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Spilyqy Tyrooo, Wrm Springs, Oregon September 29, 2005 Pge 11 Horses: work brings generations together (Continued from page 6) "I've been learning a lot, and I'd want to do this again," he said. duller said that people from each of the districts of the res ervation came together to help last week. "You see people who come together who normally wouldn't come together," he said. I le said they were brought together by his connections with them personally, and through their friends and co-workers. "It's part of the networking you intentionally try to do as part of the clergy," he said. Harold Klan, a long-time rancher from cast of the Deschutes River, was also in vited to watch the work being done. "It builds connections," Duller said, to sec people from both sides of the reservation border enjoying their expertise and company. This week, Buller is taking several of the youths he has been working with to the Na tional Snaffle Bit Futurity com petition in Reno, Nev. The com petition includes herding, rein ing and cutting, and Buller said a Southern California business man, horseman and benefactor .-.. -. . i ii i Wild horses arrived in Warm Springs from Nevada. named Chad I. yon is financing most of the trip. The outing is to show the kids from Warm Springs what professional-quality competition is like. Buller's goal, he said, is to have at least one of his young riders from Warm Springs be proficient enough to compete in an ( )lym pic Games. "This is the level we want them to get to," Buller said. "I want everyone to recognize them when they come to com petitions. They're tougher than any bunch of kids I've ever seen." Buller places the same stan dards for his kids that he has on each of his trips, on their academic performance and be havior. Last spring, he and group of adult chaperones from Warm Springs t(xk a group of youths to participate in a parade in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Buller has only recently re signed his position as youth pas tor at the United Methodist Church to develop Faith Trails Association, which he intends as a ministry based around the horse culture, an enduring part of life in Warm Springs and in Indian country. I le said he plans to build a ranch that will serve as a chapel where people from all generations and all parts of EWian MotwnMtVSpilyay the reservation come together and know, through the atmo sphere and setting, that it's a place God's presence is felt. For now, Buller said he is willing to use his experience as a horse trainer to work with kids and spend time with them. "They have to get a hold of me, call my home (475-3115) and leave me their contact in formation," he said. "And I'll meet with them and a third party. "And you work, and you learn and you do. I'll treat you like a niece or a nephew, and I will follow your grades." Code: local conditions considered (Continued from page 1) Bruce Englc, of the Warm Springs Tribal Credit Office, at tended one meeting in the - conference's efforts, a point Woodrow mentioned to empha size the Confederated Tribes' in volvement in the creation of the new law. Warm Springs was one of more than 10 tribes from across the nation involved in creating the Tribal Secured Transaction Code's creation. "We came up with a model tribal secured transactions code that also incorporates certain components of Article I, the general terms of the UCC, some components of Article II having to do with sales, and some components that deal with investment securities," she said. "The reason for this was that we wanted to create a stand alone law. "The articles of the UCC do not stand alone, they all incor porate, by reference, pieces of other articles and many other state laws. We wanted to draft one that was a stand-alone se cured transaction law," she said. Included is a section to pro vide explanatory information to tribal council members, tribal judges and others who would be responsible for adapting and knowing the new law. This is needed, she said, because "there are not many tribal council members and tribal legislatures that are going to go through every single provision of this code before they adopt it," she said. The proposed law is what is called a model law, meaning it is meant as a template, with most general principles intact but writ ten with enough leeway to adapt to local economic conditions or particular tribal traditions. "Some tribes may want to exclude some property that could otherwise be used as col lateral under this law," Woodrow said. A tribe may wish to exclude the use of items of religious sig nificance, for instance. For example, if a tribal mem ber individually owns a religious artifact, the tribe may not want that property passed out of the economic ability to simply start rolling an economic wheel on reservations." Without state jurisdiction, and without a tribally created have the Cutting edge of commercial code, Jordan said there is a "commercial vacuum" and uncertainty among banks and potential lenders. "That's what codes do," he said. "They actually create the mechanism for having a written tribal hands, and so the tribe may exclude this type of prop erty from use as collateral. "Other tribes may say, 'We want our tribal members to be able to do use anything they've got as collateral for their loan,'" Woodrow said. Another possible variance is the matter of repossession of collateral in purchase agree ments that are in default. figure it out. What is the cause "Some tribes do not want and