Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
March 4, 2015
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New England students spending
spring break in Warm Springs
by Alyssa Macy
Spilyay Tymoo
Students from the
Soujourn Collegiate Ministry
will be spending their spring
break doing service work in
Simnasho and Warm Springs.
Their primary focus will be
cleaning up the three commu-
nity longhouses, preparing
community gardens for plant-
ing, working with youth, and
cleaning up community areas.
The purpose of the re-
gional ministry is to help stu-
dents question, experience
and follow Jesus. They work
primarily with schools in
Rhode Island and the Boston
area.
Throughout the year, stu-
dents volunteer to tutor and
provide mentoring, work in
homeless shelters and raise
awareness of local and glo-
bal issues such as human traf-
ficking and suicide preven-
tion.
Each year, students partici-
pate in an annual service trip
during their spring break.
They have worked in Joplin,
Missouri with tornado relief
efforts; Salinas, California
with at-risk youth. They once
traveled to Siguatapeque,
Honduras to work with chil-
dren and community mem-
bers.
There are two groups com-
ing, one on March 9–12 and
a second on March 16–19,
with a total of 44 people.
Thirty-six students are in-
cluded representing various
academic disciplines from
schools in Rhode Island and
the Boston areas. Included in
the group are international
students from China and Bra-
zil.
Linsey Field, Campus Min-
ister from Boston University,
has been working to coordi-
nate the effort. She shared,
“We are incredibly excited to
work alongside and learn
from the people of Warm
Springs.
“Every trip we take pre-
sents us the amazing oppor-
tunity to see God at work in
the world and in our own lives.
We have seen bonds formed
on these trips that last life-
times, and fully expect this to
be one of our best trips yet.”
Local organizers encour-
age community members to
come out and work alongside
the students during the
longhouse cleanups, sched-
uled for March 10 in
Simnasho, March 11 in Warm
Springs, and March 16 at
HeHe.
Additional support is also
needed to cover meals and
drinks for the students. If
you are able to volunteer or
donate, please contact Alyssa
Macy at:
alyssamacy@gmail.com.
For more information on
the group, visit:
sojourncollegiate.com
Indianpreneurship classes starting this week
The Warm Springs Com-
munity Action Team and
tribal Credit are now hosting
the Indianpreneurship
classes.
The classes, Indian-
preneurship: A Native
American Journey Into Busi-
ness, are from 6-8 p.m. on
Tuesday and Thursday eve-
nings through early April.
The classes cover business
concepts that are indispens-
able for anyone starting or
running a small business.
The training provides com-
prehensive information on
business planning, access to
capital, basic bookkeeping,
human resources, problem
solving and marketing.
For more information call
541-553-3148. Classes are
held in the tribal Credit en-
terprise conference room.
The lead instructor is business-
woman Aurolyn Stwyer, with
support from Gerald
Danzuka and Wanda Berry
of the Community Action
Team, and Bruce Engle of
tribal Credit.
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
The Early Childhood Education Center hosted their annual powwow last week at the
Agency Longhouse. On hand were Mason Frye, James Tewee and Devin Super
(from front).
The Apprenticeships in Science and Engineering
program matches motivated 9-11 grade students with
professional scientists, technologists and engineers
for hands-on 8-week summer internships. Students
can apply for the 47 internships available this sum-
mer in the Corvallis and Eugene areas through the
website:
saturdayacademy.org/ase/student-information
Howlak Tichum
Marie Ann Smith Calica, 1942-2015
We want to thanks all
the family, friends and col-
leagues of Marie for
their presence and offer-
ing their thoughts and
prayers as a final honor
and tribute to the life and
memory of Marie. We
must now find comfort in
the special memories we
shared with her as a sis-
ter, wife, mother, grand-
mother and great-grand-
mother.
Marie passed on to the
spirit world on February
14, 2015, Valentines Day.
Her passing was the re-
sult of major complica-
tions associated with sur-
gery that attempted to
remove a significant brain
tumor.
We were fortunate to
be able to honor her final
wishes to spend her last
night in her own bed and
succumb to a natural
passing. The family is ex-
tremely grateful to St.
Charles Medical Center
and Jefferson County
EMS for making that last
request a reality.
She came into this
world being born here in
Warm Springs, January 1,
1942 to Alvis Smith Sr.
and Ramona Whiz Smith,
who proceeded her in
death.
She was the eldest of
12 brothers and sisters.
Her surviving siblings in-
clude William Kanim
Smith, Robert (Smith)
Eagleheart, Austin Smith
Sr., Vernon Smith, Arlene
K. Smith, Ramona(Smith)
Cochran, Kennedy Smith
and Alyssia Meanus. She
preceded in death by sib-
lings Alvis Smith Jr.,
Zelma Smith and Joseph
Smith.
Her first marriage was to
the late Herb Graybael Jr.,
from which there were three
sons, Ricky, Brent and Tracy
Graybael.
She would later marry
Charles “Jody” Calica and the
family grew by two more sons,
Carlos and José Calica.
Our lives were to be
blessed by the birth of our
daughter Direlle. She is sur-
vived by all five of these chil-
dren. Over our 41 years of
marriage our family would
grow and she would also be
survived by 16 grandchildren
and fourteen great-grandchil-
dren.
Services were conducted
at the Warm Springs Baptist
Church, where Marie and I
accepted Mr. Elston’s spiritual
guidance to join the Baptist
faith and fellowship. He bap-
tized both Marie and I, and
consummated our decision
and commitment to take this
as our common spiritual
home.
We feel extremely blessed
that Reverend Emeritus
Elston graciously accepted a
role in honoring Marie in this
final journey.
