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MARCH 11, 1988
Coyote News
in brief
Budget reviewed
The School District
budget is currently under
review. Expenditures are
approximately three
percent over 1987-88
budget.
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Student attends
convention
Madras High School
student Marcie Stacona
attended the United
Nations Convention on
Rights of a Child. She
presented testimony to
delegates.
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Asbestos found , , . v
An industrial hygieniest
from OSHA recently
conducted asbestos
testing on three tribal
buildings with one
building showing
positive results.
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Students recognized
Madras High School and
Madras Jr. High honor
roll students are noted.
Also noted are students
who have greatly
improved their grade
point average.
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Memorial Dinner
A Memorial Dinner will
be held at the Agency
Longhouse on March 26,
1988.
Root Feast April 3
The Agency Longhouse
Root Feast has been
tentatively set for
Sunday, April 3, 1988
Scheduling for 1988
Meeting Set
There will be a meeting
for tribal members
Friday, March 11 at Kah-Nee-Ta
in the
Confederated Tribes
Room at 6:00 p.m. to set
up the salmon
bakedancing schedule
for 1988. If you are
interested in
participating, please
attend this meeting.
Weather
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Language,
necessary
In an attempt to document
and preserve tribal languages and
culture, the tribal culture and
heritage department has worked
seemingly endless hours devel
oping curriculum for interested
tribal members. The efforts will
provide an "authentic record of
all three tribes," says department
director Nina Rowe. "We also
need to maintain the languages
and to encourage more people to
learn them.. .our goal is to teach
those people who are willing to
learn."
The department is currently
involved in training Head Start
teachers language teaching skills.
Head Start Day Care and tribal
pre-school students are taught
on a daily basis while the Head
Start children have Indian lan
guage instruction once a week.
Eventually all Head Start teachers
will be teaching the language.
Being concerned equally with
all three languages, the depart
ment has come to realize that
tribal members are more famil-.
iar with the Warm Springs lan
guage than they are with Wasco
and Paiute. "We now have a pre
liminary Paiute word list," says
tribal linguist Hank Morrison.
Interested tribal members are
encouraged to review the list and
to make corrections or sugges
tions. The department recently
offered sessions on how to read
and write Paiute and are availa
ble to do the same for Warm
Springs and Wasco.
A Warm Springs dictionary
has been available to tribal
members in the past, but it has
been expanded. The expanded
version will explain the Warm
Springs language as well as read
ing and writing information. The
new dictionary is quite detailed
and lengthy.
Department staff have also
prepared a series of legends that
have been illustrated by local
artists. Carol Allison illustrated
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end the expanded Warm Springs dictionary.
Salmon, timber topic of Washington, D.C. meeting
Representatives from Indian orga
nizations and tribes converged in
Washington. D.C. last week to
present testimony to a House Inte
rior Appropriations subcommittee
concerning President Reagan's pro
posed cuts in salmon restoration
programs and reservation timber
management.
The Department of the Interior
proposed spending only $2 million
on three intertribal fishery agen
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Bernice Mitchell teaches Indian language to Head Start and
StartDay Care students on a regular basis.
the "Wiggy and Nancy Story"
and Art McConville, department
curriculum developer, has illus
trated several others. The depart
ment is currently seeking fund
ing to cover printing costs.
To learn any of the three lang
uages takes a big commitment of
time. "It is an intense program.
To study, practice and pronounce
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staff has formulated several educational tools. Tribal linguist H ank
cies: the Northwest Indian Fish
Commission, the Columbia Fish
Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and
the Metlakatla Indian Community
in Alaska. According to Tim Wapa
to. director of CRITFC. the three
groups should receive S2.569 mil
lion, which represents a five per
cent increase over the current fiscal
year.
Mike Clements, representing the
Intertribal Timber Council, urged
the panel to restore $2,538 million
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the languages.. .is a continuous
effort, not four or five sessions.
It is parallel to a college foreign
language course," explains
Rowe.
It is the goal of the department
to "give everybody, who is inter
ested, the chance to learn to
ready, write and understand"
their language, concludes Rowe.
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Nina Rowe discuss legend books
to the BIA's tribal forestry budget
for timber sales and management
and $3. 1 50 million for the bureau's
forestry development programs. Cle
ments told the panel that the 52
tribes and Alaska native organisa
tions involved in 1TC depend on
the BIA managers for the prepara
tion of timber sales, which generate
many jobs. He also said that timber
sales shouldn't be cut back by the
proposed 25 percent at a time when
supply is scarce and prices are
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wife beating case
A federal district court jury in
Portland, Oregon deliberated eight
minutes before they returned a
guilty verdict against a Warm Springs
man. David Bclgardc, 24, follow
ing a one-day hearing. March 2.
Bclgardc was charged with one
count of assault resulting in serious
bodily harm following an investi
gation by the Bureau of Indian
Affairsand Federal Bureau of Inves
tigation investigators on a December
6, 1987 incident. Bclgarde was found
guilty of assaulting his common
law wife, Angeline Kalama. 28.
of Warm Springs.
