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E Coosb EEWA: The way it is fam ily is best B y Selena B oise Management Successor Page A Spilyay Tymoo August 2, 2007 Letters to the Editor Adoption Boy, are we in trouble. Why? When have we adopted all or none? M aybe we should not vpte. This is not fair to our Indian eligible children w ith blood quantum . I f we do n ’t have blood quantum, Why? The choices we m ake are ours. The choices we make, m ake our offspring eligible, right? N ow resid en cy does not count. I guess it’s all right for us to adopt, and the choice they make to not be a. resident and benefit themselves or whom ever, without consideration for our tribes, culture, traditions, everything we stand for. Our children with blood quantum should be automatically in. But no, Vital Stat turns us away or charges us 75 cents per page for enrollment papers. This is rea son for us as a tribe to reinstate an enrollment committee, o f us, elder tribal people of our tribe. Please, think people is this right for our eligible people. Respectfully, When your loved one is in the hospital with an uncertainty as to whether they may make it or not, you feel helpless, scared and lost in uncertainty yourself. Who is it that you. turn to? Most likely your close family who are right there with you, probably feeling the same fear you are feeling. Well, I am happy with the fact that my brothers were there with me during this time because it gave my dad a sense o f to g eth ern ess in his last, few months, to see the family come together. After losing my mom he was lonely and I know she would have been there by his side had she been here. But we did all we could to make up for her absence. : After , doing everything we could for him in his last few months it seems we brought back that togetherness, which we should have held onto for years. It is my hope that families could come together and be a family before its too late. l if e takes us Eliza Brown-Jim. in all directions but make time for gathering of family. i learned a lot from my dad, and I hope to carry on that knowledge to my children. Most I love our Native peoples, important thing I learned was esp ecially our C onfederated that nothing is ever just given Tribes o f this great Nation of to you. You earn everything you Warm Springs, Oregon. own by working for it. My dad I love you for always being worked many years for every there for me in the good times thing he had, home, transporta and not so good tim es... gotta tion, food on the table. He was keep the good in it ... init? a provider for his children, which This letter is long over due. I is so m eth in g yo u do n ’t see love, yo u and th^nk yoji all for much of anymore. .helping me th ro u gh , m y son I hope to see my children be' R yan C lem ent E ag len e arc s providers for their children and death... words can’t express my work for everything they own, gratitude. because there is very little pride Special thanks to my family, in having these things given to M arie and Jo dy Calica, Alvis you. He w as proud to hear Smith Sr., Kanim Smith family, about his grandchildren that Alvis Jr., and Sissy fam ily Aus worked during their summer tin Sr., and Lois and family, Leta months because they are learn family, Vernon “Besta” family, ing how to work, and to man K enn edy fam ily and E dna, age a budget for themselves. M ona “B u rn ey” and B ill But, this year has been hard Cochran family, Joseph Smith, because my mom became ill in L illia n M oses fam ily, February and it seems we spent M ichelle M oses family, Cece a lot o f time at the hospital since and Rick Schimmel family, Andy then. I can find happiness,in all and L e ttie Staco n a fam ily, this by the fact that they are to Kaniih Jr. family, Alvis III and gether again. They spent over Vivian family, Lucy Scott-Smith h alf their lives together and family, Sharon Jackson D ick would have been Veiy lonely family, N ettie K unki family;; when separated. They took care Lucy I’m sorry for not remem o f me and cared for me for bering' you at Ryan’s memorial ‘more than 40 years and I ap stone setting... I was still smart preciated all of it right to the in g and not re ally th in k in g end. straight... > I hope that everyone appre- It’s hard burying one’s (chil ciateS'their parents because one dren, .. To all my skin bros and day they Will be gone and you sisters especially Chaz Mitchell, can’t go back and say the things Jo d e G oudy, S acred H eart you wanted to say to them. Suppah, C arlos C alica, and Councilwoman Bernice; Mitchell My gratitude Spilyay Tymoo CCoyote News, Est. 1976) Publisher Emeritus: Sid M iller Editor: Dave McMechan Management Successor: Selena T. Boise Reporter: Leslie Mitts Advertising Manager: Sam Howard Media Advisor: Bill Rhoades Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confeder ated Tribes o f Warm Springs. Our offices are located in the white house at 1100 Wasco Street. Any w ritten m aterials subm itted to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761. Phone: (541) 553-1644 or 553-3274. FAX No. (541) 553-3539. E-Mail: spilyay@ wstribes.org. Annual Subscription rates: W ithin U.S.: $15.00. fam ily... Wolfman and Fefrel Suppah, Hilda Culpus, Franklin Suppah family, Bullneck family, M arsha Sm ith fam ily, atw ai D elia W alsey fam ily, B ird , Daffy, D ot, M arita, Shauna, Konga, Myra, Sandy, M uff Ike, Viola Kalama, Kerk and Lola Sohappy family, Adeline. Miller fam ily, E vans Spino fam ily, Satch and Butch Miller family, Mary Ann Meanus family, Mona Baez family, Franklin Suppah and family, and Ronnie Suppah and family, and Tribal Council. Thank you all for helping me through life, especially our elders and children. Love to you all. .