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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.
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Women's Wellness
conference set
The schedule for the
three-day second annual
conference features local
presenters.
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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.
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Seniors encourage
positive attitudes
Two local high school
seniors say that "making
the best" of school
guarantees success.
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Operation Check and
Change scheduled
Public Safety branch
members will facilitate the
local version of the
National Fire Safety Drill
October 24.
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Heating bills can be
reduced
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service your rumace
regularly to realize savings
of up to 20 percent on
heating bills.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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