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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017
141st Year, No. 91
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WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
Day Seven: Be prepared
A plastic casting of the
skull was made from the
bones known as Kenne-
wick Man. The ancient
skeleton was buried in a
Washat ceremony Satur-
day in southeastern Wash-
ington.
A long
awaited
burial
‘Kennewick Man’
reburied after 20 years
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
The Ancient One has once
again been laid to rest.
More than 200 members
from fi ve Columbia Plateau
tribes gathered on a chilly
Saturday morning to rebury
the 9,000-year-old bones of
their ancestor, commonly
known as the Kennewick
Man, at an undisclosed loca-
tion in southeast Washington.
The ceremony caps more
than 20 years of legal chal-
lenges and scientifi c studies
that ensued after two college
students fi rst discovered the
Kennewick Man’s remains
along the Columbia River.
Scientists in 2015 fi nally
announced that DNA from
the skeleton was most closely
related to that of modern day
American Indians.
On Friday, the remains
were repatriated to fi ve area
tribes including the Confed-
erated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation, Confed-
erated Tribes and Bands of the
Yakama Nation, Nez Perce
Tribe, Confederated Tribes of
the Colville Reservation and
Wanapum Band of Indians.
“We always knew the
Ancient One to be Indian,”
said Aaron Ashley, member of
the CTUIR Board of Trustees
and chairman of the Cultural
Resources Committee. “We
have oral stories that tell of
our history on this land and
we knew, at the moment of
his discovery, that he was our
relation.”
Convincing the U.S.
government, however, would
take decades. Though tribal
leaders immediately put
in claims for the remains,
another group of scientists
EO fi le photo
Friends and family watch as four Oregon Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopters with the 1st Battalion, 168th Aviation
Regiment, fl y in formation over the runway at the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport, Pendleton in October 2015. The airport would
become a critical resource if the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake strikes the Pacifi c Northwest.
A week later, Umatilla County could still experience aftershocks
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
If a 9.0 Cascadia subduction
zone earthquake hits the western
half of Oregon, Umatilla County
residents could still be ducking
and covering a week later.
The initial earthquake’s damage
to the eastern side of the state is
expected to be light to moderate.
But Larry Givens, Umatilla
County commissioner and former
chair of the state Department of
Geology and Mineral Industries
board, said the aftershocks will
move differently, possibly creating
earthquakes up to a 6.0 magnitude
in parts of Eastern Oregon for
weeks after the initial event.
The 2010 magnitude 8.8
earthquake in Chile, for example,
created 19 aftershocks larger than
Editor’s note: This is part
two of a fi ve-part series about
a possible 9.0 Cascadia
subduction zone earthquake
in the Pacifi c Northwest.
a magnitude 6.0 — some hundreds
of miles away — for a month after
the main event.
The state’s Cascadia Subduc-
tion Zone Earthquake and
Tsunami Operations Plan assumes
the impacts to Eastern Oregon
will be indirect, leaving eastern
counties free to serve as staging
areas for sending resources west
and receiving evacuees.
“I’m hoping we don’t underes-
timate what the damage will be on
the east side,” Givens said.
Aftershocks or not, Eastern
Oregon residents could still be
without electricity, internet, phone
service, natural gas, vehicle fuel
and groceries a week after the
event.
Steve Eberline, preparedness
presenter for the Red Cross, said
in those conditions families should
have a plan in place and review it
twice a year.
He and his wife, for example,
plan for her to wait two hours
at home for him to show up
before setting out to pick up their
youngest child at school, while he
would work to get to the oldest
two. They have a Plan A, Plan B
and Plan C for where to camp out
after. All of their extended family
in the Pacifi c Northwest also have
a relative in Chicago that they have
designated to each check in with
should they have an opportunity at
a shelter to make a phone call or
send a message.
Mutual aid
In 2015 Umatilla County
signed a “sister county” agreement
with Tillamook County, agreeing
to send its public works director
and other staff to the coast to help
in the event of a major natural
disaster.
Public works director Tom
Fellows said he and his Tillamook
County counterpart have both
taken multiple trips to their sister
county to tour infrastructure, meet
employees and get familiar with
the available resources.
“The initial thought is that if
something happens down there,
there’s not only going to be chaos,
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Oregon Health Plan to
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By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
No need to act sheepish
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Kindergartner Kale Nuzum hugs a lamb named Skittles while Pendleton soph-
omore Breanna Spencer holds the animal Monday in Pendleton. The Pendleton
High School FFA was holding a petting farm as an activity on conjunction with
national FFA week.
SALEM — When
12-year-old Raul Perez
was diagnosed with a heart
problem last fall, his fami-
ly’s immediate question was
how could they afford to
pay for medical treatment.
Because Raul came to
the United States undocu-
mented at age 3 and lacks
a Social Security card, he
is ineligible for coverage
under the Oregon Health
Plan. His mother, a house-
keeper, said she and his
father, a landscaper, cannot
afford the surgery he will
eventually need to repair the
hole between the top two
chambers of his heart.
“Right now, he does not
have health insurance, so I
cannot sleep at all,” she said.
“For me, it is really hard to
see how much it’s going to
be, how much it’s going to
cost for us.”
When Raul speaks, there
is no hint of his Mexican
origin in his voice. His
accent sounds Oregonian as
he spouts perfect standard
English and helps his mother
articulate her thoughts in her
adopted language.
Meanwhile,
Raul’s
5-year-old sister qualifi es
for the state Medicaid
program because she was
born in this country.
Gov. Kate Brown,
a bipartisan group of
lawmakers and advocates
argue that Perez should
receive the same benefi ts as
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