•. To all those I can’t remem ber right now, neigth you wee, nee me poo, Yakima and Spring ers, I love you-.. We are all like family like it or riot. I 'Syyy' Bobby Eagleheart. Great job! Victoria Katchia, Lex Anguiano, LaRonn Katchia C o n g ratu latio n s to V icto ria for your very first 4.0. Great job Tpya! Also congrats to Lex for, your 3.40, and LaRonn for your 3.60 gpa’s at Ma d ras H igh School this 2006-07 school year. You guys did aw esom e in school and also accom plished making it to dis tric ts fo r T ra c k ,' and keepign up those ¡grades. You should each be proud as we are very proud of you and hope to see you continue those efforts next year. Saphronia and Sky Katchia. Recovery Family, friends and foe: I am writing to the commu nity to announce my graduation from the Puyallup Tribal Treats ment Center in Tacoma, Wash ington on July 19, 2007. ; I’ve started learning about my addiction and my poor deci sion-making. I am taking this step so that everyone at borne knows that I do not want alco hol or drags in my life anymore. I would also like to tell each and every one of you that I’ve hurt during m y active addiction that I am very sorry for my outrageous and poor behavior. Please forgive me. You know who you are. I am especially asking for my children’s forgiveness. I am so; so' sorry for not being there for you the past eight years. I know you need me. Mostly I would like to for give myself. I’m writing to let you know there is hope if you want to quit the insanity and sickness you are living in. This disease only wants one thing: death. If you w ould like to feel good about who you are and want to enjoy watching your children and their children grow up, then please realize this dis ease can be arrested. There is hope, if you are still alive and want to live. I plan on finishing my last year of college and then return ing to Warm Springs. I am also working with CPS on getting my 12-year-old girl back into my custody and my life. I was blessed with a new beau tiful grandson, Keon Alvarez, on July 22,2007 at 9:03 p.m to my oldest child M artha Alvarez. M y youngest son, Jose Alvarez Jr., grad u ated from M adras High School as well.- There is life after you quit using—just waiting for,us. I am looking forward to liv ing clean and sober and enjoy ing all that life has to offer. If I can quit, so can you. You are worth it— all o f you. Much lové in recovery, Lois Estimo. ch ief’s child. This same child was denied a plea from his fam ily for him to attend his pater nal grandmother’s funeral. We the traditional persons believe that a child will always be look ing for her because he did not witness her funeral. The culture, shock this child has had to en dure is u n b eliev ab le i f n ot downright cruel. This child al though very young would drum Washat services as well as par ticipate in the waskliekt and the Indian m edicine services. It worries me to think what it will take to bring this child’s mine back to w hat he was forced from. I have always thought a parent pretty clever to accuse anyone of child molesting when their own lives are not going their way. I have noticed in a lot of relationships that these sort of accusations are too common. What will it take to bring this child home to the grandparents who have been a positive role model for him? Neda Wesley. Photographs Dear family and friends, I am writing you this letter to wish you all a good sum m er... Drink lots o f water. Yeah, but anyway, I was just wondering the possibilities of any o f you having photographs o f m y dad, my mom or even of my sister Felicia? I sure would appreciate copies, as I have lost mine several years ago during the “LeClairé fire.” . jS Taféti vAïdcPlike ’ô f ;P.S. 1 give our God in heàyen all o f the glory for my freedom from ad d ictio n . G od b less Warm Springs. Please keep me in your prayers. currents ones o f fatiuly arid friends as I am incarcerated over here in Hillsboro, Ore., until September sometime. I just know it should be before my 40* birthday on Sept. 21. Anyway, my goal now is to get myself spiritually right with A child bom and raised on our Creator, so ’that this way I the Indian reservation here is cari show the probation office suddenly removed from a fam that I can be totally responsible ily who dearly loved him. There foÿ myself, shoot, I can everi get is' somethirig drastically wrong a job riow because I am totally with this picture. Do we have getting really fed up with this in untrained persons working in n-out of ja