Spilyay Tymoo, Wgrrn Springs, Oregon
February 8, 2012
Youth Art Show at Museum
The Museum at Warm Springs
is hosting the Nineteenth Annual
Tribal Youth Art Exhibit. The show
will be on display in the Changing
Exhibits Gallery through April 1.
Leonard A,
¿Qfeìwv-ts,
Duran Bobb photos.
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Is there interest in forming a W.S. Lions Club?
W ould you like to have
fun, serve and support your
community and have the ca
maraderie o f a local service
club?
Then come fined out what
a Lion is and what it means
to have a local Lions club.
O fficially, L io n s are a
g ro u p o f serv ice-m in d ed
men and women who are in
terested in doing volunteer
work to improve their com
munities.
■If you became a Lion, you
would become an active vol
unteer, a m em ber o f a re
spected international organi
zation, a leader in your com
munity and a friend to people
in need.
L io n s are everyw here.
They are m en and w om en
who are active in community
projects in m ore than 206
countries worldwide.
The Warm Springs Reser
v a tio n had a L io n s C lub
a b o u t 15 years ago, an d
Crooked River Ranch Lions
P resident and C entral O r
egon Chairperson Ted Carlin
Courtesy photo.
Crooked River Ranch Lions have fun while supporting the
CRR Holiday parade in December.
“What It Means to be a
Lion,” presentation at the
Warm Springs Senior
Center Luncheon, 12
noon, Thursday, Feb. 23.
would like to see if there is in
terest in starting up a new Lions
Club.
He and some other members
o f the CRR Lions will be giving
a presentation on “W hat it
Means to be a Lion,” at the
Warm Springs Senior Cen
ter Luncheon at 12 noon on
Thursday, Feb. 23.
Please come listen to why
the CRR Lions are having so
much fun, doing such good
w orks and are the fastest
growing Lions Club in O r
egon.
Remains found at Columbia are Native American
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Report: Klamath dam removal will help fish, farms
(AP) — A draft report by the
U.S. Interior D epartm ent says
rem oving four hydroelectric
dams in the Klamath Basin will
restore salmon and sustain irri
gation for farmers in Southern
Oregon and N orthern Califor
nia.
The findings support a bill
introduced by Oregon Democrat
Sen. Je ff Merkley and Califor
nia D em ocrat Rep. Mike T h
om pson that would authorize
the Interior Departm ent to de
cide whether to remove the Kla
math River dams.
The report repeats findings
from September, and says dam
removal will create fishing jobs,
reduce disease among salmon
and im prove w ater quality in
some areas.
The report pins the cost o f
dam removal at $291 million in
2020 dollars.
Pulling down the dams would
increase the stretch o f the 100-
year floodplain, but the report
says only six residences would
be affected.
(AP) — A hum an jaw bone
found lying in shallow water o f
the Columbia River in October
is Native American, according
to the Army C orps o f E ngi
neers.
It hired an independent physi
cal anthropologist to make the
d e te rm in a tio n , said B ru ce
Henrickson, Corps spokesman.
T h e low er jaw bone w ith six
teeth is believed to date to about
150 to 200 years ago.
“We’re treating the remains
with the respect they deserve,”
he said. “These are remains o f
somebody’s ancestors, and we
ask ev ery o n e to rem em b er
that.”
It was found in the same gen
eral area o f the Columbia River
as the bones o f the Kennewick
M an sk eleto n fo u n d in July
1996. Scientists concluded that
the 9,300-year-old skeleton was
buried there.
H ow ever, no o th er bones
were found with the more re
cently discovered jawbone. It
was lying in shallow w ater a
couple o f feet o ff a small, rocky
shore a quarter-m ile east o f
The Corps has con
sulted with several
Plateau Tribes that
appear to be culturally
affiliated with the
remains...
Edison Street in Columbia Park
in Kennewick.
I t may have been w ashed
down the river by the high wa
ters in 2011 and then showed
up as water receded from the
shoreline, said Benton County
Coroner John Hansens the day
it was found.
Because the bone appeared
to be historic rather than con
n e c te d to a p o ssib le crim e,
Hansens turned it over to the
C orps, w hich ow ns the land
where the bone was found.
The Corps has consulted with
several Plateau Tribes that ap
pear to be culturally affiliated
with the remains and next will
publish a legal notification giv
ing 30 days for any other legal
claimant to the bones to come
forw ard, as re q u ired by the
Native American Graves P ro
tection and Repatriation Act.
A similar process was fol
lowed when another human jaw
bone and two teeth were found
by boaters in August 2009, on
the Columbia River shore north
o f Richland. That jawbone was
determined to be Native Ameri
can and appeared to be about
300 to 350 years old based on
the am ount o f mineralization on
the teeth, among other charac
teristics.
The bone was transferred in
June 2010 under a joint claim
to a group comprised mostly o f
the members o f the Columbia
Plateau Inter-Tribal Repatria
tion Group.
They included the Nez Perce
Tribe, the Confederated Tribes
of the Colville Reservation, the
Confederated Tribes and Bands
o f the Yakama Nation, the Con
federated Tribes o f the Umatilla
Indian Reservation and the Con
federated Tribes o f the Warm
Springs Reservation. The joint
claim also was supported by the
Wanapum Band.
A
Ranch bought to provide Columbia fish habitat
(AP) — A ranch along the
lower Columbia River that was
diked decades ago for raising
cattle has been purchased to
provide w etlands fo r endan
gered juvenile salmon and steel
head on their way downriver to
the ocean.
A conservation group, the
Columbia Land Trust, is buying
the 920-acre Colum bia Stock
Ranch near St. Helens with $5.3
m illion from the B onneville
Power Administration.
The parties said in a state
ment the purchase is the largest
acquisition o f riverside habitat
in the estuary in nearly 40 years
and is aimed at mitigating the
im pact on fish stocks o f fed
eral dams in the Columbia Ba
sin.
T h e U.S. A rm y C o rp s of
Engineers is to develop a plan
to restore hundreds o f acres o f
w etlands at the site betw een
Portland and Longview, Wash.
Obama holds fundraiser with American Indians
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)
A P resid en t Barack O bam a,
raising money for his campaign
among tribal leaders, said last
week he wants American Indi
ans to be “full partners” in the
economy.
O bam a met with 70 to 75
supporters from Native Ameri
can tribes. Democratic officials
said the fundraiser would ben
efit the Obama Victory Fund,
a jo in t co m m itte e o f the
O b am a cam paign and the
Democratic National Commit
tee. Tickets started at $15,000.
Obama told participants that
he has w o rk ed to include
American Indians in his admin
is tra tio n an d w an ts N ativ e
Americans to be “full partners
in our economy.” T he president
noted that he had signed laws
to improve health care for N a
tive American tribes and pushed
for better educational opportu
nities and more improvements
to tribal economies.
“We want new businesses and
new opportunities to take root
on the reservations,” O bam a
said. Attendees included D em o
cratic N a tio n a l C o m m ittee
ch airw o m an
D e b b ie
Wasserman Schultz, a Florida
congressw om an, and fo rm er
Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.
O b am a raised m o re th an
$220 million for his re-election
campaign and the Democratic
N ational C om m ittee in 2011.
The president returned to Wash
ington after completing a three-
day, five-state trip following his
State o f the Union address.
When Obama ran for presi
d e n t in 2008, he v isited
M ontana’s Crow Indian reser
vation and was adopted into the
n atio n during a private cer
emony.
O b am a q u ip p ed , “ I f my
adoptive parents were here, I
know what they’d say, “Kids just
grow up so fast.”
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