Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
June 21, 2017
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TERO planning for 2017-18 construction
The Warm Springs Tribal
Employment Rights Office is
coordinating work on- and
off-reservation for later this
year and in 2018.
The Warm Springs TERO
finalized its memorandum of
understanding with the Or-
egon Department of Trans-
portation in February.
With the MOU in place,
TERO now works with the
on- and off-reser vation
ODOT contractors and oth-
ers on future projects.
There are several projects
planned in ODOT region
4—north to south Central
Oregon—and in neighboring
ODOT regions within the
Warm Springs TERO juris-
diction, said Wendell Jim, of-
fice director.
The TERO is located at
Ventures at the industrial
park. Mary Sando-Emhoolah,
TERO dispatcher, maintains
a data base of almost 150
tribal members who have
completed the necessary work
skills survey.
As projects come open,
the office determines the kind
of worker that may needed.
Ms. Sando-Emhoolah then
works to fit the position with
a member in the data base.
This can be a challenge, as
projects often are away from
the reservation, such as at
Mosier to use a recent ex-
ample. Prineville, Hood
River, The Dalles are other
examples. Some workers use
Summer meals for youth
Warm Springs youth
18 and younger are wel-
come to free nutritious
meals through the Sum-
mer Food Service Meal
Program.
Breakfast is served at
the Warm Springs Youth
Center (in the former el-
ementary school gym)
from 8:30-9, and lunch is
from noon to 12:30.
At Bridges Career
School, located in the
Westside School in Ma-
dras, they will serve lunch
at noon, and an afternoon
meal at 3.
fifth-wheel other rigs, or stay
at campgrounds to make it to
off-reservation jobs.
Different kinds of posi-
tions come open on the con-
struction projects: laborers,
flaggers, licensed commercial
drivers, heavy equipment op-
erators, carpenters, to name
a few.
For prospective employ-
ees, keeping the TERO of-
fice aware of a current phone
number, job status, residence,
etc., is important. To be
added to the TERO data
base, the skills survey is avail-
able online at: wstero.com
TERO also has partner-
ships that can offer training
and certifications.
The TERO office has ju-
risdiction on ODOT construc-
tion projects on the reserva-
tion, and within a 60-mile ra-
dius of the reservation.
Summer powwow at Simnasho
Simnasho’s Fifteenth An-
nual Hot Summer Nights
Powwow and Encampment is
coming up on July 11-12 at
the Simnasho Powwow Ar-
bor.
Specials include Tiny Tots,
Sweep Your Teepee World
Championships, Family Team
Dance, Round Bustle, Puth-
la-pa, Drummers Relay and
the Simnasho Derby, plus the
Hot Summer Fun Run and
Walk.
Diabetes Prevention Moc Walk
The Warm Springs Out-
door Market is every Friday
from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in front
of the Re-Use It Store next
to Warm Springs Market.
The market features lo-
cally crafted items and fresh
produce.
For more information,
contact the Warm Springs
Community Action Team
office, 541-553-3148.
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
Miss Warm Springs Katrina Blackwolf leads the
Warm Springs Academy Eighth Grade Promotion,
held at the Academy during the Graduation
Banquet.
Scholarship applications due
The deadline is coming
up to submit an applica-
tion to the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs
scholarship program.
The last day to submit
an application is Friday,
July 1. For more infor-
mation contact Higher
Education in the Educa-
tion building, room 306.
The phone number is
541-553-3311. Or email:
carroll.dick@wstribes.org
Tribal enterprise boards of director
Wasco weaver a feature at British Museum exhibit
The Confederated Tribes
have openings on the follow-
ing enterprise boards of di-
rector (Note: letters of in-
terest and resume due this
Friday, June 23):
War m Springs Ven-
tures: One tribal member,
class II, term expires De-
cember 31, 2017. Interest in
economic and social devel-
opment of the tribe and its
membership.
Warm Springs Com-
posite Products Board of
Directors: two non-member
positions. Class II ending
December 31, 2018; and
Class III ending December
31, 2019.
Pat Courtney Gold, mem-
ber of the Confederated
Tribes, helped revive the
unique weaving technique of
Wasco baskets. She also en-
joys experimenting with vari-
ous materials and weaving
techniques.
Ms. Coutney Gold has
two weavings in the British
Museum in London.
In 2015, the museum
asked Pat if they could in-
clude one of her weavings
in the International Travel-
ing Exhibit, Treasures of the
World.
They chose a contempo-
rary weaving titled Anti-So-
cial Wild West Weaving.
Pat wove this weaving
using antique barb wire. She
had to wear thick leather
gloves, and care was taken
to avoid the barbs as the
stiff wire tended to swing in
all directions.
Pat’s weaving represents
the coming of the Euro-
Americans who took Native
lands, then fenced the prop-
erty, using barbed wire. This
fencing shut out the Native
people from their traditional
lands.
Native ancestors lived on
this land for thousands of
years. The land contains the
spirit of the ancestors, and
Warm Springs Power
and Water Enterprise
Board of Directors: one
non-member position, Class
II term expiring January 1,
2018.
Warm Springs Tribal
Employment Rights Of-
fice Commission: two posi-
tions, terms expiring January
11, 2018.
Warm Springs Tribal
Credit Board of Directors:
one non-member position
Class II, term expires Janu-
ary 1, 2020. The other Class
II board member is a tribal
member.
For each of these board
positions, please submit a let-
ter of interest and/or re-
sume no later than June 23.
Please submit to: Emily
Yazzie, PO Box 1299, Warm
Springs OR 97761. Or fax
to 541-553-2241. Or email:
Emily.yazzie@wstribes.org
All applicants will be re-
quired to do a criminal back-
ground check and credit
check. These will be con-
ducted by the Warm Springs
Police Department, and the
Good Hire Credit Agency,
respectively. The report will
be submitted confidentially
to the Secretary-Treasurer.
For information call 541-
553-3257, or -3258.
Andy Stokes at Kah-Nee-Ta in July
Long time Northwest musician Andy
Stokes—Oregon’s King of Soul—
brings his music to Kah-Nee-Ta Resort
on Saturday, July 15.
The Andy Stokes Band plays Soul,
R&B and Blues music. All Ages are wel-
come at the July 15 Kah-Nee-Ta show.
Doors open at 7 p.m. and the main
show starts at 9. Tickets are $10 in ad-
vance and $15 at the door. Food and
beverage specials. You can buy tickets
online at:
brow n p a p e r t i cke t s. c o m / e ve n t /
2981952
Or contact DJ Medina at 541-325-
1772; or Kah-Nee-Ta at 541-553-1112.
in itself is Native heritage.
“A piece of torn calico
on the barbed wire repre-
sents our continued use of
the land, as we crawl
through the barb wire
fence,” Ms. Gold explains.
The antique barb wire
was a generous gift from a
friend, Becky Roberts of
Campbell Ranch in Madras.
Pat has earned many
awards, including the Na-
tional Endowment of Arts
Heritage Fellowship. She was
featured weaver in the PBS
Craft in America, and has
her baskets in these national
museums:
The Peabody Museum at
Harvard University, Cam-
bridge,
Mass;
the
Smithsonian National Mu-
seum of American Indians
in Washington, D.C.; and the
Museum at Warm Springs.
She is a recipient of the
2016 prestigious Potlatch
Fund award for her work on
cultural preservation.