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Students gain
certification
The Office of Training Services
and Education recently received
word that two Warm Springs stu
dents were placed on the Yakima
Valley Community College Dean's
list by achieving high GPA's. They
are Ruth Tewee with a 3.88 GPA
and earning 1 6 credit hours; Darryl
Scott with a 3.38 GPA and earning
1 6 credit hours. Congratulations to
both as they both received their
certificates as Health Advocates
while being employed full time.
Our office has been working on
getting the checks requested for
students' tuiton, books, supplies
a nd living costs for the coming Fall
"86 term semesters. We still have a
few more to work on as some of
our students decided to transfer
from one college to another.
The Summer Student Trainee
work program will come to an end
on September 12, 1986.
Canner needed
Looking For: If anyone out there
hasa home-canner(Prcssure cooker)
or any large-sized pots you're not .
using, please give Tricia Courtney
a call at 553-1161, ext. 275. Will
offer $$$.
It's how you run the race. .
Taking part in a 168 mile relay
race and finishing can be quite an
accomplishment and for the Warm
Springs Chicken Hawk eleven-man
team, it was. The team earned a
bronze medal in the mens' open
division and t-shirts in the annual
Hood to Coast relay race August
22 and 23.
The eleven-man team consisted
of Jerry Sampson, Terry
Squiemphen, Thurman Squiemphcn,
Wayne Bull Calf, Kyal King,
Emerson Miller, Lewis Henry, Jr.,'
Harry Hintsala, Jarrod Sampson,
Gerald Sampson, Jr. and Ray Shike,
Jr. Each team member ran three,
five-mile legs.
Determination of which class
the team ran was made by a compu
ter. The fact that the team had
seven runners under the age of 30
placed the team in the open division.
Five of the team members are in
their teens Kyan King, 12 years;
Jarrod Sampson, 12 years; Thurman
Squiemphen, 14 years; Gerald
Sampson, Jr., 14 years and Emerson
Miller, 17 years.
At the time the computer selects
the division for the team, it also
determines the allotted time for the
team to complete the 168 mile
course. The Chicken Hawks' were
given a time of 23 hours, they
finished the race in 23 hours and 20
minutes. According to the team
spokesman, Jerry Sampson, the
team did better in this year's run,
taking 40 minutes off last year's
time.
A total of 408 teams took part in
the annual run which starts at
TimbcrlineonMt. Hood and finished
at Cape Kiwanda on the Oregon
coast. The fastest team was the
Killer Bees, a running club from
Portland. They crossed the finish
line in 14 hours and 37 minutes,
giving them the overall winning
title.
With the race starting the evening
of Friday, August 22, runners ran a
course of back country roads,
through small towns, through the
streets of Portland, up and down
the foothills and over Bald Peak
Mountain, a leg of the run that
entailed going up two-and-a-half
miles and then down one-and-onc-.
half miles and then to Cape Kiwanda.
The run is definitely not for the
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Fishing tax exemption clarified
Fuss Alger, left, and Dr. Tom Creelman, right, recently received awards
from the Portland Area Director of the Indian Health Service. The
director cited the Warm Springs clinic as being exemplary of all clinics in
the Northwest.
Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey,
with Senator Daniel Evans of
Washington, introduced a legislative
amendment August 1 to clarify the
income tax exemption of Indian
Times have changed since '43
Warm Springs, June 11, 1943
Yes, 1943. The community's news
source, The Tomahawk, was full of
the latest happenings including news
of the war, local "boys" in the
armed forces, BIA personnel and
many other subjects typical of war
time. The Tomahawks, dated in
the early to mid-1940s were recent
ly discovered by Maxine Clements
and Linda Bagley in the tribal
records center. Reading them defi
nitely takes one back, even though
you've never been there, to an era
much different than the present
one..
According to The Tomahawk,
there were 22 men stationed at the
. National Defense Fire Camp at
Old Mill. The crew, consisting of
seven men from Washington, one
man from Portland, and the rest
from Warm Springs, was responsible
for fire control and road and tele
phone maintenance.
The Tribal Council approved 13
loans totaling $13,125. They also
approved the purchase of two allot
ments of land. In the completed
1 944 fiscal year budget, the Council
included funds to be used for per
capita payments. Also included in
the budget was an allotment of
funds for the purchase of Victory
Bonds amounting to $10,000.
Because of the serious food shor
tage, the Council appropriated funds
to be awarded as prizes for the best
gardens raised on the reservation
"by local Indians. " First and second
place prizes were awarded to the
best "Victory Gardens" in each of
the four districts.
For years, the Warm Springs
Boarding School planted only a
small garden because "it was cheaper
to buy vegetables than to grow
them." But in order to aid the war
effort, "school personnel decided
to plant a large garden and produce
as many of its supplies as possible."
