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February 6, 2003 Vol. 28, No. 3
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Deschutes River claims father and daughter
By Spilyay Tymoo staff
A family tragedy at the
Deschutes River last week
claimed the life of a 3-year-old
girl and her father, Derek
Flowers, 37, of Chiloquin.
The body of the 3-year-old
daughter was found
Tuesday on a riverbank
about 10 miles downstream
from the area where the ac
cident occurred.
The father's body was
found early Wednesday af
ternoon near the location of
his daughter's body.
This week, between 30 and
40 people were at the river
looking for the body of Mr.
Flowers and his daughter.
Tribal police media spokes
man Bob Medina said investi
gators believe that Mr. Flowers
jumped into the Deschutes in an
effort to save his daughter.
The girl had been sitting in a
pickup truck that rolled into the
water, investigators said. This
happened on Friday evening,
Jan. 31.
At the time Mr. Flowers and
his two daughters were on a
fishing trip along the Deschutes
in the area of the Moody
Ranch, near South Junction.
The older daughter, age 5,
witnessed the accident, and ran
for help. The nearest house was
about half-a-mile from the
t
Dava McMechanKniluau
A search teams attempts to locate the bodies Derek Flowers and his 3-year-old daughter.
scene. Arriving back at the pickup was pulled from the river,
scene, witnesses then saw Mr. The following afternoon the body
Flowers facedown in the water, of the girl was found in the Whis-
They also saw the pickup float- key Dicks fishing area.,
ing downstream. Then, one day later her fa-
On Monday of this week the ther was found in the same area
a bit upstream.
The girl, whose name is not yet
being released by investigators,
was a member of the Confeder
ated Tribes. Her father was mar
ried into the tribes. Mr. Flowers
worked for a time at the Cul
tural Resources Department
After being recovered from
the river, his daughter's body
was taken to Bel Air Funeral
Home in Madras. Washut ser
vices for the family took place
this week at the Agency
Longhouse.
The search effort this week
at the river included the 30 to
40 personnel, plus equipment
including several rafts, a jet boat
and helicopter. The base camp
was established by the river in
the area where accident hap
pened. Warm Springs Police wishes
to thank all those who partici
pated in the search.
Powwow
is this
weekend
The Longhouse at Simnasho
is the place to be this weekend
for powwow activities. The 2003
Lincoln's Birthday Powwow, this
year marking its 26'h anniver
sary, is set for Thursday through
Sunday, Feb. 6-9.
The Lincoln's Birthday Pow
wow is one of the great events
on the reservation, drawing
many championship dance and
drum contestants both locally
and from around the nation.
This year the powwow will
feature a $6,000 Memorial
Drumming Contest, sponsored
by the Greene family. There will
also be a hand-drum contest,
and Chicken DanceRound
Bustle Special.
Murder case
sentencing set
The sentencing date for the
man who confessed last year to
the 1987 murder of atwai tribal
member Lorraine Still and her
friend Gabriel Sanchez Ramos
is set for Feb. 21.
Some of the family members
of Ms. Still are planning to at
tend the hearing, and possibly
speak to the judge regarding the
sentencing.
The family has made an ef
fort to forgive the man who
committed the crime, said
Danny Martinez, an older
brother of Margaret Still.
Story time with Adeline Miller
By Shannon Keaveny
Spilyay Tymoo
Ever wonder how the
rattlesnake got its rattle? Why
we have four seasons? Or
why a jackrabbit's hind legs
are brown?
Warm Springs elder
Adeline Miller has the an
swers. With a sideways glance
and a twinkle in her eye, she
begins to tell the story. ...
Her captivated audience
listens.
You see, she says, the
rattlesnake used to not have
a ratde.
But because he had no
arms, no legs, nor feet or
hands, the other children did
not want to play with him.
Now rattlesnake lived
with his grandma. His
grandma told him to go out
and find a rattle so other
kids would want to play with
him. After finding a rattle,
he wrapped it around his tail
because he had no other
way to carry it.
Much to his dismay, the
rattle scared off the kids, in
cluding the jackrabbit that
was the first to run. That's
how the rattlesnake became
such a bad guy: because the
other children wouldn't play
with him.
Or there was a time when
all animals were able to un
derstand and talk the same
language. Well, they got to ar
guing about which season it
should always be. One liked
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Council votes
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Story-teller Adeline Miller
winter, one liked fall, another
liked spring, and another liked
summer.
In the end, it was agreed they
would have four seasons and
please all the animals. And that's
why we have four seasons to
day. Or, when the people were
starving because there was no
food. The jackrabbit decided he
would help. He lit a bonfire and
ran back and forth over the fire.
He called to the people, "I'm
food, roast mel" Well, the
people were scared and didn't
take him up on his offer. But
his hind legs, roasted a light
brown, have been like that ever
since.
Whether it's the value of
compromise or the importance
of playing with other children,
Miller's got the answer with witty
fables passed on since the be
ginning of time.
"After I retired, there wasn't
much to do but tell stories and
teach the young kids," she says.
Adeline Miller spent her
childhood traveling by horse
back from place to place. One
of those places was a well
known huckleberry picking spot
near Mount Hood, known as
Hambone Ridge, where she was
born.
Another place was Celilo
Falls, where her father, a tradi
tional fisherman, held rights to
an ancestral fishing hole.
