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they twitch to the more conserva
tive fund. In the Fixed Fund, the
inveitmentt are less affected by
market conditions and therefore
remains safe from large swings in
value. Council determines what age
group of children will be able to
make a choice (tentatively 13 to 17
year olds).
It is time for the parents of the
minors to make i decision as to
which fund to be invested in. A
letter will be written explaining the
alternate choices in further detail.
A workshop will also be held to
answer questions.
Education issues were also dis
cussed at the meeting. Several in
the audience expressed a wish to
have the payment ages change from
their current level to begin at pos
sibly 25 years of age, after minors
have become adults.
If you have concerns about the
Minors Trust Fund please inform
your Council members, as changes
to the Trust Fund Agreement
between the Tribes and US Bank
requires Council action.
Organization to tighten belt Tjinowjt mQves y k Sundome
More than 60 supervisors and
managers gathered at Kah-Nec-Ta
last Monday to hear Confederated
Tribes Chief Executive Officer Ken
Smith call for a tightening of oper
ational expenditures. Smith stated
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that because of the uncertainties in
the timber market this year, he is
asking for adjustments to hclpcover
a projected shortfall of $1,521 mil
lion in revenue.
The financial forecast showing
revenues was adjusted after an
analysis of the Tribe's timber oper
ations was reviewed. In an effort to
help Warm Springs Forest Pro
cducts Industries meet its obliga
tions, stumpage was reduced.
Another factor is the uncertainty
of the recommended annual allow
able cut which is being studied by
IRMP.
Smith requested that the general
managers review their programs
and come back within two weeks
with a plan to reduce spending and
yet maintain quality services. He
said that the supervisors should
take a hard look at their programs
and assist their general manager in
making those decisions.
Smith stated at the luncheon
that he would like the supervisors
and general managers to make the
reductions, however he said, if they
didn't, he would do it for them.
"The goal is to balance expendi
tures with the projected revenue,"
Smith said.
DM J Automotive offers "pump your own"
You can now "pump your own"
gas at DMJ Automotive, formerly
known as the Tribal Garage.
Owners Delford and Marita
Johnson have made the change to
self-service to "help keep the cost
of gas down as much as possible."
DMJ is the only full service gas
station to offer such services.
When at DMJ, customers are
asked to step inside to pre-pay for
fuel. A cashier will turn on a hose
and customers can will then beable
to pump their own gas. If help is
needed, someone will be available
to assist. All oil is to be purchased
inside.
Current prices for fuel are S 1 .04.9
for regular and $ 1 .05.9 for no-lead.
Control burns offered to residents
Fire management will imple
ment controlled burns on the
Warm Springs Indian Reservation
around homes to reduce fire haz
ards during the spring of 1991.
To qualify, the homeowner is
required to visit the Fire Manage
ment office and contact the Fire
Prevention Officer or Fire Manage
ment Officer. An appointment will
be set up for an initial assessment
of the area of concern. This will be
done by a fire prevention team
consisting of Fire Management
and Fire & Safety members. The
assessment will evaluate the a
mount and type of work needed to
be done prior to Fire Manage-,
ments involvement. Certain condi
tions will be given to the home
owner as a result of the evaluation.
These conditions are the responsi
bility of the homeowner and will
have to be completed before any
burning will take place. An ex
ample would be the removal of
heavy debris such as piles of limbs
near the home or weed grass build
up immediately near the homes or.
sheds. ,
After these conditions are com
pleted (by the homeownerre
quester) Fire Management will
carry out the burns as weather
conditions, timeframes and safe
burning conditions will allow.
These prescribed burns will be
done on a priority basis with
Senior Citizens and Handicapped
persons being the highest priority.
Subsequent requests will be han
dled on a first come, first served
basis. There is a good possibility of
Fire Management not being able to
completely serve all requests being
made however all effort to do so
will be extended. If weather condi
tions change such that burning
cannot be done safely the Fire
Management staff will use the op
tion of removing as much of the
hazards as possible. Handtools
and powertools will be used to
reduce the buildup and the fire
management personnel will haul
the refuse to the dump. If there is a
lot of slash, there is a possibility of
piling the refuse in a safe place to
be burned when conditions will
allow fire to be safely used as a
reduction tool.
