Pi- Ume-Sha Court candidate Eva Katchia
Hello!
My name is Eva Katchia.
My Indian name is Li-pat-qu,
(w ife to T ip so (T reaty
Signer)); I am running for
Miss Pi-ume-sha 2012/2013.
I am selling raffle tickets.
I will be around the commu
nity asking for your support.
My family is: father, Gary
Katchia Sr., m other Lavonne
Boise, my grandfather is Lyle
Katchia, grandm other’s aut-
wy
^Marilyn
M eanus,
C ath erin e K atch ia , L aura
Kelly.
G reat grandm others are
M illie C olw ash, aut-w y
Prosanna Williams, Bernice
M itch ell an d V erbena
G reene, H ilda Culpus and
Jeannette Yazzie. My great
g ra n d fa th e rs are aut-w y
M arv in M eanus an d Cy
Katchia. My other grandma’s
are: Louise K atchia, Annie
Meanus, Lavina Colwash, O E
Colwash. My other family is
B etty G eo rg e an d Jam es
K a tc h ia S r., S h aro n and
Rayann Katchia.
T his is the F orty-T hird
A nnual Pi-Um e-Sha Treaty
D ays— Please su p p o rt this
event. Neigh Pacwai,
Eva Katchia, Li-Pat-qu.
June 13, 2012
Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
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MHS
graduation
Madras High School
graduation was this past
Saturday.
Ceremonies included
the Lord's Prayer
performed byTasheena
George (right).
From Warm Springs
about 32 students were
part of the MHS Class
of 2012.
The Warm Springs
Graduation Banquet is
Tuesday evening, June
19 at the Agency
Longhouse.
Sue Matters photos.
Pi-Ume-Sha Court Candidate Eva Katchia, Li-pat-qu.
More News from Indian Country
Choctaw tribe signs deal for new hospital
PH IL A D E L PH IA , Miss.
(AP) — A new $55 million
Choctaw Indian hospital is
p ro jected to o p en on the
Pearl River R eservation in
2014.
T he Mississippi Band b f
Choctaw Indians signed an
agreem ent in May w ith the
federal Indian H ealth Ser
vices.
The Choctaws was one o f
only seven tribes approved
for the program by the In
dian Health Services.
U nder the program , the
Choctaws will build and equip
the state-of-the-art health fa
cility using IH S space and
staffing metrics while the IHS
will provide staffing and op
e ra tio n a l fu n d in g fo r 20
years. H
T he new facility will be
ap p ro x im a te ly
161,000
square feet, tw o and h a lf
times the size o f the current
hospital.
The campus will have 20
acute care beds, expanded
primary care, inpatient, out
patient, ambulatory, dental,
diagnostic and treatm ent fa
cilities as well as behavioral
health and com m unity and
public health services.
“O ur current facility is out
dated and v e ry , space co n
strained,” C hief Phyliss,
Anderson said. “Clearly there
is a great need on the Reser
vation for better health care
solutions.”
T h e c u rre n t C h o ctaw
H ealth C enter was built in
1976 for a Tribal population
o f 4,000. Today the current
58,000 square fo o t facility
serves a population o f more
than 10,000 tribal members.
“W ith this new facility we
will provide enhanced health
care for our elders as well as
preventative care and health
education tor our young chil
dren,” A nderson said.
T he trib e also plans td
renovate the current hospital
to include pediatric services:
S eparately,
N e sh o b a
County is building a new $19
m illio n h o sp ita l w h ich is
scheduled to be completed in
the spring o f 2013.
Tribal council supports 2 tribes water rights
NORM AN, Okla. (AP) -
T he Inter-Tribal Council o f
the Five Civilized Tribes has
passed a resolution support
in g th e C hickasaw an d
Choctaw nations in their dis
pute with the state o f Okla
hom a over water.
The two tribes filed a fed
eral lawsuit against the state
in August, seeking to main
tain control o f the water in
southeastern Oklahoma. The
lawsuit, which seeks to bar the
state an d O k lah o m a C ity
from transporting water from
the region, is on hold while
the two sides w ork w ith a
court-appointed mediator. A
report on mediation efforts
is due by July 20.
