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Page 6 Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon December 25, 2003 Page 7 A look of 2003 more (The following is the second part of a montb-by-montb account of some of the news events that oc curred on the reservation during the past year.) August The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Com mission, representing the four treaty tribes of the Columbia, recognized Claude Smith Sr. with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Smith has lived a long life of dedication to traditional fisheries, their restoration and protection. In other news: An important issue came up in regard to the plans for the new Warm Springs elementary school. The question is, Where should the new school be located? , Some people believe the best site would be near the Early Childhood Education Center (ECE) and Indian Health Services building. Others believe the best site would be the cam pus area, where the existing elementary school is located. A third suggestion is land on East Tenino Road in the area of Greeley Heights. The issue is complicated, and different people have differing opinions on the question. Else where: This month contractors began clearing the con struction site of the Circle of Life domestic vio lence victims housing project. The Circle of Life buildings will be in the area being cleared by Shitike Creek along Hollywood Boulevard. Once completed the project will con sist of six buildings. One administration building will be surrounded by five victims housing build ings. And this: The tribes this month were finalizing plans to begin conducting a census of the reservation population. The census should take between six weeks and two months to complete. In other August news: Petroglyphs are protected by federal law from desecration. Rubbing a petroglyph can damage the image, and for this reason is prohibited by law. But in some cases a petroglyph rubbing can be a good thing; and such is the case of five rub bings that arrived at the Museum at Warm Springs. Four of the rubbings are of petroglyphs that no longer exist, due to flooding by The Dalles dam. And the fifth is of a famous petroglyph -She Who Watches when the image was in a more pristine condition. The rubbings were made in the 1950s or early 1960s. Over the course of years they made their way to the Mt. Hood Community College, and were then donated to the tribes.Elsewhere: Crews from Warm Springs BIA Fire Manage ment and the tribal entperprise Geo Visions trav eled to wildfires in Oregon and other states this month, helping contain the blazes. September This announcement came from the Warm Springs Elementary School: For the upcoming school term teachers of the tribal Language Program will not be instructing students during regular school hours at the el ementary. Classrooms may be available after school for language lessons. Also, the language lessons could return to the regular elementary school curriculum in January of 2004. The hope is that the temporary absence of the language lessons from the regular school cur riculum will in time improve the Language Pro gram. Elsewhere: Good financial news from Warm Springs Power Enterprises: Through the Confederated Tribes, Power En terprises is set to issue bonds that will pay for the purchase of the tribes' share of the Pelton hy droelectric project. The bond issuance should help stabilize Power Enterprises revenue to the Confederated Tribes general fund. Elsewhere: Weekday traffic on Highway 26 was approach ing holiday volumes and one visitor from Los Angeles said the air quality in Warm Springs was reminiscent of home. Those were the most noticeable impacts of the B and B Fire Complex that continued to burn over the Labor Day weekend. The complex, made Palm Harbor Homes Welcomes the Warm Springs Community Financing available Warm Springs Tribal Credit Featuring Many homes to choose from Furniture packages Wood stoves Home security systems Spa's and much more Palm Harbor Homes 1357 North Highway 97 Redmond, Oregon Phone 541-504-1402, or 888-504-1402 ) All: r- J . are becoming well known in field of telecommu j'tiications. The tribes this month received top .' Honor for the effort at improving the telecom munication system on the reservation. The Ex cellence in Telecommunications Award was pre- - sented to the tribes at the Eighth Annual Rural ' ! Telecommunications Conference in Bend. And in Ocftaber ! Thf ' eldest member of the Confederated t. ' Tribes 'Nettie Shawaway has passed