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More News from In fe n Country Page 9 Spilyay Tymoo December 14, 2011 Cherokee deal doesn’t mean dealers just yet RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The signed gambling compact be tween Gov. Beverly Perdue and Cherokee Indians doesn't mean live blackjack and poker deal ers are getting hired at the tribe's western North Carolina casino just yet. Political and legal hurdles re main before live table games can begin. Perdue wants the Legis lature to change gambling laws so the compact finalized last week can be implemented. Gen Indian schools in Dakotas get grants SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — American Indian schools in the Dakotas are among re cent recip ien ts o f grants from the Shakopee Mdewakanton (med-WAH'- kuh-tuhn) Sioux Community. In South D akota, the Flandreau Indian School in Flandreau got $35,000 to sup port a behavior incentive pro- gram and extracurricular ac tivities including a rodeo club. St. Joseph’s Indian School in C ham b erlain received $20,000 for a program for at- risk high school students and for cultural activities. In N orth D akota, the Circle of Nations school in Wahpeton got $8,000 for win ter clothing for students. eral Assembly staff attorneys already have suggested another amendment to the compact is needed to take care of consti tutional and technical concerns. And there’s a group of lawmak ers from both parties who are Museum Tree opposed to gambling. Perdue’s office says there is nothing standing in the way of the Legislature authorizing 400 new jobs at the casino. The federal government also must sign off on the deal. Tribal officials object to historic garment sale MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - Tribal officials on the Great Plains have objected to the plan of the Southern Oregon His torical Society to sell artifacts that include a shirt described as exquisite and dating as early as the 1830s. The organization, under fi nancial pressure, has been sell ing off artifacts that don’t re late to Southern Oregon history. The shirt to be auctioned in San Francisco was donated by a Grants Pass resident in 1957 and came from an ancestor who obtained it in Nebraska. Steve Vance, historic preservation of ficer with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, says the shirt seems to have cer emonial significance and is the kind of artifact tribes have been unable to get returned. Dave McMechan/Spilyay She Who Watches decoration tops the Christmas tree at the Museum at Warm Springs. Rare Indian horse mask faces restoration CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The Wyoming State Museum is restoring an elaborately beaded American Indian horse mask to prepare it for public display within the next year. Mandy Langfald, curator of collections at the museum in Cheyenne, said the Lakota Sioux mask dates to between 1897 and 1910. She said it's one of fewer than 50 such historic masks that survive from American Indian tribes around the West. “They started, they believe, when the Spanish conquistadors came through, because they had armor on their horses,” Langfald said of the Indians’ practice of m aking masks for their own horses. The mask, made of buffalo hide, is fully covered with tiny Venetian beads and features designs of both Ameri can flags and stars. Langfald said the mask is unusual because it’s so large, designed to extend far down a horse’s neck. Tribe bans hydraulic fracturing on res BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) _ The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa has banned a conten tious oil and gas recovery tech nique and wants to stop a fed eral auction that would open drilling on the north-central North Dakota reservation. Resolutions of Tribal Coucil Eagle Tech Whereas there is a need to maintain cost effective technol ogy services to the Tribal orga nization while reducing the costs of those services; and, Whereas Eagle Tech Systems were originally organized to de velop sources of additional rev enue, on and off the reserva tion, reducing the costs of those services, and increasing overall business operations which has not been met; and, Whereas the Tribes is offi cially reforming the Office of Information Systems (“OIS”) department, a general fund pro gram that will meet Tribal needs for Information Systems Ser vices with the staff capabilities and experience for services; and, Whereas in order to effec tively manage the existing infor mation system infrastructure the