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c Page 2 March 1,1985 { } S pilyay T ymoo New Judge rapping gavel Per Capita checks delayed in tribal court T ribal m em bers who went to the post office to pick up their m onthly per capita checks on M onday, February J25 found that, the checks were not in the mail. In th e past the checks appeared in the mail like clock work. The delay in the checks was attributed to the fact th at the checks are no longer w ritten a t the agency, but instead at the Portland Area Office. E a rlie r th is y e a r, W a rm Springs superintendent Bernie T o p ash a n n o u n c ed th a t the Individual Indian M onies (IIM ) accounts would be entered in the com puter a t the P ortland Area office. The checks arelnow w ritten in P ortland and mailed from there. The IIM staff had been encod ing all IIM accounts, the Land C la im s m o n ie s a n d s ta te s monies into the com puter as o f last week. O n Friday, February 22 the staff began encoding the per capita. The staff worked Friday and S aturday. The big gest problem encountered by the staff ws th a t not all people on the per capita list had an IIM account so the staff had to set u p accounts for those not hav ing one. The per capita checks were printed by S aturday and in the mail by M onday, F ebruary 25, the catch being th a t they were in the mail in P ortland. It fakes approxim ately two days of mail time from P ortland to W arm Springs. The checks were in the mail at W arm Springs on Wed nesday, F ebruary 27. According to Topash, new th at the accounts have been encoded there should not be any problem s in g etting the checks on a regular schedule. Topash stated Tribal Council is at this tim e considering hav ing the checks written in-house. Support groups meet F o r p e o p le in th e W arm Springs area who are in heed of support groups the following schedules with time and loca tion, could offer assistance. The W om en’s Support Group, A lcohol building on M ondays 5 to 6:30 p.m. Open AA G roup, Assembly Plant, M ondays, 7-8:30 p.m. Open AA G roup, Alcohol building, Thursdays, 7-8:30 p.rrb Sobriety on the Move (SOM), M a rg a re t B u c k la n d ’s hom e; R 109 Elk L o o p (553-1686), Fridays, 7-8:30 p.m. Title IV, Part A meeting March 12 The next Title IV, P art A 12 beginning at 7 p.m. in the P a re n t A dvisory com m ittee southeast Head S tart room. meeting will be Tuesday March- Sweetheart baby contest held The annual Sweetheart Baby contest was held at the W arm Springs C om m unity Center bn Valentine’s D ay at 7 p.m. Proud parents, grandparents and of course the stars of the evening, th e babies, g athered fo r the evening’s events. Twelve categories were judged b y D e b b ie Y a h t i n , C .R . Squiemphen Danelle Barbrielle. Candice Miller, won the “baby with the least h air” and “young est chubbiest baby” titles. Can- dice is the daughter of Vesta and W hitney Miller. Lucinda Stw yer, d au g h ter of M adine M eanus won the “baby with the m ost h air” title. Delilah H eath took the title for the “chubbiest baby:” T ianna Greene proved to be the fastest in the “crawlers M exico for ab o u t a year-and-a- halfi There were also two asso ciate judges and one juvepije judge assisting him with (he case load. Frederick also worked for his own tribe as chief judge for abbqt 12 years. “I was probably th e ir y o u n g est ju d g e ,4* ¿aid Frederick. “I was 23.” While serving as chief judge for his tribe, he also served as chief appelate judge for the M eno minee Tribe of Wisconsin, F ort T otten Sioux, Standing Rock Sioux, three affiliated tribes of F o rt B erth o ld an d W agner, South D akota. Frederick explained th at for the first four years at Turtle M ountain he was the only judge. “I dealt with every problem :” Frederick has no law degree. He is a graduate of the N ational College of State Judiciary in Reno, Nevada and a graduate of judiciary institutes such as the N orth D akota State Judge A ssociation and the N ational Juvenile Judge Association. He is also a m em ber of the Native American Indian C ourt Judges Association. He has served as their president and has been a board m em ber for ab o u t ten years. Frederick and his family are ’ living in W arm Springs. He said he has been a long-time friend of Ken S m ith’s and had always w a n te d to co m e to W a rm Springs. He found the chief judge’s position advertised in the newspaper and applied. He was notified in Jan u ary th a t he had been accepted for the job. Frederick joins associate judge A nita Jackson and Judge Dave Harding. J B efo re c o m in g to W arm The W arm S prings T ribal C o u rt’s newest judge is R ichard Springs, Frederick spent ab o u t F red erick / a Chippewa from six m onths studying crim inal T u rtle M o u n ta in , B elco u rt, justice at Bismarck College. Prior N orth D akota. He brings With to going to college, Frederick him many years’ chief judge served as chief judge for the M e sc a le ro A p a c h e in N ew experience. Spilyay Tymoo photo by Behrend G r a n d m o th e r M a r g a r e t Richard Frederick began working as chief judge fo r the tribal Buckland com peted in the “fas court in late January. Gloria Chopito serves as Frederick's test diaperer” contest, showing secretary. th a t she rem em bered how to do the job. Ellen Jo hnson was the “ g ra n d p a re n t w ith th e m ost, grandchildren” present for the evening events. Jeannie Dan- ztika was the “m other with the m ost Children.” The “youngest fc G overnor Vic Atiyeh has ap T ransportation in m atters of tory, A rea' M anpow er Institute m other” award was giveir to point ed W a r r e 11... R^ “ R u d y ” policy regarding public recrea fQr. the Development o f Staff.; Veronica Smith. Christine Tom Clements of W arm Springs to tional use of scenic waterways, From 1964-70, he was recrea and Beverly Smith tied for the the state Scenic W aterways Sy the study