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June 9, 2005 Vol. 30, No. 12
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Tribes commemorate treaty anniversary
By Dave McMechan
Spilyay Tymoo
Pi-Umc-Sha Treaty Days this year
will include added activities commemo
rating the 1 5(),h anniversary of the sign
ing of the Treaty of 1855. Saturday
afternoon, June 25, will be the time
dedicated to commemoration of the
signing of the treat)'.
As usual, the Pi-Umc-Sha Parade will
begin at 1 1 a.m., making its way to the
powwow grounds. This will be followed
by the posting of the colors, and open
ing remarks by Tribal Council Chair
man Ron Suppah.
The three chiefs will welcome those
in attendance, and then Gov.
Kulongoski is scheduled to make com
ments. Next will be statements from
representatives of the BIA, HIS, and
the other treaty tribes of the Colum
bia. The keynote speaker, scheduled for
1 p.m., is Congressman Greg Waldcn.
I lis speech will be followed by a give
away, and then a re-enactment of the
signing of the treaty. There will then
be a feast and sociid dances.
Grand Entries on Friday and Satur
day will be at 7 p.m. Grand Entries on
Sunday will be at 2 p.m. and at 7 p.m.
The finals of the dance and hand-drum
contests will happen later than usual on
Sunday, as the schedule is pushed back
for the added events on Saturday.
The Pi-Umc-Sha Court candidates
are Julia Yahtin, Sally Polk-Adams and
Cyrille Mitchell for the Senior Court,
and Sara Lee Spino-McCormack
Anessia Sam for the Junior Court.
Please support them by purchasing
raffle tickets.
Pi-Umc-Sha weekend will include
many sporting events. These include the
First Annual Skate Park competition,
the softball tournament and Fry Bread
Golf Open, the rodeo and endurance
race, and boxing hosted by the Warm
Springs Boxing Club. These activities
will happen at their regular times. Soft
ball, the golf tournament, skate park
competition, and endurance horse race
begin Saturday morning. This year will
also see the First Annual Pi-Ume-Sha
All-Indian Youth Basketball. This tour
nament will be the weekend of June
17-19.
Information on the powwow events
are available from Cassie Katchia at
(541) 553-1293 (h) or 553-2128 (w);
or Iniise Katchia at 553-701 5(h) or
553-2416 (w).
This year marks the 36th Annual
Pi-Umc-Sha Treaty Days Celebration
of the Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs. The powwow is a celebra
tion of sovereignty. This year there
is the added theme of the sesquiccn
tennial of the signing of the Treaty
of 1855.
One of the more interesting ac
tivities on Saturday of Pi-Ume-Sha
should be the re-enactment of the
signing of the treaty. Duran Bobb
wrote the re-enactment play, which
is to take about 35 minutes to per
form. In developing the dialogue for
the play, Bobb used a copy of min
utes that were taken during the treaty
negotiations at the Treaty Oak.
Fifth-grade students
Cameron Mathison, Stephen
Pratt, Trent Heath, and
Hiram Yaw Jr. (from left) play
"ABC Rock" on recorders
during the Warm Springs
Elementary School Spring
Musical Program May 26.
The spring music program
was the first to be held in the
new elementary school
gymnasium, and the first
program in two years at the
school.
It was very well attended,
and the audience was very
appreciative of the students',
effort," said Dawn Smith,
school principal.
The gymnasium was full
for the program, as parents
and the whole student body
were on hand for the
performance.
The last day of the regular
school year is this Friday,
June 10. Summer school
starts on Tuesday, July 5.
There are 54 students at
the elementary school who
will be completing the fifth
grade this year. They will be
at Jefferson County Middle
School next year. There was
a farewell assembly for them
earlier this week at Warm
Springs Elementary.
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Another grant to improve radio station
By Brian Mortensen
Spilyay Tymoo
Sue Matters remembers the days
when equipment broke down at KWSO,
and the only available remedy was duct
tape and WD-40. But thanks to the sec
ond big-ticket grant the station has re
ceived in the past three years, KWSO
91.9 FM has the opportunity to fur
ther upgrade its equipment.
Matters said she received word of
the $98,436 renewable grant on April
15. "We had applied last August," she
said. "It took a painfully long time."
The grant is a community service
grant from the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting. This kind of funding can
be hard to get. "People have tried for
it here before," Matters said. "There
are a lot of hoops to jump through.
You have to submit a fairly extensive
application."
The grant follows a $217,409 equip
ment replacement grant that KWSO
received in 2003.
The community service grant will be
used to buy equipment that will help
KWSO broadcast more efficiently and
clearly. The station qualified for the
grant by being a non-commercial edu
cational radio station under a renew
able non-commercial license granted by
the FCC.
It also meets the criteria of being a
3,000-watt station that now runs 24
hours a day. When management at
KWSO first started pursuing the com
munity service grant in the 1990s, the
station was not on the air 24 hours a
day, which was a problem in qualifying.
Additional funding first had to be
generated to hire more people, so that
one day the station would be eligible
for a grant like the recent one.
KWSO will get free use of 72 per
cent of the grant money, or $70,974.
