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Spilyay Tymoo September 3, 2014
Letters to the editor
A thank you
Thank you family and
friends. We deeply appreciate
you thoughtful cards and
beautiful flowers, receiving
wonderful symbols of nur-
turing condolences. All of us
as a family whole heartedly
appreciate it.
Our grief would have been
much harder to accept.
Through your understanding,
support and patience, you
contributed strength and
hope with loving hugs and
guidance. Blessing to each and
every one of you.
Dr ummers—Powerful
and strong prayers of sing-
ing.
Undertakers—Dressing
and taking care of attawii.
Colwashes—Beautiful
workmanship on his outfit.
Hunters—Supplying meat.
Food donors—Helping pro-
vide foot.
Cooks and Helpers—Pre-
paring and serving meals, and
cleaning up.
Dancers—Blessing his
path for his journey.
All Denomination—
Speaking on behalf of the
Lord.
Bel-Air—Accepting, hon-
oring and respecting our tra-
ditions.
Officers James Farr and
Ken Kipley, responding ur-
gently in a timely manner—
exercising your expertise of
CPR (40 minutes straight),
not willing to stop.
Understanding the Lord
called upon him, his work
here on earth was finally com-
pleted. Attawii Melvin Scott
Sr., a very giving person of
food, clothing, money, or any-
thing he had. Gifted with his
loving fun sense of humor.
He shared his wisdom and
knowledge to those willing to
learn. The smile and helping
hand too all he greeted daily.
Hard worker, provider to
anyone in need.
He truly lived by “The
more you give, the more you’ll
receive, with twice as much
blessing.” He believed in the
Bible from cover to cover.
He waited anxiously for the
arrival of Our Lord and Sav-
ior riding on his white horse
to Earth to defeat satan.
Our deepest appreciation
and gratitude.
The Scott, Allen,
Smith and Dickson
families.
Traditions
After reading about the
non-Indian berry pickers, it
compelled me to add on. I
have witnessed non-enrollees
root digging and huckleberry
picking, and it disturbes me.
In my opinion, it should in-
clude fishing. I’m sorry to say
that I do not condone non-
enrollees participating in In-
dian powwows.
We have experienced, in
All-Indian basketball tourna-
ments, because of one per-
son who didn’t show his tribal
ID card, the whole team was
disqualified. It also is a rule
in All-Indian rodeos and All-
Indian baseball tournaments,
one must have a picture ID,
proving an Indian tribal en-
rolled member. Why not pow-
wows?
I have raised several
grandchildren, great grand-
children, and children of my
own. I have experienced first
steps, Indian naming, first kill
(deer), first root diggings and
berry Picking, and giving to
a special elder. The first
beadwork, gloves or what-
ever the children made.
It devastates me to witness
the changing of our culture
and traditions. For instance,
announcing my first digging
or picking at a traditional
feast, and giving it to anyone.
I feel responsible to address
these misgivings, as who else
will?
Respectfully, Neda B.
Wesley.
Courtesy/Sue Matters
Saphronia Katchia (right) of the tribal Housing Authority presents a check to Warm Springs Boys and
Girls Club Director June Smith. Housing recently contributed $25,000 to Boys and Girls Club.
Healthy
challenges
The Diabetes Prevention
Program would like to thank
the more than 230 people
participating in the No Pop
Challenge, and the over 210
people participating in the
Mile Challenge.
The participation in both
events far exceeded expecta-
tions. It is great to see people
choosing to make healthy
changes in your life!
Your participation encour-
aged us to keep offering chal-
lenges. This month “Fall into
Fitness” is your new chal-
lenge.
Please come to our office
to pick up your calendar.
Challenge starts this week.
Montell Elliott, coordina-
tor, Diabetes Prevention Pro-
gram, 541-553-1070
Happy 50th
Appreciation
Wishes...
Happy birthday to
my son Bosh on Sep-
tember 21. Love you
son.
Happy belated
birthday Ali “13”.
Love you son.
Happy birthday to
Mike Polk. Love you
cuz.
Love, Anga
For the Club
Happy 50th Anniver-
sary my love.
September 4, 2014.
Toe Ness
My name is Clarice Rios.
I am writing to express my
gratitude and appreciation
for all volunteers who have
helped with Native services
at Coffee Creek Correc-
tional Institute.
Trish Jordan of Red
Lodge has come for the
sweat lodge ceremony, talk-
ing circle and Positive Indian
Parenting.
For the past eight years
she made it possible for Cof-
fee Creek to have a spring
celebration. The spring cel-
ebration is a feast ceremony
and washat service. We ate
traditional foods and heard
the visitors speak. There was
a flute player at the celebra-
tion earlier this year, and
songs from the Tlingit drum-
mers.
I want to thank all the vol-
unteers, past and present, all
those who hunted, fished,
gathered and cooked our tra-
ditional foods.
