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Orie Made with Amanda Old Crow,
Warm Springs students Orie
Made, Karla Kalama and Gladys
Graybael attend the 24th Annual
Northwest Indian Youth
Conference at Browning,
Montana May 25-28, 1999 with
Rena Adams as their chaperone.
These three students have
been volunteers at the Victim's
Assistance Program since
March. They assist with
prevention and intervention for
youth. .
,With the assistance of Rena
Smith these students began
fundraising for their trip to this
youth conference in November
1998. They had spaghetti feeds,1
held dances in the community,
held a yard sale and sold Indian
taco's at the Collage of Culture.
They earned enough for their -lodging,
airline tickets, and
meals. . , , ' . ',
While there they attended a.,
variety of workshops geared for
youth. These included
traditional education, health
education college career day,
pursuing your dreams', institute
on American Indian arts, . ! .
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United StatesCanada agreement
After several months of
government-to-government
discussions, a comprehensive, long
term fisheries management
agreement has been reached under
the U.S.Canada Pacific Salmon
Treaty. The agreement offers a solid
foundation upon which weak salmon
stock recovery can be built, said
officials of treaty Indian tribes in
Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
"This agreement creates a strong
base on which salmon and salmon
habitat can be protected and restored.
It is a conservation-based approach
to salmon fisheries management,"
said Wm. Ron Allen, Pacific Salmon
Commission (PSC) representative for
the treaty Indian tribes.
Ensuring sustainable salmon
harvest levels is the goal of the
management agreement, which
works to protect many of the West
Coast salmon species listed as
threatened under the federal
Endangered Species Act. Strict
harvest controls designed to protect
weak salmon stocks are at the heart
of the agreement, which includes a
commitment by the two countries to
identify habitat concerns affecting
salmon.
Ted Strong, government delegate
for the Columbia River treaty tribes,
noted that all of the governments
worked well together over the past
several months to reach the
agreement. "It will be critical to
continue these collaborative efforts
during its implementation," Strong
said. "For example, concluding the
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Conference speaker.
academic challenges, Native
American values in adolescent .
chemical dependency, family
tree and chemical dependency, '
Blackfeet herbologies, wellness,
relationships, a panel of young .
mothers, aromatherapy and
massage, FAS and FAE babies.
They also attended a youth
dance, an Indian Concert, a
talent show, a boys and girls
basketball tournament and a
barbecue for all youth in
attendance, That is an estimated
750, and a powwow for all
youth. ,
At'the powWow'each group'
made a flag of their community
to carry. . . . ,,'
1 While there they also
attended tours of the Blackfeet '
reservation. ' ' '
Their favorite workshop was
with Amanda Old Crow, a 21-year-old
speaker who promotes
youth involvement and is a 'i
comedian, v.v ,
"She started but with a song, '
' she sang really good, they y
burned sweet pine, it was like
sage. We all held hands and
Chief for forty years. He is the oldest
and has held this title the longest on
this reservation. ... '
Special thanks to all the drummers
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Agreement on Habitat and
Restoration as part of the
comprehensive " package was
necessary for the tribes' endorsement
of the long-term harvest agreements.
To make this treaty work,
governments must continue to work
together to address the underlying
problems of depressed salmon
production and productivity."
"It is our hope that this agreement
will help avert the failure of the
Salmon Treaty 's Chinook rebuilding
program during the past 15 years,"
said Nathan Jim, Sr., Vice Chair of
the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish
Commission and a Fish and Wildlife
Committee member of the
Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon.
"Now, by basing harvest levels on
the abundance of stocks, while also
recognizing the importance of habitat
restoration and protection measures
and the effective use of enhancement
programs, we expect to see increased
escapements and increased
production of depressed Chinook
stocks coastwide."
"First and foremost, the tribes are
concerned about salmon and salmon
habitat," said Duane Clark, a council
member of the Confederated Tribes
and Bands of the Yakama Indian
Nation. "We will need effective
monitoring and evaluation effort to
guide the implementation of this
agreement to reach these goals."
Salmon are central to the spiritual,
cultural and economic survival of
the Northwest tribes. Tribal rights to
opened with a prayer of
something you wanted out o(
life. Leaving all the bad feelings
out," says Adams. Old Crow .
was spiritual and traditional in
her ways. She's from Browning ;
but lives in Babb, Montana near t
a lake.
After opening the students
were involved with playing
games to become involved.
Games like Ms. Mumble where
you pretend you have no teeth
and speak with others. Doobie
Dawba game is similar to hokie
pokie where you stick your '
thumbs up, butt out, chest out.
"We were the best group of , '
doobie dawbas," says Gladys.
Another game is the belly
button games where you '
pretend you have this huge
pencil sticking out of your belly
button and you write your
name.
