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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
June 5, 2019
Elder, Native speaker receiving Lifetime Achievement
D r. Virginia Beavert, age
98, is an author, and Native
speaker of the Sahaptin.
She is a teacher at the Uni-
versity of Oregon North-
west Indian Language Insti-
tute.
For decades now, Dr.
Beavert has been a key fig-
ure in teaching and preserv-
ing the Native language.
Besides her position with
the University of Oregon
Native language program—
where she also holds at Doc-
torate in Linguistics—Dr.
Beavert served as Scholar
in Residence of Sahaptin
Language and Culture at
Heritage University in
Toppenish.
She is the author of The
Gift of Knowledge Ttnúwit
Átawish Nch’inch’imamí, A
Reflection on Sahaptin Ways, a
story of her amazing life.
A woman of great cour-
age and knowledge, Dr.
Beavert ‘Tuxámshish’ will
receive the Museum at
War m Springs Lifetime
Achievement Award at the
Huckleberry Harvest din-
ner.
A Yakama Nation mem-
ber, Dr. Beavert wishes to
attend in person. Her fel-
low staff at the university
are helping coordinate the
trip to Portland.
Courtesy photo
Dr. Virginia Beavert, soon to receive the Museum at Warm Springs Lifetime
Achievement Award.
...She was born in
a bear cave in the
Blue Mountains,
raised in a tradi-
tional Indian-only
speaking household.
The Gift of Knowledge
In her book The Gift of
Knowledge, Dr. Beavert re-
calls riding with her grand-
mother on horseback over
the plains of Zillah early in
the twentieth century, hunt-
ing for herbs and roots.
She learned the traditions
of the Waashat religion
from her great-grandmother
and her mother, who lived
to be 103 years old. Amaz-
ingly, her great-grandmother
lived to be 120.
From her grandmother
and great-grandmother, Dr.
Beavert learned the medici-
nal properties of herbs from
her great-great-grand-
mother, who also imparted
tribal legends along with
herbal lore. In a review of
the book are comments:
She was born in a bear
cave in the Blue Mountains,
raised in a traditional Indian-
only speaking household.
Later she served as an
Air Force wireless radio op-
erator at a B-29 bomber
base during the Second
World War.
Dr. Beavert has spent her
adult life tirelessly retrieving,
The Campground known as
“Indian Park” is located on
the west shore of Lake
Simtustus, approximately
two miles north of the
Round Butte Powerhouse
off BIA Road 242.
The Tribe is the owner
of each of the Projects.
credit of the Tribe.
Notice of Public Hearing
The
Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon.
Hearing: June 12, 2019
at 1 p.m. Warm Springs
Credit Enterprise Confer-
ence Room, 1236 Scouts
Drive, Warm Springs, OR
97761.
A public hearing will be
held on Wednesday, June 12,
2019, at 1 p.m. at the Warm
Springs Credit Enterprise
Conference Room, 1236
Scouts Drive, Warm Springs,
Oregon 97761 for the pur-
pose of hearing public com-
ment relating to the issuance
by The Confederated Tribes
of the Warm Springs Reser-
vation of Oregon (the
“CTWS” or “Tribe”), pursu-
ant to a plan of finance, of
one or more series of its
Hydroelectric Revenue Re-
funding Bonds (the “Revenue
Bonds”) in an aggregate prin-
cipal amount not exceeding
$25,000,000.
Proceeds of the Revenue
Bonds will be used to refi-
nance all or a portion of the
Tribe’s outstanding Hydro-
electric Revenue Bonds, Se-
ries 2009B (Pelton Round
Butte Project) (Tribal Eco-
nomic Development Bonds –
Tax-Exempt Fixed Rate) is-
sued in the aggregate prin-
cipal
amount
of
$22,910,000 (the “2009
Bonds”).
The 2009 Bonds were is-
sued for the purpose of pay-
ing capital costs of the
Tribe’s undivided interest in
environmental enhance-
ments of the Pelton Round
Butte Hydroelectric Facility,
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (“FERC”)
Project No. 2030, which
enhancements included the
construction of a Selective
Water Withdrawal Facility
for fish enhancement (the
Tribe’s interest, the “Fish
Enhancement Project”) and
improvements to the Indian
Park Campground (the
Tribe’s interest, the “Camp-
ground”) (the Fish Enhance-
ment Project and the Camp-
ground, collectively the
“Projects”).
