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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1985)
< Range plan finalized, adopted by Tribal Council S pilyay T ymoo J This is the second installment of a three-part series on the recently adopted Range and Agri 1K » culture Management plan. The recommendations listed below name particular plans of I l I B i action for reservation range and agriculture lands and how the recommendations relate to other resource uses. ■ SI " 'a ■ Ä w f l s B Land Ownership and Use I .W S f 9 H H 1. Tribal policies for granting leases and assignments be deve loped to clarify how competing land uses will be handled. • .. f ft ,5c ig 2. Leases and assignments in x ........- ... the designated rangelands and rangeland and agricultural use areas be limited to those needed for improved grazing or farm ing operations and the impact on established range areas be to be mentioned by the Natural 3. Culturally important root considered before lease and as Resource department annually. digging sites need to be added signments are approved. If the invididual is not in com to Range and Agriculture offi 3. Leases and assignments for pliance, steps should be taken ce’s resource computer mapping homesites in rural areas Con to achieve compliance. If com system (MOSS). This will allow form to reservation comp plan. pliance cannot be achieved in for easy access when range use 4. A review be made of exist due course, the lease or assign and range improvement practi ing leases and assignments to ment should be cancelled. ces are planned. determine how many are in use 4. Archeological and histori for the purposes for which they Relationship to other resource cal sites need to be investigated uses were granted. in the non-timbered portions of 1. Spacing requirements of the reservation. As sites are 5. The Council considered exercising the authority of Sec Policy 410.881 should be care identified on the reservation, tion 5, Article VIII of the Con fully reviewed in the develop they need to be added to the stitution by cancelling assign ment of new zoning codes. computer mapping system. 2. Approval of new rural hous ments and leases which are not 5. Communications need to in compliance to simplify the ing should include a require be maintained between the Cul management of tribal resources. ment for fencing developed part ture and Heritage committee 6. The Council adopt a clear of each homesite. and department, and the range 3. A clearly established pro and agriculture office so that statement of policy for granting cedure for review of all pro action may be taken to protect and cancelling assignments. 7. Ordinance 33 should be posed developments in range cultural features. amended to include Kah-Nee- and agricultural areas by the Forestry Natural Resources department Ta and Simnasho. 1. This plan reaffirms the 8. Establish a procedure for a n d t h e R a n g e / I r r i g a stated Tribal Council policy that review for all proposed devel tion/ Agriculture committee will forage production for wildlife opments in range and agricul help avoid site-specific conflicts. and livestock, is a secondary ture areas by the N atural Re Cultural Resources allocation to timber production. 1. Enhancing and preserva Prescriptions for range empha sources department and Range/ Ir rigation/ Agriculture Committee tion. of traditional sites—root sis in forest management, as to help avoid site-specific con digging and and archeological outlined in the Forest Manage and historical—is important. flicts. ment are compatible with range 2. Policy 410.590of the Comp and agriculture management and 9. Leases and assignments for grazing or agriculture need to Plan that calls for the investiga Will be applied as each grazing have an attached grazing plan tion of culturally important roots area develops five year and an- developed jointly by the indi- and the impact range use and nual grazing plans» Forage pro- wdual requesting tne leage ana range improvement practices duefionjn timber, ateas will be the Natural Resources depart would have on themp-needs to m a x im iz e ff’TrincTer th ese c o n ment. Compliance of plans need be carried out. straints. J. r BBIB ; IIB i m M ii » ad issi s a H .../. < g . • . S 8S Í3Í i S i iSigBB ■ H I 1 i » —■ Carla Buckland The newest BIA employee, Carla Buckland went to work as a forestry technician for the forestry departm ent January 1985. Carla likes her job as it allows her to spend a lot of time outdoors. She attended Central Oregon Community College in Bend for two years. She is sin gle. H er m o th er, M argaret Buckland works for the tribal court and her father, Daniel Buckland works at the mill. Carla is of Blackfeet/Wasco