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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.
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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.
But in 1953, Congress en
acted Public Law 280, which
allowed several states to take
over criminal and much civil
authority o f tribal members
on their own reservations.
Yakama tribal authorities
have retained much criminal
authority over its members on
the reservation, but are now
petitioning to have the rest,
including civil authority over
its people, returned.
Stew G raham , ch ief o f
detectives with the sheriff’s
office, said procedures for
arresting arid jailing tribal
m em bers have always been
difficult in past agreements.
“This one seems to be thè
m o st w o rk ab le,” G rah am
said.
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