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Howlak Tichum
Spilyay Tyvnoo, Wrm Springs, Oregon
April 15, 2004
Myrtle Annie Frank
Myrtle Annie Frank of
Warm Springs passed away on
April 4. She was 5 years old.
Cause of death was an extended
illness.
Myrtle was born December
29, 1998, to parents Byron
Frank and Denise LeClaire.
Surviving brothers are
Watkins Johnson of Wapato,
and Gerald Frank of Warm
Springs. Surviving sister is Mar
garet Salvia. Funeral services
were on April 6, and burial was
the Tcnino Cemetery on April
7.
Janice Norwest Knight
March 21, 1946 -
April 27, 2003
The Broken Chain
We little knew that morning
that God was going to call your
name.
In life we loved you dearly,
in death we do the same.
It broke our hearts to lose
you, you did not go alone;
for part of us went with you,
the day God called you home.
You left us peaceful memo
ries, your love is still our guide;
and though we cannot see
you, you are always at our side.
Our family chain is broken,
and nothing seems the same;
but as God calls us one by
one, the chain will link again.
In loving memory, a Memo
rial Dinner and Giveaway will
be held in her honor. Saturday,
May 8, at 2 p.m. at the Grand
Rondc Tribal Community Cen
ter. Son, Garyjackson of Warm
Springs; brothers, Marce
Norwest of Grand Rondc, Os
car Norwest of Salem, Gregory
Norwest of Klamath Falls; sis
ters, Marilee Norwest-Davis of
Grand Rondc, Marcella Selwyn
of Sheridan, Ycrnita Harris of
Washington; nephews, great
nephews, nieces, great nieces,
grandchildren and cousins. She
joined those that passed, Leo
Norwest (dad), Mary Duval!
(mom), sisters Jeanette and
Juanita and brothers Richard
and Frankie.
Marker dedication
There will be a marker May. also be a dinner and
dedication for Joe Carrillo at The dedication will begin at namegiving for Margie I leath
the Wolfepoint Cemetary in 9 a.m. on May 15. There will at the Shaker Church.
Sea lions again dining on salmon at dam
CASCADF. LOCKS (AP) -For
the third year, biologists arc
watching dozens of sea lions
feasting on salmon at the base
of Bonneville Dam, and fisher
men are not pleased.
The sea lions usually show up
from mid-March through May,
said Robert Stansell, a U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers biologist.
This year they showed up Feb.
26, before large numbers of fish
arrived, despite popular think
ing that they were chasing fish
runs up the river.
"They knew that in the past
they could find fish here,"
Stansell said, adding that some
of the visitors are repeaters.
"They're teaching each other.
That's a possibility. I don't have
any proof of that, but that's
certainly my opinion."
In 2002, the first year of the
Bonneville survey, biologists
counted 30 sea lions and one
harbor seal. Last year, they
counted 107 sea lions. So far
this year they've counted 50 dif
ferent animals.
More are expected, Stansell
said.
Some anglers say sea lions
arc becoming so aggressive that
some try to get into fishing boats.
Dennis Hull, who owns Sa-Iem-based
Bite Me Guide Ser
vice, says he didn't see any sea
lions Thursday but that some
thing should be done,
"On some days you can
watch out sea lion bite the belly
out of 20 or 30 salmon," he
said. "I think they need to thin
them out. They've got too many
of them."
Once hunted to fewer than
1,500 on the West coast, sea li
ons are now protected, and ha
rassing or harming them is a
federal crime.
Now they number more than
200,000, although there are
signs that the population may be
leveling off, said Bryan Wright,
a statistician with the Oregon
Department of Fish & Wildlife
marine mammal program.
The agency is studying the
recent changes in the sea lions'
feeding pattern to try to under
stand what is happening. Wright
said the easy answer is that it's
natural for sea lions to chase
abundant food.
He said Meriwether Lewis
and William Clark made note of
large groups of seals and sea li
ons farther upriver than where
Bonneville Dam is today.
"Salmon are bunched up at
the dam, and they're easy tar
gets," Wright said. "One mecha
nism we don't understand is why
they're going there in greater
numbers."
He said the department is
branding sea lions and has at
tached satellite transmitters to
two animals to study their feed
ing patterns. One with a trans
mitter has been at Bonneville for
two weeks.
Officials have used rubber
bullets, noise and water bombs
to scare sea lions but to no avail.
In the mid-1990s, officials
considered killing some "prob
lem" sea lions at Ballard Locks
in Seattle that were eating an
estimated 65 percent of the win
ter stcelhcad but backed off
after Sea World agreed to take
three of the worst offenders.
There arc no such plans currently.
Root diggers: continuing the long tradition
(Continued from page 1)
Preparation. Aside from mak
ing dresses and moccasins,
there's the shopping.
"I have to shop for all the
groceries. I was put in there be
cause my mother did that," says
Slockish. "She did the shopping
and I was the one chosen. She
taught me and I went with her
all those years. I didn't know
then, but that's what I was there
for, just, kind of in training."
When it comes to the roots
themselves, some have fallen
out of favor on the reservation.