co/G ros Ventre descent. Her special interests are softball, bead- work and drawing. Working as the secretary for the BIA law enforcement de partment since June 1984, Val Little Crow came to Warm Springs from Billings, Montana. Val is from the Flathead reser vation in Montana. She is single and resides in Warm Springs. Her special interests are read ing, listening to music and at tending rodeos. As for living and working in Warm Springs, she thinks it is all right. is to rep air dam age they cause. i 1966-69. He boxed in the welter weight division and then in the middle-weight division. He had a total of 127 amateur bouts. Though he is not actively box ing, he Still enjoys the sport. Ben said he has a nephew, who boxed on the Junior Olympics team. In the last issue of the Spilyay it stated that Clarence Jeffer son, facilities management manager was of Yakima/Sioux descent. That was incorrect, Jefferson is of Yankton Sioux descent. Pool closed Linda Langley Linda Langley has worked intermittently for the BIA in the last year and in November 1984, she went to work fulltime as the social services secretary. She.is married to Jack Langley who works at the mill as a swing shift supervisor. She is the mot her of three boys, William Trim ble, 16; Delton Trimble, 14 and Ellis Langley, 8; and a daughter Jacklyn, 5. Linda is an enrolled member Ben Richards of the Warm Springs Confed erated Tribes and has lived all “It is a nice reservation, the of her life in Warm Springs. people are nice, it is the best During her free time she enjoys place I have ever worked and I reading and bowling. like it here,” sums up how Ben Richards, BIA investigator, feels about working and living in Warm Springs. Ben went to work for law enforcement in Warm Springs in February 1984. He transferred to his present position from the Navajo reser vation where he had worked at Tuba City and Chinle, Arizona. He is originally from Pine Ridge, South Dakota andjs of Oglala Sioux descent. He* is married and his wife, Nancy, works at the Warm Springs Iridian Health Service clinic as a secretary. The Richard’s have two children, Stacey Beualiea, 47 and Jona than, 2 ^ . Ben’s special interests are basketball and boxing. He had boxed and.was the Golden Gloves M idw est cham pion Val Little Crow Part 2 Forestry will provide for correcting erosion problems caused by logging on each logging unit. Consultation between Forestry and Range and A griculture will re commend corrective practi ces. Such» practices will be the responsibility of the or ganization causing the pro blems. Range staff will provide for correcting erosion prob lems created by forest graz ing and coordinate with Fo 7 . '" : restry on site and action.. t a i' ' > \ Funds for correcting these erosion problems will be the • responsibility of Range and Agriculture. Branches of Roads and Forestry will minimize ero sion caused by road con struction through thèir Con ^ 2. Range staff will be part of trat t requirements. Fire Management’s fire rehabil Range staff will receive itation team to coordinate: Forest Officer’s reports and Prefire plans to repair da mage to the range resource maps. Forest grazing plans will and livestock facilities, by be reviewed by Forestry. 7 fire or suppression activi Seeding of forage will be ties. Suppression money can coordinated between Fore be used to restore resources stry and Range and Agri and facilities to the condi culture in all timber areas tion before a fire. including clearcuts. •. Prescribed burns for range Range and Agriculture of- renovation. fice will be responsible for 3. Tribal/ BIA Range and involving other parties in Agriculture and BIA Fore terested in range and lives stry will involve each other tock tri assist communica in development of activities tion 'concerning forestry that will have impact on the plans. other’s programs. This in Livestock facilities, fences volvement will include, but and other improvement items not be limited to the fol- will be mapped and condi , lowing: tion noted. These will be Range staff will take part considered in planning and in preplanning activities on added to maps on alllog- logging units, timber shies, ging units and timber stand thinning sites and rehabili improvement sites by Range tation work. and Agriculture. If these im Range staff will supply provements are damaged by estimates of cost to replace logging or stand improve-; »forage that will be damaged ment activities, they will be or destroyed in each logging returned to the condition unit. before the damage occurred. Branch of Forestry will This will be carried out by budget administrative fees the party causing such da to cover the cost of forage mage. replacement that would not jf