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Warm Springs, Oregon
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Ryan winner of the annual Christmas stocking
Columbia basin hatcheries to be reviewed
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Loye Ryan was presented the stocking by Monica Leonard.
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Gang awareness class set for Feb. 12
On February 12, 1998, the Ma
dras Police Department, Jefferson
County School District and
HAABLA will co-sponsor a class on
gang awareness. The class will be
held at the Jefferson County Middle
School beginning at 7 p.m.
This class is intended for parents,
or anyone else in the community
who is interested in learning how to
recognize the signs of gang activity.
The class will also focus on practical
measures parents, or any other inter
ested persons, can take when they
observe what they believe to be gang
activity in our community.
We strong encourage people form
both Warm Springs and the Hispanic
community to attend this training.
Arrangements have been made to
Family Planning Clinic available to community
The Family Planning Clinic is now
located upstairs in the Old Girls
Dorm. They offer confidential
services to community members,
non-tribal members and tribal
members every Tuesday from 2:00
to 4:30.
Confidential services available
are: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
(STDs) exam, Birth Control,
Pregnancy Testing, Counseling and
referral, Breast feeding and support,
HIV testing and Women's health
care.
The Family Planning Clinic is not
affiliated with Health & Wellness
Center other than collaboration on
STD follow up.
Their fee is on sliding scale, but
services are not denied based on
inability to pay.
Walk-Ins are accepted or you may
call and make an appointment at 475
4456. You may call Tuesday at 553-2213.
Spilyay Tymoo
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Spilyay Tymoo 1998
The Northwest Power Planning
Council, last wee, approved a
Congressionally ordered
comprehensive review of all salmon
(and steelhead) hatcheries in the
Columbia River Basin. "The four
Columbia River tribes have been
calling for hatchery reform for at
least the past decade," said Don
Sampson, who is manager of the
newly-formed Watershed
Department of the Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
"Hatchery review has the potential
to lead to real reform, the kind that
encourages artificial production
methods that can help us restore
naturally spawning populations."
Sampson is a member of an
informal advisory group convened
to help provide direction to the NPPC
as it prepares its report for Congress.
"If this report turns out to be nothing
more than a whitewash of the existing
hatchery system, or merely an
indiscriminate hatchery-bashing
frenzy, then the report will be a waste
of much time and money. Congress
is looking for accountability. If the
region has made poor use of artificial
production technology in the past,
this is a chance to admit it, tell
Congress how we can do better and
move forward to put fish back in our
region's rivers and streams."
Sampson, along with other tribal
spokespeople, has been a critic of
those who paint all artificial
production efforts with the same
brush. "Our success in the Umatilla
Basin is an example of how to use
hatcheries to help rebuild salmon in
the Columbia Basin. Look at how the
Nez Perce used artificial propagation
to begin restoring coho to the
Clearwater Ri ver. To those who claim
that hatchery reared salmon are
genetically inferior to naturally
spawning salmon, I say that claim
simply isn't science." Sampson is a
fisheries biologist.
Lynn Hatcher, Yakama Indian
Nation Fisheries Program manager,
cautioned, "The review of pertinent
science must make a clear distinction
between what scientists know and
what they only suspect. We've
allowed some geneticists to dictate
to us about what we can and can't do.
Through some genetic stock
identification techniques, we found
that there are certainly some
differences in gene frequencies
between populations. But no one has
made a conclusive link between
different gene frequencies and fitness
Blueback seeks powwow Junior Court title
Hello, my name is Maranda Leala
Blueback. I am running for Junior
Court for Lincoln's Powwow. My
Indian name is Wa' Kis ta. I am of the
Wasco-Warm Springs-Yakama
Tribes. I am 7 years old and attend
the Warm Springs Elementary School
and in Ms. Benett's second grade.
My parents are Kevin and Leana
Trimble Blueback of Warm Springs,
OR. My paternal grandparents are
Effie and the late Harold Culpus
(Joann Casey of Warm Springs, OR
and Martin Blueback of Ponca City,
OK) Maternal grandparents are the
late Fredrick Trimble of Hoopa, CA
and the late Evangeline Switzler
Trimble of Warm Springs, OR.
, I enjoy playing T-ball, horseback
riding, swimming at Kahneeta and
dancing at Powwows.
have interpreters present so that
Spanish speaking members of our
community can actively participate.
The class will be presented by
Alan Alderman. Alan grew up in our
community. He began his law en
forcement career as an officer with
the Madras Police Department. He
has spent the last six-and-one-half
years working as a police officer
assigned to the Gang Activity Task
Force in Clackamas County, Alan
has extensive knowledge in the area
of gang recognition and awareness.
