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OR. COLL. E 75 .sea v. 28 no. 23 Noveiber ft P.O. Box 870 Warm Springs, OR 97761 University of Oregon Library Received oni 12-23-03 Spilyay tyioo. Bulk Rate Permit No. 2 Warm Springs, OR 97761 50 cents Coyote News, est. 1976 Novei-rober 13, 2003 Vol. 28, No. 23 ywoi River dispute settled The Confederated Tribes have reached a tentative agreement with the Bureau of Land Management and Oregon State Parks to implement a permit system for boaters on the Lower Deschutes River starting in 2005. The agreement, which won't be of ficial until its signed by the U.S. De partment of Justice, would limited the number of boaters floating Segment 1, a section of river running from Warm Springs to Harpham Flat, be ginning July 1, 2005. Representatives of the Confeder ated Tribes reached the agreement with state and federal agencies during settle ment negotiations in Portland last week. Tualatin resident Mark Shuholm, who filed a lawsuit to force the agen cies to implement a permit system, also agreed to the negotiated terms. Shuholm filed the lawsuit because he felt state and federal agencies had ignored portions of the Lower Deschutes River Management Plan, mandating a limited-entry permit sys tem when target use levels are repeat edly exceeded. The Confederated Tribes had inter vened on Shuholm's behalf. In addition to the 2005 implemen tation date, the agreement would change the downstream boundary of Segment 1 to Harpham Flat, approxi mately 3 miles upstream from the cur rent northern boundary. The agreement would also imple ment a permit system on Segment 2 of the river in 2007 if target use levels were exceeded. A permit system would be imple mented in 2008 for segments 3 and 4 if targets were exceeded. If the permit system is implemented as agreed to in the management plan and during the settlement negotiations, permits would be allocated through a common pool, which means the gen eral public and commercial outfitters and guides would compete for permits on an equal basis. Permits would be released on a stag gered basis beginning a year in advance of the launch date. The agencies in tend to make permits available through the Internet. Most permitted rivers in the United States have a spedified number of per mits reserved for guides, so the Deschutes system will be unique. At high school new music room By D. "Bing" Bingham Spilyay Tymoo The new band room at Madras I Iigh School seems to be a hit. "In our old room wc had no win dows and it was a little smaller than this," says music student Jermnync Tuckta. Student friendly and more efficient is what this new addition to the high school is all about. "W'e have our own lockers to put our instruments in," says student Rodney Katchia. This was not an op tion in the old band room. Even the acoustics of the new band room arc making an impression. There is no carpet, so the reverbera tion is a little stronger than in the old room. But everybody seems to be adapting. "I think the kids can hear them selves better," said Michael Preston, band director. "I have some of the players tell me they can hear the other : . . . n V 7 ' 'I I- 1 Veterans Powwow Tribal members and visitors gathered at the Agency Longhouse this past weekend for the 2003 Veterans Powwow. Seepage 7 for more photos. t-?rrrf .v.v- Ilk wJ Dave McMechan photos Bighorn sheep hunt a By D."Bing" Bingham Spilyay Tymoo Sometimes making tribal history is almost easy. Joel Santos was the first runner up for one of the recent bighorn sheep tags in the ceded lands. The person who drew the tag originally returned it for unknown reasons. "When I found out I got that tag," says Santos, "I went out two days in a row scouting in the afternoon below Sherar's Falls. ..I didn't see any the whole time." On opening day, Santos and a friend were cruising about a mile below Beavcrtail, approximately 12-13 miles below Sherar's Falls, when they looked up on the hill and there was a herd of about 20 bighorn sheep. They were hanging out. To say Santos got excited is an un derstatement. The hunters jumped out of the truck and began to move around the sheep on a steep hill. About a 1 50 yards away, Santos saw eight rams walking in a row. "I was just sitting there watching Jermayne Tuckta enjoys the acoustics parts better in here. That's only going to help with balance, intonation and aecuracy." One of the biggest advantages of ill iun in ji i Mini - w.'. -,.-.,r , :" . t i ' -' . v . 