effebrof Vriemployment document that says, 'We're go- creditors to be able to just go rates on our reservation and in ing to spell out the tribal side, " Yon can 'tget closer to tradition than salmon, and with cell phones, we technology. " Daniel Jordan Hoopa Valley Tribe and get collateral, if a person is in default," she said. "Other tribes may say, 'Yes, we really want to encourage lending, and so we're going to allow repos session.' "We don't tell tribes one way or the other which way to go. We want them to consider it, think about it, and make the policy choices accordingly." Woodrow said a filing system is an important measure in regu lating the code. A tribe can ci ther use its own system, "piggy back" on a state system, or form a cooperative with other tribes. The code provides a clear statement that the tribe is not waiving sovereign immunity by adopting the code. Daniel Jordan, of the Hoopa Valley Tribe of Northern Cali fornia, said his tribe addressed the issue of self-governance through the late 1980s and early 1990s. "We were under the impres sion that the tribe's unemploy ment rate, poverty, and all other social problems on the reserva tion were really the result of BIA, Indian Health Service, the state and county jurisdictions, and we set out to create an agenda of reducing the outside influences over the internal af fairs of the tribe," he said. "So we worked very aggressively from 1988 on a mission of self governance. "By 1997, we had control over almost every asset, even water and fisheries issues. We had direct control as a tribe, we had influence over every state and federal agency that had any impact on us." Noticing that a reported 49 percent unemployment rate ex isted in Indian Country, includ ing 50 percent on reservations in his home state of California, "we got to the point of saying, 'We've got to realign this and Indian Country?'" Jordan said that'through his tribe's study in creating its docu ment, called "Creating a Busi ness Environment for Indian County," the I Ioopas found that through Sections 8 and 10 of Article I, and Article IV of the U.S. Constitution, the commerce on Indian nations, as sovereign nations, is under federal juris diction. "What drives the national economy?" Jordan said. "The collective jurisdiction of all the states, and the ability of the states to generate economy. That's what really creates a na tional economy. "But we're not under state law. State law does not apply to Indian reservations. That was kind of the beginning of the answer. That is why there is un employment to the level that there is on Indian reservations. It's really because tribes have been successful in eliminating state jurisdiction." By eliminating state jurisdic tion, tribes have created a less accommodating environment for business. Jordan said the "application of tribal authority" in 2002 cre ated a sum of $27 billion in economy on Indian reserva tions. But, independent of the Na tional Indian Gaming Act, "the tribes have sole independent authority to regulate com merce," he said. The trick, he said, was figur ing out what kinds of businesses his tribe could venture into that are not regulated by the Indian Gaming Act. "One tiling about the secured transaction code, you actually have to have the businesses in place to take advantage of it," he said. "It's a chicken-and-the-egg problem. If the businesses aren't there, then you don't have what it means to do business on our reservation." Jordan said the I Ioopas have established a salmon cannery and a tribally owned cellular phone system. "You can't get closer to tra dition than salmon, and with cell phones, we have the cutting edge of technology," he said. Along with Jordan and Woodrow, Craig Nolte, a Fed eral Reserve banker, helped fa cilitate the recent meeting of local business and banking people, economic development and judicial officials at Kah-Nee-Ta. Births Lucius Cole Medina Robert A. and Marcclinc Medina arc pleased to announce the birth of their son Lucius Cole Medina, bom September 10, 2005. Lucius joins sister Debra Alexis. Father's parents are Gualberto Medina of Warm Springs, and Wanda Rogers of Salem. Mother's parents are Alfred Smith Jr. and Debra Kalama, of Warm Springs. Gunner Johnson Bailey Jr. Gunner Johnson Bailey Sr. and Mandy May Suppah arc pleased to announce the birth of their son Gunner Johnson Bailey Jr., born September 21, 2005. Gunner Jr. joins sisters F.valyn and Isabel. Father's parents arc Robert Bailey and Joni Wallulurum, of Warm Springs. Mother's parent is Ro man Suppah of Warm Springs. Killiana Roberta Ann Greene Joe Ray Greene and Kaylie IClaire are pleased to an nounce the birth of their daughter Killiana Roberta Ann Greene, born September 22, 2005. Killiana joins sister Delia Celia Ix-Clairc. Father's parents are Roberta Greene and Joe Striketheheart, of Warm Springs. Mother's parents arc Tom I Claire of Warm Springs, and Ann Morrell of Idaho. Clint Jimmy Jake Tohet Jason I larvey Tohet Sr. and Jamie Miranda Tohet are pleased to announce the birth of their son Clint Jimmy Jake Tohet, born September 19, 2005. Clint joins brother Jason Harvey Tohet Jr. Father's parents are Jimmy Tohet and Melinda Frank, of Warm Springs. Mother's parents arc Jimmy Standoff of Alberta, Canada, and Melinda Chicfmoon. Howlak Tichum Clay Thompson Clay Thompson of Warm Springs passed away Septem ber 15, 2005. I le was 46. Mr. Thompson was born March 28, 1959 at Redmond to parents Roscoe Thompson and Doris Ike. 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