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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
New bowling tradition
to roll in December
The Warm Springs Indian Holiday Bowling Com-
mittee is starting a new tradition—The Jingle All the
Way Christmas Open rolls Sunday, December 15 at
Madras Bowl.
“This is a fun and festive event—a Christmas
themed fun activity,” tournament director Austin
Greene.
Bowlers are welcome to wear festive wear for the
open. Check-in time will be at 11 a.m., and bowling
starts at 12 noon. The pre-registration entry fee is
$40 until this Friday, December 6. After this date
there is an additional $5.
Space is limited to the first 30 women, and the
first 30 men—as this will be one squad only. Games
will be singles modified with game one: 3 - 6 - 9
Autostrike. Game two—9 Pin No-Tap. And game
three—regular game.handicap. Rules:
Entering average—Use the first that applies:
Years 2018-2019 year end with 21 games or more.
Or 21 games by December 6 of current year of 2019-
2020. If none of these apply, assigned average for
Women is 180 and Men, 210.
Prize ratio is one in five on payouts. There will be
the prizes for your first official strike, 50/50 draw-
ings, and raffle. The event is christmas themed fun
activity.
You can reach Austin at 541-553-1953(h); or mes-
sage at Recreation, 541-553-3243.
You can mail entry to Birney Greene-Boise, PO
Box 327, Warm Springs, 97761.
December 4, 2019
Buffalos winter sports opening
School.
The varsity girls will then
host a tournament this Fri-
day, December 6, starting at
5:30 p.m.. The tourney is
then followed by another
home game against Crook
County on Tuesday, Decem-
ber 10.
The Madras High School
boys basketball season
opens this Wednesday
evening, December 4 at
home against Hidden Valley.
The girls varsity basket-
ball season also kicks off
December 4, with an away
game at Hidden Valley High
The boys are away on
December 10 at Crook
County.
The JV teams, Frosh/
Soph and Freshman basket-
ball seasons—and the Swim-
ming and Wrestling sea-
sons— are all beginning early
this month.
Cougars tourney, winter run, more coming up
The Eighth Annual Warm
Springs Cougars Youth
Christmas Co-Ed Basketball
Tournament is coming up
Friday through Sunday, De-
cember 20-22.
Divisions: Youth co-ed
divisions for 10 years and
under; 12 years and under
and; and seventh-eighth
grade grade co-ed divisions.
For all three divisions the
first six teams to register will
play. Deadline to register is
this Thursday, December 5.
Entry fee is $150 per team.
The tournament will be at
the Warm Springs Commu-
nity Center. Tourney direc-
tor is Austin Greene, Recre-
ation director. His email is:
austin.greene@wstribes.org
You can reach him by
phone at 541-553-3243 (w);
or 553-1953 (h).
Tournament awards in-
clude ten champion hoodies
for each division; runner-up
crew necks; finalist t-shirts,
All Tourney; and coaches t-
shirts.
Guarantee of three
games for each team; round
robin then single elimination
bracket.
Age deadline is Decem-
ber 20. Bring tribal identi-
fication.
madrasrunners.com/can-
yon dash rumble
The Canyon Rumble
Frozen Half Marathon is
this Saturday, December 7
at Willow Canyon in Ma-
dras, starting at 10 a.m.
Racers can choose to
run the half marathon,
10k or 5k routes, which all
follow the same course.
The race features a mix of
paved, gravel and dirt
trails, along with some chal-
lenging terrain. You can
register and pay fees online
at:
At the War m Springs
Community Center gym, the
New Year will bring the Fifty-
Ninth Annual All-Indian
Men’s Holiday Basketball
tourney, January 1-4. The
deadline to register is Decem-
ber 13. Entry fee is $375.
Awards will be:
For information contact
Austin Greene, tournament
director, 541-553-3243(w);
or 541-553-1953(h). Or you
can email:
austin.greene@wstribes.org
Fundraising store for Buffalos basketball team
At Madras High School
the fundraising sale for the
girls varsity basketball team
is extended to Saturday, De-
cember 8.
You can shop online at:
fancloth.shop
Enter the code P8VEV.
The Buffalos fan store
has a wide range of apparel
and other items for anyone
to order.
Every item that is pur-
chased through this fan store
earns money for the basket-
ball team.
There are catalogs left in
the mail room at the school
A reminder to students
Now is the time for
students planning to at-
tend college or technical
school to start complet-
ing the requirements for
the tribal scholarship.
This includes doing a
FAFSA for financial assis-
tance. Details are now
available at kwso.org
Click on the slide that
says ‘tribal scholarship’.
for anyone to take home, or
to view at the school. The
store will be open through
December 8.
You can expect your
items to be delivered around
Christmas or New Years.
