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Spilyay Tyrooo, Warm Springs, Oregon April 29, 2004 Page 9 i t 3.1 7 I i 1 1 .j". " t i ) i l.i .1 1 j i )! Russian scholar enjoys visit By Dave McMcchan Spilyay Tymoo A young Russian woman working on a paper about American Indians was in Warm Springs recently. Ekaterina Bazanova, from the city of Saratov, near Mos cow, visited with Gladys Th ompson and Madeline Mclnturff, people of the Confederated Tribes Lan guage Program, and Tribal Relations. She also went to the mu seum, and stayed at Kah-Nee-Ta. Bazanova is writing a pa per on Native American life in the 1990s in comparison with that of the U.S. Hispanic population during the same time. The paper will look at so cial and living conditions, and the political situation the groups face in regard to the federal government. She started with U.S. Cen sus data from the 1990s, and has gone further into compar ing economic and political trends, and patterns of assimilation. She is working on the pa per for Saratov State Univer sity. The paper, she said, would be equivalent to some thing between a master's the sis and a doctoral thesis in the U.S. Kate Bazanova Bazanova has been in the United States for the past few months, and will be returning to Russia in several weeks. Her scholarship to study and work in the US. is for four months. While here she is teaching and studying at Temple Univer sity in Pennsylvania. Bazanova has been inter ested in Native American issues for a long time. Earlier in col lege, she wrote a paper on Na tive American culture in the books of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Her teacher encouraged her to con tinue studying history and cul ture, which she is now doing. An interesting point, she said, is that there are many people in Russia, and in other countries of Europe, who are gready at tracted by Native American cul ture. There are people, for in stance, who come here and study how powwows are con ducted. They then hold pow wows of their own in Russia. While working on her cur rent paper, Bazanova has no ticed some interesting trends, There are many differences, she said, in how the Native American and the Hispanic cultures interact with the main culture of the US. Language is one issue, she said. The tribal languages of the America are becoming more and more rare, while the Spanish of the I lispanic cul ture is becoming more estab lished in the US. Many American Indians, she said, tend to live in rural areas, while large Hispanic populations go to the cities. Government policy to ward the groups is also very different. Hispanic groups can be affected by immigra tion laws, she said. Federal immigration laws are not an issue among tribal nations, but other federal policies can have a great impact in Indian Country. Bazanova was in Warm Springs with Don and Vivian Dunkle, who live on the Or egon Coast. The Dunkles met Bazanova while on a cruise, and kept in touch with her. Candidate seeks Warm Springs support Vern Bowers of Crooked River Ranch is seeking the Re publican nomination for Jefferson County Commission. The election is May 18. Bowers said that, as a county official, honoring agreements with the tribes would be a pri ority. "We need to do better at keeping our word as set out in the agreements," he said. As an example: several years ago the tribes and other govern ment agreed that at some point a river permit system would be warranted on the Deschutes. The agreement set out a stan dard - a certain number of us ers on the river at a given time - which, if exceeded, would jus tify the adoption of a permit system. The tribes have been in fa vor of adopting this system, as the maximum number of boat ers, as stated in the agreement, has been exceeded. Local governments along the river have been against the per mit system, despite the presence Vern Bowers of the agreement, signed years ago. "I believe the agreement should be upheld," said Bowers. The only time an agreement should be disregarded, he said,, is when all the parties agree that the circumstances have changed enough to justify doing so. Bowers has been a resident of Jefferson County for seven and a half years. He moved to the county from Pordand, where he was a career law enforcement Supreme Court allows federal, tribal prosecution officer. "I live at Crooked River Ranch," he said. "We're like Warm Springs in regard to the county government. We've been ignored by the county, and not well represented."' , j ' " Bowers said a main goal as commissioner would be attract ing new businesses to the area, and helping the local economy to grow. Tourism has a large potential here, he said. Kah-Nee-Ta on the reservation is a good example that Jefferson County could fol low. Bowers is facing incumbent Republican Bill Bellamy in the May primary. Only those tribal members who are registered as Republicans can vote in the Republican primary. The winner of the race be tween Bowers and Bellamy will likely face Leona Ike, seeking the Democratic nomination, in the general election in November. Story idea? Call the Spilyay. 