This, coupled with his knowledge of
our community and its needs, places
Alan in a position to be able to present
information that will be greatly ben
eficial to all who attend.
Winner of Warm Springs
Rodeo Association's Giant
Christmas Stocking raffle is
Loye Ryan, who is employed
at the Community
Counseling Center. She
purchased $10.00 worth of
tickets for the raffle drawing.
She received a call right after
Christmas informing her that
she was the winner.
"I have never won
anything before, but I
support the Rodeo
Association because my
husband used to be a rodeo
person," says Ryan.
The Warm Springs Rodeo
Association held their annual
stocking raffle during the
holidays. Raffle tickets were
sold to raise money for the
Rodeo Association.
The stocking was made by
CR Begay and items were
donated by members of the
Rodeo Association to fill the
stocking. Items such as a
clock, lunch pail, chair,
pillows, bird bath, bubble ,
bath, dog toys "Even my dog Pitt's Mask reception at Kah-Nee-Ta a great success
gets something! This is 1
marvelous. I encourage
everyone to enter next year.
This is not what I expected."
Says Ryan.
1998 Collage of
Culture seeks talent
The Enterainment Committee for
The Collage of Culture is seeking
dance groups from the Warm Springs
community that would like to par
ticipate in the upcoming May event.
With the overwhelming number of
Central Oregon entertainers that
came forward last year wishing to
perform in the 1997 event, the En
tertainment Committee was forced
to turn many away, even just weeks
before the festival. So this year, The
Collage of Culture Entertainment
Committee has started using an ap
plication process to help them sift
through all the different entertainers
who would like to participate. If you
are interested in performing at the
1998 Collage of Culture (May 16),
please contact the Madras-Jefferson
County Chamber of Commerce Of
fice for your copy of the entertainer
application. All the applications must
be completed and returned to the
Chamber Office no later than Febru
ary 16, 1998. Since the dance groups
must be chosen by March 1 , it is very
important that you return your ap
plication by February 1 6 deadline to
be considered. If you have specific
questions once you've received the
application, please contact the En
tertainment Committee Chairperson,
Keri Satterlee, at (541) 475-3644.
"Still, our hands have been tied.
We should be learning by doing,
putting fish out there and letting
mother nature do the selecting. But
this little bit of knowledge, which
may have very little significance to
salmon restoration, has paralyzed us,"
said Hatcher.
Tentatively, the report to Congress
will consist of five tasks, to be
delivered to Congress in stages
beginning in June 1998: a historical
summary of existing artificial
propagation programs; a performance
review; a scientific analysis of
artificial propagation as a tool; a
scientific analysis of the successes
and failures of artificial propagation;
and policy recommendation for how
artificial propagation should be used
to protect and rebuild naturally
spawning salmon stocks.
"Right now our biggest concerns
with this process," Sampson noted,
"are the tasks assigned to the
'independent scientists.' It is
imperative that they stick to science
and not simply make policy or
funding pronouncements as they did
recently when they reviewed the
NPPC's fish and wildlife program
annual workplan."
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Kids from Healthy Nations, Kah-Nee-Ta guests and others listen while Lillian Pitt explains her masks
techniques." I make people. Each piece is a synthesis of someone, a person I have known or met.
Sometimes a person becomes a particular animal. It is all very subconscious portraiture. My masks are
not made for any specific religious purpose or ritual. They are to be consumed visually as my
interpretations of ancestry. I have taken the legends and petroglyphs and given them a physical form to
show my appreciation and respect to people who lived hundreds of years ago. I am involved at all times
with the nature of my clay, which is often my boss. I love these spirits and am never alone."
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(Spilyay asks "What's up?)
If you had the power to change things, what would be 1 on your list?
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Kim Boynton: "The first thing I'd
do would be to change Oregon's
property tax laws. I think the state
of Oregon should exempt senior ,
citizens from paying property tax.
Most senior citizens can not
afford to pay them because they
are on a fix income already."
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Lucas Ike: "I would change the
criteria to recieve trust funds. I
would also give the people a role
in deciding our fate as a tribe by
approving or disapproving our
annual budget."
Sallie Polk Adams, Age-10: "I
would change to have the Middle
School in Warm Springs and
would also change the way some
teachers act."
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Charles Jackson: "I would
change people's belief in
themselves and their own ability
and confidence to accomplish
whatever they seek in life."
Maria Macy: The first thing on
my list would be to change my
schedule so that I can spend
more time at home with my
husband and my grandson."
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R.T. Thompson: "I would
change the legal system to
enable parents to punish their
children accordingly without
suffering punitive measures."