E Coosh EEWA: The way it is
Letters to the editor
A painless
way to
stay healthy
W ith their many festive holi-
days, the fall and winter sea-
sons can be the best times of
year—unless you get the flu.
In which case, for several
days at least, this can be the
worst time of year.
The Warm Springs Com-
munity Health
nurses are pro-
Spilyay
viding
flu
Speaks
shots—the best
and most prac-
tical way to prevent the flu.
Even frequent hand wash-
ing, and the use of hand
sanitizers—both also highly
recommended to avoid
catching the virus—are not
as reliable as the vaccination.
The Community Health
team will be at the Warm
Springs Academy open house
this Wednesday evening, Oc-
tober 10, offering flu shots.
If you miss them there, the
Mobile Health Vehicle will be
serving at these times, dates
and places:
Fire
Management,
Monday, October 15 from 9
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Indian Head Casino,
Wednesday, October 17 from
9 a.m. to p.m.
Tribal Administration,
Tuesday, October 23 from 10
to 2.
Three Warriors Market,
Wednesday, October 24 from
9:30 to 1.
And at the Comp and
Benefits Fair on November
6 and 7.
A vaccination protects you
from the flu while also help-
ing the community—includ-
ing our vulnerable youth and
elders—because you won’t be
spreading the disease. Some
other things to keep in mind:
Cover your mouth and
nose when you cough or
sneeze, and wash your hands
afterward.
Stay home when you are
sick: If you’re sick, don’t get
close to other people. If
you’re well, avoid close con-
tact with people who have the
flu. But most importantly, get
a flu shot: It’s painless, and
for adults it lasts through the
season.
These days we are lucky
to have the flu shot: One
hundred years ago—in the
winter of 1918-19—a lethal
flu pandemic broke out.
That fall and winter, 500
million people worldwide
came down with the flu. Fifty-
to 100-million people—
about 5 percent of the popu-
lation—died as result. The
1918 flu pandemic is one of
the deadliest natural disasters
in human history.
Fortunately today we have
the vaccine.
All things
Housing
Do-it-yourself mainte-
nance, home ownership and
HUD, housing assistance to
veterans—The focus is on
tribal housing at the upcom-
ing Warm Springs Housing
Authority Fair.
Stop by the Greeley
Heights community build-
ing sometime between 9
a.m. and 4 p.m. Wednesday,
October 24. In addition to
the serious business on the
agenda, there will be raffle
prizes, door prizes and t-
shirts. There will also be a
light breakfast and lunch.
Some additional agenda
items: the Ross program, tax
credits, health and safety,
and demonstrations of mi-
nor do-it-yourself mainte-
nance.
Contact Edna or any
counselor at Housing for
more information. Housing
is at 1238 Veterans Way,
near the administration
building and Credit. Their
number is 541-553-3358.
Births
Nayeli Jazlin
McGill-Robinson
Rex Bryant Robinson-An-
geles and Tallulah Fawn
McGill of Warm Springs are
pleased to announce the birth
of their daughter Nayeli
Jazlin McGill-Robinson, born
on September 22, 2018.
Nayeli joins brothers
Jasue, 16, and Adam, 13; and
sisters Alyssa, 19, Natalya,
13, Monika, 10, Yeceli, 2,
Aereliey, 16 months,
Mahayla, 10, and Robin, 8.
Grandmother on the
father’s side is Amanda
Robinson of Warm Springs.
Grandmother on the
mother’s side is Debra
McGill of Warm Springs.
LaRae Rose Hollilday
Rony Holliday Jr. and
Treauna Blueback of Warm
Springs are pleased to an-
nounce the birth of their
daughter LaRae Rose
Holliday, born on September
30, 2018.
Grandparents on the
father’s side are Talya and
Tony Holliday Sr.
Grandparents on the
mother’s side are Kevin and
Leana Blueback.
Aspirations
Native Aspirations of
War m Springs wishes to
thank the St. Charles Health
System. St. Charles recently
awarded Native Aspirations
a $10,000 grant.
Aspirations is a commu-
nity organization dedicated
to advancing youth interests
Spilyay Tymoo
(Coyote News, Est. 1976)
Publisher Emeritus in Memorium: Sid Miller
Editor: Dave McMechan
Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Con-
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Page 4 Spilyay Tymoo October 10, 2018
Distinguished Alumna, Pat Courtney Gold
of the Confederated Tribes.
