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August 14, 2 0 0 8 Spilyay Tyrooo, Warm Springs, Oregon Page 10 Deer, elk permits available for conservation properties Permits to hunt deer or elk on John Day basin conserva tion properties are now available for 2008. The permit application dead line is August 20. The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs manage the Pine Creek, Oxbow, and Forrest Con servation Areas for wildlife and fish habitat. The tribes are offering lim ited numbers of big game hunt ing access permits to each prop erty for 2008. Big game permits are divided equally between tribal members and the general public. The Pine Creek Conserva tion Area is located near Fossil on the lower John Day River. The Forrest and Oxbow Con servation Areas are located on the M iddle Fork Jo h n Day River, north of John Day and on the M ainstem Jo h n Day River east o f Prairie City. To apply for a hunt, please provide your nam e, current mailing address and phone num ber, and Tribal Member identi fication number. You may stop by the Natural Resources Department’s office at Warm Springs to sign up, or mail the application information to the appropriate conservation area office. As part of their application information, hunters will also need to specify the hunt num ber (season) and Oregon game management unit for which they are applying. All 2008 deer and elk hunts on the conservation area prop erties are listed in the tables be low. Tribal members will need the appropriate Ceded Area Tag for each listed hunt. N on-tribal m em bers may apply to hunt these properties as part o f the general public application process. This can be done by submitting their name, address and phone number, and a photocopy o f a purchased hunt tag or the ODFW notifi cation card indicating the hunter’s success in drawing a hunt tag. At Pine Creek all non-tribal members need to have their application(s) received at the office by July 31, 2008 via USPS mail; tribal members need to have their applications in by August 20. For the Oxbow and Forrest Conservation Areas applications must be received by August 20 for both non-tribal and tribal members to be eligible for the draw. All applicants will be notified by mail o f the draw results. Successful applicants will re ceive their permits, a basic prop erty map, and a copy o f the con servation area regulations with this mailing. Party hunts: Hunt party ap plications at Pine Creek are lim ited to three people per party. Each party application is pro cessed as one entry into the hunt drawing. Please make sure to indicate if your hunt group wishes to be entered in the draw as either a party or as individual applicants. No party hunting is available on the Forrest and Oxbow proper ties. Extra permits: P erm its which are unclaimed in the lot tery will be available from the respective conservation area offices on a first-come, first- served basis after August 20. Pine Creek Conservation Area: 39067 Highway 218, Fossil, OR 97830. The office e-m ail * address is pinecreek@ w ildblue.net or phone 541-489-3477. Oxbow and Forrest Con servation Areas: John Day Basin Office, 68073 Hwy 26, Prairie City, OR 97869; phone 541-820-3568 o r 541-421- 3931. The conservation offices’ e-mail addresses are: Oxbow C onservation Area oxbowca@ortelco.net ; Forrest C o n servation Area kcoles@ortelco.net. Important range users meeting on Aug. 19 There will be Range Users meeting on Tuesday evening, August 19 at the Agency Longhouse. This will be an impor tant m eeting for range users. T he agenda in cludes a number o f im portant topics regarding range and livestock man agement. Please come and have your voice heard. The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. D in n er will be served. Victims of Crime advocates train at annual coalition conference A special showing of a future H BO docum entary about a worst case scenario family do mestic violence situation was the highlight for the Victims of Crime Services victim advocates who attended the recent Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence conference in Portland. This conference was the an nual training and meeting o f most of the victims assistance programs in the state of Oregon. The conference had a pre conference training day where Tina Aguilar, Aurel Stinson and M ark M atthew s, o f Warm Springs Victims of Crime Ser vices (VOCS), gave a morning two-hour PowerPoint presenta tion to approximately 45. other victim advocates on promising practices from the reservation in providing sexual assault com munity awareness education. This presentation focused on VOCS’ use of the Silent Mes sage DVD, the Walking the Walk role playing exercise