Spilyay Tyrooo, Warm Springs, Oregon
April 4, 2002
Fisheries regulations set for 2002 Guild t0 market artwork
Warm Sorinps Ventures The marina trill he at the
Fishing from scaffolds
using hoopnets, setnets
allowed until June 15
The Natural Resources De
partment of the Confederated
Tribes of the Warm Springs has
announced the highlights of
the Tribal Council resolution
regulating the spring chinook
salmon ceremonial and subsis
tence fishery at Sherars Falls.
The following restrictive
regulations were adopted by
Tribal Council on March 5, as
part of Resolution 10154.
1. In recognition of the tra
ditional methods of fishing,
fishing from scaffolds using
hoopnets and setnets will be
allowed seven days per week
from, April 1 through June 15.
All wild steelhead must be
released and returned to the
river unharmed.
The provisions of Warm
Springs Tribal Code 340.310
(8), requiring that setnets and
hoopnets are attended continu
ously, will be enforced.
2. A subsistence fishery will
be allowed up to a harvest cap
of 325 adult wild spring
chinook salmon. There will be
unrestricted fishery for hatch
ery spring chinook salmon.
3. The Department of
Natural Resources will be re
sponsible for monitoring the
fishery. Once the harvest cap
of 325 adult wild spring
chinook salmon is reached,
fishing for adult wild spring
chinook salmon will be closed
and all adult wild spring
chinook must be released and
returned to the river un
harmed. Fishing will remain
open for hatchery spring
chinook salmon.
4. Hook and line fishing,
one pole per person and single
hook only (no treble hooks),
will be permitted.
5. Snagging of fish will be
prohibited, any fish that is
snagged incidentally must be
returned to the river un
harmed. 6. The Natural Resources
Department and Police De
partment shall closely monitor
the Sherars Falls fishery and
strictly enforce the regulation
requiring the release of un
marked steelhead by hook and
line fishers.
7. The Warm Springs River
and all its tributaries will be
closed to all fishing.
8. Pursuant to Warm
Springs Tribal Ordinance 68,
Section 490.500 and Section
490.510 (8), the sale of fish
caught for subsistence pur
poses is prohibited.
9. Monitoring of the tribal
harvest, fish escapement over
Bonneville and The Dalles
dams, and fish returns to Warm
Springs National Fish Hatch
ery and Round Butte Hatchery
will be used to determine if in
season harvest modifications
will be necessary.
The Natural Resources De
partment is expecting the re
turn of approximately 20,000
hatchery spring chinook
salmon and approximately
2,000 wild spring chinook
salmon to the Deschutes River.
This years return is expected
to be the largest return on
record.
If anyone has any questions
please call the Natural Re
sources Department at 553
2001. Also, please call the fish
ing information hotline to get
the latest updates on Tribal
Fishing opportunities.
would like to invite all inter
ested tribal member artists to
join the Warm Springs Guild.
The main objective of the
guild is to help individual
tribal member artists market
their crafts nationwide using
the largest on-line auction
house in the world.
Anyone interested in selling
beadwork, painting, pottery,
silverwork, basketry or other
traditional crafts on-line is in
vited to attend a meeting on
Thursday, April 18, at 6 p.m.
Warm Springs Ventures office
at the Plaza. Refreshments will
be served. The Guild is a natu
ral match for Warm Springs, as
there are a number of gifted
craft people who carry on
tribal traditions. j
With the assistance of OIS,
everything necessary to auc- !
tion tribal artwork will be pro-
vided by Warm Springs Ven- 1
tures.
There is no cost to join the J
guild. For more information, !
call Danzuka at 553-3565.
Tribes launch enterprise
25 years ago this week
From the April 2, 1976
edition of the Spilyay:
A tour conducted by the
Confederated Tribes Fish and
Wildlife Committee at Shear
ers Bridge on the banks of the
Deschutes River was to view
a site for a possible Indian
campground.
