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News from Indian Country Pgge 6 Spilyay Tyrooo May 21, 2009 Plea entered in artifact case ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - A Selby man pleaded guilty last week to excavating and traffick ing American Indian artifacts found along the Missouri River. Brian E. Ekrem faces up to two years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine at his sentenc ing in August. The 28-year-old Ekrem ad mitted that he sold, bought and exchanged artifacts or offered to do so. They included beads, stone points, knives and blades, bone tools,, cannonballs, copper bracelets and pottery. He's one of five men indicted in a federal case. Two others also have pleaded guilty. CAR STCREC fiOUNDZ UNLIMITED Greg Leo photo for the Spilyay. 1225 SW Hwy. 97 Madras, OR 97741 475-7123 Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Tribal Council Chairman Ron Suppah, and Joeinne Caldwell, Port of Cascade Locks commissioner, sign an option agreement for property at the tribes’ proposed casino site at Cascade Locks. The agreement, signed last week, gives the tribes the option to purchase the 25-acre casino site, plus surrounding acreage for parking. The tribes would exercise the option if the casino proposal is approved by the Department of the Interior. Committee backs EchoHawk for BIA job BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A U.S. Senate Committee has given the nod to making Larry EchoHawk the next head o f the Bureau o f In dian Affairs. E choH aw k, a fo rm er Idaho Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate, was nominated to be the next Assistant Secretary for In dian Affairs by President Barack Obama last month. T he nom ination was ap proved by a voice vote Thurs day by the Senate Select Com mittee on Indian Affairs and now goes to the full Senate for consideration. The nomination also has the support o f Sen. Mike Crapo. T he Idaho Republican says E choH aw k has a diverse background and experience that make him a qualified candidate for the job. EchoHawk, a member of the Pawnee tribe and law professor at Brigham Young University, served as Idaho's Attorney General from 1991 through 1995. Car Audio - CB Radios IRA’S SALES & SERVICE, INC. Junk Cars - Call Tiger a t 419-7379 24-HO UR^~> TOW < SERVICE r—i Collection of Native crafts donated MOCLIPS, Wash. (AP) - A stout, cylindrical basket of cedar bark and bear grass sits in a glass display case in the Ocean Crest Resort lounge. It has intricate, tightly-woven patterns: a black canoe sil houette, purple birds and a thin border o f geom etric shapes around the rim. The Quinault basket is one o f about two dozen on display at the resort. The baskets were recendy donated to the Museum of the N orth Beach by Barbara Topete, founder of the Ocean Crest Resort. Her donation in cludes baskets, dolls and beadwork. The majority o f her collection is m ade up o f Quinault baskets, but it contains pieces from all over Washington and Canada. “I just feel it's beautiful work manship and it's a practice that very little is being done now,” said Topete, who is 89. “They're som ething th a t should be shared.” A handful are on display at the resort and the museum, but most are in storage, be cause the museum neither has the room nor the proper cases to show the collection and keep it. from deteriorat ing. The museum is planning on moving into a replica of the Northern Pacific Railroad depot that served as a center of commerce in Moclips un til it was torn down in the 1950s. Study looks at early use of Navajo smoke signals Scrap Metal, Used A u to & Truck Parts, Wrecking Service, Diesel Trucks, Pick-ups & Cars 475-3861 A L B U Q U E R Q U E , N.M. long distance and questionable while,” he said. 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There are more than 200 Their mission: G et there by puebhtos — usually high on rock noon, set off their smoke sig-' outcroppings overlooking the nals and scan the horizon for San Juan Basin — that archaeolo other columns o f smoke. gists believe were built by Na Much of the area where New vajos three centuries ago to pro Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and tect themselves from Spanish Utah meet is known as Dinetah, explorers and neighboring the ancestral homeland of the tribes. Navajos. The tribe's traditional The sites feature the remains creation story centers on the of what were once formidable area. structures made o f stacked “The Dinetah essentially is * All Products Prepared Fresh Daily sandstone. 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