553-3274. 17- 0i . w- ' v .. - f Hamilton Greeley photo The Beaver Creek Drum Group performs at the recent powwow and feast at Celilo Village. Tribes plan to sue over BIA spill plan (AP) - A tribal confederation says it will sue the Bonneville Power Administration to prevent it from halting summer spills of water over four Columbia River dams. The BPA says halting the spills could save $77 million by using the water to generate elec tricity instead, and that only a handful of salmon would be affected. The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla say the spills are the safest way to get salmon downriver through the dams, and that halting them would cost the lives of thousands of fish and retard salmon recovery. The BPA did not return calls seeking comment. However the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has said survival rates for salmon that are "spilled" over the dams are only marginally better than that of those passed through tur bines. Plans to reduce or eliminate the spills this summer left the tribes with no choice but to sue, said Antone Minthorn, chair man of the Umatilla's board of But Shauna McReynolds, of the Coalition for Salmon Recov ery, said Tuesday a decision on whether to halt the spills is still pending and might not be made for a couple of weeks. Jay Minthorn, also a board of trustee member, said ending the summer spills would affect chinook runs in the Umatilla River. r MARKET REPORT-For the week of April 21st 1.466 HEAD Steers (lightest) 200-300 lbs 300-350 300-400 lbs 110-130 400-500 lbs 105-120 500-600 lbs 100-110 600-700 lbs 88-100 700-800 lbs 85-93 800-900 lbs 80-87 Bulls high-yielding 60-65 mostly 57-60 thinner bulls 55-57 Pairs Fullmouth vacc 950-1075 Brokenmouth vacc 775-875 Few 875-960 Special April 28 Feeder Sale Baby Calves 100-300 Butcher Cows high yielding cows 50-55 fleshy cows 47-51 medium flesh 45-47 feeder type 50-60 thin older cows 40-45 Heifers (lightest) 200-300 lbs 300-325 300-400 lbs 105-115 400-500 lbs 100-115 500-600 lbs 90-100 600-700 lbs 85-90 700-800 lbs 78-85 Hfrettesl000&up 55-65 Hfrettes!000& down 65-75 (AP) - The federal govern ment may bring its own, sepa rate case against an Indian man convicted in a tribal court of assaulting a police officer, the Supreme Court ruled last week. The 7-2 ruling reversed a lower court's holding that the separate prosecutions violated the Constitution's guarantee against double jeopardy. The Spirit Lake Tribe of North Dakota acted as an inde pendent sovereign in the pros ecution of Billy Jo Lara, a mem ber of another tribe who was visiting the Spirit Lake reserva tion, the majority found. Because the Spirit Lake tribe was not acting as a surrogate for the federal government, the fed eral government may still bring its own case against Lara for committing a federal crime, Jus tice Stephen Brej-er wrote for the majority. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined the majority. Justices David H. Souter and Antonin Scalia dissented. Lara had pleaded guilty to three charges in tribal court, ad mitting that he was drunk, punched a police officer and resisted arrest. He received a 155-day sentence for the 2001 altercation. This case arose when federal prosecutors then sought to con vict him of assault on a federal officer, a crime that could mean a sentence up to 20 years. Two lower courts agreed with the fed eral government that the pros ecution was constitutional, in cluding a panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The full 8th Circuit, however, reconsidered the case and ruled for Lara by a vote of 7-4. The case is United States v. Lara, 03-107. C toeOcnn) cmiixDcm (I (fifjmfiti Computer running slow? Need a computer new enough to surf? New AMD Duron Computer Systems $599 and Up Monitors sold separately Computer sales, Service and Repair Computer Accessories Palmain Internet Server $19.95 unlimited access