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JUN 2 7 1985 OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY Warm Springs News 001279 oreson h is t o r ic a l 1230 su park ave so c iety u Pflalo/i, u .5. Postage 1 Bulk Rate Permit No. 2 ■ , Warm Springs, OR 97761 a PORTLAND, OR 97205 VOL. 10 NO. 13 WARM SPRINGS, OREGON JUNE 21,1985 SpUyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk Crews join to battle blaze— M H l ■ I aMBBal ■ H I Whitewater fun Shitike Creek gabion provides whitewater in which youngsters can play on hot summer days. Pi-Ume-Sha celebrates 1855 treaty- by Lenora Starr Pi-U m e-Sha is the powwow th a t alm ost w asn’t and so this year it is extra special. According to Bernice Mitchell, coordinator of thé Pi-Ume-Sha powwow the burden of raising $14,000, the cost to sponsor the powwow and the loss of their son Jackson “ Big-O” Mitchell was alm ost too heavy. How ever, with a little help from T ri bal C ouncil and a few encou raging words, the annual Treaty Days Powwow will be celebrated again this year. Sonya Heath, Saraphina Scott and Tonya Mitchell are the three girls who will be vying for the title of Miss Pi-Ume-Sha. Recent high school graduates, Pi-Ume-Sha Calendar F R ID A Y , JUNE 20 7:45 a.m. M ens softball tournam ent at the Com m un ity Center ball fields 7:00 p.m. Pi-U m e-Sha Powwow opening session and grand entry 9:00 p.m. C oronation of the 1985 Pi-Ume-Sha queen, powwow grounds 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Indian Night Out dance, Kah-Nee-Ta Lodge, A dults only, $2 per person SATURDAY,JUNE 21 the girls will b e selling raffle tickets with the title going to the girl with the highest am ount of ticket sales. Tonya M itchell has special aspirations for the title as she will be donating per per centage of her ticket sales toward a m em orial for her brother. In regards to Tonya*s bid for the title, her m other said, “S he’s doing it for him .” The encam pm ent will open Thursday for the visitors to set up cam p and the Pi-Ume-Sha events will officially begin Fri- day with the grand entry at 7 p.m. The celebration does not limit itself to the encampment grounds for there are events being set outside the circle of the encam p ment such as the Tenth A nnual Pi-Ume-Sha Rodeo and the tenth Annual Stickgame Tournament. There will also be a m arathon, traditional parade, softball and golf tournam ent. This year m arks the sixteenth annual celebration. T radition ally, Pi-Ume-Sha, meaning“good- tim es” is a celebration of the 1855 treaty, Apportionment discussed by Marsha Shewczyk D uring the last Tribal C oun cil election the first representa tive from the Agency district took his seat with 255 votes. It took only 118 votes to seat the 7-7:45 a.m. Pi-U m e-Sha R un registration. Com m unity first choice Sim nasho represen Center, $8 per person tative and 32 votes to place the 8:00 a.m. Pi-U m e-Sha R un starting time, 2.2 mile and Seekseequa representative on 5.4 mile runs the council. The imbalance was 8:00 a.m. Fry Bread O pen G olf tournam ent at Kah- noted. Nee-Ta resort Concerned that a vote in one 8:30 a.m. Mens softball tournam ent. Com munity Cen district weighed as much as seven ter times more than a vote in another 9:00 a.m. Judging for the Pi-U m e-Sha parade held at district, and concerned, too, that, the W.S. Elem entary School a violation of “one man, one 10:30 a.m. j Traditional dress parade starting at school vote” sited in the equal protec ’and ending at C om m unity C enter, route on tion clause o f the American W arm Springs St. 1:00 p.m. 10th annual Pi-U m e-Sha All-Indian Rodeo < Civil R ights Act of 1968 was? held at the new rodeo grounds on highway 3 being violated, tribal member (Kah-Nee-Ta road) adults-$3, children 12 R udy C lem ents ap p ealed to T rib al C ouncil, encouraging and under-$1.50, Seniors-free them to open the m atter for,; 1:00 p.m. Powwow afternoon ¡session and grand entry public discussion. 3:00 p.m. Stick game tournam ent at the powwow In Clem ents’s letter to Tribal grounds 7:00 p.m. Council dated M arch 17, 1985, Powwow evening session and grand entry he appealed for open meetings. 9:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m .W estern dance at Kah-Nee-Ta Lodge, music “I am aware th at comments by El Coochise and the Country Express have been expressed in recent SUN D A Y, JUNE 22 public meetings on this m atter 6 a.m. to 10:30 a.m .B uckaroo Breakfast, Agency Longhouse, $3 and feel that the people m ust have an opportunity to express p er plate their feelings and concern about 8:00 a.m. F ry Bread Open F inal Day our present system of placing 9:45 a.m. Mens Softball tournam ent le a d e r s h i p o n th e T r i b a l 1:00 p.m . 10th A nnual Pi-Ume-Sha Rodeo Council.” 