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More News from I notion Country Pgge 9 Tribes soon to approve land leases W A S H IN G T O N , D .C . (AP) — A bill giving Native A m erican tribes authority over agreements to lease their lands for development awaits the president’s signature. Supporters say the legisla tion, called th e 'H E A R T H Act, will hasten housing con- Ex-council member receives one-month sentence S IO U X FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A form er C row C reek trib a l council m em ber was sentenced on accusa tions he concealed in fo rm atio n from au thorities investigating a bribery conspiracy on the South D akota res ervation. L o re n “ R o ck y ” Fallis pleaded guilty earlier to m isprision o f a felony. The U.S. attorney’s office says the 58-year-old Fallis lied about a meeting in 2008 where a contrac tor allegedly divided cash between several cu rre n t and fo rm er m em b ers o f th e council. U.S. District Judge Roberto Lange sentenced Fallis to one m o n th in custody. F o u r o th e r p a rtic i p a n ts in th e 2008 m e e tin g w ere se n te n c e d ea rlie r to prison terms ranging from 15 m onths to 10 years. struction, clean energy and business or industry develop m ent on tribal lands. It allows tribes to approve their own land leasing agree ments rather than the Bureau o f In d ia n A ffairs, if they choose. T h e N av ajo N a tio n al- ready has this’ sort o f author ity. The Interior Secretary still m ust approve the tribes' leas ing regulations. T he bill does n o t apply to oil and gas leases. T he ad ministration issued new leas ing regulations last N ovem ber that set deadlines for ap proval o f leases to end long delays. The H ouse approved the bill in May. T he Senate ap proved it last week by voice vote. T he president’s signa ture would make it law. community.’’ Bull tro u t are listed as a threatened species in Idaho and W ash in g to n , an d westslope cutthroats are con sidered a species o f concern. Fish biologists typically link health populations o f b oth species with pristine, healthy watersheds. Some older anglers can recall the days o f reefing in tro p h y bull tro u t and cu t throat from the Pend Oreille system , acco rd in g to Jim Fredericks, regional fisheries manager for the Idaho D e partm ent o f Fish and Game. Lake Pend Oreille holds the world record for the largest b u ll tro u t: a 3 2 -p o u n d e r caught in 1949. Idaho officials cheer the idea o f restoring the species in numbers that would enable anglers to keep a limited num ber. Rules now require anglers to. p u t b ack b o th species, ev en th o u g h L ake P en d Oreille supports one o f the W est’s healthiest rem aining bull trout runs. In 2008, th e lake’s bull tro u t p o p u latio n was esti m ated at 8,000 spaw n in g adults. But that total is a frac tion o f its historic, pre-dam levels, w hen the bull tro u t had access to more than 200 S IO U X FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The U,S. D epart m ent o f Justice is support ing N ative American in mates in their lawsuit chal lenging South D a k o ta ’s ban on tobacco in religious ceremonies. Inm ates Blaine Brings Plenty and Clayton Creek in their 2009 federal law suit against the South D a kota D epartm ent o f Cor rections co n ten d th a t a prison policy that bans the use o f tobacco during re ligious ceremonies is dis criminatory. T he state said ceretaonial tobacco inside the state penitentiary was b e c o m in g increasingly- abused, and the policy is n o t overly restrictive be cause it allows other bo- tanicals such as red willow bark to be burned. T h e Ju s tic e D e p a rt ment, in a brief filed last Friday, said the state’s p o sition runs contrary to the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons A ct an d U.S. S u p rem e Court precedent. “The-court should de cline this invitation to de term ine the im portance o f tobacco use to practi tioners o f Native Ameri can religions,” the Justice D e p a rtm e n t a tto rn e y s w rote. “Accordingly, the co u rt should also reject defendants’ argument that they have not placed a sub stantial burden on plain tiffs’ religious exercise. ” ! T h e S o u th D a k o ta p riso n system w ent to b acco -free in 2000 b u t made an exception for to b acco u sed in N a tiv e miles o f spawning streams, said Jo a n Je w e tt, sp o k e s woman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A c e n tra l g o al o f th e project is restoring fish pas sage over or around the 90- fo o t dam , O sterm an said. The dam was built w ithout fish ladders an d p rev en ts young gull trout from migrat ing upstream to Lake Pend Oreille, where the fish histori cally have matured into adult hood before swimming back downstream to spawn. The dam also altered river flows, creating w arm er pools o f water. As part o f the ac cord, the tribe and federal agencies will collaborate on data operations, hoping tp manage flows in a way that sends cooler w ater'into the system for bull trout in late summer and fall. Money also will be spent on acquiring and protecting habitat, researching the viabil ity o f building a hatchery and removing non-native, preda to ry fish fro m trib u ta ry spawning, streams. The three federal agencies involved in th e accord in clude: the Bonneville Power A dm inistration, U.S; A rm y Corps o f Engineers and the Bureau o f Reclamation. Remains found in W is. construction project ONALASKA, Wis. (AP) - A rchaeologists are finding ancient remains that might be o f Native Americans beneath the reconstruction o f High way 35. Scientists