1989 Simnasho District Tribal Council Nominees

Monday April 3rd is tribal council election day for the confederated tribes of Warm Springs. As a public service for the Warm Springs community a WSO presents a meet the tribal council nominee's program. This hour we present the nominees from the some national district. Hello I'm pro-India Williams and I'm a tribal council nominee from the same Nashville district. And I would like to speak to my people today on why I accepted the nomination. I accept that nomination to sort of to make people realize that we do need people to come forth and be tribal representatives that you need to work at it. My experience I feel I've had all my life. My father was a tribal interpreter for Tribal Council for

years and he also was a council member. Through that I learned by listening to him all the time of tribal. Business our tribal entity our tribal. Treaty treaty said or made in 1855 our tribal rights and these were the kind of conditioning I got throughout all my life. I've turned down many nominations I've turned them down declined because I always felt that the people should go forth in and make themselves available to help us with our tribal daily tribal business. I feel that my qualifications was just being me. I served my people with a lot of dignity. And keep myself in that

kind of limelight. I have had that experience with my tribal people. For years I worked as a volunteer for 20 years. Now I've been employed for 16 years and I still maintain that working with tribal members in their daily everyday life. Tribal Council I know is a different kind of life that it. You're dealing with daily decision making a law making you're dealing with the outside people on proposals you're selling yourself to. Get help through grant proposals and whatever that is needed to help to run our troubled government. I know that tribal council is a very hard job of

thinking and continuously training your thoughts to always think right to make that decision to have a clear mind clear he had to make decisions that are you confronted with daily. Because being a tribal council member is a seven day working with your thoughts and your feelings for the tribal people wondering if you will make the right decisions. I've also felt that the nominations. It was an honor and I treated it with great respect. I mean that I don't make a lot of promises because. I feel a

promise should not be broken once it's made. And I just have this feelings about the run of our tribal government as it's running now and then to help to steer it in the right direction would be something that I would really. Feel good about being part of doing like being a captain of the ship. And you you know you gotta get that ship through safely. And I think safeguarding all our tribal rights on this reservation is one of the priorities that is that I feel should be a priority as well as employment has always been an advocate for me I've advocated for employment and

education all my life so that would be just a part of what I've been always doing in the past anyhow. I encourage all voters to get out to exercise your right this tribal member to full force your candidate to vote and show that you are being counted. So get out and vote. Everybody thank you. Hello my friends my name is grandeur and I am a member of the Smasher district. My feelings for the members of I want to raise Confederate drives like except at the candidates used to serve on the tribal council the votes cast are sufficient in my favor. And for my qualification as an

experience my experiences are in dealing with people and its problems is wide and varied. Some of you are young and lots of voters don't recall the years when I served as chairman of the tribal council. The turning point in our tribal look can I can I mean it was the time when I served as vice chairman and chairman and I would pick up where I left off and do it for your people and to civil national voters and I appreciate your confidence in my abilities to do for you and in turn do me a favor and your vote in my favor. Thank you. KLA and untrue some of national takes your money and I'm Cho I I don't know sin which you know. That that would come out on the lake there were next to the national and the company had one of those.

What does the mystery of my night and I school. Mitchell I mean it's not fair to watch Erica. But turn out the US of A British to missionary name. And I come off as an eater and me and my son this Christian our home with us an attorney when I was a Nation of Islam not going to make listeners not to jump. I'd like us to grow corn and wheat cooked on our money what the money would allow come out that way tough that the money with me. QUENTIN What are some of you Chris from Oklahoma. Hello I am writing I was I my tribal council nominee for the some nice district and I just like to thank the people there that I had nominated me and have confidence

in me being a tribal council where the Smasher district in you know I will do my best. For the paper and so I'm not sure when. Now I appreciate people coming to me with our problems. Larry maybe you know that I'm a percentage of. People representing the people you know and I want to see the people and I believe that. We. AS. American men and should keep our tradition and I believe in what we have in God and what God has given us here in Ron Springs I can remember back in later years I put our tripod. And I can remember the prayer that. The elders send up.

And you know I believe that God has answered those elders. Of some nice people and I believe that. If we continue on. As trusting one another. That we can make this revolution a better place to live for the American Indians. I believe that the younger people. Need education but yet they need to know that they're American and. I believe that we recognize that our reservation needs the land that we have now. I believe we need to recognize that our router which runs past us the disputes in the Columbia River. We should never lose our jurisdiction. To the right or right. And I am saying is

I'm proud that I'm proud of the people here in Running Springs. The tribe that is unified. By our. Great cruelty. I'm proud of our treaty rights also. And I'm proud of the people. So God bless you. Hello I'm canceling Fultz. I am a tribal council nominee from the same national district. Thank you for your nomination. I am a very good listener. I understand the Indian language. I'm not so sure that I can speak as well. I feel that the women have in the past contributed to our tribe and I feel that I can. They will continue to to do

so and I feel that I can be able to do this. I want to urge you to vote for your candidate and do so with a great deal of thought put into whom you want to put in there because it is very important. I have been on committees throughout my years throughout the years dealing with education dealing with children. Dealing with health and welfare and and at the present time I am very active in the Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and also Kmita board member. I just want you to turn out to vote and I want to thank each and every one of you.

Other nominees from the same national district running for a tribal council position are Delbert Frank Sr. only Pat Sr. Raymond Moody Janice Clemons Jacob Frank Sr. Pearson Mitchell and Dennis star and Ron Subah are both write in candidates get Ws all congratulates the nominees from each district on their nomination and wishes each candidate the best on election day to be eligible to vote in the tribal council election. Voters must be enrolled at Warm Springs tribal member at least 21 years of age or married. Voting will take place at the Warm Springs community center from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday April 3rd. This presentation has been a public service brought to you by Kay WSO and the confederated tribes of Warm Springs.