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r n P^ge 2 February 23, 2011 Spily^y Tymoo, W^rrn Springs, Oregon Tribes greet LongestWalk team The LongestWalk 3 team vis ited Warm Springs last Wednes day, Feb. 16, on their way to Washington D.C. The walk began on Feb. 14 in Portland, and is an effort to spread awareness about diabe tes and its impact on Native Americans. In Warm Springs the team attended the Heart Smart din ner, hosted by the Indian Health Service and the Diabetes Pre-' vention program. The northern LongestWalk 3 was organized by Chris Fran cisco, a Navajo from Shiprock, N.M., living in Portland. Another group of walkers, following a southern route, left Feb. 14 from San Diego, Ca lif. Both groups expect to reach the U.S. capital in July, and will hold community talks about re versing diabetes along the way. The original LongestWalk in 1978 was to bring attention to Native American sovereignty and stop anti-Native American legislation being crafted by Con gress, proposals that threatened tribal lands and water, and fish OSU Extension gearing up for gardening season Oregon State University Ex tension Service at Warm Springs will present the community gar den workshops this spring. All sessions will be on Satur day at the Education Building from 9 a.m.-12 p.m., and will include a healthy snack. Here are some of the gardening top ics for discussion: March 5: Starting vegetables and general plant care. March 12: Vegetable variet ies for Warm Springs. March 19: Garden fertilizers. M arch 26: W arm Springs Community Garden inform a tion session. Presenters will be Diabetes Prevention program lifestyle coach Edmund Francis; Bryan Lund, Warm Springs M aster Gardener in training; Jan Fos ter, M aster Gardener; Karen McCarthy, landscape profes sional. Fara Brum m er: OSU Extension Agriculture and Natu ral Resources. For information phone 541- 553-3238. Or e-mail: fara.brummer@oregonstate.edu The Diabetes Prevention pro gram phone is 541-553-0118. Edmund Francis’ email is: edmund.francis@ihs.gov Yvonne Iverson/Spilyay The LongestWalk 3 team visited Warm Springs last week, on their way to Washington, D.C. Wing Dress class this month ing and hunting rights. Focus of the LongestWalk 2, in 2008, was to bring atten tion to scared sites and to clean up the earth . It also marked the Thirtieth Anniver sary com m em oration o f the first walk. “We’re still fighting for our survival,” Chris Francisco said. “And it seems there’s always something new we have to fight for.” The high incidence of diabe tes among Native Americans, he said is because “we aren’t eat ing the healthy foods of their ancestors.” Less exercies because o f modern conveniences is another factor. Not very many people even grow their own food any more, he said. For d etails about the LongestWalk, visit: earthbornproductions.com Children’s Protective Ser vices is sponsoring a Wing Dress class from 8:30 a.m.-12 noon, and from 1-4:30 p.m. on Fri day, Feb. 25. All material pro vided, but bring your own lunch. This is for youth from birth to age 18. “Please help build our culture back up in our youth,” said Minnie Wallulatum, family p reservatio n coo rd inator at CPS. For information, call her at 541-553-3209. Sponsors are CPS, the Tribal Court Youth Prevention program, and Cul ture and Heritage. News from Indian Country Feds raid Yakama Tribes lead fight against fishing restrictions tobacco company YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Fed eral agents have raided a ciga rette maker on the Yakama In dian Reservation. The raid came a day after King Mountain Tobacco sued Washington state and Attorney General Rob McKenna alleging v io latio n s o f the Y akam a Nation's 1855 treaty rights. A search warrant gave agents perm ission to seize company records and computer equip ment, but an affidavit explain ing the purpose of the raid was not included. A copy of the search w arran t was an o n y m ously faxed to the Yakima Herald-Republic newspaper on Wednesday. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, King Moun tain claims the state is illegally trying to collect a penalty stem ming from the 46-state tobacco settlements in 1998. The lawsuit says the tribe's treaty guarantees it can get goods to market “free of any fees, tolls or other im pediments.” House kills bill to give tribe’s arrest power BOISE, Idaho (AP) - House lawmakers narrowly rejected a bill to give tribal police power to arrest non-Indians on Idaho reservations without permission from the local sheriff. The vote was 34-35. The Coeur d’Alene Indian Tribe in northern Idaho had hoped it would help remedy a lo n gstan d in g disp u te w ith Benewah County. The tribe and county had a cross-deputization pact until 2007, but it unraveled amid ac rimony. Efforts to forge another one have failed, including last year. Rep. D ick H arw ood o f Benewah County opposed the bill, saying it would give the tribe power over non-Indians, with out the necessary accountabil ity. Harwood says, “It’s not rac ist. It’s