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SCfi OrColl E Spi lyay Tyro ECRWSS Postal Patron Knigtt Library 1299U™vers.W r „ nPne UK Eugene Qregon 3_1205 U.S. Postage PRSRTSTD Warm Springs, OR 97761 January - Wiyak’ik’ila - Winter Anm 50 cents - Housing close to resolving findings Pageant winner By Dave McMechan Tam era Rae M oody is the new Miss Warm Springs. Tamera, a student at Lane Com munity College, was crowned Miss Warm Springs 2011 at the pageant last Friday at the Agency Longhouse. Norene Sampson was runner-up. The pageant started with some words from the outgoing Miss Warm Springs, Jaycelene Frank, and a give away. Tamera and Norene then intro duced themselves, before moving on to the talent portion of the evening. Norene displayed her talent by filleting a fish for the audience, and explaining how to prepare the fish to be cooked traditionally over a fire pit. Tamera perform ed a Women’s Fancy War Dance. Both of the young women an swered questions from the panel of judges. An example of the questions: Can you name all of the tribal en terprises and the date they were es tablished? PAGEANT on P.O. Box 870 ings, OR 97761 Dept./Seria's Acquisition January 26, 2011 Voi. 36, No. U2 Coyote News, est. 1976 See \M Spilyay Tymoo The Warm Springs Housing Author ity is close to resolving several issues raised last year by the Department of H ousing and Urban D evelopm ent (HUD). Housing Authority employees made their report last week to Tribal Council. Near resolution of the HUD find ings is welcome news, as the Housing Authority needs to focus on its mission of providing housing to tribal members, said Councilman Ron Suppah. A goal of the Tribes he said, is to provide 100 new residences per year to tribal members. Last year HUD, w hich provides funding to the Housing Authority, is sued to the Tribes a letter of ten “find ings.” The findings detailed areas where the tribes need to demonstrate proof o f com pliance w ith HUD require ments. Noncompliance could mean loss of significant funding. Health and safety inspections, drug- abuse prevention, standard wages for Housing employees, and accounting of funds are examples of the questions raised by HUD within its findings. Two of the ten issues were an swered quickly last year. Five more have now been addressed, leaving three page 6 Tamera Moody represents the Confederated Tribes as the new Miss Warm Springs. (More pictures on page 6.) findings that still require a response, said Councilman Scott Moses, Housing Au thority director. The three remaining findings should be addressed easily with some research, he said. One of these findings, for instance, requires proof of a standard wage pro vision for the employees, which does exist. Another requires proof of ad equate law enforcement in the neigh borhoods. One of the ten findings last year asked for an accounting of funding. Approximately $200,000 was not origi nally documented to HUD over the past few years. The $200,000 has since been documented, with the exception o f about $9,000, and presented to HUD for review, said Moses. Docu mentation of some of the remaining $9,000 might have been lost in a flood ing incident at the Housing Authority offices a few years ago. The tribes and Housing are currently requesting a hearing with HUD regard ing the status of the Housing Author ity and its federal funding. Representing the Housing Author ity at Tribal Council last week were Councilman Moses, office m anager Sh aro n Jo n e s, fin an ce m an ager Saphronia Katchia, project developer Tom Strong, and housing accounting specialist Charles Bennett. Yvonne Iverson/Spilyay Council Natural resources discussion with Council considers By Duran Bobb Spilyay Tymoo Tribal Council last week participated in a two-day workshop where updates were given on the tribal resource man agement plan, the Phase II federal law suit settlements, baseline forest resto ration, biomass, the cutting contract, and Vanport. The first day of the workshop fo cused on resources. Bobby, Brunoe, Natural Resources Branch manager, and Deepak Sehgal, water and soil man ager, gave a history of the Integrated Resource Management Plan, and its cur rent status. There was also an update and ex planation of the timber harvest model from Vernon Wolf, and a brief history of Phase II settlements. Regarding the settlements, in the early 2000s, the tribes filed a lawsuit in federal Claims Court alleging that the BIA had not properly managed a vari ety of tribal assets. This claim was split into two, with the first phase being settled out of court between the tribes and the federal government. Phase II dealt with grazing and other cultural resources. It was found that the BIA had mismanaged, compromising values that the tribe had in protecting watersheds, etc. Meanwhile, both the tribes and the government agreed that forestry man agement would move from the BIA to the tribes. The first step in the transition was completed last year, with information exchanged between the BIA and tribes. The second phase of the settlement started in 2006 and was completed in January 2009. The next step called for a baseline timber assessment, with funds provided for in the settlement agreement. These funds cannot be used for any other purpose. Under the 638 Contract the BIA still has trust responsibility, tribal attorney Dennis Karnopp said. “Day to day, hands-on, that’s tribal. But there still is a Bureau trust responsibility. This is a unique, one-time, unmatched settle ment agreement from the government standpoint. It’s now up to the tribes to do their part.” ‘W e’re the ones who are going to do this,” Chief Delvis Heath said at the workshop. “We’re going to say that our people can do just as good as anybody. We’re going to put trust into our people by putting our people to work. A lot of years ago, it was said, hire Indian people. Now we have people coming back to the reservation. They tell us, you told us to go to school... now where’s my job?” Youth Art Exhibit opening The Tribal Youth A rt Exhibit opens this week at the Museum at Warm Springs. The opening reception for the show is this Thursday, Jan. 27 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Artwork this year focuses on In dian can oes. T he ex h ib it runs through April 10. The students (at right) from. classroom B-2 at the Early Childhood Education Center show the canoes they made for the exhibit. Spilyay tymoo The second day of the workshop focused on the enterprise aspects of forestry. Mill operations Chris Ketchum, Vanport general manager, and Paul Owen, president of Vanport Inti., were both present. Vanport is w orking with Warm Springs Forest Products Industries on timber matters. “At the time that we arrived on the reservation,” Ketchum said, “my understanding is that tribal em ployment at the mill was 70 per cent. Today, we have 141 tribal members employed at the mill, or 74 percent.” The Warm Springs logo has be come a name-brand in the timber in d u stry th ro u g h o u t Ja p a n , Ketchum said. See RESOURCES on page 7 enrollment ordinance By Duran Bobb Spilyay Tymoo Tribal Council is considering a draft enrollment ordinance intended to ad dress various tribal enrollment issues. The draft ordinance, which was a project of atwai Madeline Queahpama, w as brought to council by O livia Wallulatum and Howie Arnett. Variations of the ordinance have been discovered from as early as 1983. The tribes currently don’t have an or dinance governing enrollments. “Council has adopted policies inter preting the [tribal] constitution,” Arnett said. “There have been a variety of de facto policies not in writing, but fol lowed.” An example given to Tribal Council were the requirements of residency for automatic enrollment. “The constitution says, for the pur poses of auto-enrollment, that at least one tribal member parent should main tain residency on the reservation,” said Arnett. “There could be two tribal member parents...but one o f them has to be a resident. This has been inter preted a variety of ways to mean that people off-rez (engaging in college, military, etc.) should be deemed as hav ing satisfied those requirements. The goal here is to be consistent.” Both Anglo and Native American interpretations o f “residency” were points of concern. “They used residency,” Chief Delvis Heath said, “meaning that you had to be in this area at this time. They meant that the people who lived here were from here. That caused some big prob lems.” See ENROLLMENT on page 7
