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Page 2A NORTHWEST East Oregonian Saturday, June 13, 2015 Parents of NAACP leader say she lied about her race Federal agencies pledge $110M in drought aid SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Rachel Dolezal leads the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, teaches African studies to college students and sits on a police oversight commission. But the 37-year-old artist and activist with dark curly hair and light-brown skin QRZ¿QGVKHUVHOIDWWKHFHQWHURIDIXURU over racial identity after family members said she has falsely portrayed herself as black for years when she is actually white. As proof, they produced pictures of her as a blonde, blue-eyed child. The city is also investigating whether she lied about her ethnicity when she applied to be on the police board. And police on Friday said they were suspending investigations into racial KDUDVVPHQWFRPSODLQWV¿OHGE\'ROH]DO including one from earlier this year in which she said she received hate mail at KHURI¿FH The NAACP issued a statement Friday supporting Dolezal, who has been D ORQJWLPH ¿JXUH LQ 6SRNDQH¶V KXPDQ rights community. “One’s racial identity is not a qualifying criteria or disqualifying stan- dard for NAACP leadership,” the group said. “In every corner of this country, the NAACP remains committed to securing political, educational and economic justice for all people.” Dolezal did not return several telephone messages left Friday by The Associated Press. On Thursday, she avoided answering questions directly about her race and SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Federal agencies pledged another $110 million in aid Friday to help states struggling with the crippling drought after President Barack Obama talked to leaders from seven western states. The president met by phone and video link for about an hour with the governors of Arizona, Cali- fornia, Colorado, Montana, Oregon and Wyoming and with the lieutenant governor of Utah, according to the White House. The funding announced Friday includes: — $18 million for a jobs program to help as many as 1,000 Californians who are unemployed because of the drought get temporary jobs doing drought-related work or as part of programs to help make communities By JULIET WILLIAMS Associated Press racial-identity issues, said people can identify with people of other races without doing what Dolezal did. “For the most part, being a part of that community doesn’t require someone to claim that identity,” she said. “It might EHGLI¿FXOWWREHFRPHSUHVLGHQWRIWKH local NAACP chapter, but achieving the goals? That in itself doesn’t require passing as a member of that group.” Maybe she “saw her whiteness as a barrier to doing the advocacy work in the social justice world,” said Charles, who is black. Ruthanne Dolezal of Troy, Montana, told reporters this week that she has had no contact with her daughter in years. She said Rachel began to “disguise herself” after the family adopted four African-American children more than a decade ago. Rachel later married and AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios, File divorced a black man and graduated In this 2009 file photo, Rachel from historically black Howard Dolezal, a leader of the Human Rights University. Education Institute, stands in front of Ruthanne Dolezal also showed a mural she painted at the institute’s reporters pictures of her daughter as a offices in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. child, with blonde hair, blue eyes and ethnicity in an interview with The straight hair. Spokesman-Review newspaper. Her daughter dismissed the contro- “That question is not as easy as versy, saying it arose from litigation it seems,” she said. “There’s a lot of between other relatives who have divided complexities ... and I don’t know that the family. everyone would understand that.” Ruthanne Dolezal said the family’s “We’re all from the African conti- ancestry is Czech, Swedish and German, nent,” she added. with a trace of Native American heritage. Dr. Camille Zubrinsky Charles, a She produced a copy of her daughter’s professor of sociology at the Univer- 0RQWDQD ELUWK FHUWL¿FDWH OLVWLQJ KHUVHOI sity of Pennsylvania and an expert in and Larry Dolezal as Rachel’s parents. Paid sick leave bill heads to the governor SALEM (AP) — Repub- licans tried without success Friday to derail an Oregon bill that would require busi- nesses to offer sick leave to their employees, arguing the measure would be bad for business and devastating for the agriculture industry. Democrats were unswayed, sending the bill to Democratic Gov. Kate Brown in a 33-24 vote that mostly followed party lines. The bill is a top priority for Democrats and the interest groups that support them, who say it will ensure people don’t have to work while they or a child are sick. Republicans raised a number of objections, but they homed in particularly on the effects the bill would have on agriculture. Farmers growing perishable crops Northwest tribes start yearly lamprey harvest By GOSIA WOZNIACKA Associated Press OREGON CITY — They dove into the cold ZDWHUVHPHUJLQJZLWKZULWKLQJHHOOLNH¿VKLQKDQG and thrusting them into nets. Northwest Native American tribes thus began harvesting lampreys this week at a 40-foot waterfall south of Portland, Oregon. 7KH MDZOHVV JUD\ ¿VK DUH D WUDGLWLRQDO IRRG source for tribal members in the Columbia River Basin. They’re prized for their rich, fatty meat. Lampreys also offer an alternate food source for sea lions and other predators that otherwise would be munching on threatened salmon. But lamprey numbers have declined dramatically over the past 30 years because of hydroelectric dams and pesticides and other toxins. Willamette Falls is the last place where they can be caught by the hundreds. Tribes have been working to spur lampreys’ restoration. They run research and recovery projects, and truck lampreys past dams. AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka A Native American man catches lampreys, eel-like fish, at Willamette Falls, a 40-foot waterfall south of Portland on Friday. An ancient fish that’s a source of food for tribes in the Pacific Northwest, lampreys have been in drastic decline in recent decades. 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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