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September 21,1979
Spilyay Tymoo
Treaty fishery closed again
For the third year in a row,
the fall Indian fishery in the
Columbia River has been
closed p re m a tu re ly . The
Colum bia River Com pact
decided September 20 to shut
down Zone VI, the treaty
fishing area above Bonneville
Dam, effective immediately.
Also due for closure at noon
Sunday is a 25-mile stretch of
the river just below Bonneville.
The rest of the lower river will
remain open until October 31,
the originally scheduled end of
the fall chinook season. Indians
were given an additional three
days this weekend to fish at the
Spring Creek Hatchery.
T h e C o lu m b ia R iv e r
Intertribal Fish commission, as
well as the U.S. Fish and
W ild lif e S e r v ic e , h a d
recommended to the Compact
Wednesday that the entire river
be shut down to give the fall
chinook run a chance to escape
to spawning grounds in the
upriver tributaries. Asking for
an extra day to consider the
data, the states of Oregon and
Washington returned Thurs
day with their minds made up.
Burnie Bohn of the Oregon
D epartm ent of Fish and
Wildlife said that the lower
river catch of upriver chinook
would be only “incidental”-r-
Wasco Chief Nelson Wallulatum and Superintendent Jim
Cornett were honored recently with engraved plaques from the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, presented to them by Area Director
Vince Little. Wallulatum was commendedfor this twenty years of
service as chief and Cornett was awarded a certificate o f special
achievement fo r his “capabilities and effectiveness,” an honor
Relatives of Nelson McKin
rarely conferred on superintendents. Specifically cited were ley who died August 31 from a
Cornett's support in the return of the McQuinn Strip and the bullet wound to the head,
establishment o f the Burns Reservation, as well as Bureau p leaded w ith M u nicipal
B ra n c h M a n a g e r R u d y
assignments to the Navajo Reservation and the central office.
Spilyay Tymoo Photo by Stowell Clements Thursday for a
speedy end to the pending
investigation into his death.
Unable to get into Tribal
Council because of budget
protect
our
game
in
such
a
Tribal councils on three
manner as to insure future sessions, the three sisters were
Dakota Indian reservations
g e n e ra tio n s o f su ffic ie n t referred to Clements, who
h a v e d e c la r e d h u n tin g
game.” An aerial survey by the oversees the Tribal Police
moratoria on big game, fur
Bureau of Indian Affairs had department. Describing the
bearers, predators and game
shown
that game populations e m o tio n a l p re s s u re s on
birds. A voluntary two year
within reservation boundaries M c K in le y ’s fa m ily , Iva
halt on the Pine Ridge and
where year-round hunting P e n n i n g t o n s a id t h a t
Rosebud, and a one year on the
codes
do not apply, were “mounting bad feeling” would
Standing Rock Reservation
m
ark
ed
ly low er th a n in be eased if someone was
were called to “preserve and
arrested and incarcerated.
surrounding areas.
The F.B.I. and Bureau of
In d ian A ffairs are still
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Kah-Nee-Ta water
counducting the investigation
regular cleaning and flushing of into the shooting. No one is
time with chlorine to 30
the system are on the agenda. being held in custody in
minutes, a minimum accept
The Century West study cost connection with the incident.
able standard.
K a h -N e e -T a $ 5 ,1 0 0 . It
M c K .n le y 's b o d y was
Pauli also plans to “begin
included numerous site visits
immediately” on the clean-up
over a two-week period, tests
and maintenance program,
for bacteria, turbidity, and
which in his mind revolves on a
chlorine residual, examination
Police are still investigating a
“clean water attitude” among
of the system’s design and
water treatment workers. More
operation, and analysis of ti e Thursday morning accident
when a car ran into a bedroom
careful record-keeping, and
findings.
and awoke three people.
A Chevrolet four-door was
eastbound on Foster Road in
West Hills when it drove up on
top of a bank below Eliza Hicks
house, narrowly missed Ray
Shike’s house and went down
the hill and ran into the
northwest corner bedroom of
David Gonzales where three
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children were sleeping.
Managing E ditor
gid Miller
“ They w eren’t hurt or
anything,” said Sergeant Ray
A ssistant Editor
Sandy Rangila
Calica,* “they were just scared.
Photographic S p e c ia lis t/W rite r
C yn thia Stowell
They were sleeping and all of a
sudden this loud noise woke
Reporter/Photographers
them up.”
Roger Stwyer
Donna Behrend
Rena Greene, who was the
only one in the car when the
Priscilla Squiemphen, Secretary
police got there wasn’t hurt, but
FOUNDED IN MARCH OF 1976
she was also scared, said
Published bi-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of the
Calica.
Warm Springs R eservation of Oregon. Warm Springs,
The police have been unable
Oregon 97761. Located in the Old Administration Building.
to determine who was driving
Any written material to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed
the vehicle and the investiga
to:
tion is continuine.
