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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (March 9, 2011)
T E Coosh EEWA: The way it is Tax Exempt T O E N E S S ... Taxman: Now, people who complain about taxes can be di vided into two categories. Any body know what those are? Spilyay Men and women! YIKES! ■ SSSSSSSSS Tiny box on tax form: Check th is b o x if you are b lin d . YIKES! SSS SSS SSS Spilydy Tyrnoo March 9, 2011 Letters to the Editor By Duran Bobb The popular misconception out there is that Native Ameri cans do not pay taxes. Several tribal members have received letters from the Oregon D epartm ent o f Revenue stating that they owe. In one case, a judgment was issued against a tribal member who was told that he needed to pay as m uch as $68,000 in back taxes. That fig ure included 100 percent inter est, penalties and fees. “They said they were going to garnish my wages and take my house and anything else they could. My house is in Warm Springs, so I wonder how they’re going to do that.” In O reg o n , w hich becam e Z A th e 33 rd state Spilyay four years after Speaks th e tre a ty was ,_________ J signed, m ost In dians pay state taxes. All Indi ans pay federal taxes. A ccording to state law, if you’re enrolled in a federally rec ognized tribe, and you work on a federally recognized reserva tion, and you live in federally rec ognized Indian country, then you’re exempt. O regon says that you still have to file, and you must in clude a copy o f your federal tax forms, your tribal enrollm ent number, and you m ust submit an exempt income schedule (a separate form for each year). A nd you can’t use the E Z form, you must use the longer version. Although some tribal mem bers know they’re exempt, they still pay to satisfy their sense o f obligation. “We spent about two weeks filling out the paperwork,” one couple said. “With every deci mal in place, figures double- checked, and all forms attached so they’d know we’re Indian.” Those who did not file with Oregon and received letters o f dem and had their federal in come tax returns withheld. So this year, the deadline to file is April 18. Remember to file your state tax returns, ex em pt or not. Happy calculat ing! Pqge 4 ■ A thank you All my relations and friends, I write this with a saddened heart o f which no parent ever wishes to write. It has been over a year since my daughter, atwai, Mavis May Anne, has left us, now I have her in my heart and mind to remember her by. H er memorial was on Janu ary 8, 2011. A s-h er parents, Mildred Quaempts and I, Oliver Kirk our families are very sad dened with the loss o f our beau tiful daughter. Also greatly sad dened are her siblings, Merle Anne, Annie Marie Kirk, Derek Ray and Cecelia Muniz, also nephew , K iaw in and nieces, Keeyana Jane and Marcella. I know in my heart her two precious treasures, Sunhawk M iliana H o p e and L ean d er Sundance, miss her very much. I want to say thank you very much to all the drummers that came to my hom e for all the services held th ere, W ashat drummers Evans Spino, Wilson Wewa, and Waslikki drummers; my aunts, Arlene G reene and Roma Cartney families, Wilfred and Geraldine Jim and Carlos Calica. I gready thank all the Agency L onghouse d rum m ers, th eir names were remembered at the fu n eral and m em o rial give aways. All o f their songs and words were very beautiful. A big thank you to Fred Hill Sr. who spoke for his niece at the Funeral and at the Memo rial services. A big thank you to Thomas M orning O w l for officiating over the Funeral services. Your words and prayers were gready appreciated. Thank you very much to the gready appreciated fabulous and gracious cooks, Janice Smith, Cassie Katchia, Bobby Suppah, Lally Jackson, E va and Betty George. Their names were also remembered at the giveaways. A very big thank you to Leslie Aradonna Davis for the quick blanket ru n to P o rtlan d and back, you are always gready ap preciated. T h a n k you to th e W arm Springs Tribal Council for the grant money used towards the funeral services and the Tribal Utilities personnel that helped maintain the Agency Longhouse while we used it for the services and for cemetery work that was done. Thank you very much both to G ra n d m a C arrie an d Ramona Starr for their under taking dudes rendered, you are both gready appreciated. Thank you to my caring sister, Roberta K irk , fo r m aking th e w hite buckskin dress. T hank you to my A rizona family, father Oliver K irk Sr., my sisters, Nicketa K. Benally, Becky K . D okey, B erth a K. H o ste e n , fo r p ro v id in g a Pendleton Blanket and a beau tiful silver and turquoise cross medallion for her to be wrapped in for her journey and some monetary assistance. T h an k you to my m o th er Lolita Greeley, my sisters Olivia W allulatum , M aria G odines, Anita S. Mendoza, Joann Selam Gonzales, the great pie maker; Redine K.Billy and brother Tony and Seegray L ittleleaf for all their help that was given. T h an k you very m uch to Cecelia M uniz and C lifford Stanger for providing