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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1979)
° ° fo l .. u îc T O R lC A L «m C lE T Y $u u oR 9 1 2 0 5 OREG û N P ortland ni mis issue Spilyay revolutionized p.3 p .6 Cultural park Wasco chief P.7 Pi-Ume-Sha pp. 7-9 p. 10 NAIWA Alcohol, drug abuse p.11 p.12 Cadets p.14 Rodeo Vol. 4 No. 13 Warm Spring«, Oregon 97761 Ju n e 2 9 ,1 9 7 9 People urged to vote Deschutes water project up for second try on July 10 Powwow Queen Kim iko Danzuka, daughter o f Tootsie and George Danzuka, was selected queen o f the 1979 Pi-Ume-Sha Pow w ow last weekend. She sold more raffle tickets than the other fou r candidates, bringing in $1,600 to the pow w ow committee. Spilyay Tymoo P hoto by Stow ell Kah-Nee-Ta the site of next ATNWI meeting . The W®1“ Springs Reserve- tion will be hosting the annual meeting of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians August 26-28 at Kah-Nee-Ta Resort. The reservation setting was selected at the conclusion of the ATNWI spring conference at the Ft. Hall Reservation, which was the first meeting of the four-state organization to be held on Indian land. Local members of the planning com m ittee—Amos Simtustus, Larry Calica and G ene G ree n e—are b u sy analizing the agenda, which is expectea to follow the theme of Weafher T une HI LOW 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 '28 68 50 - 57 51 48 46 47 50 55 62 58 54 60 72 74 78 78 85 90 95 98 90 85 98 _______ «To strengthen our Unity and Sovereignty Forever.” The recently restored Siletz Tribe has offered toco-host the Conference. Oregon resource people will figure heavily into the panels and presentations at the annual meeting. An invitation has been extended to Governor Vic Atiyeh to speak on the first morning and the Commission on Indian Services is scheduled to make a luncheon presen tation the same day. Officials from the Portland Area Offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service have been placed on panels addressing neaitn and education issues. Local tribal members will join state and federal officials in the discussion of water rights and trust responsibility. Conference planners expect to keep panel presentations brief, leaving time for questions and comments from the floor. Participants will come to the Warm Springs community Thursday evening August 28 for a traditional dinner and pow w ow at thé A gency longhouse. All other activities will center at the resort. Watch Spilyay Tymoo for details about the ATNWI conference. Eligible voters are urged to cast their ballots Tuesday, July 10, when the D eschutes Domestic Water System again comes up for voter approval. In the last try on June 5, people approved the project five to one but not enough voters cast their b a llo ts, in v a lid a tin g the election. The count was 70 short of the required number of voters. Vital Statistics supervisor Edith Danzuka noted that it is expensive for the Tribes to hold an election and that it is frustrating when the people do not bother to vote. The Tribal Council feels the project is very important to the future of the Tribes and they would like to see it pass this timé. The new water system for Warm Springs and Kah-Nee- Ta is being proposed to the m em b ersh ip b e ca u se o f existing problems with the present water systems. The plan is based on growth projections to the year 2000 when it is expected that the population of the service area will be about 3,000. The present system serves about 1,900 people. The proposed water source is the Deschutes River with intake, pumping and treatment facilities located at the by-pass channel next to the Dry Creek Campground; The Deschutes River has been identified as the only dependable source of quality water available to Warm Springs and Kah-Nee- Ta. Because of the possibility that the intake location may have been a sacred area at one tim e, an a n th r o p o lo g ic a l survey will be conducted before any construction takes place, a cco rd in g to the T ribal planning department. “It will be more thorough than the usual surface in sp ectio n ,” noted Planning Director Ray Rangila. According to the plan, water will be carried up to the p rop osed T ew ee’s B utte reservoir from a nearby pump station. The reservoir will be high enough in elevation to I allow gravity flow transmission lines to new reservoirs in Warm Springs and at Kah-Nee-Ta. Gravity flow water systems are said to be the most reliable kind. Tribal planners feel that potential rural housing sites will be “opened up” along the new transmission lines, thus significantly improving the current problem of rural homesite availability. Estimated cost of the project is $8 million. Preliminary discussions with the Economic Development Administration and Farmers Home Admini stration indicate a good chance for funding assistance, which will minimize as much as possible the use of tribal funds. If there are questions about whose property the lines will cross or about other aspects of the project, check with the planning department. (See map on page 5) NCAI removes director, searches for funds by Cynthia Stowell Within a matter of months the executive director o f the National Congress of American Indians was elected by the membership, given a vote of confidence by the executive committee and asked to resign by the president. Andy Ebona left the NCAI mid-year conference in Reno two weeks ago without a job as the result of an eight-month chain of events that also left NCAI without the dollars to hire a new director. Ebona offered his resignation only after executive com m ittee m em bers w ho had once enthusiastically supported him stood up one by one and reluctantly backed president Veronica Murdock’s action. A staff of two, numerous v o lu n teers and ex ecu tiv e officers are “taking the bull by the horns,” Murdock told Spilyay Tymoo this week and getting NCAI back on its feet fin a n cia lly . An a u d it i$ expected to be completed by July 18. “The real shame,” said Murdock, “was that nobody came to the realization sooner” that NCAI was in a financial crisis. “They kept waiting for a mystical happening.” In Reno, Murdock painted a p ic t u r e o f a n I n d ia n organization steadily going into debt and an executive director who was slow to respond. Ebona countered with his own sketch of an executive director whose hands were tied by the complexity of problems he had inherited from the previous director. Allegations somewhat vague NCAI conference partici pants who sat through the difficult afternoon of speeches concerning Ebona’s conduct were no doubt confused about th e c ir c u m s ta n c e s and allegations. Remarks remained somewhat vague for fear of harming the organization as a whole, indicated Murdock. Continued on page 16 Belloni announcement shocks Indian people by Sandy Rangila In a move that has stunned reporters, attorneys and tribal officials, Federal Judge Robert C. Belloni disqualified himself yesterday (Thursday) from hearing any more Indian fisheries cases involving the U.S. vs Oregon. Belloni was scheduled to hear a suit filed by the four Columbia River Indian Treaty Tribes who were attemptitig to stop ocean trolling for salmon off the coasts of Oregon and Washington. An a ffid a v it presen ted yesterday to Belloni by the n on -' 'Indian trailers claimed bias on h is part tow ard In d ian fishermen. Belloni has been hearing Indian fisheries cases since 1967 and has invested thousands of hours o f research into the Indian fishing rights issue. The affidavit noted that jurors are excused for the same reason — knowing too much about a case — and for that reason Belloni disqualified himself. In a very brief phone interview Thursday evening, Judge Belloni told Spilyay Tymoo that he doesn’t talk to newspapers. "I never have and I don’t see any reason for changing now," he said. "No, not even Indian newspapers," he added. R esp on se from Indian l e a d e r s t o B e l l o n i ’s announcem ent was quick. Most see it as a loss to the Northwest Indians and to the fisheries resource. Belloni is referred to as a champion for Indian fishing rights and for the fish. He was quoted as saying that newspaper cartoons of Indian and non-Indian fishermen Continued on page 16
