Spilyqy Tymoo, Wqrm Springs, Oregon
April 14, 2005
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Local youth working in jobs progam
By Selena Boise
Spilyuy Tymoo
The I loopa Tribal Civilian
Community Corps is now in
Warm Springs doing projects
for the Warm Springs I lous
ing Authority.
This is one of many
projects the group will com
plete before each of their 10
month term in the corps.
There are nine members
of the corps currently work
ing on projects within the
Warm Springs community
until the end of this week.
I'our of them are from Warm
Springs, Kelly Sam, Johanna
James, Tia Bean, and I lector
Gonzalez.
After successful comple
tion of their 10-month stay,
corps members are eligible for
jobs and some are actually re
cruited by numerous employ
ers. There are 30 members of
the Hoopa Tribal Civilian
Community Corps (1 1TCCC),
ages 18-26, who are working
in groups of 10.
The 1 1TCCC was patterned
after the National Civilian
Corps, and it is one of three
in the nation. Though the Na
vajo and Alaska corps only re
cruit within their communi
ties, I loopa recruits nationally
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Hoopa Tribal Civilian Community Corps members working in
Warm Springs.
and carries a diverse group of
Native Americans from the US.
During their first month as
part of the corps, each mem-'
ber receives intense training,
which teaches them all that is
needed to be successful in their
10-month stay in the program.
The training includes commu
nity meetings, personal health
and hygiene, policy and proce
dures, residence rules, team
building, conflict management,
and parenting.
They are also trained in other
areas such as carpentry tool
safety and identification, serv
ing, learning-preparation, action,
reflection, and closure, project
deployment implementation,
working with sponsors and site
supervisors.
The group learned about
Hoopa Tribal Policies such as:
Fit for duty workers compen
sation and sexual harassment,
disaster preparedness and relief;
adult, child and infant; CPR and
first aid; hazardous materials
(HAZMAT) Waste Labors
Union, and Diversity training.
They received training as first
respondcrs to natural disasters
in the following areas: Over the
bank rescue, and swift water
rescue, and basic firefighter
training.
A big plus for the Hoopa
TCCC is that it has a joint part
nership with the Northern Cali
fornia Carpenter's Union.
The trainees receive training
in mathematics, on-site construc
tion, and renovation experience,
and they visit Carpenter's
Training Center in Fairfield,
Calif.
On-the-job training is what
they are experiencing in Warm
Springs this month. Their cur
rent projects here are assisting
in housing renovation and car
pentry. Kach project differs,
giving them a wide range of
training in different fields.
Any organization may re
quest their labor by applying
to the I loopa TCCC. They will
provide the labor, while the or
ganization making the request
is asked to provide them with
shelter and tools to work with.
Upon completion of the
program, each corps member
receives a 54,725 education
award, or scholarship, for use
at any accredited school for
up to two years.
There were four corps
members from the previous
group from Warm Springs that
took advantage of this schol
arship and are currently at
tending college.
For more information
about I loopa Tribal Civilian
Community Corps visit their
website www.hoopa-nsn.gov.
Or write to them at P.O. Box
900, 1 loopa, Calif., 95546; or
call 530-625-5223 ext. 24.
Howlak Tichum
Levi Julius Greene
U'vi Julius Greene passed his wife Dorla of Warm
away April 7, 2005. He was
73. '
Mr. Greene was born De
cember 8, 1931 in Warm
Springs to parents Francis
Greene ami Celia Siacona.
I le was married to Doila
Greene on November 19,
1978 at Reno, Nevada.
Mr. Greene was a lifetime
resilient of Warm Springs. I le
worked as a rancher.
Mr. Greene is survived by
Springs; daughter Marleue
Badroad of Warm Springs;
sisters Agues l.umpmnuih of
Warm Springs, and Laurel
Greene of Pendleton; and
numerous grandchildren, He
was preceded in death by four
children and five brothers.
