Spilygy Ty moo, Warm Springs, Oregon
July 21, 2005
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Ashley AguilirSpilyay
Wesley Redhouse shows some of the prizes of the
memorial race.
Memorial race at rodeo
For the third year in a row
Wasco County Fair's Tygh
Valley Rodeo will feature the
Eliza Green Redhouse Me
morial Horse Race.
The race is three-quarter
miles and is set for August
27. This race will be the last
event of the rodeo, and the
last running of this memorial
race.
Eliza Green "Hotdog"
Redhouse was a rodeo cham
Feds may
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)
- The chairman of the Senate
Indian Affairs Committee says
Congress may well settle the
nearly decade-old lawsuit in
which American Indians accuse
the Interior Department of
cheating them out of billions of
dollars in royalties.
But Sen. John McCain, R
Ariz., said last week the $27.5
billion the Indians are seeking
in a proposed settlement is too'
much. "That number is just way
out of sight," he said at a Capi
Ellsbury: 5 games,
four stolen bases
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Jim Manion, manager of
Warm Springs Power Enter
prises, was one of his t-ball
coaches. Urbana "Toto" Ross,
who works at Kah-Nee-Ta, was
another. Ross remembers
Ellsbury as being very serious
about baseball even at the t-ball
level. "He was competitive right
from the get-go," she said.
Ellsbury's parents are Margie
and Jim Ellsbury, who both
work for the tribes. Margie
works at the Early Childhood
Education Center, and Jim
works in forestry. "I am truly
proud of him," Margie, who is
a Navajo Indian, said of Jacoby.
"It's what he's always been
shooting for," said Jim. "He's al
ways kept this goal out in front
of him."
Jim Ellsbury moved from the
Seattle area to Warm Springs in
1980, as he had been offered a
job in the forestry department.
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pion. I ler family has spon
sored this race in her loving
memory.
The winner of the race
takes all, prizes include
$2,500, trophy, champion
jacket, beaded buckle, trophy
cooling blanket, saddle blan
ket, halter and lead rope, and
thorough bred racing bat
Same rules apply as last
year, and women are wel
come to race as well
settle trust case
tol Hill breakfast. "We would
never get the Congress to sup
port that kind of money."
For more than a century,
McCain said, it appears the gov
ernment "never really even
made any serious attempt at
keeping track of the revenues"
it owed the Indians.
The Indians claim the Inte
rior Department mismanaged
oiLgas, grazing, timber and other
royalties from their lands dat
ing back to 1887. Blackfeet In
dian Elouise Cobell and others
Margie moved here from Utah
at about the same time. Her sis
ter Sylvia was already living here.
Margie is originally from the
Colorado River Indian Reserva
tion. ' Jim and Margie met in Warm
Springs in 1982. They lived for
a while at the campus area, in
the building that now houses the
Spilyay and then a few houses
down on Wasco Street. "We had
a small backyard," said Jim.
"Jacoby's goal was to hit a plas
tic ball over the fence, and he
figured out how to get the most
power out of his swing."
The Ellsburys have four sons,
Jacoby, 21, being the oldest. His
brothers are Matt, 19, Tyler, 16,
and Spencer, 12. Spencer this
weekend will be at the state tour
nament with the Jefferson
County Major Little League All
Star team.
At Madras High School
Jacoby excelled at baseball and
other sports. He was good at
basketball because he can jump
very high. He was even good at
Casino would be seventh 'off reservation
(The following article is by tribal
attorney Dennis Kamopp.)
There are nine federally rec
ognized Indians tribes in Or
egon. All nine tribes operate ca
sinos, although only three tribal
casinos are located on land that
was established as Indian reser
vation land in 1988 when con
gress enacted the Indian Gam
ing Regulatory Act. The three
casinos on land that was Jiulian
reservation land in 1988 arc:
The Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Reservation's
Wildhorse Casino, the Burns
Paiutc Tribe's Old Vamp Casino,
and the Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs' Kah-Nee-Ta
I ligh Desert Resort and Casino.
The other six tribal casinos were
sited on land that was not part
of an established Indian reser
vation in 1988. Here is how
those six casinos were established.
Confederated Tribes of. the
Grand Rondtf Indian
Community's Spirit Mountain
Casino. The land for this casino
was not part of the Grand
Ronde Tribe's restored reserva
tion established in 1988. After
unsuccessful efforts to have the
federal Bureau of Indian Af
fairs administratively add the
land to the reservation, Grand
Ronde was able to have Con
gress pass a statute in 1994 (Pub-
filed the suit in 1996 to force
the government to account for
billioris of dollars belonging to
about 500,000 Indians.
