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Spilyay Tymoo
February 3, 2016
Letters to the editor
Salmon Camp
Salmon Camp is hosted of
the Columbia River Inter-
Tribal Fish Commission
Tribal Workforce Develop-
ment program.
The annual camp focuses
on providing tribal members
with culturally relevant sci-
ence, technology, engineer-
ing, and mathematics
(STEM) experiences.
The goal is to foster an in-
terest in natural resources
careers, and to close the aca-
demic achievement gap for
Native American youth.
A limited number of in-
coming sixth- to eighth-grade
students from the four tribes
are selected to attend the free
camp. Meals, lodging and a
stipend are provided after the
program is successfully com-
pleted.
The week long camp is held
during the summer in tribal
homelands. The four tribes
take turns hosting Salmon
Camp.
The five-day, overnight
camp exposes the students to
a blend of Western science
and traditional ecological and
cultural knowledge. Salmon
Camp participants:
Learn about the science
and lifecycle of salmon.
Work on salmon restora-
tion projects.
Explore traditional eco-
logical knowledge.
Meet tribal professionals
working in the sciences
Learn from tribal elders
and cultural experts. And
they gain unique and valuable
hands-on experience.
Salmon Camp 2016 dates
will be announced in March.
An application form and the
application deadline will also
be available in March.
For more information,
contact Tana Atchley,
CRITFC Tribal Workforce
Development and Outreach
Coordinator, 503-238-0667.
tana@critfc.org
Museum honors
The Museum At Warm
Springs will host the Four-
teenth Annual Honor Dinner
in April. The dinner this year
will be at the World Forestry
Center in Portland.
We are pleased to an-
nounce that former Oregon
Gov. Ted Kulongoski will be
presented with the Twanat
Award.
The Lifetime Achieve-
ment Award will be presented
to Dr. Thomas Creelman and
the late Jeanie Thompson
Smith.
The Twanat Award honors
individuals who have worked
tirelessly on behalf of Native
Americans, and who are an
example to all Americans.
The Lifetime Achieve-
ment Award recognizes the
contributions of individuals
or groups who support the art
and heritage of Oregon’s Na-
tive American communities.
We hope that you will join
us on this special occasion as
we thank three extraordinary
people for their commitment,
support and vision.
Please call us if we can
answer any questions, 541-
553-3331. Thank you for
your support of Museum
programs.
Debbie Stacona, The
Museum At Warm Springs
dstacona@museumatwarm
springs.org
Papalaxsimisha
logo contest
Papalaxsimisha is a pro-
gram for Native American
students in grades 6 through
12.
The program is designed
to encourage and empower
students and their families to
graduate from high school,
and to explore their career
and college options.
Papalaxsimisha means “to-
gether as one.” This an
Sahaptin language education
program of the Confeder-
ated Tribes of Warm Springs.
This logo contest is spon-
sored by the Let’s Talk Di-
versity Coalition, and Oregon
State University. To enter:
Draw, paint or design a
logo representative of the
program (you may add a
short paragraph explaining
your artwork).
Submit to 574 SW Fourth
St., Madras, 97741; or by
email:
jaylyn@bestcaretreatment.org
The original copy will need
to be submitted. More than
one entry is allowed.
The deadline is March 4
by midnight. The winner will
be announced in late March.
For more information call
me at 541-475-4292. Or at
the email above.
Jaylyn Suppah
Birth
Ameriesa Leandra Hicks
Arianna Henry and LeRoy
Hicks III are pleased to an-
nounce the birth of their
daughter Ameriesa Leandra
Hicks, born on January 6,
2016
Grandparents on the fa-
thers side are Buddy and
Marla Hicks of Chiloquin
and Warm Springs.
Grandparents on mother's
side Cherilyn Starr of Warm
Springs, Anthony Henry of
Warm Springs, and James and
Beverly Surface of Montana-
New Mexico
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Call to artists
Calling all artists for this
chance to win $100.
The Consortia of Admin-
istrators for Native American
Rehabilitation, CANAR, is
seeking American Indian art-
ists to submit their original
artwork depicting the 2016
Mid-Year CANAR Confer-
ence theme.
The theme is ‘United as
Warriors: Raising our Voices.’
Over 600,000 working
age Natives have a disability.
Finding employment is very
difficult for this population.
The state vocational reha-
bilitation agencies cannot
meet the special culturally rel-
evant needs of our disabled
Native people. CANAR
works as their voice.
Our goal is to raise aware-
ness of the struggle our Na-
tives with disabilities face, and
also to raise awareness of the
great work being done
throughout the American In-
dian Vocational Rehabilitation
Services each and every day.
The winning artwork will
serve as the CANAR Mid-
Year Conference logo, and
will be placed on the con-
ference bags, books, t-shirts
and other conference ma-
terials.
For reproduction pur-
poses, there is a five color
limit. Any medium will be ac-
cepted as long as it can be
reproduced on paper and fab-
ric.
