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Spilyay Tymoo
February 4, 2015
Letters to the editor
A thank you
Thank you to the residents
of Warm Springs.
We traveled from Nevada
on January 8 to Madras, to
be at the services for our
niece Clarice Tewee.
Our sister Florene and her
husband Har vey Scott
worked hard to prepare for
the services and burial.
We would like to thank
Hester and Jay for being there
to help their mom and dad.
And also to the many others
who were there for the fam-
ily.
We are also grateful for
the hospitality shown to us by
the community while at the
Longhouse and for “loading”
us up with food for our trip
home.
We know our sister is far
away from us but she loves
her family in Warm Springs,
and it’s always nice to visit her.
We made it back home
safely but our memories of
being there for her will be in
our hearts forever.
Evalina Picotte, Carolyn
Kenton, Eleanor Smith,
Myra Smith and Debra
Keats Yerington, Fernley
and Gardnerville, Nevada
From Landfill
What’s an eighth of a mile
worth?
Have you ever noticed
how trash breeds trash?
Someone cleans out their car
and dumps the litter in the
parking lot or on the ground,
and low and behold more
trash appears.
Individuals and depart-
ments that start brush and
trash piles illegally contribute
greatly to the problem, since
the piles of brush all of a
sudden have couches, old
televisions, beds and appli-
ances.
Illegal dumping costs the
tribes both in time and
money.
Our disposal fees for
commercial entities are some
of the lowest around, and for
residential, it is free, except
for brush. Brush is $30 a ton
for everyone.
The illegal dump located
between Lower Dry Creek
Road and the landfill road
started out as a brush pile,
but look at it now. It is lo-
cated about an eighth of a
mile from the landfill. Why
not drive the eighth of a mile
and dispose of the trash and
brush properly?
People who have appli-
ances and scrap metal can
call the landfill, and we can
pick up the items from your
house. Refrigerators and
freezers must be empty of
all food. Metal should be set
by the road.
Landfill staff can also as-
sist with removal of large
bulky items as time allows. If
you have items that need to
be removed and have no ve-
hicle to move the items, you
can call the landfill at 541-
553-3163, and we will sched-
ule a time to pick up bulk
items. If you leave a message
at the landfill, please leave
your address and phone num-
ber so that we can call you
back to schedule.
Warm Springs Landfill
staff
Managed Care
The following important
m e s s a g e s a r e f r o m Wa r m
Springs Managed Care.
If you leave
When a Warm Springs
Health and Wellness patient
leaves the Warm Springs
area, he or she is eligible for
services for only six months
(180 days) from the time
they left.
The patient is then eligible
for only direct care services
here at the Warm Springs
Clinic, and loses any finan-
cial support or coverage for
hospital, doctor or other
medical related bills outside
of the Warm Springs Clinic.
After those 180 days, your
eligibility changes to “direct
status,” and Warm Springs
Managed Care will deny any
claims for any medical ser-
vices after the 180 days. You
and any private insurance
you have will be responsible
for the payments.
If you return to Warm
Springs, you need to go physi-
cally into the Health and
Wellness Center and present
written documentation to
update at the clinic, and then
be able to verify to Managed
Care that you and your fam-
ily members are again resid-
ing permanently in Warm
Springs; or, if you are tribal
member, that you live within
the Contract Health Services
Delivery Area.
It’s important to take this
step to re-establish your
Managed Care eligibility to
regain services. For more in-
formation contact Managed
Care at the Health and
Wellness Center: 541-553-
4948.
Outside appointment
When you are referred
from the Warm Springs In-
dian Health Services clinic to
another provider, you need
to be sure and have your in-
surance ID card with you
when you go to your appoint-
Spilyay Tymoo
(Coyote News, Est. 1976)
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Sweet 16
Our family would like to
thank everyone who assisted
and celebrated at Malia’s
Sweet 16 Birthday Round
Dance on January 17 at the
Simnasho Longhouse.
We would like to thank her
Mosom Irvin Waskewitch,
Kokum Adele Fletcher and
sister Christa Waskewitch who
traveled from Canada to at-
tend; Colin Chief for being
our stickman on such short
notice and doing a good job
of organizing all the drum-
mers; Lovie Colwash, Angela,
Ferrellyn and Tatum, for vol-
unteering as cooks, for your
donations to the raffle, and
your wonderful food. It was
well received, made a lot of
people happy, and took a
huge load of worry off our
family .
To our closest neighbors
and good friends Ken and
Alyssa, Thank you for help-
ing with the design and cre-
ation of the beautiful poster,
purchasing all of the decora-
tions and raffle earrings, elk
meat, and your help cleaning
and decorating before and af-
ter the event.
Carla, thank you for the
casserole you prepared for
our guests and for your as-
sistance at the raffle table.
You all are true friends and
blessings!
Thank you Charlotte
Herkshan for taking us un-
der your wing and helping us
with the salmon, deer meat,
huckleberries and chokecher-
ries, the cake, drinks as well
as the gifts you brought and
your help in cleaning the
kitchen afterward.
Thank you Huston,
Antone and Ryan Moody for
cutting the salmon so beauti-
fully, you put many women
to shame with your skills!
Thank you Captain and
Keith for the elk meat, drinks,
moneybox and change, raffle
items and guidance in getting
this together. We know we
can always count on you both
for anything and we appreci-
ate it.
To Shirley and Delvis
Heath Sr., thank you for the
wonderful stew that you
brought to the dinner, it
means a lot to Malia and to
us that you are always there
for her.
To uncle Raymond and
Beulah Tsumpti, thank you
for the donuts—it is always
good to see you.
