Spilygy Tym oo, W arm Springs, O regon
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“The trust fund was origi
nally set up so minors would
have funds available for their
ed ucation,” said M adeline
Queahpama-Spino, director of
tribal Vital Statistics, the depart
ment that manages the disburse
ment of trust payments to the
beneficiaries.
June
Hope for mill
The Warm Springs Forest
Products Industries mill could
benefit from an agreement with
a wood products firm that fo
cuses on the Japanese lumber
market.
The company is Vanport In
ternational, which would man
age the operation of the WSFPI
mill, according to an initial
agreement between the com
pany and the tribes.
accompanying Ladies Auxiliary.
“They were the first all In
dian post and auxiliary in the
nation,” Graham added.
In fact, the Ladies Auxiliary
members have log books dating
back to the beginning o f the
auxiliary in 1952 with lists of
members who volunteered their
time.
Inmates escape
Four inmates escaped earlier
this m onth from the Warm
Springs Jail.
Three o f the inmates were
taken back into custody within
a short time. The fourth turned
himself back in to custody after
several days at large.
The inmates escaped through
the roof of the jail.
Media center
Budget discussion
Tribal members had an op
portunity to voice concerns re
garding the 2009 budget to
Tribal Council members during
an Agency D istric t general
council meeting this week.
Tribal Council Vice Chair
woman Aurolyn Stwyer spoke to
the crow d g ath ered at the
Agency Longhouse and said,
“Nothing has been established
as of yet.”
While council members have
heard numbers and input from
the finance departm ent, she
said, they were waiting to make
final decisions until they heard
concerns from tribal metiibers.
Plans for the new tribal me
dia center are moving forward.
This month the tribes received
a grant from the Meyer Memo
rial T rust for $150,000. The
funding is designated for the use ■
o f building the media center.
spiiyay me photo.
In addition to the latest grant,
Election
the new building is being funded At HeHe during the Huckleberry Feast, Rosalind Sampson, Alliayah Moran, Brittany Craig
Tribal m em bers voted in
in part by the Confederated and Felcianna Conner (from left) prepare eels.
large
numbers during the N o
Tribes, and through a grant to
The familiar faces can be vember 4 election. A total of Celilo Falls revealed
short and longer term member
KWSO from the Corporation New youth club
Celilo Falls is the subject of
for Public Broadcasting.
The local Boys and Girls ship issues other than the whole seen on the sidelines during jun 543 residents in the W arm
Club is closing and a new tribal sale adoption option that was ior varsity football games at the Springs area— or more than 56 the latest Oregon Yield Guide pro
high school. Dubbed the “chain percent o f those eligible to gram on Oregon Public Broad
Regarding huckleberries
club will be opening in its place. presented.
Many comments expressed a gang,” the group is responsible vote— cast their ballots in the casting.
Huckleberries are not nearly
need for the Tribal Council to fo r holding m arkers w here election.
as abundant as they once were.
For comparison, 34 percent
assert an approach that balanced downs occur during the game.
“When I go out now, I can’t
That means they move along of Warm Springs area residents
or tempered the provisions of
even find any berries where we
the Tribal Constitution and By- with the game, Coach Butch voted in the 2004 Presidential
u sed to find th e m ,” said
election,
Laws with wisdom and respect David explained.
Adeline Miller, tribal elder.
Volunteers include Dawn
for our traditional identity and
Miller, speaking on the cul
Disaster plan
Sm ith, A rdis Sm ith, K evin Ladies Auxiliary
values.
tural panel at the huckleberry Gang problem
Warm Springs has a plan in
O
n
V
e
teran
s
D
ay
and
Rodin,
Alley
David
and
Patrick
Many
felt
that
several
aspects
conference last week at Kah-
Tribal Council heard a report
throughout the year, a group of case a disaster occurs, and Fire
Nee-Ta, said:
from the Public Safety Branch o f the residency requirement Clark.
local women do all that they can and Safety employees are mak
“Sometimes I’ll have to buy regarding gangs that are active were important to protect and
to support those involved with ing sure people in the commu
preserve our unique and time- Trust fund
berries because I want to have on the reservation.
the military.
nity are prepared.
About
1,850
tribal
member
honored
heritage,
beliefs
and
some. We shouldn’t have to do
Branch officials said the Po
The local Ladies Auxiliary
Fire and Safety presented the
youth are enrolled as beneficia
that, because we like picking our lice Department, with coopera teachings.
Others commented that fed ries of the tribes’ minors trust has been active in Warm Springs Disaster Recovery Plan to vari
own berries.”
tion from other departments of
ous departm ents throughout
The U.S. Forest Service and the tribes, has made significant eral officials may have imposed fund. The trust fund this year is for over 50 years.
Warm
Springs this month.
