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.. “ 1 Spilygy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon starts at 4 p.m. at the Cam pus. T he Back to School Barbecue is sponsored by the H ealth and H um an Services Branch. Lost Dog - $200 Reward Missing from Wolfe Point area. The dog is a shelty, named Rainy. Please call 541-232-1696. 1 r \ Nez Perce protest oil sands transport The national debate over oil development took an un usual turn on an Idaho high way early Tuesday morning. F or nearly three hours, members o f the N ez Perce Tribe blocked the passage o f a g ia n t w ater e v a p o ra to r headed for the oil sands of Alberta, Canada. M ore th a n a h u n d re d tribal members and environ m ental activists drum m ed and chanted as they stretched across the highw ay at the border o f the Nez Perce res ervation in northern Idaho. They were there to stop a 255-foot long, two.-lane-wide shipment they say is illegal. O re g o n -b a se d sh ip p e r O mega Morgan decided to m ove th e so-called “megaload” through a pro Page 9 U.S. gears up for land buyback for tribes School BBQ Sept. 5 T h e W arm S prings Back to School Barbecue is set for Thursday, Sept. 5. T h e b arb e c u e and school supply giveaway August 7, 2013 tected area o f Id ah o oyer objections from the U.S. For est Service. Silas Whitman, chairman o f the Nez Perce Tribe, was am ong m ore than a dozen people arrested. “I don't look at this as a sym bolic issue,” W hitm an said. “Otherwise, we'd just is sue a press statement, put up a few signs and just let it go. No. We've ru n out o f time and initiatives. So that leaves us with disobedience, civil dis obedience.” The “megaload” is sched uled to travel across N ez Perce ancestral land and a Wild and Scenic Corridor in the com ing days. T he N ez Perce Tribe plans to ask for an injunction from a federal judge this week. After bungling the manage ment o f Indian lands for gen erations, the federal govern ment wants to make amends by spending nearly $2 billion to buy 10 million acres o f land for 150 tribes across the nation. T hat’s roughly twice the size o f M assachusetts and would mark the largest expan sion o f the U.S. government’s land trust for tribes, which now covers 46 million acres. To make the plan work, the government wants to find willing sellers to buy back res ervation land it first gave to individual tribal members in 1887, often in tracts o f 80 to 160 acres. “We can improve Indian C ountry if peo p le will go along with this program and sell their interests back to their tribes,” Kevin Washburn, the head o f the Bureau o f In dian Affairs, said in an inter view. It won’t be easy. With the land changing hands over the decades, many parcels now have hundreds or thousands o f owners. Congress signed off on the land buy in 2010 to settle a lawsuit. The government had pledged to keep track o f all royalties generated from the land for such things as graz ing or logging, but that money never Went back to benefit tribal members as promised. Now, with so many own ers involved, tribes complain that it’s nearly impossible to get the permission needed to develop or lease the land. Yet even though the gov ernm ent doesn’t expect to make its first purchase offer until the end o f the year, crit ics already predict the worst. They fear too many tribes will be overlooked in the buying spree and that many private landowners will get bullied into sales. In California, which has m ore federally recognized tribes than any other state, only one tribe stands to be among the top 40 beneficia ries. “There’s no love for Cali fornia Indian Country,” said G abriel Galanda, a Seattle lawyer and a member o f the Round Valley Indian Tribes o f M endocino County, Ca lif. H e called the program “a disaster” in the making. W hen tribal leaders m et with government officials in Seattle, Chief James Allan o f Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Tribe complained that 45 percent o f the money will go to just seven tribes. “W e’re all g o in g to be fighting for scraps,” he said. The plan calls for the U.S. D e p a rtm e n t o f In te rio r, which oversees the Bureau o f In d ian A ffairs, to buy back more than 92,000 par cels from private landown ers. The effort, expected to last until 2022, will begin with pilot projects in Washington state, M ontana a,nd South Dakota. M any p roperty ow ners, with close ties to the land, are expected to be reluctant sell ers. “This is a m odern day re taking o f the land and, given the historical implications of that, they don’t want to re live it,” Les Riding-In, assis tan t dean and director o f graduate studies at the Uni versity o f Texas-Arlington an d a m em b er o f the Comanche Tribe, said in an interview. “It’s rem iniscent o f how the government took the land ba'ck when coloni zation was happening.” , Riding-In said his family has decided not to sell its land in O klahom a because the property represents a link to th e p a st and “ som ething that’s, o f value to us as an identity issue.” • H e predicted that federal authorities will encounter re sistance from many tribal members likely to be suspi cious o f any. offers coming from Washington. “It’s just a huge undertak ing,” Riding-In said. “The tr u s t fa c to r is n o t high enough for m ost people to give up what they have.” ■ All o f this will complicate th e job facing th e BIA ’s Washburn, President Barack O bama’s point man on sell ing the plan. “This program will be suc cessful on the ground only to the extent that tribal lead ers themselves get behind it and evangelize for it,” said Washburn, a member o f the Chickasaw Nation o f Okla homa. “There’s always a trust issue, and the track record hasn’t been very good.” But he defended the tar geting o f the program, say ing, “It seems sensible to us to go where the problem is m o st severe and w h ere p eo p le are su fferin g the greatest from the problem.” Tribal officials say it’s dif ficult for, them to get per mission from multiple own ers when they propose us ing land for economic devel opm ent or anything else. ‘W e are in an oil boom. . . . This is definitely slowing dow n p ro g re ss fo r u s,” Stoney Anketell, a council m an w ith th e F o rt Peck Tribes in Montana, said at the Seattle gathering. He said that if tribes can make more rev en u e o f f th e ir lan d , they’ll need less federal as sistance. “T hat’s the hope,” he said. Ron Allen, chairman o f the Jam estow n S’Klallam Tribe in Washington state, called the buyback program “a great opportunity,” both for individuals who want to sell their land and for tribes that will be allowed to ac quire more property. “It is a real win-win op portunity,” he said. Most o f the $1.9 billion will buy land in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions. The biggest expen diture is expected on the Pine Ridge reservation in South D akota, w here the government estimates it will cost $126 m illion to buy back nearly 1.2 million acres. Washburn said the pro gram will be entirely volun tary. “I f we don’t have a will ing seller,” he said, “we can’t purchase the property.” Diabetes Prevention Program Empowering individuals at high risk for developing Type 2 Diabetes. Focusing on lifestyle changes through education and physical activities. Partnering with the community. Our next Diabetes Prevention class is starting October 2nd. FIRST 20 PEOPLE WHO SIGN A CONSENT FORM FOR CLASS WILL RECEIVE A WATER BOTTLE Classes will be held at noon and will be every Wednesday for 10 weeks. At each class you will be given great information on topics such as healthy eat ing, being active, stress , motivation and much more. A snack is always provided as well as a take home bag with healthy food items. Each participant is assigned a lifestyle coach to be available to them throughout this journey. For more details and to find out if you are eligible please contact Joy Ramirez 541-553-0118 or Stefanie Hurtado 541-553-1079 L «4.
