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Spilyay Tymoo December 24, 2014
Letters to the editor
Generous
donations
most greatly
appreciated
By Alyssa Macy
The KWSO and Spilyay
Tymoo staff would like to
extend our deepest gratitude
to the community for the in-
credible generosity in support
of the KWSO/Spilyay
Tymoo Toy and Food Drive.
We were
excited
to
Spilyay
work
with
Speaks
Early Child-
hood Educa-
tion and the
Head Start
programs, as well as the Ma-
dras office of the Depart-
ment of Human Services, to
ensure that our children have
a bright holiday.
In a short amount of time,
we gathered an incredible
amount of toys and food.
We’ve been busy sorting,
wrapping presents and arrang-
ing delivery and pickup.
We know that when many
children wake up on Christ-
mas morning, they will be re-
cipients of your kind gestures.
Thank you to everyone
who donated, wrapped pre-
sents, delivered bags and
shared our message. Our col-
lective efforts are a strong
display of what can be ac-
complished when we work
together.
The holiday season is about
presence. No material gift can
take the place of time spent
together, laughter, and love.
Mer r y Christmas to you
all!
Toe Ness
Why don’t cats play poker
in the jungle? Too many chee-
tahs.
What is a cat’s way of
keeping law and order? Claw
enforcement.
What do you call the cat
that was caught by the police?
The purrr-patrator.
What do cats like to eat
for breakfast? Mice Krispies.
My dog is so lazy he
won’t chase cars. He just
sits on the curb and writes
down license plate num-
bers. Yikes!
My dog is my soul mate.
He both take naps, we both
skip lunch, and we both hate
the vacuum.
Human
Resources
The Comp and Benefits
Fair was a huge success, with
the best turn-out and partici-
pation in many years.
It was a tremendous suc-
cess because we all worked
together. The general manag-
ers, directors, KWSO, Jake
Suppah and the S-T staff, our
esteemed Tribal Council and
of course my wonderful
staff—made it a big success.
Message from the HR
Director
It’s hard to believe it has
been four months since I an-
swered the call from Jake
Suppah, our S/T asking me
to serve the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs. He
did not mince words, he
wanted HR to step up and
serve employees in the best
way possible, so we had our
work cut out for us.
Time has flown by very
quickly but I am delighted to
see how wonderfully our HR
team has flourished, and how
motivated HR staff is to pro-
viding optimal customer ser-
vice to all of our employees.
We are also collaborating
with our colleagues in CTWS
Enterprises and finding that
working together helps the
entire community.
The dedication and enthu-
siasm of our HR staff keeps
me motivated each and ev-
ery day to bring my very best
to the Warm Springs commu-
nity, and I hope you have ex-
perienced the positive
changes we are trying to
implement.
We have big plans in the
works for 2015 and will keep
you apprised of the many
proactive initiatives we have
in place to better serve you
in 2015.
We will have a Grand Re-
Opening of the Human Re-
sources Department in Janu-
ary, fully equipped with an
CTWS employment center,
where tribal members and
tribal employees can research
job opportunities as well as a
work station for employees to
utilize and check on benefits.
Thank you for your pa-
tience and support as we tran-
sition in to the best possible
HR team we can be—for
YOU. I am honored to serve
the CTWS and I look forward
to meeting and meeting you
all!
Blessings, Elizabeth
Asahi Rising Sun Sato
To hunters
The Warm Springs Wild-
life Department would like to
remind everyone to turn in
Spilyay Tymoo
(Coyote News, Est. 1976)
Publisher Emeritus: Sid Miller
Multi Media Specialist: Alyssa Macy
Managing Editor: Dave McMechan
Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Con-
federated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are
located at 4174 Highway 3 in Warm Springs.
Any written materials submitted to Spilyay Tymoo
should be addressed to:
Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR
97761.
Phone: 541-553-2210 or 541-771-7521
E-Mail: dave.mcmechan@wstribes.org.
Annual Subscription rates: Within U.S.: $15.00
their hunting results for 2014.
Please completely fill out
the right portion of your tag,
even if you did not hunt, and
return it to the Natural Re-
sources office.
There is a green drop box
at Macy’s by the managers
office where hunters may
also return hunting results.
Please make sure to pro-
vide all requested information
before turning in your tags.
Thank you, Happy Holi-
days!
Andrea Karoglanian,
wildlife biologist, Confeder-
ated Tribes Natural Re-
sources
Elk season
During this last early No-
vember it appeared like it was
going to be a hard winter, an
early two-day blast of arctic
wind and snow, but it warmed
up and thawed and melted
with warm rain. Most elk
stayed up in the high terrain,
as there was not enough win-
ter snow at that time to push
elk to the lower elevations.
This last November we got
an extra short elk hunting sea-
son.
Elk need grass and forbs
and browse, and the best
places to find that are in the
habitat that has burned in re-
cent years.
Some things have turned
around as there were numer-
ous high country wildfires on
the Rez. The good side: there
is good forage on the fringes
of the old burns, also now
days there is less competition
for the grasses, since nearly
half—2,800—of the 6,000
of the tribes’ wild horse re-
source has been rounded up
in the last two years, and
taken out to an unknown fate.
