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SCA OrCol1 E 75 . S68 V . 36 no. 17 August £4, £011 Acquisition Dept./Serials Knight Library 1299 University of Oregon Eugene OR 97403-1205 ■ Spi lygy Tyrooo Coyote News, est. 1976 A ugust 24, 2011 P.0. Box 870 Warm Springs, OR 97761 ECRWSS Postal Patron U.S. Postage PRSRTSTD Warm Springs, OR 97761 Voi. 36, No. 17 August - Shatm - Summer - Shatm Council okays bond settlement By Dave McMechan Spilyay Tymoo Tribal Council this week approved a settlement regarding bonds the tribes issued in 2003. The tribes issued the bonds in order to pay for the purchase of one-third of the Pelton-Round Butte hydroelec tric facilities. The potential for litigation over the bonds arose in 2008-09, during the re cession. The circumstances are complicated, and details of the setdement agreement are subject to confidentiality. Members can speak with their Council represen tatives for more information. Through the setdement, the tribes avoid a potential lengthy litigation, which would have been expensive. Tribal Council, management and attorneys have been working on the resolving the Pelton bonds dispute for about two years. In other budget news: Tribal department managers met last week with the secretary-treasurer, chief operations officer and finance staff regarding the 2012 budget. According to a draft of the budget, substantial reductions— about $3.5 mil lion—would be needed to balance the expenditures with revenue. One of the reasons for the reduced revenue for 2012 is a result of the U.S. economic situation. The tribes in the past have earned revenue from investments. For the cur rent year budget, for instance, the esti mated investment revenue is $1.9 mil lion, although the amount the tribes have actually realized is substantially less. So for 2012, and the two subse quent years, the projected revenue from investments is estimated at $0. That is the more realistic figure in this economy, said Mike Collins, chief fi nance officer. On a better note, the gaming divi dend is expected to go up over the next few years, from $1.16 this year to $2 million next year and then $4 in 2013. For the past few months tribal de partments have been following bud get restrictions to avoid adding to the 2012 budget shortfall. For instance, there have been no travel requests since the restrictions w ere im ple mented. Tribal members can comment on the budget during the district and general Council meetings in October. 50 cents Summer Jamboree Yvonne Iverson/Spilyay Del Ray Johnson prepares to plunge down the 15 foot inflatable slide at the Family Jamboree Day held at the Community Center. Tribal leadership considers officer authority law By Duran Bobb Spilyay Tymoo Tribal Council has given the nod to a recommendation by the tribal legal team to move forward with the next step in participation to Senate Bill 412. The bill was recently passed by Or egon legislature, providing tribal police with limited authority off reservations for two years, including power to con tinue pursuing suspects who leave tribal land, and to take action when a crime is committed in front of them. “The bill is not simple,” tribal attor ney Howie Arnett said. “It doesn’t say tribal officers are police officers. It says tribal officers will be regarded as offic ers under state law if certain require ments are met.” Some o f the requirem ents m en tioned in the bill are the result of op position from the Oregon Sheriff’s Association. “Some of the strongest opposition that we saw came from the president of the sheriffs association, who is from Clatsop County, which is strange, be cause there are no reservations in Clatsop County,” Arnett said. Attorney Lauren Lester said in her update to Tribal Council that many of the requirements mentioned in SB412 are currently met under branch policy. “The requirem ents say that the tribes must comply with the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training,” she said “We already put all or most of our officers through the acadetriy.” Another requirement deals with in surance. “The tribes would have to submit a declaration that it is self-in sured or has insurance from a com pany that is licensed to sell insurance in Oregon. We have insurance in ex cess, as it is,” Lester said. O ther req u irem en ts deal w ith records, tort claims laws, deadly physi cal force plans, preservation of evi dence, and a pretrial discovery policy. “Throughout the legal process, the biggest complaint of the sheriffs asso ciation was that the bill did not provide recip ro city,” A rn ett said. “T hey thought, ‘This bill is going to allow tribal officers to become just like any other anywhere in Oregon, against any non- Indian. If that’s the case, we should be able to enforce state law on the res ervation.’” However, due to inherent sover eignty, the reservation is free from state criminal jurisdiction. “That’s a federal law as well, and we kept saying that,” Arnett told Tribal Council. SB 412 says the county can ask for reciprocity, but the tribes can explain why it cannot happen. “This becomes a non-issue by Oc tober 18,” Arnett said: If reciprocity is not requested by that date, the issue goes away. The sheriffs for Jefferso n and Wasco counties work closely with res ervation law enforcement, and as yet there is no reason to believe either of them will request reciprocity during that time. “It seems like we’re diluting our ex empt 280 status,” Tribal Councilman Ron Suppah said. “It sounds like the state is dictating what they want. They want us to do a hell of a lot. But what are we requiring of the state?” In the 1950s, Congress passed Pub lic Law 280, extending Oregon’s crimi nal laws to most Indian lands in the state. See SB412 on page 2 Back to School BBQ next week The Back to School Barbecue and school supply giveaway is at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1, at the campus. The first day o f school is Wednesday, Sept. 7 for: W arm Springs E lem en tary School (first through fifth ); Jefferson County Middle School (sixth and new students); and Madras High School (ninth and new students). For seventh- and eighth-grad ers at the m iddle s'chool, and tenth- through twelfth-graders at the high school, the first day of school is Sept. 8. Dedication, cooperation make Culture Camp happen u We try hard to provide cultural teaching, and activities that are fu n .» By Dave McMechan Spilyay Tymoo I k s year the camp at Peters Pasture hosted 31 young people who learned traditional languages, river life, bow and arrow use, beadwork, traditional foods, among many other activities. The youth stay at the camp over night, in tents. They make their own rules of conduct, such as no shaking of tents, no cussing, no kicking dust, etc. During the day the adult supervi sors and volunteers keep the young people busy and interested with out door lessons, hiking, the sweat lodge, fish cleaning and cooking, canning and many other activities. It is amazing the amount of work that goes into the 4-H Culture Camp. Arlene Boileau has been the orga nizer o f the camp for over 20 years. It takes a full year to prepare for the camp, beginning with the fundraising, she said. “You have to secure the money before you can really start planning,” she said. T his m ay be the last year that Boileau, who retired from her job a couple of years ago, coordinates the Culture Camp. And for that reason this may be the last year of the camp, as it would be hard to find someone who could replace her. Arlene Boileau Dave McMechan/Spilyay Miss Warm Springs Tamera Moody spends an afternoon working with the 4-H campers on beading Courtney and Utilities staff were very helpful, as was sanitarian Nancy Collins. More help came from Liz Johnson and IHS, D iabetes Prevention, Les Schwab Tire Center, the Warm Springs Police Department, Fire Management, and Warm Springs Fire and Safety, tribal Natural Resources. Terry Macy of Warm Springs Mar ket, and the Vehicle Pool helped with transportation. Clifton Brunoe, travel ing from Troutdale, helped with the bow and arrows, which were provided by OSU Extension. Extension staff also helped with camp activities. Greatly appreciated are the contri butions from Val Switzler and her staff at Culture and Heritage, Caroline Cruz and the Department of Human Ser vices, and the Community Health Edu cation Team (CHET). “And I really thank the parents for trusting me with the children,-” A rle k said. “We try hard to provide cultufd teaching, and activities that are fur TnM There are dozens of people who help with the camp, Boileau said. To name some of them: L V Lana Leonard and her sum m er youth workers helped with the set-up, as did Workforce Development, and .1 T r • i 7 University of Oregon Library Tiger VanPelt. Jason Smith from Natural Resour Received on! 08-31-11 Spilyay tymoo was a huge help, Boileau said. D
