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3R.C0LL. P.O. Box 870 Warm Springs, OR 97761 vmdc Knight Library Acquisition Dept. 1299 University or Oregon Eugene OR 97403-1205 U.S. Postage Bulk Rate Permit No. 2 Warm Springs, OR 97761 50 cents March 20, 2003 Vol. 28, No. 6 Coyote News, est. 1976 t 75 .S8 v. 8 no. 6 " ' March 20, Spiiysiy Diggers need to wait Warm Spring ordinance restricts rootdigging before community feast Except for ceremonial dig gers, it is still too early to dig traditional roots. The Warm Springs Culture and Heritage Department re minds community members to abide by Warm Springs Ordi nance 68. The ordinance states: No tribal member shall gather, collect, possess, sell, barter, exchange, pur chase, offer to sell, purchase or ex change, or transport any cultural material in violation of tribal laws, . traditions or customs. Any tribal member doing so shall, in addition to any sanctions imposed by any other applicable law, be subject to such traditional sanctions as may be determined by the tribal Cul ture and Heritage Committee. According to Brigette Whipple at the Culture and Heritage Department, the ordi nance protects tribal traditions and resources. The Root Feast has been set for the end of this month at Agency and Simnasho longhouses. Suspect held for shooting A Warm Springs man is be ing held on a charge of second degree murder in connection with a shooting death that hap pened last week. Ray Wesley Smith, 29, is being held in con nection with the death of Jaime Prieto Muriel, 25. Muriel died Friday night, March 14, from a gunshot wound to the head. Police say that Muriel had just moved to Warm Springs from Salem, and was living with his girlfriend. The shooting occurred at about 10 p.m. on March 14, at 4115 Miller Heights, Warm Springs. At the time officers re ceived a 911 call reporting a possible gunshot victim. Upon arrival, officers found Muriel unresponsive. He was transported to Mountain View Hospital, where he was pro nounced dead. Later, Smith turned himself in to a local pastor, and was then arrested and taken into custody, said Robert Medina, Warm Springs police public informa tion officer. The following day, Saturday, Warm Springs Corrections Lt. Stoncy Miller was conducting a Search and Rescue class. He had the Search and Rescue ca dets search an area where the shotgun might be found. At about 1 1 a.m. on Saturday, one of the cadets found the weapon, said Medina. The case against Smith will go to grand jury for possible in dictment. I le was being held in jail in Pordand awaiting a pre liminary hearing this Thursday. roject Outreach page 2 Vet honored page 3 Dam upgrade page 5 Letters page 6 Abuse awareness....page 7 Sports page 8 Languages.. 10,11 t, y a-J - ... -II M I Buffs win By Sid Miller Publisher Emeritus This is the year the Buffs and fans will remember for some time, as the Madras White Buffaloes won the state championship, beating the Burns Hilanders by the score of 40-26. Not since 1977 have the Madras White Buffaloes brought home the state championship. They have come close at times but had to settle for runner-up in the past. Don't sell the Burns Lady Hilanders short, as they went through quite a schedule to make it to the finals. They Call for BPA audit reaches national level Northwest tribes have gone national with their call for a full audit of the Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA's) fish and wildlife program. The National Congress of American Indians, meeting re cently in Washington, D.C., unanimously passed an emer gency resolution reprimanding BPA for its proposal to cut fund ing for fish and wildlife protec tion, mitigation and enhance ment programs by nearly 45 percent a year through 2006. A member of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATN1) introduced the resolu tion, which was worded similarly to one approved by ATNl's 54 member tribes at a meeting last month in Portland. The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs arc among the members. Like its ATNI counterpart, the National Congress of American Indians resolution ( KI: .i r I f .ill: Sid MillerSpilyay state title beat Glide 39-32, and topped Marist 48-30. In their first game they beat North Mission 53-49, and then ran into the Madras White Buffaloes, who were awesome to this point. Against the Hilanders, the Buffs jumped right out to a 10-2 first quarter lead. The Madras girls- could taste vic tory in the last half of the game, outplaying the Hilanders. Scoring for Madras: Jane Retherford 13, Tara Prow 12, Elise Hawcs 8, Tasha Wilson 7, and Jaylyn Suppah 2. This was a great year for the Madras White Buffaloes. See BUFFS on page 2 seeks a full management and financial audit of BPA. The resolution also calls on the BPA to comply with the fish and wildlife opinion of the Na tional Marine Fisheries Service, in regard to operation of the 29-dam federal Columbia River power system. BPA should also comply with the fish and wildlife opinion of the Northwest Power Planning Council, according to the reso lution. The National Congress of American Indian resolution also blasts BPA for failing to admin ister and adequately fund its ob ligations to fish and wildlife in the region. The resolution says the BPA decision to cut fish and wildlife funding "could provide an ad verse precedent for other fed eral agencies that have a respon sibility to