"It was really a lot of fun," ,
says Adams. "Her comedy act. ;
. was better than the comedy ,
hour on TV," says Graybael. v
Old Crow gets everybody .' '
involved even the people who''
peeked in to see what everybody
was laughing about joined the,
group.
Old Crow then said,
"remember how you feel right
now. Remember the belonging1
and how you, fit in. Be yourself
'and don't try to be what
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you want to' make changes you'
need to start speaking out and ?
making those changes. Be a 1
leader and not a follower."
Victim's Assistance Program!
will hold a "Back to School :. k
Youth Conference" this summer
and would like to invite Old
Crow to be a speaker. ' , 1
Thisyear .the Back to School, j
conferenc.e, will include the , , ri
JeffersomCounty Middle School
as well' ai the Madras High 1 '-'i
School students. "We'd like to
touch1 th&feadHrs and others
who woufct like to build up their
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-Services'Special thanks to my mother
! ;for doirtgall the traditional cooking,
-Rose!. Mitchell, and all her sisters
! Evelyn 'Dick'; Laura Stwyer, Daiiy
Ike, Rosa Bill, Betty Kalama and
LeanderKalama.
Speriahthanks to Merle Holmes
from Grand Ronde for taking all the
pictures. All the Pinkham family for
being there for the dinner.
We give thanks to the Creator for
our uncle being with us a lot longer to
sp.rvR all the vp.ars on the Tribal
Vdounciljuiaditionajly, spiritually and
most of all as a leader to everyone
.here. ,..;. ,
",, He is like.ajather to me, Larry
Dick, and uncle to everyone else, ajid
a wonderful grandfather. , j.
We Pray that he lives many more
years. Thank you all for the support
, and for loving him. As for the dinner
and washut services, He enjoyed
every bit of it. ,
Larry Dick, Nelson Wallulatum,
Rose Mitchell
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offers foundation
salmon are protected by treaties with
the United States Government. These
treaties, in which the .tribes
relinquished millions of acres of land,
reserved among other rights, the right
to fish at all usual and accustomed
fishing places. The tribal leaders who
entered into these treaties with the
United States were specific about
this right, recognizing the importance
of salmon to tribal cultures and way
of life.
"For generations, tribes have
worked to protect salmon and salmon
habitat. This agreement protects the
future of salmon in the Pacific
Northwest, as well as tribal treaty
rights," said Lorraine Loomis,
SwinomishTribes fisheries manager
and PSC Fraser River Panel member.
In response to declining salmon
stocks, tribes have voluntarily
reduced harvests for decades, up to
80-90 percent in some cases. Still,
the tribes made additional sacrifices
to forge the long-term Paci f Salmon
Agreement.
As part of the agreement, the U.S.
w ill reduce harvest levels on Chinook
stocks in southern fisheries to
sustainable levels on depressed stocks
that will ensure optimum production -of
Chinook stocks overtime. Harvests
of coho and chum salmon will be
shaped to reflect the conservation
based approach to the agreement.
"Salmon is our livelihood," said
Loomis. "Tribal opportunities for
econom i c de ve lopment are e xtremely
limited. Fishing is often the basis of
many tribal economics. State
self-esteem," says Adams.
Next year will be the 25th
Anniversary of the first
conference. Adams is inviting
more youth to become involved.
Help with the fundraising to
travel to Seattle, Washington,
April 18-21, 2000.
Adams is a Victim's of Crime
Advocate but has become more
involved with the youth
activities in intervention and
prevention. Any student who is
willing to become involved may
call her at the Victim's of Crime
office at 553-2293. Become
involved in fundraising
activities and assisting the
program.
After the conference the
group traveled to Great Falls to
attend a powwow in the Four
Seasons Arena. In Great Falls
they saw Joanne Shanendoah
perform.
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governments, however, have almost
unlimited opportunities for economic
advancement."
As part of the agreement, tribes
primarily dependent on Fraser River
sockeye agreed to additional harvest
cuts. "Any further reductions would
have left our tribal fisheries no longer
economically viable, and all but
eliminated our treaty right," said
Loomis.
"The hardships to the tribes are
worthwhile because the sacrifices
will ensure salmon for future
generations," said Terry Williams,
natural resources director for the
Tulalip Tribes and a PSC Southern
Panel member.
"If we rely only on harvest
reductions to achieve salmon
recovery, we will never succeed,"
Williams said. "In addition to the
harvest component of the agreement,
the tribes fought hard to ensure that
the PSC will also work to identify
salmon habitat concerns in both
countries," he said.
"Salmon recovery can only be
achieved through a combination of
harvest and habitat reforms. For
generations, the People of the Salmon
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Chaperone Rena Adams, students Gladys Graybael and Orie Made.
Not pictured is Karla Kalama.
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