Approximately 1 5 acres, nearly the
size of the entire campus area,
which is 1 7 acres in size, was planted
in vegetables. The garden included
beets, corn, onions, beans, squash,
cucumbers, turnips, rutabagas, cab
bage, lettuce, broccoli, carrots, peas,
Irish potatoes and spinach. Laurence
Jones was in charge of the garden
and was assisted by Robert Lawson,
Joe Pike and Walter Miller. The
dairy also increased its production,
doubling and redoubling, all in an
effort to support the war effort and
servicemen.
Strawberry and cherry pickers
were in demand. Strawberry pickers
were paid 4c a pound and cherry
pickers were paid 3c a pound.
"Pickers are able to make exceedling
ly good wages at this figure," stated
Tomahawk. '
Three nurses, Thelma Broderson.
from Bethel, Alaska, Dale Greer
of Sutherlin, Oregon and Genevieve
Wagner, of Mollala, Oregon arrived
at the Agency hospital in mid-1943.
According to the "Roll of Honor"
in the Tomahawk, two tribal mem
bers, Elliott Palmer and Gilbert
Yahtin, were killed in action. The
Roll of Honor listed 73 tribal mem
bers who were active in the service.
Also included in the June 11,
1943 issues was an ode titled "My
Day" (With apologies to Eleanor).
"Me sure think 'urn war news
good. We tell 'urn everybody, little
braves, big braves, all. Sure some
soldiers, these yanks. Me wish 'urn
waz back younger. Sure would
swing 'urn tomahawk, me.
"This war funny business, funny
business. Tickets, books, books;
tickets, points, and stuff and now
one more book on way. OK, Injun
fight harder to win 'um war. No
like these rationing tickets. Too
much figures. Get mix 'um up in
head.
"Me ask Tom Wainanwit what
branch of service he would prefer
to join if he had to go to war. Tom
say: "The navy for me, a sailor I
would be." as he kept crushing
around the office lawn making tiny
little canals and river like him
always do.
"Me go on further and see superin
tendent with baby rattlesnake in
jar. Him say going to send 'um
rattlesnake to John L. Lewis.
"Overhead planes roared over.
"Um look like bi g fish. Uncle
Sam sure on his toes these days.
"Green car come whizzing by
Cliff Meachem. Been putting' in
time at Air Base.
"Me decide must be time to get
to home for digging little weeds in
victory garden. Pretty big day too.
Yeah, pretty big day."
treaty fishing rights. Bradley said,
"The amendment will stop an attempt
by the Internal Revenue Service to
impose Federal taxes on Pacific
Northwest tribal fishermen on
income derived from treaty desig
nated waters."
Evans said the amendment would
recitify a wrong which the Internal
Revenue Service would impose on
northwest Indians, "who have
treaties with the United States and
who have operated under those
treaties for more than 130 years."
Evans noted that the Solicitor for
Interior Department had disagreed
with the IRS, but the Justice Depart
ment supported the IRS opinion.
The amendment says, "income
derived by an Indian from fishing,
whether for commercial br subsis
tence purposes, shall not be subject
to, or taken into account in determi
ning any income tax imposed by
the Interior Revenue Code.
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Jerry Sampson was a member of a 11 -mart team that participated in the
168 mile Hood to Coast relay race A ugust 22 and 23. Sampson 's team
placed 272 in a field of 408 teams.
Campfire potential hazard to resource
Spilyay Tymoo Staff
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On August 13, 1986, a smoke
report was called in to the BIA Fire
Management at about 7:30 a.m.
from the Mt. Hood National Forest,
Clackamas District, SI-SI Butte
Look-out tower. Fire Management
firefighters, enroute to the Trout
Lake Campground trail head to
the Mary's Lake and Dark Lake
areas, observed a yellow Datsun Nis
san Pickup speeding rapidly down
the main gravel road to Trout
Lake.
Firefighters from fire management
extinguished a smoldering fire that
was about 45.6 feet in width and
about 48.8 feet in length. Fire sup
pression was done by a skelton
crew of five persons, Dennis Thomp
son, Renee Sohappy, Kelly Tulee,
Jolene Johnson, Dan Brisbois and
helicopter pilot Gordon Miscoi.
Tribal investigators concluded that
information given and burn patterns,
that the fire was caused by a smolde
ring campfire.
According to fire management
personnel, the pickup was driven
by a non-Indian between 20 and 30
years of age with reddish hair and
moustache. He was accompanied
by a young male juvenile about six
years old and a dog. These persons
could have been the very same
campers from the Mary Lake area.
