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With the larger number of students in recent years, the camp was
relocated to Peters Pasture.
The move has given the camp space to accommodate all the children
who want to participate. Peters Pasture was once a summer range for
livestock. It was a ranger station, and during the depression it became a
CCC camp. Then Peters Pasture became a boy's summer youth camp,
and afterward it sat idle for several years until the 4-H camp moved in.
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Changes in juvenile prosecutions under way
By Dave McMechan
Spilyay Staff
Tribal Prosecutor Gene Smith
recently made some significant
changes in the way the Prosecutor's
Office handles cases of juvenile de
linquency and victim crimes.
The changes were made to bring
continuity to the tribes' effort to
prosecute all criminal activity that
occurs within the boundaries of
the reservation, said Smith, who
became tribal prosecutor about a
month ago.
One of the changes that Smith
has made is the transfer of respon
sibility for prosecuting juveniles -those
under the age of 18- who are
accused of violating tribal law.
Formerly, the tribes' juvenile
coordinator Daisy Ike and her staff
were responsible for prosecuting
these cases. Smith has transferred
this responsibility to the tribal
prosecutor.
Also, Smith has transferred re
sponsibility for prosecuting crimes
involving victims to the
Prosecutor's Office. Formerly,
these cases were prosecuted the
Victims of Crimes Services.
The changes that Smith has
implemented will make for more
efficient prosecution of alleged vio
lations of tribal law, Smith said.
With the tribal prosecutor respon
sible for both adult and juvenile
prosecutions, "We will have more
continuity in the presentation of
testimony and physical evidence in
Tribal Court," said Smith.
The juvenile cases would remain
under the jurisdiction and guide
lines of the tribes' Juvenile Court,
but the tribal prosecutor, rather
than the juvenile coordinator,
would represent the tribes.
The change in prosecution of ju
venile delinquency will benefit the
role of the juvenile coordinator,
Smith and Ike agree. With the
Prosecutor's Office handling the
prosecution, the juvenile coordina
tor will have more time to work
with youths and their family mem
bers in cases where the juvenile is
alleged to have committed only a
status offense, such as truancy.
In more serious cases, the recent
change would take the juvenile co
ordinator out of the position of
having to work at times in two
seemingly conflicting roles. On the
one hand, the juvenile coordina
tor is trying to work with the fami
lies at resolving problems and po
tential problems. At the same time,
the coordinator has had to act as
prosecutor, a more adversarial role.
Removing this second, poten
tially conflicting role will allow the
juvenile coordinator's office time
to work more closely with fami
lies, said Ike.
Smith said, "She has been in a
difficult position of trying to be a
friend on the hand, and prosecu
tor on the other."
Having the tribal prosecutor re
sponsible for the juvenile delin
quency prosecutions, Ike said,
would provide her staff with about
30 percent more time to spend
working with families and youths.
Similar benefits will happen
with the prosecutor's office taking
responsibility for prosecution of
crimes involving victims, formerly
handled by the Victims of Crimes
Services.
With the actual prosecutorial
work now with the Prosecutor, the
Victims of Crimes Services staff
can devote more time toward work
ing with and helping the victims,
Smith said.
Also, the change will mean that
prosecutorial procedure will be
unified under the Prosecutor's
Office, where the staff is trained
in evidentiary and other court pro
ceedings. Off-reservation offenses
Under the recent changes, the
juvenile coordinator would con
tinue to be responsible for cases
involving abuse and neglect of chil
dren. "And one of the biggest jobs
during the school year will be tru
ancy," said Smith.
Another juvenile-crime related
project that Smith is considering
involves alleged juvenile offenses,
by resident tribal members, that
happen off of the reservation, in
Madras for instance.
Currently, some of these cases
are transferred from county juve
nile jurisdiction to tribal juvenile
jurisdiction.
Smith said that he will first be
looking at background informa
tion as to how the county exercises
jurisdiction over some of these
cases.
Tribal law indicates that juris
diction of juvenile offenses, alleg
edly committed off the reservation
by tribal members who are resi
dents of the reservation, are within
the jurisdiction of tribal authori
ties, said Smith.
He said that his initial work on
this matter will be research as to
how the current arrangement came
to exist.
As issues of tribal sovereignty
may be involved, the Tribal Coun
cil may have to make final decision,
Smith said.
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Calica
returns to
Resources
By Jerry Brunei
Spilyay Staff
After three years as Chief of Op
erations Officer, Jody Calica is re
turning to the General Manager
position at Natural Resources,
which he held between 1989 and
1998 when he was appointed by
the Tribal Council as the Chief of
Operations Officer.
