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E Coosh EEWA: The way it is Page 4 Spilyay Tymoo October 8, 20 09 Letters to the Editor my body had been through a lot, so it’s a long process. I said I ’m getting o ut tomorrow. H ead Start and Early H ead I had bad insomnia, and com Start was awarded their continu ing o ff the m eds, I co u ld n ’t ation grant for the project pe sleep. So i did it all by myself, riod through August, 2010. The moving around all night, stand co n tin u a tio n g ra n t is in th e ing, walking etc. T hat next day am ount o f $1,152,922. around 11 a.m., the same physi We also received Stimulus cal therapist came in and said I funding for Quality Im prove was ready to start learning how m ent in the am ount o f $88,510. to w alk again. I g o t u p and T hese dollars are for p ro fes walked out the door. She chased sional development and improv after m e and said, “Wow I ’m ing technology needs. impressed.” I said I told you I ’m T h e W arm S prings H ead getting out today. Well, I got re S tart, E arly H ead S tart an d leased that evening, the 25th. Tribal Day Care programs will W hat I went through was an be hosting training w ith Bea eye opener. N ever take anything Fisher on O ctober 9 at the Inn or anyone for granted because at Cross Keys in Madras from you never know if that person 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. will be here tomorrow, just like The topics will be community my cousin w ho passed away a partn erin g and collaboration week after I got out. with other programs. You are all I did go back to w ork two invited to participate with our weeks after I got out. I couldn’t M acy. staff. stay at hom e. A nd now in a We would like to thank all the c o u p le days it w ill b e tw o members o f the Policy Council: m onths since I’ve been out and A ldo G arcia, B etty G eo rg e, I ’m doing real good. Talya H olliday, M erle K irk , They said my lungs w on’t be Arlita Rhoan, and Nancy Seyler. H ello to all m y fam ily and 100 percent, n ot for another six T h a n k you fo r a g re a t year. friends o f Warm Springs, My N am e is E d n a R ose m o n th s to a year. A lo t o f Thank you to our Tribal Coun cil Liaison, Austin G reene and David, daughter o f Ellison “Al people ask me w hat happens if ley” David and Joni David, for you get it again or can you? I’ve alternate, Wilson Wewa Jr. been told if I do get it again it We look forward to the N ew those w ho don’t know me. O n June 25 I was admitted will be ten times worse and then Year, and welcome all the new families and returning to Head to the intensive care unit at St. I was told I’m immune to it. I just say I have faith and I’m P eters H o sp ital in O lym pia, Start and Early H ead Start. Your involvement is encour Wash. I have caught the swine a fighter. I can’t live my life in fear. I have three kids that I miss. aged and necessary to operate flu. T h ey are u n su re w h ere I B ut being sick changed my life, our program. We are a feder ally funded and it is up to the cau g h t it. Two o th e r fam ily and made me realize that fam tribes to m atch the funds with members were in the hospital at ily and friends can help you pull in-kind or volunteer time, so the same time as me. O ne had through anything, just by their please come and give us a few the same thing as me, and the love and prayers. I would like to take the time other had pneumonia. minutes o f your time. My family asked me if I re to thank you all who sent your I f you are interested in vol unteering, contact the Family m em ber anything. I said no,- I prayers. W ords can ’t ex p lain how Services office for m ore infor d o n ’t rem em ber being in the’ m uch that helped me. I would hospital and I don’t rem ember m ation or call Early Child E du being awake or trying to com like to say thank you to my dad cation at 553-3240. and mom, my sister Missy and Ways to volunteer are: Read municate with my family. I had tubes down my throat brother Larry and all their an or tell a story; play a game; share and had been taking a lo t o f gels, Bro Butch and Angie and a hobby or talent, etc. We are preparing for our O c meds for high blood pressure, their angels. My auntie Cinda and tober activities, such as pum p insulin, blood thinners, whole Roma, and Charlie for coming up here to be with me and their kin patch field trips, Fire P re bunch o f others. I had to be p ut into a medi songs they sang to me. vention M onth and our Annual T h an k you all for helping “T ,il Pumpkins Parade.” Please cal coma with morphine because call or come in if you need fur I was refusing to sleep. W ho with me and my kids and stay knew all the drugs in the world ing by my side. I would like to ther information. say thank you to the Early Child Jodi Orr, H ead Start-Early couldn’t knock me out ha,ha. Well, I woke up on Wednes hood Education staff and kids H ead Start acting administrator. day, July 22 in the ICU and they for raising money to help me told me that I was going to get with expenses and the get-well my tubes out the next day, which cards. T h an k you W arm Springs I did. I was in my own room that Market for keeping up the up This past week, NVision train ers John Paul Giago and I had Friday and the physical therapist date posters on