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2 July 27, 2000 Warm Springs, Oregon Spilyaytymoo CRITFC and University Idaho sign MOA on salmon Museum begins summer classes for two age groups 0 Salmon restoration through partnership, research and education are at the core of the landmark agreement signed today between the Columbia River treaty fishing tribes (Yakama, Ncz Perce, Umatilla and Warm Springs) and the University of Idaho. The Memorandum of Agreement establishes a working relationship between the University's Aquaculture Research Institute and the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) for purposes of research and education in production, supplementation, life history and recovery of salmon, steelhead, and native fishes of the Columbia Basin. Collaborative efforts will commence at the Hageran Fish Culture Experiment Station (HFCES) and other facilities of the University and CRITFC associated with education and fisheries research, including fish culture, fish heakh, genetics and fish production and supplementation research. "Our heats and spirits are strengthened by this new beginning," said Virgil Hold Sr., Charperson , Nez Perce Tribe Fish and Wildlife Committee. "This 'first-of-its-kind' collaboration combines necessary culture perspectives with rigorous research to achieve a sustainable resource through biologically dependable management of our fisheries resource." "Our people believe there is a strong link between the natural sciences and our Creator's law, " said Randy Settler, Yakama Nation Councilman. "This joint venture will combine them with respect of both for the benefit of our resources. CRITFC and the University of Idaho have collaborated on a variety of projects over the past three years. Today's MOA acknowledges a growing record of success and desire for additional projects in the proposal stage. "The joint expertise of the University and tribal scientists at the Hagerman facility will result in a dynamic, solution-orient group that will focus on salmon, sturgeon and lamprey recovery," said Andre Talbot, CRITFC Senior Scientist. "This collaboration increases the ability of the tribes to conduct research, monitoring and evaluation for their restoration programs while providing opportunities for education to Native Americans in the sciences." Donald Sampson, CRITFC Executive Director and Dr. Ernie Brannon, Director of Aquaculture Research Institute of the University of Idaho signed the MOA at a ceremony at Tamastslikt Cultural Institute. Brian Pitcher, University of Idaho Provost and Jerry Wallace, University of Idaho Vice-President had previously signed the MOA. The ceremony was part of the CRITFC annual retreat hosted but the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, in Mission, Oregon. "Gifts of Knowledge" Summer Academy at The Museum at Warm Springs begins in mid-July. Classes are for two age groups, 7-13 and 14 and up. Four dif ferent areas are be ing taught. These are looming, carving, use of natural dyes and use of raw hide. Students can come to have fun learning, sharing and ex- Sanding their knowledge and ands-on experiences. All classes are limited to twelve students, each on a first come, first served basis. The natural dyes and raw hide classes require registration five days prior to the classes in order to assure sufficient supplies. For the Natural Dyes classes, participants will be provided a hankie to dye or they may bring a white tee shirt of their own. Every thing a student makes can be taken home. For ages 7-13 the schedule is: Looming July 17-21 1-4 p.m.; Carving (using soap) July 3 1 -August 4 1 -4 p.m. ; Natural dyes August 1 2 & 13 9-noon; Raw hide August 14-18 1-4 p.m. For ages 1 4 & up the schedule is: Looming July 17-21 5:30-8 p.m.; Carving canoes July 31 -August 4 5:30-8:30p.m.; Natural dyes August 12 & 13 1-3 p.m.; Raw hide August 14-18 5:30-8 p.m. Classes are $15 per person or all four class sessions for $50 which is a savings of $10. For a family of four (brothers & sisters) the cost for all four sessions is $150 with an addi- Jefferson County Fair begins July 26 tional $15 per additional family member. This is a special, new opportunity for summer activities. Classes fill up quickly so call 553-3331 to reserve your place. The Museum at Warm Springs, 2189 Highway 26 is open in the summer from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. For information on admission fees, ex hibits and other programs call 553-3331 and ask for Leana Blucback. Constuction to begin The Warm Springs Tribal Con structions Department would like to announce construction will begin working on three bridges starting the week of June 26-30, 2000. Con struction will take place at the Thompson Bridge, Peter's Pasture and Potter's Pond. Road closures will remain in effect at the locations