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New fish commission director visits
B y D ave M cM echan
Spilyay Tymoo
Paul Lumley, the new execu
tive director o f the Columbia
River Inter-Tribal Fish Commis
sion, m et last week with Tribal
Council.
L um ley, m e m b e r o f th e
Yakama N ation, told Council
that he had worked at CRITFC
before. H e worked for 17 years
in C RITFC fisheries harvest
managem ent, and over those
years helped w ork on 12 dif
ferent court cases.
Five years ago he took a job
in Washington, D.C., working
with the National American In
dian H ousing Council.
Last year, J.P. Patt resigned
as CRITFC executive director,
and Lumley applied for the po
sition. T he fish com m ission
board hired him earlier this year.
CRITFC is a coalition o f the
W arm S p rings, Y akam a,
Umatilla and Nez Perce tribes.
The tribes form ed the commis
sion in 1977. CRITFC provides
scientific expertise and tribal
unity in the service o f salmon
and fisheries protection.
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
Paul Lumley (left) and Off-Reservation Fish and Wildlife vice-
chairman Leslie Bill meet with Tribal Council.
An order o f business at Tribal
Council last week was CRITFC
funding. T h e B IA p ro v id es
funding, and the contract with
the bureau should be renewed
by th e en d o f th e year, said
Lumley.
T h e O ff-R eserv atio n Fish
and Wildlife Committee recom
m ended approving the agree
m en t, and w ith som e added
w ording at the suggestion o f
Pictograph site recognized
B EN D (AP) — An Ameri
can Indian spiritual site in the
Millican Valley in Central O r
egon has been listed on the N a
tio n a l R eg ister o f H isto ric
Places.
A rch eo lo g ists and o th ers
hope the recognition will cut
down on vandalism.
Pictographs painted mostly in
red, some that may date back
to 1500 B.C., have b een
chipped, shot at and covered
with chalk.
C o n fe d e ra te d T rib es o f
Warm Springs’ Tribal Council
man Wilson Wewa has visited
the site a num ber o f times.
Even before the more recent
vandalism, Wewa said, the site
was badly looted in the 1920s
and ‘30s.
The looters dug down about
four feet, removing many items,
he said.
B u rn s P aiu te trib a l eld er
Minerva Soucie said her parents
in the 1950s often stopped at
the site to show their children
the pictographs, many painted
by N orthern Paiute people.
“It was a place (where) people
come and look for direction, or
to be used maybe in a spiritual
quest process for their lives,”
Soucie said.
Two decades later, she saw
that change.
“I liked going there until I
w ent one time and it was van
dalized,” Soucie said. “It looked
like there were panels trying to
be chipped off, and that to me
was a desecration o f our teach
ings or our spiritual way o f life.”
T he site was listed on the
N ational Register o f H istoric
Places in mid-July.
Paiute Indians — w ho are now
associated with the Confeder
ated Tribes o f W arm Springs,
the Burns Paiute Tribe and the
Klam ath Tribes — continue to
use the site.
Cara Kazer, an architectural
historian in the State H istoric
Preservation O ffice, said O r
egon has about 33,000 known
archaeological sites, b u t only
between 120 and 130 o f those
are listed on the National Reg
ister o f Historic Places. O regon
has a total o f 1,902 listings on
the register.
The newly registered site is
on private property.
The State Historic Preserva
tion Office redacted large sec
tions o f the draft nom ination
form before releasing it, citing
the need to keep the location
secret.
T he picto g rap h s probably
date from 1500 B.C. to A.D.
1900, “when access to the site
by the Paiute becam e limited
due to their removal to reser
vations and further intrusions by
Euroamerican setders,” accord
ing to the nomination form.
People w ho stopped at the
area might have been hunting,
trading or traveling to N orthern
Paiute gatherings. People also
considered it a powerful spiri
tual site.
The latest paintings at the site
were probably created by N orth
ern Paiute people who moved
into Central O regon within the
last 1,000 years, according to
the n o m in atio n form . Faded
pigm ent u nderneath som e of,
those could come from earlier
paintings and suggests people
used the area earlier.
