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July 25, 2012
Spilyay Tyrooo, Warm Springs, Oregon
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Roots tradition
Eddie Splno brought the cooking rocks, and unloaded
them with help from Delson Suppah.
Jill Suppah and friend Ryan root-cleaning at the Log Springs camp.
After and before cleaning.
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They cleaned the roots,
and th en gathered pine
needles, sweet grass, skunk
grass and other leaves.
A family member arrives
from the Mt. Hood area with
the volcanic rocks that will be
used for cooking. Someone
else brings the firewood, and
someone digs the cooking pit.
The rocks are heated to
w h ite-h o t tem perate and
placed in the pit. The pine
needles go right by the rocks.
The roots are bundled in the
leaves and placed in the pit.
They build a large fire on
top o f the pit, let it burn
down, rebuild it again. The
roots are done after three and
a half days.
These roots used for spe­
cial occasions such as memo­
rials and funerals, during
name-givings and feasts, and
some are given to elders.
Cassimera Rhoan cleaning roots.
Tribal Council Resolution approving school referendum
School
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H e ’rem em bered the
Warm Springs school mat­
ter com ing up back in
1974, when he was Edu­
cation director.
Calica said the tribes
appreciate the partnership
that the school board and
d istrict superintendent
Rick Molitor showed dur­
ing the election process.
Tribal Councilm an
Scott Moses thanked the
voters, and tribal manage­
ment staff, who worked
hard at getting out the vote
during the July 10 refer­
endum. Without the valid
referendum, he said, the
project could have disap­
peared again indefinitely.
Too many im portant
projects, Moses said, are
discussed at great length
with nothing actually hap­
pening in the end. Thenew
school, he said, “is some­
thing we need in order to
better ourselves, and for a
better future.”
Councilman JP Patt said
he was glad to see; several
young people on hand for
the ground-breaking. Be­
fore the referendum, he
added, “People were ask­
ing whether we could af­
ford this?” The real ques­
tion, Patt said, should have
been, “Can we afford not
to do this?”
With approval o f the
tribal referendum and the
school district bond levy in
the spring, the tribes and
the district now go forward
with the actual planning
and development.
There have been no ar­
chitectural drawings yet
made, as it was not clear
whether the project would
be funded.
With the referendum,
the tribes agree to fund
half of the cost, and the
school district the other
half.
A first step will be hir­
ing a project manager who
will be on board through
the construction phase,
said
su p erintendent
Molitor. The development
plan calls for the entire fa­
cility^—buildings and ath­
letic fields— to be located
on the northwest side of
Chukar.
“I’m glad management
and Council took the time
to bring this forward,” said
K ennedy Sm ith, tribal
member who attended the
ground-breaking. “I think
it’s going to be a great build­
ing, accommodating the
education needs o f our
community.”
Whereas Tribal Council
R esolution .N o . 11,622
adopted May 22,2012 set the
following question for a ref­
erendum election of the tribal
voters on July 10, 2012 pur­
suant to Article VI o f the
Tribal Constitution:
Shall there be appropri­
ated from the available funds,
including but not limited to
the Revenue Reserve Fund,
of the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs Reserva­
tion of Oregon (“Tribe”), and
shall the Tribe be authorized
to borrow all or any portion
of such funds by issuing tribal
bonds in one or more series,
or by any other borrowing on
such terms as may be ap­
proved by the Tribal Coun­
cil, in an outstanding aggre­
gate principal amount of not
to exceed $10,736,300 (in­
cluding any refinancing ad­
justed by inflation) such funds
representing one-half the to­
tal cost of a new kindergar­
ten through eighth grade pub­
lic elementary school to be
located in the Warm Springs
com munity,
and w ith
Je'fferson County School Dis­
trict No. 509-J contributing
an equal sum for the school
district’s one-half share of the
total cost of the new Warm
Springs Elementary School?
And whereas thè Warm
Springs Election Board, es­
tablished under Ordinance
44 and charged with respon­
sibility for conducting the
referendum election, has
presented the results of the
July 10, 2012 referendum
election to the Tribal Coun­
cil as follows:
Yes: 816 votes. No: 240
votes. Total votys cast: 1^088
(including 32 spoiled). And,
Whereas, based on the ref­
erendum election results pre­
sented to the Tribal Council
by the Election Board, the
Council has determined that
a majority o f those voting,
who represented one-third or
more o f the eligible tribal
v otes, vo ted to approve
(“yes”) the referendum ques­
tion presented above; now,
therefore,
Be it resolved bv the
Twenty-Fifth Tribal Council
of the Confederated Tribes
o f Warm Springs Reserva­
tion of Oregon pursuant to
Article V, section T(a), (d), (f),
(1) and i(t), and Article VI of
the Tribal Constitution, that
the results of the referendum
question presented to the
tribal voters by Resolution
No. 11,611 on July 10, 2012
is hereby confirmed by the
Tribal Council and is deemed
to have been approved. (Res.
11,642.)
Notice regarding Unclaimed Per Capita payments
G eorge,
D o ro th ea;
The following is a list of Edgar; Boise, George; Boise,
tribal members who have at Jolene; Bookout, Kimberly; George, OEvia; Gonzalez, Jr.,
least one per capita check that B runoe, A nna; B runoe, Javier; Grace, Christina; Gra­
Kathryn; Brunoe, Maria; Bur­ ham, Jr., Edward; Greene,
needs to be reissued,
Manuel.
If your name is on this list gess, Bryan.
Hart, Aaron Lee; Holum,
you will need to come to the
Wanda.
Caldera
III,
Law
rence;
IIM Department and fill out
Ike, Jeneva.
form so we can reissue. Iden­ Ching, Elmina; Chinook, Sam;
Jackson, Inman; Jackson,
tification is required. The Culps, Christopher; Culps, Jr.
names are listed last name P atrick; Culpus, W illiam; Kal-liah; Jo h n s, Rowena;
Jo h tiso n , O tis; Jo h n so n ,
Curry, Glenda.
first:
Daniels, Angel; Davis, Sr., Rhonda.
Alexander, Shana; Arthur
Dalton; Doney, J e r e m y ;
III.
LeClaire, Marlon; Leclaire,
Bailey,
G unner; Dowty, Levi; D uncan,
Rodney;
Long,
Loni;
Heather.
Bethancourt Jr., Francisco;
Frank, Sharmayne; Frank Longknife.
Bisner, Regina; Blackwolf,
Made, Shanina; Miller,
Zelma; Boise, Desirae; Boise, Jr., Floyd.
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Jody; M itchell, Jeannie;
Mitchell, Rayfeild; Moody,
Jacquelyn;
Saludo-Kelly, M artika;
Santos, Ruben; Selam-White,
L oretta; Sim tustus, Julia;
Sim tustus-C havez,’ Joie;
Smith Sr., Stuart; Stevens,
Sheena; Stormbringer, Tyree;
Stroschein.
Taitague,
A ngelica;
Teeman-Snapp, Sandra; Tho­
mas, Crystal; Torres, Shawna;
Trujillo, Brittany; Tuckta,
Terry; Tufti, Jessica.
Yahtin, Lillie.
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