Dressing ceremonies were
held Sunday, April 10 at the
Agency Longhouse. Burial
was Monday, April 11.
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For Over 1 8 Years
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' "We're very family-oriented.
I'm the youngest of 1 1 children
n my family. We have a huge
extended family."
Like her own family experi
ence, Sister Pauline said the Na-
iive American culture is similar
j
tn that faith and spirituality are
jfiot separate from the rest of
Sfe's experience but fully in
rained within it.
j "Everything is bound up in
Spirituality," she said. "We don't
jiave work here, family there,
jnd spirituality here - it's all
j)lended together. And we're not
wealthy people, and people are
much more important than
things."
i Sister Pauline is rather mat-Jer-of-fact,
almost self-deprecat-
hrn
7 . t
Sister Pauline
ing, in describing why she de
cided to join the clergy.
"It's just like any other call
ing," she said. "I got called by
the spirit to this way of life, and
I avoided it for some time."
She was raised in a lively fam
ily setting, well protected by her
six brothers, while living in
Kildare, Ireland's center of horse
racing. Her father trained race
horses and covered horse rac
ing for the local newspaper. His
writings were also featured in
newspapers in neighboring coun
tries in their coverage of regional
horseracing.
Sister Pauline immigrated to
the United States in 1951, be
fore undergoing preparation to
become a nun and taking her
vows in 1955. She took her fi
nal vows in 1960.
Sister Pauline has spent the
recent weeks packing away 16
years of items and memories,
and her final full day in Warm
Springs is April 18 before she
moves the next day.
"The people have been so
gracious and so good," she said.
"I've been so at-home with
them."
She expresses thanks for wel
coming her as a part of Warm
Springs.
"Goodbye and thank you,"
she said. "Thank you for all the
graciousness, for all the trust
that you've put in me. You've
always welcomed me so gra
ciously, and thanks for all the
fun we had together."
Youth:
featured in
California
hewspaper
"Continued from page 7)
1 While in Southern Califor
nia, Buller met a man who trans
ports horses for a living, driv
ing to Canada twice a month via
the U.S. 97 corridor
5 "He said, 'If you want to
ome here again, I'll get your
horses, and I'll bring them down
here for free, and if they don't
sell, I'll bring them back for
free," Buller said.
On top of that, this man,
loyce Miller, said he would do
nate the use of a diesel to
Buller's group.
"Within a year, I should have
his first truck and trailer come
put of his system into the pro
gram," he said.
J While Buller describes the
sale of the horses as "sloppy,"
he said the trip was ultimately a
uccess and a great continuation
f a ministry that started about
year ago.
Z "What I'm trying to do is
bring back a place where you
can be a healthy, active young
person and get together with
people," he said. "There are
maybe dads and moms and
grandpas and grandmas and
uncles and aunts that come, too,
because they love it, because
they're doing something they
love."
He said that the work with
horses is the meeting point be
tween him and the kids, and now
their families, with whom he
works.
To fully carry on his mission,
Buller said he had to continue
without 4-H.
"The things that Rockin 4
H used to do probably couldn't
be done any more," he said,
"like the heavy cattle industry. I
don't think they let us take those
kinds of risks anymore. I know
we can't do any rodeo events."
But he will continue to work
with the youth and their parents
because through the work with
the horses, he said, families can
be brought together again.
"I had 10 adults take time
off work, drive almost 1,000
miles one way, 2,000 miles in less
than a week to go help kids," he
said. "Very different families
went, and from different parts
of the reservation.
"A lot of times it's 'our fam
ily,' or it's 'our little group,' but it
was very diverse."
As an added bonus, the Or
ange County Register newspaper
published a feature story on sev
eral of the youths from the dub,
in previewing the San Juan
Capistrano parade. The newspa
per flew a reporter and a pho
tographer to Oregon to research
the story and interview Buller.
Buller said the story was posi
tive and provided good exposure
for Warm Springs and youth
from the community.
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