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2 May 25, 1995 Warm Springs, Oregon Spilyay Tymoo , ' Construction of the Indian Head Vnid-September. State adopts : The Senate earlier this week passed the Family Responsibility Act Welfare Reform by a margin of 20 to 10. The floor debate was led by Senate Health and Human Ser vices Committee Chairman Stan Bunn, author of the legislation. The Act (SB 1117) creates new statutes increasing incentives for parents receiving Aid to Dependent Children to complete their high School education, acquire skills heeded to enter the work force, pro Vide incentives for the public sector to create job opportunities, and to acknowledge paternity and the need to pay child support. . "The goal of SB 11 17 is to reduce (he number of children in Oregon who live in poverty. Ask anyone on welfare Are they satisfied with their life? Most recipients do not want to raise their children on welfare. They, like you or I, want their children to learn a sense of self-pride and inde pendence," stated Bunn. "This can't be done if the child is the second or third welfare generation of that fam ily." Parents unwilling to participate in self-sufficiency programs and ac tively seek work will not receive the full amount of benefits available and possible find their grant canceled. ; "This is tough love," stated Bunn. !'What people need from welfare is not a handout, but a helping hand." :" Efforts similar to Bunn's are proving to be successful throughout Preston Tom to .' Nine-year-old Preston Tom will appear in the second issue of Indian Artist-The magazine of Contemporary Native American Art, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Author Natalie Brown, who Interviewed Preston on May 23, said they are doing a feature on Native youth artists doing art passed down I from generation to generation. The f next issue of Indian Artist will be printed in late July or early August. ; Preston is the son ot Rosie Tom, ( and they are members of the Paiute Inaugural Dinner and Powwow to honor the 20th Warm Springs Tribal Council Friday, June 2 Dinner 6 p.m. Powwow Grand Entry 8 p.m. Agency Longhouse SpUyay Tmoo Publisher: Sid Miller Editor: Donna Behrend ReporterPhotographer: Saphronia Katchia ReporterPhotographer: Selena T.Boise ReporterPhotographer: Bob Medina Secretary: TinaAguilar Founded in March 1976 Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located in the basement of the Old Girl's Dorm at 1 1 15 Wasco Street. Any written materials to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: SpUyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761 (503) 553-1644 or 553-3274 - FAX No. 553-3539 Annual Subscription Rates: Within U.S. - $9.00 Outside U.S. - $15.00 Spilyay Tymoo 1995 .H ' - -v -. .,..' Gaming Center foundation began last welfare reform the country. One example is the 1992 Michigan Reform Plan that has closed nearly 50,000 cases in Michigan due to income from employment the lowest level since 1988. The objective of the Reform Plan is to help welfare recipients commit to becoming productive members of society in return for their benefits, Symphony performs Continued from page 1 The symphony has received much of its acclaim since 1 980, when James DePreist was appointed Music Di rector and Conductor. DePreist' s leadership resulted in a new level of concert activity, a national reputa tion of quality and even greater ser vice in the areas of education and outreach. Sidlin joined the Symphony in 1994, adding his national reputa tion as a great educator and "com municator" of classical music to the conducting staff. Under DePreist's leadership, the Symphony's audience has grown to more than 300,000 people annually. Before this vast audience, DePreist and the Oregon Symphony have championed he music of composers of our time and our nation. It has an active program both of commission ing new works and of presenting performances of works which have dropped out of the active repertoire appear in national magazine tribe. Tom's rawhide art received an Honorable Mention in the Tribal Member Art Show, now in the Changing Arts Gallery at The Museum At Warm Springs. Tom enjoys working with rawhide, making dream catchers, feather work, and drawing horses and bullriders. He is also a traditional dancer, he competes in powwows, just for fun. Most of all, he enjoys riding his horse, "Buck." He also enjoys participating in children's rodeos. 