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Spilyay Tymoo October 26, 2006
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Letters to the Editor
Vote
Kulongoski
return, no questions asked. Or
if you have information regard
ing this bag or any of the con
tents, please call 325-3205 and
leave a message. Thank you.
Joseph Sm ith, aka Irkie.
Our future
On behalf of the Con
federated Tribes of Warm
Springs Get Out to Vote
Committee, I am pleased
to announce that the tribe
has officially endorsed Ted
Kulongoski for Governor
of the State of Oregon.
This is a key testimony
o f the com m unity and
Tribal Council’s support
for our Governor and I
encourage everyone to get
out and vote.
I f anyone has q ues
tions or comments, please
contact any m ember of
the co m m ittee: Ju lie
Quaid, Teeny Miller, Ur-
bana Ross, Lonny Macy,
Louraina Hintsala, Fritz
Miller, Louie Pitt, Margie
Tuckta or myself.
Again, I encourage ev
eryone to get out and vote
and I encourage you to
vote for Ted Kulongoski
for Governor.
Floyd Calica.
Missing bag
To whom it may concern, On
October 7, 2006, after my little
cousin’s funeral at the Agency
Longhouse, my round bag, red
and b lack p laid w ith b lack
handle, came up missing. This
bag contains two hand drums, a
maroon vest with beaded eagle
design on the back and buck
skin around all the edges, a wo
ven bag made with brown twine,
red, white and turqouis stripes
(this bag contains a bell), a pair
of m occasins with beadwork
around the edge of the foot, a
green lanyard w ith a beaded
keychain that has multi-colored
feather design, a red C keychain
and numerous keys.
All contents of the bag have
sentim ental value and are o f
great importance to me. Please
I didn’t want to write this let
ter but someone has to remind
our leaders of their responsibili
ties. I am writing this letter in
regard to the direction that our
tribe is going. I feel that the tribe
has spent a lot of funds on travel
and other items but we have yet
to accomplish something. We
have been losing funds for years
— we are not making good deci
sions for the future. We need to
give our young people a future.
Our leaders need to be respon
sible for the jobs that they are
suppose to be doing.
I am concerned about our
spending of tribal funds. It seems
to me that only the consultants
and attorneys are getting rich.
I am concerned about our
management and Tribal Coun
cil. I can’t understand how they
make decisions. I have to say it
again, “We don’t seem to be get
ting anything accomplished!”
We are h avin g m ore and
more problems and if we con
tinue to go in this direction we
bigger problems in the future.
Our employment rate is getting
higher and higher. 1 know we
have a lot o f tribal members
with no jobs, no housing—noth
ing.
I am requesting that a $1,500
or $2,000 bonus be given to our
tribal members. The tribal mem
bers should make this decision.
I do not want our tribal mem
ber funds going to consultants.
We have spent a lot of funds
on the Gorge Casino and still
after four years we have noth
ing.
I hope the tribal members
are listening to what I am say
ing. I would like to remind ev
eryone that elections are com
ing up in April, and that is not
too far away. U ren L eonard,
enrollment number 1146.
Graduate
Hood to Coast
Congratulations to recent
graduate RaNem Dowty, who
graduated on September 7,
2006, at Yakima, Wash.,
from the Medex NW Physi
cian Assistant Training Pro
gram. Medex is p art o f the
University o f Washing School
o f Medicine. In addition to
her certificate, RaNeva also
obtained herBachelor’s Degree.
RaNeva is a tribal member
and the daughter o f Devi and
Crystal Reo o f Simnasho.
I would like to take this
opportunity to thank every
one for their support of our
Hood to Coast Team.
S p ecial thanks to our
sponsors: Warm Springs For
est P ro d u cts In d u strie s,
W arm Springs Com posite
Products, Kah-Nee-Ta High
D esert Resort and Casino,
Brunoe Logging, Guerin Log
gin g , E arth 2 0, W arm
Springs Market, and Vernon
Squiemphen.
I have always been lucky
in getting the people I do to
run on the team. This year
was no exception. Those run
ners were: Kaipo Akaka, Ray
A nderson, Lex Anguiano,
A n gela A n d erso n , Zena
Bartz, Shawn Harry, Yvette
Leecy, Monica Leonard, Rich
L o hm an, Sean Sohappy,
R ob in Sm ith and Ina
Wainanwit. Special thanks to
Geri Polk for being our other
driver. Everyone did a great
job, as always!
