December 26, 2012
Spílyay Tyrnoo, Wgrrn Springs, Oregon
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49th Holiday basketball tournament this week
T he Forty-N inth Annual
W arm S prings All In d ia n
M ens H o lid ay B ask etb all
T o u rn a m e n t b eg in s th is
Wednesday, Dec. 26.
The tournam ent continues
through Saturday, Dec. 29.
The tournam ent will be in the
W arm Springs C om m unity
Center.
The Holiday Tournament
will feature 12 All In d ian
Men’s teams. Awards include
ten em broidered Pendleton
wool jackets; runner up, em
broidered jackets; third place,
h ooded sw eatshirts; fourth
place, crewnecks; fifth place
awards. Also: M ost Valuable
Player, Mister Hustle, 12 All
T o u rn ey team , a n d team
s p o r ts m a n s h ip . O p e n in g
round games will begin this
Wednesday, with four games
on th e schedule. T he first
game will begin at 4 p.m., fol
lowed by games at 5:30,7 and
8:30 p.m.
Thursday will have three
games for session two: at 12
noon, 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m.;
and three session three games
at: 6, 7:30 and 9 p.m.
Session four games on Fri
day begin at 1:30 p.m., fol
lowed by a game at 3 p.m.
For
the kids
T he Simnasho N ew Year’s
Eve Celebration and Powwow
is on N ew Year’s Eve at the
Simnasho Longhouse.
A potluck dinner will start
at 6 p.m., followed by one
Seven o f Washut, and then
the traditional powwow with
social dances and games. E v
eryone is welcome!
Club, offices closed for holiday
T he W arm Springs Boys
and Girls Club will be closed
oil N ew Years Day. T he Boys
and Girls Club will be closed
on designated holidays, and
inclement weather days. Regu
lar club hours are weekdays
after school from 3-5:30 p.m.
T h e club is o p e n d u rin g
spring, sum m er and w inter
breaks from 8-5.
M ost tribal offices will be
closed for the N ew Year’s
holiday on Tuesday, Jan. 1.
CAT offers tax training, preparation
Yvonne Iverson/Spityay
News from Indian Country
Low-water rivers offering up glimpse o f history
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championship round begin
ning at 6:30 p.m. (third place
game); and the championship
at 8 p.m.
For more information con
tact tournament director Aus
tin G reene at 541-553-3244
(message/office); or at home
541-553-1953.
New Years at Simnasho
T he business office at
the H ealth and Wellness
Center organized a gift giv
ing cam paign to benefit
c h ild re n in fo s te r care
through Child Protective
Services. Two truck loads
with 132 presents from the
Angel Bear Tree were de
livered to CPS last week.
CPS staff are delivering
presents through the week
o f Christmas to all active
foster care children.
“The tree was a rousing
success. Thank you every
one so much, I know you
all m ade som e g o o d
Christmas's fabulous,” said
Jerem iah Jo h n so n o f the
business office.
ST. LOU IS (AP) - From
sunken steamboats to a mil
lennium-old map engraved in
rock, the drought-drained riv
ers *ofi th e nation’s midsection
are offering a rare and fleet
ing glimpse into years gone
by.
Lack o f rain has left many
rivers at low levels unseen for
decades, creating problem s
for river commerce and rec
reation and raising concerns
about water supplies and hy
dropow er if the drought per
sists into next year, as many
fear.
B ut for the curious, the
receding water is offering an
occasional treasure trove o f
history.
An old steamboat is now
visible on the Missouri River
near St. Charles, Mo., and
o th er old boats nestled on
river bottom s are showing up
elsewhere. A World War II
minesweeper, once m oored
along the Mississippi River as
a museum at St. Louis before
it was torn away by floodwa
ters two decades ago, has be
come visible — rusted but in
tact.
Perhaps m ost interesting,
a rock containing w hat is be
lieved to be an ancient map
has emerged in the Mississippi
River in southeast Missouri.
The rock contains etchings
believed to be up to 1,200
years old. It was n o t in the
river a millennium ago, but
the changing course o f the
waterway now normally puts
it under water - exposed only
in period's o f ex trem e
drought. Experts are wary o f
giving a specific location out
o f fear that looters will take
a c h u n k o f th e ro c k o r
scribble graffiti on it.
