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is. rosier Bulk Half Permit No. 2 Warm Spring. OK 97761 Mivav . i vmoo XL v News from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation P.O. Box 870 Warm Springs, OK 97761 Address Correction Requested s A? ILaAj VOL. 15 NO. 20 Coyote News In Brief Colleges visit Oregon college and university representatives will be at Madras High School the morning of October 10. Page 2 Youth seminar scheduled A conference open to all high school students will be held at the Agency Longhouse October 12 and 13. Students will be asked to meet the challenges of the 90's. Page 3 Challenge winners noted The second quarter of the "Health is Good Medicine" Challenge concluded September 26. Several winners are noted. Page 5 Food Program guidelines listed Early Childhood Education Program income eligibility guidelines are provided. Page 5 MHS athletic director sees bright future Curt Sexton, new athleticactivities director at MHS, works toward greater participation in sports and more recognition for students. Page 6 Preserving heirlooms requires care Fragile fabrics and textiles should be kept clean and stored properly. Page 7 Information Fair October 16, 1990 3-8:00 p.m. Agency Longhouse The Third Annual Warm Springs Arts and Crafts Show takes place Sat urday, October 13 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Community Cen ter. For more Inform ation call 553-1361. Weather PO BOX 870 WARM SPRINGS, OR 97761 Sept. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Oct. 1 High 80 80 82 82 86 89 91 86 81 84 85 80 65 Low 52 46 43 48 49 52 58 56 52 52 46 42 44 e I V.J1 N f i f ' f:' r;. - i -J V rv- f- ; m m v Ji,kn - - ::: ' l J - - - - Marge Topash was one of many Warm Springs residents to display their handwork in the OSU-spomored quilt show in September. 1991 budget posted; meeting dates scheduled Is it really October already? It must be school's in, nights are chilly and the upcoming year's pro posed operating budget is posted. " Tribal Council posted the 1991 proposed budget at the end of Sep tember. Anticipated revenues for 1991 are $25,431,527 as compared to 1990 anticipated revenues of $28,010,000. Total proposed budget expenditures for 1991 are $19,863,793, approximately $1.5 million above the restated 1990 budget of $ 1 8,545, 1 50. Of the total proposed 1991 expenditures. $16,221,973 is proposed for actual operating expenses of the tribal organization. Also included in the total expenditures is funding for community assistance, capital pro jects, economic development and debt service. Meetings have been scheduled to discuss the proposed budget. How ever, district meetings will be pre ceded by the annual Information Fair, scheduled for October 16 from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Agency Longhouse. Agency District Meeting Wednesday, October 1 7 6 p.m. Potluck Dinner 7 p.m. Meeting Agency Longhouse Simnasho District Meeting Thursday, October 18 6 p.m. Dinner 7 p.m. Meeting Simnasho Longhouse Sidwalter Community Meeting Thursday, October 18 6 p.m. Dinner 7 p.m. Meeting Sylvester Smith Res. Seekseequa District Meeting Wednesday, October 24 6 p.m. Dinner 7 p.m. Meeting Agency Longhouse Highway department issues statement Tom Garner, project Manager for the Oregon State Highway Div ision reports that the slide at mile post 110.0 on Highway 26, the Warm Springs highway, continues to show some movement. Efforts to stabilize the slide were undertaken shortly after it deve loped late in the month of May. The Division's Geotech section has continued to monitor the slide and gather further data. Their study indicates that additional weight added to the toe of the slide will most likely stop its movement. Funding for this work has been authorized by the Highway Com mission and is scheduled for this fall. Materials for loading the slide will come from the hillside next to the highvay and upon completion will provide additional roadway width. A meeting between the Highway Division and Jefferson County Court to discuss work on the Warm Springs Highway was held in the Courthouse October 3rd at 2 p.m. Anyone concerned or interested in the highway work was welcomed. Mr. Garner expressed his appre ciation and extends his thanks to the traveling public for their pa tience, especially to those who reg ularly motor the Warm Springs Highway in the vicinity of the slide. Without the public's awareness, patience and understanding, a dif ficult situation could have become intolerable. First Annual Veterans Day Powwow November 9 and 10 Agency Longhouse Organizer Daisy Ike requests photos and family his tories of veterans so the information can be included in a commemorative program. OCTOBER 5, 1990 Adoption election postponed The 9 1 hopeful adoption candi dates will have to wait a bit longer, as the tribal adoption referendum, tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, October 16, has been postponed until an opinion from the U.S. Solicitor's office is issued. The post ponement came alter a review Octo ber I of the first amendment of the Tribal Constitution and By-Laws. The February 20, 1940 amend ment reads, in part, as follows: Members of the Confederated Tribes, by a 'majority vote of the qualified voters "voting in an elec tion called for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior.. ..may adopt as a member of the Tribe any person of Vt or more Indian blood who is