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News from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation i Jan. 24, 2002 Vol. 27, No. 2
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Museum
hires new
director
The Board of Directors of The
Museum at Warm Springs has
chosen Carol Leone, from Ari
zona, as the new director of the
museum.
Leone is expected to begin
work here mid-February, said Ed
Manion, who has been acting
museum director for the past
year. '
Leone will be coming to Warm
Springs from Flagstaff, where she
worked for the museum of the
state of Arizona.
The Museum at Warm Springs
has been without a permanent di
rector for about one year.
Continued on page 3
A century after
By Dave McMechan
SpifyayStaff
For the past two weeks 20 Califor
nia bighorn sheep have been roam
ing the Mutton Mountains.
Some of the animals are wearing
radio collars, so wildlife managers
have been tracking their whereabouts.
Some of the sheep are staying in a
main herd. Some others have gathered
into a smaller herd.
Still fewer - maybe just two or
three sheep - are away from the other
two herds.
The bighorns now living in the
Mutton Mountains are from moun
tains at the upper John Day River.
The sheep are the first bighorns In
the Mutton Mountains in about a
century.
Planning and preparation for big
horn reintroduction on the reserva
tion took years. Terry Luther, Doug
Calvin and Stanley Simtustus at
Tribal Natural Resources have been
working on this project for a long
time.
While the planning and prepara
tion took a long time, the capture of
the sheep at John Day and the release
on the reservation took only about
24 hours.
The sheep were captured on
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Doug Calvin (left) and Stanley Simtustus, of the Confederated Tribes Natural
Resources Branch, prepare radio collars at the base camp.
Adoption election
76 candidates
again disappointed
The adoption election this past
Monday failed for lack of voter par
ticipation. The same thing happened last
October.
It may be some time before the
Tribal Council schedules another
such election.
"The Tribal Council may not im
mediately want to re-schedule a third
election," said Charles Jackson, Secretary-Treasurer.
The most recent valid adoption
vote of the Confederated Tribes hap
penedinl996. In that year, 162 candidates were
on the ballot, and 137 candidates were
adopted into the Confederated Tribes.
The failed ballot on Monday of
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The sheep were captured in the upper
Thursday, Jan. 10, and released at
dawn in the Mutton Mountains the
following morning.
In between time the sheep were
kept in a horse trailer. Bighorns can
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this week included 76 adoption can
didates, the same people who were on
the October 2001 ballot.
The 1996 vote may have generated
more voter participation because
more candidates were on the ballot,
said Jackson.
A point of discussion, he said, may
be whether to wait for additional can
didates to qualify for a new adoption
ballot before re-scheduling another
vote.
Degree of controvery
The issue of tribal adoption in re
cent years carries some degree of con
troversy. Lack of voter participation is a
statement in itself, according to some
tribal members.
They point out that only one of
the 76 candidates on the recent bal
lot has one-quarter blood of the Con
federated Tribes of Warm Springs.
John Day area, and transported in a
become excited during a capture, but
they tend to calm down once they are
together in a trailer, said Doug Calvin.
The sheep were netted individually
from a helicopter, operated by
I la vv kins & Powers, out of Wyoming.
I lawkins & Powers was working
through a contract with the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife. The
Confederated Tribes in turn had an
agreement for 20 sheep with ODFW
Captured by helicopter
On the Thursday of the capture,
the helicopter team would fly out to
the Aldrich Mountaias, located near
the towns of Mt. Vernon and John
Day.
The helicopter flew out to the
mountaias from a base camp that the
ground teams had set up at the foot
hills of the Aldrich Mountains.
Once in the air and In sight of
sheep, the pilot would maneuver the
helicopter while a crewmcmber
would deploy a net (into a sheep.
On the ground, the sheep would
be secured with straps. The sheep
were blindfi ildcd s i tiny would Keep
calm.
The animals were then placed In
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Craig Tulee casts his ballot.
The other candidates to varying
degrees have less than one-quarter
Confederated Tribes blood.
the Muttons
horse trailer.
special carrying sacks. The sacks were
attached to the helicopter by long
ropes, allowing the pilot to fly the
sheep back to the base camp.
Usually, one or two sheep were
flown in at a time. On two separate
occasions, four sheep were flown In
during a single helicopter run.
The base camp was staffed by
teams of wildlife biologists, techni
cians and veterinarians.
Once a sheep arrived at the camp,
the animal was given oxygen, and
treated with antibiotics.
The straps and blindfi kl were then
removed, and the sheep was put Into
a horse trailer.
Took 24 hours
The first sheep was captured early
in the morning, ami the List ft Kir were
flown in just as the sun was going
dowa
The sheep were transported by
trailer to a property between Madras
and Metollus, where they spent the
night.
Farly the following morning, they
were brought out to the Mutton
Mountaias and released.
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On the other hand, each of the
recent candidates qualifies for adop
tion under tribal law of the Confed
erated Tribes.
Tribal members who supported
the recent election say it is unfair to
avoid a coasensus vote through a fail
ure to participate.
Some also say it is a waste of
money. Each adoption election costs
the tribes approximately 15,000.
Funeral was Monday
The election on Monday hap
pened on Martin Luther King Jr. Day,
a national holiday.
There was a funeral on Monday as
well, for a local man who was well
loved.
This may have led to fewer votes
on Monday.
A funeral also happened about the
time of the October adoption election.
Bright future
for tribes'
GIS service
By Dave McMechan
SpifyayStaff
It is the kind of technology
-that many people find useful and
interesting. And the Confeder
ated Tribes are a leader in the
field.
Plans are under way to expand
the program. This will create
new tribal member jobs, and
generate money for the tribes.
The Geographic Information
System, or GIS office is a depart
ment the Confederated Tribes
Natural Resources Branch.
Currently, seven employees
work at GIS, which is housed in
the Forestry building at the
Natural ResourcesIndustrial
Park compound.
The GIS work involves the
use of state of the art computer
hardware and software.
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Youth, 14,
injured during
failed break-in
Very early Monday morning, a
homeowner on Looksh Road In
the Greely I leights neighborhood
encountered a youth who, accord
ing to police, was trespassing and
breaking into vchkles on the prop
erty. 11k Ik imcowncr confronted the
youth, age 1 4, who also apparently
had been trying to break Into the
h imeowncr's rcskkrncc.
The homeowner reported that
die yt Kith, who was intoxkatcd, ap
proached tlx: homuiwner in a man
ner that led the owner to believe
the youth was armed with a
weapon. The homeowner struck
the youth on the head with an ax
handle, and thereby was able to
detain die youth.
Police arrived upon the scene,
and discovered die youth, now suf
fering a head Injury, was In posses
sion of a knife. The youth tried to
scuffle with officers, tried to bite
ami kk k them, according to polkx.
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