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WARM SPRINGS, OREGON 97761
February 26,1981
Employees awarded for years of service
Eighty-seven people received
recognition for service as tribal
employees at the employee
banquet and awards presenta
tions held at Kah-Nee-Ta on
the evening of February 20.
T rib a l C ouncil ch airm an
Delbert Frank addressed the
audience expressing apprecia
tion for the work the tribal
employees performed. He said
“Our little government will
keep going and you people
made it possible."
Three year awards: Frances
Allen, Linda Allen, Gerald
Bagley, Linda Bagley, Paul
Beebe, Ruth Beymer, DeRoy
Blasingame,Michael Clements,
Caroline Cruz, Delmar Davis,
Connie Ford, Mayann Gabriel,
K enneth G oddard, Javier
Gonzales, Viola Govenor, lva
Lee G reninger, Jacq u etta
Gustafson, Benson Heath,
Charlotte Herkshan, Wanda
Jackson, Carol Jenkin, Lisa
Kaber, Angeline Kalama, Alice
Knight, Terry Luther, Patricia
Macy, Leon Maxwell, Sylvia
Maxwell, Charles McKay,
Hester Milks, Carmen Pinkal,
S a n d r a R a n g ila , G ayle
Rodgers, Grace Queahpama,
Wilma Scott, Colleen Smith,
Bernice M itchell was one o f many people awarded fo r their continuous service to the Tribe. She Frank Smith, Millie Smith,
> , received recognition f o r IS years o f service. She is flanked on the left by Charles “Jody ” Calica, acting V ersa S m ith , L ola Mae
M unicipal Branch manager and on the right b y E d M anion, Enterprise Branch manager.
Sohappy, Sammi Squiemphen,
Ramona Starr, Pauline Stites,
Spilyay Tym oo ph oto by Shewczyk
M a r g ie T u c.k.ta_ F a y e
W aheneka, Neda Wesley,
Celeste Whitewolf, Antoinette
Wolfe.
Five year a w a rd s:Jo a n n
Bryant, Effie Culpus, Priscilla
Frank, Ronald Govenor, Elton
G reeley, M arilyn Jo h n s,
D elford Joh n so n , Andres
Lucas, D oug M cClelland,
Ja m e s M acy, G u a lb e rto
Medina, Eva Montee, Delores
Parker, Jack Quinn, Joyce
Quinn, Walter Quinn, Lucille
Schuster, Ernest Sconawah,
Marla Sexton,- Rose Mary
Smith, Nellie Spino, Lester
Tanewasha, Patricia Tane-
washa.
Ten year awards: Mary Berry,
Raym ond F. Calica Sr.,
Wilkins Hellon. Edith Kalama,
Marcelene LeClaire, Ralph
Minnick, Joann Moses, Olney
Patt Sr., William Kanim
Smith.
Fifteen year awards: Everett
M iller, Bernice M itchell,
Dacotah Soules.
Twenty year awards: Cecil D.
Brunoe Sr., Caroline Tohet.
Twenty-five year aw ards:
Hazel Seyler, Lloyd G. Smith
Sr..
Tribes revise fisheries management plan
Portland—The Nez Perce,
Umatilla, Warm Springs and
Yakima Indian Tribes have
together revised a Columbia
River Salmon management
plan drafted by state and
federal fisheries agencies. “Our
rev isio n s stre n g th e n the
docum ent by em phasizing
basin-wide .restoration of the
fishery and by putting the legal
weight of treaty rights behind
the plan, " stated Levi George of
the Yakima N ation, vice-
chairman of the Columbia
R iv e r I n te r - T r ib a l F ish
Commission.
The four Columbia River
treaty tribes presented their
redraft of the Coumbia River
S a lm o n a n d S te e lh e a d
Management Framework Plan
at a Columbia River Fisheries
Council (CRFC) meeting in
Portland on February 17.
Their version of the plan
adds directives for regulating
ocean harvest to assure in-river
salmon survival. The Indians
back up their strong language
on ocean management by
inserting treaty fishing rights.
These rights require the ocean
fishery to be managed so that
salmon runs return to tribal
fishing places—places that
include tributary locations
throughout the basin as well as
areas on the mainstem of the
Columbia. “If ocean managers
live up to legal responsibilities,
more salmon would return to
spawning grounds throughout
the Columbia River system—
and everyone would benefit
from that,” said George.
The tribes’ reworking of the
plan is based on conviction that
m e a n e x is t f o r s a v in g
Columbia salmon and that any
effective plan must emphasize
them. One of those means is
Boldt Phase II: according to a
tribal addition to the planning
document, “.. .recent decisions
by federal courts in the Pacific
N o rth w e s t h av e c le a rly
established that treaty fishing
rights include the rights to a
protected habitat. It is the
intent of all parties to this
framework plan to support
tribal efforts to use these
decisions for the protection of
fishery habitat in the Columbia
River Basin."
A n o th e r m eans in c o r
porated in the revised plan is
federal legislation enacted in
late 1980: The regional power
act, among its other fishery
benefits, can reduce salmon
and steelhead mortalities at
h y d ro e le c tric dam s. The
s a lm o n a n d s t e e l h e a d
enhancem ent act provides
funds for hatcheries and
habitat improvement. Unlike
the draft produced by state and
federal representatives of
CRFC, -the tribes’ version
points out each place in the
plan where measures from the
two acts apply. “The plan itself
has no statutory basis—the
new acts and treaty rights are
the only tools for a coordinated
approach that have the force of
law," said George.
The new legislation also
embraces the tribes as equal
partners . in managing the
fishery an d 'th e tribal redraft
conforms to the co-manage
ment standards and procedures
the acts prescribe. Conversely,
the state and federal agency
plan does not integrate the
unique laws that govern the
tribes’ ceremonial, subsistence,
and commercial fisheries, but
deals with the tribes as
essentially another user group.
In addition to strengthening
the document by relating it to
treaties, federal laws and
federal court decisions, the
tribes’ revisions stress planning
and goals for the entire basin.
“ B ecause the trib e s are
concerned with more than
commercial aspects of the
fishery resource, and because
their rights extend not just to a
narrow area of the river but
throughout the basin, tribal
interests coincide with the over
riding objective of restoring the
e n tire C o lu m b ia R iv e r,”
George pointed out.
Consistent with the Indians’
basin-wide approach, which
emphasizes natural stocks, the
tribal redraft changes the
p rio rity of m anagem ent
objectiv es from h a tc h e ry
spaw ning escap em en t to
n a tu ra l escapem ent. “The
natural or wild stocks are
hardier and more disease-
resistant, and overall are more
cost-efficient than hatchery-
pro d u ced s to c k s ,” sta te d
George.
Tribal alterations to the plan
also recognize the importance
of artificial rearing. To replace
upriver salmon runs destroyed
by dam construction, the tribes
call for implementing in kind
and in place hatchery programs
and release practices. Upriver
runs of coho are now almost
non-existent, and resotration
of these runs is a priority in the
tribes’ redraft.
The tribes’ revisions call for
spills and flows and for
installation of bypass systems
at all dams, not just mainstem
dams. In the goals for the first
five years of the proposed 20-
year plan, the tribes include
“effective bypass systems on
Willamette River hydroelectric
projects.”
To make sure that salmon
r e a c h s p a w in in g a r e a s
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