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r n E Coosb EEWA: The W3y it is A rock and a hard place Page 4 Spilyay Tymoo August 10, 2011 Letters to the Editor By D uran Bobb The recent crisis at the mill brings to the attention one solid truth on the reservation: with a 69 percent unemployment rate, we need jobs now. According to some leaders, we are now cutting timber five generations into the future. That is, the timber we are cutting now was meant to be cut S p ilya y by trib al m em S p ea k s bers 100 years v __________ y from now. Tribal leaders have heard ideas and suggestions for new businesses. Some of these have been brought to the people for input. Several years ago, the idea of building a ski resort on Mt. Jefferson was suggested. “There were studies that told us the ski resort could bring in a million dollars a year,” Chief Delvis Heath said. “But a lot of people didn’t agree. No, that’s our hunting area. Or we said, No that’s our berry-pick ing area. Or that’s where our w ater comes from. So it fell through the cracks.” There was also an idea for a golf resort at Bear Springs that fell through the cracks. T here w as an id ea for a manufactured home assembly plant. A truck stop. A biomass power plant. A horse-render ing plant. “We have a lo t o f good ideas,” Chief Heath said. “We need to put the ideas to work on the reservation. The tribes have a lot of land, and right now that land is sitting idle.” Chairman Smith agreed. “The answ er is revenue. When our people come up with something that has the poten tial to produce revenue, we as tribal members should support it. Everything else is going to run out. We have to look around now and see what’s go ing on. Get some enterprises operating on our land.” At a recent meeting, a mill w orker said, “If you shut us down, are you going to find me another job?” Tribal Council is in a tough place. Their burden is to create jobs for tribal members, but new enterprises can generate oppo sition. “If you take it to the people, it’s turned down,” Chairman Smith said. “But the future is right here. It’s now.” TOE NESS... Spilyay: Ow! IHS said I broke my leg in two places! Kasa: Well, did they tell you to quit going to those places? YIKES! sss sss sss Seniors trip We as a class would like to thank all o f our sponsors for our trip to California. Without you our Senior Trip would not have been possible. For our Senior Trip, we went to California and had a blast! We enjoyed D isney Land “Grad Nite” and Knott’s Berry Farm A dventure Park, as w ell as sightseeing, shopping, many laughs and smiles together. First, we would like to thank Warm Springs Composite Prod ucts, the Credit Enterprise and board, Warm Springs Ventures, and Secretary-Treasurer Jody Calica for the donations. It is very much appreciated. We would also like to thank Kristina Sampson for the fish to be able to do our Salmon Bake and John Platt’s Winery. Thank you, John, for allowing us to use your w inery and a place to stay while attending. Thank you Austin Greene for donating hamburgers and fries, as well as the use of the Com m unity C enter kitchen. B ig thanks to E valine P att and Chelsie Patt for inventory to ward helping our fundraisers. Thanks to Dayle Tufti and Tasheena George for all the help you have given us toward the fundraising. We are all very grateful for all your help and time you have given us. You all made such a great impact for helping us with fundraising. We would also like to give big thanks to Donnie Bagley for taking us down to Amtrack, and Jerry Sampson for picking us up after the trip. Thank you so much for the transportation. And we can’t forget the chap- erones! T hank you K rysta Rhoan, Sandra G reene and Angie Spino. Without you guys watching over us, who knows what the outcome might have been. Aze. Thank you all so very much for making our trip un forgettable! Greatest thanks to Sandra— without you, who would make our fry bread and be our plan ner? You’re the best and you made a ton of possibilities hap pen for this trip. You put in a lot of time and effort, and we will always be thankful. Thanks to all o f you, our sponsors and sup p o rters. Thanks to all for buying raffle tickets! You have supported us all very much. (Raffle results are on page 6.) Thanks to everyone! We will all have priceless and fun memo ries together as a Senior Class. Thank you all so much from the Class of 2011! Ju stin Q ueahpam a, M allo ry Sm ith, T riston Spilyay Tym oo CCoyote 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, RO. