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Spilyay Tymoo October 9, 2019
Letters to the editor
Tribal Council
The following are some of
the items coming up on the
Tribal Council agenda for the
rest of October (subject to
change at Council discretion):
Thursday, October 10
9 a.m.: Tribal Farm update
with Robert Brunoe, Natural
Resources general manager.
10: Northwest Power
Council consultation.
1:30 p.m.: Indian Health
Services Joint Venture discus-
sion with the Health and Wel-
fare Committee.
2:30: Taser discsussion
with Carmen Smith, Public
Safety general manager.
Monday, October 14
9 a.m.: Review minutes
and resolutions with Secre-
tary-Treasurer Michele
Stacona.
10: Business Investment
Revolving Fund (BIRF) up-
date with Michele.
11: ICF update/Kah-Nee-
Ta discussion with Wakinyan.
1:30: Medicare update.
Wednesday, October 16
9 a.m.: Civil Rights train-
ing with the Oregon Depart-
ment of Education.
10: Tribal Council priori-
ties.
1:30: Secretary-Treasurer
and Chief Operations Officer
discussion.
Monday, October 21
9 a.m.: Secretary-Trea-
surer and Chief Operations
Officer updates.
10: November agenda and
review minutes.
11: Draft resolutions.
1:30 p.m.: Legislative up-
date calls.
2:30: Enrollments.
3:30: September financials
with Alfred Estimo and Den-
nis Johnson.
Monday, October 28:
Open for scheduling.
Items for further consid-
eration:
Annual consultation with
the U.S. Attorney Office—
District of Oregon. Southern
Oregon University president
meeting at Council. Live-
stock code revisions. Warm
Springs Community Action
Team—Vital Tribal Econo-
mies. Bonneville Power Ad-
ministration meeting at Coun-
cil. Willamette Falls Legacy
project. Warm Springs Com-
munity Action Team small
business program. Justice
Team update with Nancy
Seyler. Appeals Court judges.
Storm event
A thunderstorm event on
August 10, 2019 caused
flash flooding that may have
washed out livestock fence.
Producers suffering se-
vere fence damage due to
this storm event may be eli-
gible for assistance under
the Emergency Conserva-
tion Program (ECP).
To request assistance
please contact the Central
Oregon FSA office at 541-
923-4358. The sign-up pe-
riod is from the present
through October 30.
Births
Luna Smith
Triston Smith and
Celeste White of Warm
Springs are pleased to an-
nounce the birth of their
daughter Luna Smith, born
on September 26, 2019.
Grandparents on the
father’s side are Regen Tobi
Smith-Morales and Louis
Joe Morales.
Grandparents on the
mother’s side are Edna
Campuzano and the late
Rolando Campuzano-
Lopez Sr.
Parker Lynn Thomas
Andre Thomas and
Tiana Thomas of Warm
Springs are pleased to an-
nounce the birth of their
daughter Parker Lynn Tho-
mas, born on September
27, 2019.
Parker joins brother
Ezra Jerome, age 4.
Grandparents on the
father’s side are Jerome
Lewis and Coreen Thomas
of Warm Springs.
Grandparents on the
mother’s side are Dominic
Davis Sr. and Leontyne
Tanewasha Davis of Warm
Springs.
Kemena Elandra-Althea
Adams
Keevin Adams and
Kamianna Lujan of Warm
Springs are pleased to an-
nounce the birth of their
daughter Kemena Elandra-
Althea Adams, born on Sep-
tember 23, 2019.
Kemena joins brothers
Karlos, 8, Keevin Jr., 5, and
Kaston, 3.
Grandparent on the
father’s side is Gayleen
Adams of Warm Springs.
Grandparents on the
mother’s side are Wally
Lujan Taos of New Mexico,
and Althea Henry of Warm
Springs.
Academy hosting
You are invited to an
Open House hosted by the
Warm Springs Academy.
The open house is this
Wednesday evening starting
with dinner at 5:30 p.m.
School hours
Regular school hours at
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the Academy are Mondays:
8 a.m. drop-off. 9:45—
Class starts. 10 a.m.: Break-
fast; and class ends at 3:25
p.m.
Tuesday through Friday:
7:40 a.m. drop-off. Class
starts at 8:15 a.m. Breakfast
ends at 9; and school ends
at 3:25 p.m.
Vote for Blue Flamez’ Stand Up
Flea market
It is Flea Market time
coming up at the fair-
grounds in Madras. The
market will be on Sunday,
November 17.
I am reaching out to the
Warm Springs community
to come and sell crafts and
other items.
We have several 8-foot
by 10-foot booths still avail-
able. In addition we’ve low-
ered the cost of the booths
from $95 to just $75.
And I have created a dis-
count code just for the Ma-
dras show. At check out the
buyer would put in the dis-
count code, and receive $5
off.
The code is
‘madrascofm’.
See you at the market!
Thank you.
Greg Miller
Legal service
to members
The Warm Springs Com-
munity Action Team is host-
ing the Native American Pro-
gram—Legal Aid Services
of Oregon.
The program is a state-
wide, non-profit law firm
promoting equal access to
justice: They offer free civil
legal services for eligible
tribal members. These are
the upcoming dates when the
service will be available at
the Community Action Team
office, 1136 Paiute Avenue,
Warm Springs (all sessions
available from 10 a.m. to
noon):
Thursday, October 17
and Tuesday, October 29.
Wednesday, November 13.
Tuesday, December 3 and
Wednesday, December 18.
Walk-ins are welcome
during the above times and
dates. You may also arrange
an appointment by calling 1-
800-546-0534 or 503-223-
9483.
