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E Coosh E EWA: The way it is Spilydy Tymoo August 3, 2006 Letters to the Editor Casino brings fight between Indians B y Selena Boise Management Successor Have you read about the shots being taken at the Cowlitz casino? It appears that this ca sino will take busi ness away from the Spirit M ountain profits. John Barnett, Chairman of the Cowlitz tribe, said that it is a sad thing because there are Indians fighting Indi ans. Grand Ronde with their economic reasons for opposing this new casino, disputed the “Indians fighting Indians” com ment that was made. Siobhan Taylor, Grand Ronde’s public affairs director, stated that that’s not what it’s about, that it’s di rected against outside interests, out-of-state big money interests. The cable TV commercials were used to oppose this casino project, much like the ones that opposed the Cascade Locks ca sino project. Bankrolled by the Grand Ronde. George Skibine, director of Indian gaming in the Interior Department, said, “there’s a lot of money at stake, I think you will see people try to make ef forts to protect their turf. Whether it’s right or wrong,” though he didn’t have an opin ion on that. It was also stated that these type of Indian versus Indian disputes happen across the country, and what happens is political consultants are the ones who end up chuckling all the way to the bank. But, the Cowlitz do not have a casino at the present time. This would be their first and I would think that for economic reasons, they are interested in taking care of their people. A lot like the Warm Springs want to, or any other tribe for that matter. From my standpoint I believe that taking care of our people means assuring that we have money for health care, for hous ing, for the security of our children’s children, and to take care of our elders. Right now we are depending on this new “Bridge of the Gods” casino to assist us with this plus much more. For now we struggle and we rely on our leaders to do what’s right for us all. When I was in boarding school we used to celebrate Native American week really big with athletic competitions, and everything surrounding the fact that we were Native Americans. The student body was around 500. We would do this together as a group. We were Native Americans, not Sho-Bans, Utes, Navajos — we were all Indians. Pdge 4- Photo courtesy of Norma Miller Ray Jackson (left) and Craig Smith at the Games. Great experience at Games My name is Craig Smith Jr., and I had the opportunity to travel with Team Oregon 15-16 Boys Basketball to the 2006 Native American Indig enous Games in Denver, Colo, July 3-7. This is the first for Oregon to win a medal in basketball in the Indig enous Games and the team came home with the Bronze Medal. Our coach was Ed Case Jr. of Chiloquin. Team players were from Chiloquin/Klamath Falls, and two of us from Warm Springs, Tanner Yallup and I. Protect resource Even though this winter was rainy, the Shitike Creek was at a lower level than normal, who knows why. It could be from global warming, the melting of the glaciers on Mt. Jefferson. Last year while out hunting I observed a lot of mini caterpil lars drifting by in the air cur rents, they were on a long silken web (like a spider web) that is how these caterpillars, unstop pable tree killers, travel from one area to another. The adults have wings. Recendy I drove on Highway 26 towards Portland, the amount of dying and dead trees was alarming. Tree bark beedes appear to be out of control kill ing trees causing the forest to be more of an extreme fire haz ard than before. Anyway we need to take bet ter care of our resources. A botded water project on the rez would benefit tribal members with good clean drinking water and a source of revenue. Glo bal consumption of water is doubling every 20 years. Every year around the world freshwa ter is becoming more and more scarce. It is one of our most valuable resources, even more so than petrol or gold, you can’t drink gold. We are dependent on drinking water the same as we Spilyay Tyrooo CCoyote News, Est. 1976) Publisher Emeritus: Sid Miller Editor: Dave McMechan Management Successor: Selena T. Boise Reporter: Lesiie Mitts Advertising Manager: Sam Howard Media Advisor: Bill Rhoades Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confeder ated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located in the white house at 1100 Wasco Street. A ny w ritten m aterials subm itted to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, W