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Letters to the editor
From the W.S.
IHS Pharmacy
The Warm Springs Indian
Health Service Pharmacy
has moved back inside the
clinic. Pharmacy hours are
8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., closed
for lunch at noon. They ask
that folks:
· Call before coming,
541-553-1196; or the refill
hotline, 541-553-2475 to ask
for refills. Please check on
your medications before
coming to the clinic. Refill
requests will not be accepted
inside the clinic.
· Check in when you ar-
rive: Call 541-419-4371. Or
if you have no phone check
in at the Green Tent before
you enter the building. You
should wait in your car or in
the Green Tent waiting area
until a room is open for
medication pick up.
The Warm Springs IHS
Pharmacy.
Great for youth
Dear Warm Springs Fami-
lies and Community,
You may know someone
16 to 24 years old who
needs extra support in
school, or maybe wants to
gain work experience in con-
struction, or child and youth
development.
With YouthBuild, the stu-
dent can earn a paycheck,
and a scholarship for college
or trade school. Applications
for this program are due
January 25.
Heart of Oregon Corps’
YouthBuild program may be
the right fit for the young
person you have in mind.
Heart of Oregon
YouthBuild is a registered
BOLI—the Bureau of La-
bor and Industries—pre-ap-
prenticeship program for
the construction trades.
Young people will leave
our program with their core
construction certification;
or Child and Youth Care
Certificate. They earn one
of these, plus an OSHA 10
Safety Certificate, CPR and
First Aid and Food Handler’s
Certificate—All while gain-
ing valuable work experi-
ence in one of the fields.
In the construction field
youth will be building, repair-
ing and renovating homes,
and learning apprenticeship
skills.
In the field of Child and
Youth Development, they
will be working in childcare
facilities—assisting teachers
and learning positive youth
development skills and prac-
tices.
All youth will work to-
wards earning service hours
towards an AmeriCorps
Education Award and
Scholarship for college or
vocational school.
Apply by January 25. Up-
coming introductory ses-
sions are set for this Thurs-
day, January 13; and the fol-
lowing Thursday, January
20; and Tuesday, January
25.
The introduction is from
5 to 6:30 p.m. at the
YouthBuild home office:
68797 George Cyrus Road,
Sisters. All interested appli-
cants must attend one pre-
enrollment session.
Virtual pre-enrollment
sessions are available by ap-
pointment: Call 541-526-
1380.
Sessions can be held at
YouthBuild partner sites
upon request: Call the num-
ber above.
The Mental Toughness
Orientation begins January
31. See the website:
heartoforegon.org
Sincerely,
HOC
YouthBuild.
Action Team
tax help
The Warm Springs Com-
munity Action Team will be
offering Tax Aide again this
year. You can schedule an
appointment for February
by calling 541-553-3148.
The service will be drop
off and pick up so you will
need to gather everything
needed for your income
taxes and then drop it off
on your appointment date.
Tribal law
Karnopp Petersen is the
long-time firm representing
among its clients The Con-
federated Tribes of Warm
Springs.
This month, Karnopp
Petersen merged with Best
Best & Krieger. The com-
bined firm will continue to
be known as Best Best &
Krieger. This merger is right
for many reasons, including
our complimentary practices
and culture, and aligned
views on client service, com-
munity, diversity, work ethic
and more.
The combination provides
the firm’s public and private
sector clients with new re-
sources, greater bench
strength and expanded geo-
graphical reach. Clients will
benefit from the many firm
synergies across key practice
areas, including business, en-
ergy, environmental, health
care, real estate, trusts and
estates, and more. Addition-
ally, BB&K expands its ser-
vices with the addition of
Karnopp Petersen’s widely
respected Native American
Law practice. BB&K
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Howlak Tichum
Catherine Ann Katchia Tul-puh – Chit-si-ak ~ 1957-2021
Catherine Ann Katchia
Tul-puh-Chit-si-ak—
Cassie, as she preferred to
be called—was born in
Redmond to Prosanna
Tohet Katchia and Cyrus
Katchia. She was the sixth
of seven children.
Her parents, older
brother Daniel Katchia,
and older sister Sharon
Katchia preceded her in
death. She left an only
child James Ray Katchia,
and siblings John Katchia,
Louise Katchia, Lyle
Katchia and William
Katchia; and four grand-
children, two great-grand-
children and numerous
cousins, nieces and neph-
ews.
Her working life began
in Sandy, each summer on
a berry picking far m,
where her family and oth-
ers from Warm Springs
lived for the berry season.
Fondest memories were
on the ranch at the end
of Upper Dry Creek val-
ley with her grandparents,
parents and lots of cous-
ins. Helping from child-
hood with all the cousins
with the cattle and horses.
At the ranch and the
Agency Longhouse Cassie
began the lifelong ‘Way Of
Life’ that our people live
with every day.
This developed the
strong roots and com-
mitment that led to her
being appointed as our
Leader of the Agency
Longhouse, by our late
Wasco Chief, Udwai
Nelson Wallulatum,
Udwai Bernice Mitchell
and Udwai Adeline
Miller. Cassie maintained
this leadership until her
death, calling her sister and
others from her hospital bed
to make sure certain things
were taken care of in the tra-
ditional manner for Feasts
and other spiritual ceremo-
nies.
As a child, her maternal
grandfather Udwai Alex
Tohet encouraged his chil-
dren to send his grandchil-
dren to the Warm Springs
Baptist Church, to learn the
Bible teachings. After the
church services were over,
they all went to the Agency
Longhouse to finish Sunday
services in our traditional
way.
She graduated from Ma-
dras High School in 1975
and flew off to college in
Kansas with her cousin and
best friend. They both later
returned and enrolled at
Central Oregon Community
College to continue their
college education.
