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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1981)
006171 , BC VOL 6 NO 1 p ° Wer bin signed with protection WARM SPRINGS, OREGON 97761 January 19, 1981 ATNI supports Smith for position . by Donna Behrend Delegates attending the most recent meeting of Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI), in Spokane, Washing ton, passed a resolution giving their full support of Warm Springs General Manager Ken Smith for possible appoint ment as Assistant Secretary of the Interior. ATNI members also gave their support to Del Lovato, chairman of the All Indian Pueblo Council, as special White House Assistant on Indian Affairs. On December 5 President Carter signed into law the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conserva tion Act, a controversial measure that lo o k its sponsors four and one half years to engineer through Congress. The act is primarily designed to in c re a s e e le c tric p o w er generation in the region, but includes firm provisions for enviromental protection and fisheries improvement. These provisions represent hard- fought concessions won by the tribes and environmentalists, Warm Springs councilman and can be important means Olney Patt Sr. assured the for restoring and protecting ATNI delegates that Smtih trib a l fishery; reso u rces would accept appointment as affected by dam operations on Assistant Secretary if selected. the Columbia River and its “We don’t want him to leave. tributaries. He’s very important to us. . .if Continued on page 3 he leaves, we’ll give him all the support we can. 1 urge all tribes to give him all the NOTICE support you can.”. For those people who leave W arm S p rin g s council cars at the Tribal Garage with out making any arraingments chairman Delbert Frank said with the manager; they will be of Smith. “He is knowledge able, he has a clean slate and towed away. r he’s qualified at the grass.roots level. We need a policy maker in D.C., not an administrator.” He continued, stating, “Some existing policies are pure obstacles for us and the BI A knows that. Any change will have to come from us. “We also have a big obstacle before us with the Reagan administration. . .we need to have a good representative. We need someone who has done something for the grass roots Indian people.” C o lv ille I n d ia n Mel Tonasket feels that the Reagan administration maÿ improve r e s e r v a tio n o p e r a tio n s , “Reagan’s administration will cause trib e s to im prove accountability and be better businessmen.” He also stated that the incoming administration was uninformed as far as Indian are c o n c e r n e d . “ T h e new administration is full of new people who don’t know much about Indians. It would be wise to have someone, or an organization, to be there to inform them . Reagan is looking for new faces and new blood. However, old faces and old blood have been thrown around already.” Ip other ATNI business, delegates voted to send a night letter to the Energy and Natural Resources committee opposing the appointment of James Watt as Secretary of the Interior. NCAI Executive Director Ron Andrade said NCAI planned to present written and . oral testimony during the Watt hearings last week in Washington, D.C. Watt, 42, has drawn critical fire from Indian leaders for his legal views opposing the sovereign powers of Indian tribal governments and from environmentalists for his pro development, views concerning federal lands. ' Another item brought up at. the three day meeting was d eleg ate concern of the c o n tro v e rsia l “ S a g eb ru sh Rebellion.” Tribal leaders fear that if the act is put into effect, tr ib e s w ill lo se r ig h ts constituted by their treaties. Our rights “will not mean a thing if states get a hold of land” through the Sagebrush Rebellion, said one delegate. “We need to plan together as reservations on the act. If we sit around and let it happen, it will be just like termination.” According to an article published in the December issue of the Columbia Inter- T rib a l Fish C om m ission newsletter, “ownership control by the states would open up these off-reservation treaty areas to development at the expense of traditional tribal uses.” The sagebrush rebels also expressed new hope that President-elect Reagan would be an ally in their cause. Inflation has hit ATNI just as it has m any o th e r organizations. Many felt that the $100 annual fee per tribe was far too low and suggested it be raised. Action will be taken on the amount of that raise at the Spring meeting of ATNI in St. Ignatius, Montana, March 16-18. Recreation survey is important Youths charged with murder, assault Please understand your Beware! ! Survey people once again . T his tim e i t ’s a response is very important even First degree murder charges if you don’t use the present récréation needs assessment to recreation facilities. Tell us were filed January 6 against two 17 year-old Yakima tribal be taken to all members of the what you do with your leisure members along with three time. c o m m u n ity w ho w e re counts of assault in connection The survey may be left with the apparent ax slaying of ran d o m ly chosen to be overnight or dropped off to you a 20 year old Nez Perce tribal surveyed. in the morning and picked up in member and the injury of three The largest percentage of the evening. We do need a other persons December 29 just other persons December 29 people surveyed will be tribal speedy responses though. ju s t east of D a lle sp o rt, members. Everyone over eight This survey will help set the Washington. years of age in the chosen needed direction for recreation The two, Arthur Cloud and household will get a chance to on the reservation and will be Warren Cloud are being held let their recreation voices be confidential. We need your for $50,000 bail each and are being held in the Yakima input!! heard. County Detention Center. They are accused of slaying Gary Frank, a Yakima Tribal member, and attacking Roy G eorge a Yakim a tribal member and two W arm S p rin g s trib a l m em bers, Andrea and Jimmy Spino with what authorities said was “an ax or a sim ilar cutting instrument.” Frank died of multiple wounds to the head and skull. The other three are still h o s p ita liz e d at G ood S a m a r i t a n H o s p ita l in Portland and are listed in “good condition and showing steady improvement.” All three injured initially had surgery after admission and M iss Spino has had two subsequent surgeries on her jaw. A declination hearing will be held January 19 in Goldendale which may remand the two juveniles to adult court.