of rivers which m ight tion/ ed u catio n d irecto r for the title o f “foster parent with the7 stem Committee. be added to the system, m an Confederated Tribes and from m ost foster children.” Clements’ term officially be agement plans for those pro 1962-64, was a teacher and coach Even though not all the babies gan on December 22, 1984 and posed rivers, and legislation re in the David D ouglas School received a title, it was very evi will end on December 21, 1987. garding scenic waterways. District in Portland. dent th a t each baby was a spe-i He replaces D elbert Frank,. Sr. Clements is the director of Clements currently chairs the d al valentine to parent and grand of W arm Springs whose term the Confederated Tribes Office Tribal Land Use Planning Com parents. has expired. of T raining Services in W arm mission. He is a graduate of T he n in e m em b er Scenic Springs. From 1970-72, he was M ad ras U nion H igh .School W aterway System Com mittee the director o f the N orthw est (1955) and Eastern Oregon Col ad v ises th e D e p a rtm e n t o f Regional Educational Labora- lege (Bachelor of Science, 1962). Clements appointed to Scenic Waterways Bail posting policy changed It has been determ ined th at it j would be beneficial to imple ment an acknowledge/ agreement Spilyay Tymoo photo by Leno-Baker for anyone posting bail for the i Sheryl Courtney arid her daughter, Sheena participated in the release of a defandant. A ttached is the form to be. basket throwing contest held during the annual Sweetheart Baby contest at the Community Center February 14. Land consolidation act changes heirship because Section 207, as amen- 1, constitutes a change in lian heirship succession, Area fices and Agencies are urged provide all Indian landowners der their jurisdiction with no- ; of its effects. For any Indian dying after tober 30, 1984, possessed of undivided trust and/ or, re stricted interest in a given tract of land, such interest may escheat t o ih e Tribe if: (l) the tract is' within the Indian reservation or within an area subject to the ciyir jurisdiction of an Indian tribe; (2) the decedent’s undivided interest amounted to two percent or 1 / 50th or less; (3) such interest is incapable of-earrning $100 in S p ily a y T ym oo y; - ♦ Z SÂmilai i. ♦ Spilyay Tymoo Staff* * * * * * * * MANAGING EDITOR ............................................ Sid Miller ASSISTANT EDITOR .............. ..................Donna Behrend D arkroom W riter R eporter Typeseifer M a rshaS he wczyk *Paf L&na-Bstkèr P riscilla Squiem phen FOUNDED IN MARCH OF 1976 Published bi-weekly by thé Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. Warm Springs, Oregon 97761. Located in the Old Administration Building. Any written material to Spilyay’Ty moo should be addressed to: '' /;. • Spilyay Tymoo P.O. Box 735 Warm Springs, Oregon 97761 Phone 553-1644 or 553-1161, Çxb.274, 285 and The Darkroom ext. 286 Subscription Rate: $6.00 per year any one of the five one-year periods after th e date of the decedent’s death; (4}the decedent, had failed to devise such specific) interest to any other tract; and (5) there was no tribal code of law, approved by the Secretary! of the Interior, in effect at the t i m e o f t h e d e c e d e n t ’s; death which would preclude the escheat provisions of Section 207 (a). utilized for this policy/proce dure regarding the aforem en tioned policy on posting o f bail. The form will be kept in the dispatch area of the police de partm ent and will be required to be com pleted by the person posting bail. The defendant does not have to sign the bail release form. D istribution of copies of the bail release form are: original: court; one copy: defendant; one copy: person posting bail; and one copy: prosecutor’s office. This policy will be effective M arch 15, 1985. Any questions are to be directed to the C ourt regarding this policy; Notice to anyone posting bail for release of a defendant. Before you pay any money to obtain the release of a Defend ant from Custody, you should understand th at the law pro vides as follows: 14 . The receipt for the money paid must be made out in the name of defendant, ju s t as if he or she actually paid the money. 2. The receipt m ust be given to the Defendant. 3. If the D efendant fails to appear at anytim e req u ired b y the C ourt, bail may then be forfeited. 4. T he money paid may be applied tow ard paym ent o f any fine or court costs at the close of the case. If no fine, costs must be paid a t the close of the case, then the refundable portion of the m oney paid by you would be retu rn ed to the defendant. 5. The refund, if any, of money paid by you m ust be paid to the d e fe n d a n t. Y ou m u st look to the defendant to get your money back. To assure the effectiveness of, a will; or heirship succession under state law, any Indian owner within Jhe above category (if het or she is concerned th at the tribe rather th a n his or her heirs or devisees will take these inter-t ests) may purchase additional interests from co-owners, pur-? suant to 25 C FR 151/7, and thereby increase his/ her ownership interest to more than two per< cent. A nother alternative isf for such an owner to convey his/her interest to co-owners, p u rsu an t to 25 CFR 152.25 and 151.7, and reserve a life estate, th u i retaining the benefits of the interest while assuring its con* tinued individual, rather than tribal, ownership. / A third alter- native, if feasible, is to partitioh the tract in such a way as to enlarge the ow ner’s interest in a portion of said tract. If any landowner has questions regarding the above Act, please contact the Branch of Realty, W arm Springs Agency. Nutritional suggestions Tymoo photo by Shtw ctyk Warm Springs IHS nutritionist Karen Smith discusses sugar content o f foods with senior citizens during lunch. Smith tries to make a nutritional presentation monthly to the seniors. - 4