and the Darkness to Light child sexual abuse prevention curriculum. After the VOCS presentation a PSU Professor Shongcha Bow man invited the VOCS advo cates to speak at a wom en’s study seminar in November. At the same time Juanita Villa received two training certificates for completing the Domestic Violence 101 and Sexual Assault training classes. In the afternoon Stinson and Matthews attended a “T rain the T rain er” class where they became certified to teach domestic violence, stalk ing, and sexual assault awareness classes to state of Oregon man agers and supervisors. The close of the pre-confer ence training day concluded with a pre-premiere viewing of a future H BO docum entary entitled One Minute to Nine. This documentary is about a Southern O regon m other o f four sons who murdered her husband after 17 plus years of repeated extreme domestic vio lence. The mother is now serving a ten-year prison sentence and the oldest son is serving a five-year prison sentence. The three youngest sons — who did not participate in the homicide — were part o f the post-show panel discussion about this domestic violence related hom icide case. One Minute to Nine will premiere on HBO in September. This docu m entary is unusual because most domestic violence related homicides result in the domestic violence victim being murdered. Both Aguilar and Stinson said that the One Minute to Nine film was the one coalition event that had the most impact on them. It is an important reminder of the importance of helping vic tims o f domestic violence. Villa said that she hopes that such similar extremes types o f do mestic violence are not occur ring on the reservation. “If neighbors or family mem bers suspect that there is domes tic violence occurring on or off the reservation then they should contact the police by calling 911,” said Villa. The keynote speaker o f the conference was E velyn C. White, a former domestic vio lence court advocate and jour nalist, who is now an author and the biographer of Alice Walker, who wrote The Color Turple. Villa and Aguilar attended two workshops taught by White and Multnomah County domes tic violence advocate Vanessa Timmons on using writing and journaling as helpful tools for domestic violence and sexual abuse survivors to heal from their victimization. After the coaltion confer ence, back in Warm Springs, Villa asked the members o f the News from Indian Country VOCS Everting Women’s Sup port Group to begin journaling. Villa said, “I thought this con ference was very informative and helpful to me as a tribal Victim Advocates.” T he M onday evening Women’s Support Group meets every Monday evening 6 p.m. at the VOCS office unless oth erwise noted. T his m eeting is open to women who are either survivors o f or those who support survi vors o f dom estic violence, stalking, and sexual assault. On the third day of the con ference there was an awards ceremony for five victim advo cates throughout Oregon. Ac cording to Matthews, three of the five awards recipients had either direct or indirect contact with VOCS staff in the past three years where these awards recipients b en efited W arm Springs community members. Toni Ryan and Dara Pearson from Saving Grace, the non- pfofit domestic violence and sexual assault Central Oregon agency, form erly know n as COBRA, received their awards for their roles in helping survi vors in Central Oregon. Attorney Jessica Mindlin, the national director o f training and technical assistance for the Vic tim Rights Law Center, received an award recognizing her work as an attorney educator who advises and teaches victims as sistance providers, including the VOCS’ L.A.V. grant program, on victim’s issues and civil legal rights and remedies. Villa, Aguilar, Matthews and Stinson all reported that the Oregon Coaltion Against Do- mestic .antf Sexual Violence con ference will help them better serve tribal victims in Warm Springs. (This article was submitted for publication by Warm Springs Victims of Crime Services.) Tribes accepting lease bids Crow Tribe lands $7B coal project CROW AGENCY, Mon tana (AP)—The Crow Tribe struck a deal Thursday with an Australian company to ward building a $7 billion plant to convert coal into liq uid fuels, which would be among the first such projects in the United States. Capping months of nego tiations, the Crow Legislature ratified a 50-year develop ment agreement with Austra lian-American Energy Co., a subsidiary of Australian En ergy Co. The Many Stars coal-to- liquids plant initially would produce 50,000 barrels a day o f diesel and other fuels. Construction would begin in several years and coal for the project would come from a mine yet to be developed by the tribe