Being incarcerated, it’s
easy to feel forgotten and to
lose yourself in negativity.
The spring celebration gave
strength and healing. Thank
you Guy Wallulatum, Custer
and Veronica Wallulatum,
Alice and Gene Samson,
Katie Smith and Darloo.
Jefferson Greene, Roseanne
Sanders, Owen Wallulatum
and Orthelia Patt came for
the first time at this year’s
celebration. Also, Maybel
Jackson and family provided
deer meat. We thank you and
keep you in our prayers. If
there’s anyone I didn’t men-
tion, I apologize.
Respectfully, Clarice
Rios.
Thankful
Thankful to be alive!
Hello to all my Native people
today.
I would like to take this
time to thank God for being
alive today. I left home on
July 29, 2014, and made a
choice for a better lifestyle.
But a day after I left home I
ended up in the hospital with
a bleeding ulcer. And it
opened my eyes on my ad-
diction and on my health.
And that I do not have one
more chance at life.
And I’m very thankful for
that today. I am down here
at the NARA Treatment Cen-
ter. But before I came here I
ended up at a detox place
called Hooper Detoxing
Treatment Center. And it was
an amazing treatment center
that helped me a lot.
It’s a detox center that will
help you get into treatment
center after your detox. Be-
fore you get out of detox
they’ll help you get treatment
before you leave there. And
if you’re Native, you have a
good chance to come to
NARA.
NARA is a very good
treatment center. It’s so good
that I came back three times
so far. Because I left three
times so far. I really do need
help, and three times is a
charm to me. I made it home
one of the times, and really
let myself and others down.
So I had to swallow my pride
and call NARA and ask to
come back. And I had help
from my sister and her chil-
dren. I would like to thank
them for showing me they
care. I’ve let my family and
children down so much in my
life. It made me sick, and
made them really sick. And I
would like to take this time
to apologize to all of those I
hurt. But mainly to my fam-
ily and to my children who I
love with all my heart.
I’m sorry to all of you. I
would like to thank you all for
not giving up on me. I love
you all and take care all you
Natives. I’ll be down here for
a bit so keep me in your
prayers. Much love,
Angela Polk, NARA resi-
dential treatment, 17645 NW
St. Helens Hwy, Portland OR
97231.
Births
Jeffrey Dee Jackson
Sam Jackson Sr. and
Suzette Boise of Madras are
pleased to announce the birth
of their son Jeffrey Dee Jack-
son, born on August 13,
2014.
Jeffrey joins brothers Sam
Jr., 5, and Kenneth, 4; and
sister Le-Quisha, 6.
Grandparents on the
father’s side are Gregory Jack-
son Sr. of Madras, and atwai
Louella Squiemphen.
Grandparents on the
mother’s side are Patricia
Kalama of Warm Springs,
and Tony Boise of Warm
Springs.
The next deadline to sub-
mit items for publication
in the Spilyay is Friday, Sept.
12. Thank you for writing!
How can you get four
suits for a dollar?
Buy a deck of cards.
Regarding phones at Tribal Court
Spilyay Tymoo
(Coyote News, Est. 1976)
Publisher Emeritus: Sid Miller
Reporter: Patti Tanewasha
Managing Editor: Dave McMechan
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Tribal Court would like to
inform the community that
through War m Springs
Telecom services the Court
now has an automated greet-
ing.
The automated greeting is
not the Court’s messaging
service. It is greeting that
lists a menu of a directory,
so that you may chose an
option to route your call.
Due to the high volume of
calls for departments housed
in the Court, as a courtesy the
Court has included those de-
partments in the automated
phone greeting, so that call-
ers may readily reach those
departmental staff. How-
ever, the staff at Tribal Court
do not take messages for
those departments, and do
not know when other staff
members, not under the
Court, are in or out of of-
fice.
The automated greeting
announces the Court hours
of operation are Monday to
Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed
from 12 to 1 p.m. Phones are
answered from 8:30 a.m. to
12 p.m., and 1 to 4 p.m. It
then states you may push for:
1 Compliance Court fees
and fines
2 Prosecution
3 Juvenile Prosecution
4 Parole & Probation
5 Legal Aid
6 Sex Offender Registra-
tion
7 Tribal Youth Program
0 Tribal Court.
When calling the Court at
541-553-3278 you may enter
“0” at any time to reach a
Court staff member.
You may call the depart-
ments housed in the Court
building directly by dialing
their phone number instead
of contacting the Court and
listening to the automated
greeting.
Compliance 553-3344
Prosecution 553-3300
Juvenile Prosecution 553-
3335
Parole and Probation 553-
3293
Legal Aid 553-3228
Sex Offender Registration
553-2214
Thank you,
Maria Godines, Court
Administrator, Tribal Court,
Judicial Branch of Govern-
ment.