1 I - J- - - St them, most of them had little half curls," he says, "I waited and finally a big one stepped out in front of me." Santos was breathing too hard from his run up the steep hill to take a shot, so he laved down in the sagebrush for a few minutes to regain his breath. Breathing easier, Santos took a head-on shot with his .243 and hit the ram in the chest. The ram didn't even flinch. "I think I missed it," he muttered to himself. As he was sighting in for a second shot, he noticed the ram started to roll back and forth then drop. A moment later, the ram got back up and ran over a hill. "I headed up the hill, then I heard a bunch of crashing," he says. Santos ran down to where he had heard the noise and there was the ram dead about a 150 yards from the road. "After I saw him drop, I looked up on the hill and there was another ram with a full curl just standing there," says Santos, "he just sat there and looked at Bing BingtwrVSpilyay of the new band room. the room is the flexibility of the floor space. In the old room the band prac- ticed on a riser. The chairs were pretty much locked into one configuration. .A y I n limn Vi in'IT ' I M J . V: . . V ii I1 . I'll y mi ' 1 1 good time me, then walked off with his ewes." That was when Santos stepped into the tribal history books. He, to the best of our knowledge, became the first tribal member to shoot a bighorn sheep in the ceded lands in the last 100 years. "I didn't realize it... that's pretty amazing," he says, "I'm glad to repre sent the tribes like that." As this goes to print, Santos big horn sheep is being mounted in a head mount and will stay in his father's house in Parkdale. There it will be displayed in a family game room. The mount isn't the only thing Santos is interested in with bighorn sheep: he likes the taste of the meat. "Meat is the main reason I wanted that tag," he says. He's tasted some before and remem bers it as a "real sweet tasting meat." The meat from his sheep has all been vacuum packed. Maybe, best of all for Joel Santos will be his memories: "This is the most fun I've ever had on a hunt." (See the photo on page 12) a hit "We don't ever perform on risers, we always perform flat and it's the au dience that's in some sort of inclined position," says Preston, "so we might as well practice that way for balance of sound and tone. It helps." Maybe the other advantage of the flat floor is something the students might appreciate more. "Right before homecoming this year, it was raining, so instead of going out side, wc cleared all the chairs out of the center of the room and just prac ticed our marching in place right in the center of the room," said Preston, All in all, it looks like a general "thumbs up" for the new band room at the high school. There is, however, one tiny complaint about this unfinished room. "It'd be nice to have a clock and a chalk board or white board instead of flip chart," says Jermayne Tuckta. Wc suspect the rest of the equip ment will be along soon. 5 J 4 t Wit L I. "I i-Jt I i fill fll School to have temporary gymnasium A specially built triple-wide trailer will soon serve as a temporary gymna sium for students at Warm Springs El ementary School. The trailer will be located in the field across the street from the school, near the Children's Protective Services of fice and group home. A question yet to be answered is where the permanent new gymnasium will be located. This question is tied to the issue of where the new Warm Springs Elemen tary School will be built. Some have suggested that a new gymnasium be built on the site of the previous one, which burned down last winter. Similarly, some people feel that the new elementary school should be built at the site of the existing elemen tary school. Others in the community feel the new school, including the new gym, should be built at a different location, such as by the Early Childhood Edu cation Center. If a new gymnasium is built at the site of the previous one, then construc tion could go forward relatively soon, said Phil Riley, superintendent of the 509-J school district. If tribal and school officials agree that the new gym should be built at a different location, then the district will need to spend about $60,000 working on the wall that was the south interior wall of the old gym. If the gym were to be built else where, then this wall would become an exterior wall of the building that is ad jacent to the site of the old gym. The wall would have to be brought up to earthquake safety standards. The cost estimate is $60,000, said Riley. Council considers 04 budget The Tribal Council this week is set to adopt a budget for 2004. The Council decision comes after community input at the district and General Council meetings, held in Oc tober and the first part of November in accordance with the Tribal Budget Ordinance. At the outset of the Tribes' 2004 budget process, the Secretary-Treasurer recommended that the Tribal Council approve changes to the administration of federal programs at Warm Springs that would give the tribes a larger role in the delivery of federal services as well as generate additional tribal rev enues. This would be done through more extensive contracting under PL 93-638 contracts. The Council has heard extensive comments on this proposal. Whether the Council would include the addi tional PL 93-638 contracting in the 2004 budget was not yet determined at press time for this edition of the Spilyay Tymoo. Two proposals were developed for consideration in the upcoming budget. One proposal was built on the assump tion that no new revenues would be available. A second proposal was to develop additional revenues by more extensive PL 93-638 (also called Indian Sclf-Dctcrmination Act) contracting of B1A and IMS services. See BUDGET on pate 12