Large tennis shoe footprints, along
with a much smaller set of tennis
shoe foot prints, were found in the
mud near the Mary Lake fire. Dog
foot prints were found on the trail
leading into and out of the high
Lakes areas.
What apparently happened is
that a father or uncle hiked up to
the High Lake Area with his son or
nephew and dog. They made camp
at Mary Lake, built a camp, gathered
' stones for a campfire and camped
overnight. The campers most prob
ably awoke in the early morning to
a smoldering fire. The adult and
child retreated down the mountain
side to their vehicle and fled the
area. The adult male had good
intentions of teaching the young
male outdoor lore, but when the
adult had gathered stones to make
a campfire ring, he failed to show
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the youngster a very common prac
tice every good, novice camper
should know how to properly pre
pare a fire pit and how to properly
extinguish a camp tire.
The area to be used for the
campfire should have been cleared
of the spongy needle duff, down to
the bare earth. If the camper would
have done this, the campfire he
probably thought he put out wouldn't
have burned down and spread out
wardly, smoldering profusively until
small flames arose. We were extreme
ly lucky that large, steady gusting
winds didn't occur, otherwise, a
large wildfire would have broken
out.
Our thanks to SI-SI Butte Look
Out Tower and our expert firefigh
ters for quickly arresting this poten
tial threat to our forest.
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Local firefighters responded to a call near Mary Lake A ugust 13. Apparently a camper, who thought he had
properly extinguished a fire, left when he saw the possible threat of a forest fire.
crew assists in numerous blazes
Summer is upon us and as with
all summers, the threat of wildfires
in the forest and on range lands
increases. To date, there have been
36 fires on the reservation, burning
a total of 900 acres. We've been
lucky, say fire management officials.
But the rest of the Pacific Northwest
has been plagued with many fires.
Firefighters are calling 1986 the
worst fire season in 30 years.
Because of those conditions, the
Warm Springs Forest Crew, consist
ing of 20 men and women, has been
called to assist in combatting several
fires in Central and Eastern Oregon.
All but two of the crew members
are tribal members. The crew members
are Mike Gomez, Luther Clements,
Jim Surface, Tony Gilbert, Wilbert
Wainanwit, Annette Jim, Jolene
Johnson, William Wilson, George
Williams. Johnny Howtopat, Jr.,
Wendall Switzler, Davis Sohappy,
Glen O. Smith, Jerome Davis, John
Culpus, Vernon Tias, Omar
Winishut, Lawrence Heath and
Cynthia Caldera. Also assisting are'
Dean Sohappy, Mark Johnson,
Larry Scott, Dan Brisbois, Frank
Jim and Edward Lucei.
The team's travels began August
2 when they were sent to the
Scatpatch fire in the Ochoco
National Forest north of Prineville.
The fire burned approximately 130
acres and threatened homes. The
area burned had recently been
logged. "The fire burned real hot,"
said forestry technician Mike
Cunningham. "It took care of all
the trees left standing." The crew
remained at the Scatpatch fire two
days.
The crew, on August 4, then
reported to the ABC Lightning
fires, also located in the Ochoco
National Forest. There were 40 to
50 small fires burning simutaneously.
The fire destroyed timber.
On August 5, the crew was sent
to the 2,800 acre Cornet Fire near
Baker in the Wallowa Whitman
National Forest. The fire was located
in rugged terrain and burned timber.
The crew used belt lines and dug
containment lines. Following
mop-up, the crew returned to Warm
Springs August 8 only to be sent
out again August II, this time to
the Frizzle Fire north of LaGrande,
also in the Wallowa Whitman
National Forest. The fire burned
approximately 300 acres of timber
and threatened homes. The fire
w as contained and controlled August
13. The crew remained near
LaGrande until August 2 1, assisting
with the 1,250 Squaw Fire between
August 14 and 18 and the 1 .000
acre Three Springs fire August 19
to 21.
The crew reported to the Bargus
Ranch Fire near Prineville August
21. Cunningham said that follow ing
the Bargus fire, the crew went to
the Pot Hole 2 A fire 15 miles east
of Bend in the Deschutes National
Forest and returned to Warm Springs
August 25.
The Warm Springs crew is just
one fire fighting crew among 565
crews combatting fires in the nation.
Approximately 1 7,000 people were
committed to fighting fires as of
August 15.
Cunningham added that the 13
man Bruns crew was sent to a fire
near John Day and that Warm
Springs also dispatched two engines
to that fire. Two people from Warm
Springs, who. are a part of the
Central Oregon Inter-Agency Fire
team, were sent to Umatilla, where
27 fires were burning as of August
14. In addition, tw o people on the
National Class I fire team also
assisted with the Frizzle Fire in
LaGrande.
"Most of our work." said
Cunningham, "has been helping
ever body else."