PACK 2 August 1 4, 1 987
Warm Springs, Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
Reservation hunting regulations accepted
Dm season
Season: August 1 5 Ihiouyh Octo
ber 3lsi
Hag limit. One (I) anilcrcd deer
pel month per family in the months
August and October. I wo (2)
anilcrcd deer per month per family
in the month ol Sepl ember.
Justification: The I9K6 post-season
herd counts indicated a buck to
doe ratio ol 20 bucks per 100 does.
I hctrihal management goal requires
a ratio ol 20-25 bucks per 100 does.
I he allowance of a two buck limit
in September will provide addi
tional opportunity for tribal mem
bersand should not jeopardise bio
logical herd stability.
Protection ol does should con
tinue until desired population lev
els arc attained. The Comprehen
sive Plan indicates the demand for
subsistence hunting w ill double with
in the next ten years. I he protec
tion ol does will beol major impor
tance to increasing the deer popula
tions and meeting the Inline needs
of the Tribes.
Changes from 19X6 recommen
dations: None.
I- Ik season
Season- November I thiough
November M).
Hag limit: One anilcrcd elk per
la mily.
Justification: I Ik populations ap
car io be stable on the Reservation.
Target population goals have not
been established and quality habi
tat is lacking in some areas. Poach
ing continues to be a significant
problem, especiallv with females.
I our out of six radio collared elk
survived less lhan two years. Until
population goals arc set and poach
ing is reduced female harvest should
not occur. Success rates of antlercu
animals have decreased over the
past two years but is probably due
to weather conditions during the
hunt pei i nd.
Changes from 1986 recommen
dations: Eliminate the cither sex
season Irom November 25 to Novem
ber .10.
Bur season
Season: August 15 through Novem
ber 30.
Hag limit: One( I) bear per month
per family except cubs and sows
with cubs are protected.
Justification: The reservation has
a healthy population of black bear
and there is very little hunting pres
sure by tribal members. Hear hunt
ing interest increased slightly in
1986. however, only two bears were
reported harvested.
Changes from 1986 recommen
dations: None.
I'pland bird season
Season: September 1st through
September 31st.
Hag limit: by Species.
Grouse: 3 per day.
Quail: 10 per day.
Pheasant: I per season-roosters
only.
Chukar: 10 per day.
Turkey: I per day.
Justification: Upland bird popu
lations are healthy where good
habitat exists. Weather influences
have the major impact on these
populations and hunting impact is
typically negligible. Little tribal mem
ber effort is spent hunting upland
birds at this lime.
Migratory birds and waterfowl:
(Jeese. ducks, dove arc migratory
birds governed by a Migratory
Bird Act.
Federal regulations should be
followed concerning these birds.
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Kock placement begins i,.it,im.,(
Rehabilitation work on Mill Creek at Potter 's Pond has begun. Seven hundred boulders will &e placed in the
stream providing pools or migrating chinook and summer steelhead
Tourism expert to speak
Bill Chisholm of VIA (Visitor
Industry Advisors) will speak at a
noon luncheon on August 14, 1987
at Kah-Nee-Ta Vacation Resort on
the Warm Springs Indian Reserva
tion. The presentation entitled
"Mobilising for tourism" is the
final event of the 38th annual con
ference of the Governor's Inter
state Indian Council taking place
Poker Fun WalkRun to be held August 27
everyone is inviica io paruu- Warm Springs Reservation.
pate in a I'oker l-un Walk Kun to As a participant, you will start
from the Community Center with
one playing card. You will then
walk or run a route measuring
cither one mile or 2'i miles (your
choice). As you travel along, you
will pick up four more cards from
people stationed at various points
along the route. When you cross
the finish line. vour"ooker hand"
will be checked After the last per- Distribution todaV
tnn hie rrnctcn fn finich inp IKa
participant with the best "poker
hand" will be declared the winner
of the race. Note, this is not a timed
race. Everyone travels at hisher
own speed. All ages are encour
aged to participate.
be held on August 27th beginning
at 12:00 noon in front of the Com
munity Center. This event, jointly
sponsored by the Community Cen
ter and the Tribal Wellness Pro
gram, is being held to increase
community awareness with regard
to prevention efforts aimed toward
the control of diabetes within the
The entry fee for the event will be
S3.00 and will include a "stop dia
betes" t-shirt.