The group’s mission:
To develop knowledge and
skills through education, em-
ployment readiness, and cul-
tural exposure.
This program offers 85
youth who are enrolled in
high school, alternative edu-
cation or GED courses the
opportunity to gain 40 hours
of programmed education
and a minimum of 240 of
on-the-job training during the
summer.
A minimum of six college
students have the opportunity
to be mentored by profes-
sionals while they work in the
Warm Springs Health and
Human Services or related
fields all year round fitting
hours with their college sched-
ules.
The program works with
Heart of Oregon Youth Corp
to provide an additional 5
youth placements with a
Tribal member supervisor.
These are some of the fea-
tures of Native Aspirations.
The recent St. Charles Sys-
tem grant comes from the
Sister Catherine Hellmann
Fund, created to help
underserved people of the
region. The grant to Native
Aspirations was one of 10 re-
cently awarded as part of the
One Hundred Year Anniver-
sary celebration of St.
Charles.
Referendum
As a direct descendant of
the Wasco Chief Toh-sympt,
I must encourage our tribal
membership to vote NO on
the upcoming referendum on
blood quantum. I was rather
disheartened with the video
interpretation that is not ac-
curate in regards to how our
ancestral tribal leadership
viewed blood quantum.
History cannot be
changed to suit leadership or
legal interpretation. Should
this referendum pass, then
we are changing history long
M adras High School has
tinctive art.
For her dedication to
this cause—and for her
own masterful, often witty
textile creations—she has
won many honors, includ-
ing
the
Oregon
Governor’s Art Award
and the NEA National
Fellowship, the nation’s
highest honor for folk
and traditional artists.
Ms. Courtney Gold is
a 2018 Madras High
School Distinguished
Alumnus, this year joining
Mr.Bob Shaw, Class of
1967;
Ms.
Elaine
Ferguson Henderson,
Class of 1952; Mr. Alan
Watts, Class of 1978; Dr.
Glenn Rodriguez, Class
of 1972; and Mr. Joel
Neilson, Class of 1992.
named this year’s Distin-
guished Alumni. Among
the distinguished individu-
als is Pat Courtney Gold,
Madras High School Class
of 1957.
Ms. Courtney Gold
grew up in Warm Springs.
After high school she
graduated from Whitman
College, majoring in Math-
ematics.
Ms. Courtney Gold
then taught high school
Math, yet early on she was
powerfully drawn to the
traditional crafts and arts
of her people. She was
especially drawn to the el-
egant and functional wo-
ven bags, made for count-
less generations by the
Wasco women.
Working with older
relatives, including her
mother, Ms. Courtney
Gold and other Native art-
ists led a revival of this dis-
protected by our Treaty. We
will erode our sovereignty and
misalign our future.
Our past leaders made one
exception, to allow a one time
allowance for the Wlx-push-
palls due to these prisoners
of war to the U.S. Cavalry
that were left in our area who
begin to marry into our treaty
membership. The only other
blood quantum accepted was
the Columbia River ancestry.
What this referendum will
do is allow blood quantums
from any recognized tribe.
The long term impact will
affect our already fragile fi-
nancial wellness and in a mat-
ter of time, our treaty rights.
We, as a people, have an
obligation to protect our sur-
vival as a Tribe and encour-
age our young to be respon-
sible to marry or conceive
children that do not risk mem-
bership into our beloved
Tribe. Choices have a long
term impact, the only way to
correct ill advised choices is
not change policy to suit ill
advised choices.
Yuppie Indian Couple
basket by Ms.
Courtney Gold.
Our responsibility must al-
ways be to future generations
that depend on us to make
decisions based on their best
interests. History is tied to
sovereignty, sovereignty is
tied to our Treaty. A Treaty
negotiated to protect our un-
written laws, our welfare, to
bind our history with our fu-
ture. Nye. Leona A.ike,
Great-Great-Great Grand-
daughter of Wasco Chief
Toh-sympt.
The Good
Road of Life
Suicide directly impacted
67 people in our community
in 2017, the most recent
year for which the data is
available. These 67 individu-
als had thoughts of suicide,
or attempted suicide, and 15
of the 67 were youth.
