January 25, 1991 PAGE 3
Spilyay Tymoo
Warm Springs, Oregon
Tribal employment services Smith appointed to task force for BIA reorganization
shares news of department
Department newn
We are so excited about the
many successes of the people we
provided opportunities for. We are
striving to improve services,
so.. .we are in the midst of internal
changes which will improve serv
ices. While providing employment
and training opportunities we have
been generating monies back into
the employment which allowed us
to reduce our 1991 operating bud
get from tribal monies by over
$63,000.00.
Our department office is now
open between 12:00 p.m. to 1:00
p.m., daily, Monday through Fri
day for those who want to come
take care of business during that
tir
As you read on, several individ
uals took some gigantic steps to
help themselves. Please tell the
people whose names you see in the
other part of this update how
proud you are of them for their
accomplishments. We all need
someone .to believe in us and
recognize progress. The people in
the pre-employment program job
slots have been working very, very
hard so that they can become
employed full time. Employers -help
by giving folks a chance,
especially if they participated in the
employment programs. It's impor
tant to look at a person for what
they are doing in the present.
EmploymentBusiness Project
news
Dollar N Sense Thriftshop A
1991 New Year Kick-off is sched
uled at the Agency Longhouse on
Friday and Saturday; January
25th, 10 a.m. -6 p.m., and January
26th, 9 a.m. -5 p.m. Lots of quality,
clean and excellent prices! Keep
the donations coming in because
you're helping the shop become
successful. Monies from your
purchases go back into the Em
ployment Programs. Traditional
Treasures will also be at the Long
house, January 25th and 26th for
sales. Everyone Welcome!
U-Krew Labor Pool George
Aguilar, Jr., (Labor Pool Super
visor), Brent Craybaef,. (Assistant
Supervisor) and crew members:
Tony Gilbert, Sr., Anthony Boise,
Trudie Smith, Roger Stwyer, Joel
Craig, Mark Stacona Great job!
We have sold as much dry wood as
we can; wood sales are now ended.
The agreement under contract with
Forestry went well for our first try.
We are now taking work order
requests for future service from the
community projects and Tribe.
Contact the Employment Services
Office for more information or
submitting in work order requests.
We work under agreements and
contracts and can provide labor
services on some projects. 553
3262 or 553-3263.
Thank you goes out to Cheslcy
Yahtin, Jr.. Elias Yallup. Jr., Re
nee Sohappy, Richard Harrington.
HI, and Robert McCormack for
contributing to the success of the
Gopher Control Project and
Mistletoe Project Contract.
Traditional Treasures Indian
Market Had our first sale of
beadwork December 8th at the
Xmas Bazaar. Variety and quality
work coming from Wanda Van
Pelt, Maxine Switzlcr, Allison
Mitchell and Theresa Suppah.
Welcome aboard to the new hires
who started January 14th; Ken
neth Sahme, Sandra Clements and
Barbara Bobb. We have many
beautiful beaded items made by
tribal members. We are located at
the Warm Springs Apparel In
dustries building. We look forward
to working more closely with
WSAI in 1991 because we plan to
do some very creative, innovative
things with Indian Market. We
have been receiving a lot of calls
and inquiries about what we are
doing and encourage the commu
nity to drop by the shop at WSAI
or the headquarters office in the
Employment Services Office. "Tra
ditional" is the beadwork and
"Treasures" is the bcadworkcr.
Program Pride;
Our hata are oft to you
GED Completion during 1990
while part of the Employment
Services Programs William
Strong, Vanessa George, Tom
Estimo, Jr., Dominic Davis, Rose
Wahsise, Reatha Johnson, Gor
don Scott, Verleen G. Kalama,
Victor Barney, Nettie Dickson,
Trudie Smith, Flora Lucei, Ben
amin Arthur.
