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Warm Springs Police Chief Jim Soules prays with Dallas Winishut (left), Charles
Tailfeathers and Sarah Frank in front of the Warm Springs Fire and Safety building as
part of the Warm Springs Victims of Crimes' Healing the Heart Prayer Walk April 7. The
group of about 20 citizens matriculated through a series of buildings on the Warm
Springs campus to pray for safety and protection. The event held to remember Sexual
Abuse Awareness Month this month.
Sister Pauline saying goodbye
By Brian Mortenscn
Spijoy Tymoo
Sister Pauline never thought
she would leave Warm Springs.
But after 16 years, her sis
terhood of Dominican nuns has
called her back to Tacoma,
Wash.
Sister Pauline, who took her
vows 50 years ago this year, met
with parishioners at the Warm
Springs Catholic Church for the
last time March 29 and is mov
ing to Washington State.
"The community decides
what's best for us, and I've been
here for 16 years, and my com
munity wants me to be closer
to the home base of our sisters,"
she said. "So I'm going into a
new ministry, and I'll be close
to my sisters."
After 28 years of working
with Native Alaskans in far west
Alaska, and then in Warm
Springs, Sister Pauline, who will
be 74 in June, will work with the
black and Oriental communities
in Tacoma.
"It's my life that I've chosen,
and I'm excited about the new
ministry" she said. "But I'm very
sad to leave. I do want the people
to know I'm leaving because I
have vows of poverty, celibacy
and obedience, and I belong with
the nuns' community. I have to
go where I'm sent."
She said she liked the wide
open spaces of the Warm
Springs reservation when she
moved here in 1989, having
been in the western Alaskan
bush before that.
"But I'll miss the people most
of all, and I'll miss the ministry,
and I love the things that I did
here," she said. "And, of course,
I'll miss beautiful Central Or
egon." She said in the recent weeks
a teenager approached her, gave
her a hug and asked her this
question: "Don't you like us
anymore?"
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"I said, 'I'm not leaving be
cause I don't like it here any
more,'" she said. "I'm leaving
because that's my life. It was 50
years ago this year that I took
those vows, and they're for my
life."
Pauline first arrived in Warm
Springs on April Fool's Day,
1989, after a sabbatical.
"I was on sabbatical at the
Catholic Theological Union that
year, and my sisters were anx
ious for me to be a little bit
closer to home than western
Alaska," she said. "When they
started looking for someone to
come here, they found out I was
on sabbatical and they called me
in Chicago and asked me to
come."
She said she would only come
if she felt wanted in the Warm
Springs community and only if
she could live "with the people,
and if they gave me my job de
scription." Her job description has been,
she said, "to be a Catholic pres
ence on the reservation." With
a wry smile, she said this has
been "very simple and all-encompassing."
Actually, Sister Pauline has
done everything at the Warm
Springs Catholic Church except
for performing mass and hear
ing confession.
The church includes about 36
regular parishioners, along with
those who come only on special
occasions. A priest comes to
Warm Springs for mass and
confession.
Sister Pauline's work has
been almost everything else in
volving the administration of
the local Catholic body.
"But that's a very small part
of my ministry here," she said.
"A lot of my ministry is jail min
istry, Victims of Crime Services,
hospital ministry, counseling,
marriage counseling, just a vari
ety of things."
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up in spirituality. We
don V have work here,
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Sister Pauline
In fact, she has offered coun
seling to couples who had nei
ther attended the Catholic
church nor planned to get mar
ried there.
Before she moved to Alaska,
Sister Pauline studied on Indian
reservations in Montana and
South Dakota.
"It helped gready because my
; teachers were Native people, and
what they were doing was pre
paring people like me to come
and be with them," she said.
"You can't learn from better
teachers than the Native people
themselves."
And she said she loved at
tending tribal gatherings at the
Agency Longhouse.
Sister Pauline has lived on the
Warm Springs campus through
out her time here, living in a big
white house on Warm Springs
Street before it was condemned,
and then moving to a duplex
next door.
"I've loved living here," she
said. "It's quiet. It's a lovely
neighborhood. It's central.
People can come and go. And
there's a lot of privacy."
Sister Pauline said she was
excited by the possibility of min
istering on a reservation that had
no established Catholic commu
nity. "I come from Ireland, and
my culture and my basic values
from my culture are closer to
those of the Indians than they
are to the white Americans," she
said.
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Spring break in California
an adventure for local youth
By Brian Mortenten
When a group from Warm
Springs, including 13 boys and
girls, traveled to Southern Cali
fornia to ride in the annual Swal-
lows Day Parade in San Juan
inpistnino, it became more man
a trip over Spring Break.
As it was, the six-day trip was
a chance for the high school-age
kids, of whom some had never
been out of Central Oregon, to
see another part of the country
and a different cultural setting.
At the same time, it was a
chance for them to be seen by
people from that same "foreign"
place, and for those people to
accept them, as guests and as
people.