the deer and elk from Pendleton for the memorial services. A big thank you to my uncles, Hamilton Greeley for all his as sistance, Elton Greeley for his memorial services monetary as sistance that is gready appreci ated. T hank you to the Priscilla Frank Ike family for their me morial services giveaway contri butions. I want to thank all the per sons that contributed to the fu neral and memorial services in one way or another. It is all. ap preciated very much. T h an k you very m u ch to Denise Muldoon and her daugh ter Danielle for all their gready appreciated assistance whenever it was needed. Thank very much to Jeannie Brisois for all her great help at my residence. Thank you very much to the W arm Springs Fire M anage m en t, L u th er C lem ents and Jabbar Davis w ith their crew th a t h e lp e d w ith clean up around my residence, the Warm Springs Natural Resources D e partm ent for providing the de licious Salmon and deer meat. T h an k you W arm Springs .Tribal C redit E n terp rise for granting me a loan for her me morial services. There may be some names not mentioned, but not inten tionally. You are all gready ap preciated. I w ant to thank my entire daughter’s closest o f friends and relatives w ho knew her very well, and some friends who once were her friends. W ithout you all, my daughter would not be who she was. I want to just say thank you all very much from my heart for knowing my daugh ter when you did during her life time. A big thank-you to Wiggy for leading my family in for the re joining, and the Eagle Thunder drum mer for singing the songs. Thank you very much D oug Kowalski from Bel- Air Colonial Funeral Home, you were a great assistance. T h a n k you to th e W arm Springs Police D epartm ent, the Warm Springs Tribal C ourt and Prosecutor’s Office, the Federal Bureau o f Investigations and the Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Williams for your still continu ing services. K now ing the tru th o f my daughter’s fate w ould greatly ease my pain. I can never re ally forgive the person who took her away. N ow I have to live with the sad fact that she is gone and her two precious treasures remain. For the love o f them I will remain civil and understand ing Oliver Kirk, daughters Merle Anne and Annie Marie. Better life T he Special D iabetes P ro gram for Indians (SDPI) was cre ated for o u r peo p le to help themselves. There are a few risk factors that need to be m et to qualify for the program. Diabetes is quite high in my family as it is with several fami lies in Indian Country. I am not diabetic, nor do I want to be and with the help o f the SDPI, I’m preventing diabe tes as long as possible. As a tribal member and a Native American woman at risk, I feel fortunate to have been able to continue to utilize the services provided. If it wasn’t for the SDPI, I would n o t have received the physical activities opportunities, nutrition and sports information, the won derful incentives, and the will to change my life. I f not for the SDPI, I may not have been able to utilize their support and education to com plete the Portland Marathon in 2009 and 2010. I would like to encourage the tribal membership to take the risk tfest and find out your numbers. Find out if you can ch allen g e y o u rs e lf and change your life. Bridgette Whipple Wedding day I w ould like to express my gratitude and say thank you to all those people who contributed and helped make February 21 a memorable one. I am grateful to the people who helped prior to Feb. 21. Thanks to Sandra D anzuka for making the invitations, to Lucinda H eath for making the m en’s ribbon shirts, Jeanine much joy today, my precious Birth Kalama for making Kylen and day Bird. Much love, your mom, Coby’s ribbons shirts. Roberta Myrna J. Frank. Happy birthday, “Otis”. Fuentes for W ubs’ moccasins and vest. To Ramon Greene in Love, Selena, Freddie, Amy, M ichael, helping get eagle feathers. To Ron, Roberta “Bobbi” Jim for lend K endall, and the baby ing a hand when We needed it. boys. Big thank you to Auntie Birney 1 want my oldest son Floyd Jr. for putting the elk teeth on the and his father Floyd Frank Sr. dress. Thanks to these people the to have a fu n and happy birth day o f February 21, 2011. The day this year on the 18th and 13th cooks and food prep: Louisa o f March. A re you two having fu n get Fuentes, C harlotte H erkshan, Auntie Margie Tuckta, Auntie ting old every year? Whatever, Birney, Lori Fuentes and Shari Happy Birthday! P.S. N o matter how old my Macy. To M ary S ando- E m hoolah for recording, to oldest son gets, I will always call Uncle A.G. and Sheena Stevens him, “my boy. ” I ’m his mother. I also want to wish everyone for filling in for the two people who couldn’t make it. To Judge a happy St. Patrick’s Day, and Glendon Smith for performing Happy Faster this year. Evette Patt the ceremony. To Pusha Jacob 50 Kourt Dr. # 3 Frank Sr. for drum m ing and Eugene, O R 97404 singing. Thanks to all who at tended. Thank you to the following for all their help, support, and planning. L