mentioned until August 3 1 , 2000. If anyone has any questions, please call the Construction Department at 553-3207. This notice is to inform the Public that the Bu reau of Indian Affairs will install gates with locks on the road to Look-out towers. The installation of gates with locks is due to frequent vandalism at the Towers off seasons; and the expense involve to repair damages. The BIA Facilities Management Shop will issue keys to those who need them. We appreciate your co-operation on this matter. If you have any questions please contact Don Robertson, Facilities Manager at (541) 553-2400. On Patrol Jam Fest begins August 26, 2000 To tribal member artists and vendors, You are invited to participate in the 1st Annual Jam Fest 2000. Jam Fest is designed to share your talent and skills with the community by expressing your talent through the arts. We encourage you to participate with other tribal members on this fun and unique day. Showcase your skills through various forms of traditional and contemporary dance, music and drama as well as fine Arts and Crafts. Share the feeling of accomplishment displaying your completed, finely detailed beadwork; or by demon strating your skills in making your crafts. By joining other tribal members, you will give the community youth and other adults a chance to realize they too can be creative. The day we have selected for you to showcase your talent is August 26th. Spaces will be designated for craft vendors, craft demonstrations and a schedule arranged groups doing performance exhibitions. There are limited food vendor spaces available you must be signed up by June 30th. For more informa tion about Jam Fest 2000, or to reg ister your booth or vendor space, contact the Community Health Education Team at 553-4922. As time approaches look formore information in the Spilyay Tymoo news. by Don Courtney, Bob Medina Citizens Police Academy The Warm Springs Police De partment is proud to recognize our first participants of the first class in the year 2000 of the Warm Springs -Citizens Police Academy 0001. Participants included: Iris Smith, Viola Govenor, Janis Gunshows, Waldon Winishut, Perthina White, Lillian Galindo, and Dan Brisbois. Congratulations to you all. Formal presentations will be made on August 1 1 , 2000 between 2:00 PM and 6:30 PM at the police department open house. Those interested in the next class should contact Community Po licing at 553-2283 or 553-2273. Crime Stoppers Hotline: If you see it, hear about it, know about it, and it's important. Please Call 553-2202. Seatbelt Report: Officers are continuing to step up seatbelt enforcement efforts as we enter into month 3 since the new leg islation was enacted here on the res ervation. For the most part, residents are being cooperative with our en forcement action. Community Policing Re port: Beginning on Monday, July 24, 2000, officers from the Warm Springs Community Oriented Policing Ser vices, will go door to door in the com munity. Officers will offer commu nity members the engraving or pho tos of their valuable items. Officers will also offer information on crime prevention, how to secure their homes better, and also promote the new seat belt law. ! Officers hope to start in the Senior Citizens area and end in the community of Simnasho. Other areas include Sidwalter, Wolfpoint, Sunnyside, Seekseequa, Kah-Nee-Ta, the Culpus and Moody ranch. The week of July 1 0, Commu nity Oriented Policing spent time vis iting with community members. On July 11, officer Medina and Cadet Lydel Suppah, went door to door, dropping off brochures, offering our services, and just visiting with com munity members who were at home on. July 6, Lt. Miller, and officer Medina visited with Dana Smith at KWSO Radio Station, and began re cording PSA's promoting the services offered by Community Oriented Po licing. On July 20, officer Chris Elliott, Cadets James Wolfe III, and Lydel Suppah, attended the Celilo Elders Picnic. Officer Graham and Medina are working closely with GIS to help improve house numbered ad dresses. Officers have already expe rienced that many address numbers have been placed on the wrong houses. Community Policing is asking all community members for their co operation on this important project for better and more adequate services to our communities. The month of July, has been rather busy for the Warm Springs Community Oriented Policing ser vices. We will also have a booth at the Jefferson County Fair, July 26- 29. On August 1 1, 2000, from 2pm until 6:30pm, everyone is welcome to attend an open house sponsored by the Warm Springs Police Department. Come and meet the Police Depart ment personnel. We will be offering free hamburgers, hotdogs, and re freshments. The goals for The Warm Springs Community Oriented Polic ing Services are to gain the trust, and cooperation