Fallin’s office and an attor
ney for the tribes say they are
p rohibited from discussing
the mediation talks because
o f confidentiality provisions
o f the court’s mediation or
der.
T he Inter-Tribal Council
approved the resolution dur
ing a meeting last Friday in
N orman.’ “The Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations do believe
th a t it is o u r w a te r/’ said
C hoctaw N atio n A ssistant
Chief Gary Batton.
“We do believe those are
our rights to that water.
“ I f p e o p le try to tak e
things from o ur tribal m em
bers, w e’ll tu rn th at (peace
pipe) over and we’re ready
to fight at a m o m en t’s, n o
tice,” he said. “A nd th a t’s
w hat we’re having to do right
now w ith the state o f O kla
hom a.”
Casino proposal ignites turf
wars with state, other tribes
AKEL A FLATS, N.M.
(AP) — The Fort Sill Apache
Tribe has crossed another
hurdle in its ongoing at
tempt to build a casino on
its new reservation.
The Bureau o f Indian
Affairs recently sent a let
ter to the governor and
o th e r officials in N ew
Mexico saying it has deter
mined the tribe’s reserva
tion east o f Dem ing is eli
gible for gaming, and it has
begun the process o f re
viewing the tribe’s, request
to build a casino on the
30-acte tract along Inter
state 10.
But as the tribe moves
forward with its plans, it
has reigriited old turf wars
with the state over its true
in te n t an d w ith o th e r
tribes concerned about
competition for gamblers.
Tribal C hairm an Je ff
H apzous says the tribe,
currently based in south
west Oklahoma, needs the
casino to get incom e’ to
buy more fland to help its
m em b ers re tu rn to its
homelands.
G ra y w olves trapped o n C o lv ille rez
SPO KA NE, Wash. (AP) _
Two gray wolves were trapped
on the Colville Reservation
this week and outfitted with
tracking collars.'
The wolves were the first
captured on the N ortheast
W ashington reservation in
m ore 100 years.
T he tracking collars will
help th e trib e ’s b io lo g ists
m onitor the m ovem ents o f
the wolves, a 68-pound fe
male and a 71-pound male.
B oth are about 14 m onths
old.
> Tribal official believe be
tween three and four adult
wolves inhabit the San Poil
watershed.
Man identified as victim in recent death
The victim in an ap
p aren t beating death in
near the reservation has
been identified as 48-year-
old Dennis Michael Jones
o f Seattle.
T he Jefferson County
sh eriff’s office says two
Warm Springs m en were
jailed in connection with
th e d e a th , 31-y ear-o ld
James Ryan Johnson and
23-year-old Steven N eal
Anderson.
Jones’ body was found
May 30 in an abandoned
ra ilro a d tu n n e l n ear a
popular D eschutes River
fishing spot just south o f
the Warm Springs Indian
Reservation.
Sheriff Jim Adkins says
the victim knew at least
one o f the suspects and
alcohol appears to have
been involved.
D uring a court hearing last
week, both suspects appeared
in c o u rt via cam era in
Jefferson County for a sta
tus h e a rin g b e fo re Ju d g e
A nnette H illman. They re
q u ested an d w ere g ran ted
court-appointed attorneys.
Families o f b o th o f the
accused were present. Both
o f the accused appeared in a
previous arraignment on Fri
day, June 1.
A n a u to p s y w as p e r
form ed last week on the de
ceased, w ho was described as
a transient from the Seattle
area.
£CWe want people to know
that the deceased was n ot just
so m e ra n d o m fish e rm a n
d o w n th e r iv e r /’ Je a n n ie
Brisbois said following the
status hearing. “T he details
are going to come out.”
“There is a lot more to
this case,” Ina A nderson
said. “T he deceased was
actually seen previously in
the clinic at Warm Springs.
People saw [him] following
Steven around the com
munity. T he way the m e
dia makes it sound, people
think that, he was picked
o u t an d a tta c k e d o r
robbed.”
“There’s a lot o f infor
m atio n th a t p eo p le ju st
d o n ’t
know
y et,”
A n d e rso n ’s fa th e r said.
“There are things that the
attorney is going to have
to know, and it’s going to
be hard to talk about these
things, as a father.”
(Noie: The A P contributed to
this article.)
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