Both
the
VFW
post
and
th
e
'
50
years
old,
having
been
estab
their
own
interpretation
and
the Warm Springs Confederated progress over the past year in
Fire Chief Dan Martinez said
Ladies Auxiliary began in 1952
definition on our identity in a lished in 1958.
Tribes organized the conference, trying to address the problem.
In that year the tribes entered after a VFW member in Bend they have been working on the
which focused on ways to re
T he problem still exists, way that disrupted and divided
the minors trust agreement with approached Arlene Graham’s plan since 1997. While certain
store huckleberries.
though, and is a threat to tribal our traditional kinship ties.
portions of the plan are confi
The; Twenty-Fourth Tribal U.S. B ank, w h ich is still th e parents, G raham said.
ypptli,,
They expressed interest in dential due to security reasons,
Council installed a four part so trustee o f the fund.
In the first year o f the pro founding a VFW post in Warm Martinez said, they felt it was
lution: adopting the 1960 base
Kiksht conference
The Kiksht language became roll in addition to the 1940 base gram there were 791 youth en Springs and soon started the important to share what they
VFW Elliot Palmer Post and can with the community.
a subject on many people’s roll; recognizing traditional af rolled as beneficiaries.
filiation; codifying the enroll
minds with an event at HeHe
recently. The Language P ro ment process, and moving for
Mill fire response
Fire crews worked to contain gram hosted a conference for ward with an amended list of
a fire that began on the Warm those involved with the preser candidates for adoption based
Springs reservation on July 10. vation o f Kiksht. The confer upon a clos,e application of resi
Named the Mill Fire, the blaze ence was possible through a dency.
T hese enactm ents w ould
burned over 3,000 acres and de grant. I n ’ o th e r news this
then be applied to the list of 184
stroyed one tribal guest home month:
A career in medical pharma applications currently on the
and an outbuilding.
The fire also closed Highway ceuticals has led one tribal adoption list.
26 for several hours, and spread member all over the world be
across tribal land to federal and fore returning to Central O r New Kah-Nee-Ta manager
The new general manager at
egon. Marcella (Brunoe) Barta
private lands nearby.
was always interested in phar Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Re
maceuticals. She started work sort and Casino is definitely fa
Condor update
A special recovery biologist ing at the Health and Wellness miliar with the gaming industry.
He works behind a desk in
from the Oregon Zoo was in Center 16 years ago, when she
was 16. Barta is the daughter of his new job at Kah-Nee-Ta, but
Central Oregon.
Harry Taylor started his exten
Biologist David Moen vis Garland and Suzan Brunoe.
sive career in gaming behind a
After
graduating
from
Ma
ited the region and the reserva
tion, as part o f the on-going dras High School in 1994 Barta dealer’s table in a Las Vegas ca
program to re-instroduce Cali joined the Youth With The Mis sino.
Taylor recently began work as
sion (YWTM), and traveled to
fornia condors to Oregon.
the
general manager at Kah-
China, New Zealand, the Cook
The Confederated Tribes
Nee-Ta after moving to Central
Islands and Hawaii.
o f W arm S prings, W asco
Oregon from California.
Chief Nelson Wallulatum in
Taylor has spent a combined
particular, have been support
total of 24 years in the gaming
ers o f the Oregon Z oo con
industry at a variety of casinos.
dor program.
Moen was in Central Oregon
Lost children found
examining potential condor
Warm Springs Fire and Safety
Adoption election
habitat in the region.
and
the Police Department con
The birds would build nests
T h e T w enty-T hird and
Twenty-Fourth Tribal Councils ducted a successful search for
in cliff caves, such as ones
found along the Deschutes, said
conducted a series o f work three children who were lost
shops, along with district, Gen overnight recently in the woods.
Moen.
The 12-year-old girl and two
eral Council and family meet
Teachers visit Europe
ings to decide a prudent course 7-year-old boys were camping
For two women working
of action to resolve the enroll with their parents in the Trout
with the language program, pre
ment and adoption concerns Lake area when they became
serving the Kiksht language in
based upon the issue and inter- lost.
volved traveling all the way to
esti o f the tribal membership.
Europe recently.
The most recent adoption
Pam Cardenas, a Language
proposal drew very significant
P ro g ram apprentice, and
criticism and complaint based
Nariyo Kono, a form er em
upon the size and character of
the list o f candidates and elec
ployee o f the Language Pro
gram still involved in the efforts
tion process.
A love o f football has in
The membership seemed to
to preserve Kiksht, traveled to
Wed.-Fri. 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m; Sat. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
spired
several community mem
insist that Tribal Council assert
London for 10 days to complete
training in documentation of
a more thoughtful and mean bers to volunteer their time this
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ingful approach to resolve both fan.
endangered languages.
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