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SCA OrColl P.0. Box 870 Warm Springs, OR 97761 75 . S68 v. 31 no. 12 June 8, 2006 Spilyay Ty m e Coyote News, est. 1976 Use of body nets essential By Dave McMechan Spilyay Tymoo During the recent tragic drowning o f a W arm S p rin g s m an in the Deschutes River, the tribal rescue team placed nets downstream in order to recover the body. The tribes have used such nets for many years in cases requiring the re covery o f a body from the river. The goal is to retrieve the body as soon as possible, out o f respect for the deceased person and the person’s loved ones. The tribes will continue using the body nets in cases requiring the recov ery o f a body from the river, said Tribal Council Chairman Ron Suppah. “ Historically we’ve always used the nets when we’ve lost a person to the river,” said Suppah. “ O ur standard has been to find the body as quickly as p o ssib le to help put the fam ily at peace.” Following the recent loss o f Wallace LeClaire in the Deschutes River, the tribes used nets in order to recover the body. Flags were used to clearly indi cate the presence o f the nets, and at the Rainbow boat launch there was a reader-board sign alerting rafters to the presence o f the nets and the reason for their presence. The tribes also alerted law enforce ment agencies o ff the reservation that the nets were in the river, said Danny Martinez, Chief o f Warm Springs Fire and Safety. While the nets were in the water, a river guide from Seattle complained publicly that his raft flipped over in the Deschutes when he came upon one o f the nets. The com plaint show ed a lack o f understanding and a lack o f respect on the part o f the rafter, said Suppah. Recovering the body as quickly as p o s sible from the river, he said, is done out o f respect for the deceased person and the family. “ We are respectful o f our tribal members, especially for the surviving family, and we will continue to be re spectful in the future,” said Suppah. Rafters who are experienced should have no problem going over the nets, said Tribal Council Raymond Tsumpti, director o f the tribal Public Safety Branch. i H e said if the rafter approaches the net with the boat facing forward, then there should be no problem. I f the raft is sideways then there may be a prob lem, he said. Tsum pti said that in the future the tribes would use the body nets when a person has drowned in the river, as an expedient way o f recovering the body. “A s Indian people we respect the dead,” he said. T he Confederated Tribes have dis agreed with river guides in the past re garding use o f the Deschutes River. In recent years the river guides o p posed the implementation o f a permit system on the river, which the tribes and state governm ent agencies sup ported. T he perm it system went into effect last year, and the results seem to be positive so far. “ I think the reduction in boaters is helping the resource,” said Suppah. Tsum pti said there have been fewer re p o rte d c o m p la in ts o f p ro b le m s am ong the rafters them selves, p ro b ably because the river is less crow ded on the peak days. So the permit system, he said, would seem to be working from that perspec tive. Acquisition Dept./Serials Knight Library 1299 University of Oregon Eugene OR 97403-1205 June 8, 2006 Voi. 31, No. 12 ECR WSS Postal Patron U.S. Postage PRSRTSTD Warm Springs, OR 97761 50 cents New casino is topic of June gatherings Kah-N ee-Ta High D esert Resort and Casino will be hosting several G o rg e casin o op en h o u se s this month. The open houses will pro vide updated inform ation regarding the Confederated Tribes’ proposal to build a casino at Cascade Locks, and will feature architectural designs o f the casino. The open houses will also include updated inform ation on the tribes’ gaming com pact with the state, and two D V D presentations. The D V D presentations include testimonials from Warm Springs and Cascade Locks leaders, as well video design lay out o f the facility. The schedule for the open houses is as follows: Thursday, June 8 at the tribal ad ministration building, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Ju n e 15 at the Indian Health Services atrium from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Ju n e 22 at the W arm Springs Market from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 27 at the Three War riors Market from noon to closing. There will also be open houses at the Forestry/Fire Management Train ing Room , and the M useum at Warm, I time and dates to be announced. In addition to the Gorge casino open houses, the gaming expansion team has been conducting family hom e-base meetings throughout the reservation with various families. The home-base meetings provide a relaxed open atm o sphere for tribal members to talk to and ask questions o f the expansion team regarding the Cascade Locks ca sino proposal. For more information on the open houses, or if you are interested in host ing a G orge casino family home-base meeting, contact one o f the following University of Oregon Library Received on: 06-19-06 Spilyay tymoo Tribal Council Vice-Chairman last week signed a government-to-government agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as presented by the tribes’ Secretary-Treasurer Jody Calica (left). Councilwoman Rita Squiemphen (at right) was among the Council members who discussed the agreement with representatives from FEMA. The agency will provide funding to the tribes to repair damage caused by winter flooding. The idea is to have tribal workers make the needed repairs Dave McMechan/Spilyay through the FEMA program, said Dan Martinez, chief of Fire and Safety. Chief Operations Lauraina Hintsala and Martinez, along with the FEMA team, made the presentation to Council. FEMA is proposing to provide the tribes with close to $40,000 to make the repairs. The money became available when Pres. Bush declared a disaster in Oregon as a result of the flooding. The government-to-government