If the Native American
Program cannot help with
your legal need, they may
provide you with another
legal resource as available
and appropriate to your
need.
Courtesy photos
Native Stand youth recording Stand Up; and (right)
the Rez Star album cover.
T
he song and music
video are S t a n d U p ,
from the album R e z
Star.
The song carries the
positive message, ‘Stand
Up together against nega-
tive decisions...’
In creating the song
and video, Scott ‘Blue
Flamez’ Kalama worked
with the students of the
Native Stand youth pro-
gram, and featured artist
Anita Davis.
Filmmakers LaRonn
Katchia and Isaac
Trimble did the video
work for S t a n d U p ,
filmed at the War m
Springs Academy.
For Stand Up Blue
Flamez is now nominated
for two awards—one with
Former W.S.
resident headlining
Acclaimed
author,
speaker and teacher—who
lived and worked for years
on the reservation—Jane
Kirkpatrick will be one of
the authors headlining Sisters
Festival of Books.
The festival will be Fri-
day through Sunday, Octo-
ber 18-20.
Author of 30 fiction and
five non-fiction books,
Kirkpatrick’s works have
sold over 1 million copies,
and have been translated into
several foreign languages.
She hsa been awarded
numerous literary awards
and placed on a variety of
best- seller lists.
Some of her works have
featured Native American
themes, based on her time
in Warm Springs.
Kirkpatrick’s first novel,
A Sweetness to the Soul, was
named to Oregon’s Literary
the Native American
Music Awards (NAMY),
and the second with the
Indian Summer Music
Awards.
You can see the video
and hear on the song on
youtube.com
Search under ‘blue flamez
and stand up’
Or you can find the video
on Facebook.
Blue Flames’ Rez Star it-
self is a NAMY-nominated
work in the rap-hip hop al-
bum category.
You can vote for Stand
U p for a NAMY at:
nativeamericanmusicawards.
com
You can find the Rez Star
album at the Plateau Travel
Plaza, Warm Springs Market
100: 1800-2000, as one of
the 100 titles published in
the last 200 years best rep-
resenting Oregon.
“I like helping people
from the distant past step
from their generation into
our own to teach us and
touch us with their lives,”
the author explained.
For 27 years, Kirkpatrick
and her husband, Jerry,
ranched along the lower
John Day River in an area
known as Starvation Point.
Her memoir, Homestead,
tells the story of their jour-
ney to “rattlesnake and rock
ranch” to begin a new life.
Kirkpatrick grew up on
a dair y far m with her
brother and sister in Wis-
consin, not far from the
Mississippi River. She was
surrounded by a large ex-
tended family, most of
whom lived within 50 miles.
In 1974, after receiving
her master’s degree in social
work from University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she
and Rainbow Market; or
download at itunes,
Spotify, or google play.
Blue Flamez won the
first NAMY for Warm
Springs in 2016 with his
music video Rez Life,
featuring the Native
flute music of James
Edmund Greeley.
Blue Flamez’ To the
Sky—f ilmed
with
Katchia and Trimble in
Simnasho—won
a
NAMY last year for
Best Music Video Con-
cept.
moved to Oregon, where
she worked in the disabili-
ties field, serving as the di-
rector of the Deschutes
County mental health pro-
gram for 10 years.
Later, while living on the
homestead, Kirkpatrick
worked for 17 years as a
mental health and early
childhood specialist on the
Warm Springs Indian Res-
ervation.
She also began her writ-
ing career, while “attempt-
ing to grow grapes, alfalfa,
and cattle.”
Kirkpatrick’s many histori-
cal novels, most based on the
lives of actual people, speak
of timeless themes of hardi-
ness, faith, commitment,
hope, and love, and many
center around a strong fe-
male character.
Kirkpatrick will discuss
One More River to Cross,
her latest work, at her Sat-
urday, October 19, presen-
tation at the Sisters Middle
School.
New Education program manager with Confluence
C
aring for Indigenous
people is deeply rooted in
Heather Gurko’s core.
It is a mission-driven pas-
sion including a commit-
ment to educate the wider
community about the Na-
tive history, cultures and
ecology of this shared land-
scape.
Heather’s new role is as
the Confluence project’s
Education program man-
ager.
Heather’s Tlingit name
is Shá xat k’ei. She is an
enrolled Citizen of the Cen-
tral Council Tlingit &
Haida Indian Tribes of
Alaska from her mother’s
side, and Dutch on her
father’s side.
Heather Gurko
Over the past decade,
Heather has been active in
the Alaska Native Brother-
hood, and has served on the
Beaverton School District
Native American Parent
Advisory Council.
Her previous work in the
Indigenous community in-
cludes
positions
at
CareOregon and the Native
American Rehabilitation As-
sociation, NARA.
Heather is also currently
the executive director of the
Portland All Nations Canoe
Family, where she coordi-
nates the group’s cross-gen-
erational community build-
ing, cultural strengthening,
and connection to the envi-
ronment.
In her new role with
Confluence, Heather will
work with Columbia River
Indigenous educators and
artists through Confluence in
the Classroom and Confluence
Outdoors programs, bringing
Native voices into schools.
She will also coordinate
Confluence’s professional
development workshops for
teachers.
Through indigenous
voices, Confluence connects
communities and students to
the history, living cultures
and ecology of the Colum-
bia River:
“We are a community-
supported nonprofit that
works through six art land-
scapes, educational pro-
grams and public gatherings
in collaboration with North-
west tribes, communities
and the celebrated artist
Maya Lin.