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Novei-rober 13, 2003 Vol. 28, No. 23
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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
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Tribal members and visitors gathered at the
Agency Longhouse this past weekend for the
2003 Veterans Powwow. Seepage 7 for more
photos.
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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
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parts better in here. That's only going
to help with balance, intonation and
aecuracy."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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