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Spilyay Tymoo
June 8, 2016
Letters to the editor
Culture Camp
at HeHe
Culture and Heritage will
host the youth Camp
Naimuma on Sunday
through Thursday, June 12-
16. The deadline to register
is this Friday, June 10.
This year the camp will be
at the HeHe camp grounds.
Camp Naimuma 2016 is
open to boys and girls in
grades six through eight (dur-
ing 2015-16 school year).
The camp will be open to
the first 50 boys and 50 girls
to register. For more infor-
mation, call Deanie Smith at
Culture and Heritage, 541-
553-3290. Or email:
deanie.smith@wstribes.org
The goal for each child
attending Camp Naimuma is
to have a positive experience,
in which the camper grows
spiritually and socially, learn-
ing the Warm Springs, Wasco
and Paiute cultures.
Good behavior is expected
throughout the camp. The
registration form explains
the conduct code in more
detail.
Fruit Loop
tour June 29
The Oregon State Uni-
versity Extension Service in
Warm Springs will host the
Fruit Loop Tour on Wednes-
day, June 29.
The Fruit Loop Tour will
include a trip to the Hood
River fruit loop. Tribal vans
will leave from the Extension
office, 1110 Wasco St., at
7:45 a.m., and will return by
5 p.m.
There is space for ten
people, first-come first-
serve. The tour will stop at
several fruit stands, and at
least one u-pick. The plan is
to get cherries, apricots and
blueberries.
Food is each participant’s
responsibility, so pack snacks
and a lunch or bring money
for a lunch in Parkdale.
Also bring containers for
your produce. Extension will
provide bottled water and
limited cooler space.
If you have questions,
please call 541-553-3238.
STRIVE in July
Summer Training to Re-
vive Indigenous Vision and
Empower ment—
STRIVE—is a residential
summer program for Native
American high school stu-
dents in Central Oregon.
It is July 15-17 at the
COCC Bend Campus. Stu-
dents take culturally appro-
priate classes from college
professors in a variety of sub-
jects and work with success-
ful Native college students.
It is open to students with
at least a 2.0 GPA in high
school, incoming freshmen
through seniors. It’s free for
all students. For information
contact Gina Ricketts at
COCC 541-318-3782.
Carrying the
Message of
Sobriety
The Third Annual Carry-
ing the Message Sobriety Con-
ference will be June 10-12 at
the Warm Springs Commu-
nity Center.
Registration is on Friday,
June 10, starting at 3 p.m.
The invocation and welcome
is at 4; dinner and open sweat
at 5:30; a performance at 7;
speaker and open floor at 8
p.m.
Breakfast on Saturday is
from 7 to 8, followed by the
motorcade parade. The invo-
cation, welcome and speak-
ers on Saturday begin at 10
a.m.
The family sobriety pow-
wow starts at 6:30 p.m. on
Saturday, June 11.
The Sunday agenda in-
cludes a breakfast at 8 a.m.;
invocation and open floor
starting at 9:30; and then clos-
ing and clean-up starting
around noon.
Contact infor mation:
Aldo Garcia, 541-777-1627.
Or email:
Mrgarcia8040@outlook.com
Facebook: Aldo Garcia; or
third Annual Carrying the
Message conference at Warm
Springs.
Any raffle donations are
welcome. Also see:
Gofundme.com/
3rdcarryingmessage
Gospel Revival
The Warm Springs Full
Gospel Church will host a
Camp Meeting on Monday
through Friday, June 13-17.
There will be morning ser-
vices at 10 a.m., and evening
services at 7 p.m. A. Onte
Lumpmouth, Pastor, can be
reached at 541-553-2553.
Everyone is welcome. If
you traveling from out of
town, bring your tents, camp-
ing gear, etc. Showers will be
available, and three meals a
day.
Warm Springs is
hosting the CRITFC
Salmon Camp this July,
and the commission is
hiring camp counselors.
For a full list of the posi-
tion details, job require-
ments and to apply visit:
critfc.org
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Congratulations, 2016 Graduates
Memorial
There will be a Memorial
and Stone Setting for Clay
Michael Anderson, “Nation,”
on Saturday, June 18.
The Stone Setting will be
at 8 a.m. in the McCoy Cem-
etery on McCoy Road,
Toppenish.
Then family and friends
will meet at the Toppenish
Community Center for the
Memorial, and dinner to fol-
low. Name giving right after.
For more information,
contact Fidelia “Fudge”
Meninick, 509-314-0255;
Demetria Isadore, 509-250-
3958; or Darcy Stahi, 509-
527-7381.
Memorial tourney
An All Indian Youth 12-
and-under Co-ed Basketball
Tournament is coming up in
loving memory of grandpa
Clay “Nation” Anderson.
The tourney will be June 24-
26 at the Toppenish Commu-
nity Center.
For more information,
contact Fidelia, Darcy or
Demetria (phone numbers
above).
Orrah G. David graduated
on May 5, 2016 from Sherman
Indian High School in River-
side, California. Congratula-
tions, and great job, Orrah
Language
grads
Kw’atashamatsh. Nami
Tananama.
Ku Warm Springs Con-
federated Tribes. For another
successful year in Autni
Nicole Goudy is a recent
graduate of the Warm Springs
Roots program. Congratula-
tions, Nicole!