Last month, in response to a
request from McCain and oth
ers in Congress, the Indians who
sued said they were willing to
settle for $27.5 billion and that
they had agreed on 50 principles
to guide the process. That fig
ure is probably far less than the
government actually owes the
Indians, said their lawyer, Elliott
Levitas.
the high jump in track. "His form
was not good but he still made
it over," said Margie. "He has
excellent jumping ability."
"He could probably play any
sport and excel at it," said Jim.
"Baseball was the first one I in
troduced him to."
In high school Jacoby was
named co-player of the year in
the Tri-Valley Baseball League,
and made the Class 3A all-state
first team. Out of high school
he was selected in amateur draft
by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
He turned it down to go to col
lege, which has proven to be a
smart decision.
Ellsbury signed with the Red
Sox just a few weeks ago. He's
playing center field for the
Lowell Spinners, of the New
York-Penn League. He bats and
throws left-handed, and is an
exceptionally fast runner. As of
earlier this week, after five
games, he had four stolen bases,
five hits, six runs and four runs
batted in.
lie Law 103-263) taking the
Spirit Mountain Casino site into
trust and making it part of the
restored Grand Ronde Reserva
tion. Spirit Mountain Casino was
opened in 1995.
Confederated Tribes of the
Siletz Indian Community's Chi
nook Winds Casino. The Siletz
Tribe was restored to federal
recognition in 1977, and its origi
nal restored reservation lands
were taken in trust in 1980, Like
Grand Ronde, the land for the
Siletz casino was added to the
Siletz Tribe's restored reserva
tion by an Act of Congress en
acted in 1994 (Public Law 103
435). Chinook Winds Casino
opened in 1995.
Confederated Coos, Ixtwcr
Umpcjua and Siuslaw Tribe's
Three Rivers Casino in Flo
rence. The Coos Tribes was re
stored to federal recognition in
1984. The land for the Three
Rivers Casino was administra
tively added in 1998 to the
tribe's restored reservation in
Coos Bay, 30 miles to the south
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Three Rivers Casino opened in
2004.
Cow Creek Band of
Umpqua Indians' Seven Feath
ers Casino in Canyonvillc. The
Cow Creek Band was restored
to federal recognition in 1982.
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The Band was able to acquire
the land for Seven Feathers pur
suant to an Act of Congress
enacted in 1987 (public Law
100-139). It appears that the
land for the casino was not
brought into trust until the early
1990's. A bingo hall on part of
the land now occupied by Seven
Feathers Casino opened in 1992.
C(Huille Tribe's Mill Casino
in North Bend. The Coquille
Tribes was restored to federal
recognition in 1989. The land
for the casino was added to the
Tribe's restored reservation in
recognition in 1995. The Mill
Casino opened in 1995.
Klamath Tribe's Kla-Mo-Va
Casino near Chiloquin. To date,
a Klamath Reservation has not
been re-established and thus the
tribe's casino is not on reserva
tion land. Kla-Mo-Ya Casino is
on land brought into trust some
time between November 1996
and June 1997, when the casino
was opened.
Warm Springs is now seek
ing federal approval for a ca
sino at Cascade Ixcks. This ca
sino will be on land acquired
after October 17, 1988, under
Section 10(b)(1)(A) of the In
dian Gaming Regulatory Act.
This section allows land to be
taken into trust for a casino if
the Secretary of Interior makes
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a two-part determination, and
the governor concurs that tak
ing the land into trust for a ca
sino is in the best interests of
the tribe and is not detrimental
to the surrounding community.
The Department of Interior is
currently processing the tribe's
application for the two-part de
termination. In view of the circumstances
of how six of Oregon's casinos
came to be established on land
that was not part of an estab
lished Indian Reservation in
1988, the Warm Springs Casino
at Cascade Locks will not be
Oregon's "first off reservation
casino." Rather, it will be
Oregon's seventh off reserva
tion casino.
The Warm Springs Tribe's
proposal to locate a casino at
Cascade Locks is based on
unique circumstances involving
the tribe's willingness to forgo
developing a casino on nearby
tribal trust land at I lood River
that is eligible for gaming under
the Indian Gaming Regulatory
Act, the same as other reserva
tion land. We believe that no
other Oregon tribe can duplicate
these facts, and therefore we do
not believe it is possible for an
other tribe to pursue a similar
approach to siting an off-reservation
casino.
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