Spilyay Tymoo
Two accidents over weekend
P. O. Box 735
Two cars received extensive
Warm Springs, Oregon 97761
damage in separate accidents
Phone 553-1644 or 553-1161, Ext. 274
that happened minutes apart
Subscription R ate. >6.00 per year
around 200 fish—because most
of the run is upstream from the
open area. A total river closure
would only save about 2,000
fish, he said. Doug Dompier of
CRITFC estimated that 7,000
upriver chinook have yet to
pass Bonneville and that a
lower river fishery would
destroy the remaining run. He
recommended that fishing be
Restricted to the tributaries.
A predicted upriver run of
212,000 peaked earlier and
bottomed out more quickly
than expected, explained
Dompier, aYid by September 20
the run prediction was trimmed
to 140,000. A s \t September 19,
the cumulative total for adult
chinook passing Bonneville
was 134,936 with a daily count
of well under 1,000.
Dompier cited the downward
trend in escapement in recent
years as a cause of concern. In
1977 only 85,000 fall chinook
escaped, in 1978 escapement
was down to 78,000 and this
year it is expected that only
75,400 w ill reach th e ir
spawning grounds. An yet the
fishery continues, he lamented.
According to the five year
management plan for the
Columbia River, fishing should
only take place over and above
an escapement of 100,000. This
year’s early predictions made
67,000 fish (60%) available to
Indians and 25,000 (40%) to
non-Indians. In addition,
Indians were entitled to 20,000
more fish to make up for
shortfalls in preceding seasons.
Based on this formula, the
lower river fishermen were
given only a two-day early fall
season during which timelhey
cau g h t th e ir 25,000. By
September 6, the run was
looking so good that the
Compact decided to open up
the lower river through the
month of October. Suddenly
the run peaked, and the count
at Bonneville dropped off
dramatically. It was crisis time
again, and Indians were being
asked to cooperate with
a n o th e r “ c o n s e rv a tio n
closure.”
When they were shut down
Thursday Indians had caught.
64,300 chinook, short of their
allotted share for the third year
in a row. Indian fishermen were
prepared for a closure, but felt
that the whole length of the
river , should be closed to
commercial fishermen. “Every
fish counts,” said Dompier.
“They are in essence destroying
the fishery” by continuing to
allow fishing in the lower river,
he added.
McKinley’s family asks for arrest
Dakota tribes stop hunting
brought to the Tribal Police
Department shortly after noon
August 31 in a gold 1970
Oldsmobile sedan driven by a
hysterical woman. Dozens of
people have been interviewed
regarding the incident.
Clements sympathized with
the McKinley kin, saying, “I
think your family deserves
some kind of answer.” But he
explained that the case was out
of the hands of the Tribal
Police. While he was unable to
explain the reason for the
delays in the McKinley case,
Clements observed that there
were only two F.B.I. agents in
the area and “sometimes we feel
we get the leftover service.”
U.S. Attorney Bill Young-
man, who is directing the
investigation, declined to
comment when Spilyay Tymoo
asked him why no arrest had
been made.
“We have to ask the Tribes to
request intensive service on the
matter,” Clements told Iva and
her sisters Madeline and Inez.
He said he would talk to the
general manager about writing
a le tte r to th e fed eral
authorities inquiring about the
case. The sisters expressed
some relief as th e y . left
Clements’ office.
Clements later noted that
there were “more and more
v io le n t c rim e s o n th e
reservation” because people
feel they can get away with
them. The community needs to
have con fid en ce in the
effectiveness of their law
enforcement system, he said.
McKinley, 28, had been
hired by Clements as a court
advocate just a week before he
died. Clements remarked that it
was McKinley’s interest in such
law enforcement matters that
impressed his interviewers.
Police Report
S p ilyay Tymoo
e a rly S u n d a y m o rn in g ,
September 9.
The first one happened at
Poosh Street in West Hills at
around 2:45 a.m. Delmar
Davis, 24, operating a 1978
Ford Courier, was allegedly
rounding a turn on the wrong
side of the road when his car
collided head-on with a 1970
Chevrolet Nova operated by
Glen Whiz, 20.
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No injuries were reported in
the accident although the Davis
vehicle was damaged exten
sively.
Davis was also cited to
appear in Tribal Court for
“failure to drive on right side of
the highway.”
In another accident a few
minutes later a 1978 Chevrolet
pick-up rolled once and was
totaled at Miller Heights.
The pick-up, driven by Tracy
Graybael, 17, was coming
down the hill into Warm
Springs on the Kah-Nee-Ta
road when a 1969 Oldsmobile
sedan, driven by Diane Davis,
18, allegedly pulled out in front
of him. The Graybael pick-up
struck the car, went into the
ditch, and rolled once.
Graybael and his three
passengers were taken to the
clinic where they were treated
and released.
Davis and her passenger,
Darla Davis, 19, were not
injured in the mishap and ho
damage was done to their car.
No action has been taken
and the investigation is still
underway.
Burglaries slow down
Only two burglaries were
reported over the weekend of
September 15-16, considerably
less than the 23 reported in the
last two months.
Entering through a window,
someone took $2.00 cash and
five miniature hard liquor
bottles from the' trailer of
Bertson Simtustus at the new
trailer court.
Someone also broke into the
Ray Shike residence in West
Hills. Found missing were $60
in pennies, $60 worth of bottles
and cans sitting outside, and
one fifth of tequila.
Both burglaries are under
investigation and juveniles are
suspected.