We did run into some
Take care
Pat Miller and family, Hope
you are all doing a little better. I
can understand how painful this
is for you all. Those who bloom
into your heart will never fade
away. Keeping his memory close
to your heart, laughing, chuck
ling and smiling with others or
to yourself will soothe you all,
making the time a hide easier. I
may have missed the services
but my thoughts are among you.
Your friend always, Mae.
The Reservation Runners 2006 Hood to Coast team.
problem s this year that we
haven’t had before and that was
six of our runners got blisters
on the run. That is really an
unusual occurrence. Normally,
there is no more than one or
two. What a record! Also, two
of our runners hurt themselves
during the run. They have both
recovered and are doing well.
In any case, everyone is look
ing forward to next year and has
already started their training (af
ter several weeks of recuperat
ing after the run). You can see
them out there running the hill
at Fire Management or around
“the loop” (from the Commu-
nity Center, up East Tenino,
onto Highway 26 and back
dow n to the C om m unity
Center). They have been a
dedicated bunch of people!
I appreciate their dedica
tion and the whole team ap
preciates everyone’s support
of their endeavors.
We couldn’t do it without
our sp o n so rs and th ey
couldn’t do it w ithout the
support of their families and
friends. Thank you, every
one!
Val Squiem phen, cap
tain, Reservation Runners.
Wishing you a Safe and Happy Halloween
Thank you for writing
to the Spilyay. The next
deadline to submit an item
for publication is Friday,
Nov. 3. Thank you.
Myths and facts about diabetes
Question: Hydrogen Perox
ide is good to use on a sore?
Answer: Hydrogen peroxide
actu ally m ay slow down the
, h e a lin g o f a sore. W hen a
wound starts to heal, it starts
building up layers of new skin
cells.
If you put hydrogen perox-
ide on a wound, it actually strips
off the new developing layer of
skin, making healing time longer.
If you have any questions,
please contact me at 553-2478.
E lsie H ow ard, D iabetes
Nurse Educator, Warm Springs
Diabetes Program.
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Congressmen push to allow hunting of salmon-hungry sea lions
(AP) - Fishery officials have
tried just about everything to
keep California sea lions from
munching on threatened salmon
m igratin g up the C olum bia
River - from yelling at them to
settin g o ff firecrackers. But
nothing has worked.
Last week, two Washington
state congressmen announced
at Bonneville Dam - where the
pesky and portly pinnepeds have
been do in g m o st o f th eir
munching - that they are going
to enlist Congress for help.
Sea lions are protected by
federal law. B ut R epublican
Doc H astings and Dem ocrat
Brian Baird said they will intro
duce a bill that would let offi
cials from the two states, as well
as American Indians, quickly
obtain permits to kill a limited
num ber o f sea lions that are
going after salmon in the Co
lumbia.
“These sea lions have bellied
up to an endangered salmon
buffet and they will be eating
thousands and thousands of fish
right here this spring if we don't
do something about it,” Hastings
said.
They say numerous attempts
to scare the sea lions off, includ
ing yelling at them, shocking
them and exploding fireworks,
have failed.
When the Marine Mammal
Protection Act was passed in
1972, there were about 50,000
California sea lions.
O regon officials say their
num bers have gro w n to
300,000.
The bill proposed by Baird
and Hastings could allow the
states to kill some of the sea li
ons as early as next spring. The
expedited process would be tem
porary — just three years.
Under the proposal, officials
from those states and the Co
lumbia River tribes would be
able to apply for permits from
the Secretary of Commerce to
“lethally”remove up to 10 Cali
fornia sea lions over a 14-day
period that are known to have
“preyed upon salmon” and have
resisted efforts to scare them
off.
The num ber o f sea lions
killed in a single year would not
be allowed to exceed 1 percent
o f what's known as the Poten
tial Biological Removal level, or
80 California sea lions a year in
this case.
M ichael G arrity, associate
director of American Rivers, an
environmental group, objects to
the bill, saying dams and the
degradation of salmon species'
habitat is more to blame for their
decline in numbers.
“It seems like whenever the
federal government's failures to
restore these salmon become
obvious, you often see relatively
minor problems like sea lions
scapegoated,” Garrity said.