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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon December 25, 2003
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A
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of
2003
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(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
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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:
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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
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"Vou Trash-em, We Smash-em"
Now buying salvage cars and taking in old junkers.
Rales, prices negotiable, hauling available.
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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.
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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.
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