protect trust resources of Indian tribes throughout the U.S." si BIA chooses Young By Dave McMechan Spilyoy Tymoo The Bureau of Indian Affairs has appointed Paul Young to the position of superintendent of its Warm Springs Agency. Young has been working as the superintendent of the Ne vada Agency of the BIA. He is set to begin work in Warm Springs in early April. Young has over 20 years of management experience. In his job in Nevada, he was respon sible for all BIA programs on eight reservations and colonies. The. programs include contract ing, social services, probate and real estate services, tribal opera tions including courts and natu ral resources. Before working at the Ne vada BIA Agency, he was the director of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, which employs over 700 person Ventures Warm Springs Ventures, the tribal business and economic development corporation, has purchased a Bend business that specializes in payroll and related computer software. The company is Cort Direc tions, Inc., and provides payroll software services to diverse or ' ganizations across the country. The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, for instance, uses Cort Directions for its pay roll. Other clients include Harvard University, Boeing, the Denver Broncos and Tribune Publishing. Cort Directions serves manufacturers, hospitals, casinos, government agencies, Still no agreement on river permits At a meeting in Pordand this week, tribal officials again voiced concern over the exces sive number of rafters who at times overcrowd the Lower Deschutes River. The tribes favor implemen tation of a permit system that would limit the number of rafters during particularly busy weekends of the summer. River guides and local gov ernments such as the city of 1 rlOTl OTPQ A 1 w 1 v Tci-cYr n VClCIdll i nel. Young has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from UCLA. He also has a Masters degree in Public Affairs from the University of Washington. Young was one of two final candidates considered by the BIA for the Warm Springs Agency superintendent job. The other candidate was Jody Calica, member of the Confed erated Tribes of Warm Springs, currently working as superinten dent of the Northern Idaho BIA Agency. Gerald Henrikson, who has served as temporary BIA super intendent for Warm Springs, was also a candidate. Tribal Council could not recommend Henrikson for the superinten dent job because he is a non Indian, and the BIA has an In dian hiring preference. This left Young and Calica as the final two buys Bend trucking companies, farming co ops, schools and ski resorts. There is the potential for some aspect of Cort Directions to relocate to the reservation, said Tom Henderson, chief ex ecutive officer of Warm Springs Ventures. Cort Directions customer ser vice, for instance, could relocate, he said. The Confederated Tribes began using the Cort Directions payroll software back in the 1980s, a short time after the company was established, said Judy Johnson, who supervises the tribal payroll. Cort Directions, said Maupin are opposed to the river permit proposal. Part of the disagreement is about a provision of the Lower Deschutes River Management Plan. Tribal, state and federal officials developed the plan, with input from the public and a nine-member advisory group appointed by the governor. The plan, adopted in 1993, sets the level of rafting that would warrant implementation f 4H..I.HU. .i .. ii i - 1 '" mill LI. " r I Dennis Thompson (right) just recently received war medals that he earned durin9 tne Vietnam War. Thompson was presented the medals at a ceremony at the Agency Longhouse earlier this monthi Above' nis brother Rico gives congratulations. See story on page 3. candidates. Stan Speaks, regional direc tor of the BIA, made the deci sion to hire Young. Speaks was traveling this week and was un available for comment. As Henrikson will no longer be serving as temporary super intendent, he will move back to his previous BIA job at Natural Resources. The BIA Warm Springs Agency office has been without a permanent superintendent for over two years. The Warm Springs Agency includes the Warm Springs Reservation, and the Burns-Paiute. "I'm glad that we're going to have a permanent superinten dent, so that we're not left hang ing on a limb," said Angelena Smith, Warm Springs BIA super intendent secretary. "I think we'll see a big difference having the permanent superintendent." company Johnson, began as a husband and wife venture. Nancy and Jerry Cort were the co-founders, she said. The Cort Direction payroll computer programs were well developed from the very begin ning, said Johnson. ."It's been a solid system that has not gone through many changes, because it was well-designed from the start," she said. The software is user-friendly, which makes it easy to train new employees to use the system, said Johnson. "I've dealt with other company's software, and I've found that Cort Directions is the best," she said. of a permit system. "The tribes' position is that the plan calls for a limited entry system at this point," said Bobby Brunoe, general manager of the tribes' Natural Resources Branch. "The Confederated Tribes intends to live by the terms of the plan that it signed, and expects all of the other sig natories to do the same," said Brunoe. See RIVER on page 7 Selena BoiseSpllyay Spilyay tyioo.