“I t appears to be a map
o f p re h isto ric In d ia n v il
lages,” said Steve Dasovich,
an anthropology professor at
Lindenwood University in St.
Charles. “W hat’s really fasci
nating is that it shows village
site s w e d o n ’t y et k n o w
Session five on Friday, the
semi-finals, will have games
at 6 and then at 7:30 p.m.
Finals day is scheduled for
Saturday with two sessions.
The fifth-place game is at 1:30
p.m ., and the fourth-place
game at 3 p.m.
The final session will be
about.”
Old boats are turning up
in several locations, including
sunken steamboats dating to
the 19th century. • .
T hat’s not surprising con
sidering the volume o f steam
b o at traffic th at once tra
versed the Missouri and Mis
sissippi rivers. Dasovich said
it w asn’t uncom m on in the
1800s to have hundreds o f
steamboats pass by St. Louis
each day; given the fact that
St. Louis was once among the
world's busiest inland ports.
The boats, sometimes lined
up two miles deep and four
boats wide in both directions,
carried n ot only people from
town to town but goods and
supplies up and down the riv
ers.
Sinkings w ere com m on
am ong the w ooden vessels,
which often were poorly con
structed.
“T he average lifespan o f
a steamboat on the Missouri
R iver w as five y ears,”
D asovich said. “They were
m ade quickly. I f you could
make one run from St- Louis
to F ort Benton, M ont., and
back, you’ve paid for your
b o at and probably m ade a
profit. A fter that, it’s almost
like they didn’t care what hap
pened.”
W hat often happened, at
least on the Missouri River,
was the boat would strike an
underwater tree that had been
uprooted and become lodged
in the river bottom , tearing a
hole that would sink the ship.
Dasovich estimated that the
rem ain s o f 500 to 700
steamboats sit at the bottom
o f the Missouri River, scat
tered from its mouth in Mon
tana to its convergence with
the Mississippi near St. Louis.
T he n u m b er o f sunken
steamboats on the Mississippi
River is likely about the same,
D aso v ich said. S team b o at
traffic was far heavier on the
Mississippi, but traffic there
was and is less susceptible to
river debris.
Boiler explosions, lightning
strikes and accid en ts also
sunk many a steamboat. O ne
o f th e g ra n d e r o n e s, th e
Montana, turned up this fall
on the Missouri River near
St. C harles. The- elaborate
steamer was as long as a foot
ball field with lavish touches
aimed at pleasing its mostly
wealthy clientele. It w ent to
its watery grave after striking
a tree below the surface in
1884.
T he US. C oast G uard and
A rm y C orps o f Engineers
urge sightseers to stay away
fro m any shipw reck sites.
Sandbars leading to them can
be unstable and dangerous,
and the rusted hulks can pose
d an g ers fo r th o s e siftin g
through them . Plus, taking
anything from them is illegal.
By law, su n k en ships and
their goods belong to the state,
where they went down.
While unusual, it’s n ot un
preced en ted for low w ater
levels to reveal historic arti
facts.
Last year, an officer who
patrols an E ast Texas lake
d isco v ered a piece o f th e
space shuttle Columbia, which
b ro k e ap art and b u rn e d on
The Warm Springs Com
munity Action Team will pro
vide free tax counseling and
preparation for com m unity
members.
There are positions avail
able for volunteers that will
serve as greeters as well as
tax preparers.
Free 1RS training is o f
Bowling:
fered for volunteers. They
will have tax appointm ents
available, starting in February.
People interested in volun
teering for these positions
can do so by either calling
541-553-3148 or by going to
th eir'o ffice at 1136 Paiute
Avenue on the campus.
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Senior Masters: F irst,
seven astronauts aboard. And
th e rem ain s o f a w o o d en Jerry Sampson; second, Joe
steamer built 125 years ago N o riego, M ayw ood; th ird ,
recently were uncovered in a Floyd Evans, Reno; fourth,
Michigan waterway because Virgile Lallashute, Toppenish.
o f low levels in th e G reat
Holiday Roll-Off:
Lakes.