o ri an d T om m y Fpentes, D ad Jerry Sam pson an d N o re n e “B ra tfa c e ” Sampson. A very special thank you to my mother, Sandra Greene, for dedicating a lot o f her time in helping me plan and prepare for this day. Helping me sew the wing dresses, making my dress, Hello, everyone! helping make my veil, buying My n am e is H azen the material and supplies and Wallulatum-Medina. food. I greatly appreciate every My p a re n ts are thing you did. I wouldn’t have Matilda Wallulatum and been able to do it without you. Jose Medina. Finally, to my husband O r My m aternal grand lando Craig Stevens for your pa p a re n ts are F re d and tience and help by watching the Olivia Wallulatum and my boys, getting them fed, into bed paternal grandparents are and to school every day. Your Sally Charley Medina and patience and u n d erstan d in g Aristeo Medina. helped make the whole process I was given an Indian less stressful. Thank you and I name by my ulla Freda love you. We finally did it, only Wallulatum, the name is took us six years, two sons and W ash -N o w -It, w h o is a lot o f trials and tribulations to brother to Wash-Mow-It. get to this point in our relation My ulla Freda said the ship. We made it. We exchanged name she interprets it in vows and committed to spend English means “Hungry,” ing the rest o f our lives together, “like you wash because and I ’m going to stick to my you’re hungry.” vows, stand by you and do what i I am a direct descen ever it takes to be a good wife, d an t o f W ash-N ow -it, and give you everything you w ho was from my ulla deserve. Xoxo, Mutt! Your lov F red a M itchell ing wife, W allulatum ’s g ra n d Daleena Mae Stevens. m other Millie Swan, who was married to the late W arm S prings c h ie f Frank Kwi-a-pum-ma. Happy Birthday, my son, in whom I am very proud. Travis Reid Bobb, it has been a great Thank you allfor writing honor to watch you grow and de to the Spilyay Tymoo! The velop your talents over the years. I next deadline is Friday, remember the day that I was blessed March 18.' with you. You bring me ju s t as V - ' ; : J Indian name W ishes... Indian Business Talk Spilyay Tym oo (Coyote News, Est. 1976) Publisher Emeritus: Sid Miller Editor: Dave McMechan Reporter: Duran Bobb Advertising Director: Yvonne Iverson Media Advisor: Bill Rhoades Spilyay Tymoo Is published bi-weekly by the Confeder ated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located at 4174 Highway 3 In Warm Springs. Any written materials submitted to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761. Phone:541-553-2210 Advertising: 541-553-2307 or 541-325-1089 E-Mail: spllyay@wstrlbes.org. Annual Subscription rates: Within U.S.: $15.00. , Profitable career path found in accounting By Bruce Engle Loan officer W.S. Credit Enterprise C om petent accountants are always employable. Currently, they are the third m ost prized and employable de gree holders. Some business p e o p le call th e m “ b ean counters” and say nasty things about how they restrict, delay and inhibit progress. Yet, they pay them well— and they should. Accountants make sense o f the dollars the business earns, spends, and saves. They are part o f a “business success team” that usually con sists o f the accountant, an attor ney, an insurance agent, and a lender. AU are important but, the closest one to the entrepreneur is the accountant. My first accounting instruc tor told our class that the golden rule o f accounting is “Anticipate n o gains and provide for all losses.” Accountants seem to follow th at rule. Maybe th at is why most o f them are n ot entrepre neurs. T he good accountants are so m ew h at co n serv ativ e and skeptical. Entrepreneurs, on the other hand, are optimistic and aggressive. The accountant often p ro vides a necessary balance to th e ir b o ss’s en tre p re n e u ria l spirit. E n tre p re n e u rs fo cu s on gains, on profits. T hat is what drives them. Their way o f go ing and their business plans and operations reflect that. W hen pennies make dollars, somebody needs to keep track o f them and know how to show the relationships o f separate activities to each other and to the business as a whole. The accountant who can do that weU and can explain it to manage m ent is a treasure. Accountants provide the ba sic inform ation that manage ment uses to solve aU kinds o f problems. A business that sells on time needs to know w ho pays timely, who pays late, and how late— or not at aU. M an ag em en t som etim es needs to be reminded o f pay ments coming due and whether or not cash is available or where it might be obtained for the pay ments. Expansion plans must be funded. Accounting provides infor m ation to m anagement about where a business is— profitwise. Ownership determines where it is to go— profitwise. Manage m ent is supposed to get it there. Accounting tells all o f them if and when it gets there and how well it is doing. A competent accountant will probably have very litde trouble finding or retaining employment throughout his or her career. » . « ?
