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Matters, Scott Taylor and Jim M alloy.
Man convicted on sex-related charges
by Pat Leno-Baker
A one year investigation reached
a decisive point in tribal court,
before a jury, on March 19 and 20.
Allegations of two separate counts
of child abuse and two separate
counts of unnatural sex acts with
minor children were heard. A six
member jury deliberated for nearly
three hours before returning guilty
verdicts on all four counts against a
local man.
The defendant was sentenced to
a total of 18 months in the tribal
jail and assessed $ 1,500 in fines. It
was further ordered that he would
have no contact with the victims
until he completes a sexual offender
assessment. That assessment will
determine if he is a good candidate
for a sexual offender treatment
program. His future contact with
his victims will be dependent upon
the findings of that assessment.
Tribal prosecutor Gene Smith
stated, "We have learned several
things from this particular trial.
We feel, first and foremost, because
of the jury's verdicts, a strong mes
sage was received, setting prece
dent of what is and what is not
acceptable behavior here in Warm
Springs. You can do a lot of things
here in Warm Springs but you shall
not molest our children without
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being held accountable."
Smith went on to say, "We also
learned just how difficult these
cases are to coordinate and resolve.
We do not and have not portrayed
ourselves as experts in this field, we
are pioneering this field just as
many other jurisdictions are doing.
Some of our best work was demon
strated as was some of our sub
standard work surfaced."
The tribe called a total of nine
witnesses; police officers, investi
gators, social service counselors,
psychologists and both minor
children, who were violated. The
jury listened intently and relived
the entire episodes of each cases
through each witness, minus emo
tions of each event. Thats not say
ing the emotion was not there, for
it was. The emotion was evident as
each witness recalled the events
and portrayed them to the investi
gators and counselors. Explicit
details, learned through investiga
tion of each victim, were described
by tribal witnesses."
Smith stated that the two most
Questionnaires to be sent
Tribal member households will
soon be receiving in the mail a
questionnaire which will provide
direction to the "Shopping and
Town Center" project team. Self
addressed envelopes will be pro
vided to make it easier to mail
directly to the business planning
team. Tribal members who respond
will be eligible for $100 raffle prizes.
The winning numbers will be posted.
Community meetings will be sche
duled to review the results of the
survey and to get further input.
Current objectives of the study
are to:
I. Test the economic feasibility
and community acceptance of build
ing a commercial center designed
Root Feast art
A Root Feast Tribal Art Show
will be held April 4 and 5, 1987 at
Kah-Nee-Ta Lodge. The show will
be sponsored by Middle Oregon
Historical Society (MOIHS) in
conjunction with the Northwest
Native American Art Council of
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difficult aspects of the trial were
"how far to go into the details of
the case and the decision to actu
ally bring the victims in court to
testify. These are the types of cases
read about or heard in the five
o'clock news occurring in Portland,
Seattle or Chicago, not in Warm
Springs, Oregon. Warm Springs is
a very small community with unwrit
ten codes of conduct that apply to
most every official and unofficial
thing in the every day lives of the
people of the community. Yet, a
series of tragic events occurred
involving minor children and their
version had to be heard."
Smith had high praise and com
mendation for the jury, police per
sonnel, psychologists, social service
counselors and the vicitms them
selves. "Too often people have said
'Why dont they do something about
this?' The unique opportunity, as
well as the responsibility of 'they,'
came forth and was done in this
case for all notice and heed. This
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to serve retail needs and to capture
retail dollars spent off the
reservation;
2. Provide a cultural, social and
tourist center for the benefit of the
community and general public;
3. Provide jobs' and business
opportunities for tribal members;
4. Accomplish the above objec
tives with little or no tribal finan
cial assistance.
Names or addresses are not
requested. The questionnaire is
designed to find out the communi
ty's feelings about major issues
related to the study, such as loca
tion, social impacts and the sale of
beer and wine.
show set
the Portland Art Museum. Dead
line for entries is Friday, March 27,
1987.
The show is open to all Warm
Springs tribal members. Each artist
may submit a maximum of three
entries.
