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March 20, 2003 Vol. 28, No. 6
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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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.
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