my condition. the honor o f working with youth came up and told me that it will I ’m still your brat child Maria from Warm Springs to produce be a long recovery for me. I had and Bobby. Thank you Boys and a video that highlighted youth to learn how to walk and feed Girls Club, June an d jo s for tak myself all over again, so it will ing in my kids on short notice. concerns in the community. Thank you, Chilkat Inc., for T hrough group discussion, be at least a week before I can your donation to help with ex youth identified challenges they get out. I laughed and said nope, I ’m p e n se s. T h a n k you C h ie f are facing and solutions th at getting o ut tomorrow. She said N elson for your donation. youth programs and leadership I w o u ld like to th a n k Nisquallyjail (where I work) and tribe (my m om ’s tribe) for your big help. They paid for every Spilyay Tym oo thing. My family needed help (Coyote News, Est. 1976) w ith my bills and ro o m s for Publisher Emeritus: Sid Miller people. But I really appreciated everyone for all your help. It Editor: Dave McMechan m eant the w orld to m e and I Management Successor: Selena T. Thompson wish I could find a way to repay Advertising Manager: Sam Howard all o f you. I f I forgot anyone, Media Advisor: Bill Rhoades I ’m sorry. Head Start might consider. This video was premiered at the Youth Conference held at K ah-Nee-Tah last week. The youth who participated did an amazing job and talked about some very serious issues. Please take a m om ent and v iew th e v id e o o n lin e at youtube.com /nvisionit Y o u th p a rtic ip a n ts w ere T a h m a ira E. C lem en ts, P e rry K . K alam a I I I , M erim a M ad e, Ja s o n S m artlo w it, Jillisa S u p p ah and Lillitz Henry. You can learn m ore about NVision and connect online at: www.myspace.com/nvisionl. On Facebook search “N Vision” for fan page. We are also thankful for the opportunity to work with them on such a powerful project! W arm est reg ard s, A ly s s a During illness Youth video 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. Any written materials submitted to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, P.0. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761. Phone: (541)553-2307 or 553-2210. E-Mail: spilyay@wstribes.org. Annual Subscription rates: Within U.S.: $15.00. Thanks to you all and may G od bless you all and your fami lies. W ith love and respect, E d n a, T y r ec e, Sim yan, Kylan; 2720 Ruddell Rd. unit D, Lacey, WA 98503. Tribes’ budget asset n o t a liability. All departm ent supervisors should directly answ er to the C EO . T h e re is no n eed fo r middle m en for him to be able to get the reports he needs or having effective services for the m em bership— rem em ber, the workers actually do the reports and provide the services anyway. The current Council and incom ing Council need to realize that consistency in leadership is the best way to eliminate unstable w ork environments. T he only way our tribe will remain stable is to maintain effective leader ship. N obody needs a PhD to figure that out. O u r m em bership needs to begin looking at the leaders in th e ir d is tric t fo r u p c o m in g Council elections. It is already O ctober and we need to be pre pared as a people to get or main tain effective leadership. Thank you for your time. To the membership: O u r tribe has been seeing hard financial times b ut I see a lack o f financial responsibility from our leadership. O ur Council travels way too m uch— due to this financial crunch I think travel should be very limited and reduced. There are only a selective few o f our Councilmen w ho make them selves available to our m em ber ship. T he rest, m em bership is only im portant w hen they feel like issues or politics are im por tant.- O u r Chiefs and our Chair L e o n a A . Ik e. man and Vice-Chair should be th e only ones au th o rized to travel until our financial state has stabilized. O ur leadership W hen I was young I had a needs to take the lead in reduced spen d in g an d elim ination o f dream o f being on the sea, a wasteful spending, and that in brother to the sun and wind for cludes limiting travel. This in ever drifting free. My pallet would be satisfied, cludes our organization. Travel should be limited to our chief the sea will always share. I would executive officer, chief financial not need a place to be; I could officer, employee certification be anywhere. T he salty air that I w ould requirements and those required by grant regulation. All other breathe would give me energy, travel needs to be considered and it w ould keep my spirit strong for all eternity. wasteful spending. I ’m rid in g high u p o n the In the reduction o f staff for o u r tribal o rganization— our waves. I feel the icy spray, ex leadership needs to rem em ber citem ent running through my p o licy m u st b e a d h e re d to. veins. My speech has gone away. I ’m like the seagull in the sky, Elimination o f positions should n o t be political o r retaliatory the dolphins in the sea, at peace against certain employees. Re with all the elements and they’re tention o f tribal members, em at peace with me. E in o . ployees with seniority, and criti cal services should be the de termining factor. Positions created to