Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
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College student
overcomes many obstacles
(Spilyay summer youth
worker Ashley Aguilar contin
ues her article about her first
semester at Haskell Indian
College in Kansas.)
I called John from a bed
in the hospital and told him
that I had to get my appen
dix taken out and that sur
gery was going to be that day.
He walked over from our
apartment and waited for me
to get out of surgery. VChen
I woke up the doctors told
me that I would have had a
' 'scar the size of a peri lid, but
' since I was pregnant it was
the length of my finger.
The doctors were worried
about doing surgery because
they didn't want to harm the
baby. It took me two days to
recover. I called the clinic and
they escorted me and John
home, because I was to weak
to walk.
I did the standard proce
dure for any college student
in an emergency situation. I
called all my professors from
the hospital and told them my
situation.
I called the counselor's
office to get a medical excuse,
and to my surprise the presi
dent of Haskell came to my
bedside, along with a coun
selor and Barbara
Cunningham. It is not their
duty to come in, but I'm glad
they came. It showed how
much they cared for their stu
dents. My professors excused
me from the classes and gave
me extra time to make up the
assignments. If you call and
let your professors know
where you are and your situ
ation they can be lenient. Pro
fessors like everybody else
don't like to be left in the
dark.
October wasn't that bad.
I went to school everyday
and did rny work. John and I
paid our $560 rent. By this
time we were not making
enough money to buy food,
pay our bills and the rent.
Sure John was working but
minimum wage isn't enough.
Towards the end of the
month we had no food in our
cupboards. The only food I
had was from WIG We were
hungry for a day or so, but
somebody told us about these
donation spots where they
give food to people on low-income.
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I would have to say that
November was my most mel
low month of the semester.
All my professors were giv
ing out less homework. I did,
however, run into a rough
path with Ms. Moore, my En
glish professor.
I came in late for class be
cause I was in the library fin
ishing up the paper she as
signed. When I tried to turn
it in, she ripped it in half and
threw it in the garbage. She
wouldn't accept it because it
was late. I was upset for a
while but then I realized that
this is college not high school.
When the professor sets a
time, you mind it.
When Thanksgiving came,
we invited Joe and Melinda
to come over and eat dinner
with us. Then our list grew
and we invited Arthur, Cyrille
and a few others. It was a
hard day. I had gotten up at
six in the morning to start
cooking and didn't finish till
around seven-thirty in the
evening. I constantly had to
call my mom because I never
cooked Thanksgiving alone
before. While I was cooking
my shirt was getting a little
tight and ridding up my stom
ach because my belly was get
ting bigger and I burnt my
stomach on the stove.
A couple weeks after
Thanksgivings were finals. I
spent hours in the library
studying and writing final
papers.
Worth the challenge
Being so young I thought
I could handle all situations,
but the world threw obstacles
in my way. I wasn't prepared
for half the stuff I had to
deal with.
School is fun. I met inter
esting people, learned new
things, made good friend,
and most of all I survived
every challenge that came my
way.
When you go to school it's
not only about school, it
about your life. The impor
tant thing is to stay away from
drinking and doing drugs. I've
seen many students take that
path, and most ended up quit
ting school or failing their
classes.
It's a challenge going to
school but its worth it. Ev
erything that was thrown in
my way made me stronger.
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State recognizes
The Oregon legislature re
cently acknowledged the signifi
cance of the 1855 Treaty of the
Middle Tribes of Oregon, Sen
ate Joint Resolution 12 of the
2005 regular session acknowl
edges the force of the treaty in
preserving the tribal off-reservation
rights. The resolution can
be seen as a repudiation by the
state of the infamous "treaty of
1865."
The resolution reads as fol
lows: Whereas in June 1855, Joel
Palmer, Superintendent of Indian
Affairs for the Oregon Territory, and
leaders of the Wasco and Warm
Springs Tribes negotiated an agree
ment between sovereign
nations known as the Treaty with
the Tribes of Middle Oregon; and,
Whereas the 1855 treaty con
firmed the tribes' rights to the Warm
Springs Reservation and rights to fish,
hunt, gather and grays stock on un
occupied lands ceded to the United
States of America, and to fish at
usual and accustomed fishing stations
within and without the ceded area;
and,
Whereas the 1855 treaty ceded
some 10 million acres of the tribes'
land, from the Cascade Falls to the
summit of the Blue Mountains, al
lowing the legal settlement of central
Oregon and the development of the
Cities of Bend, Cascade Locks, Hood
River, John Day, Madras, Prineville,
and The Dalles, among others; and,
Whereas the ceded area includes
the Counties of Hood River, Wasco,
Sherman, Gilliam, Jefferson, Crook,
W heeler and Deschutes and portions
of the Counties of Clackamas,
Marion, Morrow and Grant; and,
Whereas this crucial and historic
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agreement is still in force, preserving
the rights of these original peoples of
Oregon not expressly surrendered, to
live according to the wisdom and
teachings of the Earth, including the
right to fish at usual and accustomed
fishing stations and the right to hunt,
gather and gray stock on unoccu
pied lands; and,
Whereas a sesquicentennial cel
ebration of the Treaty uith the Tribes
of Middle Oregon is most fitting as
the treaty forms the basis for the good
relations now enjoyed between the Con
federated Tribes of the Warm Springs Res
ervation of Oregon and the State of
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Tribes of the Warm Springs Reser
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