The Fish and Wildlife
Committee members are
Harold Culpus, Delbert
Frank and Nelson
Wallulatum. Teresa Katchia is
secretary,5' auM.
Others who.' Were on "the ?.
tour included Gene Greene,
director of Natural Re
sources; Harry Pagett, mu
seum director; Ray Welch,
BIA land operations office;
Don Schmit, BIA roads; Cy
Katchia of the Water Board,
Sid Miller, editor of the
Spilyay Tymoo, and Olney
"J.P." Patt Jr., photographer
and reporter for the paper.
There were several sites
discussed and also the facili
ties that would be installed to
accommodate the Indian fish
ermen. A brief history of the
Shearers Bridge area was pre
sented, as this was a custom
ary event for generations.
The 'Warrrf vSpringtf"f nmsmr
fnigratetl into theVrea luring
the heavy fish runs.
In other news: Night
hunters are being blamed for
at least four of the six cattle
killed in reservation grazing
areas during the past year.
Spilyay
Tymoo
CCoyote News, Est. 1976)
Publisher Emeritus: Sid Miller
Executive Editor:
Management Successor:
ReporterPhotographer:
Media Advisor:
Dave McMechan
Selena T. Boise
Tina Aguilar
Bill Rhoades
Secretary: Trudee Queahpama-Clements
Established In March 1976
Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confed
erated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located
in the white house at 1 100 Wasco Street.
Any written materials submitted 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: spilyaytymooOwstribes.org
Annual Subscription rates:
Within U.S.-S 15.00
Outside U.S. or 1st Class In the U.S.-$25.00
For questions on advertising rates and policies,
please call Bill Rhoades at 553-2013,
or the Spilyay office at 553-3274.
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Highway is closed
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n
Beverly Arthur is working for the Oregon Department of
Transportion, helping direct traffic to the detour around the
Mlt Creek- Bridge project.
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Highway 26 has been
closed this week, as work
began on the Mill Creek
Bridge maintenance project.
The highway will remain
closed during weekdays
through May 3.
Passenger vehicle traffic is
using routes 3 and 9 through
Simnasho. Truck traffic is us
ing the route over highways
97, 197 and 216, through the
Maupin area.
The highway is open on
weekends, beginning at noon
on Fridays.
The newest tribal enter
prise, formed earlier this year,
is Warm Springs Geo Visions,
specializing in computer-based
spatial information. Geo Vi
sions is an enterprise branch of
the Warm Springs Geographic
Information System (GIS) De
partment. The GIS department, di
rected by Jim Crocker, is
housed at the Forestry build
ing at the Natural Resources
Industrial Park compound.
Geo Visions has developed
into an enterprise with fund
ing assistance from Warm
Springs Ventures, a tribal busi
ness and economic develop
ment corporation.
As Warm Springs Geo Vi
sions pursues contract oppor
tunities that would generate
revenue for the tribes, the GIS
department will continue its
traditional duties, said
Crocker. GIS employs seven
people. The department gen
erates information and com
puterized mapping that is use
ful in many ways. .'
The GIS department works t
with Warm Springs Fire Man-
agement and other fire control
agencies, and assists in moni- J
toring of natural resources. !
Early this year, the depart-
ment began exploring the pos- '
sibility of developing an enter- ;
prise. !
The plan is for Warm !
Springs Geo Visions to con-
tract with government and pri-
vate entities for the kinds of ;
services in which the GIS em-
ployees are specialized. 1
Toward launching the new
enterprise, Warm Springs Ven-
tures has retained the services
of consultants Beltram & As- J
sociates and 7D systems for '
sales and marketing.
"The consulting group i
brings over 50 years of com-
bined expertise in this field," '
said Tom Henderson, chief ;
executive officer of Warm J
Springs Ventures.
Youth passes away from gunshot
A 15-year-old Warm Springs
youth has passed away from a
. gunshot . wound.!, . ..,
T- Tommy Dickson passed
away on Tuesday at St. Charles
Medical Center in Bend.