We hope you will support the
stop diabetes project by taking part
in this activity. If you have any
questions, call Austin or Fran at
the Community Center, ext. 243 or
Eva at the Wellness Office, ext.
205.
18-day season set
at Kah-Nce-Ta during the week of
August 9-I4, 1987.
Chisholm, a noted tourism spe
cialist will discuss essentials for the
successful development of tourism
enterprises. The presentation which
was made possible through a grant
from the Oregon Department of
Economic Development, is open to
the public.
United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA) mass distri
bution of cheese, rice and butter
for low income families will take
place Thursday August 13 from 9
12 p.m. and 1-4:00 p.m. at the
Verne Jackson Home.
Restricted fishing seasons,
designed to protect steelhead and a
troubled run of hatchery chinook
were set Thursday, August 6 for
treaty and non-treaty fishermen by
the Columbia River Compact.
Lower river gillnetters were
allowed three 1 2-hour fishing peri
ods starting at 6 p.m. Sunday.
Tribal fishermen were permitted
to start fishing at noon Monday in
the first day of four separate open
ings totaling 18 days.
The tribal season was extended
two days beyond the recommenda
tion of the compact's staff, which
had suggested the treaty fall chi
nook season conclude September
3. The season will extend to Sep
tember 5.
The suggestion to hold the next
meeting September 3 instead of
September 4 so biologists could
monitor the treaty fishery in case it
should close earlier was suggested
at the meeting.
The seasons adopted by the com
pact Thursday are:
Non-treaty fishermen in the lower
river will have three 12-hour peri
ods, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. on Sun
day. Monday and Tuesday. They
will be limited to an 8 inch mesh
History of dams shows desecration, deceit, destruction
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It's there on your banks that we fought many a fight.
Sheridan 's boys in the blockhouse that night
They saw us in death but never in flight
Roll on, Columbia, roll on.
Our loved ones we lost there at Coe 's Little store
By fireball and rifle, a dozen or more
We won by the Mary and soldiers she bore
Roll on, Columbia, roll on.
Remember the trial when the battle was won
The wild Indian warriors to the tall timber run
We hung every Indian with smoke in his gun
Roll on, Columbia, roll on.
Year after year we had tedious trials
Fight in' the rapids at Cascades and Dalles
Injuns rest peaceful on Memaloose Isle
Roll on, Columbia, roll on.
Dabbling in oils
The Senior Citizen 's Building was the site for a brief lesson in oil painting
August 6. Nancy White, a Portland artist, instructed five students. Ada
Sooksoit put brush to canvas with a true artists s flare.
Spilyay Tymoo
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by S. Timothy Wapato
These recently discovered miss
ing verses to "Roll on, Columbia,"
a song Woody Guthrie wrote for
the Bonneville Power Administra
tion, tell more of the history of the
development of the Columbia River
than is being acknowledged in the
hoopla surrounding the celebration
of the 50th anniversary of Bonne
ville Dam and BPA.
Ironicaally, BPA and U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, the agency
that built Bonneville Dam, are using
Guthrie's "Roll On, Columbia" as
the theme for their anniversary
events.
Before the coming of non-Indians,
the Columbia Basin's amazing fish
runs supported a large native pop
ulation. Village after village lined
the great river and its tributaries.
Many people from faraway tribes
would journey to the river each
year to fish and trade. Enrolled
members of the Warm Springs,
Yakima, Umatilla and Nez Perce
tribes still fish the Columbia River
above Bonneville Dam.
In the anniversary activities, lit
tle mention is being made of the
devastating effects the dams have
had on these people and the sal
mon upon which they depend.