Perfect Work Attendance
(Monthly) one or more times while
in a training slot Cassimera
Rhoan, Dorian Soliz, Laurie Dan
zuka, Tony Gilbert, Sr., Brent
Graybael, George Aguilar, Jr.,
Anthony Keo, Michael Ortiz,
Ronald Stacona, Laura Switzlcr,
Wanda S. VanPelt, Jeannie Bris
bois, Jerome Davis, Leminnie
Sayers, Walter Wainanwit, Arlene
Tenorio, Patricia Sanders, Thom
as Strong, Jr., Rosanna Sanders,
Daniel Smith, Keith Charley, Sr.,
Trudie Smith, Creston Smith,
Tommy Kalama, Allison Mitchell,
Jose Flores, Phyliss Charley.
Program Completion During
1990 Creston Smith, Patricia
Sanders, Dorian Soliz, Deannie
Smith, Leminnie Sayers, Keith
Charley, Sr., Melissa David, Se
lena Thompson. All these persons
either obtained other employment
or went on to higher education and
or higher training levels.
Prevention Council to meet
The Jefferson County Council
on Child Abuse Prevention will
meet on Thursday, January 24 at
8:30 a.m. The meeting will be held
in the multipurpose room at
Mountain View Hospital and Nurs
ing Home, 1270 A Street, Madras.
The Jefferson County Council
on Child Abuse Prevention is a
volunteer group of concerned ci
tizens and professionals "working
to keep families together." All
meetings are open to the public.
Convenient parking is available in
the Mountain View lots located off
of A Street. For more information
call Roy Jackson, 475-2292.
Secretary of the Interior Manuel
Lujan January 7 appointed 36
Indian tribal representatives and
seven departmental employees to
an Advisory Task Force to develop
goals and plans for the reorganiza
tion of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA).
"I look forward to working with
this important group to define
ways that we can strengthen the
organization of the BIA to better
serve the Indian people," Lujan
said. "These are the people that
know the Bureau and know how it
can best be of benefit to the Indian
tribes. I value their judgment."
Lujan followed the recommenda
tions of Indian tribes in selecting
three representatives for each of
the 12 BIA areas. He added two
representatives from his office and
five from BIA.
The first meeting of the Joint
Tribal BIA DOI Advisory Task
Force has been scheduled for Tues
day, January 22, in Washington,
D.C. Time, date, place, purpose
and proposed agenda will be pub
lished in the Federal Register.
Discussion of goals and or plans
for the reorganization of the BIA
will take into consideration tribal
government, departmental and
federal government, and BIA con
cerns and ideas about strengthen
ing the administration of Indian
programs.
Established for a two-year pe
riod, the Task Force will make
preliminary recommendations to
Secretary Lujan on BIA reorgani
zation by April 30, 1991. Lujan will
designate one co-chairperson from
the federal representatives and the
tribal members will select by ma
jority vote the other co-chairperson
from tribal representatives.
Proposals for reorganization of
the BIA were first presented to
Indian tribes at a National Indian
Tribal Leaders Conference Septem
ber 28, 1990, in Albuquerque,
N.M., by Lujan. He recommended
that a Bureau of Indian Education
be created separately from the BIA
that would report directly to the
Assistant Secretary for Indian
Affairs and that the remaining
functions form a separate bureau.
A federal trust office would be
created as part of the assistant
secretary's office.
In the 1991 appropriations act,
Congress directed the BIA to delay
reorganization until a task force is
convened and reports to the House
and Senate Committees on Ap
propriations. Representing Lujan's office on
the Task Force will be Eddie
Brown, assistant secretary - Indian
Affairs, as designated co-chairperson,
and Bill Bettenberg, deputy
assistant secretary - Indian Affairs.
The five BIA representatives will
be Stan Speaks, acting deputy
commissioner of Indian affairs;
Edward Parison, director, Office
of Indian Education Programs;
Bill Collier, area director, Ana
darko area office; Betty Walker,
area education programs admini
strator, Minneapolis; and Wyman
Babby, superintendent. Fort Peck
(Montana) agency.
Tribal representatives appointed
by ' ujan are listed bv area.
Aberdeen: Charles Murphy,
chairman. Standing Rock Sioux;
Harold D. Salway, president, Og
lala Sioux; and Michael Jandrcau,
chairman. Lower Brule Sioux.