of our community mem bers to improve communication. We want to work closely with the com munity, especially with our youth. We want to make Warm Springs a safe place to live. Presently and for future generations to come. Police Open House: The Tribal Police Department will hold an open house BBQ for our community on August 1 1, 2000 be tween 2:00 PM and 6:30 PM. With the budgeting process before us, stop by, come visit with us and feel free to ask lots of questions about your po lice department. Who knows, we might even see if we can get McGruff out of the dog house. We do plan on recognizing our Citizen Police Academy participants,; several community members who continue to promote public or com munity safety, and some middle school students. Treaty fishing tribes say states' salmon harvest suit is 'all grab, no give' The Bite of Central Oregon What makes Central Oregon a great place to live, work and dine? Experience the best Central Oregon has to offer at The Bite of Central Oregon, Saturday, September 9, 1 1:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., at Sunriver Village. Proceeds from the event benefit the March of Dimes and programs aimed at giving Central Oregon babies a healthier start. An exciting outdoor party is planned for the first even Bite of Central Oregon featuring a blend of food, drinks, entertainment, great shopping and more. Local restau rants and merchants will showcase their products, including generous food tasting, and a beer and wine garden. Watch for The Bite of Central Oregon memorabilia buttons goin; on sale August 1, for $5 each. Witl a button, you will receive free sam ples from food vendors. There will no admission charge at the event. For more information, call 1-800-811-0805. The March of Dimes is a non profit organization whose mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects and infant morality. Founded in 1938, the March of Dimes funds programs of research, education, community ser vice and advocacy that save bab les. Together, we save babies. Seeking stories from veterans The publisher of the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul book se ries is seeking submissions from veterans for a new book Chicken Soup for the Veteran's Soul. Stories from all wars and branches of services are welcome. Topic ideas include heroism, camaraderie, laughter, sense of duty and reunions. Submissions should be a true story that has a moment or event that can bring awareness to readers. Submis sions as long as 1,200 words will be accepted and money will be offered for selected stories. Deadlines for submissions is August 1, 2000. The book is scheduled for release August 13.2001. For submission, guidelines or to view samples can or call 888-387-6373. Portland, Oregon - The Colum bia River treaty fishing tribes say that the legal challenge by Washington and Oregon on the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMSD) process for providing ESA coverage to fish eries is a direct attack on well-established case law, tribal treaty rights and the federaltribal trust relationship. The tribes further condemn the states' action as legal maneuvering to in crease state harvest, at tribal cost, while dodging commitments to re build runs. Prompted by the states' lawsuit, the tribes filed a joint motion to ex tend the 1999 Management Agree ment for Upper Columbia River Fall Chinook, Steelhead and Coho through the 2000 season. This pro posal combines a voluntary reduction from a full tribal harvest with produc tion initiatives designed to rebuild upriverruns. If the agreement is ex tended, state and tribal fisheries in 2000 would be the same or greater than last year due to increases in run size. Parties to the joint tribal motion are the Nez Perce Tribe, the Confed erated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. Their rights to salmon harvest are re served under their 1 855 treaties with the United States. "This spring the tribes put forth biologically and legally sound harvest plans, combined with essential salmon production actions, that pro vided for Indian and non-Indian har vests as well as stock rebuilding," said don Sampson, Executive Director of the Columbia River Tribal Fish Com mission. "However, the states have resisted our production plans and of fers to share our portion of the har vest have been refused." Well-settled federal law holds that treaty tribes have the right to catch up to fifty percent of the harvestable portion of salmon des tined to pass their usual and accus tomed places. The United States Su preme Court has upheld treaty fish ing case law on several occasions. Courts have also ruled that the fed eral government and its agencies have a trust obligation to ensure tribal rights and resources are protected. "the federal government in cluding NMFS, is obligated to stand