The majority of Indians down
river from Bonneville died in the
early 1800s from exotic diseases,
such as measles and smallpox,
brought by the newcomers. Fol
lowing the 1856 Fort Rains battle
(near the Bonneville Dam site) des
cribed by Guthrie in the lost lyrics,
most of the surviving Indians in the
Columbia Gorge were cleared out
of the key sites such as the por
tages around the Cascades and the
Long Narrow Celilo Falls and were
sent to reservations away from the
river, making way for European
American settlement and the dams.
The construction of Bonneville
and the upriver dams forced many
Indians who had returned to the
river to move and inundated vil
lages, petroglyphs. fishing platforms
and other important sites. For exam
ple, Bradford Island in the middle
of Bonneville Dam was the ceme
tery for the local Cascade Indians.
The Corps of Engineers put the
bodies in a common grave in the
Pioneer Cemetery near North
Bonneville.
Promises made in the process of
dam construction were often not
kept. For example, the corps
promised the Indian tribes who
had reserved treaty rights to fish
the area flooded by Bonneville Dam
that the agency would purchase
400 acres of "in-lieu sites" to help
compensate for the traditional fish
ing sites being destroyed. Half a
century later, only 40 acres of in
lieu sites have been acquired.
The worst desecration of all was
probably the flooding of Celilo
Falls by The Dalles Dam two decades
after Bonneville Dam buried the
Great Cascade of the Columbia. "I
never would have gone off to fight
in the war if I had known that the
government was going to destroy
Celilo Falls when I got back," an
Indian fishermen recently told a
reporter.
In addition to the diseases, the
outright hostilities and forced relo
cations and the loss of the priceless
sites, Indians were and still are
hurt by the destruction of the sal
mon and steelhead runs, which
were and still are vital to Indian
culture.
"The preservation of the Colum
bia's fish population was a high
priority for the Corps when it
designed and built Bonneville Dam,"
reads a sign in the dam's visitor
center. Yet Bonneville and the other
dams that followed devastated the
Columbia's salmon and steelhead
runs, once one of the world's grea
test fisheries. The Northwest Power
Planning Council's recent study,
the most thorough analysis ever
done, estimates that the Colum
bia's annual fish runs, now about
2 '2 million salmon and steelhead,
once numbered up to 16 million.
The study also concludes that three
fourths of the loss has been due to
the construction and operation of
the hydroelectric dams.
Treaty fishing rights were reserved
in the 1855 treaties in which the
tribes gave up title to the majority
of their lands. Despite attempts to
strip the Indians of these rights,
federal courts have upheld them.
The courts have also noted that
these rights are meaningless unless
fish are available to catch and
thus the federal government has
the responsibility to protect and
restore Indian fisheries.
It is all well and fine to celebrate
the positive attributes of Bonne
ville and the other Columbia River
dams, but the agencies responsible
for the dams should not be allowed
to pretend that there were no bad
side effects or that they are meet
ing their legal, as well as moral,
responsibilities to the Indian tribes
severely hurt by the approximately
100 dams on the Columbia and its
tributaries.
The Corps of Engineers should
purchase more of the long-promised
in-lieu fishing sites and should, as
requested by the tribes and fishery
agencies, spill more water over the
dams to increase the survival of
salmon smolts migrating to the
ocean.
BPA's plans to extend its intertie
to sell more electricity to Califor
nia should be put on hold at least
until fish passage around the dams
has been greatly improved. Mitiga
tion money should be used to res
tore upriver runs, instead of, as in
the past, just cranking out hatchery
fish for non-Indian commercial fish
ing interests below Bonneville.
Finally, federal water-management
agencies, including BPA, need
to view the Northwest Power Plan
ning Council as a partner, not an
adversary, in the restoration of
upriver runs.
After half a century of energy
excesses and fish shortages, it is
time for the federal agencies to do
more to restore the once-great sal
mon and steelhead runs and to
meet their trust responsibilities
toward Indian peoples. Consider
able progress in this direction has
been made during the past decade,
especially with the rapidly increas
ing fall chinook and steelhead runs,
but much more remains to be done
before we start congratulating each
other too much.
Reprinted with permission.
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