They are small and it's become
too labor intensive to dig them
anymore. Mawmen, for ex
ample. Other times the knowl
edge of how to prepare them
has been lost. Wewa explains:
Casino
(Continued from page 1)
Prior to showing the plans,
Brunoe outlined the economic
"urgency" that was forcing the
tribe to push Kulongoski for a
decision. He said more than 50
percent of the 4,309 tribal
members were unemployed due
to a decline in timber harvest
and market rates for hydroelec
tric power - the two main tribal
industries.
He said the current financial
crisis was negatively affecting
the provision of health care,
education, housing and other es
sential services. Brunoe said five
years ago the tribal budget was
538 million and it was now
standing at $25 million, with an
other $5 million reduction ex
pected within the next five years.
He believed that siting the ca
sino within the city limits of Cas
cade Locks was the best choice
because that community was
also ailing economically.
"Elected officials, both here
and at Warm Springs, are work
ing on a parallel track to find
solutions to the economic prob
lems which confront both com
munities," said Brunoe. "It is this
one vision, shared by two com
munities, which brings us here
today."
He said more than 400 new
construction jobs would be cre
ated, followed by 1,000 full-time
positions that would pay an av
erage yearly salary of $31,500.
Brunoe anticipated that only
about 10 percent of the jobs
would be filled by tribal mem
bers since the proceeds from the'
casino would be used to create
other employment opportunities
on the reservation.
The draft plans call for 3,900
"Susie Slockish and I decided
one year we would go get ca
mas roots, just to see if we
could remember how to cook
it. I had heard how it was
cooked, but she used to help her
mother."
During the time they tried the
experiment, it was a hot sum
mer day with temperatures in
the 90s.
"After the roots are gathered
it's a lot of work gathering of
your rocks, firewood, digging
the hole, gathering all the grasses
and everything you need to do,
says Wewa. "Everything has to
be ready, just right. After you
get the roots out of the fire pit
you need to have all the jars
nearby and seal them up while
they're hot."
parking spaces spread over 39
acres to accommodate about
three million annual visitors. A
new interchange from Interstate
84 is planned at the eastern end
of Cascade Locks, and would
also allow some traffic to feed
back into the town.
Two hundred and fifty over
night lodging units are envi
sioned, along with a 25,000
square foot conference center
although construction may
be done in several phases as rev
enue allows. The casino would
have 90,000 square feet of gam
ing space and also house a brew
pub, jazz and blues club, delica
tessen, 400-seat buffet, upscale
restaurant, coffee shop, arcade,
day care, leased retail outlets,
and more. Construction could
be completed by late 2006 and
open by June of 2007 if
Kulongoski gives the go-ahead.
"This facility is going to ac
centuate and embrace the sce
nic qualities of the Gorge. It is
going to be unparalleled and un
touched in the gaming industry
by anyone's standards," Ford
said.
Karnopp said the governor is
bound by federal law to negoti
ate in "good faith" for a casino
in the Gorge. I le contends there
are many legal exceptions that
Kulongoski could use to allow
siting of the facility in an
"underutilized industrial park.
"This compromise is sought
after long and sincere consulta
tion with local officials here in
Hood River County to find a
mutually beneficial solution
w hich reflects the will of Cas
cade Locks and the Warm
Springs communities," said
Karnopp.
The ground was radiating
heat, the fire was hot. Wewa and
Slockish were working on the
tailgate of a pickup. It was a
pretty miserable day.
"We had to crawl in there to
get the roots out.. .but we did it
and came to the conclusion that
when you dig Camas you don't
do less than a gunny sack full,
because it's so much work," said
Wewa.
Time consuming and hard
work. Years ago Natives moved
out and camped in the root dig
ging area for a week or two. They
dug every day because they
knew they needed the roots to
survive.
"Our people were really, re
ally patient to dig a lot of the
foods they ate a long time ago
and that's what discourages
people is the work associated
with digging roots," says Wewa.
He goes on, "One of the
other foods that has to be taken
care of like camas is the black
moss.They used to cook those
two together. It's a lot of work.
You have to pick out all the sticks
and foreign material, make sure
it's all clean. Then when you
have a big gunny sack full and
it gets wet it reduces down to
the size of a cake pan."
To say things have changed
in digging roots is a vast under
statement. Yet there are people
who feel strongly that the value
in eating roots is still there.
"Our foods are really sacred
and it should be respected in that
way because it gives us strength,
it gives us our Indian-ness," says
Slockish, "today a lot of our
people, they don't cat the natu
ral foods; they just live on ham
burger, chips and pop. It takes
away that Indian-ness in an In
dian." Those folks who volun
teer many hours for the people
digging roots have some sugges
tions for today's youngsters. "Be
proud of your heritage, native
traditional values, and learning
to do all that when you're
young," says Queahpama. "Take
pride and be proud. Learn it and
carry it on."
But just like root digging,
there's more to it than taking a
stick to a root and then eating
it. There's a lot of preparation.
"Young people should prepare
themselves, they never know
when someone could come by
and pick them to be a root dig
ger, especially if they know about
the foods," says Slockish. "If
they don't, they need to learn,
go to the longhouse, learn about
your religion, sing your songs,
learn your language, learn the
names and values of the foods,
how to prepare them, take care
of them, dig them."
And, maybe, 50 years from
now the traditions will continue.
"Hopefully, there'll be some
body there who knew how it was
carried out in these days," says
Queahpama. "It's getting differ
ent every day, changing, I don't
know how it'll be 50 years from
now. I hope that it's the same as
it is today; the way I'm taking
care of it."
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