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AUGUST 11, 1978 PAGE 5 National Indian News Briefs WASHINGTON GOVERNOR CALLS INDIAN DEMAND ‘IMPOSSIBLE’: Governor Dixy Lee Ray of Washington says some Indian tribes are making “impossible” demands when it comes to fishing and water rights in the Pacific Northwest. “They want control of everything affecting the environment of fish,” she told the United Press International in Spokane. The Governor said she is having a difficult time finding out what treaty Indian tribes are asking, but that tribal demands are “extensive.” She defended her recent statement that Congress should renegotiate century-old treaties with Indian tribes by declaring that “times have changed.” SCHOLAR INTERPRETS ‘Walk’ AS ASSAULT ON TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS: A commentary on “The Longest Walk,” written by Wilcomb E. Washburn, author of The Indian in America and director of the Office of American Studies at the Smithsonian Institution, was published in the New York Times on July 20. Washburn asserted that “Walk” leaders used Indian opposition to the anti-Indian legislation “to promote the cause of one element of Indian people, those opposed to established tribal government, against another, those elected to represent Indian people through such governments.” Washburn attributed the “carefully constructed spiritual, religious, educational, and non-violent character” of the “Walk” to the “increased sophistication of AIM leaders, particularly of Dennis Banks who conceived the idea.” Washburn, referring to the elevation of Russell Means and other AIM leaders “to the status of statesmen dealing directly with the President and his top advisers” said that the “Federal Government has once more demonstrated that it is more concerned with the feelings of its enemies than of its friends.” Washburn concluded: While asserting the needs for Indian people to control their own destiny, the radicals have undermined Indian sovereignty as it had been shaped and expanded in recent decades by the Supreme Court, and by the Executive and Legislative branches of government. That churches, well-wishers, and the Federal Govern ment have allowed themselves to share in this assault demonstrates not only a failure of will, but an absence of intelligence. TOE NESS. ’ THERE WAS THIS POLLOCK who really wanted to go back to his home country of Poland, but he just didn’t have the money. One day he saw this ad in the paper which read, “Crews for Poland, $35. Departs tomorrow.” He packs some clothes the next morning and rushes down to the dock. The Captain asks him aboard and said, “You are the first to come.” The Captain gives him $35. and takes him below. There was this long row of seats bn each side of the boat. Thé Captain seats him and shackles his feet to the floor and his hands to an oar. Finally all the seats were filled and a guy starts to beat a drum and yells at all the guys to keep in rhythm with the beat. Finally they reach Poland where they were unshackled and set free. As they were leaving, the Captain was standing by the plank. The first Pollock asked the second, “Are we supposed to tip the Captain?” The second said, “I don’t know, I’ve never been on a cruise before.” YIKES ss ss ss HERB DECIDED TO PLANT some shade trees in front of his house. He goes to the store and buys some trees, reads the directions carefuly and digs a hole in his yard, puts in a tree, packs some dirt around it, sprinkles fertilizer around it and waters it. Herb then goes to his neighbor Larry’s yard, digs a hole, starts to put a tree in when Larry peeks out of the window and sees what Herb is doing. Larry runs out and asks Herb, “What the heck you doing?” Herb said, “I’m planting trees, the instruction say to plant the trees one yard apart.” YIKES SS SS SS THERE WAS THIS AGING beauty who asked her old boy friend, “Do you think I look younger when I don’t wear mÿ BRA?” Her boy friend looked at her for a while and said, “I’ll have to agree with you, it’s drawn all the wrinkles out of your face.” YIKES SS ss ss A DRUNK WAS HECKLING a Minister by saying, “Do you believe that St. Peter beard the rooster crow three times?” The minister said, “I’ll ask him when I go to heaven.” Ah! said, the drunkj “What if he is not there?” “Well, if he is not there, you can ask him.” YIKES Tonasket Running For U.S. Congress (From the BIA office of Information) Mel Tonasket, a member of the Colville Business Council and former president of the National Congress of American Indians,has announced that he plans to seek a seat in the United States House of Representatives as the member for the 5th District of the State of Washington. Tonasket, who will run as an independent, said in a Yakima Nation Review interview, “My primary objective is to beat (Rep. Tom) Foley,” the incumbent. Tonasket said Foley “has totally lost interest in Indians — he never had it. He did support six Colville termination bills. There’s no doubt he doesn’t like Indians.” The 5th District runs vertically along the Washington-Idaho border and embraces 13 complete counties and a portion of another. Urban areas in the district include Spokane, Walla Walla, Clarkston, and part of the Tri-Cities. The Colville, Spokane and Kalispel Reservations are within the district. New Forest Manager To Transfer From Hoopa Two men who have shared the job of acting forest manager since Gunther Heeren left his B.I.A. post in April were passed up for the top spot in favor of thè forest manager on the Hoopa Reservation in California. Ken Engelbretson will start work on August 28, at the height of logging and fire seasons. than within a particular depart ment. Engelbretson and his wife, who is Indian, will occupy a government home on the camp us. The Superintendent’s re quirement that the forest mana ger live on the reservation for fire protection purposes was a problem for some of the appli cants who had money tied up in The Superintendent’s office personal homes. said that Bob Bolton and Bill As assistant manager and Apgar were two of four appli manager of the Hoopa forest cants considered for the job, but lands since 1963, Engelbretson that despite their familiarity oversaw an annual allowable cut with the reservation’s forest, of 50 million board feet and new blood might enhance the about 25 permanent and tempo working relationship between rary employees, as compared the Bureau and the Tribes, the with Warm Springs’ 81 million mill, and loggers in manage board feet and 65 employees. ment of the vital resource. A spokesman for the super Apgar also noted that the intendent said that Engelbretson B.I.A. has a certain fondness for has the “experience and techni transfers, meaning that an em cal know-how” required but also ployee is more likely to be pro the diplomatic skills to enforce moted to another reservation regulations effectively. It will not be an easy time for a new forest manager to start, noted Apgar. Not only will logging be in full swing and forest fire hazard at its peak, but most of Engelbretson’s em ployees will be out in the field. Bolton and Apgar held the management post in alternating months, giving each of them the opportunity to keep up with their own jobs in timber sale admini stration and timber manage ment, respectively. Their agreed policy during the interim was “continuity of direction,” said Bolton. They are both philosophical about the selection of a mana ger. Since Apgar worked with Engelbretson at Hoopa for sev eral years, he is optimistic about the new arrangement. He ex pects no major policy changes but warned, “If you’re looking for another Gunther, don’t.” SS SS SS WHEN YOU SEE a married couple out for a walk, if one is two steps ahead of the other, that’s the one who is mad. YIKES OUIZ ANSWERS ON PAGE 10 1. In what year did the Kah-Nee-Ta lodge and conven tion center open? 2. The Tribes bought a pri vately-owned saw mill on the reservation. What year was that? 3. In the 1800’s the Warm Springs Scouts were organized. What year did they scout the Modoc war? Was it 1869, 1885 or 1873? 4. In what year was the first boarding school established in SUBSCRIPTION TO SPILYAY TYMOO SEND SUBSCRIPTION TO Spilyay Tymoo P.O. Box 735 Warm Springs, Oregon 97761 NAME_______________________________ ._______________________________ Wann Springs. Was it 1874, 1866 or 1882? 5. 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