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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1992)
350 VOL. 17 NO. 21 Coyote News In Brief Project Oneenhances community The Warm Springs community will benefit In more than one way with the development of Park Project One. Page 2 Women's Wellness conference set The schedule for the three-day second annual conference features local presenters. Page 2 Negotiations ensure water rights The Confederated Tribes are currently In the process of negotiating tribal water rights with the State of Oregon. A background of the process oners insight into the 10 plus years of work. Page 3 Seniors encourage positive attitudes Two local high school seniors say that "making the best" of school guarantees success. Page5 Operation Check and Change scheduled Public Safety branch members will facilitate the local version of the National Fire Safety Drill October 24. Page 6 Heating bills can be reduced . ..... service your rumace regularly to realize savings of up to 20 percent on heating bills. Page 7 The deadline for the next issue of Spflyay Tymoo Is October 23. All three districts will discuss the 1993 tribal operating budget during meetings planned for Thursday, October 22. Agency and Simnasho districts will meet at their respective longhouses. Seekseequa District will meet at the Community Center. Dinner at 6 p.m. Meeting at 7 p.m. -J g ( - A ' I Eliza Butterfly takes first steps in learning proper Indian way to tan hides. particular skill to participants in the Confederated Tribes seek to fill board, committee The following boardscommittees are in need of members. Contact Doris J. Miller, Tribal Council Secretary, at the Tribal Council Office, P.O. Box 1299, Warm Springs, OR 97761 to submit your letter of interest and resume. Deadline for applications is Friday, October 30, 1992. Education Committee Student Representative; one vacancy. Appli cant must be a higher education stu dent. The Education Committee serves as an advisory board to the Tribal Council in the development of edu cational programs and opportunities for tribal members. The committee will operate under the supervision of the Tribal Council which has del Membership policies to be discussed The Warm Springs Tribal Coun cil has requested that Vital Statistics conduct a survey to initiate tribal member input on enrollments and adoptions. House meetings will be arranged for interested members. So far, Ruby Torres Underwood, Jeanne Thomas and Irene Wells have volunteered to hold meetings in their homes. Meet ings will continue, at request, until March 31, 1993. Meetings are to be scheduled by vital statistics. Meetings should be scheduled between Mon day and Thursday, with one meeting, lasting no more than four hours, held per week. Questionnaires will be distributed. At the beginning of April, all questionnaires will be given to Tribal Council to help them make a decision regarding possible changes to the current enrollment policies. If interested in filling out ques tionnaires only, contact the Vital Statistics office. Questions on the questionnaire include: Were you aware that "residency" has been a part of automatic enroll Soilvav Tvmco News from the Warm i Culture Camp held October 24 atHelle. egated the specific authority. In the exercise of advisory and authority functions, the committee shall co operate with other Council commit tees and management personnel. Kah-Nee-Ta Board of Direc tors Two Class I vacancies. Class I consists of three members, two of whom shall be members of the Tribe, and one of whom shall be a non member. Vacancies are one tribal member and one non-tribal member. Terms expire July 31 or until suc cessors are appointed and take office. The purpose and objective of the Resort are: 1 . To secure an optimum economic return. 2. To provide the Tribes and its ments since the Tribal Constitution and By-Laws were ratified in 1938?" What would be your interpretation of the term "maintains a residence"? At a general council meeting on January 24, 1991, it was proposed to the membership that residency be eliminated from our enrollment policy. According to our files, the elimination of the residency policy could possibly make about 400 people eligible for automatic enrollment, and more, because many of the applicants in our files have brothers and sisters. Are the enrollment guidelines, suggested at an enrollment work shop with Tribal Council, clear or unclear. Please explain. Would you consider the Ceded Area as "residing" on the reserva tion? The Ceded area runs from be low Hood River along the Columbia River to above Arlington at the mouth of Willow Creek, and would include Bend, Prineville, Redmond, Madras, Culver and Terrebonne. Or, alternative to our present Continued on page 2 P.O. Bo S70 Warm Springs, OR 97761 Address Correction Requested Springs Indian Reservatior tcCc V v V J ) ' " ' X I ": f !- .. t f - ,V m :f It Lucinda Green was one of mans Warm Springs tribal members who taught their Camp was sponsored by the Warm Springs Culture and Heritage Committee. enrolled membership with training and employment opportunities. 3. To provide a quality facility of which the Tribe can be proud. 