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Coyote News
In Brief
Drive a success
Numerous individuals
and corporations joined
the Museum At Warm
Springs during the
recent membership
drive.
Students offer advice
Two Madras High
School seniors advise
continents to try hard
and to not mess around.
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Council Agenda
offered
Tribal Council has a full
agenda for January.
ECE and WSE relate
news of interest
Early Childhood and
WSE news features
information on nurturing,
enhancing learning
efforts and
achievements.
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Lessons enhance
learning
Sahaptin continues to be
the focus of current
language lessons.
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MHS Basketball
featured
White Buffalo hoopsters
have already made a
name for themselves
among 3A league
members.
Smith Russia-bound
Long-time boxing coach
Gerald Smith was '
recently in Russia
coaching the USA team ;
in anniversary
tournament.
Gift ideas spark
imagination
Lookingfor a clever last
minute gift? OSU
Extension has ideas that
may fit the bill.
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Recipes make for
delicious aoodies
Easy recipes are given
for cookies and sweet
bread.
Deadline for the next
Spilyay Tymoo is
Friday,
December 29, 1995
Spilyay
(Coyote
A gaggle of not-so-sleepy-heads
Proposed salmon recovery plan
"The salmon recovery plan
proposed by the National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) is
inadequate and illegal," said Ted
Strong, Executive Director of the
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish
Commission (CRITFC). Final
comments on the plan were released
December 1 1 . The NMFS is expected
to release a final version sometime
next year.
Strong joined tribal officials and
environmental and fishing industry
representatives in denouncing the
proposed plan at a new conference
last week in Portland. "According to
scientific remodeling, if NMFS
follows its own recommendations
and so far it hasn't even done that
the Snake River salmon stocks might
be able to be taken off the Endangered
Species list sometime in the latter
half of the next century," Strong said.
"That is unacceptable."
"The plan ignores both the survival
needs of salmon and equity for the
Indian people," said Eugene Greene,
Sr., Chairman of CRITFC and the
Warm Springs Fish and Wildlife
Committee.
The tribal statements given today
included the following criticisms of
NMFS' proposed plan:
It violates the tribes' treaty
reserved rights allows state and
federal laws dealing with water
quality and habitat protection to be
broken.
It allows salmon to be killed to
protect hypothetical genetic purity
standards.
It will continue the practice of
taking fish out of the river and
Annual bowling
tournament set
The 20th annual Warm Springs
Indian Holiday Bowling Tournament
will be held December 29, 30 and 31
at Pelton Lanes in Madras.
Men's, women's and mixed team
bowling will be at 5:30 and 9 pm.
Friday and at noon on Saturday. The
men's and women's Holiday Roll
Off will be at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Participants must quality and there is
a $5 entry fee. Singles and doubles
will bowl at 2:30 and 6 p.m. on
Saturday. Mixed doubles will bowl
at noon and 3 p.m. Sunday. YABA
(for youth) will be at 9 a.m. Saturday
and open to the first 60 entries. Mixed
Masters will be at 9 p.m. on Saturday
with a $20 entry fee.
Participants must pay $ 1 5 for each
event entered. Breakdown is as
follows: Prize fee, $7.75; Lineage
$5.25 and Expenses, $2.00
This year's tournament is in honor
of Rudy Clements and Dick Souers.
For more information contact
Margie Tuckta or Jerry Sampson.
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converged on Warm Springs Elementary December 1 9 as part of a challenge issued students by school staff. Qnrjsfmas Qarnaval
transporting them in barges and
trucks, despite lack of proof that it
helps.
It adds unnecessary new layers
of bureaucracy.
Instead of calling for immediate
action, its highest priority is to spend
millions of dollars on research.
"Even though the scientific debate
will continue, we must act decisively,
immediately and intelligently,"
Charles Hayes, Chairman of the Nez
Perce Fish and Wildlife Committee.
"We must observe what we are doing
and how it is working. And when our
actions do not produce the expected
results, we have to change them."
Lynn Hatcher, Fisheries Program
Manager for the Yakama Indian
Nation, referred, in his statement, to
the science in NMFS' plan as "the
science of extinction." Rather than
continuing NMFS's "perilously
wrong" recommendations on
genetics, Hatcher said that the tribes
ere "calling on the NMFS to look at
the techniques that have restored
other endangered animals."
Gaming center notes recent
John Elkinton, lifetime resident of The Dalles, won a
progressive jackpot worth $17,008 at Indian Head
Gaming Center. December 17 proved to be Elkinton's
lucky day as he played and won on a Red, White &
Blue, one dollar, progressive slot machine.
Elkinton and his wife have been visiting Indian
Head Gaming Center on a weekly basis since
September. He is currently a corrections officer for
the Hood River Sheriff's Department. When asked
what he will do with his winnings, Elkinton stated, "I
will pay debts, put the rest in the bank and pay taxes."
He plans on visiting Indian Head Gaming Center
January 10 to try his luck again, trying to win the 1995
Ford Ranger 4x4. Those persons winning $50 or
larger jackpots are eligible to win the pickup. The
January 10 festivities will kick off a week of grand
opening activities.
Another recent "big" winner was tribal member
Danny Martinez. Playing a $5 Triple Diamond
machine, Martinez hit it big time, walking away with
$9,000. Martinez said he was going to "put the check
in an envelope and give it to his wife."
The "soft opening" for the permanent Indian Head
Gaming facility was December 4 and work continues
on a deli, gift shop, poker and blackjack room.
A gala grand opening of the facility is scheduled for
Wednesday, January 17. Football Hall of Famer Dick
Butkus will be a featured speaker as will National
Indian Gaming Association Executive Director Tim
Wapato. State Representative Bev Clamo has also
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The inadequacies of the proposed
plan show that the agency )NMF5)
lacks the will to use the authority
entrusted to it," said Alphonse
Halfmoon, Chairman of the Umatilla
Fish and Wildlife Committee. "The
responsibility for salmon recovery is
too great for NMFS to bear alone."
"There are three competing plans
for salmon restoration," Hayes said.
"Two are in substantial agreement:
the states' fish and wildlife program
adopted by the Northwest Power
Planning Council and the tribes' plan.
The third, the NMFSClinton
Administration plan that we have
discussed today, is seriously out of
step with the others," he said.
"The NMFS recovery plan needs
to be changed so that it aligns with
the other two sovereigns' plans," said
Strong.
"We are proposing that state and
federal officials sit down with us to
begin developing a unified and
credible strategy for Columbia Basin
salmon restoration," Hayes said.
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Please join us in celebrating the
Grand Opening & Dedication of
Jefferson County Middle School
1180 SE City View Street
Madras, OR
Saturday, January 13, 1996
at 10 a.m.
Tours through 2 p.m.
big winners
expressed interest in attending the affair.
Indian Head Gaming has featured slot tournaments
over the last several months. The winners of the nightly
tournaments were invited back to participate in $1 ,000
jackpot grudge match December 18. Local Dana Smith,
racking up 28,000 points, walked away with the
winnings.
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Danny Martinez, left, walked away from a $5 slot machine at Indian
Head Gaming Center $9,000 richer earlier this week. Slot manager
Zane Fink presented Martinez with the check.
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Students at Warm
Springs Elementary
got into the giving
spirit this holiday
season by
overwhelmingly
meeting and
exceeding a
challenge issued
them by school staff.
If students could
raise over $300 for
the Jefferson County
Meals on Wheels
program, the staff
agreed to come to
school dressed in
their pajamas. The
students raised $400
for the program.
In addition, seven
boxes of food items
were cnllprtp.d at thp
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