The group caravanned to San
Juan Capistrano with 10 horses,
each of them wild horses from
reservation land the kids trained
under Chris Bullcr's guidance,
with the intent to ride them in
the Swallows Day Parade and
then sell them to local buyers.
Bullcr is the youth pastor at
the United Methodist Church in
Madras and former leader of
the Rockin'4-H horsemanship
club. He said before the trip that
he wanted to give the group a
full California experience, in
cluding time spent on Southern
California's beaches. And al
though he had made arrange
ments with people he had met
or been put in touch with to help
accommodate the group, Buller
said he was still surprised by
what he calls the "outpouring"
of support from people he and
the group met more than 750
miles from Warm Springs.
"We didn't go to Yakama for
a basketball tournament. We
didn't go to Umatilla for a bas
ketball tournament," Bullcr said
"Those are great things, but we
went to a completely outside
event, and we were incredibly
welcomed and taken care of.
"There was an outpouring of,
'what can we do to help next
time,' 'you can come stay at my
place,' that kind of thing. People
care about families. That's a big
lesson."
And it's a lesson not lost on
the adults who helped with the
driving, the supervision, and the
experience.
"If you ask the adults, they
may have been uncomfortable,
but they'd say something hap
pened for these kids," Buller
said. "I think they'd say, Yeah,
this was a pretty unique eye
opening experience for these
kids."
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on the group's parade, the trip
wasn't perfect, but, as Duller
said, it was an opportunity to see
the blessings that such an en
deavor can show.
The first blessing came in the
amount the $600 the group
earned irom a aance at tnc
Jefferson County Fairgrounds
March 4. Then after finding out
that the a group of youths is not
allowed to travel in vans as large
as 15-scatcrs in California, par
ents volunteered the use of their
own vehicles to transport the
group.
"And then a church member
in town donated rental of an
Avis van," Bullcr said. "Six hun
dred bucks to do all diat. This
was supposed to happen."
The convoy left from the
parking lot of the Deschutes
Crossing restaurant in Warm
Springs at 7 a.m. March 16.
While most of the drivers
switched every now and then,
Jason Smith, whose vehicle
towed the trailer full of horses,
drove the entire trip, back and
forth.
The group stayed at the
Casper Wilderness area in Or
ange County Park, where a cor
ral for the horses was in place.
"We prepared the horses, let
them rest from the 'jedag', did
some things in the area, rode in
the parade on Saturday," he said.
With the unusual rain on the
day of the parade, Bullcr said
only about 38,000 people were
in attendance, about half of
normal.
"The parade is right in town,
so that's an interesting experi
ence," he said, "finding where
we had to get out and unload
the trailer and get everything
ready.'
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said the horses were well-be-
haved even in the midst of a
big city parade.
The rain eventually subsided,
but it had interfered with the
group's plans to sell the horses.
"Where I wanted to do the
horse sale, you had to go
through this gully, and then you
had to go up to where this guy's
ranch is," Buller said. "The gully
was full of water, two feet deep."
In the end, the group and the
ranch owner decided to put
some panels up in a wide spot
on the road to the ranch and
sell the horses there.
"Not the best location but
four of them were pretty much
sold that day," Buller said. 'The
next day, we sold the rest. We
didn't get the money we should
have gotten for them, because
people knew we didn't want to
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youths from the club, in
previewing the San
Juan Capistrano pa
rade. bring them back."
The other factor was that
because of the great influx of
available media in Southern
California, prospective buyers
only go to a sale if they find out
about it from someone they
trust, Buller said.
"I had people tell me, next
time, we'll do a barbecue and
horse show on the Friday before
the parade, so people can see
them and buzz about them, and
then we can sell them on Mon
day after the parade," he said.
But even if the sale didn't
work as well as hoped, it gener
ated enough word of mouth
among horse enthusiasts who
were in town for the parade but
didn't hear about the sale.
Bullard said the wild horses
from the reservation have been
sold to dog food makers for
cheap. The fact that they sold
to other buyers in California
provided a lesson to the kids in
his group, who spent their time
training and riding the horses.
"I say you are not dispos
able," he said. "The beauty is in
you, and I believe God, the cre
ator, put it in you."
After the sale, the group went
to Doheny State Beach in Dana
Point, where Glenn Laub, the
fire captain of Los Angeles
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the group.
"The kids were playing in the
ocean, and they had a basket
ball game going right there on
the beach," he said. "That was a
neat experience."
The next day, the group went
back to Doheny State Beach
and then to a beach on exclu
sive Three Arch Bay in South
Laguna.
"It's private. You can't get
there unless you're one of the
homeowners," Bullcr said.'
"Well, I have a friend who's a'
doctor who got us a pass
through the gate. We did a hot
dog roast and everything.' The,
kids were good and tired."
The group, all except for'
Bullcr, went home the next day.'
Buller stayed behind an extra
four days.
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