In the case of the U.S. vs. Bel
garde, assistant U.S. attorney Bill
Youngman presented evidence and
witnesses that an assault did take
place on December 6 at the cou
ple's residence, 1747 Bray Street in
West Hills, Warm Springs. Oregon.
"Belgarde threw Kalama down on
the floor and proceeded to kick
Kalama. After kicking her many
times he walked out of the house
leaving her on the floor," stated
Youngman.
Dr. Thomas Creelman. Warm
Springs Indian Health Service phy- "
sician testified that Kalama had
been kicked with "as much force as
Cooperation in resource
decisions discussed
The reservation's resources are
the concern of all tribal members,
but the responsibility for protec
tion and optimal utilization of the
resources lies with each resource
manager. Each manager seeks to
maximum his resource.
At times the process used in
planning timber sales on the reser
vation has not allowed ultimate
protection of a resource. Interests
of forest managers and other resource
managers are often in conflict.
The "process" tails to allow recog
nition of all concerns.
A meeting of the Interdiscipli
nary Resource Management Team
brought to surface the concerns of
tribal natural resource managers
and the failure of current proce
dures to recognize interests other
than those of the BIA Forestry
department. Incidents of resource
damage, failure to acknowledge
recommendations and mistakes in
boundary lines and tree marking
have prompted concern. "Our ulti
mate concern," says tribal wildlife
biologist Terry Luther "is that not
all mistakes will be discovered"
until it is too late.
"Too many times" says Luther,
recommendations are simply "dis
regarded" or turn up missing. Errors
by new employees is increasing.
adds tribal watermaster Deepak
Sehgal, "Employees should be adhe
ring to established policy." Ihey
are not getting that direction from
managers.
A major problem may he in the
fact that the environmental coor
dinator is also the BIA assistant
forest manager. The two jobs. Seh
gal feels are at odds. The environ
mental coordinator "should not be
responsible to get an allowable
cut. he emphasizes. Ideally, says
Sehgal. an environmental coordi-
strong.
The cut in forest development,
down to a total of $5 million,
amounted to a delay in reforesta
tion of a backlog of previously
mismanaged lands. The delay would
keep tribes from increasing their
harvests and their revenues.
Warm Springs tribal representa
tives also presented testimony to
the panel. That testimony will be
covered in the next issue of Spilyay.
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a person can generate with a kick
or with the same force as that of a
football player kicking a Held goal."
Kalama suffered a ruptured small
intestine as a result of the assault.
Youngman stated it was a land
mark case in federal court and that
the conviction of Belgarde should
give a message to women that the
time has arrived when women can
sign a complaint against theirabuser.
and know that something will
now be done to the abusers.
He said a number of beating inci
dents are reported in the Warm
Springs area but. in the past too
often women signed complaints
only to withdraw them because lit
tle was done by the courts, thus
women were assaulted again. The
women could see no possible end
of abuse. This is the first time that
such a case was presented in federal
court with a person being con
victed and sentenced, said Young
man. Sentencing for Bclgarde will take
place before Judge Owen Panner
in district court on May 2. 1988.
Belgarde can receive 5-10 years
under the new guidelines imposed
in federal court.
nator should be a Bureau of Indian
Affairs employees who has no involve
ment in the timber harvest.
But environmental coordinator
and assistant forest manager Bill
Apgar sees no conflict. The job of
environmental coordinator is clear
cut. He has responsibility for coor
dinating all input regarding a timber
sale, to hold public meetings, to act
as chairman, to advise the superin
tendent on proposed action and to
do "whatever else is necessary." He
has no dictating powers and is only
an advisor, Apgar explains.
The approach to resource man
agement decisions on timber sale
areas has generally proved unsuc
cessful in the past. However, the
team approach in which all resource
managers meet to decide on the
best approach for the sale has
proved successful.
This method was used in analyz
ing the Beavercreek watershed. The
team looked at the watershed from
the standpoint of all resources includ
ing water quality, wildlife, stream
stability fisheries and vegetation to
determine acceptable harvest level.
Because of the favorable out
come of the team approach to
resource management Tribal Coun
cil passed Resolution 74 10 on May
11, 1987. The resolution calls for a
balanced and comprehensive
approach to the management of
natural resources.
In a memorandum issued by
BIA superintendent Bernie Topash
Tribal Council's intentions for the
team are detailed. Besides the coor
dinated effort of resource special
ists in analyzing natural resources
in proposed timber sale areas. Tri
bal Council requires that "each
team member not only bring tech
nical competencies to the croup
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Public meeting set
There will be public meeting
Wednesday. March 30 beginning
at 7:00 p.m. in the fire management
trailer to discuss environmental assess
ments on brush and grass control,
seedling release and pocket gopher
control. Information on the spruce
budw orm project w ill also be made
available.
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