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Letters to the editor
COCC Student Profile
To family,
friends, tribes
The family of Lena Tewee
Santos would like to sincerely
express to the Warm Springs
community, the love and sup-
port you had given to our
beloved mother who recently
passed in early November
2016 from cancer.
We would like to especially
recognize those who stood by
us before, during and after
her passing.
There are not enough
words to express the heart-
felt thanks to the War m
Springs Tribes community,
friends and families who
came together by providing
a helping hand, songs and
prayers, a hug, or just words
of profound encouragement.
To head cook Roma
Courtney, including the root
preparation and huckleberry
donation for the last meal—
heartfelt thanks. This includes
helpers Gidget Robinson,
Toodie Isadore, Leslie
Robinson, Allegra and An-
drew Gilbert.
Recognition to Liya and
Tatum for the delicious huck-
leberry cakes for the last
meal. It was an honor and
privilege to be able to partici-
pate in our momma’s final
ceremonial meal and plate—
thank you Cassie Rhoan.
To all those who hunted
elk and deer for their
‘Grandma Lena’, Anthony
Santos and Joel Santos, Kevin
Williams and Lauren Denny.
Acknowledgments also go
out to Public Utilities for their
hard work at the cemetery,
and Fish and Wildlife for the
salmon donation. To all those
who donated Pendleton blan-
kets and shawls, we are for-
ever grateful for your kind-
ness.
Thank you to the Seven
Dr um Ser vice and to
Lawrence Slockish who offi-
ciated at the memorial includ-
ing drummers Carlos Calica,
Wilson
Wewa,
Guy
Wallulatum, Russell Charlie,
Richard Tewee and Shawn
Jim.
Carlos Calica, we will
never forget the vigil you
kept with our Momma at the
hospital, at home and
throughout the East Cascade
services with your prayers,
drum and songs—surely you
are a blessing to have in our
family!
We were honored to have
Rosie Johnson and Eliza Jim
for Lena’s ceremonial dress-
ing services. Thank you to our
brother Rick Santos, and Su-
san Santos for the buckskin
donation.
Our Momma often talked
of leaving on her ‘journey
dressed in white buckskin’—
Thank you, Donetta….
We truly appreciated hear-
ing the special stories that
were shared by family and
Elders who grew up with our
Momma. Often they had life-
long memories and close ties
within Simnasho and the hard-
ships our families endured.
We have often enjoyed the
stories as shared by our
Grandparents Mable and Bill
Eyle, and their ties to the
Shaker Church.
To the Shakers who lent
so much support of songs
and prayers at the hospital—
including up to our Momma’s
last moments—we offer our
humblest thanks to Matthew
Joseph and Vivian Smiskin
commencing a final song in
her passing. To all the Char-
ley Family’s Shaker service at
the Longhouse and East Cas-
cade, and a special thanks to
the graveside speakers, Judy
Charlie and Carlos Calica—
We are forever thankful for
your sincere, comforting
words, songs and prayers of
solace.
Finally, we want to espe-
cially thank my niece Jamie
McKinley for her energy,
dedication and teachings of
our traditional tribal customs
as taught by our relatives—
your vigil to stand by our fam-
ily was over-whelming and
heartfelt whether it was at the
hospital, Longhouse or at the
cemeter y. Additionally,
thanks goes to Jamie M. and
Theresa Howe who cleansed
our Momma’s home and
hung up rosebush.
In closing, we are forever
thankful for your tribal sup-
port, to those who kept a day
and night vigil at the hospital,
and to those who donated
their time and energy to make
our Momma’s passing a
memorable one.
Acknowledgements go out
to Warm Springs Tribes, us-
age of the Simnasho Agency
Longhouse and to Emily
Yazzie for the beautiful Me-
morial cards.
Respectfully,
L e n a Te we e S a n t o s
Family
Poles for KNT
Kah-Nee-Ta Resort is tak-
ing bids for lodge poles for
the resort Teepee Village.
