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Spilyay Tytnoo, W arm Springs, Oregon
M ay 2 4 ,2 0 0 7
Meeting on proposed power line
T h e Land U se Planning
Committee is requesting the
public to attend one o f three
sc o p in g m e e tin g s at th e
Agency Long House regard
ing:
T h e proposed transm is-
sion line for the future Warm
Springs B iom ass L L C power
p lan t, lo ca te d at th e W arm
Springs Forest Products plant.
Contact the Land Use Plan
ning Committee for more infor
mation 553-3258.
T he first meeting will start
at noon on Wednesday, June
6, at the Agency Longhouse.
Lunch is provided.
P re se n te rs a re R a fa e l
Q ueapham a, jim M anion,
and Deepak Sehgal.
News from Indian C ountry
Tribe banishes blogger from reservation
B E L C O U R T , N.D. (AP) -
A n American Indian tribe has
banished a blogger who wrote
a m agazine article criticizing
conditions ori the reservation
and calling for an end to “cradle-
to-grave entitlements.”
T h e resolution by the Turtle
M ountain Band o f Chippewa
¿ays Rob Port's column was " in
jurious to the peace and seri
ously threatens the general wel
fare, health, safety, political se
curity and prosperity" o f the
tribe and others in N orth D a
kota.
P o rt -is w e b m a ste r .fo r
SayAnythitigBlog.com. The col
umn ran in the January issue o f
T h e D akota B ea co n and ap
peared on the blog. H e says he
found out about the tribe's de-
cision from a fellow blogger.
“How do you ban somebody
from land without even telling
them about it?” Port said. “It
doesn't seem very straightfor
ward, banning somebody for an
opinion piece.”
Port said he spent about 15
hours “going around neighbor
hoods and knocking on doors”
on the reservation for his col-,
umn, titled “The Appalling State
o f N orth Dakota Indian Reser
vations.”
jl l e w rote that people are
“perfectly content to live there.
P robably _ because they d on't
know any better. T h ey were
likely raised in housing projects
by their parents, who in turn
were probably raised in housing
projects themselves.”
Port's column also called for
an end to re se rv a tio n s and
“cradle-to-grave entitlements.”
Tribal V ice Chairm an Ted
Henry said the column unfairly
generalizes life on the reserva
tion. - -
; “ I t cut our people down,”:
Henry said. “We do have a lo t
o f good people here. T h e article
doesn't say anything about that.
A lot o f our Indian people work
hard.”
T h e tribe adopted a banish
ment ordinance last year to fight
illegal drugs. People who are not
•tribal.members can be banished
w ithout w arning i f the tribe
deems immediate removal nec
essary.
Leslie Mitts/Spilyay
Miss Warm Springs Sallie Polk-Adams performs the Lord’s Prayer in Indian sign
larlguage on Saturday at the Collage of Culture in Madras.
Project in limbo because o f centuries-old law
N O R T H B E N D , O re.
(A P )—A p ian to put a H oipe
D ep ot and other businesses
on Coquille Tribal property
is in lim bo because o f a law
signed by President G eorge
Washington in 1790.
T h e In d ia n N o n in te r
co u rse A c t shields tribes
from being* cheated out o f
their land by speculators.
B u t it also prevents tribes
from selling or leasing land
except through a treaty with
the federal government as a
party to the deal.
I t is considered the last
m ajor hurdle to the Coquille
E c o n o m ic D e v e lo p m e n t
C o rp .'s' K o K w el W h a r f
project, a 50-acre retail and
entertainment project north o f
T h e Mill Casino-Hotel. Hom e
D e p o t, w h ich is paying fo r
m udi o f the infrastructure for
the shopping center, worries the
lease might n ot be legal.
empt the tribe in current and
future projects.
I f passed, it would apply
only to land purchsed by the
tribe that is not reservation
land.
“W hen it’s our $20 million
going into a project, we want to
make sure that there is no ques
tion about the validity o f the
lease that has been signed,” said
Brian Cannàrd, the real estate
Brady Scott, o f the busi
ness wing o f the tribe said
the law came to his attention
during n eg o tiatio n s w ith
H om e D epot.
H e said Smith's bill m ust
pass b efo re H om e D ep o t
will sign a lease and begin
m anager fo r H o m e D e p o t's
Northwest Division.
B u t rep resen tativ es fro m
Hom e D ep ot and the business
arm o f the C oqu ille In d ian
Tribe say there is hope that Sen
ate B ill 1 2 8 6 in tro d u ced by
Oregon's Republican Sen. G or
don Smith this m onth, will ex-
building. H e said the tribe
Would be willing to go ahead
now i f H om e D ep ot had no
issues with the law. H e said
plans are not on hold and
that work on permits and de
signs continues.
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