Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current, August 09, 2023, Page 4, Image 4

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    E Coosh EEWA: The way it is
Letters to the editor
Powwow lost
and found
The Pi-Ume-Sha Commit-
tee has some lost-and-found
items from the powwow
weekend. The items are:
A Samsung cell phone. An
LG cell phone. One large
beaded barrette (blue, gold
and orange beads).
A plastic bead necklace
(green, blue and white
beads). A black zippered
shoulder purse. One grey
shell braid tie with red and
silver beads in the center.
Louise Katchia has the
items at her office at Forestry.
You can reach her at 541-
460-0224. Thank you. The
committee.
Education
conference at
HeHe Longhouse
The Northwest Youth Edu-
cation Conference is coming
up Friday through Sunday,
September 1-3 at the HeHe
Longhouse.
Camp setup will be on Fri-
day, September 1. There will
be Native American Church
Prayer Services the Friday
and Saturday nights of the
conference. The event is
open to everyone. Drug and
alcohol free event. Contacts
are Chico Holliday, 541-460-
2707. Ralph Harvey, 509-
901-2281. Elaine Harvey,
509-261-2360. If you are in-
terested in volunteering, you
can also call Paulette at Vic-
tims of Crime Services, 541-
553-2293. Volunteers, and
side dishes also, are welcome.
Legal services
A great opportunity is
coming up in Warm Springs
for people who are in need
of assistance with legal mat-
ters. Assistance will be avail-
able for wills and estate plan-
ning, tenant rights, employee
rights, protection from do-
mestic violence, public ben-
efits, homeless rights and
expungement of a convic-
tion.
The free legal assistance
clinics will be conducted by
the Native American Pro-
gram Legal Aid Services of
Oregon (NAPOLS), and Le-
gal Aid Services of Oregon.
NAPOLS is a non-profit law
firm that offers free civil le-
gal services in specialized
areas to income eligible tribal
members.
The Central Oregon Re-
gion Office for Legal Aid
Services of Oregon offers
free civil legal services for
low-income people of Warm
Springs, Jefferson County,
Deschutes and Crook coun-
ties. The legal services dates
will be August 30, September
27 and October 25 at the
Warm Springs Community
Action Team office, 1136
Paiute Avenue. All clinics will
be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
You may make an ap-
pointment by emailing:
wills@lasoregon.org
Or email:
laurenguicheteau@lasoregon.
org
You may also call 971-
703-7110 or 541-668-8352
(note: these lines cannot ac-
cept texts).
Walk-ins are welcome
but may need to wait.
Other times for in-person
visits are available but must
be arranged in advance (see
the flyer on page 7).
Penny Carnival
A Penny Carnival is com-
ing up August 31 at the Warm
Springs Youth Center Gym.
The carnival is hosted by
War m Springs HAPPI—
Health and Promotion Pre-
vention Initiative—Preven-
tion and After-Care.
There will be food and
games, crafts and music. For
booth information contact
Warm Springs Prevention at
541-610-0036. The carnival
will be from 6 to 8 p.m.
New Aquatic Center board
Campaign
stop at Celilo
The All Our Relations
Snake River Campaign is
coming up in September
and October, including a
stop at Celilo Park. The cam-
paign invites you to help sup-
port treaty rights in the Co-
lumbia River basin, and the
health of the Salish bio-re-
gion by bearing witness to
the urgency of breaching
without further delay the
Lower Snake River dams.
The two-week, indig-
enous-led campaign has
been organized to offer
you the opportunity at this
critical time to stand up and
make your voice heard for
the salmon and the First
Nations Salmon People,
the Salish Sea and resident
killer whales, and all our re-
lations into the Seventh
Generation.
The stop by Celilo will
be on Tuesday, September
26.
JOM funds
for students
Summer applications for
Johnson O’Malley are open,
with a deadline date for a
2023 summer application on
Friday, August 18. The
awards are for extra-curricu-
lar activities for Jefferson
County and Wasco County
School District students.
Please complete the
Johnson O’Malley enroll-
ment application; complete
the JOM survey; complete
the request for financial as-
sistance; and attach support
documents such as flyers,
rosters, schedules, receipts,
etc.
Submit applications to
Higher Education in the Edu-
cation building, 1110 Wasco
Street. For information call
541-553-3311. Or email:
carrol.dick@wstribes.org
Or to:
itwin2430@gmail.com
The award amounts are
$150 per student in grades
k- through fifth; $200 per
student for grades six
through eight; and $300 per
student for grades nine
through twelve.
Listening
session in W.S.
Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our
offices are located at 4174 Highway 3 in Warm
Springs.
The NeighborImpact
board of directors is holding
listening sessions with differ-
ent communities and partners
to gather input for their new
two-year strategic plan. The
plan will take effect in Janu-
ary of next year.