This week, Warm Springs
Police and the FBI were inves
tigating the circumstances of
the shooting, wihch occurred
on Sunday, March 31.
Tommy was in critical con
dition at the hospital until he -'
passed away. He was suffering
from. a gunshot wound o5
head.'? 3 J 1 ' & '.'
Police dispatch received no
tice of the March 31 incident
at 4:28 a.m. Location was on
Poosh Avenue in Warm,
Springs. Tommy was then ,
transported by ambulance to
Mountain View, and then:
flown to St. Charles.
Teens to help with home repairs
Project benefits
students, seniors,,
families in need
The Sierra Service Project
will be offering its services to
the Warm Springs Reservation
this summer.
Sierra Service Project volun
teers work on four different
reservations throughout the
nation each year. This year, for
the first time, one of the sum
mer 2002 volunteer project
sites will be in Oregon.
A different group of young
people will work each week,
starting at the end of June and
continuing through the begin
ning of August
By the end of the project
300 young people will have
paid tuition fees to attend the
camp and given up one week
of their summer vacation to
provide home repairs to seniors
and families in need.
The Sierra Service Project
was started 27 years ago by sev
eral pastors from the United
Methodist Church.
Its goal is to introduce
young people to community
service, while providing hous
ing assistance to families in
need on reservations.
Over the years, the Sierra
Service Project has worked on
over on 45 different reserva
tions and on nearly 1,500
homes.
The volunteers provide all
of their own food, tools and
materials.
The repair work they do
does not come out of the tribal
housing budget.
"This will allow us to do
some work and help some
people we wouldn't otherwise
be able to help," said William
Fucntcs, Tribal Chief Operat
ing Officer.
Clinic: expansion is first since 1993
While on the reservation
the youth will be living in the
Community Wellness Center.
They will sleep and ear
there during their stay on the '
reservation.
About Sierra Service
Project, this is a nonprofit cor
poration affiliated with the
United Methodist Church.'
For more information contact'
(916)488-6441 or email at
infosicrrascrviccprojcct.org.'-
Local inquiries as to how
homes will be selected can be
directed to Chet VanPclt or
Rudy Clements at the Hous-'
ing Department, 553-3250.
Senior can also contact
Elton Greeley, at the Seniors
Program, 553-3313.
(Continued from page 1)
Construction of the new
building is a major part of the
expansion plan, but there are
other aspects as well. For in
stance: The dental program, which
is in need of more room, would
expand into the area that is
now the adjacent optometry
department.
The optometry depart
ment, which is also crowded,
would move into new building
addition.
The clinic warehouse and
storage facility arc greatly in
need of more space, and this
would be addressed by the ex
pansion. Another part of the plan is
to develop a family room next
to the urgent care room. This
would eliminate the situation
where family members have to
wait in the hallway while a
loved one is receiving urgent
care. Tribal elders will be asked
to help design the family room,
said Alger.
Some other reasons why the
clinic expansion and remodel
ing are needed:
The medical files containing
patient information have mul
tiplied over the years to the
point where the records de
partment is running out of
room. Managed care and the
business office need additional
space.
Doctors and others at the
clinic share small offices lo
cated back by the warehouse
area.
The optometry depart
ment, because of limited space,
is not convenient for people
with handicaps.
There are many instances
that demonstrate the need for
more room, said Alger.
The clinic expansion and
remodeling would be the first
such project at the clinic since
its opening in 1993.
Alger said that his hope is
that this will not be the last.
Looking five or so years into
the future, Alger said that one
day he would like to sec the
development by the clinic of
prevention center, including a
large swimming pool, a gym
nasium, and other health-related
facilities.
Smoke visible
from burn areas
Notice to the public:
Fire Management will be
conducting two burns dur
ing the next three weeks.
The crews started march
25. Smoke will be ob
served for several weeks in
the burn areas.
They will be burning
along Highway 9, on the
Island, and on Miller Flat
approximately two miles
south of County Line
Road.
Any questions, please
contact Fire Management
at 553-1146.