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