from the Missis sippi Valley Archaeology Cen ter have found alm ost two d o zen likely skeletal frag m ents. T hey’ve also found hundreds o f food and gar bage pits, cooking hearths, tools and other artifacts o f the O neota people who in habited the O nalaska area b e tw e e n a b o u t 1300 an d 1600 A.D. All burial sites are p ro te c te d by sta te law. Jim Becker, the archaeology p ro gram manager for the Wis consin D epartm ent o f Trans portation, told the La Crosse T rib u n e th a t any tim e re mains are discovered during construction, the' state m ust D O J supporting inmates in ceremonial tobacco lawsuit Feds, Kalispel sign deal for trout SPO K A N E (AP) - Three fed eral agen cies an d th e Kalispel Tribe have reached an agreement to spend $39.5 million oyer the next decade to im prove stocks o f native bull trout and westslope cut th r o a t tr o u t in n o rth e rn Id a h o ’s Lake P en d O reille watershed. The money will be spent on a variety o f projects in tended to im prove popula tions o f trout species whose n u m b ers have d im inished since the 1950s, w hen the Albeni Falls D am was built on the Pend Oreille River. But the accord aims to do more than restore fish num bers and im prove angling. Tribal officials point to the cultural significance tied to the fish and to rekindling the cen turies-old fishing traditions used by their ancestors on Lake Pend Oreille, the Pend Oreille River and tributaries. “A t some point in the fu ture, we w ant our people to be able to harvest these fish again, and everyone else to be able to harvest them , too,” Deane O sterm an, executive d ire c to r fo r th e K alisp el T rib e’s N a tu ra l R esources Departm ent, said. “We w ant the im p ro v e m ents to benefit the entire stop work and consult with the Wisconsin Historical So ciety. , “We knew that we had a burial site in there and that there was going to be more coordination,” Becker said. In accordance with federal law, state officials m et with interested parties, including the historical society and the Ho-Chunk Nation to agree on a process for monitoring con struction and looking for ar chaeological and hum an re mains. . , . The site was previously a village occupied by ancestors o f the Ho-Chunk, Ioway, O to an d M issouria trib es, said laboratory director Connie A rzig ian . In m an y c a se s, A rzigian said, they've only found bone fragments, which will be sent to a skeletal ana lyst to verify w hether they are human. When remains are found, archaeologists usually try to leave them in place, b ut the road, project makes that dif ficult, Arzigian said. “I f th e re are rem ain s found, we want them placed back in the ground,” said Bill Quackenbush, historic pres ervation officer for the Ho- C h u n k N a tio n . H o w an d where those remains are in terred, he said, will be deter mined at the end o f the pro cess. / Last week, archaeologists u n earth ed a b iso n scapula shaped into a hoe blade that would have been grafted on’to a stick. T hey also found a bone sharpened into an awl used to make clothing from animal hides; The O neota people were farmers, growing mostly corn, squash and beans, b u t also h u n te d d eer an d elk an d caught catfish, drum, north ern and other fish. Arzigian said the bison hoe was likely acquired th ro u g h trade or crafted during a winter hunt on the w estern plains. Archaeologists knew there was a native settlem ent un der the road, but Arzigian said they’ve been surprised by the density o f features found— more than 400 pits in a four- block area. Unlike other lo cal sites, this one hasn’t been plowed or eroded. “O ne o f the nice things about this is it’s m ore undis turbed,” she said. “T he road has actually protected it.” Spilygy Tyrrcoo June 25, 2012 American ceremonies. But officials in O ctober 2009 eliminated that exemption, saying tobacco was being sold or bartered and in m ates h ad been caught separating it from their pipe mixtures and prayer ties. M em bers o f p riso n - based N ative A m erican Council o f Tribes sued, arguing th a t for N ative American prayer to be ef fective, it m ust be em bod ied in tobacco and offered within a ceremonial frame work. B rings P le n ty and Moore in their suit said the policy change violates their U.S. Constitutional rights ensuring that no prisoner be penalized or discrimi nated against solely on their religious beliefs or prac tices. Their attorney, Pamela Bollweg, argued befo re U.S. D istrict Judge Karen S chreier in M arch th a t prison officials have to show there’s a compelling interest in limiting access, and even if there is a com pelling interest they have to use the least restrictive alternative. Jam es M oore, the at to r n e y r e p r e s e n tin g p riso p officials, argued th a t S o u th D a k o ta ’s policy change follow ed m o re th an 10 years o f conversations w ith tribal e ld e rs a n d tr a d itiq n a l healers, som e o f w hom perform pipe cerem onies w ithout tobacco. H e said prison officials stopped short o f banning the use o f pipes. r Open Wednesday thru Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Ph. 541-553-1041 At Warm Springs St. & Hollywood Blvd. \ ____________________________> PIONEER ROCK High S? L o o k ee Lod Assisted Living Facilita) & MONUMENT Specializing in Native American Design 201 Crafton Rd PO Box 348 Goldendale, WA 98620 509-773-4702 2321 Ollgllie U ne CPO Boxò) Warm Springs, OR 97761 q |[ 541_553_-|182 L E T US S A V E Y O U T IM E & M O N E Y DESIGN & O RDER O VER THE INTERNET www. pioneerrock. com www.betterheadstones.com Find MAP To Our Shop Under 'CONTACTS'
