turbines
of the dams on the Snake and
Columbia rivers. We will feel the
Springs Housing Department
ment - all of which served no
purpose but to delay by at least
a year the following projects
new housing construction, trailer
court clean-up, bullet-proof
lighting for West Hills, and play
ground improvement.
The assistant housing direc
tor Jane Cornell's educational
background and grant-writing
skills would have provided a
benefit to Warm Springs Hous
ing, if the work environment
had been more positive.
Jane immediately re-established
a positive working rela
tionship with our funding agency,
she began to familiarize herself
with NAHASDA and the
supplemental funding programs,
and reviewed the monitoring
report issues and associated
timelines. Locally, she sought out
additional funding for weather-
Please write
Family and friends, please
write to me at the following ad
dress: FCI Dublin, Lillian
Thanks from rodeo queen
I would like to thank my
grandma Marita Johnson and
famiily, my cousin Clint
Bruiscdhead, Cheryl Tom, my
mom Arlene and dad Albert
Bryant, and uncle Wilson for
supporting me in running for
the 2004 Pi-Ume-Sha Rodeo
Queen try-outs.
I would also like to thank
Brigette Whipple for all the
nice gifts.
Thanks to all the people
who bought tickets from me,
and congratulations to the
winners:
Alfred Smith Jr., one-night
stay at Kah-Nee-Ta. Wauseka
Brown Jr., cooler filled with
soda. Adeline Miller, beaded
head stall. Sharlyne Garcia,
beaded spur straps. Francis
Allen, sewing gift certificate.
Cheryl Parrish, beaded hat
band. Larry Scott, star quilt.
Apologies
I would like to say, some people or most people make mis
takes, some make bigger mistakes. I'm sorry to my wife, Nancy,
Evan, Great One, Tom and Cecil. It's hard to accepf all that I
did. So sorry to you all. I can't but I wish I could take it all
back. Just to Nancy, I hope you can see a change in me. I'm
trying real hard to change. Just a chance is all I ask. Ted.
I was charged with assault. This was for fighting with Ambrose
George. I'm sorry for your pain and injuries, Ambrose. I'm
sorry for Kirby's door. For the last year and a half I never got
in trouble. Jovon Gilbert.
I was arrested for DUII by Officer Whittenberg. At
the tribal jail I blew a .15 bac. This is the first, time I've
ever been charged with a DUII and I'm sorry.' Matthew
S.Vaeth. ,!,iivJ,
Letters to
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sent to Spilyay Tymoo, P.O.
Box 870, Warm Springs,
97761. Or dropped off at
1100 Wasco St. E-mail is
consequences for this short
term decision as soon as the fall
of 2006, 2007 and 2008, when
these fish would normally return
from the ocean.
As many as 40,000 fall
chinook will not be on your
hook or on your dinner plate,
adversely impacting local econo
mies from Alaska to Idaho, with
the small towns depending on
sport and commercial fishing
and Indian tribes being hit the
hardest.
Gov. Kulongoski has seen the
error of this short-sighted fed
eral decision, and has joined the
tribes, sport fishing and environ
ization of senior citizen homes.
Free training was scheduled for
the commissioners and staff;
and it was determined that we
could construct low-income
housing units in burned out
home sites, which would have
sped up the approval process.
All of this stopped once she
resigned her position out of
frustration and a failure to have
a board approved salary adjust
ment materialize. Ironically, a
consultant had to be hired to
complete the tasks that Jane ini
tiated. This expense was just
above the annual salary adjust
ment the had board approved,
the major difference being that
the consultant only worked a
period of six months.
A lot of what occurred was
blamed on the previous Hous
ing Board of Commissioners,
Blackwoif, No. 66820-065;
5701 Eighth St., Camp Parks;
Dublin, CA 94768. Thank you.
Lillian Blackwoif.
Erica Wewa
Earl Squiemphen, two folding
chairs. Elton Greeley, beaded
key chain. Romelle
Speakthunder, Deschutes
Crossing gift certificate. Arlene
Bryant, beaded visor.
Thank you very much,
2004 Pi-Ume-Sha Rodeo
Queen Erica Wewa.
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Corps
mental groups of the region in
a lawsuit to reverse this decision.
I'd like to publicly thank Gov.
Kulongoski for his leadership on
this issue and say that he is on
the right track suggesting that
improved fish passage technol
ogy could greatly improve this
situation in the future. .
The fish we have saved by
our innovative solution at Round
Butte and Pelton dams will be
the same fish saved downstream
at the Columbia River dams,
when the spirit of cooperative
conservation is shared by all the
agencies involved in managing
our fragile salmon resource.
whose only desire was bring
about the same commitment
from Warm Springs Housing
that other tribal housing depart
ments have committed them
selves to: Improved services and
operations. The greatest injustice
was the undermining of the
board authority.
One cannot deny that
NAHASDA works. Other tribes
simply have made it a top pri
ority to seek funding opportu
nities provided through the
Northwest Office of Native
American Programs.
The flexibility of NAHASDA
has allowed some tribes to con
struct 60 homes in a year.
Micromanagement of the
Housing Board only delayed
progress we sought as commis
sioners. By Randy Smith