Our lives with her took a
very dramatic turn early in
December with the discovery
of a brain tumor after a fall-
ing injury. Once we learned
the size, nature and severity,
she understood the options
were to do nothing or un-
dergo surgery.
With full knowledge of the
risks, she chose the surgery
with the hope of preserving
her quality of life; we hon-
ored that decision regardless
of the outcome. Within a
matter of weeks she shared
some her hope, spiritual
strength, courage and deter-
mination with the family in
anticipation of a successful
procedure, but we were left
facing this now God-given
outcome.
Although she was smallish
in stature, she had this amaz-
ing character, strength and
devotion to youth, families
and to the welfare of our
community.
Many are quick to remem-
ber her career and various
student and community ac-
tivities for our youth, tal-
ent shows, fashions shows,
dances and invited guests.
Other memorable events
happened while with the
Jefferson County School
District, starting as a teacher
aide, as a junior high counse-
lor, and eventually as the
community-school liaison.
She studied with the Warm
Springs Indian Teacher In-
ternship Project. She and her
daughter Direlle would attend
Portland State University,
where both she and her
daughter earned a Bachelor
of Arts Degree. With this
achievement she hoped to
offer others some sense of
inspiration that age should
not be a barrier to higher edu-
cation.
Retracing some of the
journey of her life and ac-
complishments, she was com-
mitted not only to our com-
munity, but also to the re-
gional and national landscape
of problems, issues and chal-
lenges confronting tribal com-
munities. She actively partici-
pated in organizations and
venues that included:
· United National Indian
Tribal Youth.
· American Indian Heri-
tage Association – Miss In-
dian USA Scholarship Pag-
eant.
· National Indian Educa-
tion Association.
· North American Indian
Women’s Association.
· Oregon Indian Educa-
tion Association.
· National Indian Child
Welfare Conferences.
· Northwest Indian Youth
Leadership Conferences
· Creating the Madras
High School Native Ameri-
can Student Union.
· Oregon Juvenile Justice
Advisory Committee.
· Tribal Education Com-
mittee and other local com-
mitments.
Her greatest passion could
be evidenced as she was
working as the manager for
the tribes’ Victims of Crime
Services program.
She often said that was the
best job she ever had, being
able to be an advocate for
and work with women, chil-
dren and families experienc-
ing some form of abuse or
neglect; and helping them
find some sense of safety, se-
curity and justice for both vic-
tims and perpetrators, all
without prejudice.
As an associate Tribal
Court judge, she often com-
mented that being assigned to
Juvenile Court was most chal-
lenging in trying to maintain
the stability and unification of
children, their parents and
their family unity.
One of her proudest mo-
ments was to secure the re-
lease of almost 20 tribal
Youth incarcerated at the
North Oregon Regional Cor-
rectional Center, and return
them to productive lifestyles.
No tribal youth were to be
incarcerated there during her
tenure as a judge.
In 1990, Marie was hon-
ored and presented an award
during the Native American
Symposium conducted by
Brigham Young University, as
a testimony to her leadership
and generous spirit.
The caption on the
plaque reads: “For unself-
ish contributions toward
the advancement of Na-
tive American people.”
She touched all our
lives, through several gen-
erations in many special
acts that will forever re-
mind us to love, honor,
respect and cherish all
that is important to the
institution that we know
as family.
Her infectious smile,
witty conversation and in-
spiring presence are now
only the memories we will
carry in our hearts and
spirits as her legacy to
each of us.
As her husband, I
prayed to the Creator
hoping for the best pos-
sible outcome for her
decision to try to beat the
tumor. I sought the
graces of the same Cre-
ator that gave her spiri-
tual support and comfort
through my five cardiac
events, hoping she would
receive the same blessing.
We talked about and
accepted the knowledge
and realization that the
Creator is the master of
our destiny and our faith
may be tested, and to
have the spiritual strength
and perseverance to ac-
cept that will.
On behalf of the sur-
viving family, I want to
thank all the family and
friends for all the words,
support and generous
gestures of support and
comfort in making
Marie’s final journey such
a prayer-filled blessing.
She is Atwai and we be-
gin our traditional year of
mourning.
Carbon: market
may be
expanding
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Tribal
Councilman
Kahseuss Jackson said this
revenue should be used for
the maximum financial ben-
efit of the tribes. The money
could be used to invest, gen-
erating more revenue, he
said.
The tribes could purchase
more land to market for car-
bon sequestration, as one ex-
ample.
War m Springs will be
among the first tribes to en-
ter the carbon sequestration
market. The Yurok, Hoopa
and White Mountain Apache
are also involved. A First
Nation in British Columbia
set aside more than 4 million
acres as part of its market-
ing.
Carbon sequestration is
the capturing and storing of
the greenhouse gas carbon di-
oxide. Certain forestry prac-
tices can be a method of in-
creasing the capture and stor-
age of carbon dioxide. These
practices include reducing
fire and insect threats, and
promoting forest health and
growth.
The carbon sequestration
market in the U.S. involves
California, although Oregon,
Washington and other states
may create similar regulations.
Growing market
The market for carbon se-
questration credits has existed
only for about a year and half,
since the carbon dioxide emis-
sions trading regulations took
effect in California.
The goal of the Califor-
nia law is to reduce carbon
dioxide emission levels by 25
percent by the year 2020.
The long-term goal is to re-
duce emissions to the 1990
level. So the market for car-
bon sequestration credits
could grow as target dates ap-
proach under the California
law. The California “cap and
trade” regulations impact
mainly large companies, such
oil refineries, that emit large
amounts of carbon dioxide.