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v ' ' p" i r1 i SPILYAY tymoo WARM SPRINGS, OREGON July 27, 2000 5 j.- V i 7' 4 J, Grass fire near Kah-Nee-Ta Resort. Producers get break The Clinton Administration has announced that producers who pro djced a contract commodity on a farm not covered by a Production Flexibility Contract (PFC) will be able to obtain a Loan Deficiency Payment (LDP) on that production. The change is a result of the Agri cultural Risk Protection Act to 2000, which was signed by the President on June 20, 2000. Producers who have produced a 2000 crop contract commodity on a farm without Production Flexibility Contracts are eligible for Loan De ficiency Payments and may request payments in the normal manner BEFORE beneficial interest is lost. Eligible commodities are Wheat, Barley, Oats, Corn, Canola, Crambe, Flaxseed, Mustard Seed, Rapeseed, Safflower, Sunfiowerand Soybeans. Crops taken for hay, grain, or seed are eligible to receive a Loan Defi ciency Payment. Please contact your local Farm Service Agency Office for details at (541)923-4358. Timber Tour-continued from page 1 CPS seeks foster parents WSPI had obtained a good price for pine but were only guaranteed this price through June. WSPI did a very good job in moving this wood in a timely manner and capturing a higher value for the tribes. Issues and concerns about this sale: Protection of streams (Bad ger Creed and Warm Springs River) and the fish populations. Protection of cultural plants and root digging areas (skid trails). Protection of Archeological sites. Determination of which trees would survive. Possibility of increased in sect activity killing additional trees. Value of timber logged vs. value of leaving it on site. Tho third stop for the day was Coyote Block 10 General Description: This is unevenaged forest with some scat tered older, over story trees. Forest health is generally good with no wide spread mortality at this time. How ever, the trees are overly dense and prone to damage from insect attack The Warm Springs Children's Protective Services is seeking Foster Homes. An application can be picked up at the CPSGroup Home or if you would like more information on how to become a foster parent please don't hesitate to call the CPS at 553-32 1 6. These are the steps that need to be taken: 1) complete application and re turn to CPS (name, date of birth, address, phone, when is the best time to call). 2) The CPS Foster Care Coordi nator will then contact you and schedule a time to meet with you, in your home to discuss the foster care program. An appointment for a home evaluation will be set and any ques tions you may have will be answered. 3) During the Home evaluation, your entire household must be present. This will last approximately an hour and may be scheduled for a time convenient for your household. 4) Homes that serve as foster care Gratitude expressed to sponsors resources receive financial assistance to help cover the cost of living for the foster children while they are in the home. 5) Every adult household member will be required to consent to a Criminal History Check. As we strive to improve our foster care program, we ask that you under stand all portions of the certification process are necessary to insure the highest quality of foster care for the children in CPS care. Foster care certification can take up to two weeks from your original application date. You will be sent written notification upon completion of the certification process. If you have any questions, please contact the CPS Foster Care Coordinator at (541)553-3216. Note: Only the basics are listed, the application will go into more detail and all information will be completely confidential. and fire. Existing problems are pock Farm Service Agency will be in Madras SSSSSyiSSS New for 2000, Loan Deficiency Payment requests received by fac simile can only be approved and paid if the Central Oregon Farm Service Agency Office has form FS A-237 on file. This form is used to authenticate original signatures and must be wit nessed by an employee of the Farm Service Agency. The Central Oregon Farm Service Agency Office Personnel will be visiting Jefferson County on August 2nd, 2000 at 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Jefferson County Fire Hall. The visit is scheduled to allow farmers in the area to sign a form that needs to be witnessed by Farm Service Agency Personnel. Please contact your local Farm Service Agency Office for details at (541) 923-4358 ext. 2. pine beetle. Size: 220 Acres Average Age: 60 years Species Composition: Douglas Fir 80, Ponderosa Pine 20 with minor amounts of Incense Cedar and Grand Fir. Purposed treatment: Commercial thin with group selection. (Groups to be less than 1 acre in size.) Purposed treatment: The pur pose of the commercial thin is to re duce stand density, which will im prove vigor of remaining trees and decrease fire hazard. Why Groups? The purpose of creating the small group openings is to convert this area to un-evenaged management over a long period of time. The 220 acre area will eventu ally be composed of several different size and age classes of trees. In this way harvesting of large blocks of tim ber (up to 40 acres) at one time can be avoided. The end of the first day timber tour, the next tour was scheduled for Monday July 24. The Upcoming Re vised integrated Resources Manage ment Plan (IRMP). Discussion of the moratorium on harvesting in the low elevation pine ground and impacts to the allowable cut. The tour went into the low areas of pine growth along the highway 4, the Tenino Bench as stops were made showing