on the reservation, Crow leaders said. T he A m erican Indian tribe’s chairman, Carl Venne, said the coal-to-liquids project offered an unprecedented chance at improving the lives o f the tribe’s 12,000 mem bers. The agreement calls for the Crow to receive up to 50 percent of profits from the plant after investors in the project recoup their costs. “It means we will become self sufficient as a tribe,” Venne said. “I won’t need no more fed eral dollars. I won’t need no more state dollars.” Total proceeds to the tribe could eventually top $1 billion annually— a breathtaking sum that dwarfs the Crow’s current annual budget o f about $26 million. Representatives of the com pany and the tribe plan a public unveiling o f the project at a news conference Friday. E x pected to attend is Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who de clined comment Thursday. The Crow reservation sits atop some o f the largest coal reserves in the U.S.— an esti mated 9 billion tons o f recov erable resources. Yet only lim ited mining has occurred, and the tribe’s economy remains hobbled by high rates o f pov erty and unemployment. The development agreement comes as the coal industry faces rising criticism over its role as one o f the largest sources o f greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. Hoping to defuse opposition, tribal leaders said the Many Stars plant would be built to capture 95 percent o f the carbon diox ide it produces. That gas would be stored in underground geo logic formations or sold to the oil industry, which pumps car bon dioxide into aging oil wells to squeeze additional produc tion out of them. Still, the fuel produced by such plants release carbon diox ide w hen burned, putting it roughly on par with conven tional petroleum in terms o f overall emissions, industry ex perts and government scientists have said. Venne predicted environ mental groups and other “out siders” would line up to oppose the tribe’s plant proposal. But he added they would have a hard time arguing against economic development on the reservation. “People have to realize, this is one of the poorest counties in the whole nation,” he said re ferring to Big H o rn County, which includes most of the res ervation. No large-scale coal-to-liquids plants have been built in the United States, although several are proposed or on the drawing boards in Wyoming, Ohio, West Virginia and elsewhere. Soaring construction costs and other hurdles have derailed some projects— including one in Montana, near Roundup. But Crow leaders said they are confident high oil prices will spur increased interest in synthetic alternatives such as coal-derived diesel. Future expansions o f the Many Stars plant could eventually bump up production to as much as 125,000 barrels o f fuel a day. Approximately one ton of coal would be needed for every barrel o f fuel produced by the plant. “With the vast reserves we’ve got, there’s no sense in us not being a major player,” said Crow legislator Conrad Stewart. Australian Energy’s Chief Executive Allan Blood has started two similar projects in Australia, including a $2 bil lion plant announced in June that would convert coal into liquid fertilizer. The second project recently was sold to Shell and Anglo American for $5 billion, according to Aus tralian news reports. Neither is yet producing fuel. Station is next to Rainbow Market. The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs is accept ing lease proposals for the service station building by the Rainbow Market. Anyone wishing to submit a proposal should contact Urbana Ross, tribal land services adminis trator. She can be reached at 553-3271. O r by mail at CTWS Land Services, PO Box C, Warm Springs, OR 97761. Lease terms are ne gotiable. United Tribes adds law enforcement classes BISMARCK, N.D. (AP)— The president o f United Tribes Technical College says the col lege will be adding classes in criminal justice and law enforce ment and will have a Bureau o f Indian Affairs officer stationed on campus to help with training. United Tribes has signed a memorandum o f understanding with the BIA, President David Gipp said. A BIA officer will be stationed on campus by the end o f this m o n th to teach and work with tribal communities in the region, he said. “Law enforcement issues are a major concern and a major problem in our tribal commu nities out there on the different reservations, and so this is one way that United Tribes can make a contribution,” Gipp said. United Tribes is starting a $200 million expansion. Gipp said ground has been broken on the first phase o f the new cam pus facility and water, sewer and electricity are being put in to prepare for construction.