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Wellness committee gathers Input,
makes proposals on leave
Beginning in April in 1985 and
for the past two years, the Wellness
Steering Committee has been col
lecting data and preparing possible
proposals to deal with the problem
within the Tribal organization of
exessive use of both sick leave and
leave without pay by tribal emplo
yees. Work included tracking leave
data for 1984, 1985 and 1986; con
ducting two employee surveys to
determine reasons for use of sick
leave and leave without pay; devel
oping five different proposals to
deal with the situation based upon
the results of the surveys as well as
discussions with consultants and other
companies; meetings to present the
proposals to management and then
to Tribal Council.
During the months of November
and December, 1986 and January,
1987, members of the Wellness
Committee presented a proposal
(Personal time off combined with a
short term disability benefit) to as
many tribal employees as came to
individually held meetings with their
respective departments. Presenta
tions were given to approximately
37 different departments attended
by approximately 245 different em
ployees. In addition, two extra
meetings were held for any employee
who had missed hisher respective
meeting but who wanted to receive
the information and give feedback.
On March 17, 1987, the members
of the Wellness Steering Commit
tee sent a document to the Person
nel Policy Review Team outlining
our findings as we conducted the
above presentations to employees
as well as input we received from
employees during those presenta
tions. The Committee's recommen
dation with respect of the Personal
Time Off combined with a Short
Term Disability Benefit read as
follows:
"The Committee recommended
the Personal Time Off Short Term
Disability to Management and
Council and this is the proposal
with regard to this particular propo
sal. Some employees were strongly
in favor of the proposal w hile oth
ers were equally as strongly against
it. It appeared that as the proposal
was explained and understood by-
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tribe puts plan to sue on hold
The Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs has put in abeyance their
plan to file suit against the Secre
tary of Interior, the Secretary of
the Treasury and the Mellon Bank
of Pittsburg following the Bureau
of Indian Affair's decision to with
draw its plan to transfer the man
agement of the SI. 7 billion in trust
funds from the BIA to the Mellon
Bank. However, that does not mean
the tribes are letting their guard
down.
According to Warm Springs
Assistant Secretary Treasurer M ike
Clements, the Tribe is "waiting to
see what happens in the next go
round. . .The initial effort has been
stopped, now they're trying a dif
ferent approach."
That new approach is causing
concern among tribes across the
United States. The Bureau will
write a consultation policy that will
apply to this one initiative only. It
will be posted in the Federal Regis
ter for 90 days, then the Bureau will
proceed with the process, said
Clements. "The Tribe doesn't see
that as 'consultation' just because
it's in the Federal Register." -
Also included in the new approach,
according to a March 13 news
release from the Interior Depart
ment, is reopening of the competi
tion by conducting a new full-scale
procurement for financial trust ser
vices to "strengthen internal man
agement and administration.."
The "lack of sensitivity" on Swim
employees more favored it than
were against it, but this was not
always the case.
If the Personnel Policy Review
Team would like additional infor
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The grand opening of the new Charley's Market went off as scheduled
Saturday, March 21 although the market's inventory consisted of only
pop and gas. Work on the log structure u continuing with touches of
detail work. Frank Charley stated that actually it will probably be about
four weeks before the store will began selling with a fully stocked inven
tory. He estimated that in the neighborhood of 900 people attended the
opening and the traditional meal served in the longhouse commemorat
ing Simnasho's first store. Many young people attending the opening
were not hampered by the lack of inventory in the store, they were busy
taking turns trying for the highest store on a video game in the store.
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mer span and "lack of trust and faith"
in Swimmer on the tribes' part has
led to conflict and limited com
munication among Indian tribes
and Swimmer. Tribes feel that Swim
mer is acting with little or no
regard for the tribes' well-being
and readiness for the proposed
changes and has not taken into
consideration what the tribes require
or desire.
"We hope that the Bureau will
allow the tribes to review the new
document and allow time to assess
and analyze the impacts and pro
gram operations. Hopefully, there
will be some dialogue with the
tribes," said Clements.
"One of the underlying prob
lcms."said Clements, "is that Swim
mer continues to make decisions
that tribal governments should be
making" for themselves. Clements
mentioned that Swimmer is decid
ing for tribes how their economic,
education and finance programs
should be handled.
Clements added the specific lan
guage has been put into the sup
plemental appropriations bills to
stop the education initiative and
workfare program changes. The
education initiative proposed that
education services be contracted
by tribes or with states. The work
fare initiative would eliminate wel
fare programs on many reserva
tions throughout the country. The
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policy
mation regarding the specific con
cerns of employees with regard to
the Personal Time Off Short Term
Disability proposal, members of
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