If you have any questions con
cerning this program please do not
hesitate to call Dennis Thompson
(Fire Prevention) at 553-1146 or
553-2413, Monday through Friday
between the hours of 8:00 am to
4:30 pm.
Career workshop set
You can learn how to evaluate
what you know about yourself and
how to apply that knowledge to
making a career decision through a
career planning workshop offered
by Central Oregon Community
College's counseling department.
Designed to help prospective stu
dents find out about college pro
grams and the job market, several
workshops are set for this spring at
the college.
All workshops are held in the
Grandview Juniper Room. Work
shop dates and times are as fol
lows: April 10, 1 to 4 p.m.; April
25, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.; May 8, 1 to 4
p.m.; May 23, I to 4 p.m.; June 5,
5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
All workshops are free. To reg
ister call 385-5508.
Tiinowit Powwow moving to
Yakima SunDome June 7-9, 1991.
New features and opportunities at
the famed celebration,
Tiinowit Benefit Concert Friday
June 7; 7:00 p.m.-IO:30 p.m.;
General admission S 10.00.
Tiinowit Powwow Saturday,
JuneS, Sunday, June 9; 1 1:30a.m.
1:00 a.m.; General admission
$2.50 day (6 & under, 60 &, over
free).
The Tiinowit Committee has de
cided to move the annual "Treaty
Days" powwow to the Yakima Sun
Dome after 16 years at the Top
penish Creek ancient ceremonial
grounds near the town of White
Swan on the Yakima Reservation.
The SunDome is located in the city
of Yakima on S. 10th St. Between
Nob Hill & Pacific.
Tiinowit is now one of the
largest powwows in North Amer
ica, and the facilities at Toppcnish
creek are no longer large enough
for everyone who wants to partici
pate. We hope you will enjoy the
larger, cleaner, modern facilities at
the Yakima SunDome.
Registration for all drummers
and dancers will take place at the
SunDome Friday, June 7th 10:00
am-5:00 pm and Saturday, June
8th 8:00 am-1 1:00 am. The regis
tration fees are $5dancer and
$40drum. The Registered dancers
and singers will not have to pay the
"general admission" fee to the
powwow on Saturday & Sunday.
Drum roll calls will be at 1 1:30
am & 6:30 pm on Saturday &
Sunday.The grand entries will be at
12 noon and 7:00 pm. Our Host
Drum will be Blackstone from
Sweetgrass, Saskatchewan. The
Masters of Ceremonies will be
Kelly Looking Horse, Tom Mauch
ahty Ware, Charlie Tailfeathers,
and Eric Robinson.
There will be over $20,000 in
total prize money. For the Drum
ming and Singing Competition,
the prizes will be: I st-S 1 500; 2nd
$800; 3rd $700; 4th- $500; and 5th
$400. Tiinowit will also provide day
money for all intertribal drums.
PA provided.
There will be six categories for
the Adult Dance Competition:
Men's Traditional, Grass, and
Fancy; and Women's Traditional,
Fancy, and Jingle Dress; with five
places in each category as follows: .
Ist-$800; 2nd-$600; 3rd-$400; 4th
$300; 5th-$200.
For the Children's Dance Com
petition, there will be four places in
each category: lst-$200; 2nd-$150;
3rd-$I00; 4th-$75. The Powwow
will also include a special Jingle
Dress Honor Contest (girls 6-12)
and Tiny Tots Special (7 and
under).
There will be a campground with
showers ad toilets right at the
SunDome. The camping fee is
$5 family for all three days. Park
ing will be free of charge for all
camoers. " : .. "
The 1991 Powwow will also in
clude a Native American Fine Arts
Show. Another addition this year
is the special benefit concert on
Friday June 7th, 7:00 pm-IO:30
pm. A portion of the profits will be
used to provide scholarship funds
for Native Americans.
The concert will feature The
Onion Lake Indian Dance Theatre
of Saskatchewan. Onion Lake is a
professional group of North Amer
ican Indian dancers and musicians
from Canada. Their performance
consists of a kaleidoscope of tradi
tional and contemporary dances
including the Eagle Dance, the mys
terious and ingenious Hoop
Dance, and the Lord's Prayer
presented in Indian sign language.
As a special international fea
ture, the show will include the
Kahurangi Maori Dance Com
pany of New Zealand. The wonder
ful dance and subtle harmonics of
Kahurangi bring to life the tradi
tional culture of the Maori People
of New Zealand.
