Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
March 16, 2016
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Academy Show of Support
Jayson Smith photos.
Academy students gather for the assembly.
Madras White Buffaloes, I’m proud of all of you—18-8 this
season was good, with great memories, especially when we took
home the Tri-Valley Conference Championship.
I’ve got to believe we’ll be back to the playoffs next year. This
is a very solid team. We’re always here for the White Buffaloes.
~ Jayson Smith
Among students at the assembly were Leah Suppah, Vanessa Culps, Leola Clements and Jackie Zamora-Heath
Team on the bus getting ready for the trip to Forest Grove.
The team presented Arthur Mitchell with the winning check in the 50/50 raffle. The
raffle helped with some of the expenses for the trip to the state tournament.
Indian Business Talk
2 charged for damaging sacred site
Two people who participated in
the armed takeover at the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon
were charged for damaging a site
sacred to the Burns Paiute Tribe.
Sean Anderson and a second
person are accused of causing more
than $1,000 in damage to the ar-
chaeological site. The charges ap-
parently stem from a road and la-
trines that were dug in and near the
site. Federal investigators said hu-
man waste was found in at least one
of the latrines.
The identity of the second per-
son is redacted in the version of
the indictment that was unsealed last
week.
In total, 26 people are facing
charges in connection with the 41-
day occupation of the refuge. The
defendants include Eric Lee Flores,
a 22-year-old member of the Tulalip
Tribes, who reportedly went back
and forth between the refuge and
his reservation in early January, when
the incident began.
Flores is not specifically accused
of damaging archaeological sites,
according to the superseding indict-
ment. But he’s facing other charges
for allegedly threatening federal of-
ficers and employees and possess-
ing a firearm within a federal facil-
ity.
The land in and around the ref-
uge was initially set aside as a reser-
vation for the Burns Paiute Tribe
in the late 1800s but the federal
government took 1.78 million acres
from the Northern Paiute people
and forced them to march to reser-
vations in neighboring Washington.
After the Paiutes were allowed
to return, they were placed on a
much-smaller reser vation in
present-day Burns, about 30 miles
from the refuge. The tribe repeat-
edly called for the anti-government
protesters to leave their ancestral
territory and has been concerned
about damage to sacred sites and
artifacts.
“I’m glad they cleaned up all
those urinals they made,” Burns
Paiute Tribal Council member Jarvis
Kennedy said.
“They went in with Hazmat suits
on and got all of that out of there
and covered it up. When I first saw
it kind of made me mad. That’s our
burial ground area.”'
Putting business to music
By Bruce Engle
Loan officer, W.S. Credit Enterprise
Oscar Hammerstein gave us
some lovely lyrics. Here is one that
I have adapted for both individuals
and businesses.
The original goes a bit like this:
A Bell is not a Bell until you ring
it—A song is not a Song until you
sing it.
Love in your heart wasn’t put
there to stay—Love isn’t Love until
you give it away.
Here are the “new” last two lines,
with apology to Mr. Hammerstein.
For individuals:
Cash in your paycheck isn’t put
there to stay—But cash in your pay-
check shouldn’t be frittered away.
Savings in your bank isn’t put
there to stay—But savings in your
bank shouldn’t be frittered away.
For Businesses:
Money in the cash register isn’t
put there to stay—But money in the
cash register shouldn’t be frittered
away.
Cash and Retained Earnings on
the books isn’t shown there to stay—
But cash and r etained ear nings
shouldn’t be frittered away.
Good luck and remember, “I can
and I will,” and “Pennies make dol-
lars.”
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