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Page 8 June 26, 2013 Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Katchia hosts Awakening screening Training opportunities L aR onn K a tc h ia p re miered his student film Awak ening at the Hollywood The ater, along w ith nine other P ortland A rt Institute stu dents, earlier this month. M ore th a n 500 p eo p le filled the theater to support the A rt Institute seniors, who walked in graduation the next day after a portfolio presen tation o f their body o f work. Katchia’s short film stars F o ste r K alam a, S olom o n Trimble, and Louise Katchia. The film is about a Native American teen who is sent to a Shaman by his grandmother in hopes o f restoring his faith, in his culture. “This film is im portant to me because I feel my culture^ along with many cultures, are drifting away due to technol ogy,” Katchia said. “Elders o f tribes are passing away, and with them goes the knowledge o f our sacred ways.” Louise Katchia plays the angry grandmother. She had a special technique for achiev ing the look that the director was working for. “I put some one else in my m ind and th ought about a time they made me very angry,” Louise said. “I got that look on my face and turned to my grand son, and it worked! I can’t say enough o f how proud I am o f his accomplishments, and to be a part o f one o f them.” LaRonn Katchia, a mem b e r o fv th e C o n fe d e ra te d Tribes, is working on having a film screening in Madras; so stay tuned for future an nouncements. W arm Springs Job Cre ation and Development has several training opportunities available for employees. N ext week they will have a Leadership Skills Training “D ealin g w ith D iffic u lt People for Leaders” on July 10 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Credit Building. Yvonne Iverson photos. Above: LaRonn Katchia and Solomon Trimble sign movie posters prior to the showing. Below: LaRonn and his family gather for a photo on the stage after the big movie premier. “I did not grant the Indians anything. They possessed the right to fish fo r thousands o f years. The treaties o f 1855 simply reserved to the Indians the rights which they already possessed. They traded title to most o f the land in the Northwest in return o f their fishing rights. The tribes negotiated long and hard not to be dispossessed o f those rights. No one can claim the Indians got the best o f the bargain. It is beyond me to understand why anyone would say it is not fa ir to the non-Indians, because it honors the solemn promise o f the United States o f America. ” — Judge Tobert J. Telloni, U. S. Vs. Or egon, 1979 AfouncJ Indian C ountry Yakima County, tribe sign unique arrest agreement Fire season opens on reservation caution Level I. The levels are enforced as follows: Level I — Closed Season: F ire p re c a u tio n re q u ire m ents are in effect. A Fire Watch/SeCurity is required at this and all higher levels unless otherwise waived. L e v e l II — P a rtia l Hootowh The following may operate only betw een the hours o f 8 p.m. and 1 p.m. local time: ' P o w er saws ex cep t at loading sites; cable yarding; blasting; and welding or cut ting o f metal. Level III — Partial Shut down: The following are pro hibited except as indicated: 9 C able y ard in g A & x cep t that gravity operated logging systems employing non-mo- torized carriages may operate between 8 p.m. and | p.m. when all blocks and moving fines are suspended 10 feet about the ground except the fine between the carriage and the chokers. P ow er saws-—ex cep t power saws may be used at loading sites and on tractor/ skidder operations between the hours o f 8 p.m. and 1 p.m. local time. In addition, the following are perm itted to operate be tween the hours o f 8 p.m. and 1 p.m. local time: T ractor, skidder, feller- b o o s t o p p o rtu n itie s fo r salmon harvests for members o f the Colville Confederated T ribes, w ho retain fishing rights in the region b u t have seen th e .supply o f fish dwindle with construction o f the dams, and for sport fish ing. “This will restore a popu lation o f fish so that the tribe can increase harvest, supply ing them with more fish and getting it back into their diet in a meaningful way,” said Pat Phillips, the tribes’ hatchery manager. There are more than 400 dams in the Columbia River Basin, which stretches south from the river's headwaters in Canada across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, blocking passage for Pacific salm on and o th er anadro- mous fish that mature in the buncher, forwader, or shovel logging operations where trac tors, skidders or other equip m ent with a blade capable of constructing firelines are im mediately available to quickly, reach and effectively attack a fire start., M echanized lo ad in g o r hauling o f any p ro d u ct or material. Blasting. Welding or cutting o f metal. Any other spark emitting operation not specifically mentioned. Level IV— General shut down: All operations are pro hibited. Please support our advertisers! Colvilles open $51 million fish hatchery B R ID G E P O R T , W ash. (AP) — A new fish hatchery that will release nearly 3 mil lion salmon to the wild each year was dedicated last weèk in rural north-central Wash ington. T his was the first hatchery designed and built under new scientific recom mendations intended to boost fish survival rates in the Pa cific Northwest. The $51 million hatchery near Chief Joseph D am will help to rebuild naturally oc curring spawning salmon runs in areas where they were dam aged by the construction and operation o f Columbia River hydropower dams and allow fot the réintroduction o f one species — spring chinook — in |s the Okanogan River, where they were extirpated decades ago. In turn, the hatchery will ing- On the Treaty o f 1855 — Yvonne Iverson Fire agencies earlier this m onth declared the opening o f fire season on the reser vation. All regulations gov erning any timber industry or other outside activities will be enforced. As the fire danger risk increases, m ore strict regulations will be im ple mented. As th e fire d an g er in creases, during the declared season, restrictions will fol low the regulations covered by the National Fire Danger R ating System , In d u strial Fire Precaution Levels, and the Warm Springs Mobiliza tion and Dispatch Plan. T he reservation was de clared in Industrial Fire Pre- And, there will be an In termediate Excel 2010 class that will begin on June 9 from 9 a.m. to noon at the COCC Madras Campus. T ra n sp o rta tio n is p r o vided. Call 553-3324 to reg ister for classes or to find out about other upcoming train ocean and return to their na tive rivers and stream s to spawn. F ish ladders have been added to dams to try to im prove survival rates, but they are not available at all dams. O n the Columbia itself, fish passage ends at Chief Joseph D am ju s t so u th o f th e Colville reservation. The hatchery's goal is to release 2.9 million fish annu ally A 2 m illio n su m m er chinook and 900,000 spring chinook. AU will, be marked as hatchery fish and be sub ject to harvest in the Colum bia River and in the Pacific Ocean. In 2009, a scientific review panel released recom mendations after a multi-year review, m andated by C on gress, to im prove hatchery operations th ro u g h o u t the Pacific Northwest. YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - The Yakima C ounty sheriff and the Yakama Nation have signed a agreement concern ing arrests on tribal lands, ending decades o f disputes on the 1.2 million-acre res ervation. The agreement signed by tribal and county officials says deputies m ust contact tribal police before executing warrants on tribal members on tribal land, and be willing to allow a tribal police officer to be present during the ar rest. - - T he m em orandum also requires deputies to book tribal members into Yakama tribal jail until a formal ex tradition is filed to transfer a defendant to county custody. “I fe e l ecstatic a b o u t this,” Tribal Council Chair man Harry Smiskin said Fri day telephone. “It’s going to help defuse a lot o f injustice that has occurred. It’s going to help defuse a lot o f racial tension between non-Indians and Indians on the reserva- tion, and it’s going to save the county a heck o f a lo t o f money.” T h e Y akam a N a tio n signed a treaty in 1855 with the federal governm ent, in w hich the 10,000-m em ber tribe retained authority to govern itself. It has its own police department and jail. 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