the broadcast burning of under brush in the small pine growths. The maintenance of the new growth, a buffer zone along the roadway and the practice of logging in this area. The Timber Tour was well worth the trip to view the various ways the logging practices are being carried out at the present time. Wildhorse set for festival Auction is for good cause To the editor, To Tribal Members, two publica tions have been released since Pi-Ume-Sha, and I haven' t expressed my gratitude for the festivities that took place at the Stick game shed. We had a wonderful time with our visitors." Competitidn' has hindered us a little, but we were still able to conduct a tournament. , Our sponsors, The Confederated Tribes, Indian Head, Kah-Nee-Ta, Warm Springs Forest Products and committee members always play a very important role in our activities. Not only financial, but theircontented efforts to support the entire commu nity. I always hesitate on the gratitude expressed to individuals who assisted the tournaments on the entire week end. In any event, I hope I haven't forgotten anyone. Ramona Starr has been putting on the memorial dinner on Friday's for years and this year had a little more significance for her due to the loss of her mother, Laura, who assisted the previous years by cooking. My wife, Barbara, for pre paring the lunch Saturday and Sun day. I really appreciate her efforts as she isn't well, and still was able to serve on both days. Hiram, Paula and all of the grandchildren for their as sistance. Our raffle didn ' t produce as much as previous years but not for lack of interest. We had some fine items. The young lady that handles this usually, suffered a severe hardship the same time this activity was con ducted. She had the tickets with her. We only had a few as a result of this. Six of us sold out so we didn' t develop our usual royalty (a small joke amongst us). The drummer's who helped on Friday, I still know who you all are. I have the most respect for you and I appreciate your loyalty to ourcause: Jack Williams for always1 being ready to help us with our shed. Alice Sampson forherhelp in keeping the dust down, and the donations from all committee members. We wanted to recognize our Elder's this year so we dedicated this tournament to Adeline Miller, Lizzie Rhoan and Caroline Torres as they were part of the original team to establish this tournament. I mentioned that we had some competition earlier. Well, there's another tournament going on the same time as ours, with more money, but that isn't the real factor. The location is 3 or 4 hours closer to everyone. Our own casino took three teams. All in all, we had fourteen teams participate and they really enjoyed themselves. Everyone played until early Monday morning. That's our intent, is to attempt to keep this part of our culture alive as it is diminishing like the rest of the Indian ways. Not only in Warm Springs, but everywhere I go. I still travel four to twenty hours to attend these functions. The year 2000 wasn't really good for us, but 2001 should be better. I already have some different concepts. Thank you to all who support our little group. Sam Starr, President Starr Stick game club Dear Potential Buyer, The 4-H and FFA programs are a valuable learning experience for many of the youth in our community and they provide a means for these youth to earn money towards their higher education. On Saturday evening, July 29, 2000 at 6:00 p.m. the Jefferson County Livestock Association will be sponsoring the Annual 4-HFFA Livestock Auction Sale at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Your support for the auction and the youth who have worked hard over the past' year on their individual projects is much encouraged. We would like to see you and your support at the auction to bid on the animals. However, if you are unable to attend we have an order buyer program through which you can place an order for an animal and the order buyer will bid up to the dollar amount you specify. Upon being the suc cessful buyer, you andor your busi ness will be recognized during the auction as the purchaser. An average animal will cost between $250 and $500 above the market floor price. If you would like to join forces with another business or individual and co-purchase an animal, we can ac commodate your requests. In the case of a co-purchased animal, all par ticipate buyers will be recognized during the auction. Please fill out the enclosed, self-addressed, stamped card indi cated how you wish to support the 4-HFFA Program. If you check the second or third boxes you will be contacted before the auction to assist you in your requests. By returning the card, we will send you two day passes for Saturday and two barbecue tickets for the 4-HKiwanis Barbe cue Saturday evening. If you have any questions please call the Extension Office at 475-3808. We look forward to seeing you at the 2000 4-HFAA Livestock Auc tion Sale on Saturday, July 29th. Your support is appreciated. Sincerely, Candy Gomes, President Jefferson Co. Livestock Assoc. AUCTION STARTS AT 6 P.M. JULY 29TH. Video Closeout Sale Indian Trail Restaurant All movies must go! ! ! Fresh off their national tour with B.B. King, the American Indian blues band Indigenous has signed on to be the feature performance at the first annual Jammin' for Salmon Native American Music Festival August 4 & 5 at Wildhorse Casino Resort. Jammin' for Salmon, sponsored by Wildhorse Casino Resort and Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish Commission, is a benefit event for the salmon recovery effort. The proceeds from the two-day music festival will go