Spilyay Tymoo
Coyote News, est. 1976
April 24, 2019 - Vol. 43, No. 9
April – Hawit`an – Spring - Wawaxam
PO Box 489
Warm Springs, OR 97761
ECR WSS
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Warm Springs, OR 97761
Veterans
parade, expo
Saturday
The Eugene “Cougar” Greene Sr.
American Legion and Auxiliary No.
48 this Saturday, April 27 will
present the Fourth Annual Welcome
Home Vietnam Veterans Parade
and Expo.
The parade begins at 10 a.m.,
meal and honor ceremony, silent
auction and mini powwow will be
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
You can pre-register at
www.WSala48.org
Or call 541-460-8212. Thank
you to our gold sponsor, Indian
Head Casino.
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
The Village pool at Kah-Nee-Ta has never looked better: James
Sapuay (above with his dog Taz) is the maintenance man at the
resort, which closed late last summer. An update on Kah-Nee-Ta
is on the Tribal Council agenda for April 29. People from out of
town who are not aware of the resort closure often stop by the
Village, wanting to swim, Mr. Sapuay said.
May conference focuses on small business
by Dustin Seyler
WSCAT Business Coach
Are you interested in growing
your own business and in strength-
ening the small business commu-
nity of Warm Springs?
This is your chance to get in-
volved.
Join the Warm Springs Area
Chamber of Commerce and the
Warm Springs Community Action
Team in exploring how we make
our community a better place.
The Warm Springs Small Busi-
ness Conference will be from 8:30
a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, May 4 at
the community center.
The Warm Springs Area Cham-
ber of Commerce and the Warm
Springs Community Action Team
will host our first small business
conference event to help
businesspeople in the community
understand what it takes to open
or g row a business in War m
Springs; and to learn about re-
sources available to aide in their
effort.
At the conference will be rep-
resentatives from state agencies, in-
cluding the Office of the Secre-
tary of State, the Governor’s Of-
fice of Economic and Business
Equity, the Certification Office for
Business Inclusion and Diversity,
and Business Oregon.
There will also be representa-
tives from the U.S. Small Business
Administration, Oregon Native
American Chamber, Oregon Asso-
ciation of Minority Entrepreneurs,
and the Oregon Small Business
Development Center.
We will also have several lend-
ers who will discuss how to get
business loans and what the pro-
cess is for tribal members on the
reservation to get outside capi-
tal.
There will be tables set up for
these entities to speak one-on-one
with people interested in starting a
business, or expanding the busi-
nesses they currently have.
There will also be sessions dur-
ing which you can hear from ex-
perts, both local and regional, on
an array of topics, including:
Business success stories from
Native entrepreneurs;
Starting a Business in Warm
Springs; financing a business in
Warm Springs, and certifications
and contracting opportunities in
Warm Springs and surrounding ar-
eas.
We will provide breakfast
snacks and coffee starting at 8:30,
and will also provide a lunch for
the event.
The Warm Springs Community
Action Team staff will discuss our
Old Commissary Small Business
Incubator project, our work
with the Tananáwit Artists Com-
munity, Indianpreneurship
courses, individual development
accounts (IDAs) for small busi-
ness owners, food cart
operator’s training project, and
more.
Applications to join the
Chamber of Commerce will be
available for those interested in
becoming members, and IDA
applications will be available for
those interested in receiving
matching funds to start or ex-
pand their businesses!
To register for the event
please call 541-553-3148 or by
email at:
dustin@wscat.org
We look forward to meeting
you and working together to
develop and strengthen the
Warm Springs business com-
munity.
Twenty-
Eighth
Council to
take office
T he Twenty-Eighth Tribal
Council of the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs will take
office soon.
The new members will be take
the Oath of Office, as adminis-
tered by the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, on Monday, May 6 at the
administration building.
Six new Council members will
join two members who were re-
elected.
The Twenty-Seventh Tribal
Council has one more meeting
scheduled for April 29.
The Twenty-Eighth Council
takes office on the 80-Year Anni-
versary of the first Council, who
took office in 1938, following the
adoption of the tribes’ Constitu-
tion and By-Laws.
The new Council members are:
Agency District: Anita Jack-
son, Glendon Smith and Lola
Sohappy.
Simnasho District: Captain
Moody, Lincoln Jay Suppah and
Raymond Tsumpti.
Seekseequa District: Brigette
McConville and Wilson Wewa.