Thank you Domonique
Craig for helping us decorate
so beautifully and for always
being a positive presence in
our family.
Thank you Cena Wolfe
and family for the donation
of the water, and Eveline
Patt for your donation and
continued support of our
young people and family.
To all the invited drum-
mers and to all the up and
coming drummers, we thank
you each personally for trav-
eling to get here and singing
songs that open that ceiling
and allow Prayers to be heard.
Thank you to everyone
that purchased raffle tickets
during the event.
We are especially grateful
Looking forward to Valentines Day with Travis Bobb.
to all the people who came
out and danced, especially
those who came out even
during your times of sorrow
and mourning. To see you
all there to celebrate with us
was a humbling experience.
Malia said later that she knew
each and everyone of you as
you each have touched her
life in some way.
If we missed anyone, for-
give us; thank you from
hearts. We hope you all en-
joyed the occasion as much
as we did, and we look for-
ward to having one for
Yesenia in about 8 years.
Sincerely,
Michael and Cecelia,
Malia, Yesenia, and Ava
Collins
Better life
Because of my life deci-
sions and the bad choices I
have made… I hurt the ones
I love, and the ones who al-
ways care, because of my
own selfish ambitions.
Most of all I hurt my five
precious gifts that the Cre-
ator has given. I just want
them to know it wasn’t their
fault because they’re just chil-
dren who had no decisions.
I apologize to my parents,
siblings, children, and all loved
ones that I have given any
grief or any kind of hurt.
Because I always found, and
know that they will always be
there and always been there
from the start.
I know making a change
is the route I need to go, be-
cause my life has been down
a path of destruction. I chose
that path, because my selfish-
ness kept me from realizing
others and even my own love
and affection.
Because I know I have
fallen short of His glory, and
with that I proclaimed Jesus
Christ as my savior. In the
eyes of my Savior I’m a per-
fect jewel in His crown…
I love you all forever and
even more. Your daughter,
sister, niece and mother,
Marissa Rose Kalama.
PS: I apologize to my
friends and community for
any grief I may have given
you. God bless you all.
Our sacred stuff, and time to start thinking about spring cleaning
Alyssa Macy
It is often said that the best
things in life don’t cost money.
It is experiences and relation-
ships that in the end mean the
most.
Many tell their personal sto-
ries by what they have—you
know, “stuff.”
Over many years, I accu-
mulated a lot of stuff. It fur-
nished my apartment, drove
me around, draped on my
body, and in some cases,
made me look smarter as it
sat there on my shelf.
You know what I’m talk-
ing about—that intellectual
type book you purchased and
never actually read.
You see, I had entered into
a sacred relationship with my
stuff without even knowing it!
My couch, armoire, kitchen
table, bedroom set, and all the
things hanging on my walls,
squirreled away in boxes, and
in my closet became the things
that told my story and occu-
pied my time.
But of course I never
thought that.
Then one day, a close friend
came to visit me in my fancy
Chicago apartment with my
fancy stuff, where I received
the most honest reality check
I had been given in a long cost and stress, I worked re-
ally hard to have it.
time.
In 2010 I decided to quit
She said, “You have such
a nice apartment, everything my job, sell my vehicle and
is so well coordinated. You worldly possessions (now fill-
bought your furniture at ing a 24’ truck) and move to
New York City. It was
Crate and Barrel! You
the biggest leap of
drive a nice a car,
Spilyay
faith I’ve ever taken
travel and have Frye
Speaks
and letting go of my
boots. You are totally
stuff was a scary and
making it.”
No mention of the
stressful experience.
Friends and fam-
work that I was doing
ily lined up to buy my
in the Midwest or
abroad. No comments from stuff at great discounts and
her about my good qualities eventually I whittled down
like my ability to crack jokes my belongings to 10 large
at inappropriate times, my boxes. In those boxes was the
work ethic or my community real sacred stuff—my buck-
involvement. Unknowingly to skin dress, photos and year-
me, my sacred stuff was tell- books, Pendeltons from my
father, eagle feathers, my
ing my story.
Acquiring things often baby moccasins.
I arrived in New York by
came at a high cost. It took a
few years to pay off that big train with five boxes. With no
screen TV, and a significant job and little worldly posses-
portion of my paycheck went sions, I learned how to clothe
myself with my personality;
to vehicle payments.
There were more than a to house myself with my
few times when my expenses strengths, personal and work
exceeded my income. I spent experiences; and to feed my
way too much money on soul by truly believing in my
clothing, a habit I picked up own abilities.
New York was tough but
as a sixth-grader when I
thought I needed to wear Es- I learned that I didn’t really
prit and Cross Colors like the need all that stuff after all.
We live in a materialistic
“cool” kids.
My sacred stuff made me world, something very differ-
feel better and despite the ent than our ancestors. Me-
dia tells us that we need to
consume and we do. Our
homes are cluttered, and
yards have become the burial
sites for broken down stuff.
We’ve invested our emo-
tions and memories into
things, and given them mean-
ing and control over our life.
The reality is, most things
we acquire we can live with-
out. Not purchasing or letting
go of stuff not only opens
up space in the home but in
the mind. It teaches us to let
go of the things that don’t
serve us.
It’s freeing and opens you
to one of the most precious
thing in life… time.
Rick Warren is the author
of The Pur pose Driven Life:
What on Earth Am I Here
For?, an intellectual type book
I own and did read. He said,
“Time is your most precious
gift because you only have a
set amount of it. You can
make more money, but you
can’t make more time.”
Our wisest investments are
our relationships, experiences
and community.
Take a moment, look
around you, and give your-
self that reality check. Per-
haps its time to start spring
cleaning a little early!