Men’s A Division: First,
But treasure hunters ex
pecting to find Titanic-like Jo e LaClair; seond, A ustin
souvenirs in rivers will likely Carl; th ird , Ray Shike Jr.;
be disappointed if they risk fourth, Kalani Kepaa; fifth,
Quincy Wallahee.
exploring the lost boats.
Men’s B Division: First,
“It’s not like these wrecks
are full o f b o ttles, dishes, Joe Noriego; second, Rodney
things like that,” said Mark Adams; third, Alfred Estim o
Wagner, an archaeologist at Jr.; fourth, B rad D onahue;
Southern Illinois University- and fifth, Shannon Wallahee.
C arbondale. “I f th ere was
anything on there in the first
place, the river current pretty
much stripped things o u t o f
these wrecks.”
Such was the case with the
USS Inaugural, a World War
. (AP) - A form er judge has
II minesweeper that for years
served as a docked museum been appointed to oversee
on the Mississippi River at St. distribution o f $1.5 billion to
Louis. T he G reat F lood o f Native Americans in a gov
1993 rip p ed the Inaugural ernment setdement over mis
from its m o oring near the managed land-trust royalties.
U,S. D istrict Judge T h o
Gateway Arch. It crashed into
the Poplar Street bridge, and mas H ogan named Richard
Levie as special master o f the
then sank.
In September, the rusted distribution now under way
In a u g u ra l b ecam e v isib le in th e n early 17-year-old
again, though now nothing class-action lawsuit filed by
m ore than an empty, orange- Elouise Cobell o f Browning,
rusted hulk lying on its side M ont,
The $3.4 billion settlement
n o t far from a south St. Louis
was
approved by H ogan and
casino.
Men’s C Division: First,
A aron G reene; second, Joe
Tuckta; third,. Rory Thomas;
fourth, Delvis H eath; fifth,
Gary Wood.
Women’s A Division:
First, Stacee Isaac;, second,
Lana Leonard; third, Sharon
Jo n e s ;
fo u rth ,
S andra
Danzuka; and fifth, Stephanie
Luke.
Women’s B Division:
First, Cecilia Noriego; second,
Jolene Switzler; third, Margie
Tuckta; fourth, Deana Wash
in g to n ; an d fifth , B irney
Greene-Boise.
Former judge overseeing
Cobell disbursements
became final last m onth when
the Supreme C ourt declined
to take up appeals.
Levie is a form er District
o f C o lu m b ia judge an d a
m ediator and arbitrator for
JAMS, formerly the Judicial
A rb itratio n and M ediation
Services.
H e will be responsible for
resolving disputes over eligi
bility in the next ro u n d o f
cash distributions, estimated
to be at least $800 per per
son.
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Owners marketing closed Indian school
SANTA FE , N.M. (AP)
A historic but shuttered In
d ian s c h o o l o v e rlo o k in g
n o rth ern Santa Fe is being
marketed as a possible senior
living facility.
T h e c e n tu ry -o ld St.
Catherine Indian School cam
pus has been on the market
at $4 million for about two
w eeks. L istin g ag en t Jack
Dettweiler says he has fielded
serious inquiries.
The property is in foreclo
sure but Dettweiler tells the
Santa Fe New Mexican the
bank’s attorney gave him per
mission toltry to sell the land.
Dettweiler says he’s telling
p o te n tia l buyers to fo rg et
about trying for retail, indus
trial or office uses because o f
neighborhood opposition and
traffic limits. Instead, he’s fo
cusing on developers w ho
¡specialize in senior housing.
Legal Aid Services of Oregon provides free as
sistance to low-income Oregonians in many civil
cases. Phone Legal Aid Services of Oregon to
schedule an appointment to speak with an attor
ney on the first Monday of the month (excluding
Holidays) at the Warm Springs Community Ac
tion Team building, 1136 Paiute Ave., Warm
Springs. Call (541) 385-6944 on Monday, Tues
day, and Thursday mornings between 10 a.m. and
noon, or on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons be
tween 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
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