Spilyay Tymoo
July 29,1983 Page 5
T o u r s c h e d u le d
The Timber Committee has
scheduled the annual timber
tour for the 1985 Timber sales
August 4 and 5, 1983.
T ra n s p o rta tio n will be
provided, with a bus to leave
the Administration Building at
9:00 a.m. on both days. Lunch
will also be provided for both
days.
The following sales will be
toured at that time: Chuck
Luck-Mcquinn Strip; Canal-
W .S . B lo ck ; O ld M ill-'
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In preparation fo r building a small hydroelectric plant on their reservation the Colorado Southern
cou"cil and delegates visited Warm Springs fo r a sharing o f ideas. They arepictured here
at the Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery on tour.
Testimony given in support of bill
S e n a to r H a tfie ld an d
members of the Public, my
name is Eugene Greene. I am
Director of the Warm Springs
N atural Resources D epart
ment, and am a former
C h a irm a n of the T rib a l
Council of th e , Confederated
Tribes o f. the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon. I am
here today to speak in support
of wilderness designation for
certain national forest lairds in
northeastern Oregon im por
tant to the Warm Springs
Tribe.
The Warm Springs Tribe
hopes that the United States
Senate will enact wilderness
legislation sim ilar to the
House-passed bill, H.R. 1149.
In particular, the tribe urges the
Senate to accept for wilderness
designation a ll areas on
northeastern Oregon included
in H.R. 1149, plus additional
a re a s p ro p o s e d by th e
Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission.
The Warm Springs Tribe
supports wilderness designa
tio n fo r th ese a re a s in
northeastern Oregon for two
reasons. First, preservation of
these areas in their natural state
is critical to the preservation of
the tribe’s treaty-secured, off-
reservation fishing rights.
Although the Warm Springs
Reservation is located on the
Deschutes River in central
Oregon, ninety miles south of
the Columbia River, the Warm
S p rin g s T re a ty of 1855
guarantees us the right to carry
on subsistence, ceremonial and
co m m ercial fish eries fo r
salmon and steelhead in the
mainstream of the Columbia
R iv e r. T he J o h n D a y ,
Umatilla, and Grande Ronde
River watersheds, all of which
need wilderness protection at
their headwaters to ensure
future fish production, are
major contributors to the
spring chinook and steelhead
runs which pass our usual and
accustomed fishing places on
the Columbia River. Without
wilderness designation to
protect the ; delicate natural
environm ent necessary to
maintain these important wild
stocks, the chinook and
steelhead runs from these river
systems are sure to diminish in
the years ahead.
Our second reason for
s u p p o r t i n g w ild e r n e s s
designation for certain areas of
northeastern Oregon is that
m uch of th is land was
originally ours. In the Treaty of
1855 the tribes of Middle
Oregon ceded title to much of
eastern Oregon between the
crest of the Cascade Range and
the Blue Mountains, while
re s e rv in g o u r p re s e n t
Toe Ness
The boss was observing his secretary on her performance
during office hours, finally he said, “Miss Jones, when the little
bell on your typewriter rings, it doesn’t mean it’s time for a
coffee break.” YIKES
SS SS SS
There was this office girl who was always twenty to thirty
minutes late each day. One day she came into the office five
minutes after eight and the boss said, “Why Miss Lando, this is
the earliest you’ve ever been late.’’ YIKES
SS SS SS
There was a knock on the door and the husband gets up to
answer it. He tells his wife, “It’s a g uyfrom the Goodwill
collecting old clothes, do you have anything?” She answered,
“Yes, give him that last suit you bought about ten years ago
and that old dress 1 bought last week.” YIKES
SS SS SS
There was this atheist who was talking with a preacher and
asked, “Do you really believe that Jonah spent three days and
nights in the stomach of a whale? Preacher, “I don’t know,
but I’ll ask him when I get to heaven.” Atheist, “What if he isn’t
in heaven?” Preacher, “Then you ask him.” YIKES
SS SS SS
reservation for our exclusive
use and, more importantly,
reserving hunting, fishing and
food gathering rights in our
ceded area. To this day, many
Warm Springs Indians exercise
the treaty right to hunt for deer
and elk in the areas proposed
for wilderness designation. Our
people also dig for roots and
gather berries, tra d itio n a l
foods for our people, in these
same areas. We believe that
wilderness designation is the
only way to guarantee these
tr e a ty rig h ts to f u tu r e
generations of Warm Springs
Indians.