Specifications:
360
peeled 30-foot lodge poles,
delivered to Kah-Nee-Ta on
or about February 19.
Bids are due by Monday,
January 23. Submit bids or
questions to:
jbankson@kahneeta.com
Jim Bankson, general
manager, Kah-Nee-Ta Re-
sort & Spa. 541-553-1112.
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From VOCS
January is National Stalk-
ing Awareness Month—a
time to focus on a crime that
affected 7.5 million victims
in one year.
The theme this year—
Stalking: Know It. Name It.
Stop It—challenges the na-
tion to fight this dangerous
crime by learning more
about it.
Stalking is a crime in all
50 states, the U.S. Territories
and the District of Colum-
bia. Yet many victims and
criminal justice professionals
underestimate its seriousness
and impact.
In one of five cases,
stalkers use weapons to harm
or threaten victims. And
stalking is one of the signifi-
cant risk factors for femicide
(homicide of women) in abu-
sive relationships.
Victims suffer anxiety,
social dysfunction, and se-
vere depression at much
higher rates than the general
population, and many lose
time from work or have to
move as a result of their vic-
timization.
Stalking is difficult to rec-
ognize, investigate, and pros-
ecute. Unlike other crimes,
stalking is not a single, easily
identifiable crime but a se-
ries of acts—a course of
conduct directed at a specific
person that would cause that
person fear.
Stalking may take many
for ms, such as assaults,
threats, vandalism, burglary,
or animal abuse, as well as
unwanted cards, calls, gifts
or visits.
One in four victims re-
ports that the stalker uses
technology, such as comput-
ers, global positioning system
devices, or hidden cameras,
to track the victim’s daily ac-
tivities.
Stalkers fit no standard
psychological profile. And
many stalkers follow their
victims from one jurisdic-
tion to another, making it dif-
ficult for authorities to inves-
tigate and prosecute their
crimes.
Communities that under-
stand stalking, however, can
support victims and combat
the crime.
Warm Springs Victims
Of Crime Services currently
has Women’s Support Group
every Monday from 3-5 to
promote awareness and pub-
lic education about stalking
during the annual obser-
vance.
For more information,
please contact Victims Of
Crime Services at 541-553-
2293.
For additional resources
to help promote National
Stalking Awareness Month,
please visit:
stalkingawarenessmonth.org
And: www.ovw.usdoj.gov
Dorothy Kalama, Warm
Springs Victims of Crime
Services
YouthBuild
The 2017 Hearth of Or-
egon Corps YouthBuild
graduation ceremony has
been rescheduled to this Fri-
day, January 20. The snow
event caused a postpone-
ment from earlier this
month.
The ceremony will be held
Always a good time for higher ed
Michael Leecy tried
college back in the mid
90’s but made some bad
personal choices and
slipped through the
cracks.
Michael is now back
at Central Oregon Com-
munity College, with
plans to graduate with a
degree in Forestr y in
June.
He’s been employed
with Warm Springs For-
estry, and they have been
very supportive of his
college pursuits.
In pursuing a college
degree, Michael also feels
it is important to have
support of family mem-
bers, as they motivate him
to be a better person.
It also helps that his
wife is also going to col-
lege and actually urged
him to go back to college
too.
How is he doing this
time around? His lowest
grade has been an A-mi-
nus.
When he first started
at the Madras Performing
Arts building located next to
Madras High School, 412
Buff Street in Madras.
There are a number of
Warm Springs youth who will
be graduating.
The ceremony will begin
on January 20 at 11 a.m. and
conclude at 1 p.m.
Here are some of the
items on the graduation day
agenda:
Guest speakers Butch
David, Native American liai-
son Madras High School; and
HD Wedell, vice principal
Madras High School.
Heart of Oregon Corps
speaker Laura Handy, corps
executive director. Graduate
speaker: Scott Powell.