The Fish Enhancement
Project is located on the
Lake Billy Chinook reservoir
upstream of the Round
Butte Powerhouse (between
River Miles 100 and 120 on
the Deschutes River, near
Madras, in Jefferson
County in central Oregon).
Tribal board, committee positions
The Twenty-Eighth
Tribal Council of the Con-
federated Tribes of Warm
Springs is advertising the
following:
Culture and Heritage
Committee: Six tribal
member positions. Two
members each, Wasco,
Warm Springs and Paiute.
Education Commit-
tee: Three tribal member
positions.
Health and Welfare
Committee: Three tribal
member positions.
Land Use Planning
Committee: Three tribal
member positions.
Range, Irrigation
and Agriculture Com-
mittee: Three tribal mem-
ber positions.
Timber Committee:
Three tribal member po-
sitions.
Fish and Wildlife
Committee (on- and off-
reservation): Six tribal
member positions.
Letters of interest
and resumes of appli-
cants interested in serving
on a Tribal Committee,
submit to the following
address no later than 5
p.m. on Friday, June 7,
2019. Mail to:
Michele Stacona, Sec-
retary-Treasurer/CEO
P.O. Box 455, Warm
Springs, OR 97761.
Section 147(f) of the In-
ternal Revenue Code of
1986 (the “Code”), requires
that qualified private activ-
ity bonds, such as the tax-
exempt series of the Rev-
enue Bonds, be approved by
the applicable elected repre-
sentative of the govern-
mental unit issuing such
bonds. The Hearing Officer
will consider the informa-
tion obtained at the public
hearing and submit a Hear-
ing Officer’s Report to the
Tribal Council of the
CTWS, as the applicable gov-
ernmental body, that must
approve of the issuance of
the Revenue Bonds pursu-
ant to Section 147(f) of the
Code.
The principal of, pre-
mium, if any, and interest
on the Revenue Bonds shall
be special, limited revenue
obligations payable solely
and only from the revenues
of the Tribe pledged to the
payment of the Revenue
Bonds and shall not consti-
tute or create a general obli-
gation of the Tribe or a
charge against the general
The purpose of the pub-
lic hearing will be to provide
a reasonable opportunity for
members of the public to
express their views, orally or
in writing, regarding the is-
suance of the Revenue
Bonds and the uses and pur-
poses of the proceeds of
the Revenue Bonds. The
hearing will be conducted in
a manner that provides a
reasonable opportunity for
persons with differing views
to be heard on the question
of the issuance of the Rev-
enue Bonds. Written com-
ments may be delivered at
the public hearing or mailed
to the Tribe at the following
address:
The Confederated Tribes
of the Warm Springs Res-
ervation of Oregon
1233 Veterans Street
P.O. Box C
War m Springs, OR
97761
Attention:
Michele
Stacona, Secretary/Trea-
surer
This notice is published
pursuant to the public ap-
proval requirements of Sec-
tion 147(f) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended and the regula-
tions and rulings issued
thereunder.
The Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon.
Published: June 5, 2019.
preser ving, and sharing
Sahaptin knowledge.
She began working in her
Native language at the age
of 12 after meeting linguist
Melville Jacobs.
Since then she has col-
laborated with some of the
most accomplished linguists
and anthropologists.
Her passion for and in-
terest in the welfare of her
younger readers reverber-
ates throughout every page
of The Gift of Knowledge, in
which her stated purpose
is to record the lifeways
taught to her by her fam-
ily.
The museum Lifetime
Achievement Award will by
no means be Dr. Beavert has
received:
She is a recipient of the
Washington Governor's
Heritage Award; Central
Washington University
Alumna of the Year; recipi-
ent of the Ken Hale prize
of the Society for the Study
of the Indigenous Lan-
guages of the Americas; and
Distinguished Ser vice
Award, University of Or-
egon.
You can order The Gift
of Knowledge at:
washington.edu/
uwpress/search/books/
BEAWAN.html
June
exhibit
at museum
The Museum at
Warm Springs will ex-
amine the Indian Board-
ing School experience
with a new exhibit open-
ing this month.
The exhibit is Resil-
ience: The Boarding
School Experience of
War m Springs and be-
yond. Boarding Schools
have had lasting im-
pacts—both good and
not so good—for many
Native Americans.
With Resilience you
will see and hear first
hand observations from
some who have lived the
boarding school experi-
ence.
You will not want to
miss this meaningful, can-
did account of Boarding
Schools, then and now.
Resilience opens on
June 27.