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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 2012)
Com m unity gathers for candlelight vigil The recent deaths in the community, including two cases o f alleged m urder, brought the community to gether last Thursday evening for a candlelight and prayer vigil. People gathered on the cam pus law n, h o ld in g candles in the coolness of fall evening. D on Courtney and Lucinda Greene shared words and songs o f inspira- October 17, 2012 Spilyay Tymoo, Wgrm Springs, Oregon Pdge 8 1 AB W B t Tí F -í-' WB t # i Ja® jfc lw w ' . C IM I Duran Bobb photo for the Spilyay Candlelight vigil and community prayer. Vandals wreck bus stop non. P eo p le w ere on han d from throughout the Warm Springs com m unity, and some from Madras. T h e d eath o f Jo n as Miller, 33, on September 23 was a shock to community. Just days later, on Sep tember 29, the community le arn ed o f th e d eath o f Faron Lynn Kalama, who was 30. 2 indicted for murder, one as accessory (AP) _ A federal grand jury last week indicted two women accused of killing a Faron Kalama, 30, who was found deceased in a re mote area of the reserva tion. The U.S. Attorney’s of fice says Tana Lawrence and Angeledith Smith have been charged with first-de gree murder. There were arraigned in Portland last Friday afternoon. The grand jury alleges Smith and Lawrence mur dered Faron Kalama on Sept. 29 during the course of a burglary, a kidnapping Tana Lawrence and a sexual Lawrence arrested last been held in assault. and Smith were week and have tribal custody. Angeledith Smith The charge of murder in the first degree carries a maxi mum penalty of life in prison. The grand jury also in dicted Curtis Brown as an accessory to the murder. Brown allegedly aided the Lawrence and Smith af ter the murder, according to authorities. The charge of acces sory carries a 15-year maximum sentence. Shortly before the ar raignm ent, it was a n nounced that Brown has been charged in the Sept. 23 m u rd er o f Jo n a s Miller on the reserva tion. All three are in federal custory. A trial date was set for Dec. 18. Dave McMechan/Spilyay The shelter was vandalized just as the rainy and cold weather is setting in. Murder charge in shooting death Curtis B row n, 38, was charged with second-degree murder and a firearms charge in the killing of Monas Miller, who was 33. A ccording to a federal criminal complaint, Brown confessed to shooting Miller in the back of the head with a firearm on September 23 in a remote area of the res ervation. The charges of murder in the second degree and dis charging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of vio lence both carry a maximum penalty of life in prison. The judge ordered Brown detained on these charge pending his next court ap pearance on October 29. In an affidavit supporting the charges, FBI special agent Daniel Baringer said Miller’s body was found Sept. 30 on a dirt path about 250 yards Curtis Brown from County Line Road on the reservation. E arlier on th a t day, Baringer said Warm Springs police received a missing person’s report from Miller’s mother, Sharon Miller, who said she had not seen him for a week. During a subsequent interview, Sharon Miller said her son owned several rifles, including an assault rifle that was missing. An Oct. 2 autopsy by, the M edical E xam iner d eter mined Jonas Miller was killed by a gunshot wound to the head, and positively identified the victim, the FBI agent said. The investigation deter mined the body had' been at the spot where it was found for about a week. In the affidavit. FBI agent Baringer said he interviewed a witness after several people told investigators he and the victim had been seen together on Sept. 23. The witness told the FBI that Miller owned an assault rifle and that he and Miller had been at a home in the Miller Heights area of Warm Springs, and that Miller and Brown left the house together in a car. The FBI agent said he. then interviewed Brown at the Warm Springs Police Sta tion and that Brown talked about the incident “and even tually confessed to shooting Jonas Miller, as well as dis carding evidence o f the crime.” Mont. Indians sue over lack of election services HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Fifteen Native Americans are suing state and county offi cials over a lack of election services on three Montana reservations, saying their in ability to vote early or regis ter late there is an unconsti tutional denial of equal vot ing access. The plaintiffs asked a fed eral judge in Billings to issue an emergency order requir ing the state and counties to open satellite election offices on the Crow, Northern Chey enne and Fort Belknap reser vations. They say they now must drive between 27 and 113 miles round trip to reach their county offices, the only places that allow in-person absentee voting and late registration, b o th o f which began last week. “Our position is the state has the duty to provide the same opportunities for absen tee voting as non-Indians,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Terryl Matt. “We have a system de signed right now where non- Indians can walk in and vote (absentee). So why can’t In dians?” Traveling can pose an es pecially heavy financial bur den for residents of reserva tion communities where un employment rates can top 70 percent and the poverty rate is as high as 39 percent; the lawsuit said. Montanans can vote early by mail or by delivering ab sentee ballots in person to county offices. Late registra tion begins at county offices a month before Election Day. Voting access on Election Day is not an issue in the law suit. Secretary o f State Linda McCulloch said she sympa thizes with the plaintiffs and would support opening satel lite offices. However, she added, a legal opinion from the state attorney general's office on the matter said the offices are discretionary and the state elections agency can’t force the individual counties to open them. Also, time is running short before the Nov. 6 election. “I think their claims have merit. I wish they would have started it a year or more ago,” McCulloch said. Parents and school kids were discouraged to find the West Hills bus stop shelter had. been vandal ized. ju st as the rainy weather is setting in, one or more vandals smashed the window o f the shel ter. The shelter had been paid for through a gener- ous grant, rather than S E Ir M Madras Redmond Bend B íllasa Sunriver 1 875 SHwy 9 7 -Madras if 2516 SW Glaciar PI - Redmond 56840 Venture LN Ste 1A * Sunriver , through tribal dollars. 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