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Coyote News
In Brief
How to keep your
home fire-safe
Warm Springs Fire
Management offers
information on how to
keep your home safe
from wild fires.
Youth attend
conference
The tribal Work
Experience program
sponsored the annual
youth conference at the
Community Center.
Weekend activities
keep Warm Springs
hopping
A page of photos shows
the many events that
were part of Pi-Ume-Sha
weekend.
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Old fashioned Fourth
enjoyed by
community
Games, good weather,
food and plenty of fun
were on tap for the
Fourth of July
celebration.
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Sports o' plenty
featured
If one is a sports
enthusiast, Warm
Springs was THE place
to be over Pi-Ume-Sha
weekend. Results are
noted.
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Cultures shared at
lab
Warm Springs residents
traveled to Washington
state to participate in the
annual Chatco Lab to
learn of cultural
differences.
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Lunch program
offered
Who says there's no
such thing as a free
lunch? Warm Springs
youth under 18 years of
age (no parents, please)
are eligible for lunch and
snack five days a week
until August 11.
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Family Jamboree
planned
Mark your calendar for
Saturday, July 15 as
Community
Health
Promotion
plans a fun-packed
day for kids and
parents alike.
Deadline for the next
Spilyay Tymoo is
Friday, July 14, 1995
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Youth focus of annual Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty Days celebration
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The joy of dancing and celebration was evident in the
26th annual Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty Days Celebration.
River tribes
present
testimony to
feds
Leaders of the Warm Springs,
Yakama, Umatilla and Nez Perce
tribes unveiled their plan for Co
lumbia Basin salmon restoration
during a recent trip to Washington,
D.C. During three days of meetings
beginning June 20, tribal leaders
briefed White House and Interior
Department officials and Congres
sional staffers on the plan.
The tribes have also presented
their plan, "Wy-Kan-Ush-Me Wa-Kish-Wit",
meaning Spirit of the
Salmon, to the Northwest Power
Planning Council and to members of
the Save Our Wild Salmon coalition.
The tribes made their presentation to
the coalition, which is made up of 40
environmental and fishing organiza
tions during the coalition's annual
meeting which was held at Kah-Nee-TaJune
16-18.
During their Washington, D.C.
trip, representatives of the four tribes
urged the adoption of a single plan
for Columbia Basin salmon restora
tion and emphasized that their plan is
the best and most practical.
"Reasonableness is included in
our plan," said Ted Strong, executive
director of Columbia River Inter
Tribal Fish Commission. "Our hope
is that the actions recommended here
will be taken immediately so that the
region can avoid the need to stop
hydroelectric and other river uses
during the annual five months of
juvenile salmon migration."
The tnbal plan calls for additional
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limits to land-disturbing activities
according to water quality and stream
channel guidelines; an end to the
trucking and barging of juvenile
salmon in the mainstem Snake and
Columbia rivers; improved in-river
migrating conditions through more
spill and increased water flows;
structural modifications to dams,
including drawdowns; restrictions on
ocean harvests based on chinook
abundance rather than on quotas ; and,
the use of artificial propagation to
rebuild badly damaged salmon
populations and to reintroduce spe
cies where they were found histori
cally. Nelson Wallulatum, Wasco chief,
told Congressional representatives
and federal officials, "The time has
come for the tribes to exert greater
management influence over the
salmon." The tribes, as sovereign
governments, share co-management
responsibilities with the other sov
ereigns, the states and the U.S. gov
ernment. Chairman of the Umatilla Fish
and Wildlife committee Alphonse
Halfmoon noted, "Instead of co
management, unilateral decisions are
made by the federal government
by the very agencies that are re
sponsible for managing these salmon
to the brink of extinction."
Yakama tribal leader Lonnie
Selam told officials that in the tribes'
restoration plan, the tribes use a
common sense approach: Put the fish
back in the rivers, where they belong,
and take care of the rivers where fish
live.