4. V,, week. Expected completion date is encouraging employment and in creasing personal responsibility. "Efficient, yet compassionate re form help the parents of today's wel fare child become a productive, contributing member of society teaching the child that it is more profitable to work than just survive on welfare," concluded Bunn. since thier initial performances. The orchestra will celebrate its Centen nial during the 1995-96 season. Sidlin will lead the 83-member orchestra while they perform pieces by Dvork, Smetana, Beethoven, Bernstein and Tchaikovsky. Sidlin stated that he will not just conduct the orchestra but explain the piecesbefore they are performed. By explaining the pieces, communica tion barriers will be broken down. "Some people are afraid of classical music," said Sidlin. "They are in timidated by it... it doesn't have to be that way." The performance at the Warm Springs Community Center on Sun day, June 4th is scheduled to begin at , 10 a.m. The concert is free to the ' public, however donations will bef accepted. For a unique musical expe-:, rience, you are encouraged to join in this educational event. Preston's artistry was handed down from his great-grandmother Maggie We wa, who did beaded eagle , bags, beaded moccasins, using only smoked buckskin ; his grandpa Elmer Tom, who hand engraved bridles, . spurs, bracelets, in silver and aluminum. Preston's Grandma, the late Christine Tom, did beaded bags, ' dresses and various beadwork. His mother Rosie has been doing beadwork, sally bags, baskets (Paiute), crochetting and contemporary sewing. Her favorites are beadwork and sewing. ; Tallcit With in. Todat Art nbout f i Contraceptive Clinic offered Effective June 1, 1995 a weekly Contraceptive Counseling Clinic will be held at the Health & Wellness Center in the Public Health Nursing Department. It will be by appoint ment only, every Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m. Counseling will be offered for all typed of birth control, including Depo Provera. After June 1, 1995 patients will no longer be seen for contraceptive counseling without an appointment. This will reduce waiting time and improve service. Please call Beth Grout, MCH Secretary at 553-1657 for an appointment. Correction made Correction: There was an error in the last issue of Spilyay Tymoo. In the new retail center the restaurant name will be "Indian Trail Restaurant and Drive Thru," not Indian Head Trail Restaurant and Drive Thru. Owner is Richard Macy. SB Lyle Point, violation of On Thursday, April 27, 1995, Native fishing on the Columbia River was stopped by the Yakama Nation. Anthony Wesley had pulled and tied his new hoop net to the fishing scaf folding by the mile 57 marker at Ly le point. May 3, 1 995, three ceremonial fishing scaffolding and a curing shed were found to have been vandalized by unknown persons. One scaffold ing had been completely thrown in the Columbia River. Another was attempted to have been thrown in the river had the supports broken and the rocks balancing it had been thrown in. The third of the scoffolding had the hoop and support rocks thrown in, the ropes cut, and the support beam for the hoop broken. This is the second vandalism to this scaffold ing. A month earlier this scaffolding had the ropes cut to the hoop net less than 24 hours after it was placed in the water for ceremonial fishing. Both incidents of vandalism were reported to the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Enforcement. No investigation has happened as of this release. The University of Oregon has an antenna to count fish on the point, but the vandals left it alone. Lyle Point is located 70 miles east of Portland, OR and 90 miles south of the Yakama Nation in Lyle, WA in the Columbia River Gorge. Lyle Point is a treaty guaranteed "usual and accustomed" fishing site reserved by the Yakama Nation in the Treaty of 1 855. This international treaty was signed by the Confederated Bands of the Yakama Nation with the United States as equal negotiating partners. V -0" i -tT . I 1 : 'mm y' ii -' - pj 1 1 .! Miss Warm Springs, Agnes Wolfe, visited with Miss Indian USA during conference that drew together the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities at the Portland Convention Center May 17. Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty Days Past was Seventy-six-year-old Taylor A. Arthur was born March 16, 1919 in Simnasho, Oregon to McKinley and Jesse Arthur. His grandfather was Nez Perce Indian Chester Arthur. His grandmother was Katherine Arthur, of Nespelem. Taylor's mother was a housewife and his father worked in forestry, and the shipyards in Portland before becoming a rancher. He is the eldest of his three brothers and six sisters. Elizabeth Arthur Bobb preceded him in death August 30, 1 964, Cora Arthur Scott died August 14, 1974, Geraldine Margie Arthur passed away March 2 1 , 1950, Clifford Ray Arthur died July 7, 1970, Larry Orval Arthur died June 19, 1993, Tracy Arthur passed away October 3, 1990, Mayme Dorlain Arthur died shortly after birth June 11, 1939, Imogene Arthur Frank passed away August 12, 1963,andArleneTenorio died October 13, 1992. Taylor went to boarding school in Warm Springs prior to attending Chemawa Indian School in 1934. He was fifteen. He was involved in wrestling and tennis. He graduated in 1939. He came back home and went to work. He was a dairyman, for $60 a month. He also worked in Salem for "cheap wages" picking cherries for 35 cents an hour. He worked construction on highways for awhile before being laid-off in 1940. In 1941 he started working for Boeing Air Craft as a riveter. He enjoyed fishing the dam in Estacada with his grandfather back in 1927. His parents were members of the Shaker religion which he is now. He was in the Army for a short time while he worked for Boeing. While in Fort Lewis he was told his eyes weren't too good. In 1949 he worked at Dahl Pine as a lumber treatv A feeding and