firm on the treaty fishing rights case law," states Olney Patt Jr., Warm Springs Tribal Chairman. "The fact that the states are attacking this fun damental law rather then the root of the problem is very disturbing." In recent years the tribes have offered to share a portion of their treaty harvest with the states in ex change for state commitments to re build runs - a gesture putting added pressure on already hard hit tribal fisheries but considered a sacrifice for long term rebuilding efforts. Cur rently, tribal fishers are harvesting less then their legal share of coho and steelhead. "The states have turned away from their duties to corn-manage salmon runs with tribal governments, " said Randy Settler, Yakama Nation Councilman. "They are looking for more harvest, at the expense of tribal fisheries, without meeting their obli gations to rebuild. They continue to club salmon as they stonewall tribal artificial propagation and supplemen tation recommendations. The states' lack of meaningful commitments or strategies puts all fisheries at risk. The tribes cite several successes in restoring runs through supplemen tation, including the Umatilla and Yakima Rivers, as well as a history of appealing to the courts to halt the state destruction of salmon returning to the Imnaha, Grande Ronde and other tributaries. The tribes seek to ensure that salmon runs are rebuilt for all salmon fishers. The tribes insist that manage ment and conservation measures be allocated throughout the "H's" (hy dro, habitat, hatchery and harvest). "The states of Oregon and Washington should put their efforts into real problems: dams, habitat pro tection and reform f their hatchery programs," said James Hold, Nez Perce Tribal Executive committee. "It is unacceptable to expect tribal fisheries to bear the states burden. Out tribes will continue to work to restore critical habitat, correct main stream passage problems including Lower Snake River dam breaching, as well as advocate for appropriate hatchery practices to put fish back in the rivers." Spilyay Tymoo Publisher Editor Secretary Sid Miller Selena Boise Tina Aguilar Founded in March 1976 Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located in the basement of the Old Girls Dorm at 1 1 15 Wasco Street. Any written materials to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761. (541) 553-1644 or 553-3274 FAX No. (541) 553-3539 E-mail address: spilyayhotmail.com Annual Subscription rates: Within U.S. $15.00 Outside U.S. or 1st class in the U.S. $25.00 Spilyay Tymoo 2000 Museum seeks artifacts The Museum At Warm Springs collections Accession Committee will meet August 1 and November 13 to consider artifacts for the per manent collection. Tribal members may bring their materials for con sideration by July 25 for the August meeting and by November 7 for the November meeting. The materials that receive the highest priority for the permanent collections at the time are: Corn husk bags, corn husk hairties and barrettes, mini-corn husk necklaces, corn husk side purses, cedar root basket ear rings, old shawls and old blankets, bone and dentallium chokers, needle bags, beaded floral dresses and vests, proposal sticks, side purses with belts, wampum, pine needle baskets, top quality, finely made beaded medal lions and watch bands and mini-basket necklaces and earrings. For the archive, the Museum is also seeking photos from the late 1800s through 1950 and historical docu ments. If you have any questions, call Mary Ellen or Beulah at the Museum, 553-3331. Wild fire and vehicle safety tips Fire Season is now well under way, all your hazard reduction should be done. Remember all the tings you can do to protect your home form a wildfire. Have a green belt surrounding your residence, at least 30 feet wide and keep it cut short Keep woodpiles and cars clear of structures. Trim all tree branches up 5-6 feet. If there is a fire burning out of control in the area, remember to remain calm stay inside your residence until told to evacuate, shut down all utilities which may draw air from the outside and if there is time and the fire is not too close, your could set out your sprinklers. Now that the seatbelt law is in affect I and to commend everyone who are enjoying the safely of being buckled up and urge everyone else to get in the habit of buckling up every time your get it in your cars. One thing that I am seeing a lot of is pick-up trucks driving around with passengers in the back, I know its summer and everyone likes to stay cool. Most people say well I'm careful when I have passengers in the back, everyone needs to realize what would happen if another out of control vehicle hit them. Even a low speed impact is enough to send passengers flying form the back of the vehicle unprotected. Information provided by the Warm Springs Fire & Safely