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Spilyay Tymoo
July 6, 2016
Letters to the editor
Dance Exchange thank you
Thank you to supporters
I would like to ex-
press my greatest thanks
for all the love and sup-
port I received in earn-
ing my new title of your
new Miss Pi-Ume-Sha
Queen.
I’ll represent us all
very well throughout the
year! I’d like to give
thanks to all of my spon-
sors who helped out gra-
ciously for my cousins
Jake Castelleja, Hunter
and Conan Foltz,
Giovanne Watlamet and
Janessa and McKenzie
and my brother Andrew
Jordan an my releasing
to continue in the pow-
wow circle.
I’d also like to give
many thanks to my
grandma
Juliegh
Seelatsee for driving me
and giving me all the sup-
Powwow Run
This year’s 2016 Pi-Ume-
Sha Run-Fun Run was a huge
success. Thank you to all who
participated!
Thank you to Erickson’s
for the donation of the or-
anges. Thank you War m
Springs EMT Paramedics
for being on stand-by and
looking out for the runners’
safety.
Thank you Warm Springs
Police Department for look-
ing out on the road condi-
tions. Thank you to Jerry and
Sandra Greene-Sampson for
the easy transportation of the
items.
Thank you to Kelly at
Identity Zone for the awe-
some shirts this year! Y’alls
rock!
And especially a huge
thank-you to the team down
at the Community Center.
Tatun Kalama, Naomi
Brisbois, Joseph Arthur,
Carol Sahme, Satch Miller
and Austin Greene.
Once again thank you to
all who have supported and
participated in this year’s Pi-
Ume-Sha Fun Run. Hope to
see you all next year. Respect-
fully,
port for my vie.
Also a special thanks
to my loving aunts and
uncles,
Dyamelle
Seelatsee-Don Carlos,
Fred Don Carlos,
Kaleja
Castelleja,
Markie Polk, Amberae
Sweowat and Tony
Martinez for all the
help in my ticket sales
and loving words of en-
couragement.
Next year I'm plan-
ning a past and present
royalty special for my
outgoing, and will do my
best to gather for a feed
for as many as I can
feed like my late grand-
father Gregory Wak
Wak did when my aunt
Kaleja was a former
queen.
Raynee Wak Wak
Norene Sampson, fit-
ness coordinator, War m
Springs Community Wellness
Center.
To boxers
Congratulations to Jasper
Smith on his win this year at
Pi-Ume-Sha Boxing. Also to
all the boxers who competed
at this year’s event. And to
the Warm Springs Boxing Na-
tion.
Vernon Smith Sr.
Parent classes
The Warm Springs Coun-
seling Center is hosting Posi-
tive Indian Parenting classes.
Classes started earlier this
week, and continue twice a
week through July.
The classes will be on
Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the
main conference room at the
Counseling Center.
Classes are coming up on
July 12 and 14, 19 and 21,
and 26 and 28.
Any questions, please call
the Counseling Center at
541-553-3205, and ask for
Cyrille Mitchell or Flint
Scott.
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Spirit Dancers
The Selkirk Spirit Danc-
ers carried their past forward
to honor their future. Bring-
ing their songs to a snowy
Timberline Lodge… to the
mesas of Kah-Nee-Ta and
the land of the Warm Springs
Confederated Tribes…to the
Museum at Warm Springs—
nationally recognized cultural
center for the public and the
three tribes of War m
Springs…
To Portland to the Forty-
Sixth Annual Inter-tribal
Delta Park Powwow and En-
campment. Offering their
story through a landscape of
traditional dance and song
supported by the strong beat
of a new generation.
The Selkirk Spirit Danc-
ers brought not only the grace
of their dance and the beauty
of their song but perhaps
even more importantly, they
brought the best of the spirit
of their people in kindness,
openness and generosity, truly
offering their values of car-
ing, sharing and respect.
The appreciation and re-
sponse was gratefully ex-
pressed through ceremony,
gifting, and feasting, and
through comments like
“what a healthy nation...”,
“they look so happy when
they dance...”, “their children
are so well mannered…and
just plain fun.”
The Selkirk Spirit Danc-
ers from Pelly Crossing have
spent over three years plan-
ning and 18 months prepar-
ing and fundraising.
For some of the now teen-
agers and young adults, the
dream of going to Oregon
began when they were
preschoolers. But the impor-
tant story is that over a pe-
riod of time, they were com-
mitted to their goal and never
gave up, achieving that goal’s
successful fulfillment of tak-
ing 26 people, ages 5 to 72,
south to the states, to tribal,
rural and urban settings,
where the people generously
invited their performance,
and appreciated their expres-
sion of the strengths of their
culture.
The Selkirk Spirit Danc-
ers delivered. Children of
families, of parents who
could not come were in-
cluded, even before they
Jayson Smith/Spilyay photos
Thank you War m
Springs for showing so
much support for the
Dance Exchange, June
16, at the Museum at
Warm Springs. It was an
event for the health and
healing that comes from
sharing cultural values
and traditions. So many
of you put so much into
the planning, preparation
and delivery of this ex-
citing exchange with the
Yukon,
Northern
Tutchone, Selkirk First
Nation Spirit Dancers.
For the planning and
coordination, “Mussi
Cho,” in gratitude to
Tamera Moody, Deanie
Johnson and Sue Mat-
ters. For the flute music
that wove its thread beau-
tifully, thank you, Foster
Kalama.
