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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.
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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.
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(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.
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