duplicate services that already exist should I am sorry I broke tribal law be the first on the chopping block. Plus newly developed on Feb. 3, 2009 by driving un “re-organization” type positions der the influence o f intoxicants, that did n o t follow tribal policy reckless endangering times three, b ut was only utilized politically and failure to maintain a lane. I sh o u ld b e o n th e c h o p p in g apologize to the Lopez family. I am doing w hat I can to better block. I w o u ld also reco m m en d myself and my life and every that the Council consider elimi o n e I h a d w o rried . D a w n nating general managers while R ow lan . keeping central executives, such I am sorry I broke tribal law as the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, and on 8-9-09 by carrying marijuana keeping the people who actually pipes and being drunk in public. do the w ork like the line super I apologize to the public and people. There is no excuse for visors and employees, . As the saying goes “too many my actions. T am ara H en ry. chiefs and n ot enough warriors.” I am sorry I broke tribal law O u r org an izatio n is to o top heavy. The tribes need to keep on the day it happened by being those w ho actually do the w ork under the influence o f alcohol and being a m inor at the same and w ho are productive. I also understand th a t age is time. I ’ll do as good as I can to a determining factor in eliminat not let it happen again. But we’re ing positions— this is w rong and all human and we all commit our unethical. It is n o t fair for our own trespasses. I just happened tribe to eliminate a position be to get caught while committing cause o f somebody’s age. They mine. I apologize to my man G. w orked h ard and if they are I ’m the reason we got caught. productive then they should be I ’m sorry, babe. Love you. A n able to enjoy their continued drea C ook . em ploym ent. R em em ber, se I am sorry I broke tribal law niority should be an employee The sea Apologies by being under the influence o f alcohol while being a minor. I am trying my best n o t to make this sort o f thing happen again, and I will make a better effort to improve myself in every way. I apologize to myself. I try my best to better myself. G erald C ardenas. I am sorry I broke tribal law by disrespecting the tribe o f W arm Springs and the people w ho were involved by giving false identification, resisting ar rest, and assault and battery. I apologize to the residents o f East Spur, where this had taken place, and to my kids and to officer L. I feel very ashamed o f my actions. I will learn from my mistakes to better myself. M arsh all M en d e z . I am sorry I broke tribal law on August 12, 2009 by speed ing on Highway 3, coming back fro m K ah -N ee-T a to W arm Springs. As well as having a blood alcohol content o f .06, and a rifle locked in my trunk, which is considered having a concealed weapon. I apologize to all my relations and to B.D. I learned from my mistake. W il San do. I am sorry I broke tribal law o n May 24, 2009 by driving under the influence o f alcohol, and endangering my friends. I wotild like to apologize to L.T. Jr., and K.St.G., and also for having narcotics and drug para phernalia on my person, as well as an apology to the community as well. I apologize to my grand father and my Ettle sisters. This will n o t happen again and I am making every effort to see to that. C am eron Sm ith-L u cero. I am sorry I broke tribal law on May 5, 2009 by violating Code 305.418.1 made the same mistakes in the past and I think the judge and the prosecutor made me realize the reality o f my mistake (CN times two). I apologize M.P. and D.P. Jr. I will n o t let this happen again. E lle n Jackson -P alm er. I am sorry I broke tribal law on April 26, 2009 by consum ing alcohol in my ow n hom e w ith my child I love so very much. I also apologize to my family, w ho had to hear about this incident. I apologize mainly to my daughter. I am in coun seling and parenting classes to b e tte r m yself. E l i z a b e t h C u lp s. This is an apology out to the W arm Springs Police D ep art ment, and dispatch, for calling them to do a welfare check on family down at the Deschutes bridge. I will make every effort n ot to call them any more. This was all on the night o f Sept. 3, 2009. M arella M . Sam . Memorials 1910 Shaker members, the date has been set for memorials. L ea h L . B o ise , March 16, 1955— Dec. 4, 2007. L o u ie D . L eC laire Jr., Happy birthday and other wishes... H a p p y birthday to all these libras. M y brother Daveed, see y o u soon? The bone collector, the best 4 last. Happy birthday. Love yo u all, SM AN . Just to let all my family and friends know I ’m doing as well as I can. I know a lot o f you know how to pick up a pen. So here you go. See y a . 4 4 0 Colorado B lvd., Giendive, M T 59330. H appy birthday, Revonne on Oct. 6. H appy birthday to m y brothers Merlin and Britton. Love, from Donna. <________________________ 9 c 1 A ugust 16, 1934-O ct. 1, 2008. Memorials on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009 at the 1910 Shaker Church in Warm Springs. Hope to seeyou there. For m ore inform ation, co n tac t family m em bers David LeClaire and family. N o te by T a m era J. Kalama, 553-3201. < • r 9 ?