The Warm Springs com-
munity NeighborImpact
listening session will be
from 5 to 7 p.m. on Tues-
d ay, A u g u s t 1 5 a t t h e
Community Wellness Cen-
ter social hall.
Or you can join by
Zoom. Questions that the
board is asking are in re-
gard to how best to serve
the people of the reserva-
tion.
If you require accommo-
dation for the meeting, please
contact 541-548-2380; or
email:
reception@neighborimpact.
org
Any written materials submitted to Spilyay Tymoo
should be addressed to:
Free haircuts
Courtesy MAC
The new board of directors of the Madras Aquatic
Center recently took office. Board member Jillisa
Smith (at center) is pictured here at the MAC
with follow board members Kate Zemke, Jean
McCloskey, Lindsay Foster-Drago and Jinnell
Lewis (from left, not pictured Deanna Seibold,
board chair).
Spilyay Tymoo
(Coyote News, Est. 1976)
Publisher Emeritus in Memorium: Sid Miller
Editor: Dave McMechan
Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 489, Warm Springs, OR
97761.
Phone: 541-553-2210 or 541-771-7521
E-Mail: david.mcmechan@wstribes.org.
Annual Subscription rates: Within U.S.: $20.00
Free haircuts for se-
niors are available at
High Lookee Lodge on
Fridays.
The hours are 10:30
a.m. to 2 p.m. on Fridays.
Please note, available only
to seniors.
Page 4 Spilyay Tymoo August 9, 2023
Great time visiting the University of Oregon
First of all we would
like to thank the commu-
nity of Warm Springs for
supporting our bake sale
and donating to our trip for
the University of Oregon
girls basketball camp. We
would to also like to thank
Warm Springs Power and
Water Enterprises for their
donation.
We did our best to rep-
resent our community in a
good way, and we left a
great impression on our
camp leaders. We all
worked hard, kept good
attitudes, and learned a lot.
The girls attended the
three-day camp while our
littles did a one day camp.
After, we explored and got
to check out the Univer-
sity of Oregon, and it was
great to see what a univer-
sity looked like.
We made awesome
memories and are looking
forward to next year.
Again, thank you commu-
nity and families for help-
ing us get there.
The particpants were
Shaylynn Brisbois, Leona
Norwest, Aiyana Suppah,
Sharmiah Brisbois, Winola
Brisbois and Rayline
Anderson-Smith.
Jaycelene Brisbois
Courtesy Jaycelene Brisbois
Students at the camp: Aiyana Suppah, Sharmiah
Brisbois, Winola Brisbois and Rayline Anderson-
Smith (top picture, from left); and Aiyana Suppah,
Rayline Anderson-Smith, Shaylynn Brisbois,
Winola Brisbois, Sharmiah Brisbois Leona Norwest
(below, clockwise from upper left).
Paid internship for Native emerging artist-educator
For a second year, the
Confluence project is looking
for an energetic and collabo-
rative Indigenous emerging
artist and educator to work
with our small and dedicated
staff.
The work involves help-
ing deliver educational pro-
gramming and produce cul-
turally relevant art for one
year.
We’re looking for some-
one with a cultural connec-
tion to the Indigenous tribes
of the Columbia River sys-
tem in Oregon, Washington
or Idaho.
This is an hourly paid in-
ternship position for 30
hours per week at $25 per
hour.
Confluence is an equal op-
portunity employer, and we
strongly encourage applicants
of all backgrounds to apply.
For more infor mation
about Confluence, please
visit our website:
confluenceproject.org
To apply, please email us
a cover letter, resume and list
of references with the words
‘Indigenous emerging artist/
educator’ in the subject line.
We will begin reviewing
applications as we receive
them. The position will re-
main open until September 1.
This paid internship is sup-
ported through a generous
grant from The Roundhouse
Foundation. Thank you!
Confluence is a commu-
nity-supported nonprofit with
the mission to connect people
to the history, living cultures
and ecology of the Colum-
bia River system through In-
digenous voices. We work
through five completed pub-
lic art landscapes, educa-
tional programs and com-
munity gatherings in collabo-
ration with northwest tribes.
New for water at CRITFC
CRITFC photo
Elaine Harvey of the CRITFC division.
The Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Com-
mission is excited that
Elaine Harvey, of the
Yakama tribe, has joined
the team to lead the Wa-
tershed Department.
Elaine is respected for
both her professional
and educational accom-
plishments, as well as her
dedication in the
longhouse communities
to the culture of the
Columbia River Plateau
people.
Prior to taking on her
new role, Elaine served
as the environmental co-
ordinator for Yakama
Nation Fisheries.
Elaine’s work and ex-
perience makes her
uniquely prepared to
combine traditional wis-
dom and knowledge
with Western science in
the efforts to save
salmon and the rivers
where they live.