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Yolanda Yallup with a bag of eels at Willamette Falls.
Business:
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Beverly Arthur said she and
her husband are trying to get
tribal contracts for their land
scaping work, and they already
have a start through their work
at the Small business Center.
Berry Speakthunder deliv
ered the invocation for the lun
cheon. I Ie graduated from the
ONABEN program last year.
"I was raised here in Warm
Springs. My family raised cattle,
and I grew into it and I enjoy
it," he said.
Wanda Berry said she is train
ing to work in the field of non
profit ventures. She and her
husband hope to explore the
establishment of a haven for the
recently rehabilitated, and a com
munity food resource, using their
church's non-profit status.
Buddy Hicks said he would
have started his trucking busi
ness in the 1990s had impor
tant paperwork not disappeared
then. "We should have been in
business since the 90s, but we're
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Youth: studied
many aspects of
natural resources
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"The focus is on quality or
experience, not quantity,"
Brunoe said.
Sheppherd recruited students
from the high school to join the
program. He worked with the
departments that in the past have
helped students with jobs. These
include Higher Education and
Workforce Development. The
school liaisons also helped.
As the program has proven
to be successful, it was decided
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just now getting started," he said.
Redinc Kirk has a full-time
job at Warm Springs Forest
Products Industries, ans she also
has her own business. With the
help of ONABEN, she started
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She graduated from the
ONABEN program in 2000,
and she finished her business
plan in June of this year.
"Upon retirement from my
present position, I'll be able to
have a smooth transition into my
business," she said.
Leo Washington, a 1999
graduate, plans to start a venture
that, if successful, will provide a
service to patrons at the proposed
Columbia Gorge Casino.
"My main objective is to pro
vide transportation for our
guests to and from the Gorge
casino, from the airport or ma
jor hotels and downtown, or
maybe from the fine dining es
tablishment in the downtown
Portland area," he said.
"One thing we don't have is
tribal housing in place for the
employees who are going from
this casino to the new one. So
I've tried to incorporate a couple
big shuttle type buses into my
plan. I would provide transpor
that this would be an annual
program.
This summer the
crewmembers were Yolanda
Yallup, Simeon Kalama, Carina
Miller, Jacoba Smith, Oits
Johnson, and Roland
Morningowl. Their graduation
ceremony at Natural Resources
is this week.
The group is producing a
book documenting the various
projects they participated in, in
cluding trips to Fort Rock,
Willamette Falls, and Mount
Jefferson, to name just a few.
The book will mosdy be pic
tures, said Sheppherd, and will
be given to Tribal Council as a
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Eeling:
best part
of summer
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I lalf of them were with the
Natural Resources Summer
Youth program, and the others
from Workforce Development.
"I think it was marvelous,"
said Ruby Reed, a cook at the
Senior Center. She explained that
the eels arc a traditional food.
They're eaten at traditional
feasts, and on holidays such as
Christmas, New Years and
Thanksgiving. "People here do
tation for our employees back
and forth."
Washington said he has a
business mentor in Portland who
has a fleet of 13 limousines. He
said his mentor has transported
Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson
and former Miss America Katie
Harmon.
"That's what I look forward
to out of this business experi
ence, meeting different people
and learning a different side of
life as well," he said.
Ted Brunoe, director of the
Warm Springs Area Chamber
of Commerce, presented his
office's service as a resource to
businesspeople from the reser
vation. "The chamber is work
ing to be a small entity that
would help fulfill a lot of the
needs that small business people
have in respect to grants and
loans," he said. "If we all work
together, I think we have a bet
ter chance of being successful."
Taylor said he appreciated
hearing of the experiences of
the new businesspeople at the
reunion.
"It is extraordinarily interest
ing to hear you tell your stories
of staring businesses," he said.
"I have an appreciation for that.
way to show what the crew has
been doing this summer.
Variety of experience
Over the summer, a profes
sional staff member from each
department at Natural Re
sources provided the
crewmembers with a project,
telling them what needed to be
done, and demonstrating how
to carry out the assignment.
The students took one week
to participate in hydrology,
where they learned to how to
use equipment to measure wa
ter quality in stream.
Another week, the crew cov
ered fish biology. The students
put on wetsuits and used snor
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love eels," she said.
The tribes have caught eels,
or lamprey, at Willamette I 'alls
from time immemorial. The
Summer Youth trip this year,
though, was rare.
"I've heard some people say
this was the first time they can
remember this happening," said
Joseph Sheppherd, tribal archae
ologist who conducted the Natu
ral Resources Summer Youth
program.
Older adults went to
Willamette Falls with the youth
workers, to show them how the
eeling is done. The adults who
made the trip included Stanley
"Tracks" Simtustus Sr. and
I started a business two years
ago, not entirely from scratch.