away. She ; was 102. Mrs. Shawaway was born on Nov. 3, " 1901. : ; ' And in October: Lana Leonard became the : Warm Springs community liaison for the Jefferson f County School District. In other school news: Tatum Kalama and Gary Villa were among - the royalty at the Madras High School Home- i coming. In the art world: The High Desert Museum in Bend featured an exhibit of works by tribal member artist and Warm Springs native Lillian Pitt. The exhibit is A called Spirits Keep Whistling Me Home: The ' -Works of Lillian Pitt, and will run through early January. Spirits Keep Whistling Me Home was '. : first assembled by the Museum at Warm Springs. November The Confederated Tribes reached a tentative i agreement with the Bureau of Land Management iand Oregon State Parks to implement a permit system for boaters on the Lower Deschutes River i starting in 2005. The agreement, which won't be official until it : is signed by the U.S. Department of Justice, would , .limited the number of boaters floating Segment 1, a section of river running from Warm Springs to Harpham Flat, beginning July 1, 2005. Representatives of the Confederated Tribes reached the agreement with state and federal Spilyay photo' The Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery Twenty-Fifth Anniversary celebration during 2003 featured) i agencies during settlement negotiations in Port dancing by the Wasco Dancers. Above, Deanie Johnson helps young Sharina Warner prepare for r rland. Elsewhere: the first dance. up of the Booth and Bear Butte fires, had con sumed several thousand acres before being con tained. In other news: It is not every day that the President of the United States mentions your name during a speech. This happened, though, to Tribal Council Chairman Garland Brunoe, when Pres. Bush was in Central Oregon. Meanwhile, this announcement from came from tribal officials: The Confederated Tribes are expecting to see further reduction in timber revenue for budget year 2004. The tribes expect to see only $3 million in tim ber revenue for 2004, down from $5.7 million for the current year. The $2.7 million reduction in timber money is a large part of an overall $4.1 million projected revenue reduction for 2004. In other forestry news: Soon out-going lumber at Warm Springs For est Products Industries will bear the label of cer tification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). In a Tribal Council meeting this month Coun cil members voted to try certification for a year and measure the economic advantages for WSFPI when the year is completed. FSC certified forests meet rigorous environmental, social, and economic criteria for forest management. All tribal lands used for logging will be certified. In 2003 wildlife news: October This sad news reported in the October 2 news paper: Four young people of the Warm Springs com munity have passed away over the past few weeks. Three of the youths were teenagers, and one was an infant. Two of the teenagers died in motor vehicle accidents, and the third passed away from a cause as yet unknown. The cause of the death of the infant is thought to have been by sudden I ! Joel Santos became the first tribal member to I'M I'lshoot a bighorn sheep in the ceded lands in the ( I .; ,last 100 years. And this: . I I TTU 1 1 f. J. Ti:-1 C-l I Tr . ; .; ,,; i i . iiic new uanu ruuni at mauras ruim ociiooj loel Santos became the first tribal . , , , 5 . , J . . J il r ff, was a hit. In our old room we had no windows member to shoot a bighorn sheep in i u.iind it was a little smaller than this," said music the Ceded lands in the last 100 jearsJ "Istude"t fJermaye Tuckta. Student friendly and . :i more efficient is what this new addition to the Also, 100 years after their extinction, . high school is all about. Also: in the State, the COndor, also known d'S ' A secially built triple-wide trailer will serve as , . i . ' I f : i a temporary gymnasium for students at Warm the Ihunderbird, made its return o,ri,Springs-EIementary School, school officials an- Oregon. ii. renounced. ? 