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February 23, 2011
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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.
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