The Warm Springs Tribe
does not believe that wilderness
designation necessarily hurts
the lumber industry.; We have?
some experience in this area.
Our tribal government is
responsible for management of
reservation timberlands, the
tribe’s main source of income,
and operation of tribal saw and
plywood mill, our largest
employer of tribal members.
Through careful management,
we are able to maintain our
lumber based economy on the
reservation while preserving
large areas of tribal land in
their natural wilderness state.
We preserve these areas to
ensure continued n atu ral
s a lm o n a n d s te e l h e a d
production in the reservation’s
river systems and to protect our
food gathering and wildlife
habitat areas. If we can do it, so
can the United States Forest
Service. To be sure that this
happens, we urge passage by
the Senate of wilderness
legislation including all of the
areas in northeastern Oregon
protected under H.R. 1149 and
the additional areas proposed
by the Columbia River treaty
tribes.
W.S. Block; East Camas-W.S.
Block; Sheep Creek-W .S.
Block; Shitike Canyon-W.S.
Block; Beaver Canyon-W.S.
Block and Powerline-W.S.
Block.
For further inform ation
c o n ta c t M e r le , T im b e r
Committee secretary. Also for
a head count, you will need to
let the Timber Committee
know if you will be able to
attend. Thanks, at 553-1161
extension 258.
Notice
To All Indian Landowners On
The Warm Springs Indian Reservation
Last January, a new law was passed by Congress which
changed the ownership rules for some small interests in trust
property when the owner dies. This law is called the Indian
Land Consolidation Act (P.L. 97-459) and was signed by
President Reagan on January 12, 1983. Section 207 says that
when an Indian who owns a small fractional interest, or share,
in trust land dies, the interest may go to the Tribe. This
will happen when all of the following things apply: 1. The
Indian owner dies after January 12,1983 and; 2. The land is on
a reservation or ín some other area where a Tribe has authority
and; 3. The interest or share of the owner is so small that it is
two percent, or less, of the total and; 4. The owner got less than
$100 from the land during the year before death.
Under the old rules, these small interests went to the relatives
of the owner or to the person named in the owner’s will when
the owner died. Now the interest will escheat (go back) to the
Tribe which owned the land before it was allotted.
There are several ways you may be able to keep the law from
applying to any small fractional interest that you own. A few of
these ways are mentioned in this letter.
One method is to buy an interest from another owner so that
the interest you buy and the interest you now own would total
more than two percent. If you own small interests in more than
one piece of land, you may be able to trade your interest in one
piece for someone else’s interest in another piece, so that you
end up with an interest larger than two percent.
Another way is to sell the interest you own to another owner,
so that the interest you sell to the other owner and the interest
the other owner already has are larger than two percent. You
can do this and also keep the right ta collect the money from
your interest as long as you live by reserving a life estate in the
interest you sell to the other owner. Y ou can sell your interest to
another owner for less than its appraised value or you can give
it to a co-owner if you want to.
If you own a small undivided interest in a fairly large piece of
land, it may be possible for you and the other owners to divide
up the land. This is called partitionment. If it is possible to work
that out, you could end up with 100 percent ownership of a
small piece of land instead of a small interest in a large piece of
land. Partitionment is not always good, but it may help some
owners of small undivided interests.
If there are a number of owners who each have an equal
interest, which often happens with brothers and sisters, all of
these owners could sign a deed which puts their interests in joint
tenancy. This means that if one of these owners dies, his or her
interest will automatically go to the surviving owners and not
the tribe.
Congress passed the Indian Land Consolidation Act to keep
interests from growing so small that they have no value to
anyone. There are ways to increase your interest. There are also
ways to make sure your interest goes to relatives or other
owners. But if your interest is two percent or less at the time of
your death, there is a very strong chance that it will go to the
tribe. If you think you have one or more small undivided
interests in trust land that may come under the new law, you
can find out for sure by calling or seeing the Realty staff at the
agency. They will also be able to talk to you about the ways you
may be able to keep the law from applying to any small interests
that you own.
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