For the welcoming
and a comfortable place
to stay, thank you Kah-
Nee-Ta. For the tradi-
tional food gathering and
cooking, much gratitude
to Starla Green and all
who helped with the
salmon, including Jillene
Johnson and Greg
Youngman.
For the gift of the
roots, thank you Deanie
Johnson, Bonnie Charlie,
Roma Cartney, Sean
came, families and fathers
supported their efforts by
planning to take care of the
younger children.
There was the presenta-
tion of the beautiful drum
made by the Selkirk Spirit
Dancers for the War m
Springs Dancers, as it passed
between their two Elders.
Over the week of travel,
rather than getting tired and
irritable, the Dancers showed
more and more joy and gen-
erosity. And the children, fol-
Dance Exchange at the Museum at Warm Springs.
Cartney, Kimiko Mitchel,
and Mona Kaufman. Salads
and desserts were generously
provided by Sal and Carol
Sahme, and Carina Miller.
Thank you Noreen
Sampson and Naomi
Crisbois for the fantastic fry
bread, the first ever for the
Selkirk Spirit Dancers. Beau-
tiful necklaces were made by
the Warm Springs Dancers,
by Vanessa Walker at High
Lookee Lodge and by the
Warm Springs Recreation
Program.
Prevention and Commu-
nity Counseling offered pro-
gram support with monetary
donations to food. In many
ways, everyone who came
contributed, and the Selkirk
Spirit Dancers, having
hosted bake sales and bingo
for the trip for the last two
years, felt gifted and em-
lowing their parents lead,
were making and giving to all
around them.
Little vignettes… the El-
der shooting out of the 30
foot water slide at Kah-Nee-
Ta, grinning from ear to ear,
as his community surrounded
him in the water with cheer-
ing…
Older children leaning
over and giving hugging sup-
port to younger children be-
fore Grand Entry at the Pow-
wow… late night gifts being
braced with caring and
respect. Which they in
turn shared in making
and giving a drum to the
Warm Springs Dancers.
Again, to so many of
you gave so much of
yourselves, I am hon-
ored and humbled. And
worried that I may be
leaving someone out.
Please know that all your
contributions and gifting
expressed and carried a
generous spirit of friend-
ship between two ab-
original cultures, remind-
ing us all of what we hold
in common.
Thank you, War m
Springs for helping bring
the past forward to
honor the future. We
were all beneficiaries of
your beauty.
Suzie Kuerschner
made at the encampment to
give to others who had helped
the journey… and so many
more beautiful expressions.
Thank you, Selkirk Spirit
Dancers, for telling such a
good story of the health and
healing that comes from our
culture and our traditions.
Thank you, Selkirk Spirit
Dancers, for showing and
demonstrating the timeless
values that inform our indig-
enous and aboriginal cultures.
Suzie Kuerschner
Coming up on Tribal Council July agenda
Here are some items that
are on the July agenda of the
Tribal Council:
Wednesday, July 6
9 a.m. - Meeting with
Warm Springs Community
Action Team.
10 - Introduction, grant
development with Bruce
Irwin and Alyssa Macy.
Monday, July 11
9 a.m. Review minutes/
resolutions with Glendon
Smith.
11 - Horse removal pro-
gram update with the Range
& Ag Committee/Jason
Smith.
1:30-5 p.m. Meeting with
all committees.
Review/expectations/
travel policy/committee
policy/committee job de-
scriptions.
Range & Ag. Culture &
Heritage. Fish & Wildlife
(on/off). Education. Health
& Welfare. Land Use Plan-
ning. Timber.
Tuesday, July 12
9 a.m. - Warm Springs
Composite Products meeting
with Jake Coochise.
10 - Meet with Credit
Enterprise and Lori Fuentes.
11 - 509-J MOY discus-
sion with district superinten-
dent and tribal Education
Committee.
Wednesday, July 13
9 – 11 a.m. - Meeting iwth
Warm Springs Ventures.
11 - 5 p.m. - Meeting on
Council Proclamation.
Monday, July 18
9 a.m. - Secretary-Trea-
surer/Operations updates.
10 - August agenda/
travel delegations/review
minutes with the S-T.
11 - Draft resolutions.
1:30 p.m. - Legislative up-
date conference calls.
3 - Enrollments with
Lucille Suppach-Samson/
Vital Stats
Tuesday, July 19
9 a.m. - Finance update
with Alfred Estimo/Dennis
Johnson.
11 - Economic Develop-
ment Plan up with the
Kahseuss Jackson-Williams.
Wednesday, July 20
9 a.m. - Enrollment work-
shop with Howie Arnett.
1:30 p.m. - Indian Head
Casino/Kahneeta resolu-
tion.
Monday, July 25
9 a.m. - Emergency Man-
agement review with Danny
Martinez/Alyssa Macy.
10 a.m. - Natural Re-
sources review (hunting/
fishing) with Bobby Brunoe.
Tuesday, July 26
9 a.m. - Forest products
eceivership update with Ed
Hostmann/Jim Keller.
1:30 p.m. - Warm Springs
Timber LLC update.
The agenda is subject to
change at Council discretion.
Please note: All draft
resolutions/ordinances, in-
cluding any attachments or
exhibits, are due by the first
Friday of each month by 5
p.m., either hard copy or
email (Word form) for re-
view. No exceptions.
Further items for consid-
eration:
Pension Committee
monthly report.
1980 Baseline discussion
with tribal membership: Dis-
trict/General Council meet-
ings.
IRMP review with com-
mittees.
Warm Springs National
Fish Hatchery with Nathan
Dexter.