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November 14, 2012
Spiiyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Chief: tribes facing critical financial time
Tacoma Technical-Vocational
Institute (now Bates Techni
cal College), where he stud
ied Diesel Mechanics.
H e returned to the reser
vation and continued his log
ging enterprise. “I ’ve been at
it now for 38 years, going on
39,” he says.
The logging business has
changed over the years, he
says. T he logs are sm aller
now; and out 6 f necessity the
industry is more mechanized.
With the right marketing, he
says, there is still money to
be made in the business. .
(Continued from page 1)
In th o s e tim es, C h ie f
Smith said, “the military paid
th e ir p erso n n el in cash. I
w ould guard four- to five-
hundred-thousand dollars in
cash every payday.”
H e was then stationed in
the Dominican Republic. This
was at the time o f the Cuban
Missile Crisis. The Dominican
R epublic is lo cated ju st a
couple hundred miles from
Cuba. Chief Smith served as
the base commander’s body
guard.
“My job was to make sure
no harm came to him ,” he
says. A rm ed with a rifle, “I
used my ow n judgm ent in
carrying Out the job.”
By the time o f discharge,
in 1965, “I was hom esick.
T he com m ander asked if I
w ould extend my com m is
sion, but I decided to come
home.”
H e jo in e d his b ro th e r
Russell Smith in the logging
business, the first on the res
e rv a tio n . H e a tte n d e d
Tribes’ future
T he next Tribal C ouncil
election is in the spring o f
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
Noree’s Plume: opening at Plaza
(Continued from page 1)
A while ago she offered a
class on how to make tradi
tional Pendleton vests. She
had to charge a fee to the par
ticipants, in order to cover
expenses.
“I d id n ’t th in k m any
people w ould show up b e
cause o f the fee,” N oree says.
“I was shocked that the class
was full.”
This was encouraging, and
showed that the local market
fo r P e n d le to n fa b rics is
strong. N oree also made sales
contacts with other tribes and
with gift shops at other casi
nos. She recruited some o f
the local craftspeople to help
with the sewing.
She developed a business
plan and applied for funding.
H ers was the first proposal
to receive funding from the
Private Business Revolving
L o an p ro g ram . “T his has
taken a lot o f w ork and a lot
o f research,” she says.
The reward for this work
w ill be th e o p e n i/ig o f
N o re e ’s P lum e. A g ran d
opening date is not yet set but
will be soon. “I was trying to
open by Thanksgiving but I
got too busy,” she says.
A couple o f in terestin g
vests th at N o ree has been
w ork in g o n lately include
one for Jacoby Ellsbury. The
vest has his nam e and num
ber, the Red Sox logo and
baseball bats stitched on the
back.
A t the request o f Warm
S p rin g s C a th o lic C h u rch
m e m b e rs, N o re e m ad e a
P en d leto n v est fo r F ath er
Luis Flores-Alva. H e w ore
•the vest during the church’s
p ilg rim a g e fo r B le ss e d
ing a loan guarantee.
The school will be lo
c a te d o n 20 acres at
Tenino and Chukar roads.
The 80,000-square foot
sch o o l build in g w ill be
a b o u t th e size o f th e
Jefferson County Middle
School.
The Warm Springs Rec
reation D ep artm en t will
present the Thirty-Seventh
A n n u a l W arm S prings
Christmas Bazaar on Dec.
8. T he bazaar will be at the
Community Wellness Cen
ter from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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Holiday Bazaar Dec. 8
School
(Continued from page 1)
T h e trib e s a n d th e
school district approved
the funding earlier this
year in a county measure
and trib al referen d u m .
T he tribes are w orking
with the U.S. D epartm ent
o f Agriculture on secur-
K ateri, N oree also m ade a
P endleton vest as a gift for
the Pope.
For the Museum at Warm
Springs m em ber art exhibit
N o ree en tered a cow -hide
vest that includes rare “L et
‘R Buck” Pendleton fabric on
the back.
"If you have a Pendleton
item in mind that you would
like to order, you can reach
N oree at 541-325-2115. O r
email at:
noreecleo@gmail.com
Earl Tufti (right) gave the
invocation at the swearing-
in ceremony. Pictured with
Chief Alfred Smith are
Tribal Council Chairman
Buck Smith, Warm
Springs Chief Delvis Heath,
and Jonathan Smith.
2013. C hief Smith sees this
as a crucial tim e fo r the
tribes. “The next Council is
going to make or break the
tribes,” he said.
His hope is that the m em
bership will elect the m ost
qualified individuals, as the
tribes are facing perilous fi
nancial times. “Elect someone
who. will do a good job and
help us out o f this financial
disaster,” he said.
“ P ro g re ss an d p o litics
don’t mix very well,” he said
o f the task facing the next
Tribal, Council. The tribes’ fi
nancial situation, he added, is
similar, on a smaller scale, as
the one. facing the- U. S.
T he tribes' have to sur
vive as a m odern-day gov
ernm ent organization,-while
m aintaining the languages
and traditions that define the
tribes. “You have to keep
Up w ith w hat people are do
ing o ff the reservation while
keeping o u r own culture,”
he said.
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