arm Springs, OR 97761. Phone: (541) 553-1644 or 553-3274. FAX No. (541) 553-3539. E-Mail: spilyaytymoo@ wstribes.org. Annual Subscription rates: Within U.S.: $15.00. This was a great experi ence and opportunity to meet other Natives from across Indian Country. I had a lot of fun and would like to thank those who sponsored me: Fish’s Shutde/Tim and Susan Surgeon; Craig Smith Sr.; Buttons and Roosevelt Heath; Heather and Donnie Elder; Robert Macy; Marcia Soliz; M artin Smith and Sayenn and Rick Walker; Warm Springs Forest Prod ucts Industries; Darryl Smith and Anna Hurtado for the uniforms. are on the air to breathe. We must secure and protect our most precious asset, water, therefore it is not a good idea to sell our rivers, like millions of acre feet, volumes to be di verted or pumped off the rez, including underground water because in the long run it would cause tremendous irreparable ecological damage. The Rez could be facing the end of our livelihood which are the endangered and Scared Wild Chinook Salmon etc. Everybody wants all of our resources, jobs, etc. Indian wa ter is under law private property, we must protect it and not re linquish it. Respectfully, Tony Littleleaf. From a parent I, as a parent, have experi enced one of the worst possible fears involving one of my chil dren. On April 29th while I was in Bend, my daughter was babysitting a young child. My cell phone rang; someone on the other end stated that my 13- year-old had been arrested. A feeling of anxiousness over whelmed me. Why was my 13- year-old arrested? She had never been in trouble. She was a re sponsible young adult. I called the dispatch center in Madras to find out that she not only had been arrested, she was uncon scious and being transported to Mountain View Hospital. I immediately returned to Madras, heading towards Moun tain View Hospital. I arrived at the emergency room to find my daughter laying on a gurney, foaming at the mouth, unable to open her eyes, unable to speak to me. After speaking with the officer, I found that she had been given a gift for her 13 th birthday from a family member (not an immedi ate family member), an aunt who has an alcohol problem. This gift was a bottle of tequila. My daugh ter drank half the botde celebrat ing her birthday. As my daughter lay in the hos pital with a blood alcohol level of .35, she was recovering from her night of almost dying in front of my eyes. I later find out that this is not the first time she has tried alcohol. As a parent, you teach your children right from wrong and hope they are able to stand up to peer pressures when it comes to alcohol or any other type of drug. You have faith that they will make the right decisions. But, to receive pressure and encourage ment from an adult that it is oaky to drink is unacceptable. Alcohol is easily accessible to youths and young adults already. Especially when given by an adult, let alone a trusted adult. This again is unacceptable. As a small community, I recommend that parents, friends, family members and the community in general band together and at tack this problem head on. Put ting your head in the sand doesn’t help. Education and re sponsibility start at home. It needs to continue within the community, too. We as a com munity need to step up the edu cation and accountability to all who supply alcohol or any other drug to our children. Shantel Vasquez, Madras. USAF basic training graduate Raylene “Rae R ae” Thomas graduated basic training in the USAF from the Lackland Airforce Base in San Antonio, Texas. Raylene w ill be at Lackland for twelve more weeks for advanced techni cal training. After that, she will be home on leave for 14 days at the end of October. Our family would like to thank Lauraina Hints ala for assisting us with a gas card during our travels. If any body would like to write to Rae or send her any care packages. You can reach her at the following address: AB Thomas Raylene A PFC 3 360 TRS Tight 516 Dorm A8 1320 T rueper S t Unit 367978 Lackland AFB TX 78236- 6388 Raylene would like to thank everyone who sent her cards and letters during her crucial time of need. We are very proud of you Rae Rae. Love, Your mom, Walsey, Dena and Daisy; Kuthla Daisy, Auntie’s Leona, Lena; U n c l e ’s Ty, Luke, Fred; and all your cousins. Letters of apology This is an apology to officer Sherwood for my actions back in February and also to the Warm Springs community where my heart is. So with that I would like to apologize for this incident and for all my wrongs in the past that I have