1 he Board of Directors consist of seven Directors. The members of the Board shall be divided into three classes, designated Class I, Class II and Class III. Water Board One tribal mem ber position. Position will serve three year term. The water board consists of three members to be appointed by Tribal Council. Each position will serve three year terms. Primary function of the commit tee will be to review all matters pertaining to the water resource to make recommendations to the Tribal Council in regards to making the water management plan f unction and to propose changes or improvements in water policy and the plan. Water board will be concerned with all activities occurring in the watershed areas on the reservation. Before an activity is initiated, all plans will be submitted to the board for their recommendations to the Tribal Council to ensure that neither water quality or quantity is impaired. Warm Springs Forest Products Industries Board Seven vacan cies. The WSFPI Board shall consist of seven directors. The number of directors of said Enterprise may be increased or decreased from time to time by amendment to the WSFPI Plan of Operation. No decrease in number of directors shall have the effect of shortening the term of of fice of any incumbent director. Class I shall consist of one indi vidual who shall be either a member of the Tribe or a non-member of the tribe who is interested in the economic and social development of the tribe and its membership and who pos sesses expertise in forestry, forest Eroducts, manufacturing, finance, anking or some other field which would benefit WSFPI. The Class I director shall have an initial term in .'- LlaJ office expiring December 31, 1993 or until a successor is appointed and takes office. Class II shall consist of two indi viduals, one of whom shall be a membcrof the Tribe and one of whom shall be a non-member of the Tribe. Class II directors shall have an initial term in office expiring December 3 1 , 1994, or until their successors are appointed and take office. Class III shall consist of two in dividuals, one of whom shall be a member of the Tribe and one of whom shall be a non-member of the Tribe. Class III directors shall have an ini tial term in office expiring Decem- Council hires new mill manager Warm Springs Forest Products Industries, as of October 5, 1992, is under the leadership of a new general manager. Rick Saunders was hired in late September as the mill's newest manager, assuming the responsibili ties of consultantand acting manager Clyde Hamstrcet. Saunders notes vast experience in mill management, having worked as general manager and assistant man ager at various mills in southwestern Oregon. He most recently worked as general manager of Central Point Lumber Company, where he man aged a high volume computerized sawmill with 124 employees. The Central Point mill produces nearly 100 million board feet of lumber a year. He was responsible for log purchases and sales, lumber produc tion and lumber and by-product sales. Between 1985and 1989,Saunders was general manager of Gold Beach Plywood. He managed the veneer and plywood plants which produced 1 1 million board feet of 38 plywood per month and employed over 300 people. He supervised timber pur chases, mill production, and plywood and by-product sales. For over four years, Saunders was assistant general manager of South lLS.PtKUge Bulk Rau Permit No, 2 Warn Springs, OR 97741 OCTOBER 16, 1992 Sahaptin, Paiute classes scheduled The Culture and Heritage Depart ment will be starting its Warm Springs and Paiute language classes during the week of October 27. (Wasco classes are being de veloped as well.) Classes will be held at the department's new home in the Old Boy's Dorm. New students as well as those who took the language classes during the summer are welcome to partici pate. 'The mix of beginning and not-quite-beginning learners will help everybody," says tribal linguist Hank n:nn..:. ....... learning group where the people who started in the summer will help those just beginning now and reinforce their own learning in the process. Two Sahaptin classes will meet, one during lunch hour and the other two evenings a week. Paiute will be taught in evening classes. For infor mation on the precise schedule con tact the department at 553-3290 or listen to KWSO FM 91.9 for an nouncement. Fisheries set Tribal Council has authorized chinook salmon fisheries at Sherars Falls for October. Resolution No. 8526 signed October 14 authorizes fisheries to include: October 15: 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. October 23: 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. October 30: 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. October 31: 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The total catch of summerfall chinook in the fishing periods, when combined with the 21 summerfall chinook already harvested in the Huckleberry Feast fishery earlier this year, shall not exceed 49 summer fall chinook. The resolution states that if the fish cap is reached prior to the end of the fishing periods, then all fishing shall cease. vacancies ber31, 1995,oruntil their successors are appointed and take office. Class IV shall consist of two indi viduals, one of whom shall be a memberoftheTribeandoneofwhom shall be a non-member of the Tribe. Class IV directors shall have an ini tial term of office expiring December 3 1 , 1 996, or until their successors arc appointed and take office. After the expiration of the initial term of Class I, Class II, Class II and Class IV directors, the terms of office of each said class shall be three years from the expiration date of each class as set forth, or until their successors are appointed and take office. Coast Lumber Company, a cutting mill in Brookings which produced 60 million board feet of lumber a year. For two years, he worked as the assistant superintendent of themill's plywood division. He conducted log tests, feasibility studies, budgeting and forecasting for both operations at the Brookings enterprise. Between October 1976 and March 1981, Saunders was veneer sales manager and corporate pilot for Fourply, Incorporated in Grants Pass. He handled veneer sales and produc tion scheduling for two veneer plants and he was responsible for credit checks, collection and truck dis patching and flew and maintained the corporation's aircraft. Saunders gained his flying expe rience during a four-and-one-half year stint with the U.S. Air Force. He was a "typhoon chaser" which re quired him to fly four-engine prop planes into typhoons so the Air Force could track the path of severe storms a chore now completed by an extensive satellite system. Saunders graduated from South em Oregon State College in 1972 with a BS degree in business admin Continued on page 2