I'm very impressed by your en
treprcneurship and your creativ
ity in going after a livelihood for
yourself. That is the future of
economic development in Indian
country."
Timcche is a member of the
Hopi Tribe in northeastern Ari
zona, about six hours from her
workplace in Tucson.
"We've been researching why
some tribes are more success
ful in economic and business
development than others," she
said. "I want to commend all of
you for your stamina and for
sticking with it. It's not easy to
start a business on a reservation.
I run into a lot of people who
give up, but you persevered."
In addition to the luncheon,
Taylor, Timeche and Hampson
were involved in round-table
discussion with business owners
at Warm Springs Power Enter
prise. They toured several small
businesses whose proprietors
graduated from the ONABEN
program. They traveled to the
Peaceful Spirit Retreat site,
owned by Lucinda Green, where
they were treated to a traditional
salmon dinner.
kels to get in the water and ob
serve fish habitats. The enforce
ment department put them on
a tribal patrol boat to check for
permits. When the crew studied
wildlife, they went to the Mut
ton Mountains, where they
tracked big horn sheep with a
radio telemetry device.
In forestry, they observed all
stages of production of wood
on the reservation and docu
mented forest health.
"I liked forestry the most,
because I learned about log
ging," Yallup said.
Working with the Range and
Ag Department, the crew
learned to identify noxious
Ister Poitra of tribal Fish and
Wildlife; hydrologist Ryan Smith
and technicians Roland Kalama
and Cy Jim; fish biologist Mike
Gauvin; and staff of the Senior
Department.
South workers Yolanda
Yallup and Simeon Kalama
agreed that the eeling trip was
the best part of the summer
program. It was a way to cool
off in the summer heat, and it
was fun, they said.
The trip was documented
with dozens of photographs,
that will become part of a book
to be presented to Tribal Coun
cil, documenting the Natural
Resources Summer Youth Pro
Languages:
goal to return
to schools
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"When I came on board
six years ago, we didn't even
have a computer, but now
they do language lessons and
curriculum themselves,"
Switzler said.
A total of 21 people at
tended the seminar, including
consultants, staff from the
Culture and Heritage Depart
ment, and elders, some in
their 90s.
"The language teachers
were in the public schools at
one time," said Switzler. But
because of the need to fo
cus on the No Child Left
Behind curriculum standards,
she said, the school district dis
continued the traditional lan
guage program.
In his Warm Springs his
tory class at Madras High
School, teacher Matt Henry
has used teachers from the
.Culture and Heritage lan
guage program.
"One time students actu
ally petitioned the schools to
weeds on the reservation and
the Ceded Lands. They observed
how fire fighters respond to wild
fires and how mitigation is re
quired when the fire is out. For
this, they worked at Fire Man
agement. Working with air quality, the
students sampled the impact of
contamination in the air from
stubble burning. In Cultural Re
sources, they learned the history
of Indian trade over Mount
Jefferson into the Willamette
Valley.
"They took us on old trails
that were used long time ago,"
Yallup said.
Oral history was another sub
System
gram, said Sheppherd.
In all, (he students caught
1,200 eels, which was the maxi
mum number allowed for the
12 person crew.
You wear gloves to catch
them, because they're slippery,
said Simeon Kalama. You usu
ally find them under rocks, he
said. "If you find one you usu
ally find a lot," he said.
Kalama said next summer he
would like to work in hydrology.
Yallup said she became inter
ested in forestry. They agreed
that the Natural Resources Sum
mer Youth program was a fun
and learning experience.
have languages in the schools
(after they were removed
three years ago)," Switzler
said.
"But we didn't have the
resources. Teachers are flu
ent in the languages, but the
school district wants to see
curriculum, and that's where
we fell short."
Switzler said I lenry and
Talman are strong advocates
of bringing the Native lan
guages to Madras High
School.
She said she organized the
recent three-day retreat sim
ply to give language teachers
in her department instruction
and training that they would
normally only get at seminars
in faraway places.
"Our teachers go all year
(teaching), and we don't have
the resources to send them
on retreats, so it was more
cost effective to bring people
here," she said.
The languages of the
Confederated Tribes are
Kiksht (Wasco), Ichiskin
(Warm Springs), and Numu
(Paiute).
ject the group became familiar
with. The students listened to
tribal elders tell stories, such as
the stories of Sasquash and stick
Indians. "During Oral History
Week, we learned about tradi
tions, and the names of the
roots," said Kalama.
The Language Department
took part in the students learn
ing, and taught them weekly lan
guage lessons of all three tribal
languages. The crew went to lan
guage class every Monday.
They tried everything for
making arrowheads to visiting
the hydroelectric dams. "We did
something different almost ev
ery day," Yallup said.
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