"For far too long, in economic
social and spiritual terms, the tribes
have borne the costs imposed by the
region's failure to protect and restore
the fish," said Sam Penney, chairman
of the Nez Perce Tribe. "This is not
what we bargained for in the treaties."
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faces of two young powwow participants at the Staying close
the heat, and
Project to improve reservation huckleberry production
Huckleberries are becoming
harder and harder to find. Tribal
member gatherers often must
travel many miles to off-reservation
sites to harvest berries
and, more often than not, they
must compete with non-member
pickers. Enhancing and re
habilitating reservation huckle
berry sites and increasing the
number of berry patches would
help eliminate some of the hard
ships on local individuals. That
is exactly what Marcia Macy
Flynn and her brother Vinson,
AKA Huckleberry Flynn Ser
vices, Inc., have in mind with
their new project.
Huckleberry Flynn Services,
Inc. received notice of funding
for their project May 22. The
grant, totaling just under
$55,000, was awarded by the
U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Small business Innovative Re
search Division. The grant will
be used to develop 240 one-acre
plots at yet unidentified loca
tions on the western edge of the
reservation.
The family operation was a
product of selfish frustration,
says Marcia. "We came up with
the idea in August 1 993. 1 wanted
to pick berries close by" and not
have to drive to Washington.
The areas where Marcia picked
berries as achild with her family
"were overgrow n. This made me
angry and upset. My brother and
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husband said 'Do something
about it.' So we did.. ..We're not
trying to mess anything up, we're
just trying to bring the huckle
berries back."
Marcia began work on the
huckleberry enhancement grant
proposal that year. She contacted
the USDA-SBIR program and
learned she had just missed the
proposal deadline. She was ad
vised to continue to work on her
proposal and to submit it by Sep
tember 1 994. The award notifi
cation in May ended the waiting
and began another phase of
waiting and planning.
Tribal Council, at the end of
August 1994, passed resolution
8918 which offers support of
the project. In accordance with
the resolution, Huckleberry
Flynn Services must request ac
cess to confidential tribal infor
mation concerning culturally
significant plants. Research in
formation pertinent to the project
is located at the Museum, the
Cultural and Heritage Depart
ment and at various locations
which fall under the umbrella of
the Natural Resources branch.
Tribal Council has sole author
ity to approve the sharing of the
information. On June 22 Marcia
submitted a request to Tribal
Council asking they approve the
continuation of research so that
site selection and development
can begin.
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"Honoring and Empowering Our
the theme of this year's 26th
Annual n-ume-bna ireaty uays
Celebration here in Warm Springs June
23-25, 1995. Master of Ceremonies was
Nathan "8-ball" Jim,
Outgoing Miss Pi-Ume-Sha Rose Kirk
and Lil' Miss Pi-Ume-Sha Queen Natasha
Edwards were honored and Sharon
Katchia was crowned Pi-Ume-Sha Queen
and Victoria Tufti was crowned Lil' Miss
Pi-Ume-Sha.
Winners of the Tiny Tots categories
were; Little Girls 6 & under, 1. Michelle
Antell-Warm Springs, 2. Larrisa-Warm
Springs, 3. Katira Hicks-Warm Springs, 4.
Leonie Sireech-Warm Springs, 5. Rocnelle
Begay-Warm Springs. Little boys 6 &
under, 1. Roland Morning Owl-Warm
Springs, 2. Anthony Johnson-Warm
Springs, 3. Richard Axtel-Lonesberg, 4.
Atcitty Begay-Simnasho, 5. James
Longmie.
The winners of the Little Girls Round
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to Dad, a youngster beats
thirst, by taking a drink along.
Meanwhile, Marcia is ten
derly caring for tiny huckleberry
seedlings. The seeds were
gleaned from berries picked at
Blue Lake last summer. A
greenhouse to house the plants
will be built in the near future.
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It will take at least nine years for
seedlings to reach maturity.
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