Dr. Clayton Small is
Northern Cheyenne and has
been to Warm Springs a few
times. He has facilitated the
Warm Springs youth camp,
the Men’s Conference, and
also presented at the spring
Methamphetamine/Suicide
Prevention Conference.
Dr. Small returns to Warm
Springs on Thursday and Fri-
day, November 1 and 2, for
the Survivors of Suicide Con-
ference—The Good Road of
Life: Challenges of Healing
Native People.
The conference will be at
the Agency Longhouse both
days from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
This year the Aspirations
summer youth workers
helped in the planning of the
conference. They decided
they wanted a day for adults,
and a second day for the
youth. The conference has
been scheduled around the
school schedule: Students will
not be in school these two
days.
Mark your calendars. I
hope you can make it. If you
would like more information,
call me at 541-615-0036.
R o s a n n a Ja c k s o n ,
CTWS Suicide Prevention
coordinator.
Indian Business Talk: 2 debt payoff plans
By Bruce Engle
Loan officer
W.S. Credit Enterprise
Why 2? Depends on you.
What? How?
I am talking about two
nationally recognized plans;
the benefits of each, why
you might choose one over
the other, and maybe, how
you might sometime benefit
from using a bit from each
to pay off a debt load.
They both work if users
follow the “rules”. The big-
gest rule is: Make all your
payments on time and in full,
and keep on doing that until
all the debts are no more!
We’ll talk about ‘No
more’ later.
The first plan is the one
most credit counselors have
been taught. It saves the
most money. That’s its main
selling point.
Your first task is to list all
your debts from the highest
interest rate debt to the low-
est interest rate. Then you
are to concentrate your main
payoff effort on the debt
with the highest interest rate.
You will pay the minimum
payments on each of your
other debts. Then you will
increase your payments as
much as you can on that
“highest interest rate” debt
until it is gone.
When that one is gone
(forever maybe), take the
money you were paying on
it and start applying that
amount in addition to your
previous ‘minimum’ pay-
ment on your new ‘highest
interest rate’ debt.
When that one has been
paid off, keep on doing the
same to each debt as you go
through them from highest
interest rate to—No debts.
Again, that method—if
you can keep on track—will
save you the most money.
The next repayment plan
is the ‘Debt snowball’ by
Dave Ramsey. He recom-
mends attacking the debts
from the smallest amount to
the largest amount.
Forget the interest rates!
He thinks there is a more
important factor to consider.
It may be the psychologi-
cal boost we get from a win;
and then, another win. One
boring win after another.
One energizing win after an-
other.
His plan is to concentrate
on paying off the smallest
amount debt first while pay-
ing the minimums on all the
others.
Pay that one off and then
take that same payment
amount and apply it to the
new smallest balance debt.
Keep doing that until they
are no more.
OK, how might the
Snowball work better for
some payers?
Think of how down a los-
ing football team might look
when they are getting beat
for the umpteenth time. It’s
not a pretty sight.
Now, imagine them just
after their first win. And af-
ter the next week’s win. Are
they looking more confi-
dent, walking taller and hap-
pier?
I think that is what the
Snowball might do for a bor-
rower who is feeling beat up
and down.
They begin to pile up
some wins. They are walk-
ing taller and doing better—
for themselves and their de-
pendents.
Both plans can do that
for their users.
A third option would be
to personalize a mixture of
the plans depending upon
the size of the debts with the
highest interest rates.
Imagine a $8,000 debt at
29 percent interest for 5
years. The monthly payments
would be roughly $254. It
would take 60 months for
the first win. That might
seem to be too much of a
drag for some folks.
A first win would come
quicker if the balance on
the 29 percent debt was one
of the smallest on the list.
That’s where a choice of
“a right plan” might be a
mixture of plans. The goal
is to increase the chances
for success in the debt re-
payment battle.
Again, the basic rule is to
make all payments on time
and in full. That includes
Home, Vehicle, and Per-
sonal Monthly Expenses.
One way to get to an
800+ Credit Score is to pay
off your personal credit
card debts every month
while never missing a
monthly payment on your
home and vehicle loans.
Think ‘no more carry-over’
credit card balances.
Let’s call that being on a
‘cash basis’ while still using
a credit card for conve-
nience. The Credit Report-
ing Agencies like that. So do
lenders and potential lend-
ers.
That’s a winning game
plan. Execute and enjoy.