A huge Thank You for
supporting the girl’s basket-
ball program. If you have
any questions about the fan
shop, please contact Jerin
Say
by
email
at
jsay@509j.net
Or call or text to 541-
777-7904. Check out the
website:
fancloth.shop/P8VEV
Central Oregon Thrive connects individual needs to
community resources. They can help with housing, health,
employment, social security and more. THRIVE is in Ma-
dras on Tuesdays at the Jefferson County Health Depart-
ment from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. and from 2-4 p.m. Thirty-
minute walk in meetings are available. First come, first
served. In Warm Springs the GROW program is available
to connect individuals to community resources. You can
stop by the Grow program office to talk with Lorien or
Isaac. They are located in the trailer on Wasco Street next
to Warm Springs CPS.
The Year in Review ~ 2019 ~
The following is a review
of the some of the news that
happened over the past 12
months on the reservation.
January
A s January 2019 opens,
federal offices on the res-
ervation—the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, and Office
of the Special Trustee—are
closed. This is because of
the partial federal govern-
ment shutdown that began in
mid December of 2018.
Meanwhile, the Indian
Health Services and clinic
were on regular business
hours; some of the BIA
Roads workers were also on
the job, working without pay.
Elsewhere in January 2019:
There are more than 30
designated tribal fishing
sites along the mid Colum-
bia River: The sites are a
legacy of the federal
government’s construction
of the dams on the Colum-
bia.
The dams flooded the tra-
ditional fishing sites, and also
destroyed homes and entire
tribal villages. The govern-
ment for decades now has
been obligated to provide
housing for tribal members
who were displaced from
their homes by the dams and
reservoirs.
After the construction
of the dams, the federal
government rebuilt homes
for non-Indians who were
displaced, but nothing was
done for the Native
people.
A few years ago, correct-
ing this long-standing omis-
sion became a priority of
lawmakers from the North-
west. And as a result of this
effort, the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers is now work-
ing on a tribal housing
project at the Columbia.
The Corps has received
$1.8 million to develop a
plan for the housing project.
Details—the location and
types of housing—are be-
ing worked out with the
tribes: The Warm Springs,
Yakama, Umatilla and Nez
Perce.
For its part, the Tribal
Council has created a new
Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Housing entity, with a pos-
sible name of N’Chi Wana
Housing. The board will
work with other tribes and
the Corps of Engineers on
developing and implement-
ing the tribal housing project
at the Columbia. In other
January news:
the carbon project over the
past few years, with great
success for the tribes.
Spilyay photo
Early in the year Warm
Springs Construction
began work on the
Veterans Memorial Park
(conceptual image at left).
Tribal management ex-
pects ballots to be in the
mail soon for the election
of the Twenty-Eighth
Tribal Council of the
Confederated Tribes. The
election will be on April 4.
Meanwhile:
The Twenty-Seventh
Tribal Council decided to
move the blood quantum
referendum from mid
February to mid March.
Recent changes at Admin-
istrative Services have re-
quired more time to orga-
nize the election.
The referendum will ask
the members whether the
tribes should change how
blood quantum is deter-
mined for the purposes of
automatic enrollment.
The change would be the
addition of the 1980 cen-
sus to the list of baseline
census years for determin-
ing the Confederated Tribes
blood quantum. The
change for some would al-
low the recalculation of the
degree of tribal blood—
Wasco, Warm Springs and
Paiute—a person has, based
on the 1980 census.
Tribal Council will soon
consider a funding proposal
for the CP Enterprise-Ven-
tures
cannabis/hemp
project. The plan calls for
growing and processing non-
recreational hemp products
on the tribes’ Schoenhagen
property, off Highway 26
across the Deschutes River.
The Ventures’ request to
Tribal Council is for start-
up funding to begin growing
hemp. The sooner in the
year the plants are in the
ground, the larger will be the
eventual revenue from sales,
the Ventures team said.
The start-up funding
would come from the car-
bon sequestration revenue.
Ventures, Natural Re-
sources, Tribal Council and
management implemented
For years the tribal story
as taught in schools has
been mis-represented. The
curriculum, de-veloped
from the non-Indian per-
spective, has been incom-
plete and incorrect.
This is changing as the
nine tribes of Oregon are
developing Native American
curricula that will be taught
in public schools.
Warm Springs Culture
and Heritage, a department
of the new Education
Branch, is devel-oping the
curriculum of the Con-fed-
erated Tribes.
Working with tribal el-
ders, Deanie Smith at Cul-
ture and Heritage is coordi-
nating the Warm Springs
project. The group meets at
the Education building, and
has developed a draft cur-
riculum that will be refined
over the coming months.
The team also hosts com-
munity meetings, seeking
input. The most recent, for
instance, focused on the
three Native languages of
the Confederated Tribes.
Five specific topics are
covered in the overall cur-
riculum:
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