agreement was needed, as the funding would otherwise be allocated to the state or to counties. casino expansion team members: direc tor Margie Tuckta, 553-4883; coordi n ator Floyd Calica, 553-1112, ext. 3420; or adm inistrative coordinator Lena Ike, 553-1112, ext. 3492. The expansion team also wants to remind tribal members to be watching the mail for the next edition o f the “ H ead o f H ouseh old” mailing. The next edition will feature an update o f progress from the new gam ing board o f directors chairman K en Smith. Please stay tuned to K W SO and the Spilyay for inform ation regarding the tribes’ casino proposal. Old houses demolished on campus Six old houses that were beyond re pair have been torn down in the cam pus area. Eventually, all the houses on the north side o f Wasco Street are to be dem olished, m aking way for a large park area. The park area will be the site o f a community outdoor market. Eventu ally, there will be drinking fountains and a public re stro o m available to the people at the market, and the people using the nearby ball fields, said Je f f Sanders, director o f the H ousing D e partment. T he idea for rem oval o f the old buildings and development o f the mar ket is included in the recent downtown development plan for Warm Springs. Sanders said the buildings that were removed were over 70 years old. To bring the structures up to safety code, and to modernize the plumbing and electrical wiring would be cost prohibi tive, he said. There was also some struc tural damage, and basement m old in the old buildings, he said. The solution was to demolish the buildings, which is in accordance with the downtown developm ent plan, said Sanders. T he first h ou ses to com e dow n were used as practice burns by Fire and Safety. A fter people com plained ab o u t the sm o k e, the d em o lish ed bu ildin gs were hauled away rather than burned. Grand Ronde to run more casino ads (AP) — In the just-ended primary election season, the tribe that runs O r e g o n ’s la r g e s t c a sin o sp e n t $850,000 to blanket the airwaves with T V ads b lastin g G ov. T ed K ulongoski and Republican Kevin Mannix. D espite the ad blitz, Kulongoski won the Dem ocratic gubernatorial nomination in his contest with two challengers. But Mannix went down to defeat in the May 16 G O P pri mary, a loss he blames in large part on T V ads the Confederated Tribes o f the G ran d R onde ran against him. N ow the G rand Ronde is pre pared to bankroll a new round o f T V ads targeting K ulongoski in the general election, if he persists in backing the Cascade Locks casino plan o f the Confederated Tribes o f Warm Springs. The d isp u te ce n te rs on K u lon gosk i’s decision in 2005 to approve the Confederated Tribes o f Warm Springs proposal to build an off-reservation casino in Cascade Locks, located within the Columbia G orge N ation al Scenic A rea and about 40 miles east o f the lucrative Pordand market. The region that includes Cascade Locks is part o f the Ceded Lands o f the C on fed erated T ribes o f Warm Springs. D espite the G rand Ronde’s T V ads that ran almost constandy in the weeks leading up to the May 16 primary elec tion, Kulongoski won the Dem ocratic primary by a sizable margin over his two challengers. “Voters are smart; they proved dur ing the Dem ocratic primary that they are going to reject those kinds o f spe cial interest ads,” said Kulongoski’s cam paign spokesm an, Cameron Johnson. “ Oregonians don’t want their elections to be hijacked by special interests.” Kulongoski, as the incumbent, was considered the favorite to defeat chal lengers Jim Hill and Peter Sorenson in the Dem ocratic primary. The G O P primary was considered a close race up until the end, when Pordand lawyer Ron Saxton vanquished Mannix to become the Republican stan dard-bearer for the fall election. In that contest, the G rand Ronde’s T V ads praised Saxton for opposing the gorge casino and criticized Mannix for refusing to say he would block it. T h e a d s a ls o s u g g e s t e d th a t M annix had back ed num erous tax hikes during his years as a state legislator. M annix, in a recent interview, said he thinks the G rand Ronde ads were a decisive factor in his defeat. “The m ost significant event was the body blow we su ffered early on from the m assive T V advertising campaign by the G rand Ronde ca sino interests,” the Salem Republi can said. “They defined me for voters be fore I had a chance to define my self.” Johnson, Kulongoski’s re-election cam p aig n sp o k e sm a n , says the Dem ocratic governor intends to al low the Warm Springs tribe to put a casino in Cascade Lock s because otherwise the tribe m ight build a casino on a far less desirable site on tribal land upstream in H ood River. T here’s no chance K ulon goski will change his mind - even if that means the G rand Ronde will run another T V ad blitz against him in the fall, John son said. “ He based his decision on what’s in the best interests o f the entire state, not just on what one special interest wants,” Kulongoski’s spokes m an said. M an dies in fall (AP) — A man fleeing a traffic stop in M adras last Wednesday, M ay 31, plunged to his death from a 30-foot cliff, authorities said. Charles Yallup, 27, o f White Swan, Wash., was driving a pickup on U.S. Highway 97 west o f M adras when a sh eriff’s deputy tried to stop him be cause the truck had one functioning headlight, according to the Jefferson County Sh eriff’s Office. Yallup avoided the stop by driving through two fences and onto roads where the patrol car could not follow, the sh eriff’s office said. The deputy soon spotted the pickup and found two people inside. Under sheriff Jim Adkins said they told depu ties that Yallup got out o f the pickup and fled on foot. Relatives living in Warm Springs organized a search for Yallup and found him deceased, roughly two hours after the attempted traffic stop. H e appar ently fell over a cliff in the dark. An autopsy has been scheduled, Adkins said.