their fear of losing their civil liberties.” Supporters including Rep. Mack Shirley of Rexburg said this “is just to provide proper law enforcem ent w ithin the boundaries of the reservation.” SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - N orthern C alifo rn ia N ative American tribes are clashing with state wildlife regulators over plans to restrict fishing off parts of the rugged coastline from the Oregon border south to Point Arena in Mendocino County. The tribes, includ ing the Yurok, the state’s largest, say proposals for marine protection areas along the North Coast in fringe on their fishing rights. Those proposals — currently before the state fish and game commission — were crafted un der C alifornia’s 1999 Marine Life Protection Act, which was aimed in part at preventing over fishing and restoring depleted fisheries. “The main issue is the Ma rine Life Protection Act has the potential to make criminals out of cultural practitioners,” said Nick Angeloff, historic preser vation officer for the Bear River Band o f the R o h n erville Rancheria. “It is the biggest threat to tribal sovereignty in decades.” Although the state has cre ated m arine protected areas along other parts of its coast line, opposition until now has mostly been from commercial fisherm en concerned about their livelihoods. On the North Coast, tribes have been the effort's main critics. At stake for them, tribal representatives say, the tribe’s gathering rights while are cultural practices dating ' maintaining restrictions for other back thousands o f years and users, tribal representatives and state officials say. State and tribal their sovereign rights. “We are part of this ecosys officials are currently working tem,” said Yurok Chairman Tho on carving out an exception for mas 0 ‘Rourke Sr. “We have tribes based on the religious and never stopped gathering. We cultural significance of fishing have never stopped harvesting, to their m em bers, W isem an and we will continue to gather, said. “It’s a cultural tradition that hunt and harvest from the wa sh o u ld n ’t be in te rru p te d ,” ters of the ocean.” State wildlife officials and Wiseman said of the tribes’ fish advisors say they can’t carve out ing practices. “The challenge has an exception that would allow been that we’ve wanted to give tribes to harvest m arine life them an exemption, but not had from coastal waters while main the tools to do that.” taining restrictions for other us The Marine Life Protection ers. That would be illegal under Act called on the state to rede laws guaranteeing equal access, sign the system of marine pro said Ken Wiseman, executive tected areas along its entire director of the Marine Life Pro 1,100-mile coastline. It found that existing protections had tection Act initiative. Additionally, Wiseman said been created piecem eal and opening those areas to all non without scientific evidence to commercial users, including the support them. tribes, would conflict with sci The state’s coastline was di ence guidelines and the marine vided up into regions that would protection act’s goals. be reevaluated for protection. But the two sides appear The fish and game commis closer to a solution following a sion has so far approved ma meeting earlier this month. The rine protected areas for three of new head of the state Natural the five regions — the South Resources Agency, John Laird, Coast, the Central Coast and the called at the Feb. 2 meeting for North Central Coast. Regula a solution that accommodates tions for the Central Coast and North Central Coast are already in effect, greatly expanding the area where fishing is prohibited or otherwise restricted. “As the process has moved up north, there has been more opposition from tribes,” said John Corbett, senior attorney for the Yurok Tribe. Tribal representatives say that, unlike their counterparts in Southern California, many tribes in the northern part of the state have not been pushed inland. “Northern Indians still have a coastal experience,” said Louie Guassac, who represented the S outhern C alifo rn ia T ribal Chairm en’s A ssociation on a task force set up to help create the marine protected area in the Southern part of the state. The Yurok say they fish for subsistence, pulling mussels off rocks by hand and fishing from the shoreline. Mussels, smelt and other marine resources serve as food or decoration for ceremo nial regalia. “It is a significant component in people’s lives,” Corbett said. According to Corbett, fishing restrictions on the Yurok and other no nco m m ercial users were based on faulty science. r S u p e r t o y s A d v e n t u r e s . com S h o rt OFF 80AD MAY 21 *221 M adras o f f road r a c e pa rk A d u lt a d v a n c e t ic k e t s $ 1 2 - A t G a t e $ 15 Y o u th (6 -1 4 ) a d v a n c e $ 8 - A t G a t e $ 10 Located at the corner of Warm Springs St. and Hollywood Blvd P a rtic ip a n ts Pro $ 9 0 - S p o r t s m a n $55 Open Wednesday through Saturday R u s s W a lk u p 1 -9 7 1 -2 8 1 -5 8 8 6 K J
