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VOL. 13 NO. 8
Coyote News
in brief
Artists gearing up
The Arts and Crafts
Show will be held
Saturday, April 14 at the
Warm Springs
Community Center. The
show will open at 10 a.m.
and continue until 4 p.m.
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Brazilian relates mission
Gilberto Makuxi visited
Warm Springs last week
and told of conditions
facing Brazilian Indians.
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Ballot displayed
The toll-free ballot to be
submitted to telephone
customers by mail is
previewed on page 2.
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Weeds cost
Prevention is essential to
keep noxious weeds
from spreading. Several
different noxious weeds
are present on the
Reservation.
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Your vote counts
Oregon beef producers
will help decide the fate
of an industry-financed
program when they vote
in the national beef
referendum May 10. All
local beef producers are
encouraged to cast their
ballots.
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Rodeo announced
The 39th annual Tygh
Valley All-Indian Rodeo
is scheduled for May 21
and 22.
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OIEA Conference held
Warm Springs elder Herb
Stwyer was selected
Elder of the Year by
OIEA members during
conference held at Kah-
Nee-Ta April 6-8.
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Timber tour set
A field trip is planned
for April 28, 1988 to discuss
general and specific
concerns on proposed tim
ber sale areas for 1 990-9 1 .
For more information
contact Cliff Walker at
the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Forestry department
553-1161, Ext. 415.
Weather
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Head Start students help with spring clean-up during Take Pride in
Tribes to
The Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs will began to enforce Chap
ter 300 of the Warm Springs Tribal
Code entitled "Exclusion of per
sons not legally entitled to reside
on the reservation."
The Confederated Tribes, with
the signing of the Treaty of 1855
between the Tribes and the U.S.
government gained the right to
keep nonmembersand nonresidents
off reservation lands. The tribe is
able to keep the peace, safety, mor
als, health and general welfare of
its members by regulatingjust who
Studs off April 30
The April 30 deadline to remove
studded tires is just around the
corner. The state highway division
is urging early removal of tires to
prevent further damage to high
ways and streets.
Policy Affective
Food shortages predicted
The Warm Springs Tribal Wel
fare program was notified recently
that the next United States Depart
ment of Agriculture (USDA) ship
ment of cheese, milk and rice will
not reach Warm Springs until the
end of April, according to tribal
welfare worker Olivia Wallulatum.
USDA and food share director
stated that all food program outlets
will be experiencing USDA food
shortages, so the tribal office will
be receiving less than usual. If you
are eligible for the commodities,
you must pick up your food stuffs
yourself. It is also stressed that a
person can only come in once a
month.
Causes for the reduction of food
stuffs are that the government's poli
cies to reduce surpluses have suc
ceeded so well that the govern
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Clean-up committee
enforce reservation
is allowed to be on the reservation.
When a person who is a non
member or nonresident acts in dis
regard to tribal ordinances, state
lawsand federal lawsandorengages
in acts and conduct which can
cause financial, health, psycholog
ical and social problems for members
the tribe has the right to exclude
that person or persons from being
on the reservation.
In past years the exclusion of
people was referred to as a "floater. "
With the increase of population
and social problems of the present
Two die in
A single car accident on Highway
3 resulted in the death of two
enrolled members of the Confed
erated Tribes of Warm Springs.
Rodney Mitchell, 27 and Jewell
Van Pelt, 2 1 , were both pronounced
dead at the scene of the accident on
April 7, 1988. Three passengers in
ment's inventory has been drastically
reduced. Congress passed a law
designed to reduce excess product
and surplus stock. In the program
the government is paying diary
farmers to reduce milk production
by slaughtering cows, calves and
heifers. They also reduced the sub
sidies paid to dairy farmers.
In a notice published in the Fed
eral Register, Anna Kondratas, head
of the Food and Nutrition Service,
stated she believed the amount of
excess cheese, non-fat dry milk,
rice and honey, which have been
available for distribution during
theupcomingycar(FY I988),would
be half the amount that was avail
able during the last year.
For more information contact
Olivia Wallulatum at 553-1 161, ext.
219.
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age the Tribe sees the exclusion act
as one way to rid certain elements
of people from within its borders.
The policy of exclusion, with the
exception of certain Bureau of Indian
Affairs and Indian Health Service
employees, nonresident non
members have few expectations of
access to the territory of the Warm
Springs reservation. The tribes have
the right to retain the ability to
quickly and effectively remove peo
ple who create problems on the
reservation. Such examples include,
but are not limited to, people who
single-car
the car were transported to Moun
tain View Hospital in Madras.
Treated and released were John
Katchia and Gordon Kelly. The
third passengar, Nadine Mitchell,
was transported to St. Charles
Medical Center in Bend, Oregon.
The accident occurred at about
2:45 a.m. according to police reports.
According to Bureau of Indian
Affairs special officer and investi
gator, Rob Moran, the car was tra
veling southbound towards Warm
Springs on Highway 3, when it
entered a curve and the car went off
the left highway shoulder. The driver
Man killed when run over
A Warm Springs resident, Mike
Teeman, was pronounced dead at
the scene on April 16, 1988 on
Highway 26 near the Rainbow
Market, according to Jefferson
County district attorney William
Hanlon.