From family and friends,
Congratulations and great
job, Koedy Florendo!
Ichishkin Sapsikw’at Acad-
emy to all the 10 students
who graduated this year. And
to all the Miyanashma that
attended AIS in the past and
to the future. Honorable
mention to all parents, grand-
parents and great grandpar-
ents. We thank all from the
Culture and Heritage Lan-
guage Program. And also to
S a p s i k w ’ a s h a
Miyanashmamn – Early
Childhood School. There are
many people involve.
Dallas Winishut
Estate planning service free to tribal members
Martha Izenson is in
Warm Springs this summer,
helping tribal members with
drafting wills, powers of at-
torney, and other estate plan-
ning services.
This service is free to
members. Martha is a law
school student at Lewis &
Clark Law School.
Her Warm Springs office
is at the Community Action
Team building on campus, at
1136 Paiute Ave.
To schedule an appoint-
ment call 541-553-3148. Or
email:
mizenson@lclark.edu
The estate planning ser-
vice is a program of the In-
stitute for Indian Estate Plan-
ning and Probate at Seattle
University School of Law.
The institute has spon-
sored the program for the
met with Tribal Council ear-
lier this week, explaining the
services that are being pro-
vided.
The director of the Office
of the Special Trustee,
Charles Jackson, helps facili-
tate the program.
Importance of planning
Martha Izenson
past decade in War m
Springs.
During that time, many
tribal members have used the
service.
Izenson is working with a
supervising attorney to pro-
vide the estate planning ser-
vices to tribal members. She
Especially for tribal mem-
bers, having a will is recom-
mended for anyone over 18.
And this is especially rec-
ommended for people who
have ownership interest in
land: If you die without a
will, the American Indian Pro-
bate Reform Act will deter-
mine who will receive your
trust land.
Services available this sum-
mer include writing a new will,
or changing an existing one.
The new or changed will
would be drafted so as to
comply with tribal, state and
federal law.
You need a will if:
· You are over 18;
· You have, or may ac-
quire, trust land, non-trust
land, or personal property;
· You have children or
step-children under 18;
· You want to leave prop-
erty to someone who is not
in your immediate, blood
family;
· You want to leave income
from an interest to a non-In-
dian spouse.
· You want to stop further
fractionation of your land
If you die without a will,
the American Indian Pro-
bate Reform Act will deter-
mine who will receive your
trust land, but with a will
you have many more options.
Around Indian Country
Yakama publish Climate Adaptation Plan
Climate change is real and,
unfortunately, the effects appear
to be in motion. We are witness-
ing changes in the seasons. Our
roots and berries must be gath-
ered sooner, and salmon returns
are less predictable. Our people
notice less snow in the mountains
now, and there is less cool water
during the summer when it was
once abundant. The changes we
see may not bode well for our
future. Over the years to come,
we may lose natural resources
that are important to our cul-
ture and our heritage. Some of
these losses may be irreversible.
— Introduction to Cli-
mate Adaptation Plan for
the Territories of the
Yakama Nation
Published last month, the
Yakama Nation Climate Ad-
aptation Plan for the Terri-
tories of the Yakama Na-
tion states:
This document is an ac-
knowledgment that climate
change is real and that it
poses a threat to our grand-
children, our culture, and
our way of living.
This document represents
the first collective effort by
our many governmental de-
partments and programs to
identify important resources
and cultural components
most likely to be impacted by
climate change.
The plan identifies work
the tribe is currently under-
taking recognizing and help-
ing to reduce climate change
impacts.
The plan includes specific
recommendations for
deeper analyses of vulner-
abilities and risks to the
most important interests
and adaptation actions that
we should implement now.
This is a starting point for
the conversation about cli-
mate change and planning
for adaptation throughout all
of the territories of the
Yakama Nation.
It is derived from the ex-
perience of the Yakama
Nation people, its tribal pro-
grams, and findings from
regional experts on these
important topics. “This docu-
ment is one way we can edu-
cate ourselves about current
vulnerabilities and future
risks and share ideas about
actions that we may need to
take to build climate resil-
ience.”
Oregon Zoo condor egg is called to the wild
Five chicks have hatched
since March—with one
more still on the way—from
eggs laid this winter at the
Oregon Zoo’s Jonsson Cen-
ter for Wildlife Conserva-
tion. In a fitting salute to
the recovery program’s goal
to facilitate a self-sustaining
population of North
America’s largest land birds,
one of these chicks went
straight to the California
wild.
In late April, Joe Burnett,
condor program coordina-
tor at the Ventana Wildlife
Society, noticed that a pair
of wild birds—Condor No.
310 and her mate, No.
219—had an egg that was
past its expected hatch date.
Burnett decided to check
out the nest cave, rappelling
halfway down a 180-foot
cliff in the steep coastal
mountain range near Big Sur.
After closer examination of
the egg, he candled the egg
and determined it had failed
inside. While unfortunate,
natural egg failures like this
do occur, Burnett says, and
the California condor recov-
ery network is there to pick
up the slack.
At the Oregon Zoo’s
Jonsson Center, timing was
spot on. Inside of Egg No.
7, laid at the Center on
March 4, a chick was already
“pipping”—chiseling a hole
in its shell to access more air.