Tribal Council finds that it is in the best interest of the Tribes to manage the inside plant as sets o f the reservations under the OIS department; and, W hereas “OIS” be prefer ence provider of informational techn olo gy services for the tribal organization, including but not limited to enterprises of the Tribes; and, Whereas the Tribal Council now desires to take the actions necessary for the development of “OIS”; now, therefore Be it resolved by the 25th Tribal Council of The Confed erated T ribes o f the W arm Springs Reservation of Oregon, pursuant to Article V, Section 1 (f), (1), and (o) of the Tribal Constitution and By-Laws, that the Charter for Eagle-Tech Sys tems (“ETS”), a tribal economic enterprise, is hereby dissolved as an enterprise of the Tribes; and, Be it further resolved, to as sure an orderly transition of Eagle-Tech Systems (“ETS”) be ing re-designated as the Office o f In fo rm atio n System s (“OIS”), OIS shall be managed and controlled under the F i nance branch, which is a com ponent unit of Secretary-Trea surer/CEO; and, Be it further resolved that all tribal offices, departments, agen cies, Enterprises, employees and agents of the Tribe are directed to consult OIS regarding any in formational technology services or products to be purchased by a tribal entity and to, in any such purchase, maintain compatibil ity with OIS to the extent fea sible; and, Be it further resolved the Tribal Council originally char tered E agle-T ech System s (“ETS”) as a tribally owned en terp rise by R esolutio n No. 10,350 on January 19, 2004; and by Resolution No. 10,509 on May 18, 2005; to limit tribal sovereign immunity to increase its business operations w ill hereby rescind these prior reso lutions; and, Be it further resolved that the Secretary-Treasurer/CEO is authorized and directed to take such action as appropriate and necessary to im plem ent this resolution; and, Be it further resolved that the net assets o f “E T S” be transferred to CTWS-OIS with an inventory provided and con curred upon by ETS and the CTWS. (Resolution no. 11,510.) OPB Whereas the Confederated Tribes o f the Warm Springs Reservation (“Tribe”) owns a communication tower and facili- ties lo cated on M iller F lat (“Miller Flat Site”); and, W hereas O regon P ublic Broadcasting (“OPB”) desires to install and operate communica tions equipm en t w ith in the Miller Flat Site; and, Whereas, pursuant to Tribal Council Resolution 11,411, the Tribe consolidated management of the Tribe’s telecommunica tions infrastructure, including the M iller Flat Site, in Warm Springs T elecom m unication Company (“Teleco”); and, Whereas, Teleco has nego tiated a non-exclusive agreement with OPB for the installation of Whereas, pursuant to the equipment and for access to and foregoing, the Tribal Council is occupancy and use of the Miller authorized to exercise the gov Flat Site (“OPB Agreement”), ernmental and corporate pow attached as Exhibit “A”; and, ers of the Tribe; and, Whereas the installation of Whereas the Tribal Council OPB equipment will enhance believes that it is in the best in public broadcasting capabilities terests of the Tribe to submit on the Reservation; and, applications for grant assistance Whereas the Tribal Council related to the welfare o f the believes that it is in the best in tribal membership, economic terest of the Tribe to enter into development, and/or for any of the OPB Agreement, attached governmental or corporate pur as Exhibit “A”; now, therefore pose authorized in the Tribe’s Be it resolved by the 25th C onstitution and Corporate Tribal Council of the Confed Charter; and, erated T ribes o f the W arm Whereas in the submission Springs Reservation of Oregon, of grant applications, time is of pursuant to Article V, Sections ten of the essence and it is not I, (f) and (1) of the Tribal Con always feasible to obtain Tribal stitu tio n and B y-Law s, that Council approval of grant ap Tribal Council hereby approves plications in a timely manner, the OPB Agreement, attached w here such appro val or as Exhibit “A”, and hereby au acknowledgement may be re thorizes the T ribal C ouncil quired; and, Chair, Vice-Chair or Secretary- Whereas, in order to prevent Treasurer/CEO to execute and missed grant opportunities, the deliver Exhibit “A”, with any m inor modifications deemed necessary by the Secretary-Trea surer/ CEO. (R esolu tion no. II , 508.) Tribal Council desires to del egate Tribal Council grant ap p licatio n approval/ acknowledgement authority to the