Calica aspires for the Natural
Resources Department to be like
that of the Confederated Tribes of
Umatilla, which was able to restore
the Coho salmon run that had not
been there for over 70 years.
Calica sees many health prob
lems among tribal members like
diabetes and high cholesterol
counts, and says the Confederated
Tribes, as a people, need to make
the traditional foods a staple part
of their diet, "ft (traditional food)
has a continuing value for us and
our children," said Calica.
And as GM, Calica plans to,
"protect and preserve our cultural
and traditional resources."
He says his major challenge will
be in management.
"I would ;ay my major chal
lenge is to get tribal members, es
pecially young tribal members to
take over this program. All aspects
of this program," said Calica.
Calica wants to expose kids at a
young age to outdoor education
and provide internships during the
summer for the working-age stu
dents. He hopes students will take
advantage of programs like Science
Math Investigative Learning Expe
riences (S.M.I.L.E.) from Oregon
State University and American
Indian Science Engineering Soci
ety (AISES).
After high school he hopes
they'll further their education and
the tribes will be able to support
them financially.
He cites Mark Jackson, who
earned a master's degree in range
land resources, and Mavis Shaw
who received a Bachelors of Sci
ence in general studies and is cur-
icnuy a nsnciics uiuiugisi, as
people the youth should emulate,
"We need to take and expand those
kind of successes," said Calica.
Managers
moving on
Two key members of the BIA
Forestry staff have accepted posi
tions off the reservation. Forest
Manager Mark Jackson has already
left to take a new job and Assis
tant Forest Manager Bodie Shaw
will be leaving at the end of Au
gust. Both, are Warm Springs tribal
members.
The BIA Regional Office in
Portland has named Rich Lohman
as acting forest manager. Lohman,
who has been acting forest man
ager twice, previously will tempo
rarily replace Jackson, who has
moved td Boise; Idaho.
Jackson had been the BIA for
est manager in Warm Springs since
March 2000. He has accepted a po
sition in Boise at the National In
teragency Fire Center, where he
will be a fire ecologist.
Jackson's promotion places him
in his field of study. He has a
master's degree from Oregon State
University in rangeland resources,
concentrating on fire ecology.
Shaw, whose contract with the
BIA expires soon, will return to
Corvallis and Oregon State Uni
versity, where he will be a natural
resources extension agent He will
also be doing course work on his
PhD. in environmental science.
Lohman's appointment as act
ing forest manager is effective for
120 days. The BIA is hoping to hire
a new forest manager as soon as
possible.
Results of
Hucklebeny
Feast
Powwow
Wawokya, Pine Grove Jr.'s, Spotted
Eagle, Warm Springs Intertribal,
North End, Dry Creek
Jr. Girls 7-12
1. Angie Anguiano -Wishram,
WA
2. Angela Polk - Warm
Springs, OR
3. Rosey "2-stars" Suppah -Warm
Springs, OR
Jr. Boys 7-12
1 . Trent Heath - Warm
Springs, OR
2. George Clements - Warm
Springs, OR
3. Matt Clements Jr. - Warm
Springs, OR
Teen Girls
1 . Valerie Suppah - Warm
Springs, OR
2. CeCe Herrera - Warm
Springs, OR
3. Mary Ann Brito - Warm
Springs, OR
Teen Boys
1. Alex Henry - Warm
Springs, OR
2. Dillon Begay - Celilo, OR
3. Red Sky Suppah
Women 's
1 . Charmaine Calica - Warm
Springs, OR
2. Bemadette Smith - Warm
Springs, OR
3. CeCe Walsey Begay -Warm
Springs, OR
Adult Men
1. Gene Sampson - Warm
Springs, OR
2. Big Rat Suppah
Clown Dance Contest
1. Dillon Begay - Celilo, OR
2. Spunky Arthur-Teeman -Milepost
2 Hwy 3
3. Jerome Spino
Farthest Traveler
Pam Johns Oneida - Tribe
from Minnesota
Healthiest Indian Contest
(Huckleberry Feast version of the
Fluffy Contest)
Ricky Arthur
Spunky Arthur-Teeman
Jasper Spino
Big Rat
Dempsena Polk
Harvianne Tohet
Honoring of the two oldest Elders
at the Huckleberry Feast
Lizzy Rhoan
Sanders "Tonto" Heath
Senior Recognition
Hilda Culpus
Nola Queahpama
Lizzy Rhoan
Winona Frank
Mary Ann Meanus
Freida Wallulatum
Viola Kalama
Jacob Frank
Hamilton Greeley
Tonto Heath