The remaining 28 percent, or $27,562,
must be spent on producing or acquir
ing national programming.
For KWSO part of the 28 percent
can go toward dues for the public ra
dio satellite system, and to the Ameri
can Indian Radio On Satellite (AIROS),
which presents the Native America Call
ing and National Natire News programs.
The remainder of the 28 percent
will go toward other national program
ming. "People here really like local infor
mation more than national information,
so it s kind of an irritating point for
me," Matters said. "As much as I think
All Things Considered and Morning Edi
tion are great stuff, I don't necessarily
think it's the kind of thing that Warm
Springs wants to hear."
Matters said KWSO could produce
programming to be distributed nation
ally through the satellite system. The
station will also have to upgrade its
equipment in step with the public satel
lite company's system-wide update.
KWSO is part of the initial group
of 31 Native stations put together by
the National Federation of Community
Broadcasters. The group is called the
Center for Native American Radio.
"A big part of what they're doing is
helping stations get this kind of fund
ing, and then helping them get through
the jumps of management," Matters
said. "Hopefully we'll be more con
nected to the other Native stations, and
hopefully they can qualify for money
as much as we can, and also share some
of our material."
For the remaining $71,000 of the
grant, Matters said the station can use
it for anything other than hiring more
personnel. "It will really help us out
operating and with additional equip
ment," she said.
The first dung die station will do is
pay all the dues, "and then the next big
ticket item would be to repair die tower
(on Eagle Butte)," she said.
Another item is digital music for
production, to use in recording pub
lic service announcements and pro
grams. With the Facilities Equipment Re
placement grant the station received
in 2003, KWSO was able to buy new
equipment for its on-air and produc
tion rooms. "With that, though, we
didn't have any money for music, so
the music you hear is what we could
come up with in-house, from the
staff," she said.
She said the money might also be
used to upgrade the station's news
room equipment.
"And we're looking at construc
tion a second production room," she
said. "We'd really like to add a new
production room with a (recording
control) board that would work bet
ter than our current production
board for recording live music."
Another goal is to network the
computers in the office and install
high-speed Internet, so KWSO staff
members can download and send
stories dirough e-mail.
"As an example, National Native
Neus will not take a report over the
phone anymore," Matters said.
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Mill pursues
power
generation
By Brian Mortensen
Spilyay Tymoo
Workers continue to put together the
towering red steel structure that is tak
ing shape at Warm Springs Forest Prwl
ucts Industries. As this work continues,
the promise of electricity generated and
sold from the facility is beginning to
take shape.
The steel structure at Forest Prod
ucts Industries (WSFPI) is a wood-fire
boiler. The facility is scheduled for
completion in September. The boiler is
the first step toward the building of a
second boiler of the same size, and a
turbine generator.
If the project happens as planned,
then the three structures could be used
together to generate electricity that can
eventually be sold for the Confeder
ated Tribes' profit.
"But the only thing definite now is
this boiler that's under construction
now," said Darrel Kelly, energy man
ager at WSFPI.
He said that general manager Iarry
Potts and several odicr staff have been
working hard to get all of the pieces in
place. For now, the second boiler and a
new turbine generator "are still on our
wish list," said Kelly.
Replaces 1927 model
. .. Before a second boiler and the tur
bine generator can be built, WSFPI has
to find someone who will buy the elec
tric power from the facility, said Kelly.
"We need someone willing to com
mit to a long-term contract, so when
the tribes spend the money for this fa
cility, they know they're going to be able
to pay for it and make a reasonable
profit from it," he said. "We think it's
going to happen, and we hope it's going ,.
to happen, but we don't know for sure
yet."
When the first boiler is complete, it ,
will replace the 78-year-old boiler the.
mill brought south from Fairbanks, .
Alaska, and has used since the 1970s.1
"The new unit will be more efficient,
and will have some technology advan- "
tages over the 1927 technology, but
essentially we'll be doing the same thing,
just on a larger scale," Kelly said.
The new boiler is fueled by waste
wood cut into small pieces, called hog
fuel. Heat from the fuel is transferred
up to a drum on an upper level half
filled with water. The heat creates
steam, and the steam is drawn into a
steam header.
The steam that goes to the turbines
goes to another section where it is su
perheated to 700 degrees. Other steam
at a lower temperature (350 degrees)
is called saturated steam. Energy from
this process will be used to dry lumber
at the lumber kilns, and for other pur
poses at the mill. , ;
The new boiler will generate 80,000
pounds of steam per hour, at 600
pounds per square inch (psi) for the
superheated steam, and 125 psi for the
saturated or process steam. A pound
of steam is equal to an evaporated
pound of water measured by weight.
The existing turbines operate at 250
psi, and initially the mill will operate the
new boiler at that pressure. A new tur
bine generator would allow for opera
tion at 600 psi and 700 degrees, said
Kelly.
To generate power, steam comes
from the boiler and feeds the inlet of
a turbine at the high temperatures and
pressures. "It drives a steam turbine
diat may have several stages," Kelly said.
"If you take the casing off a turbine,
the rotor looks just like a jet engine."
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