Secretary-Treasurer/Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) for grant applications made on be half of the Tribe, provided such applications do not obligate any tribal assets or result in a waiver of the Tribe’s sovereign immu nity; and Whereas, by such delega tion, the Tribal Council in no way intends to limit the ability of tribal employees acting in the scope of their employment to approve and submit grant ap plications on behalf of the Tribe that do not require the approval or acknow ledgem ent o f the Tribal Council; and, W hereas, by such delega tion, the Tribal Council in no way intends to limit the ability or authority of tribal enterprises and companies to approve and (Continued from page 8) Henry Meacham was a son o f C hief D uk-sa-hi or C hief Mark Meacham. It is interest ing to note the bridge across the Deschutes River on Highway 26 was christened as “Duk-sa-hi Bridge” in 1937 when Highway 26 was opened. The next government recog nized Wasco Chief was “George Meacham.” In spite of being an enrollee of the Yakama Indian Reservation, Meacham became the chief by an arduous cam paign by Sarah Walsey, who may have been a relative of Chief D uk-sa-h i. (Ref. E m ily W aheneke.) In early 1930’s George Meacham was an em ployee for the Agency BIA. Whenever Sarah had business to attend to at the Agency, Meacham documented all the m ythical stories o f the River People. Sarah was the last of gifted storytellers of the Wasco. Chief Meacham was drowned at the deepest part o f Trout Lake in the late 1930’s. As my Grandmother was told of the sad news, I stood by and over heard the drowning was caused by a cap sized ro w b oat and Chief Meacham’s hip boots fill ing up with water. (Ref. Ernest Hunt.) Several years expired without a Wasco Chief. A ctivity and businesses o f the tribes were mundane. Only employers on the reservation during this time were Dahl Pine Saw Mill and Wilson Saw Mill. Most of the employees of those mills were Arkies and Okies. Sometime in the late 1940’s or early 50’s Joe McCorkle be came the Wasco Chief. It is not clear to me how he became the Wasco Chief, but these were ex citing times because many poli cies were set in motion, timber, hunting policies, wheat allot ments, land assignments, The D alles D am , P elton D am , submit grant applications sub mitted on behalf of the tribal enterprise or company; now, therefore Be it resolved by the 25th Tribal Council of the Confed erated T ribes o f the W arm Springs Reservation of Oregon, pursuant to Article V, 1, (s), of the Tribe’s Corporate Charter that Tribal Council hereby del egates to the Secretary-Trea- surer/C E O ap p ro val and acknowledgement authority of the Tribal Council for grant as sistance applications that are sub mitted on behalf of the Tribe and are development, and/or for any of governmental or cor porate purpose authorized in the Tribe’s Constitution and By- Laws and Corporate Charter, provided such applications do not obligate any tribal assets or result in a waiver of the Tribe’s sovereign immunity. (Resolution no. 11,506.) Chieftainship Grant process Whereas the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Res erv atio n o f O regon (the “Tribe”) is a federally recognized Indian tribe organized under a Constitution and By-Laws (the “Tribal Constitution”) ratified by the members of the Tribe on December 18, 1937, and ap proved by the Assistant Secre tary of the Department of In terior of the United States (“In terior”) on February 14, 1938, pursuant to Section 16 of the Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984) as amended by the Act of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 378) (the “Act”); and, Whereas the Tribe ratified on April 23, 1938 a corporate charter issued to it by Interior pursuant to Section 17 of the Act (“Corporate Charter”); and, Round Butte Dam issues, and on and on. Time spent with this Chief was enlightening. Some of the historical events told by him are recorded in my book, When the R iver Ran Wild! A tw ai C h ief N elson Wallulatum In 1958 or 1959 Wallulatum was em ployed by the Tribal Construction Maintenance De partment. I was present when E va B runoe W in ish u t ap proached Wallulatum to repre sent the Wasco people as Chief. With his head bowed, and ex pressing profound humility, I distinctly heard his reply of, “Yes, I will do my very best.” During this time there were several Wasco people contend ing for the Chieftainship... Eva w as the gran d d au gh ter o f Wasco C hief D uk-sa-hi. Eva cam paigned in ten sely for Wallulatum. — By George A guilar