to Home for the Salmon, Salmon Corps, and Spirit of the Salmon. AH performances will be held outside on the Wildhorse Powwow grounds where spectators will also be able to visit educational and informational booths, shop the arts & crafts vendors and eat at the food purveyors' tents. In addition to great musician, several celebrities and well-known dignitaries will visits the stage. One confirmed guest is Governor John Kitzhaber. Rita Coolidge kicks off the event with a Friday night performance at 7 p.m. The opening act, starting at 5 p.m. is Reverend Gary Small & the Deacons playing raggae and rock. On Saturday the first act at 1 p.m. is the Indigenous Hawaiian group Kupa' aina and at 3 p.m. is Jim Boyd, a Colville Indian with tradition in spired folk rock. At 5 p.m. Branscombe Richmond takes the stage with his high energy sound and convivial humor. And at 7 p.m. is Indigenous. Incendiary guitar, soulful vocals, and house-shaking rhythms are all trademarks of this indigenous family. Made up of two brothers, a sister and a cousin. Indigenous' stylist roots reach back to America's earliest form, the blues. They can trace their per sonal roots back even further. Mem bers of the Nakota Nation, the group grew up on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Their father, Greg Zephier, had played in the '60s and '70s with a band called the Vanishing Americans. It was his record collection, heavy on Santana, Hendrix, Buddy Guy and The Three Kings of Blues from which his chil dren drew inspiration and were first exposed to the music that they would one day make themselves. Indigenous has shared with Mel issa Etheridge, Johnny Lang, Keb Mo', Chris Duarte and Big Head Todd and the Monsters. They even tually signed on with Pachyderm Records and "Things We Do" was released to rave reviews. Their most recent release, "Circle" is clearly headed for even greater success. Jammin' for Salmon promises great music in a variety of genres. Tickets, which can be purchased at Wildhorse Gift Shop in person or by phone are $10 for Friday, $15 for Saturday or $20 for both days. Con cert packages including admission and lodging are also available. All the proceeds go to benefit salmon recovery. For more information call RaeAnn Crane at 800-654-9453, ext. 15 10. Wildhorse Casino Resort is lo cated four miles east of Pendleton in Northeastern Oregon. The resort features an 18-hole championship golf course, 100-room hotel, restau rants, gift shops, 24-hour casino, RV park and the renowned Tamaslikt Cultural Institute. Wildhorse is owned and operated by the Confed erated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. More information on Wildhorse Casino Resort is available at (800) 654-WILD www.wildhorseesort.com. or Tribal member speaks concerns Abuse of the Welfare System The Welfare System is mad up of several different programs that are federally funded to assist families with financial needs. Programs con sist of food stamps, cash assistance, medical assistance, and general assis tance. Most of the recipients are non working mothers with at least one child. The Welfare System is pres ently working on programs to help recipients develop job skills and get their education. With programs like these, some of the recipients that abuse the sys tem now, will be less likely to abuse the system after going through some of these programs. In essence, since there are not many benefits ihey need to survive in this sometimes cruel and callous world. Welfare is based upon income and number of people in a family (mother, number of children and a father, in one is around). For sash assistance they receive about $300 for a mother who is not working. They get $70 more per child in the house hold. $370 is not enough to pay for rent, utilities or household goods. Food stamps could cover grocery bills if they qualify. The stress from wait ing month to month to receive a wel fare check is high. The check may help cover some of the day-to-day bills, but it will not cover all of them. Thus, in order to survive, recipients turn to abusing the welfare system. Most of the welfare recipients have littler of no education, come form a minority group (African American, Hispanic, Native Ameri can, etc), have little or no job skills and are fairly young. Some of them were abandoned by their boyfriend or husband and suffer from low self-esteem. Their family backgrounds are similar consisting of having a single parent, or parents who are alcohol ics, domestic violence andor child abuse and neglect. They have grown up watching their mother abuse the system and in turn, also abuse the system. These recipients end up getting pregnant at a young age with not stable like support. They turn to the welfare system for financial help ad receive amounts that are very small, which keeps them living in poverty. They have to lie on their applications to receive that small amount and end up going to nearby towns and lying on their applications to receive more welfare to keep them just above the poverty level or they sign up in a dif ferent name, all just to make a decent level. At the rates they are getting now, they have to lie on their appli cations and apply in neaifcy towns just to make a decent living. When the Federal Govemmcu finally sets up programs that will help these people finish their education, obtain job skills and work experience, set p support groups for single moth ers and rehabilitation for drug addicts alcoholics, they can learn to be self sufficient. Until these programs be come mandatory and consistent, wel fare recipients will need to do what they need to get bills paid keep a roof