committed. Please forgive me. I was not quite myself during any of these offenses. I love you all. Agustin Pedraza Jr. Sincerely, to the victim on this matter who is also my lover and my baby’s mother, I have to tell you how sorry I am for allowing myself to do something like this to you and our baby, and as for anyone else affected by this incident I apologize. Other than that opinions need not apply elsewhere. Just remember that I love you and our God will always love us. Keep praying. Agustin Pedraza Padilla Jr. To whom it may concern: I would like to apologize to my community for the bad decisions that I have made in the past. I would like to say that I am very sorry for disrespect ing our community, and also my family, my northender homeboys, my daughter Ester Lawrence, Little Bull Suppah, Avery Frank, Sonny Yahtin and Cecil Yahtin. I never realize that at the time I could have hurt all of us. I’m sorry for endangering all of our lives. I hope that my apology is ac cepted. I ride shotgun now, for awhile no more driving for me. Thank you, Marva Lawrence. To the people of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs: I am sorry I broke Tribal law on June 11 by being intoxicated and driving while intoxicated. I apologize to my family for the shame my actions have brought our family name. Further, I apologize to the following: my cousin Jannella T. who was direcdy impacted by my actions. I also want to say that I’m truly sorry and I will make every effort to follow our laws in the future. LaVonne R. Boise. Birthday and other wishes ... On A ugust 9: To my sister L era,you have the m ost p r e ciou s bithday g ift o f all! two wonderful daugh ters. Love y o u sis from Bert, Bud, Talliah, De% Lenso. Happy Birthday Mom! Love, Shiralda and Brittany. Happy 8th Birthday to Shiralda, we love you lots! We are so proud of you. Love Auntie Bert and Uncle Bud, Cousins Talliah, Dez, Lenso. Happy 6th Birthday to B rit tany, we love y o u very much and we are so p ro u d o f y o u . L ove A un tie B ert and U ncle Bud, cousin’s Talliah, De% and Lenso. I th in k it is so cool you a ll sh a re y o u r b ir th d a y ’s on th e e x a c t s a m e d a y ! B e s t w is h e s to a ll a n d hope you have fu n ! Love, B ert, B ud an d the k id s. I » * * » * » » ‘ M m ' S » * w »I*» V » » * ¿ n e is Happy Birthday to my cousin Edee! I was going to put in a pic ture but decided not to...Hopeyou have an awsome day! love your cut^ Bert and all the kids. Happy Birthday to Raymond T sum pti J r., S hielyn C alica, Tatum Tsumpti, Lane Bailey, Jade Tsumpti, D estiny Adams. From , C alica , T sum pti and Bailey Families. Happy Birthday to our father Raymond “ Chip” Tsumpti Jr. Love, your Baby Daughters from the “N o rth E n d ” Jade and Tatum. Happy Birthday to Auntie Shielyn Calica. Love, Your Baby Northender nieces “Simnasho Babies” Jade and Tatum. H ap p y B irth d a y to our cousin L an e B ailey. From yo ur fellow “N orthenders” Jad e and Tatum Happy A nniversary to Chief and Shillie on Aug 14, from your kids and grandkids. • * ? * + * * ? < •m A t e r t Happy Birthday to Jade and H a p p y Tatum “Tater Tot” Tsumpti, our 19th B irthday fam ilies precious beautiful Baby on A ugust 19 Girls from the N orthend o f the to R a y le n e Rtf^— L ove, G randm a w ith lo v e , Wauna, U ncle R usty C alica, from M om , G randpa and G randm a W a l s e y , R aym ond Sr. and B eu la h D en a an d Tsumpti, James, M ary and Lane Daisy, Kuthla Bailey “Schoolie Flat Fam ily”, Daisy, Auntie Floyd and Joseph Calica, Shielyn L e o n a , Jo n , M a rio an d Calica and A dams Family T.J., Ju le s, Sister Em, M ike and Laura, M elanie, M ariah and Kids, Uncle Ty and Venus, Raymond “Ray R ay”. cousins Tarver and Corbin, Happy Birthday to Des U ncle L u k e an d D eb b ie, tiny Shielyn Adams. With A u n tie L e n a a n d J a m e s , lots of love, Grandma cousins N atasha, Jam es Jr., Wauna, Uncle Rusty, and Fred, Uncle Fred and Uncle Chip, Jade, Tatum, P at, co u sin s L ara, D awn, Floyd, Joseph, Grandpa F elicia and Ilani. Raymond and Beulah — _ ^ Tsumpti, James & Alary I wish Vera, Sheralda Bailey Family and finally and Brat a happy birthday. from “Grandma” Shielyn I love them lots, from Tonah Calica and your aunties Scott. Melanie and Mariah and uncle Raymond Adams. Happy Birthday D Happy Birthday to our Pre Grandpa, Leland Thom cious Daughter Destiny Adams. Sr., on August 10. Love With Lots of Love, Your father Selena, Tony, Tonya, Le Troy Adams Jr. (T.J.) and Jackson, George, and De Mother Laura Hunt.