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761. Phone: 541-553-2210 Advertising: 541-553-2307 or 541-325-1089 E-Mail: spilyay@ wstribes.org. Annual Subscription rates: Within U.S.: $15.00. Boise, Rosey Suppah, Cyrus Conner, Mysti Spino, Tyrone L aw ren ce, Lucy Suppah, L a rry Spino, N orene Sampson, Wes Smith, Jessica Sim pson, A m anda Yazzie and Cheyenne Wahnetah. Raffle winners Congratulations to the follow ing winners in the 2011 walking team Wading 2 Exhale raffle: Darlene Benson: $50 Barnes & Noble gift card. Scott Fluhr: $50 Starbucks gift card. Val Squiemphen: Pendleton purse. Marella Sam: Beaded (red) earrings. Reicie Chavez: Corn husk earrings D arlene B enson: B eaded (purple) earrings Renso Rodriguez: Beaded (red) earrings. Topaz O ’R eilly: B eaded (pink) earrings Birdie Wermy: Museum at Warm Springs gift basket. Adam Haas: $50 Safeway gift card Sissy Smith: $50 Safeway gift card. Melissa Benson: $30 cash. of Warm Springs. Marella Sam: $30 cash. E arlyn n e Sq u iem p hen, Wahneta: picture frame. team captain. Bez Wermy: picture frame. Earl Squiem phen: picture frame. A. Mgr: Adidas cap. W ishes... Tami G.: windbreaker. There are two members in my Aaron Fluhr: blanket. Reicie Chavez: cordless tele close fam ily that I wish and want to know, H ave a safe and happy phone. Topaz O’Reilly: 3-piece bath birthday this y e a r! They are my brother H oward T. set. Rita Squiem phen: jum per Patt, who w ill had his 44th birth day this y e a r on A ugust 4. cables. I ’d also love to hear that my Lillian Dick: Armor All car you ngest son A very Frank w ill have kit. Barbara Devore: Sunbeam a safe but happy birthday on the 25th o f A ugust this y e a r! iron. I ’m y o u r sis te r H ow ie, an d Topaz O’Reilly: cell mate. L eM innie Sm ith: beaded A very I ’m y o u r mother. I love to see both o f y o u gu ys gettin g older necklace. Tom O’Reilly: beaded watch every yea r. I love y o u boys very much. H ave a happy and gr ea t band. I wish to thank everyone who birthday this y e a r ! Love, purchased tickets to help sup Evette Patt. port our team. The funds w ill be used to help off-set travel cost for our Your love within team in participating in the 2011 Julia Dahlana Orti% i t ’s hard Portland to Coast relay walk, which is held August 26-27, to be apart fro m you , when a ll I want to do is f e e l y o u r touch and 2011. A special thanks to a super see y o u r loving smile. When we m et group of gals on the great job I was afraid to talk to you , but I of selling tickets and for your did talk to y o u I was afraid to know you . A nd when I g o t to know y o u donations to the raffle. Again, thank you community I was afraid to kiss you . B ut when I kissed y o u I was afraid to love you . A nd now that I love y o u I ’m afraid o f losing y o u baby girl. I keep thinking that it w on’t always be like this. Because someday w e’l l be able to hold each other and then I ’l l know i t ’s not ju s t y o u r touch and loving sm ile that I ’v e always m issed in my life. Papa siempre, tu esposo. M atthew Orti£ Missing home I spend a lot of nights laying in my bed thinking about the day I finally will be able to come home. In a way I’m happy things happened the way they did. I truly believe coming to prison saved my life. I have no bad feelings toward anyone and I hope nobody has any toward me. I apologize to my family and community and would like to know I’m walking on the Red Road. If you would like to get in contact w ith me, you can write. All my relations. Ja rro d A llen , sid no. 15101284 82911 Beach Access Road, Umatilla, OR 97882. Next deadline to submit items to the Spilyay is Friday, August 19. TeleCo Corner People who made Warm Springs Telecom a reality by M arsha Spellman As mentioned in a previous article, telecom m unication s planning for the Warm Springs Reservation began more than 10 years ago. At that time tribal leaders re alized there were serious prob lems with telecommunications on the reservation. They decided to take steps to rectify the problems and bring Warm Springs up to the needed levels to be competitive with the rest of the world. Who were those visionary leaders who took those early steps? Who are the people that have continued to w ork on these plans? This has not only been a long-term project, but it has only been possible because of the many people who have contrib uted to the effort over the years. This article w ill introduce your telecom gurus and leaders who have worked on this project to bring new telecommunica tions here to all corners of the Warm Springs Reservation. tribes at this time. These two men recognized that telecom munications were lacking, and that without robust telecommu nications the tribes would only lag further behind in economic development and education. Rudy and Sal formed the first T elecom S teerin g G roup (TSG), which is the telecom stakeholders group for the tribes that meets regularly to discuss problems, issues and successes with telecommunications on the reservation. Lloyd Phillips worked for Warm Springs for more than 30 years as the information tech nology director. First for the trib es, and then for W arm Springs Ventures, which is the new IT