Please submit the original
artwork if possible. All sub-
missions become the property
of CANAR. Submissions will
Warm Springs artist Travis Bobb wishing you a Happy Valentine’s Day!
be appropriately displayed at
the conference and may be
submitted to the CANAR si-
lent auction.
The winning original entry
will receive a $100 award.
Please send your original
entry to: CANAR - Peggy
Venable; 107 Tall Pine Drive;
Whigham, GA 39897. My
email is:
cpvenable.mvr4@gmail.com
The deadline for submis-
sions is February 19.
Please include the follow-
ing with your submission: Full
name, tribal affiliation, mail-
ing address, email, phone
number, artwork title, de-
scription (how does the sub-
mission represent the confer-
ence theme), and a short bio
of the artist.
Indian Business Talk
Financial success is a team effort
By Bruce Engle
Loan officer
W.S. Credit Enterprise
Yoda tells us, “Always
pass on what you have
learned.”
That’s what your Busi-
ness Success Team will do
for you.
Who are they? There are
more on the team than you
might imagine. Consider:
· Your parents – Their
job is to help you to get a
good start.
· Yourself – There
comes a time when you are
the one. Be prepared!
· Bookkeeper – Some-
body has to do it. Every
day is best.
· Accountant – Takes
what the bookkeeper does
and makes dollars and sense
of it.
· Banker – Most busi-
nesses need one.
· Lender – May not be
the banker. Start-ups must
look elsewhere.
· Attorney – To keep you
out of trouble with con-
tracts and laws.
· Investment advisor –
Helps you to invest for fu-
ture needs, growth, retire-
ment, etc.
· Mentor – Often pro-
vides needed guidance – see
all of the above.
· Employees – Need a
job. Will help you succeed
or fail. Choose carefully and
supervise.
Let’s look a bit deeper at
each of the Team.
Parents
Parents are the first teach-
ers: They get first crack at us.
They lay the foundation
for success in business as well
as in life by promoting the
concepts of hard work, smart
work, and of ‘doing well’.
When I was a boy in the
mid ‘40s, the old ladies in
Chiloquin, when gossiping at
the store, would always pref-
ace their chat with: “Are they
doing well?” “Is he doing
well?” Or “Is she doing well?”
Doing well was important
to them. Financial consider-
ations were just a part, an im-
portant part, of the “doing-
well” questions.
Parents lay the important
foundations for financial well
being. They teach sound
money management skills by
examples and preachings.
That’s a positive approach.
A negative/positive might
be, “avoid poverty”.
Is one motivational or in-
spirational approach better
than the other? That is a ‘per-
sonal’ question. The answer
depends upon what turns you
on and gets the job done.
Some athletes have a fire
to win. Some have a similar
fire to not lose.
As a tennis tournament
player, I have been in both
situations. I remember being
fired up to win a tournament
and doing so—occasionally.
I also remember, during a
match, convincing myself
and challenging myself that
no way would I accept losing
to a certain opponent—and
not losing.
Motivation can enhance
performance, but sometimes
the opponent is just better.
Then we must go back to
work to improve perfor-
mance. The results can be
most satisfying.
Can we all say, “We did it
the old fashioned way, we
earned it”?
Yoda sums it up pretty
well with his eight-hundred
year wisdom, “Do or don’t
do. There is no try.”
Okay, how do we help oth-
ers to do well? And when?
Why “we”? Remember,
parents are the first members
of the Success Team, and
usually the most influential.
The rest of us may be on the
list or elsewhere.
Who knows where and by
whom a child will be inspired?
We can be good role mod-
els or otherwise. As parents,
we have the first opportunity
to teach and promote smart
consumerism and smart save-
erism. Yeah, that last one is
important and I just made it
up—I think.
We can talk about and
demonstrate control of the
urges to buy “wants” until
“needs” have been provided
for. We should do that for
our kids.
The important thing to re-
alize is that we all live in an
economy. We all take part in
that economy. We all have
wants and needs.
“We all” includes people
and businesses. People and
businesses all have financial
needs.
Two examples would be
saving needs and smart con-
sumerism needs.
Controlling “want-spend-
ing” is a need. “Saving” is a
need. One begets the other.
A piggy bank can help a
child to learn the value of
saving and setting goals.
There is no “too-young-to-
start” limitation on that les-
son.
Pretty soon, sometimes all
too soon, our kids are in
school. Many schools have
grade-appropriate financial
skills course content. Some-
times that includes Junior
Achievement programs like
those taught at the Warm
Springs Academy and the
Madras High School.
Those are fine programs.
Whatever the situation,
school doesn’t replace home
influence, it augments it. The
home influence, for good or
bad, will usually be the stron-
ger and the more lasting.
Children learn in different
ways. The same goes for
adults. Will Rogers, a nation-
ally known and loved Chero-
kee humorist from the early
1900s, had a routine about
learning that went like this;
“There are three kinds of
men. The one that learns by
reading. The few who learn
by observation. The rest of
them have to pee on the elec-
tric fence for themselves.
Lessons will be learned.
We hope the important les-
sons will be learned without
unnecessary injury.
(This article will continue in
the next Spilyay.)