over their head and keep food in their mouths. Some of the programs are good now, but do not have very good ben efits. They get to do grunt work, get paid minimum wages and still have no more than they started with. A job paying around six dollars and hour might be seen as a way off of wel fare, but when a woman gets a job, more costs appear. This rate is just above the poverty line. With new programs that sup port these women with more than cash, they can gain self-esteem, mo tivation and pride in themselves. Right now, if they get a job that pays minimum wage, they get kicked off the system. If the Federal Govern ment could elect to pay welfare a cer tain amount of months after a w oman has gotten a job, this would help the welfare system, abusing it like before and having no pride in themselves. This transition period would help people on welfare stay focused and be more successful. After all. who can really make a living on $10 and hour with tow or three children to raise by yourself, let alone $6.50 and hour. Food for thought To the editor, So all the managers are getting together to make some cuts in this organization. Why hasn't the tribal members heard from them before, about why the tribes are always in such a financial bind? Before slashing at tribal members and services, why doesn't manage ment justify to the people, whose money they are taking, why they should be kept on. Especially since management positions are the only thing that has grown. Or will they just change their titles, at the same pay. Seems to me that our leaders have forgotten their promises of looking out for the best interest of THE PEOPLE, who they all wanted to represent. Why doesn't the Council get more of the take from Indian Head? Are they afraid of losing their big spender image with their White brothers and Sisters by asking for money, which these speculators got from tribal members, to make money for them selves anyway. You know KahNeeTa couldn't give up anything. Other tribal money has had to support the resort since it started. That should reflect on that management. Our big shots don't seem to care, as long as someone gives them a little VIP treatment. So every year this bunch seems to get what ever they demand. Our leaders won't even follow up on all the complaints, by tribal members, on this outfit Or respond to any complaints on any of tribal manage ment AH I've ever seen is that they roll out a raggedy red carpet then our leaders are friends for life again. Since the timber resources are running out aren't these the ENTERPRISES that were suppose to save the tribes? Looking around, all I see and hear is the NON-INDIAN & APPLE DUMPLING GANG making sure their TRIBE is being taken care of first They want to make cuts, why don't they start with KahNeeTa manage ment. The resort has been nothing but one big leech on the tribes since it opened. For years the mill has had to support KahNeeTa. Now its the tribal casino, and next how many other tribal ENTERPRISES turn is it to keep afloat? That place has, probably the worst hiring practicing and bias against tribal members. Which our leaders seem to ignore. Why keep supporting something, just so a few of our bigshots can get their jollies off, trying to impress people, who only want more tribal money? Indian teams that tried to keep busi ness on the reservation, had to take theirdances to Sonny's, which gladly jumped for their business on a few hours notice, because KahNeeTa management turned them away at the last moment. I've been told, KahNeTa even turned away the Tribal Council's request to hold the last Miss Warm Springs doings there. Stuff like this has been going on for years, and seems to be getting worse since they were assured of having a casino at THEIR RESORT too. Still our leaders insist on paying these financial and managerial wizards top dollar. A number of GMs have been given the ax, but the undermanagers, who have been there for years, who think KahNeeTa belongs to them, continue with tribal councils bless ings. With all their SUCCESS do you people think they are really earning their keep. They don't care if the, tribes make money, because management seems to always reward these people. Just think this bunch are guaranteed bonuses, while every year Tribal Members always wonder if we will get anything. To our leaders KaNeeTa seems to be the center of the universe. They talk about saving and making money, that is where the slashing should begin. In my opinion, a casino should still be built on highway 26, with "real" ACCOUNTABILITY to the STOCKHOLDERSOWNERS, as they refer to us when try ing to impress outsiders. People would still go to KahNeeTa for the village pool and golf, and even the lodge if they catered to more of the general public, and not just to their fewer upper class. I think with more affordable prices, there would be a bigger, steadier clientele. Even if they aren't classy enough for KahNeeTa management, then tough, at least it would be steadier business. If our leaders would lower themselves to mingle and talk to common people they would probable hear a lot of people saying that they would go to KahNeeTa, more if the prices weren't so high and to the casino if they didn't have to go that far out of their way. Before the vote against Madras, a couple Councilmen implied that there could be another referendum on an other casino site. There were four Councilman who claimed to have voted no, since it only takes two to start a new referendum, what hap pened to them? A lot of people were hoping that they weren't just being politicians, siding with the most votes. Victor Moses, Tribal Member