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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 2014)
Spi'Iygy Tym oo, W arm Springs, Oregon September 17, 2014 Page 7 FASD Coalition Gathering Dave McMechan photos. Youth Dance group performs. The Warm Springs Fe tal AlcoholSpectrum Dis order Coalition marked FASD Awareness Day on Sept. 9. • The coalition hosted an inform ation fair in the gym nasium of the fo rm e r elem entary school. There were inform a tion booths on health top ics, dance performances by tw o youth dance groups, and a dinner af terward. For information on the coalition, or on FASD, call 541-553-2211. Drummers from Culture and Heritage performed for the Autni Ichishkin Sapsiqwala Dancers. Jackie Zamora Heath, Miss Weasel Tail, was a host at the gathering. Joy Ramirez and Kelli Palmer, from the clinic, share information at their booth. HR (Continued from page 1) Her experience in hu man resources comes from the private sector, “but I also have a public and non-profit perspec tive,” she says. She was vice president o f operations o f the Warner Group, distributor of Johnson and Johnson and other products. Elizabeth is a former director of development of the American Leader ship Forum of Oregon, and she worked with the United Way of the Co lumbia-Willamette. She counts atwai Vic Atiyeh among her men tors. The former gover nor appointed Elizabeth to the state Board of Edu cation when she was just 19 years old. “ He was very committed to Native people, and to having di versity on leadership boards,” she says. At Human Resources, she says, another priority is working with the tribal enterprises, collaborating on training and other hu man resource services. And another goal is to recruit back to the reser vation young people who left to get a college edu cation and never came Elizabeth Asahi Sato back. E lizabeth has three grown boys, who are in college now. When she first moved to Warm Springs a month ago, she lived with tribal elder Charlotte Pitt. It was a big change from living in Portland. “I think the Creator called me here,” she says. “Since I’ve been in Warm Springs my life has been tremendously enriched.” “I have a dream,” she was saying last week. “I w ant the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs to be known for equipping and empowering Native people, not only in this com m unity but in the Northwest.” ’ Elizabeth was featured in 2008 in 0 Magazine, the Oprah Winfrey publi cation, and in the book, Dream Big! '. ' . A " . , Eighty-six million adults—more than one in three—have pre-diabetes. Nine out often people who have pre-diabetes do not know they have it. The Diabetes Prevention Program will host blood sugar screenings from 2-3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 25 in the lobby of the Early Childhood Education center, k_________________ ___ ___ ____ __ _____) Dave McMechan/Spilyay Students arrive at the Warm Springs k-8 Academy. The doors open at 7:50 a.m. In the mornings, the k-5 kids have breakfast in their classrooms. The sixth- through eighth graders have breakfast in the commons area starting at 7:50 a.m., and the first bell rings at 8:05 a.m. Resolution of Tribal Council Credit matter Whereas the Warm Springs Tribal Credit Enter prise (“WSCE”) is a wholly owned business enterprise of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reserva tion of Oregon, formed un der Article V, Section 1 (o) of the Tribal Constitution; and, Whereas WSCE operates in a self-sustaining .manner A to offer credit to tribal mem bers; and, Whereas WSCE has ne gotiated a Life Insurance Contract Agreement with American Republic Insur ance Company for the acqui sition of life insurance poli cies for debtors of WSCE, attached as Exhibit “A”, as a measure to help protect the available loan fund; and, Whereas, as an induce ment to issuing the requested insurance policy to WSCE, it is necessary to agree to dis pute resolution provisions that require the Tribe to grant a limited waiver of sovereign immunity in the form set forth in Exhibit “A -l”; and, Whereas Warm Springs Tribal Code, C hapter 30' “Waiver of Sovereign Immu nity,” provides that the Tribal Council may delegate the power to waive the sovereign immunity to a Tribal Business Enterprise for such Business Enterprise; and, Whereas it is anticipated that WSCE will periodically enter into agreements and conduct other business p u r-. suant to WSCE’s Charter, making desirable that the Tribal Council delegate au thority to grant limited waiv ers of sovereign immunity to the Board o f Directors of WSCE to be exercised in ac cordance with Warm Springs Tribal Code, C hapter 30; now, therefore, Be it resolved by the Twenty-Sixth Tribal Council of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reser vation of Oregon, pursuant to Article V, Sections 1 (f) and (o), of the Tribal Constitution and By-Laws and Tribal Code Chapter 30, that the Tribal Council approves the waiver o f sovereign immunity at tached as Exhibit “A -l” and hereby delegates authority to grant limited waivers of sov ereign immunity to the Board of Directors of WSCE to be exercisedin accordance with Warm Springs Tribal Code, Chapter 30; and, Be it further resolved by the Tribal Council that upon execution the waiver shall be filed in accordance with the provisions of WSTC 30.005 with periodic reports to the Tribal Council on the exercise of that authority. (Resolution no. 11,906.) . (More Council re so lu tions on page 9.)
