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P.O. BOX 870, WARM SPRINGS, OR 97761
SEPTEMBER 30, 1994
Coyote News
In Brief
Adeline retires
Starting her tribal
career 25 years ago as
a trainer at Tektronix,
Adeline Miller retired
with great fanfare at
the Agency
Longhouse.
Page 2
Policy changes
The IHS pharmacy will
change its policy
concerning the
dispensing of over the
counter medications.
Page 2
Annual art show set
The seventh annual
Arts and Crafts Show
will be held October 15
at the Warm Springs
Community Center
Page 2
Meet the firefighters
Three WarmSprings .
Fire and Safety
personnel explain their
commitment and
I desire to help those in
need.
Page 3
Culpus highlighted
Bridget! Culpus has
been attending
accounting classes
over the past couple of
years and has made
quite a name for
herself.
Page 5
Buffs win first league
game
The Madras White
Buffaloes created
quite a stir at the Buff
stadium with a big win
over Portland
Christian.
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4-H plans new clubs
for fall
The 4-H program has
planned new clubs for
this fall. Enroll the kids
and watch 'em growl
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Spilyay has some
COOL looking caps for
sale. The red, white and
blue caps feature
embroidered lettering
and a handsome
spilyay. These top
quality caps are Just
$10 each. Visit the
office and pick up
yours today!
Village Retail Center welcomes new business
One can't help but notice
the activity alongside US
Highway 26 near Walsey
Lane. Construction is ad
vancing on the Village Re
tail Center, due for comple
tion sometime in Novem
ber.
The Center, designed by
JKS, a Portland architectural
firm, is taking an unusual
and strong shape. Materi
als used in the structure will
be similar to those used in
the Museum. The Center
will "compliment", the
Museum, said Dona.
The new facility will in
clude a 3500 square foot
restaurant and five retail
shops. According to Small
Business Center manager
Dave Dona, the tribe is cur
rently in the process of
working with a tribal
member for the restaurant
space." Dona also stated
that retail tenants will be
"screened bv a selection
committee." He added that
20 individuals applied for
the five vacancies. Rental
rates will be "attractive to
business people," Dona
added.
In addition to the restau
rant and five retail shops,
the Center will feature a hall-
service ATM machine by
which customers will be
able to conduct basic bank
ing such as deposits and
withdrawals. This will be
me first time in history there
will be banking services on
the reservation.
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The Village Retail Center, under construction since this summer, is scheduled to open sometime in November. A restaurant and five retail shops will occupy
the facility at first, with additional shops and a gas station-mini-market combo possibly added next year.
of the facility is in two parts
part A, costmgnearly $1 mil
lion, is under construction
now, while part B, possibly
being built next year, will
include additional retail
space and a gas stationmini
market. An informational meeting
will be held Monday, Octo
ber 3 for those interested in
obtaining retail space at the
center. The meeting will ad
dress the tenant selection
process, lease rates and ten
ant responsibilities. The
meeting will begin at 5:30
p.m. at the Small Business
Center at 2107 Wasco Street.
Dona explained that pro
spective tenant must meet
three criteria
Individuals must have
demonstrated business suc
cess or have a feasible, work
ablebusinessplan. "Wewant
them to succeed," Dona
stated. The prospective
business must make sense,
be tourist-related and "fit"
with the retail theme. Finally,
tenants must be good am
bassadors for the Tribe.
For further information
about the new retail center,
call the Small business Cen
ter at 553-3593.
Ancestral remains to be returned to tribes
Celebrate Billy Chinook
The Lake Billy Chinook Day 30th anniversary celebration
will be held Saturday, October 8, 1994 at the Cove
Palisades State Park in Culver.
Opening ceremonies will start the day at 9 a.m.
Lake Clean-up will begin at 10 a.m.
Special events will include:
Lake and Beach Clean-up
Interpretive and Historical Programs
Cultural and Scenic Displays
Sponsor Booths
Food Concessions
; Sponsoring organizations are: Oregon Parks and Recreation Department,
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, US Forest ServiceNational
Grasslands, Bureau of Land Management, Jefferson County Sheriff's
Department, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon State
Marine Board, Portland General Electric, SeaSwirl, Madras Sanitation,
SOLV, Les Schwab, Madras Rotary Club and Boy Scouts of America
The National Museum of Natural
History (NMNH) intends to repatri
ate the human remains and associ
ated funerary objects in their collec
tions from Upper and Lower
Memaloose Islands and four other
collection sites in the middle Co
lumbia region to the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs and the
Yakama Nation. The tribes accept
joint responsibility for the
deaccession and disposition of these
collections, which are to be tempo
rarily housed at an Army Corps fa
cility on the Columbia River upon
removal from the Smithsonian. The
return of the these remains and arti
facts is scheduled to occur in No
vember or December of this year.
