Spilyay Tymoo, Warm
Horse sale set at
By Brian Mottenaen
Spilyay Tymoo
People who buy horses or
need a good horse for their
farms might be surprised
how suitable horses from the
Warm Springs Reservation
might be. Warm Springs
hosts its tltird horse sale on
the reservation at the Warm
Springs Rodeo Grounds June
18.
"People from out of the
area would find strong horses
with heavy bones that will
carry you all day long and
then some," said Dclvis
I Icath, Chief of the Warm
Springs Tribe and a member
of the committee arranging
the sale. "They're better than
mules."
Most of the horses that
will be up for sale will be ones
that roam and graze right on
reservation land that were
once owned but now are free.
Occasionally, bad studs have
been culled out of the herds,
and better ones kept, to ge
netically improve them.
Jacob F'rank, also a mem
ber of the sale committee,
said the horses are strong
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Velma Bean Holliday of Warm Springs passed away oh
May 13, 2005. She was 81 years old.
Mrs. Holliday was born December 11, 1923 in Nevada
to parents Benjamin and Pearl (Bean) Holliday. Mrs. Holliday
came to Warm Springs in 1938 from Nevada. She worked
as a matron for the Warm Springs Boarding House.
She is survived by her husband Sherman of Warm Springs;
and children Rosemary Aly, Donny Holliday, Lyle Holliday,
Gloria Warner, Gary Holliday, all of Warm Springs, and Ed
Holliday of California; and numerous grandchildren and great
grandchildren. Her parents and a sister preceded her in death.
In Memory of Elliot Switzler
All Family and Friends
Saturday, May 28, 2005
8 a.m. at the Agency Longhouse -Stone
unveiling and prayer services. 10 a.m. at the
Warm Springs 1910 Indian Shaker Church. Shake
hands and showing of pictures. 11 a.m. dinner. 1 p.m.
giveaway. Light snacks available after.
Anyone wanting to join in is welcome.
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Johnny Sampson and Margaret Sampson Culps
Stone setting at 9 a.m. at the Yemowat Cemetery
West of Union Gap, Wash.
Giveaways and dinner following at Toppenish Creek
Longhouse south of White Swan, Wash.
All relatives and friends welcome to attend. For more
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and weekends all day: (509) 945-0063.
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horses with stout bodies and
heads.
"They'll last you a while," he
said. "They know the country,
they grew up on the range. They
know how to survive on their
own. They're not raised in a
stall."
A total of 66 horses were
sold during last year's sale, "and
we'd like to get at least that many
or more."
Tribal members from around
the reservation with horses to
sell are also invited to participate
in the sale.
Free Coggins testing of the
horses is offered to anyone in
terested in participating in the
sale. The testing is performed
June 13 and is recommended
for anyone interested in making
horses available for sale. For
more information, contact ei
ther the Tribal Range and Agri
culture Department at 553
2001, or Fara Currim at the
Oregon State University Exten
sion office, at 553-3228.
In addition to the sale, which
begins with a preview of each
horse by the tribal members sell
ing, either in the saddle or by
halter, at 10 a.m.
continues
Donahue and crew. This will
be at High Lookee Lodge.
Bring your lunch or you can
reserve a lunch prepared by
High Lookee staff, cost of $3.
Call 553-1182. Celilo Salmon
and Smoke is a program of
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May
rodeo grounds
A performance by the Wasco
Dance Group is at 1 1 a.m., with
the sale following at noon.
Along with the horse sale, tra
ditional arts and crafts and food
will be sold. Vendors are encour
aged to participate in the sale.
Frank said the kind of horses
sold in the June 18 sale "aren't
going to get blue ribbons, but
they're good work horses, good
for roping and chasing and
working cattle," said Frank.
"They're not that big. A thousand-pounder
would be one of
the bigger horses out there."
The aim of the sale on the
reservation is to sell the horses
for a better price than they might
garner elsewhere. "A lot of wish
ful thinking goes into it," Frank
said. "We don't really have any
thing set right yet. We can get a
better price than we get at auc
tion sales."
Morses from the reservation
are usually sold for nominal
prices, or "killer prices," as fod
der for a glue factory.
"We hope to bring other than
killer buyers," Frank said. "If we
can bring in buyers who can take
the horses home to break them,
we can get a better price."
Lawmakers
(AP) - Police officers some
times find food stamp cards
under a variety of names when
they raid houses that have been
used to make methamphet
amine. The ATM-like cards belong
to meth users who trade them
for the drug.
Under a bill in the Legisla
ture, parole officers and other
legal supervisors would be able
to cut off food stamp benefits
for anyone suspected of using
their food stamps as payment
for drugs.
Law enforcement officials
say meth causes a whole range
of problems - increased prop
erty crime, increased child abuse
and neglect, a strain on county
prosecutors, overflowing jails,
overextended police and in
creased identity theft.
