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Spilyay T ym o o , W arm Springs, O rego n
September 13, 2007*
Salmon Camp brings youth from Warm Springs to Coast
B y Dave M cM echan
Spilyay Tymoo
Young people from Warm
Springs traveled to sites around
the reservation, to the Colum
bia River and the Oregon Coast,
as part o f the five-day Salmon
Camp. |
' “It was amazing how much
they learned from each site they
visited,” said Doris Miller, who
coordinated the camp with Fritz
Miller.
“They wanted to’Stay longer,”
Miller said, “And they said next
year they want the camp to be
fo r two weeks.”
The purpose o f the camp was
to observe the life cycle o f
salmon, from spawning in tribu
taries like the Warm Springs
River, down to the Deschutes
and the Columbia, and op to the
Pacific Ocean.
Besides the fisheries science,
the students learned life skills
such as prayer, writing, art, so
cial skills, team work, presenta
tions and listening skills.
, Sixteen tribal member youth
attended the Salmon Camp, held
from Aug. 26-30. ,
The camp began with a gath
ering dong the Warm Springs
River at the HeHe Longhouse,
where Larry Holliday, o f tribal
Natural Resources, made a pre
sentation on salmon spawning.
jj The group -walked up the
river to the spawning headwa
ters to see first hand the stre-
ambeds Where salmon make
their redds.
.The Salm on Camp youth
then traveled to the W arm
Springs National Fish Hatchery,
where hatchery worker Kevin
Blueback let the students feed
the juven ile fish. They also
learned the important differ
ences betweenJ^J^§iyynd.^?M'
jljh.
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||SjAt the end o f the day the
group traveled to Kah-Nee-Ta,
where they ate dinner at the
Pavilion and slept the night in
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Alexis Hintsala and Kassie W arner at the Sherars Falls.
Photos courtesy of Doris Miller
Harold Blackwolf demonstrates fish cleaning techniques at Cascade Locks,
the Village teepees.
Sherars Bridge
The next m orning the
Salmon Camp group traveled to
Sherars Bridge, where they
viewed the fishermen on the
scaffolding. BIA superintendent
Paul Young gave a history pre
sentation on fishing in the re
gion.
Salmon Camp then traveled
to Cascade Locks fo r lunch;
They set up tents, and worked
on their journals. Earlier, the stu
dents had been given traveling
bags with notebooks and pens
by-th e A ffilia te d Tribes o f
•Northsyest Indians, gg ;
..¿At Cascade Locks, Louie Pitt,
director o f tribal. Government
Affairs, and Harold Blackwolf
Sn, o f thé Off-Reservation Fish
and Wildlife, made presentations
on salmon and tribal fishing
rights. Blackwolf made salmon
filets for the group, and the stu
dents learned his filleting tech
niques.
At the Coast
The next morning the group
left for Lincoln City, $diere they
had lunch. They traveled to
Newport and the Oregon Sci
ence Marine Center, where they
met up with a group o f young
people from the Siletz tribes. V
They visited the Siletz
Longhouse for dinner and cul
tural dances. The Warm Springs
and Siletz groups also toured the
Siletó'^u^Lenterand library
Despite problems and many
unanswered questions, the first
return o f hatchery raised Chi
nook salm on to .the W arm
Springs River is good. Approxi
mately .950 adult Chinook es
caped nets, fishing lines and
predators to return. In other
news:
The Confederated.Tribes o f
Warm Springs have filed a suit
‘against Portland General Elec
tric through the U.S. Attorney’s
Office,- contending that PGE
owes the tribes nearly $13 mil-
years . g a
liori for an adjustment to rental
rates on Round Butte Dam, ret
roactive to August 1979. PGE
has refused .to pay the amount
owed, says the suit, and the tribe
is seeking enforcement o f the
arbitrator’s order with the aide
o f the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
And elsewhere:
Once a year the tempo o f the
daily life for residents in the city
o f Pendleton changes from the
serious business m ood to a
time o f fun and frivolity as a
bit o f the past is relived for a
week during the Pendleton
Round-Up.
‘ A. pageantry o f cow boys
Students stayed at the Kah-Nee-Ta Village.
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At the longhouse, volunteers help the students prepare
for thè'trip. ’ §
aihd -playeit-a- g-amé|of touicn
football.
“ The next morning the group
had breakfast at Chinook Winds,
and then listened-.its Tedi
Twenty-five
I From the. Septem ber, 1982
edition o f the Spilyay Tymoo.
■ Tanewasha gave some advice on
making presentations!
The Salmon Camp members
then gave presentations on what
they had learned On' the trip.
They went to the beach for
a while and then returned to
Warm Springs.
The students who partici
pated in the camp aré:
Elyse Bagley, Keyahna Clem
ent, Cyril Frank, Morgan Frank,
Alexis Hintsala, Niemanjackson,
Ada Lopez-Polk, Andrew Lujan1,
M efrick Patt, Je v o n Sm ith,
Shoshana Street, Kassandra
W arner,
R obin
W arner,
Johanathan Watlamet, Theresa
Winishut, and Jarrod • Yahtin.'* ■ -
week
and Indians dom inates the
scenes. Businessmen shed their
suits for Western wear and In
dians from all parts o f the
Northwfest re-create an Indian
villag e o f teepees; on the
round-up grounds. , '
On the beach at Lincoln City.
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