venture charged with developing new technologies. Without these three men, the telecom situation on the reser vation would not be moving into the Twenty-First Century, as it is today. Both Sal and Lloyd have re tired from their positions with the tribes. Sal continues to serve as the Chairman of the Board o f D irectors for the W arm Springs T elecom C om pany (WSTC). The visionaries At the start of this project the v isio n aries w ere R udy Clements, Sal Sahme and Lloyd Phillips. In order to have any project take shape—whether it is the tribal teleco or a major corpo ration like Microsoft— there has to be a person, or few people, who have an idea and then fol low through to make it happen. The tribal leadership for tele communications more than 10 years ago was a small group that had a big influence on what is happening with both the telecom company, as well as the evolv ing improvements to the public safety radio network. Atwai Rudy Clements and Sal Sahme both w orked for the Strategic planners The drafters of the Strate gic Telecommunications Plan were: Sal Sahme, Lloyd Phillips, Mike Clements, Ray Rangila, Herb Graybael, Rudy Clements, Paul Young and Sue Matters. These individuals worked on the Telecommunications Strate gic Plan originally published in March of 2006. That plan has been an impor tant road-map to improving tele communications reservation wide. The plan is now being re vised by the TSG. T hese in d iv id u als have shown initiative in helping the teleco along: Community and Economic Development Planner Lonny Macy; Je ff Anspach, chief ex M arketing <& Kegulatory Director, WSTC ecutive officer, Warm Springs Ventures and the Warm Springs Telecom Company; and Sandra Danzuka, Warm Springs Ven tures administrative officer While the visionaries were instrumental in getting things off the ground and providing the impetus for all that would fol low, there are tribal staff that continue to make their dream a reality. Lonny Macy has been the leader in making some of this possible. He chairs the TSG, and has been one of the people who brings to the Council the plans and gran t requests to raise money for telecommunications. He has been the inside guy, working with the Tribal Council and administration, and he also represents the tribes at the state level on the Oregon Broadband Advisory Council and the State Interoperable Executive Coun cil. Je ff Anspach is a Certified Public Accountant, and for the last five years has been the head of Warm Springs Ventures, the tribes’ economic development company. Once Lloyd left, after more than 30 years o f service to Warm Springs, Jeff took up the charge by recognizing the poten tial of having a tribally owned telecom as an economic devel opment engine for the tribes. As the telecom project became a part of Ventures, Jeff has been a leader helping to take the idea of a tribal telecom company to a reality. He was also instrumen tal in securing the $5.4 million Broadband Stimulus award for the Tribal telco. Sandra is the doer of every thing that needs to be done. From helping Converge Com munications with grant applica tions, to working on a market ing study for the ARRA stimu lus grant, to basic computer as sistance, and organizing kick-off events, Sandra has been a key member of the team. Tribal leadership has come from Aurolyn Pinkham-Stwyer, Ken Smith, Wendell Jim and Jody Calica. In order transform a vision into a reality, these tribal lead ers were the cheerleaders for the new company. They understood the critical need for improved telecommunications for eco nomic development and job cre ation, educational opportunities and new telemedicine applica tions. Both Aurolyn and Wendell served on the Tribal Council during the critical time when funding was being sought and helped the Council to under stand why they needed to sup port this new company. Wendell, as the Education Director, still is working to up grade the telecom access for the education department. Ken, who served in tribal leadership for many years, is on both the Warm Springs Ventures and the Warm Springs Tele co m m u n icatio n C om pany boards of directors, giving his time and expertise in directing the company. Jody played a key role as a member of the Warm Springs Telecom Team, the group that established the Warm Springs Telecommunications Company and formed its first board of directors. Aurolyn, Ken and Wendell were part of a trip to Washing ton, D .C., w here a sm all group—including Jeff Anspach, Ken Smith, Adam Haas, the three tribal “cheerleaders” and myself— met with RUS, FCC and other government leaders to talk about the issues of tele communications on tribal lands in general and Warm Springs specifically. These meeting showed D.C. funders w hat W arm Springs was doing to improve telecom m u n icatio n s on the W arm Springs Reservation. (See TELECO on p a ge 5) j & !