The hunting units sur-
rounding the Rez hold thou-
sands of elk. Those east of
the Cascades number about
65,000 elk. Populations are
stable to increasing and are
spread throughout the Cas-
cades, in the vast high elk
country of the Rez. Warm
Springs NR and the state
ODFW on aircraft counted
only “82” elk on the Rez.
Can the elk read bound-
ary signs and stay on the other
side? We need an extended
season. Respectfully,
Anthony Littleleaf.
Best Wishes during this holiday season, from Warm Springs artist Travis Bobb.
TC summaries
Tribal Council staff is ask-
ing for the return of the
binder that contains the Tribal
Council summaries. The
binder was located in the
Council lobby. This is a pub-
lic document of the tribes, in-
tended for all members to
access. Someone may have
borrowed it and forgotten to
return. Please bring it back.
ter.
They are recruiting now, so
call if you are interested in
helping make the next Com-
munity Read a great event.
The 2015 Community Read
will be in April. The library
number is 541-553-1078.
Thank you
Thank
you
Janice
Clements and Urbana
Manion for our Christmas
presents. Also, thank you to
Community Read Marla Hicks and Buddy
The 2015 Community Hicks’ daughter and a
Read project will feature au- Mitchell boy for giving us
thor Kaherine Schlick Noe wood.
and her book Something to
Shirley Sanders
Hold.
Noe lived for a time in
Warm Springs, and wrote a
book based on her experi-
ences here.
TaejZhaun Xavier Paul
Anyone interested in being
Princeton Greene-Henry
involved in event planning
Quinten X.P.L. Greene
can talk with Craig Graham and Thayliah V.T. Henry-
at the Warm Springs Library Suppah of Warm Springs are
in the Family Resource Cen- pleased to announce the birth
Birth
of their son TaejZhaun
Xavier Paul Princeton
Greene-Henry, born on De-
cember 7, 2014.
Grandparent on the
father’s side is Paullee Greene
of Warm Springs.
Grandparents on the
mother’s side are Tiffiney T.
Yallup of Warm Springs, and
Wolfman Suppah, of Warm
Springs.
Please write
Happy holidays! I’m still
chilling in Benton County, a
few more months. My release
date is March 16, 2015.
Times are hard when the holi-
days come and go and my bad
choices leave me in a concrete
room on those days. Write to
me please. It will help. The
address here is: Antonia
Wahsise, 7122 W. Okanogan
Pl. Bldg. B, Kennewick, WA
99336.
Indian Business Talk
What to know when applying for business loans
By Bruce Engle
Loan officer
W.S. Credit Enterprise
Sometimes, addition prob-
lems can be easily solved—
by subtracting.
Why am I talking about
this during Christmas vaca-
tion? I am trying to find ways
to help more of our kids en-
joy and become better at
math.
This would be my Christ-
mas present for them. Par-
ents, you can help.
Many fourth graders can
learn this method and some
third graders can handle it.
Start them off easy. You
may be surprised how quickly
they can pick it up.
Show them how to add 17
+ 37 by rounding the num-
bers to 20 plus 40 equals 60
and subtracting 6. That would
be subtracting 17 from 20
equals 3 and 37 from 40
equals another 3. Then you
subtract that 6 from 60 for
the answer of 54.
The next problems might
be something like 18 + 57 or
25 + 47. The answer to the
first would be 20 + 60 equals
80 and then 80 minus 5
equals 75. The second calcu-
lation would be 80 minus 8
equals 72.
Then, make it a bit more
challenging by having them
add 17 + 37 + 56. Here are
two ways to do the problem.
One thought process might
be 20 (minus 3) plus 40 (mi-
nus another 3) equals 60 mi-
nus 6. Then, add another 60
(with a minus 4) to equal 120
minus 3+3+4 to have an an-
swer of 110.
Or, how about thinking 17
+ 37 equals 54 and that 54
plus 56 equals 110. That last
calculation is 50 + 50 equals
100 and then you add 6 + 4
to make the answer 110.
Thinking and working from
left to right makes it easy.
A next step might be to
work with larger numbers.
For example, add 396 plus
487 and then plus 563.
Here is one way:
· Round the numbers up
to 400, 500 and 600; and, at
the same time, keep track of
the minuses. That’s the key.
· Subtract 4 + 13 + 37.
That’s 54. The 4 is the dif-
ference between 396 and
400. The 13 is the difference
between 487 and 500, and
the 37 is the difference be-
tween 563 and 600.
The answer is 1500 minus
54 = 1446.
In your head you might
think something like this: 400
minus 4 plus 500 minus 13
equals 900 minus 17, and fi-
nally 900 minus 17 + 600
minus 37 equals 1500 minus
54 which still equals 1446.
You can make it even
more fun if there are some
low numbers that you can
round down and add back to
make it work.
An example would be to
add 214 to the previous an-
swer by rounding it down to
200 + 1446 to equal 1646 and
adding 14 to 1646 to make
1660.
Have fun and have a
Merr y Christmas!