The concert will also include the
multi-talented Lara Lavi and her 6
piece band. Lara is a singer, com
poser, percussionist, keyboardist,
sound designer and attorney for
the Mucklcshoot Tribe based in
Seattle. Her beautiful voice and
unique blends of rock, jazz and
rhythm & blues are bound to
please.
We are proud to announce that
the benefit show will also feature
the elderly Latino musician Lalo
Guerrero. The 73-ycar-old . Lalo,
who is known as a "living legend"
wrote the music to Luis Valdcz'i
hit play "Zoot Suit." His clever
parodies of popular songs are cer
tain to delight peoples from all
different cultures.
For further information please
write to: Tiinowit Committee; co
One Heart; 6 South 2nd St.. 917;
Yakima, W A 98901 ; or call Charles
Stewart (509) 452-6566 or Fred
erick Ike (509) 865-2390.
Tiinowit is a non-profit corpora
tion organized by Yakima Indians
to preserve Traditional culture and
to share the Yakima tradition with
non-Indians. Above all, we want to
continue to teach our children the
Indian Way of life which should
not be forgotten.
The Tiinowit Powwow, Benefit
Concert, &. Fine Arts Show are
sponsored by Security Pacific
Bank, American Indian Heritage
Foundation, and Washington
State Dept. of Social A Health
Services.
The Committee will not be
responsible for accidents, injury,
theft or short-funded travelers. No
alcohol or drugs allowed.
The elders, adults and children
of Tiinowit all welcome you to the
Tiinowit 17th Annual Internation
al Powwow. We hope you will
enjoy your stay in the sunny
Yakima Valley.
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Nancy Yubeta digs roots during Head Start field trip April 12. Students
took their roots home with them to enjoy with their families.
Inter's Decision affirms Indian water rights
"Water holds the potential for
economic development on many
Indian reservations. It is also neces
sary for maintaining traditions,
religions and culture of the people
and the land."
Attorney and water resources
consultant from Santa Fe, New
Mexico Steven Shupe points out in
the American Waterworks Journal
(October 1986ihaf in the past the
U.S. government failed to protect
Indian water rights. Now, he ex
plains, efforts are being made by
Indians to obtain physical and
jurisdictional control over water
resources.
When reservations were set aside
little if anything was said about
water rights. A water provision
was implied, however, and was
upheld in a decision called Winters
Water quality, quantity proponents air concerns
Passion is inherent is discussions
about water. That intensity is being
fueled as both quality and quantity
of water is failing to meet the needs
of human activities.
Tension exists between the camps
of water quality and water quantity
as each struggles for control over
the finite water resource, each
believing it can better manage the
resource, and each planning its
utilization to support its own needs.
Success in society is closely tied
to water development and future
success in society will be tied to
assuring water is available for use,
and that it's quality meets stand
ards essential for human use.
Deliberation on issues surround
ing water quality and water quan
tity took place recently at Lewis
and Clark College where attorneys,
private interest groups and public
agencies met to discuss the major
differences between adherents of
water qaulity and water quantity
and the areas in which they agree
and can further come together.
Sponsored by Lewis and Clark
School of Law and Waterwatch of
Oregon, speakers discussed prob
lems, presented scenarios and en
couraged well thought-out land
planning and laws to govern water.
Water law today was developed
over a century ago. State and Fed-
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eral governments encouraged the
growth of water development. The '
"first in time, first in right" prior
appropriation doctrine governed
water use in the west and is still
protected by its adherents.
The concept of water having
other values besides watering crops
and cattle and for use in mining
gradually took hold. Instream rights
became important and in 1915
Oregon passed an instream flow
law which sheltered a stream from
diversion. Other states also recog
nized the necessity of keeping water
in the streams and passed instream
water protection laws.
Competing interests including
fisheries, industry, recreation, ag
riculture, local governments, fed
eral governments and Indian tribes
are faced with the fact that water
quality and water quantity must be
maintained if it is to be available
for use.
The Clean Water Act gives the
Environmental Protection Agency
the authority to take action regard
ing protection of water quality.
Many of the users of water con
tinue to degrade it, using it to dilute
pollutants. Irrigators add chemi
cals to it from fields. Cattlemen
allow livestock to reduce the water
resource through their grazing
practices.