In high school she en-
joyed playing volleyball with
Mr. Wiles as her coach. She
was an active member of the
Native American Club, that
was earlier established, in
1970-1971, at the high
school, and for a week the
club shared a lot of fun
things about our Native cul-
ture: Tipi set up race, Stick
Game, Pow Wow and of
course a traditional meal.
Back then there was no
Little League softball, so
Cassie played with the Warm
Springs Bravettes Fast Pitch
Softball Team, and travelled
many places to compete in
tournaments. They went to
Portland twice a week for
league games in the summer.
As a COCC student in
Josiah George Thompson ~ 1990-2021
Josiah George Thomp-
son, age 31 years old,
passed away on Decem-
ber 20, 2021 in Warm
Springs, Oregon.
Josiah is survived by:
His two young children
Josephine and Jevon Th-
ompson. Mother to chil-
dren Emily Seidaman. His
father Curtis Thompson
Sr., and mother Sarah
Frank. Brothers Curtis
Thompson Jr., Devon Th-
ompson, Bavis Thompson
and Kanet Wolfe Jr. And
grandparents Calvin and
Barbara Poncho.
He has numerous fam-
ily members in both Warm
Springs and Nixyaawii.
Josiah was preceded in
death by paternal grand-
parents Leland Sr. and
Deanna Thompson, and
his maternal grandparents
Elvis Frank and Carol
Burke.
Josiah grew up in Warm
Springs until age 17 when
his family moved to
Pendleton, where he gradu-
ated from Pendleton High
School. Josiah also attended
Walla Walla Community Col-
lege.
As a Youth Worker,
Josiah worked all four years
at the Kah-Nee-Ta Golf
Pro Shop.
As an adult Josiah
worked at Wildhorse Resort
& Casino at the Golf Shop,
Theatre and Custodian De-
partment. His last job was
at Brightwood in Madras.
Josiah enjoyed being a fa-
ther, playing golf, fishing,
riding horses and skate-
boarding.
As a child Josiah was
both a Traditional Dancer
and Grass Dancer at Pow-
wows.
the early ‘80s she began
work for the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs Fi-
nance Department. This led
to a permanent position,
and she broke into her job
fast because it was time for
the annual audit.
The Confederated Tribes
was the first to establish a
Joint Venture Project with
the U.S. Department of De-
fense-Veterans Affairs/De-
partment of Health and
Human Services, and built
the Warm Springs Health
and Wellness Center. The
tribe provided the building
and Health and Human Ser-
vices, Indian Health Service
provided the funding for its
operation, with doctors,
nurses, support staff for
medical, dental, vision care,
etc. for its service area.
When Udwai Kenneth
Smith was the assistant di-
rector of the Department
of Interior, he laid the
groundwork for establishing
this joint venture relation-
ship. In 1994 Cassie was as-
signed as the Joint Venture
Budget Analyst to monitor
the federal appropriations to
make sure that the money
allocated for Warm Springs
stayed in Warm Springs.
She took training in
Washington, DC for the fed-
eral appropriations, and
learned the law that goes
with the funding. She
showed our IHS Service
Unit director Russ Alger at
that time, that the IHS Re-
gional Office could not pull
back any unspent appropria-
tion of funds back to the
Regional Office, proving
that all funds appropriated
to Warm Springs, stayed in
Throughout his life he
attended Living Hope
Christian Center, War m
Springs Full Gospel, Warm
Springs Baptist Church,
and Mission Assembly of
God churches.
Josiah learned to play
golf his freshman year and
put his heart into the game.
He led Pendleton High
School to State in 2008.
He also played for Team
Oregon at the National In-
digenous Games in Denver
Colorado in 2006, and
Cowichan British Columbia
in Canada 2007, where he
earned a Silver and a Bronze
Medals. (These medals were
recently stolen from West
Hills. The family would
greatly appreciate them re-
turned).
Josiah also represented
Team Oregon in Winnipeg,
Manitoba in June 2007.
Dressing service took
place at Living Hope Chris-
Warm Springs.
She worked until her re-
tirement in 2018. Being an
advocate for promoting
Our Way of Life and
healthy living, she coordi-
nated the New Year’s Eve
Safe Night Out, which of-
fers families a night of
games, activities and
snacks. She organized all
holiday meals and events
at the Agency Longhouse
for the community to par-
take in.
When the War m
Springs Nation Little
League was established,
Cassie was on the board to
support all our children
involved. Actively involved
with her grandchildren’s
lives, she enjoyed watching
Little League games, tak-
ing them to the State Fair,
attending school activities
and watching news with
them. She was very disci-
plined about keeping up
with all news, reading
newspapers, watching
CNN throughout the day.
Being a descendent of
the original founders of
the Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty
Days Pow Wow, she was
the committee’s treasurer-
vendor boss-organizer.
The work for this annual
commemoration of our
Treaty of 1855 begins
each year in March or
April, gathering tipi poles,
until the last day of the
Pow Wow.
When she had down
time, she kept busy
stringing beads, fringing
shawls and spending time
with family. She was a
mother of one, grand-
mother to many and
teacher of all. She will be
truly missed.
tian Center in Madras.
Family took him back to
the Umatilla Indian Res-
ervation, where he was
buried at the Agency Cem-
etery. Carlos Calica offi-
ciated Traditional service
in Madras.
Pastor Brigham Brown
shared a message at Liv-
ing Hope. Grandfather
Fred Hilll officiated Tra-
ditional burial services on
the Umatilla Indian Res-
ervation.
Josiah was remem-
bered as a quiet, respect-
ful, hard working young
man who loved his son
and daughter and didn’t
speak bad about others.
He was loved by many
and will be missed greatly.
(Please note: Any infor-
mation regarding the med-
als can be sent to:
sarahfrank3170@gmail.com)
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