2:00 p.m. Powwow final session and grand entry The Sim nasho D istrict meet- by Donna Behrend those areas. Alice Florendo was * A control burn at the W arm also alerted about the rapidly-^' Springs dum p near D ry Creek spreading fire. According to Forest Manager scheduled for this Week was hastened last weekend by high Bob Harned there was very lit winds and unusually dry weather tle resource damage. Winds of conditions. W arm Springs was ,15 to 20 miles per hour fanned the site of the state’s largest the fire during day time hours range fire of the year as ap p ro x and let up at night. This in addi imately 2,600 acres of grass, tion to th e average tem perature sage brush and juniper were being 90 degrees and the rela scorched by the fire. Although tive hum idity at 14 to 15 per it is unknow n exactly w hat cent, caused-the fire to be very caused the fire, it is suspected difficult to control. There was that som eone may have throw n also “a real shortage of m an a m atch or other burning m ate pow er,” said Harned. It took rial into the dum p and th at the firefighters from two different wind caught the flames th at • forests and three different ranger touched off the extremely dry districts to m ake up one crew of 20. A pproxim ately 35 W arm grass surrounding the dump. Over 270 firefighters from the Springs residents worked on the B.I.A., Tribe,. U.S. Forest Ser fire, 20 of whom com prised the vice, BLM and Yakima battled W arm Springs fife crew. Harned and acting fire m an the blaze for alm ost two days b efo re g ettin g it c o n tain e d agement officer D an O ’Brien M onday morning. The fire was each Stated th at the dum p has controlled by 6 p.m. M onday ' caused num erous fires in the ,eyfcmngtaj^.m o p - ^ ^ j ^ ^ d u r e s u past. O ’Brien stated th a t he was will continue through the week.> TSurprisecT it hasn't burned there Two families were evacuated more frequently. ” Harned said by Warm Springs Fire and Safety ’ that the dum p is a “com m unity and N orth Unit Fire D epart problem. It has burned the north m ent at the onset o f the fire a t 3 half of the reservation and it p.m. Saturday afternoon. A n will burn the west half if we con drew David, who was not at tinue to handle it the same home at the time, and M aryann way,” He suggested that it be a Meanus waited about four hours controlled dum p so that some until their homes Were out of one would be at the site at all danger. The water treatm ent times to ensure that future fires plant, in the middle of the fjre do not get out of control. Estimated cost of the fire has Was threatened, but no Serious dam age incurred. At one point reached $270,000 including appro on Sunday afternoon, it was ximately $65,000 for the ten or, thought th at W S F PI and the 11 loads of fire retardent dumped Wolfe Point housing subdivi from bombers that came out of sion were in danger but the fire the Wenatchie, Washington and was halted before it reached Redmond Air Centers. Copter crashes on Webster Flat by Pat Leno-Baker A helicopter pilot, Randolph Floyd, 24, was taken by Emma- nual H ospital Life Flight helic opter from W ebster Flat fol lowing the crash of his aircraft on June 13. On a routine flight, Floyd experienced difficulty with his craft and he radioed the M adras airport. The message was moni- tered and relayed a t the airport by Tribal pilot Jerry Armstrong. At th at time the pilot landed the craft on W ebster Flat. W arm Springs police officer Chris Still Observed the craft land and went to the scene. A mechanic was dispatched from ¿he airport to assist the pilot. The mechanic repaired a faulty fuel line. Floyd then tested the craft and hovered a b o u t ten m in u tes, he th e n started to return to the M adras airport’ According to statements from the mechanic and Still, the craft flew about a mile when it appeared to drop out of sight and then it “bounced back into view and then dropped again.” , Still and the mechanic drove to the crash site where he ap p a rently dropped and found the copter on its side facing north. The pilot suffered serious injur ies. At th at time, Still requested an am bulance and rescue crew. The pilot appeared to be suf fering spinal and back injuries. Emergency Medical Technicians responded to the scene. It was decided at th at time th at mov ing Floyd by am bulance over the rough terrain was not a wise move, according to Fire Chief Jerry Huff. So Floyd, was removed from the scene by the Life Flight helicopter. Life Flight was called arid they prepared to fly over Continued on Page 2 ing held Ju n e 18 focused atten tio n on this subject of ap p o r tionm ent. Confusion as to the • meaning of the term was widely expressed by Sim nasho District voters. According to au th o r of the initial letter to Tribal Council regarding apportionm ent, the term refers to geographic div isions in which people are regis tered to vote with application for proper representation for each area. The possibilities for reappor tionm ent are num erous, Cle ments stated at the meeting. It is im portant, primarily, that the vote for each person have equal value. The confusion in regards to apportionm ent could be clari fied with inform ational w ork shops. Council member Delbert Frank em phasized, “W e’ll not make decisions UntiLOur people are totally fam iliar with what to d o :” Sim nasho people expressed the desire to m aintain districts. There was a positive tone ex pressed by some a t the possibil ity of extending the choice for representative reservation-wide rather than just district-wide. Some district members Strong- Pilot Randolph Floyd was seriously injured when his craft crashed Continued on Page 2 on Webster Flat.
