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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (March 20, 2013)
Spilyay T ym oo, W arm Springs, O regon March 20, 2013 Page 11 Simnasho District Candidates Raymond Tsumpti Sr. I have been your rep re s e n ta tiv e on T rib a l C ouncil fo r six o f the last seven term s, and I thank you for your con fidence. There was an error in the Spilyay Tymoo, and I would like to correct that mistake. I was nominated by Janice Clements and se c o n d ed by L ucille Suppah-Sampson. I thank them both for their con fidence. My thinking and views have not changed over the years, these are values handed down from gen erations o f the past. Some say that old think ing and views are outdated, and new ideas should be con sidered- la m n ot against new thinking, it’s just that it must Delson Suppah Sr. be w ithin th e values as stated in our major docu m ents, the 1855 Treaty, Constitution and By-Laws, C o rp o rate C h arter and D e c la ra tio n o f S o v er eignty. These documents pro tect our inherent values and Treaty resources f o r the unborn generations to come. T h e issu es at th e present time are going to be challenging, financial, employment, housing to name a few, there are no “Fair Quick Fix Solutions out there.” Frederick Duran Bobb, Skw’lilapt (Whirlwind) U nem ploym ent rates are higher th an they’ve ever been, b u d g et cuts are coming too close to. critical services . .. and de cisions are being m ade w ithout m ost o f us even knowing about it until af ter the fact. You should be there! W h ere did C ouncil meet last week? W hat did they do yesterday? Tribal members can’t rely on min- u tes fo r th a t in fo rm a t i o n . . . m o s t o f us have never seen minutes in our lives. I f tribal members were informed on a regular ba sis, it would prevent head line shock w hen we see tribal news in the outside m edia. T ribal m em bers would know exactly where the Rainy Day Fund went, penny by penny, and where ' our settlement money has gone. As an enrolled mem ber, you should know. Members are at the top o f th e o rg a n iz a tio n a l chart. But sometimes, does it feel like you’re kept in the dark? You can be there. You should be there. Tribal members mustbe. in fo rm e d first w h en it comës to our reservation, there is no other option. I suggest bringing back the position o f Public Rela tions, filled by a tribal mem b e r (Marj K alam a, Liz Smith, or Wayne G ilbert com e to m ind), we need that service today. All de partments should be pro hibited from speaking to any outside media, but di rect information to PR.'Fi- nancial deals, layoffs, pro posed projects... these are all yours. You have the right .know first. We read in o ff-rez new spapers how one o f our own was arrested and shipped across the reserva tion border. Those are out family members. N on-In dians read th eir nam es first. We can lessen that from 20 years ago, I ’ll start the day I sit down to serve. I ’ll be there so thatjo# can be there and know I ’ll turn these notes into ar ticles for our tribal mem- bërS, so that I can get feed back and input on how the majority can guide me in the direction thatyou want to go. Technology, the Internet, is a new horse that we cah use to travel house-to-house today, and it isn’t being utilized. Be th e re . blow. Thç police department should be required to submit a weekly log o f events and make’those available to tribal m em bers first. You should know. In the past, elected ser vants rode house-to-house on horseback to let their people know what was happening, to get input. This is a new age where communication is in stant. There is no reason why you shouldn’t know what is happening on the day that it happens. T visit with almost 700 tribal members simulta neously on our online news group which we formed back in 2010, Rezi-Leaks. Technol ogy an d c o m m u n icatio n , when they’re n ot feared, can be beneficial to our people. W orking fo r th e trib al newspaper has trained me to turn a long meeting full o f buzzwords into a simple ar ticle. It has kept me current on trib al events, from the annual timber cut to the p ro posed powen-line... from fly ing robots over the rez to the pipeline project. I was there, and I was som etim es told what I could and could not tell you. I f I’m elected, you will be there. You’ll know who is ab sent when there’s n ot enough elected servants present in ch am b e rs fo r a q u o ru m . You’ll know what they talked about, how much they spent, and if they have eyes on your per capita or elder pensions. N ever m ind the minutes I ’d like to see economic developm ental pro jects that are critical to tribal m em bers right now. A modern grocery store with fair prices. A dollar store for the simple items you might need. A Redbox. We need ideas that would keep our land tribal, keep the money and the people on this side o f thé border, and keep th e m em bers employed. I f we need to cut back and save, then let’s do it where it counts. Let’s stop the 4-10’s and require all employees to punch in at 8 and punch out at 5. But leave the senior pension and per capita alone. I f travel has to be cut for one department, then make it fair — cut it for everyone w ith o u t ex cep tio n . I f you’re there and you know, you’ll be better able to ad vise me on your ideas as to where the cuts w on’t bleed so much. I f you p u t m e there, you will guide me. Every o n e know s I tu rn any meeting into an article to post on the Internet. You’ll have access to that news, so you’ll know w hat’s hap pening within your tribal government. You will be there. T h an k you fo r yo u r time and consideration. Respectfully, ' ’ Frederick Bobb Duran , N ix ’K w ’I In m i N ai- M u-M a I am the son o f atwai Frank Bahlaith Suppah Sr. and atwai Rena W ilson Suppah (both 4 /4 .) My name is D elson Suppah Sr., a Simnasho D istrict T w en ty -S ix th CTW S Tribal Council nom ina tion. I hum bly ask fo r your vote for me on April 4 ,2 0 1 3 .1 was born in our family home on Schoolie Flat in 1946 