See STORIES on page 3
By Dave McMechan
Spilyay Tymoo
The Tribal Council has rec
ommended two candidates
for the position of superin
tendent of the Warm Springs
Agency of the Bureau of In
dian Affairs (BIA).
The recommendations will
be considered by the regional
director of the bureau,
Stanley Speaks.
The two recommended
candidates are both Native
Americans. They are Charles
"Jody" Calica, member of the
Confederated Tribes, and cur
rently the superintendent of
the Northern Idaho Agency;
and Paul Young, current su
perintendent of the Nevada
Agency.
A third potential candi
date, acting superintendent
Gerald Henrikson, is not rec
ommended for the position
because he is non-Indian, ac
cording to the Council reso
lution. The resolution states in
part:
"The Tribal Council has
carefully considered all previ
ous applicants referred to the
tribes by the regional director
of the BIA's Northwest Re
gional Office in 2001 and
2002; and based upon these
reviews determined that Mr.
I Icnrikson, a non-Indian pref
erence candidate, had the
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most appro
priate quali
fications and
experience
to fill this
position."
The reso
lution continues:
' "The
Tribal Council was advised by
the regional director that he
could not appoint Mr.
Henrikson to the position due
to the fact that the Burns Tribe
did not concur with the recom
mendation of the non-Indian
candidate."
The Warm Springs BIA
agency office is responsible for
BIA actions on the Warm
Springs Reservation, as well as
Burns Paiute. For this reason
both tribal governments are
given the opportunity to recom
mend candidates for the job.
There are about 350 mem
bers of the Burns Paiute Tribe,
with about 36 percent residing
on their reservation.
With Gerald Henrikson no
longer considered for the super
intendent position, the Tribal
Council then made the recom
mendation of the two Native
American candidates.
"The Tribal Council, after
having recently reviewed a
third panel of applicants by the
regional director for the same
Set BIA on page 5
Website will feature tribal view on Lewis and Clark
Tribes have unique
chance to tell their
side of the story
By Shannon Keaveny
Spilyay Tymoo
Come August, the perspec
tive of the Confederated Tribes
on the Ix'wis and Clark Expcdi
tion will be online.
Tribal Council last week ap
proved a request for collabora
tion between the Confederated
Tribes Cultural Planning Group
and the University of Idaho to
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Fort Rock visit page 2
River grant page 3
Letters 4
New ambulance 5
Tilda Walsey. 6
Languages pages 8,9
launch a new Warm Springs Res
ervation website.
The site will be called The
Lewis and Clark Rediscovery
Life-Long Learning Online
Internet Project.
Visiting professor Dr. Rodney
Frcy, coordinator of the Ameri
can Indian Studies Program at
the University of Idaho, is head
ing up the website project.
I Ic attended the tribal coun
cil meeting last week. Represen
tatives from the Confederated
Tribes arc Evaline Patt, program
manager at the Museum at
Warm Springs; Lorraine
Suppah, tribal webmaster;
Olivia Wallulatum, legislative co
ordinator for tribal Government
Affairs; and Myra Johnson,
Culture and I Icritagc director.
Some 30 Warm Springs
tribal members of various ages
are being interviewed about
Ixwis and Clark.
Their stories have been
passed down orally for genera
tions. Brigette Whipple and
Duran Bob have been conduct
ing interviews since October.
Stories and cultural knowl
edge on the website will focus
on the Columbia River, salmon,
and the tribal experience with
the Lewis and Clark group,
which traveled through the re
gion in 1805 and 1806.
On the website, the Wasco,
Wyams, and John Day tribes,
and the Deschutes River bands
will have an opportunity to
share their knowledge of land
stewardship.
Celilo Falls will be presented
as a bustling Indian trade hub.
The Cultural Planning Group
will utilize this opportunity to
educate the public about Warm
Springs Reservation treaty lan
guage. Examples of treaty language
are Usual and Accustomed and
the Ceded Lands. This language
recognizes the tribes' rights to
hunting, fishing, and gathering
roots and huckleberries over 10
million acres.
Additional cultural informa
tion and history, up to the
present day, will be included on
the website. This will bring
greater understanding of the
Indian ways to the general pub
lic. "This is a great opportunity
to clarify mainstream misunder
standings about the arrival of
Lewis and Clark," said Frey.
The website will be very de
tailed and technically advanced.
Videos of elders and other tribal
members may be viewed on the
website with sound.
"Ironically, we're bringing
oral tradition to the video
screen. Writing down things can
undermine oral tradition," said
Frey.
Once online, all tribes in
volved will retain the intellectual
and cultural rights to the infor
mation. Adjustments to the
website can be made at any
time.
"When Ixwis and Clark came
through, a collaboration between
the tribes, as a sovereign nation,
and the expedition occurred.
Now, 200 years later the tribes
are once again asserting their
sovereignty," said Frey.
To date the Couer D'Alene
Indians have aired their
website. The Nez Perce re
cently completed their version.
In its final stage, the website
project will include 1 1 differ
ent Lewis and Clark accounts
from tribes along the Lewis
and Clark trail.
The website will run from
2003 to 2006.
But, because of the value of
the educational materials, the site
may run longer.
The intended audience is
classroom teachers of all ages.
The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration
(NASA) provided $45,000 to the
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs to implement the
website.
The site will be at no cost to
the tribes. NASA, a promoter of
exploration to planet Mars, set
aside funds to record explora
tions of the past, specifically the
Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Spilyay tyoo.