il... some o f our departments? It ■Yes, I know there are going appears that way. The .child is- tq.be some pretty stressful situ the victim in this particular inci ations and or obstacles that will dent; It is cruel to uproot our occur, but with a little help and children and place them off the encouragement from my alco rez arid into the greedy arms 6 f hol sponsor and family, then I non-Indians. The same family can win this battle with pay al has had multiple tragedies in the coholic addiction. family, persons gone now who But anyway, I would also like had à positive impact on their to take this time to apologize to c h ild ’s life . A t the first my uncle. . Late July last year I grandmother’s funeral the child went to your home with alco was allowed to attend the funeral hol, I even opened up a bottle with strict rules. The child looked o f 2 1 1 ,1 was pretty stupid and so adorable dressed in full In quite drunk to disrespect your dian buckskin regalia fit to be a home like that. Our children Happy birthday and other wishes... Happy birthday to my Atugust birthday buddies: My brother Jesse Reese on the 3rd, Angie (Selam) Smith on the 4th, Barbie “Lynn’’ Tanewasha on the 6th, my real birthday buddy, Ron Palmer on the 7tb, Monica Leonard on the 8th and Marty “Moose" Tanewasha on the 9th. To another yea r on our belts! Rove y a guys, Saphronia Roslyn Katchia. ■ Happy 9th birthday, Denzel James Bailey. You brought joy to my life! You are very special. I love and miss you very much. Love, (mom) Jamie and Hans Schmitt, Johnny S., Joey S. From Lapush. McKinley, fo r riding irttpe Pi-Ume- Sha Paradé: T love and miss you very much. Lave, mom Jamie and Hans Schmitt, Johnny S., Joey S. From Lapush. I would like to wish the Oregon Natives luck when they go to Phoenix, Ariz. Good luck Whitley Latoya I would lik e to congratu and to the coaches, also Mr. late m y son Kevin R uiz for Taw James, keep it up, you r id in g in the W ild H o rse are a very good role model R ace durin g Pi-U m e-Sha. I and the Oregon Natives are lo v e a n d m is s y o u v e ry very lucky to have you ^s a m uch. I am p ro ud o f you. coach. Love and miss you L o ve, m o m , J a m ie , a n d rill. Love, Jamie and Hans H a n s S c h m itt, J o e y S ., Schmitt, Johnny S., Joey S. From Lapush. Johnny S. From Lapush. I would like to say I ’m proud yo u , son C larence Chad I would like to wish two very special people a happy 30* an niversary. You are like my par ents. Thank you for being there when I need you. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sam Sr., I love and miss you! Love, Jam ie and H ans Schmitt, Johnny S., Joey S. From Lapush; . Uncle, I am deeply sorry for that, so sorry! And also to Velma too, I am sorry. I know I have lived heavily in thè past, dwelled on trivia minor things, but I was locked up during the deaths o f m y par ents :and grandma, I have never let them go because they were very much alive when I la^t saw them and that’s how I wanted to keep them in my mind and in my heart. And all the years 1 have let alcohol rule my life* my so-called friends, well no more, I am going to do my best to enter and complete an in-patient alcohol treatment on my terms and not because the courts have ordered me to .., . But anyway, you all take care and be strong in heart, soul and mind.; Much love and respect, Floyd “Pengie” Tewee Jr., bk n:o, 0 7-09 2 51 , 213 5W A dam s M s33, H illsb o ro ,, OR 97123-3374:-.. ’ Friends, family To friends and relatives on the rez, I am Meriting this short letter to tell you that I am doing fine, and trying to get strong again so I can come to visit back home. That is all I want to say for riow. Sally Medina, apt. 17,-240 SE 160* Ave., Portland, OR 97233- 3594. Doing all right To my family and friends, I want you to know I am doing ffiy ¿aarëés, i f anyone would like to 'drop me a le tte r: M ich ael M eanus no. 65571-065* federal détention center, PO box 6000, Sheridan, OR 97378.^; I know there is no excuse for me being here in prison. I would like to apologize to the officers for my actions wheri I go t picked up, and anyone else th at;! have- offended. Alcohol is the\demon that has been messing up?my life for a long time] Well; ! w3[l 'dose for now. Thank you fo| your tim e; W ith respect, M ichael Meanus. With much love To my brother Joe arid fam ily, Bonnie, Ken, Joe, Sunshine and Jermayn Tuckta, I aril Very sorry to hear about ypùr loss of a beautiful, precious daughter, sister, niece. She touched many h earts in so m an y w ays. I couldn’t be there physically, but I w as th e re sp iritu a lly . M y prayers were with you all. With much love arid prayers, Laura Edna Robinson. Congratulations, Ipraii aka ‘Hcppy Feet’’, fo r tak ing First Place at the Jefferson County Fair talent show in the youth division. Lo v e , Mom and D a d , Carlos, Damian, Spray a and Jaihline.We would alsifff^e to take the time to thank allourjam iffdndjnendf^ r being th ere dnd, sho w ingyouf support fo r our son. DJK9, thanks f o r putting the CD together. We hope to see y$p all at the state competition, in August. Sincerely, Jgy and Jose Ramire%