and grew up on the north end o f the Warm Springs Indian Res ervation. I am th e fa th e r o f three sons, Roman Lance Suppah, Delson “H oss” F rank S uppah Jr., and N o ah E ugene Suppah, along with two daughters, atwai Jolie Garnet Suppah and L ucy R aceh o rse Suppah. I am married to Lori Edmo-Suppah. I ’ve been groomed by m y late fa th e r; F ra n k Bahliath Suppah, who was a former Tribal Council m an, an d eld ers th a t h elp ed raise m e ab o u t ■ . who we are as a tribal people and how important the treaty is to us. They taught me that I needed a spiritual founda tion in my fife and that is w hat I share is their teach ings. The Treaty is our strength and needs to be preserved for all time. The fact that our tribe is exempt from P.L, 280 is significant and unique. O ur w ater, land and our tribal rights are a priority«to be pro tected. I d o n ’t stand for Tribal Council members and man agement threatening to take awày tribal per capita and el- ders pension to reduce the budget. We are all shareholders in our tribe and have a right to have a voice in major decisions. I want to make myself available to th e trib a l p eo p le via e-m ail, cell p h one, hom e m eetings and through more district meetings to inform CTWS issues:1 I t ’s im portant to vote. It’s one way to make a dif ference for yourself and your family’s needs and give hope to the tribal people that we can survive these trying times. I am honored to have you vote for me; Delson Suppah Sr. as the Twenty-Sixth CTW S T ribal C ouncil Simnasho District Repre sen tativ e on A p ril 4, 2013. T h a n k you fo r opening your hearts and minds. Delson Suppah, Sr. #1014; P.O. Box 325, W arm S prings, O R 97761 shuppai@gmail.com 541-460-2675 Evaline Simtustus Patt G reetin g s to W arm Springs tribal members, First o f all; I want to thank those 6 f you w ho . have given me words o f encouragement to run for Tribal Council. It gave me more courage and confi dence with people think ing that I may make a dif ference working with our governing body. W orking w ith in th e tribal organization in vari ous areas since 1969 has given me experience and kno w led g e a b o u t o u r tribes and about the gov erning documents. I p raise o u r T rib al Council members o f long ago, w ho established a good path for us. Through the years, I ’ve heard or read about other Native Americans having praise for Warm Springs, for the progress in economic de velopment. Praise for our leadership who made good decisions in Indian Coun try that seemed to keep up w ith th e natio n . W arm Springs needs to get back on that path while looking out for the present, future, the welfare and well-being o f our tribal members and the tribal organization as a whole. O u r T rib al C o u n cil should work as a cohesive team. A team working in concert towards common goals will bring more posi tive results than individu als in opposition o f each other. O f course there will be disagreements, b ut let’s b rin g all th o u g h ts and ideas to the table. Give each team member a voice and show the value o f a team environment. Then hopefully, goals and objec tives will be more easily at tainable. Having maturity, courage and an open mind would be helpful. I am thankful for hav ing opportunities to work in the various departments, such as tribal A ccounting, K ah-Nee-Ta, and presently for T he Museum A t Warm Springs. I served on tribal committees, Education and currently Land Use Planning. T h e m o st challenging has been while serving on the C re d it E n te rp ris e b o ard . Challenging in the ways to learn th e p urposes o f the C h a rte r th a t e stab lish ed Credit as an enterprise, and m ore ab o u t the tribal law codes, especially the tribal commercial code parts as we searched to bring bank ser vices to Warm Springs. In ad dition, assisting other tribal en terp rises in su p p o rt o f their ability to bring revenues and jobs to the community. Presently, the Land Use Planning committee is finish ing updating Ordinance 56 to m ore com ply w ith today’s time. This ordinance’sets the guidelines regarding all tribal lands, the leasing, zoning and such. W e’ve m ade som e progress, completing projects and worked with other com mittees. Recently a new law was passed called the Hearth Act. I ’m not familiar with it b u t m ain p a rt o f this law w h ere th e B IA S u p e rin tendent’s signature is required, is now placed in the tribes’ hands, it places more respon sibility on the tribes. The com m ittee still needs to learn more about it. We all know the issues fac ing the new Tribal Council. M o st im p o rta n tly the dwindling revenues, the n eed to d ev elo p e c o nomically to generate rev enues and create jobs for people. Tribal Council should •set the ground w ork in order to bring good eco nom ic developm ent on the reservation for both tribal m em ber and o ut side businesses. T ribal Council members should be aware of, and keep in back o f their minds any issues that m ight effect our sovereignty and treaty rights. I w o u ld a p p re c ia te your vote for me to serve on Tribal Council. I ’m an elder, I grew up learning traditional ways. I have a business balance sense yet know traditional ways. I have good w ork ethics, and a strong sense o f per sonal ethics. I am consci entious o f time, and am results oriented. I like to see jobs and projects get done. I praise my parents fo r th e te a c h in g s, I learned to be honest and I am trustworthy. They taught me to have a be lief, pray to the Creator, w hich I try to do each day. I have learned right from wrong. I w ould devote 100 p ercen t o f my tim e to Tribal Council. I appreciate hearing from you, my people. I respect w hat’s being ex p re sse d . I f e lec ted , I would look differently at issues and would attem pt to address them. I think Tribal Council needs to hear more and work more with our people. In addi tion to com m unicating w ithin our organization and out to the commu- , nity. Thank you for your time and consideration. S incerely, Evaline Simtustus Patt