roosting place for bald eagles, the Lyle Point is also the sacred burial site of an indigenous village that was wiped out by a dis ease brought by the "white" immi grants in the 1800's. Sally Slockish Buck (Cascade-Klickitat tribe) states in a sworn statement to the court: "Based on my elders knowledge of the Klickitat and Cascade people and them passing the knowledge down to rnc.I know my people are buried herc.They are here on all of this point.This land is sacred. ..One thing that was told to us by our elders was never to reveal where our ancestors are buried because of grave robbers." This land was ceded to the United States in the Treaty of 1 855, but the Yakama reserve the "right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places,. ..and of erecting temporary buildings for curing". The railroad was the first to claim ownership of the point and eventually sold it to a real estate company. Ultimately the land was sold to Columbia Gorge Limited which decided to develop the land into "Klickitat Landing" "A private waterfront" "Windsurfing Community" without telling the per spective owners of the reserved treaty right of the aboriginal people to cross private land to fish on scaffolding and erect temporary curing shacks. In the US vs. Winans Supreme Court case in 1905 this reserved right was upheld as Mr. Justice White notes that the Yakama reserved the right in the land "the right of crossing it to the river-the right to occupy it to the extent and for the purpose men- i 0 good for Arthur grader until in burned down. He then went to work at the Madras Mill until it burned down. He lived with Bessie McKinley for ten years. They were married three years; January 4, 1960 until May 23, 1963. He has one son. He adopted Montee Arthur McKinley, according to Vital Statistics records. He retired in 1966. A few years ago he went to a rodeo in y .r- 7 - 1 1 -rV ' '' 1 X "V Taylor Arthur makes his home in rights ioned." This most recent violation of treaty rights began when members of the Yakama Nation were denied access to their fishing scaffolds due tot he installation of a stone wall and gate, roads, fences and utilities. During that time, as well, one of the fishing scaffolds at Lyle Point was pushed in the river. A new scaffold was built and a Yakama Nation Treaty Rights Spiritual and Cultural Encampment was erected to protect the scaffolds. A sacred perpetual fire was lit Sep tember 27, 1993 by tribal elders dur ing a ceremony that took place on the point. The Yakama Nation subse quently filed suit against Columbia Gorge Limited, and a pre-trial agree ment halted further development on the point until a scheduled March 1993, Federal trial. The case late was postponed until November 1995. In early August unknown vandals burned the encampment tipi's, a sweatlodgc, Longhouse, blankets, cooking equipment and extinguished the perpetual fire. On August 27, 28, 1994, a group of supporters were invited to take part in ceremonies and the relighting of the perpetual fire that had been burning foreight months on the Point by ciders of the Yakama Nation. They were met by Henry Spencer-the owner and developer of Klickitat Landing-his attorney, Klickitat County Sheriff James Gleason and Deputies. Wasco County and Hood River County Deputies, Washington State Patrol, Yakama Nation Police, Columbia River Inter Tribal Enforcement and a local SWAT team. In the two days of con frontation, members of the Yakama Nation were allowed to cross onto Spencer's property, but 24 non-treaty non-violent people were arrested for criminal trespass. In a pre-trail agree ment, all charges would be dropped if the arrests would agree to stay away from Lyle Point for six months. "This is the first time I've ever hear that law enforcement is segregating the Na tive people, saying that people can't gather in worship services to pray." "This is racial discrimination. What this boils down to is divide and con quer, right? They want to separate us from our people," said hereditary ; CascadeKlickitat Chief Johnny Jack son. Since the arrests the gate at the entrance to Klickitat Landing has re mained locked denying access to the indigenous fishing community's scaf folds. "This river is our way of life, without it we don't exist. Denying us access to the river is a termination of our people," says Margaret Saluskin, an enrolled Yakama Nation member. ' "We don't play with the water here, it is sacred to us." Over 500 years of genocide against the aboriginal population continues here at Lyle Point, WA. For more information, please con tact the Lyle Point Support Group at (509) 365-5 1 77 or Margaret Saluskin at (509) 263-2287 or write to the Lyle Support Group, PO Box 536, Lyle, WA 98635 T June 23-25 Recreation area behind Community Center Warm Springs Indian Reservation Albuquerque, New Mexico with the Senior Citizen program which he very much enjoyed. When asked about his feelings of the past, compared to now, he commented, "I think I had a pretty good past now it's not too good." He has strong feelings about the casino, "I know something is gonna go wrong with it later, not right now, but later on." v7.v f'tlj - :- - f . I -' - Miller Heights. He is now 76.