Mentor presentation,
Mimi Ladine and Signe
Johnson, followed by a slide
show of the work of
YouthBuild.
Graduation presentations:
AmeriCorps Service Award;
Home Builder’s Institute Pre-
Apprenticeship Construction
Training Certificate; GED At-
tainment; and high school di-
ploma completion. Reception
to follow.
Courtesy Gina Ricketts/COCC
Warm Springs Forestry’s Michael Leecy.
back at COCC he felt a little
out of place because of his
age.
“Then I realized, We’re all
here to learn and we all have
to get out of our comfort
zone if we want to pursue a
better life.”
Michael has learned to
raise his hand in class and
be a bit more confident and
outspoken.
His goal is to get into Land
Management positions, so
he can make more meaning-
ful contributions on how to
Pet owners
The monthly free spay and
neuter clinic for dogs in
Warm Springs is coming up
on Sunday, February 5.
Dogs can be dropped off
starting at 7:30 a.m., first
come-first serve, at the Com-
munity Building in Greeley
Heights.
The Humane Society will
also be available to take dogs
that need to be adopted from
8:30-10 a.m. The spay and
neuter program is a project
of Bend Spay and Neuter, a
non-profit organization.
To people and de-
partments that are
planning to bring pro-
posals before Tribal
Council, keep in mind:
All draft resolutions
and ordinances, in-
cluding any attach-
ments or exhibits, are
due by the first Friday
of each month by 5
p.m. Send by email in
Word form for review:
michele.stacona@
wstribes.org
lynn.davis@wstribes.org
manage tribal forests and
fire.
He wants to leave the
land in good hands for his
grandkids and others in
the future.
Advice for those think-
ing of college?
“If you have the op-
portunity, go for it. Don’t
let your age limit you: You
can continue to learn even
if bad things happen.
“You just get back up
and keep going after it.”
Birth
Shaylynn JoAnn
Brisbois
Vance Brisbois
and Jaycelene Frank
of War m Springs
are pleased to an-
nounce the birth of
their
daughter
Shaylynn JoAnn
Brisbois, born on
January 9, 2017.
Shaylynn joins
brother Wylie, 17
months; and sisters
Shar miah, 5, and
Winola, 3.
Grandparents on
the father’s side are
Melvin
“Jeff ”
Brisbois of Coulee
Dam, Washington;
and
Marietta
Grunlose
of
Nespelem, Washing-
ton.
Grandparents on
the mother’s side are
Yahteen Frank of
Simnasho; and Sheila
Thrasher (Spino) of
Warm Springs
CRITFC coordinator joins research center
Columbia River Inter-
Tribal Fish Commission
hatchery production co-
ordinator Maureen Hess
was selected as a board
member for the Oregon
Hatchery Research Cen-
ter.
The research center is
a cooperative research
project between the Or-
egon Department of
Fish and Wildlife and the
OSU Department of
Fisheries and Wildlife.
The goal of the cen-
ter is to explore scientific
questions related to fish
recovery and hatchery
programs, including the
differences that may ex-
ist between wild and
hatchery fish, and how to
better manage those dif-
ferences.
Maureen has been
Maureen Hess
with CRITFC for the past
seven years, six of which
were at the Hagerman Ge-
netics Lab that CRITFC op-
erates with the University of
Idaho in Hagerman, Idaho.
Maureen has extensive
research experience related
to Pacific salmon and steel-
head in the Columbia River
Basin.
Her primary duties at
CRITFC, first as a con-
ser vation geneticist,
and more recently as
the hatchery production
coordinator, have in-
cluded:
Leading projects,
communicating technical
information to diverse
audiences, authoring sci-
entific studies on hatch-
ery/wild fish interactions,
and participating in re-
gional hatchery coordina-
tion processes.
Her research interests
have focused on use of
hatcheries for both con-
servation and fishery/
mitigation purposes, and
use of research for adap-
tive management of
hatcheries.
Congratulations,
Maureen.