According to police reports, wit
nesses saw a man lying in the road
way Saturday evening. A car swerved
to miss the man but a second vehi
cle, driven by Daniel G. Bicknese.
36. of Kuna. Idaho, was unable to
avoid running over the man. The
incident occurred at about 1 1 p.m.
The district attorney stated that
Ballot proposes telephone
toll changes
A ballot will be mailed to tele
phone customers in Metolius. Culver,
Madras and Warm Springs asking
if they are willing to pay an extra
$2. 1 4 per telephone line each month
for 10 years. The additional charge
would allow toll-free calling be
tween Culver Metolius and Mad
rasWarm Springs.
If the proposal is approved Pacific
Northwest Bell would install neces
sary equipment totalling $370,000
to provide the service. Telephone
service for Culver and Metolius
would be provided from the Mad
rasWarm Springs telephone ex
change. Culver Metolius customers
would receive telephone numbers
beginning with the 475 prefix.
509-J requesting tax base
The 509-J School District Board
of Directors has submitted a request
for a $4 million tax base. Voters
will be asked to vote on the prop
osal at the May 17 election.
If approved the tax base would
establish authority to levy a tax on
local property for support of schools
in the District without voter ap
proval. Currently.the School Board must
ask for voter approval of a tax levy
to balance the operational budget
annually.
A tax base is not a tax itself. It is
a base in which the district must
operate. The tax base may be in
creased each year by six percent.
Voter approval is necessary if the
tax base increase exceeds thai
amount.
The tax base will be submitted to
voters each year at the regular elec
exclusion
traffic in illegal drugs and contra
band thus causing problems.
Members are basically the only
people who have the right to reside
on the reservation.
Nonresident nonmembers can be
excluded by committing any of the
following acts; breach of the peace;
repeated public drunkenness; enter
ing an area of the reservation that
has been closed because of fire
hazard or any other reason; failure
to pay any taxes; rents or other
charges justly due to the tribes after
being given a reasonable notice
accident
apparently over corrected and the
car went to the right side of the
highway and traveled for a short
distance on the shoulder and was
again over corrected and went back
on the left side of the highway and
rolled.
The occupants of the car were
trapped within the vehicle. Police
and fire and safety crews worked to
free them. The jaws of life were
used to extricate the victims.
The accident is under investiga
tion by the Warm Springs police
department and BIA investigators,
stated Moran.
apparently Teeman was run over
after he crawled up from the west
side of the highway. The driver of
the van volunteered to take a brea
thalyzer test at the Jefferson County
Sheriffs department and blew a
.00. A blood alcohol test is being
done on the victim, the results of
which were not available.
The incident is under investiga
tion by Jefferson County Sheriffs
department. Anyone witnessing any
thing prior to the incident should
contact the Sheriffs department at
(503)475-2201.
U.S. Postage
Bulk Rate Permit No. 2
Warm Springs, OR 97761
Audress Correction Requested
APRIL 22, 1988
Approximately 4300 customers
would be affected by the rate in
crease. The additional revenue from
customers would be affected by the
rate increase. The additional revenue
from customers is requested by
PNB to offset lost toll with the
change of service. Estimated long
distance toll for a three year period
would be recovered by the tele
phone company.
The ballot will be mailed in a
bulk mail type envelope to custo
mers at the end of April. To be
counted, the ballot must be received
by the Public Utility Commission
by June 10, 1988.
See sample ballot on page 2
tion until it is established. This is
mandated by the 1987 legislature.
Deadline nearing
Voter registration deadline for
the May primary election is April
26.
Before 1985 Oregonians could
register to vote up to the day of the
election. After the effort by Raj
neeshees to bus homeless people to
their commune to register them to
vote the legislature changed the
deadline.
Voters who move after the 20
day cutoff can obtain a certificate
from the county clerk allowing
them to vote in their new precinct.
Any change of address or change
of name must be done in person at
the Jefferson County Clerk's office.
law
and opportunity to pay; unautho
rized cutting of timber or vegeta
tion; any act causing physical loss
or damage of any kind to tribal
property or property of an enrolled
member; crime as defined by state,
federal or tribal law; violation of
any tribal ordinance, trespass on
trust or fee patent lands; commit
ing fraud; employing confidence
games or engaging in usury; getting
any tribal member to enter into an
inequitable contract; defrauding any
member of money for his labor or
services of any nature done at the
request of the nonmember; unautho
rized possession of firearms; con
tagious disease; unauthorized tak
ing of any property from the reserva
tion; use, sale or possession of any
drug, narcotics drug or controlled
substance as defined by the State
Uniform Controlled Substances Act;
and failure to estabish a legitimate
purpose for presence on the reserva
tion. If an act that endangers or threats
the health, safety or morals of resi
dents on the reservation is commit
ted in the presence of a tribal or
government official the person can
be excluded immediately.
The Tribal Council or Superin
tendent may order the exclusion of
any nonresident nonmemberatany
time with or without cause.
In most cases a notice will be
served to a person which w ill state
the reason for the proposed exclu
sion and shall name a time and
place where the nonresident non
member may appear before the
court to show cause that they should
not be excluded. The hearing will
not be less than five days after the
service is served.
In the hearing, nonresident non
members may not be represented
by counsel but they can present
their own defense at the hearing.
All orders of exclusion shall remain
in force until revoked by the court
unless the order specifically pro
vides otherwise.
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