Spilyqy Tyvnoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
July 7, 2005
Paiute Chief Joe Moses was asked by a tae-kwon-do instructor to break a board with
his bare hand: the tae-kwon-do demonstration was an unusual part of this year's Pi-Ume-Sha
celebration. Moses was a good sport about it, and did in fact break the
board.
Twenty-five years ago
Iron the July 1, 1980
tdilion of the Spilyay
A masked robber armed
with a homemade rifle hand
cuffed Bob Mclnrurff to his
car and made off with
$5,000 in one-hundred dollar
bills destined for the Rainbow
Market. Mclnturff, owner of
the Warm Springs Market,
was returning from the bank
Addie Estimo is an excep
tional summer youth worker.
She is the receptionist at the
Indian Health Services, and
works under Veronica Bae
and Mare I la Sam. Addie
t spends a majority of her time
Working at the switchboard.
Her job includes answering
the phone calls at the clinic and
transfering them to the differ
ent departments. One of her
main responsibilities is to write
down the calls and which de
partment they go to, something
that is not usually done in ev
ery workplace. Phone logs are
important to IHS, because
they show calls coming in and
going out, and are records of
connection. Addie likes the of
fice setting.
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on the morning of June 25
when the disguised man de
manded the money he was car
rying. Mclnturff pulled into the
parking lot south of the Rain
bow Market when he saw a man
wearing a ski mask crouched
behind a tree. He was wearing a
blue jacket and held what ap
peared to be a sawed-off, home
this hard worker. An inter
esting field of study, she said,
would be literature. Her other
interests include playing ten
nis during the school year,
along with some basketball.
The money she is making
through the Workforce Youth
Program, Addie said, will be
used for school. She is the
daughter of Mark Stevens
and Jackie Estimo.
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made rifle. Mclnturff slowly
began backing his car out of
the parking space. The
masked man then came up
to his car and pointed the
gun at him. The robber
opened the car door, took the
bag of money and
Mclnturff's car keys. After
handcuffing him to the steer
ing wheel the robber fled.
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Northern Paiute families
By CurluDcun Culdvra
Of the Culture and Heritage
Language Department
I jke puzzle pieces being put
into place, more than 200 mem
bers of the bands of the North
ern Paiutes gathered in Burns
for a Numu Apichaadu
Sumunna, a Paiute language gath
ering. The gathering, J une 17-19,
was a chance to celebrate life,
share the language dialects of
Numu Yadoan, the language of
the Northern Paiute, and to con
nect with their nanumu, relatim
that they knew, and many they
didn't know they had! The
theme of the gathering was,
"Preserving our language and
traditions for future genera
tions." "It was thrilling for our el
ders to be able to share the lan
guage, history and legends of
our people," said Patricia Miller,
of the Wadatika Band. She
shared her knowledge of the tra
ditional ways as a Numu
Yadoan Natunedyooe, North
ern Paiute language teacher, with the
Warm Springs Culture and Heri
tage Department.
"A gathering was discussed
many times in the past, and it is
wonderful to see this become a
reality, it is a dream come true
for many!" she said.
Hosting this unique event
was the Wadatika Band of
Burns. The Elders of the
Wadatika have monthly Numu
Apichaadu Sumunna. This gath
ering has been a topic of the
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meeting for many months. The
gathering was at the Rainbow
Park on the Paiute reservation.
Thanks to the many people who
volunteered their help!
Our history can be traced
back 10,000 years, when the
Northern Great Basin was a
series of great lakes. These ar
eas included Silver Lake, Sum
mer Lake, Lake Abort of Or
egon, and Upper and Lower
Alkali Lakes of California.
These areas were surrounded by
thick vegetation and many ani
mals were much larger then they
are these days. There were
horses, bison, elk, deer, antelope,
mastodon and even camel that
roamed the valleys and hillsides.
Our people gathered the fibrous
plants available to create many
useful items needed for daily
use, including all kinds of bas
kets, cordage, and sagebrush
sandals.
As the climate changed and
the lakes began to dry up, our
people began to wander farther
away, following the food sources
from season to season. Our
people lived a productive and
peaceful life.
I lave you heard of the marry
trails of tears of our Native
Indian people throughout Indian
country? The Northern Paiute
went through their own during
the late 1800s. The U.S. govern
ment gave the Northern Paiutes
1,778,560 acres of land in East
ern Oregon to call their own',
which was known as the
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Malheur Reservation. Hostili
ties grew between the Northern
Paiutes and the white-skinned
settlers and ranchers who had a
voracious appetite for the land,
which they wanted for their own
use, mainly for settlement and
livestock grazing.
This created much turmoil
for the Northern Paiutes. The
greed of the newcomers pre
vailed. After complaining to the
President of the United States,
the newcomers were given ac
cess to the northern portion of
the reservation, thus destroying
various natural resources our
people survived on.
Many of our people hid in
hills and caves of the area, while
fighting for the land continued.
By January of 1879, all North
ern Paiutes to be found were
rounded up and forced in the
dead of a cold and miserable
winter to travel over mountains
covered thick with snow. They
were made to cross the numb
ingly frigid great Columbia River
during this awful time.
Out of more than 2,000
Northern Paiutes, only one
third remained. This gathering
was very emotional at times, with
Mo'mooatpu our Elders thank
ing our Paiute, Shoshone and
Bannock pasts. Our people have
gone through tremendous
atrocities but we are a very
strong-willed people and we
have prevailed.
See GATHERING on page 15
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