Spilyqy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
March 17, 2005
Page 3
S-T feeling better following surgery
By Brian Mortenaen
Spihuy Tymoo
Joily Calica had had chest
pain before.
It was nothing, though, he
couldn't work out with a little
aspirin and exercise, he said,
But when he started feel
ing chest pain the morning
of Feb. 28, this was differ
ent. Over the next two days,
Calica, the Secretary-Treasurer
of the Confederated
Tribes, one of the two highest-ranking
administrative
positions in the tribal govern
ment, would be told two of
his arteries were 98 percent
clogged and he would need
double-bypass surgery.
Doctors at St. Charles
Medical Center in Bend suc
cessfully completed the sur
gery March 1.
"I'm glad that they caught
it under these circum
stances," Calica said. "Catch
ing it this early, any damage
to heart tissue was minimal."
While he is still in recov
ery, Calica, 57, said it was
possible he could return to
work for half-days beginning
this week. Anything beyond
that, he said, is up to his doc
tors and his own rate of re
covery over the next few
weeks.
Calica's trouble began the
evening of Sunday, Feb. 27,
when he started feeling chest
pain.
"I went to work Monday
morning, and I had a reoc
currence of chest pains," he
said. "I took a few pain medi
cations and I went back to
work."
lie went to a couple
Monday meetings and found
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he wasn't feeling any better.
He then went to the Warm
Springs Health and Wellness
Center and met with Dr. Tho
mas Creclman.
"I was then sent to Moun
tain View I lospital in Madras for
observation, and everything was
uneventful until Tuesday morn
ing," he said.
I le was supposed to go to
Bend the morning of March 1,
but the chest pains started again,
and he went back to Mountain
View, where irregular heart ac
tivity was found using an elec
trocardiogram (EKG).
Calica ended up making his
trip to Bend that morning any
way, but he was taken straight
to St. Charles Medical Center.
Through an evaluation with a
cardiologist, it was found he
needed surgery.
"It was decided that to do
angioplasty or to bring in metal
stints would not be adequate
procedures," he said.
"It was kind of an eventful
day," Calica said. "You get up in
the morning and drive to Bend.
A cardiac catheter was used to
inject dye into my heart. That's
when they came up with (the
diagnosis). By noon, I headed
into open heart surgery."
He said the operation went
very well, though it was ex
tremely painful.
"I think it was very trying on
the family," he said.
Calica was released from the
hospital Saturday, March 5.
I le said his rate of recovery
was such that he was released
from the hospital sooner than
anyone had originally thought.
Because of his quick
progress in recovery, "the doc
tors were jokingly telling me that
I was a poster boy," he said.
While he may have returned
for half-days, it will take some
time before he returns to his
position on a full-time basis, he
said.
"I'm going to have to work
with the doctors and I'll be moni
toring my own health standards,"
he said.
"Sometimes my brain gets
more ambition than my body
can withstand, and I'll sit down
and kind of crash. The body
can't keep up with what the mind
wants to do."
In the interim, Jeff Sanders,
the tribal compliance officer, has
taken on some of Calica's du
ties. "I have confidence in my
staff being able to handle
things," said Calica.
The Secretary-Treasurer,
along with the Chief Operating
Officer, is one of the two high
est appointed positions witliin the
Warm Springs tribal govern
ment. The Secretary-Treasurer
helps implement actions of the
Warm Springs Tribal Council,
oversees tribal finances and has
charge over seven tribal com
mittees. Calica, 57, has been Secretary-Treasurer
since May of
2004.
The episode, Calica said,
has "put my priorities in or
der, in terms of my health,
and my immediate family, ex
tended family, friends and
co-workers.
"It's hard to separate
those folks from community,
and it's been nice to feel a
sense of community support.
In that sense, it just rein
forces my strength for my
return."
Along with the support of
his family and the Warm
Springs community, Calica
said one of his greatest
strengths has been traditional
spirituality and belief in a
higher power.
"There is a reason this
happened," he said. "And that
higher power will bring some
things to a more powerful
direction."
Calica was thankful for
the support of the Warm
Springs community, not only
to himself, but to his family.