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The killer prices are as low
as six to 30 cents a pound.
In terms of rangeland, the
reservation is divided into six
districts. Three contributed to
last year's horse sale, Frank
said, and he hoped tribal
members with horses from
other districts might also con
tribute this year.
"We'll try to work with
horse owners," he said. "We'll
work them and sec if there's
anything they want to sell at
the time."
The horse sale at Warm
Springs started two years ago,
Frank said, from the idea that
tribal members could sell
their horses on the reserva
tion and perhaps get better
prices and not have to rely
on sale prices at auction
yards elsewhere.
"I've worked horses most
of my life, and I'm 70 years
old," he said. "I'm familiar
with sales and how they work
My interest in right now is
getting the best horses to ben
efit owners of stock and (per
haps increasing) what we get
by putting on a sale on reservation."
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develop plan to target meth abuse
Chief Walt Myers said the Leg
islature needs to agree on a plan
- and provide funding - to fight
meth.
"More officers, more jail fa
cilities, there has to be more
prosecutors. There has to be,
and if that decision is not made,
it will continue to worsen,"
Myers said.
"There needs to be money
applied to the problem," Myers
said.
But lawmakers have struggled
this session to find cost-conscious
ways to combat Oregon's
growing meth problem.
Working with Gov. Ted
Kulongoski, who made meth a
top priority, Sen. Ginny Burdick,
D-Portland, and Rep. Wayne
Krieger, R-Gold Beach, say
there's an emerging consensus
to spend as much as $20 million
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Columbia fisheries
re-open for some species
The Columbia River treaty
tribes last week re-opened the
Zone 6 platform and hook-and-line
subsistence fishery for some
species,
Unfortunately, the harvest
that was agreed upon for spring
chinook has been reached, and
this fishery remains closed, due
to the low return.
The updated spring chinook
run size is 82,400 upriver spring
chinook at the river mouth. At
this run size, the tribal spring
chinook fishery is managed to a
seven percent harvest rate. The
recent action by the treaty tribes
is as follows:
The platformhook and line
fishery reopens for the retention
of shad, walleye, carp and bass
in all of Zone 6. In addition, re
tention of steelhead is allowed
News from High Lookee
High Lookee Lodge, along
with Carlson Farms, hosted the
annual potato drive this month.
Staff at the lodge passed out
100-pound bags of potatoes
from 9 a.m.' till noon on May 4.
A total of 3,000 pounds of
potatoes were handed out. In
other news from the lodge:
Photo courtesy at Oliver Kir
- Make it a crime to expose
children, elderly or disabled per
son to meth labs.
- Provide funding for pro
grams that allow addicts to com
plete strict recovery programs
instead of serve jail time in cer
. tain circumstances, and to fund
in-jail recovery programs for
serious offenders.
- Give parole officers and
supervisors the authority to sus
pend food stamp benefits for
meth users if it is suspected they
are using the cards as payment
for drugs.
One of the issues was how
to protect children from parents'
destructive drug habits - which
often leads to abuse and neglect.
The majority of child abuse
cases in the Department of
Human Services now involve
meth.
"That is, without a doubt,
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for dipnets, hoopnets and
bagnets.
1 h lok-and-line gear shall con
sist of no heavier than 10-pound
test line and no greater than four
single-point hooks.
Dipnets, hoopnets and
bagnets shall have a maximum
mesh size of five inches. Fish
ers shall remain with net gear
while fishing and must release
any chinook immediately.
The closure for other species
remains effective until midnight
June 15. If you have any en
forcement problems or need as
sistance or information, day or
night, contact the Columbia
River Inter-Tribal Fisheries En
forcement Office in Hood
River. The number is (541) 386
6363, or toll-free at 1-800-487-F1SII
(3473).
Look for flyers around the
community announcing grand
opening of a beauty salon at the
lodge. Also, the sauna is open to
tribal members from 8 a.m. until
8 p.m. Tribal members are in
vited to come any time for a
tour. You can reach the lodge at
553-1182.
Tribal Natural Resources
enforcement officers this
week investigated a case
of trespass and offensive
littering on a road off U.S.
26 near the northwest
border of the reservation.
Oliver Kirk and Stanley
Simtustus of Natural
Resources were at the
scene Monday, to
determine where the trash
came from. Apparently,
based on one item in the
pile, someone from
Clackamas County is
responsible, said Kirk.
something that's got all our
hearts broken," said Senate
President Peter Courtney, D
Salem. Courtney said cases have
included children living in meth
houses and babies born to drug
addicted mothers.
"We can't end this session
without making a heck of a run
at that," Courtney said.
The bills would create a
crime of exposing children, eld
erly or disabled people to meth.
They would also clarify the
court's ability to change custody
agreements based on drug con
victions. Both would help keep kids
out of drug houses and away
from parents who abuse meth.
Krieger and Burdick also said
treatment programs are an im
portant aspect of the state's
fight against meth.
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