1 1 The trailer will be located in the field across .t f j !the street from the school, near the Children's infant death syndrome, SIDS. Elsewhere: ) ''Protective Services office and group home. A Tribal members will have an exclusive oppdr-' ; " question yet to be answered is where the perma tunity this month to obtain bighorn sheep hunt- ment new gymnasium will be located. Elsewhere: ing tags. Two tags will be issued through the state The ,Geo Visions mobile command center of of Oregon, during a special drawing on Monday, the Confederated Tribes was assigned to assist Oct. 6, at the tribal Natural Resources office. In -' 'fire-fighting efforts in Southern California, where other news: lf- " 'over 300,000 acres and 1,500 homes had been Horse owners of the Confederated Tribes this1 ." Consumed. And this news: month hosted the first annual Horse Sale at the" One; hundred years after their extinction in Or Warm Springs rodeo grounds. "This sale is some- e gon. condors have returned: several of the birds thing that needed to happen years ago," said Ja-'; i: 'began, ljving in the Condor Creek Conservation son Smith, horse owner and manager of tribal ' ' 'Facility in Clackamas County, a condor breeding Range and Ag. And this: " '- i ) -project of the Oregon Zoo. The tribes in October began conducting a cen-' I The condor was of great spiritual importance sus of the reservation population starting. Anil' ; ,to Indians who lived at the Columbia. In some elsewhere: -!;". (instances the condor was perhaps of even greater :. spiritual importance than the eagle. The bird is i known to some as the Thunderbird. In school mews: Warm Springs Elementary School Principal ; 'Dawn Smith traveled to Washington D. C. to ; j receive a National Distinguished Principal Award. Meanwhile, Chesley Yahtin and others of the After nearly 20 years of daily broadcasting,' KWSO 91.9 FM is taking a giant leap forward and moving into the world of modern technol ogy. Thanks to a grant from the Public Telecom munications Facilities Program (PTFP), the1 sounds of the reservation will be better than ever,' as the station plans to replace its antiquated ana-' '' log equipment with state-of-the-art digital corn-'" 1 'Simnasho community dedicated a memorial plaque ponents. After months of waiting, the station1 ' "honoring veterans. The plaque is located near the learned in October that its $217,409 grant appliJ cation had been approved by PTFP, a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce. And this: The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs 1 iThree, Warriors store. IRA'S SALES & SERVICE 181 SW MERRITT LANE JUST ONTHE SOUTH SIDE OF MILLER FORD DEALERSHIP 6 AO "Vou Trash-em, We Smash-em" Now buying salvage cars and taking in old junkers. Rales, prices negotiable, hauling available. Happy holidays If. " "A r r i A,'- V v v - ' J. 1 i from the staff bt the Spilyay Tymoo December Indian tribes were talking about creating a vir tual college that combines resources at reserva tions around the state. The proposal, the nation's first, also would allow reservation residents ac cess to college courses at other schools. Federal funding would help pay for video or Web-based courses to link reservation classrooms or indi vidual students. A main goal would be to train and educate residents for reservation industries, said Wendell Jim, general manager of education for the Confederated Tribes. Elsewhere: U.S. Department of Interior officials dropped out of relicensing talks for the Pelton-Round Butte dam complex this year, claiming the negotiations would take too much time and too many re sources, according to public documents. By fail ing to participate, the agency risked losing a say in negotiations over provisions for the new license for the three-dam complex, wrote Julie Keil, di rector of hydropower licensing for Portland Gen eral Electric (PGE). PGE and the Confederated Tribes have applied to the Federal Energy Regu latory Commission to operate the dams for the next 50 years. And this: Jaylyn Suppah was excited and worried about the invitational Sacajawea Tournament. She was excited because the team was to face some of the top players in the nation, and there will be some national level basketball talent scouts looking for new blood. She was worried because she was injured, and maybe unable to play. Suppah has a dream. She wants to go pro: Women's National Basketball Association. ..... ft. i 1 i L.K3 r I V at ,-. . As., VI I f i . - Va w y Red Sky Suppah was among the drummers at the 2003 Lake Billy Chinook Day celebration, which marked its tenth anniversary. As in past years, the Quartz Creek Edutainment dance and drum group performed during the day's activities. : J p tips ' m rA m J Ik Thank You Tor Your Support In 2005 '4 cWlaij &eac& tiytii pathway and iw faapfzinessfuicle ipwv SpVuJb ttiwuqAout tOu tAi& Saated Season and ttw coming c)leup Hjeasf. Happij Hondat)s from The Museum At Warm Springs fl I 1 1 4 'A 1 I 1 i'f (N W I -Kr W l V S AW A8 . k's vr