Spilyay Tymoo
Coyote News, est. 1976
Notice from
Housing
Greetings, Warm Springs Housing
Authority tenants and previous ten-
ants,
As you know, many Covid-19
restrictions are being lifted and
we’re beginning to get back to regu-
lar business operations.
The Warm Springs Housing Au-
thority has begun to review all ac-
counts. If you have a delinquent
account with the Warm Springs
Housing Authority, please contact
Krysta Rhoan, Collections officer,
or your respective resident service
specialist as soon as possible to
make payment arrangements to
satisfy your account.
Thank you.
Danielle Wood, Housing Au-
thority director.
May 4, 2022 - Vol. 47, No. 9
May – Xawit’an – Spring - Wawaxam
PO Box 489
Warm Springs, OR 97761
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Tribes welcome new Council
The Twenty-Ninth Tribal
Council of the Confederated
Tribes took office on Monday
of this week, with many tribal
members showing their sup-
port. Following the swearing-
in ceremony, conducted by
BIA Agency Superintendent
Brenda Bremner, the members
in attendance personally wel-
comed and congratulated each
of the Council members.
The new Council then held
their first meeting of their
three-year term. The Council
chose Jonathan W. Smith,
Agency District, as the new
chairman; and Raymond ‘Cap-
tain’ Moody, Simnasho District,
as the vice chairman.
D.McMechan/Spilyay
Members of the Twenty-Ninth Tribal Council take their Oaths
of Office outside of admnistration, Monday, May 2.
The Council then agreed to ad-
vertise the Secretary-Treasurer-
CEO position for two weeks, and
make a hiring decision over the next
month.
The Council then worked on the
May agenda.
Some of the early items on the
agenda will be the workshop to go
over the guiding documents of the
Confederated Tribes, the Council
meeting procedures, and other pre-
liminary matters.
The Council has five new mem-
bers—Rosa Graybael, Seekseequa;
Jim Manion, Agency; Carlos Calica,
Simnasho; Alvis Smith III, Agency;
and chairman Smith—joining the
returning members, Wilson Wewa,
Seekseequa; Lincoln Jay Suppah,
Simnasho, and vice chairman Cap-
tain Moody, Simnasho; plus the
chiefs, Delvis Heath, Simnasho; JR
Smith, Agency, and Joe Moses,
Seekseequa.
Dave McMechan
North End Print &
Design open at Plaza
Artspace by
Tananáwit
Opening
Artspace by Tananáwit is host-
ing its Grand Opening and Art
Crawl with live art and vendors.
The celebration will be from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, May 6 at
the Indian Head Casino Plaza,
3240 Walsey Lane, suite 5.
This is a celebration of a land-
mark feat in the Tananáwit’s stra-
tegic plan and initiative, providinge
arts opportunities, programming
and other endeavors for artist rep-
resentation of the Columbia River
Tribes, specifically the community
of Warm Springs.
Opening Prayer and Blessing by
Tananáwit executive director Jaime
Scott will be at 10 a.m. The Prayer
Song by Eagle Thunder will follow,
and further remarks by Tananáwit
chair Charlene Dimmick. The non-
profit Tananáwit is part of the
Warm Springs Community Action
Team. Its future home will be the
Community Action Team Business
Incubator, to be housed in the re-
modeled Commissary.
For the Grand Opening on Fri-
day, the Ribbon Cutting and Cake
Slice will be at 10:30; followed at
11 with the Art Crawl, live art ex-
hibits and vendors.
North End Printing & De-
sign fills customizied orders, also
offering their own design ap-
parel.
Shop owner Charlene
Dimmick uses heat-press tech-
nology to create her own, and
the personally customized
sweatshirts, long-sleeve shirts, t-
shirts, blankets and hats.
Through another technol-
ogy—heat transfer vinyl—she
creates personalized coffee
cups and mugs, and more.
Through a process called
‘sublimation,’ Charlene can take
an image—a photograph, for
instance—and transfer the im-
age onto a shirt or coffee mug.
With the apparel and other
customizable items, the North
End Print & Design shop has
other gift items as well, like
beaded earrings, colorful plant-
ing pots and bowls. Since the
grand opening, with a blessing
by her aunt Margaret Suppah,
North End Print & Design has
been making steady business
progress, and is now busier than
ever. She made the apparel
items—sweatshirts and long-
sleeve shirts—for the Madras
High School varsity girls’ basket-
ball State Tournament run. She
made the mugs for elders over
the holidays. She made items for
the opening of the Campus Bas-
ketball Mural project, as a few ex-
amples.
Coming up, she’s making the
shirts, up to 200 of them, for the
MMIR Fun Run, set for May 7,
being organized by Health and
Human Services. Clearly, North
End is a business with a great fu-
ture here on the reservation, and
beyond. In fact, some of her
early projects were for businesses
in Madras.
The best way to get to know
the services available is to stop
by the shop, located at the Indian
Head Casino Plaza, 3240 Walsey
Lane, suite 4. Or for a custom
order you can send Charlene an
email at:
northend.design87@gmail.com
D.McMechan/Spilyay
Charlene with one of her customized t-shirts, on sale at
North End Print and Design; and below, some of the coffee
mugs designed and created by Charlene.
Government Affairs in good hands
Thirty years ago Raymond
Tsumpti joined the Tribal
Council, representing the
people of the Simnasho Dis-
trict. The year was 1992, dur-
ing the tenure of the Nine-
teenth Tribal Council. Over
the decades, Mr. Tsumpti
never campaigned, nor did he
seek nomination to Council.
As a matter of fact, back
in ’92, when atwai Grant
Waheneka first asked him to
serve, “I tried my best to talk
him out it,” Raymond recalls.
Other elders of the district,
however, would not take no
for an answer, saying “Your
teachers were our teachers.”
Mr. Tsumpti was raised by
his grandparents, Fred and Mary
Sumpter. Fishing and ranching
were the livelihood. Raymond
caught his first salmon in 1953, at
the age of eight, fishing from the
family scaffolding with his grand-
father at Sherars Falls.
There were many life lessons
Mr. Tsumpti first brought to the
Council table in 1992; and they
are the reasons why the people of
Simnasho have chosen him time
and again to represent the district
and the tribes.
He was born in Vanport City
shortly after the end of World War
II. His parents worked at the
Vanport Shipyards, part of the war
effort. Vanport no longer exists,
having been destroyed by the 1948
Raymond Tsumpti
Columbia River Flood.
As a young man Mr. Tsumpti
joined the U.S. Navy, carrying on a
family tradition of a number of
generations. He and atwai brother
Jody Calica served in the Navy in
the mid 1960s, during the Vietnam
War, each making several tours of
duty.
After militar y ser vice Mr.
Tsumpti returned home to Warm
Springs and Simnasho, where for
some years he worked as a range
rider, running livestock. With en-
forcement experience he joined
Warm Springs Public Safety, in time
becoming Chief of Police.
These are very few of the color-
ful adventures he brought to the
table: Knowledge of tradition, dedi-
cation to service and good work for
the betterment of the tribes.
See RAYMOND on page 3