2 May 25, 1995
Warm Springs, Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
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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
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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
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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.
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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. ;
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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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."
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