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montb-by-montb mount of some
of the news events that occurred
on and around tbe reservation dur
ing the past year,)
August )
Tribal members traveled to
Mount Hood Meadows ski area
fofa day of huckleberry pick
inff.T'hc ski area posted signs
arocfrld 30 acres of the best
potential huckleberry lands, re
quest the public to honor the
tradrtiorial gathering rights of
tribal 'riicmbers. Elsewhere:
j The Oregon Association of
Broircfc'as'ters honored the Con
federated Tribes of Warm
Springs' public radio station
KWSO as the 2004 public or
nJnr3irnercial Radio Station
otL Jjar at its annual fall con
ference in Bend.
T.Jt Jefferson County School
Djs'nct 509-J received a
$iS.j)00 grant to improve stu-
dclif reading skills. The grant
h&J. school libraries, including
lifeones at Warm Springs El-
rf&ntary School, Jefferson
Clunty Middle School, and
Madras High School,
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( September )
The month of September
brought some good financial
hews to the tribes. At this point
in the 2005 budgeting process,
there was cause for optimism,
at least in comparison to the past
few years, said secretary-treasurer
Jody Calica.
"We're feeling more optimis
tic because of market conditions
affecting Warm Springs Forest
products Industries and Warm
Springs Power Enterprises, and
with the recent settlement of the
HeHe and McQuinn lawsuits,"
said Calica. The tribes filed the
lawsuits against the federal gov
ernment over lost timber rev
enue. Settlement of the cases
gives the tribal budget additional
revenue.
The Confederated Tribes
were well represented at the
opening of the National Mu
seum of the American Indian.
There were more than 50 mem
bers of the Confederated Tribes
at the event. Among those who
attended were 44 elders. They
were among more than 20,000
Indians who were part of the
procession that marked the
opening of the Museum of the
American Indian. And this news
from September:
Warm Springs Composite
Products was recognized re
cently by the Portland District
Office of the U.S. Small Busi
ness Administration. The re
gional director of the SBA
wrote to Robert Macy, chairman
of the Composite Products
board, that the enterprise had
been named the SBA Minority
Small Business Firm of the
Year.
October
Warm Springs Forest Prod
ucts Industries announced a
new energy-saving program that
serves as a model in the state.
Through the recent improve
ment, Forest Products Indus
tries will save about $80,000 per
year in electricity costs. The im
provement work - costing about
$294,000 - was paid for almost
entirely through state energy
efficiency incentives and a tax
credit. Forest Products Indus
tries will end up paying only
about two percent of the total
cost of the improvements.
Diabetes prevention on the
reservation received a large
boost through a grant in the
amount of $404,000 per year
Springs, Oregon
More tribal mews
for the next five years.
Clint Bruised I lead won the
2004 Indian Ail-Around World
Champion cowboy and Indian
World Champion Steer Wrestler
awards. I le won two of Indian
rodeo's most coveted titles in
San Jacinto, Calif.., where he and
seven other members of the
Bruised Head clan competed in
the Indian National Finals Ro
deo. The tribal enterprise
GeoVisions was recognized for
business development by the
Madras-Jefferson County
Chamber, of Commerce. Long
time GeoVisions crew leader
Easton Aguilar accepted the
award on behalf of the enter
prise at the Chamber of Com
merce awards banquet. The ban
quet this year was at Kah-Nee-Ta
High Desert Resort and Ca
sino.. One of the main things
GeoVisions does is provide sup
port to fire agencies during wild
fires. The support involves spe
cialized computer technology
that tracks the course of the
fires. The mapping allows the
fire crews to know precisely
where the fire lines are.
Construction of the new
Culpus Bridge over the Warm
Springs River near Kah-Nee-Ta
is moving forward at a steady
pace. Eight pre-cast concrete
girders were recently placed on
the two-lane bridge, which will
set higher than the existing
bridge. The concrete girders are
in place, and the road on each
side of the bridge now is being
filled to even up the road with
the bridge.
November )
Gangs steal the lives of
young people, and the Warm
Springs Police Department will
take unprecedented steps to
stop gang activity on the reser
vation, police chief Jim Soules
said. Soules was among the
speakers at the Imperative Gang
Intervention seminar at the
Warm Springs Community
Wellness Center Nov. 16-17.
