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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