ji a tu r a l ly reep y er, W S F P I Water New faces, jo b assignments in BIA staff The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) activities on the reserva tion are defined as fulfilling the federal trust responsibilities to the tribe. The BIA employees on the reservation are the people who represent the government in this role. They are the people who work with the Tribe to ensure the trust responsibility is carried out for the betterment of the Tribe, and Superintend ent Bernie Topash feels it is im portant for the local people to know these BIA people. Four new BIA employees who came to work at Warm Springs in the last 12 months are Carla Buckland, Linda Langley, Val Little Crow and Ben Richards. D Page 3 February 1,1985 I The Kah-Nee-Ta Village pool/ will be closed for repairs from February 1 to February 28. The , River Room restaurant will re- Open on March 1 and all Village operations, will begin at that time. Band scheduled sible for coordinating with the Watermaster arid Water Con trol Board as necessary to assure that all range management acti vities cortfply with the policies and guidelines approved by the Tribal Council for water ma nagement. 2. The. Watermaster must be involved in the development of .grazing area plans, r 3. Each grazing organization will make application to the Water Control board, through the Watermaster, for existing and proposed uses of water re sources as indicated in the Water Management Plan. 4. AU existing feedlots located at the bottom of a classifiable stream be moved away from the area, at least 100 feet. All future . feedlots should be located away from the bottom of water drain ages. Wildlife 1. In the absence of a Tribal Council policy on wildlife man agement, a clearly established procedure for review of all graz ing area plans and range and agriculture development plans be implemented between Natu ral Resources’ Range and Agri culture and Wildlife offices. 2. If by 1988, a policy is not approved by the Tribal Coun cil, then a formal review be undertaken to reduce impacts Of livestock on wildlife (to be carried out every tltree years thereafter). 3.Once a policy on wildlife management has been adopted, it will be necessary to set aside the recommended AU M’s for wildlife from the overall forage available. Adjustments in each grazing area will have to be made accordingly. Continued close coordination as outlined in recomipendation III-16, will need to be maintained. Grazing Resource 1. Specific recommendations dn range improvement and graz- irig plans will be made for each grazing area wheri livestock op eratorsdevelop livestock man agement plans and goals for ' RMhge and i m p r o vi ng ra nge cond i t i on a nd Agriculture staff will be respon- forage production. Conference set at resort “Making the dream a reality” beaded tobacoo pouch, beaded is the theme for the 10th Annual coin purse, pine needle basket, Oregon Indian Education Asso Shawls^ sports bag and beaded ciation' conference to be held earrings. Raffle ticketsare $ L00 April 10-12 at Kah*Nee-Ta, Trational fashions will be dis The three-day conference will played during a fashion show be composed of workshops rang scheduled during the conference. ing from education and faririly Attire worn by babies to chiefs , life topics to commuity resour will be modeled. For informa ces. Some workshop titles in tion regarding the fashion show clude parent education, parent-1 contact;. GeneVa Smith or Ver student rights, traditional versus bena Greene. contemporary values, curricu Registration forms for the lum and higher education. 10th Annual Oregon Indian Edu Other activities during the cation Association conference' conference begin Wednesday, will be available soon through April 10, with a western dance out the community and in the for ages 21 and over. The cost of mail. The $35 fee will cover the dance is $4.00 in advance, membership fees, workshop ses $5.00 arithe door. sions and two meals. A powwow is scheduled for For more information con April 10. The location has not tact Dean Azule at 393-3903, yet been determined. Winona Strong at'553-1161, ext A raffle drawing will also 314 or Jody Calica at 5534161, take place during the powwow. ext. 228. Items collected so far include a Fund raising planned By popular demand the dance band Street Legal will be per An auction; rummage sale Proceeds from the everits will form ing at the Kah-Nee-Ta and bake sale will be held at the go to ' the Lincoln’s Powwow Lodge loünge beginning at 9:00 Simnasho Longhouse on Suh- committee for the upcoming day, February 3 at 4 p.m. powwow. a.m. February 1 and 2. Plug pulled A very rare sight: Happy Valley reservoir emptied by someone who was overly curious.