a descendant of a member or former member of the Confed erated Tribes." The amendment also includes language pertaining to the three-year reservation resid ency requirements and states that the adoption candidate "shall not be a member of any other tribe of Indians." According to tribal Vital Statis tics supervisor Madeline Queah pama. this is not the first time the constitutionality of an adoption election has been questioned. The issue of the Secretary of the Inte rior "calling" for an election is of major concern during this election. as it has been during the past three elections, she said. According to department records, the amendment was interpreted "literally" in a 1971 adoption election and a secretarial election was required. Since that time, elections have been held with the Secretary's approval, via his appointed representative, the agency Superintendent. Secretarial elections, she said, are held to "amend the constitu tion," an adoption does not. Twelve adoption elections have been held since the first adoption April 24, 1948. According to statis tics, 139 people have been adopted since that first election. It could be December, 1990 or January, 1991 before an adoption election is held. Watch Spilyay Tymoo for further news concern ing the election. October 11-13 conference to focus on Oregon Indians The First Oregonians, A confer ence for Indian People, Teachers and the General Public. On October II, 1 2 and 1 3, 1 990, the Oregon Committee for the Humanities and the Commission on Indian Services will host a statewide conference on the Indian people of Oregon. This will be an exceptional opportunity to partic ipate with tribal people and schol ars in learning about the experi ence of Indians in Oregon from the time before contact with Europe ans to the present. Beginning with a procession of the tribes of Oregon, the confer ence will feature workshop pre sentations by Oregon tribal people about their history and culture. Tribal historians and spokesper sons will be joined by scholars of Oregon Indian experience. Two of America's most impor tant Indian leaders will be featured at the conference. N. Scott Momaday. Pulitzer Prize winning writer and scholar. A Kiowa Indian, Momaday has published several novels and works on Indian culture and has received honorary degrees from nine uni versities. Ada Deer, Chair of the Menom inee Restoration Committee and currently Director of the Native American Studies Office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Conference will offer Indian and scholar-led workshops on: National and regional reposito ries of historical and cultural doc uments regarding the Indian tribes of Oregon. Oral traditions among the dif ferent tribes. Mistaken ideas about Indians held by non-Indians. Current Indian writing and its roots in oral storytelling. Indian Art: historical art forms and present day art basketry, mask art, contemporary painting, etc. The attempted suppression of Indian culture in Oregon through boarding school experience, relo cation and termination policies, missionary work, state legislative acts, etc. The uses of place by Indians: food gathering, displacement from ancestral lands, stories associated with places, spiritual places and other topics. The "First Oregonians" today: tribal government, Indian educa tion, tribal culture and heritage committees and urban heritage programs. Teachingabout Oregon Indians. Join us at this informative con ference to be held at Portland's newly opened Oregon Convention Center. For additional information, con tact Dick Lewis (OCII) I-800-735-0543 or Linda Dodds (503) 288-I290. River use recommendations issued Strict restrictions on power boats and lower levels of use during peak months on the lower I00 miles of the Deschutes River was recom mended by a four-person review board which met September 20 in the State's capitol. The draft plan which outlined the preferred alternative of the Governor's Executive Review Board is designed to minimize environ mental damage to the Deschutes Scenic Waterway and limit con flicts between users of the river. "We were very pleased with the decision of the Executive Review Board on both the power boat and levels of use issues," says Jim Noteboom. board member and attorney for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. "The resolution addresses the Tribe's primary concerns," Noteboom adds. Both the number of days the river would be made available for power boating and the number of boats on the river are limited by the plan. The proposal makes the fol lowing recommendations: Power boats would be prohi bited year-round on segment I (from U.S. 26 at Warm Springs down stream to the locked gate above Maupin)and Segment II (from the locked gate downstream to Sher ar's Falls). Segment III (Sherar's Falls downstream) would be closed to power boats May to September 30 and open the rest of the year. In Segment IV(Beavertailtothe Columbia River) power boats would be allowed during alternate weeks from May 1 5 to September 30 and would be allowed at all times the rest of the year. A limit of five persons per boat and no more than two trips pcrday is recommended with operating hours between legal sunrise and sunset. The number of boaters on all sections of the river would also be limited between May and Sep tember and would include power boaters as well as those using rafts, kayaks and drift boats. Continued on page 2 1