Albuquerque: Wendell Chino,
president, Mescalcro Apache;
Chester Fernando, councilman,
Pueblo of Laguna; and Bernie
Teba, executive director. Eight
Northern Indian Pueblos Council.
Anadarko: Joseph T. Goombi,
chairman, Kiowa Business Com
mittee; Larry Nuckolls, governor,
Abscntce-Shawncc; and Juanita
Learned, chairperson, Chcyenne
Arapaho. Billings: Donovan Archambault,
president. Fort Belknap Communi
ty Coi-ncil; Harold Monteau, trib
al attorney, Chippewa Crcc; and
John Washakie, chairman. Sho
shone Business Council.
Eastern: James Sappier, gover
nor, Penobscot Indian Nation;
James Billie, chairman, Seminole
Tribe; and Phillip Martin, chief,
Mississippi Choctaw.
Juneau: Will Mayo, president.
Tanana Chiefs Conference. Inc.;
Willie Kasavulie. president. Native
Village of Akiachak; and Joe
Hotch, president, Klukwan, Inc.
Minneapolis: Gordon Dickie,
chairman, Menominee Indian
Tribe of Wisconsin; Darrcll Wa
dena, chairman, Minnesota Chip
pewa; and Michael Parish, attor
ney, Hannahville Indian Com
munity of Michigan.
Muskogee: GaryBrcshcari.exe
cutive director, Creek Nation of
Oklahoma; Bill Follis, chief, Mo
doc Tribe of Oklahoma; and Mark
Downing, executive director, plan
ning, research and development,
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
Navajo: Daniel Tso, delegate,
Navajo Nation Council and chair
man, Education Committee of the
Navajo Nation Council; Virgil
Pablo, executive director, division
of Social Services, Navajo Nation:
and Karen Dixon Bates,' executive
director, Shiprock Alternative
School Inc.
Pheonix: Nora Garcia, chairper
son, Fort Mojave Tribal Council;
Brian Wallace, chairman, Washoe
Tribal Council; and Luke Duncan,
chairman, Uintah and Ouray
Tribal Business Council.
Portland: Georgia George, chair
man, Suquamish Tribe; Mickey
Pablo, chairman, Salish Kootenai
Tribe; and Ken Smith, chief exe
cutive officer, the Confederated
Tribes of the Warm Springs Reser
vation. Sacramento: Donald Ray, chair
person, Hopland Rancheria; Virgil
Moorehead, chairperson, Big La
goon Rancheria; and Frances
Shaw, chairperson, Manzanita
Band of Mission Indians.
Thanksgiving Powwow reschedule
The Thanksgiving Mini Pow
wow, originally set for November
22, 23 and 24, 1990. has been
rescheduled for March 1, 2 and 3.
1 99 1 at the Agency Longhouse.
Raffle tickets will be the same as
before.
Water Awareness Logo Contest
Water llfeblood of the Reservation
Streams and lakes of the Reservation
Water Is the lifeblood of the Warm Springs Reserva
tion. It holds the potential for economic development. It
is necessary to grow crops, for industrial purposes, to
provide habitat for fish and wildlife, and to create recrea
tional opportunities.
Water is more It is indispensable for maintains tradi
tions, religions and cultures of people and land
As water negotiations between the Warm Springs
Tribes and the Stale of Oregon begin, water and its many
facets will be discussed among tribal members. The tribal
Water A wareness Team Is looking for ways to inform and
involve tribal members In the discussions by helping them
learn about the wonderful water resource on the Reserva
tion. A logo contest Is the first step in this process.
Express your feelings about the water resource and its
importance to the Tribe during this logo contest. Become
involved, learn and think water.
The winning logo will be used throughout the negotia
tion process to identify water negotiation information.
Rules
Submit entries on an 8 X 11-inch or larger sheet of paper
Logos may be colored, or black and white
Name, address and telephone number must appear on back of
entry
Deadline for submission of entries is January 31, 1991
Mail to Watermaster, Natural Resources Dept., Warm Springs
Oregon, or drop entry off at Natural Resources office or
Spilyay Tymoo office.