Images include hum an and
animal stick figures, lizards, tally
m arks an d ab stract paintings
such as grids, zigzags, chevrons
and ladder figures.
Since the 1920s, visitors out
lined the images with chalk to
make them more visible for pic
tures. T he chalk was offensive
to American Indians w ho use
the site, according to the nom i
nation form. I n 1988, members
o f the Confederated Tribes o f
Warm Springs restored the pic
tographs by removing the chalk
with water and brushes.
Auto
Repair
Secretary-Treasurer Jody Calica,
Tribal Council voted to approve.
The added language was to
clarify th a t B IA fu n d in g o f
C R IT F C did n o t relieve the
agency o f its trust responsibil
ity to the tribes, said Calica.
Lumley then updated Coun
cil on various activities going on
at CRITFC. A treaty between
C anada and the U.S., for in
stance, is coming up for renewal,
Hours: 8 a.m.
- 5
The Warm Springs Indian
Rodeo Association Finals Ro
deo is this Saturday and Sun
day, Sept. 12-13, at Tygh
Ridge.
Rodeo starts at 1 p.m. on
Saturday and 11 a.m. on Sun
day.
All eight standard events.
880 S. Adams Dr., Madras, OR
For entry call (541) 325-9087.-
The rodeo wil be two go-
rounds. The sudden death will
be determ ined on the aver
age.
The year end will also be
determined at the end o f the
regionals.
Community events calendar
The Women of Wellness will have their Ninth Anni
versary celebration lunch Thursday, Sept. 10 at the Health
and Wellness Center.
Enhanced Fitness class starts at 10:45 a.m. on Fri
day, Sept. 11 at the Senior Center. At noon there will be a
body flex class at the community center.
School starts this Wednesday, Sept. 9 for 509-J stu
dents in grades 1 -9. School for grades 10-12 starts Thurs
day, Sept. 10. The Place for Kids Club school year pro
gram starts this Wednesday as well.
th e Recreation Department Back To School Yard Sale
is Saturday, Sept. 12 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on the Commu
nity Center lawn. Set up time is between 8 and 10 a.m.
Recreation has more information at 553-3243.
The Warm Springs Music Project will meet on Thurs
day, Sept. 10 and Sept. 24 at the Family Resource Cen
ter. From 5 til 9. Anyone interested in music is invited to
attend. For more information, call Richard Macy at 553-
1241.
The Warm Springs Shaker Church will host the Or
egon State Convention 2009 at the church this Friday-
Sunday, Sept. 25-27. Supper on Friday is at 5 p.m. Ser
vices start at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 business meeting
starts at 10 a.m. Sunday services begin at 10 a.m.
Club working on science projects
T he Jefferson C ounty 4-H
Science, Engineering and Tech
nology (SET) Club invites stu
dents in grades 8-12 to be part
o f the Club for Seniors.
A n o th er SE T club invites
younger students to participate.
SET for Seniors
Starting this m onth, the 4-H
SET for Seniors will include
projects with robots, electrical
current, renewable energy, rock
ets and other science, engineer
ing and technology projects.
Call Heidi at the Extension
O ffice for m ore inform ation,
475-3808
or
em ail
heidi.badger@oregonstate.edu.
The first meeting will be at
5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 15
at the Library Annex in Madras.
Younger students
Jefferson County 4-H SET
is also available to students ages
9-14.
The first meeting o f this club
will also be at 5:30 on Sept. 15
at the lib rary Annex in Madras.
L ego R o b o ts an d o th e r
projects are planned. Parental
participation and input is wel
come. Contact Heidi for more
information.
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L um ley also u p d a te d the
C ouncil on th e status o f the
tribal fish processing plant at
White Swan. The hope is to have
the plant in operation by next
fall, he said.
The enterprise would need its
o w n b o a rd o f d ire c to rs.
C R ITFC c an n o t o p erate the
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The board could consist o f
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W hat’s needed, Lumley said,
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H e then updated Council o f
the status o f law enforcem ent
at the Columbia. CRITFC for a
time had a strong law enforce
m ent presence there, b u t the
program has been cut back, and
the situation needs to be ad
dressed. “I believe we need safe
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