"I guess it really shows
when these kinds of things
do occur. It's a challenge to
family values, spiritual val
ues, family and community
support," he said. "I'm glad
the community came in sup
port of my family. It gives
me a reassurance of confi
dence." Calica admitted that his
position as S-T affords him
some stress, but he said he
has the resource of "good
people to work with" in the
Warm Springs Tribal Coun
cil. "We've got a good direc
tion we can work towards.
"The stress is in trying to
build confidence between the
tribal government and the
people," he said.
Investigators determine
cause of livestock deaths
By Brian Mortenaen
Spilyoy Tymoo
The cause of an apparent
poisoning that killed a herd of
at least 24 catdc near Sidwalter
last month was a plastic tub con
taining the cattle supplement
urea in a molasses base.
Urea, an organic compound
of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and
hydrogen, can convert to am
monia within a cow's system in
excessive amounts. Apparently,
this caused the loss of the cattle
that belonged to Rita and Earl
Squiemphen.
"I've never heard of that
(ammonia poisoning through
ingesting urea)," said Jason
Smith, the tribes' range and ag
riculture manager. "What gets
me is there is supplemental
blocks of urea you actually buy
for cows, but in excess, it can
be deadly."
Dr. Mark McFarland, a vet
erinarian at Cascade East Vet
erinary Clinic in Madras,
reached that conclusion after a
tub containing traces of urea
mixed with molasses had been
found at a spot near Sidwalter
that had been used for dump
ing garbage for years, Smith
said.
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Judge Panner honored with Twanat Award
The Museum at Warm
Springs Twanat Award will be
presented during an honor din
ner in April. The museum is
pleased to announce the Hon
orable Judge Owen Panner as
the recipient of the 2005 Twanat
Award.
In announcing this year's
award, museum development
officer Dora Smith and mu
seum executive director Carol
Leone said that Judge Panner is
a long-time and true friend of
the Confederated Tribes.
He served as tribal attorney
from 1955 to 1980 from his
law office in Bend. As tribal at
torney, said Smith and Leone,
he worked tirelessly to protect
the tribes' treaty rights, and to
support the efforts of the tribes
in reacquiring lost lands, becom
ing economically self-sufficient
and securing a positive future
for unborn generations of tribal
members.
The museum each year rec
ognizes with the Twanat Award
an individual whose efforts on
behalf of Native Americans can
serve as an example to all
Americans. This is the third an
nual Twanat Award.
The first honoree, in 2003,
was the former Oregon Gov.
Vic Atiyeh. The second honoree
was U.S. Senator Daniel K.
Inouye of Hawaii.
The 2005 honor dinner will
Course helps business owners
The Warm Springs Small
Business Development Cen
ter is sponsoring Oregon
Native American Business
Entrepreneurial Network
(ONABEN) classes begin
ning this month.
The first course, You and
Your Business Ideas, is sched
uled from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
on Thursday, March 31.
This course will be fol
lowed by the serirs, Starting
a Sucessful Business, from
5:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays
from April 7 through June 2.
This intensive class helps
avoid the costly mistakes
common in small business,
providing the framework for
successful business start-up by
assisting in planning and writ
ing a bankable business plan.
This invaluable training is
essential whether the indi
vidual is applying for financ
ing or looking for a basic op
erating plan to keep the busi
ness focused and growing.
Tuition is $100, including text
books. Tribal members who
successfully complete this
ONABEN course will be re
imbursed their tuition. Classes
will be held at the Small Busi
ness Development Center,
1134 Paiute St. Call the cen
ter at 553-3592.
be held at the Hilton in Port
land on April 23. The event be
gins at 5:30 for early registra
tion, a reception, silent auction,
live flute music, followed by the
dinner and program at 7 p.m.
The public is welcome and
invitations can be requested at
the Museum at Warm Springs,
(541) 553-3331; or by writing
to the museum at P.O. Box 909,
Warm Springs, OR 97761. E
mail contact is the following:
doraIinnredmond-net.com.
The Museum at Warm
Springs is a non-profit 501(c)(3)
educational institute that has
won national and regional
awards for its exhibits and architecture.
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the Spilyay, call
Sam Howard at
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