The remains and objects from
Lower Memaloose Island were ex
cavated by Herbert Krieger of the US
National Museum in 1934 in advance
of Bonneville Dam construction. The
collection from this island consists
of the partial remains of 123 indi
viduals (52 catalogue numbers), and
a variety of artifacts of both Euro
pean and native manufacture inter
preted as associated funerary objects
on the basis of origin (164 catalogue
numbers). The remains from Upper
Memaloose Island, comprising 14
crania, were obtained by the Fred
Harvey Company and sold to the
Smithsonian in 1903.
The remains from both Upper and
Lower Memaloose Islands were re
covered from mixed, multiple burial
contexts suggesting their original
interment in enamel houses. All 29
crania from Lower Memaloose ex
hibit some form of modification in
volving anterior and posterior flat
tening of the skull, while nine of the
14 crania from Upper Memaloose
were intentionally re-shaped. The
majority of the evidence suggests
that the remains from Lower
Memaloose are culturally affiliated
with the White Salmon, Wishram, or
Wasco bands of the Upper Chinookan
peoples, while those from Upper
Memaloose were most likely affili
ated with Wishram, Wasco or Tenino.
The three sets of remains from the
October 11, 1994
A 14 week course,
once a week
6 p.m. to 9 p.m. for the
independent, self
employed, owneroperator &
entrepreneur
If interested, contact the
Small Business Center
at 553-3593 or
stop in at 21 07 Wasco
Street.
Tribes voluntarily close commercial season
Officials of the four Columbia
River treaty tribes decided Septem
ber IS not to extend their commer
cial fishing season in Zone 6 of the
Columbia River. The impetus for the
decision was a September 8-10 tribal
fishery that caught more than twice
the projected catch of Chinook. In
that fishery, tribal members caught
more of the Endangered Species
act-listed Snake River fall Chinook
than biologists had expected.
Under an arrangement worked out
during federal court proceedings in
August, the tribes' commercial fish
ery was allowed to go forward as
long as the take of wild Snake River
fall Chinook did not exceed 48
spawner equivalents (the number of
fish that are expected to pass Lower
Granite Dam). After the end of two
fishing periods an August 29 to
September 3 season and the Sep
tember 8 to 10 season the harvest
of wild Snake River fall Chinook
totaled 43 spawners.
Having caught most of the allot
ted Snake River fish earlier than ex
pected, the tribes voluntarily closed
their commercial season, thus al
lowing subsistence and ceremonial
fishing to continue until the
48-spawner Quota is reached.
So far, the tribal Zone 6 harvest is
estimated at 27, 1 90 fall Chinook and
7,720 steelhead. The tribes had pro
jected that member wouldcatch about
32,500 fall Chinook before reaching
the limit on wild Snake River fall
Chinook.
The tribal fishery in Zone 6, a
140-mile stretch of nver between
Bonneville and McNary dams, is
aimed at fall Chinook stocks other
than those returning to the Snake
River. Of an estimated 160,000
opriver fall Chinook entering the
Columbia River this year, only about
800 were of Snake River wild originJ
Cascades were collected in 1 849 by a
member of a US military expedition
and donated to the Smithsonian in
1 86 1 . The accession records identify
two of the individuals as Watlala and
the other as Klickitat Another cra
nium was reportedly recovered from
"Dead Island" in the Columbia River
by a member of the Wilkes Expedi
tion in 1841. The preponderance of
the evidence suggests cultural affili
ation with an Upper Chinookan
group. The single cranium recovered
in the vicinity of The Dalles was
collected in 1 878 by a member of the
Wheeler Expedition and accessioned
into the museum the following year.
The available evidence is not con
clusive and it is equally possible that
this individual was affiliated with a
local Sahaptin group or a Shoshonean
group from further south. The final
set of remains are those of an adult
male exhibiting a bullet wound to the
head recovered in the Prineville Res
ervoir by the River Basin Survey in
1948. The preponderance of the
evidence indicates cultural affilia
tion with on of the Upper Chinookan
tribes.
Human remains and funerary ob
jects are offered for return under the
National Museum of the American
Indian Act, 20 USC Section 801
(Public Law 101-185). Notification
of the findings of the NMNH Repa
triation Office with regard to this
collection of human remains was sent
to all potentially affected tribes ion
Washing and Oregon in September
1993. Representatives of any other
Native American groups wishing to
express an interest in these remains
should contact Dr. TamaraL. Bray at :
the Repatriation Office of the Na
tional Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution, 10th and
Constitution Ave, Washington, DC
20560; telephone (202) 357-2257,
before October 28, 1994.