Soules, who became police chief
in July, said a four-officer task
force of Warm Springs Police
and Federal Bureau of Investi
gation officers has been formed
to combat a group of "30 to 40
known gang members" who may
be part of one of at least five
different gangs on the Warm
Springs reservation. Soules said
the aggressive stance his depart
ment takes may be at issue with
some residents of Warm
Springs. "As we become more
aggressive, people will accuse us
of harassment," he said. "I've
told Tribal Council, 'You will be
overwhelmed with complaints
about us.'" The gangs can recruit
members as young as elementary-school
age. The gangs are
armed, and they are tied into the
drug trade, particularly metham
phetamine, along with alcohol
and marijuana, he said.
Veterans Day in
Warm Springs saw the
unveiling of a bronze
plaque at the museum,
honoring veterans of
the Korean War.
Residents of many areas of
the reservation could have wire
less broadband Internet in early
2005 - but it won't be free.
Access will be available to resi
dents and businesses within view
of the radio tower on Eagle
Butte soon after the start of the
new year. If expected funding
comes through, businesses and
residents in the Dry Creek,
Sunnyside, and Wolf Point ar-
Janiqry
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Elders of the Confederated Tribes and staff of the Senior Department traveled in September
2004 to the opening of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of the American Indian.
eas, along with Kah-Nee-Ta
High Desert Resort and Casino,
will have access in the spring of
2005. The Internet access has
been made possible thanks to a
$695,832 grant the Confeder
ated Tribes of Warm Springs
received from the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. In other
news:
Three people, including two
juveniles, were arrested in con
nection with the Nov. 8 break
in and burglary of the Warm
Springs Market. About $8,000
in product was taken from the
market the morning of Nov. 8.
Among the items missing were
packs of name-brand cigarettes
and chewing tobacco, BBs, and
binoculars.
Veterans Day in Warm
Springs saw the unveiling of a
bronze plaque at the museum,
honoring veterans of the Ko
rean War. The plaque is located
by a grove of Ponderosa pine
trees the Lions Club planted 10
years ago, also honoring Korean
War veterans. The Lions Club
also donated the plaque. Warm
Springs Color Guard and other
veterans were on hand for the
dedication of the plaque.
Washut Ceremony opened the
occasion.
December
The 30 California bighorn
sheep making their home in the
Mutton Mountains of the
Warm Springs Reservation got
some company. Through a joint
effort between three state agen
cies and one private organiza
tion, the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs received 15
out of 110 sheep rounded up
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canyon. The sheep Warm
Springs Fish and Wildlife re
ceived were lifted by helicopter
into the Eagle Creek Canyon
area of the Mutton Mountains,
about 12 miles south of Maupin
and about a mile inside reser
vation land near the community
of Dant on the Deschutes
River. They join a group of
sheep that were introduced to
reservation land in January
2002, at Antoken Creek, about
two air miles south of where the
sheep were delivered. That
group has since expanded to 30
sheep, with five lambs produced
in 2002, seven in 2003 and six
this year.
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Dec. 4) round-up yielded 110
sheep, which were transported
via livestock trailers to locations
in Idaho, Wyoming, and North
Dakota, as well as to Steens
Mountain in I larney County and
to the Mutton Mountains. In
other news:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service has agreed to review
whether four species of lamprey
found on the West Coast should
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it go."
Bernice Mitchell
Councllwoman, regarding
protection ot the lamprey
be protected by the Endangered
Species Act. Under the settle
ment of a lawsuit filed earlier
this year in U.S. District Court
in Portland, the agency agreed
to make an initial decision by
Dec. 20 on whether a yearlong
review should be done on the
status of Pacific lamprey, river
lamprey, western brook lamprey,
and kern brook lamprey.
The lamprey is an important
species to the Confederated
Tribes.
"This is our sacred food,"
said Tribal Councilwoman
Bernice Mitchell. "We will never
let it go."
Jeff Sanders, a Warm Springs
tribal member and a member of
the Jefferson County 509-J
School Board, was elected to the
Oregon School Boards Associa
tion as its secretarytreasurer..
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