Categories
Grades Kindergarten to sixth
Grades seven to twelve
Age 18 and over
Prizes
Each category will have three winners
First place $50.00
Second place T-shirt with logo
Third place Natural Resources hat
An overall winner will be selected from the submitted entries
Beaver works found on Oregon rivers, bays-Continued from page 2
gineer which started the drain
of the meadows and riparian an
Gravel exposed by rushing wa
as it broke through unrepaired nozzles, sluice boxes, ditches" and
dams in the beaver reaches re- dredges washed and scoured the
vealed gold. Miners with giant channels.
In addition, herds of cattle and
bands of sheep ravaged the ranges
and dried out tributaries. Winter
feed was only in the sheltered
willow thickets or exposed ridges.
In only a few years, the beaver
annihilation had turned into a de
watering disaster.
The magnificent road system of
our National Forests, developed in
less than forty years, has inadver
tently proven to be an equally
magnificent drainage system. It
had ditched, diked, sealed off,
accelerated and shipped out water
that formerly grew trees, grass,
shade and fingerlings. Sadly, the
accelerated runoff has taken soil
with it.
Had we set out to intentionally
change the runoff patterns from
perennial to annual, destroy the
summer flows, drain the riparian
zones and decrease the soil's water
holding capacity it would be most
difficult to plan a more effective
program than that carried out in
western watersheds the last 175
years.
Much emphasis had been direc
ted at efficiencies with out-of-stream
water and it is certainly a
worthwhile concern. However, the
real emphasis, that will put timely
water in our streams should be
directed at correcting instream
efficiencies.
Over 90 of the water running
from Oregon watersheds is left in
stream. Water that leaves a water
shed by the way of excessive
induced amounts is a damaging
deficit and the overwhelming
major water problem in the state.
Winter runoff robs us of our
annuallv renewable water resource
but the irrepairable damage is to
our nonrenewable soil resource.
Which, in turn, is the single most
significant storer of water. The
economic and aesthetic overdraft
at the resource bank has been a
loan that we all must share, no
matter what our occupation.
The beaver was significant in the
productivity and condition of ri
parian areas. His presence was
universal in fresh water courses.
Much of the historic benefit of
fire as a watershed management
tool should be accredited to the
beaver and his extensive barriers
that stayed wet or moist all sum
mer. Anthropologist and historians
also credit the edible fur bearer
with sustenance as well as survival
benefits for human habitants. The
beaver pond of 1810 was as avail
able for a sure meal as the home
steader's chicken pen of 1910.
Understanding the significant
role of the beaver in a once
successful system would be a posi
tive step towards bringing land and
water users (all of us) to a common
ground in understanding water
and soil resources and their inter
dependent relationships.
Those East-of-the-Cascades In
dians that were blessed with beaver
were wealthy even before acquiring
the horse because of the verdurcd
tributary streams. The fur trade
brought, first, luxuries which be
came necessities: guns, powder,
lead, more horses and 'easier-living'
items.
The sudden realization of the
loss of the beaver and its beneficial
sustenance (birthright) may have
been the unrecorded cause, cata
lyst and awakening for Native
American uprisings; possibly more
so than the scattered settlement in
the region.
Contrary to the efficiency of the
broadtailed engineer, ODFW
through the Power Council via
BPA has spent millions on wire
and boulders. What's needed is
sticks, mud, water, willows and
wisdom. Up-stream waterworks
on meadows on tributaries store
runoff water and benefit the water
cycle in a manner not seen since the
near eradication of the beaver.
If not beavers, let's at least
support the beaver replacers, the
meadow irrigator; maybe even re
charge some aquifers and wetlands
with something a little higher tech
than a blasted boulder or stretched
wire.
Oregon with its beaver and
Massachusetts with its Pine tree
are the only states with symbols on
the reverse side of their flags.
Lexington minutemen, with free
dom at stake were learning pio
neers They didn't blindly march,
but fired from behind trees, a
dapted and won. Now our land and
water is at stake. Might we not
learn, adapt and pioneer again? It
would be most difficult to plan a
more effective campaign than one
demonstrated by Oregon's State
symbol, the beaver.
Water logo contest ends January 31