Although relations between pro
ponents of water quality and water
quantity are sometimes tense, in
suring the integrity of the water
resource involves both camps. En
forcement of regulations, stronger
instream water rights, water mar
keting, larger pollution fines, in
creased groundwater standards,
water education and total watershed
management are suggested ways to
help water users protect the water
resource. Technical and man
agement capabilities are also avail
able for protection of the resource,
they only need to be utilized.
vs. U.S in 1W8.
The Winter's case revolved a
round non-Indian settlers divert
ing water from a stream that was
the water source for two tribes on
the Fort Belknap Reservation in
Montana. In 1905 a drought caused
upriver users to take water from
the "stream before it reached the
reservation. It was determined that
Indian users had prior right.
Judge Wm. H. Hunt decided
that when the reservation was set
' aside there was implicitly reserved
to the tribes enough water to meet
their, reasonable needs. Treaties
were, then, interpreted the way the
Indian nations understand the words
not according to the technical
meaning of the words. In the Win
ter's case tribes did not give up
their rights to take water when they
ceded their land.
Recent controversy regarding
water rights centers around the
"reasonable needs" of Indians. The
Winter's Doctrine cited "reasona
ble" to include irrigation, stock
watering and domestic use. Other
decisions have expanded that use
to fisheries and hydroelectric power
based on the idea that the purpose
of Indian reservations is to serve as
a homeland for the tribe's residents
and provide economic self-support.
The interpretation of the Winter's;
Doctrine would vary over time.
Water use planning by other
users in a watershed has brought
MHS teen parents plan conference
Students in the Madras High
School Teen Parent Program have
scheduled a Teen Parent Confer
ence for Saturday, May 18. The
conference will focus on the needs
of teenagers including teenage
parents.
Workshops will be held through
out the day and child care will be
provided for children under four
years of age until 3:00 p.m. At that
time a workshop is provided which
includes the children.
The registration fee for the con
ference is $5.00 per person or $8.00
per family. Pre-repstration is en
couraged. Registration in advance
is required for community members
and teenagers requiring childcare.
Registration the day of the confer
ence begins at 8:45 a.m. and work
shops begin at 9:00 a.m.
For more information contact
Teen Parent Program coordinator
Lisbet Hornung at 475-7265.
Queahpama surpasses record
It has been awhile since weVe
heard much about Cal Queahpama,
"hotrodder extraordinaire." He
continues to beat the clock, putting
the peddle to the metal, this time
setting a new National Hot Rod
Association national record.
Queahpama, on April 1 3 in Boise,
Idaho, raced is 1966 Chevrolet
Caprice the one-quarter mile in
1 3.4 1 seconds, beating the previous
national record of 13.89 seconds.
His estimated speed was98.6 MPH.
The new record will be recognized
throughout the U.S. and Canada
as being the fastest in the nation.
The Queahpama family continues
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Indian water uses to court. In
Arizona vs. California the court
felt that the amount of water allo
cated to tribes should be fixed
based on technological and eco
nomic conditions in order to en
hance planning and investment
decisions.
Following this decision lawsuits
demanding quantification of water
were initiated. Water fluctuations
and changes in the number of
water users over time had to be
considered in this theoretical plan.
Hypothetical irrigation plans had
to be drawn. Groundwater ques
tions had to be considered.
During the Carter administra
tion a ten-year plan was installed to
negotiate water rights with tribes.
Each state was encouraged to
negotiate with tribes residing within
its boundaries.
On January 15, 1975 Interior
Secretary Roger Morten established
a moratorium on ordinances and
codes by tribes including water
codes, until guidelines for adop
tiOii1 of snch codes were formu
lated. The question of non-Indian
allotment owners' use of reserva
tion waters was answered when in
1981 it was decided that tribes
could not prevent current users
from using tribe's reserved water
until the tribe is prepared to make
beneficial use of such reserved
water.
Tribes have responded in var
ious ways to this moratorium, some
by ignoring it and enforcing water
codes without secretarial approval
while other tribes are in various
stages of the process of formulat
ing water codes. Some tribes such
as the Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs initiated water codes prior
to the effective date of the morato
rium and therefore are able to
manage their own water.
Many tribes, according to Shupe
"have made a committment to com
prehensive water management and
policies." He feels, "The morato
rium on water codes should be
reexamined and cooperation be
tween state and tribal agencies
encouraged."