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Spilyay Tymoo April 30, 2014
Letters to the editor
Honor Seniors
The Twenty-Fourth An-
nual Honor Seniors Day will
commence on May 9 at the
Agency Longhouse. The
Honor Day is heralded as
one of the first Honor Se-
niors days in the Pacific
Northwest.
The idea originated with a
small group of tribal elders
who wanted an event espe-
cially for elders and locals
who attend the day-long
event. The Honor Day is a
whole day of events dedi-
cated to honor seniors.
The Honor Senior Day is
a time to showcase the local
area, such as the Museum at
Warm Springs, Indian Head
Casino, Kah-Nee-Ta Resort
and Spa, and other local area
of interest for the elders who
will be in attendance.
The elders are given the
opportunity to use their name
tags from the Honor Day to
gain free admission to the
Museum at Warm Springs. A
shuttle service is provided to
all points of interest, as a
courtesy during Honor Se-
niors Day.
The Honor Seniors Day
Committee is requesting a fi-
nancial or miscellaneous do-
nation for prizes given
throughout the event.
For additional information
contact the Senior Depart-
ment at 541-553-3313 or
553-3520. Or email:
Wilson.wewa@wstribes.org
Fay.hurtado@wstribes.org
The mailing address is
Warm Springs Seniors De-
partment, PO Box C, Warm
Springs OR 97761.
Lodging is available at
Kah-Nee-Ta Resort and Spa,
1-800-554-4786 or email:
reservation@kahneeta.com
Thank you for your con-
sideration. Sincerely,
Confederated Tribes of
War m Springs Senior
Wellness Center staff.
Youth movement
Dear Youth Movement com-
munity leaders,
Thank you for your valu-
able time and leadership in
the third annual Field Day.
Your support and encour-
agement to keep Native
American youth active has
been instrumental in the mis-
sion of increasing athlete
participation in the 2014
Youth Movement.
It is the hope of program-
partners to gather your
knowledge on the best way
to measure the strengths and
challenges of the Youth
Movement Field Day. This in-
formation will be used to
guide the program in the
years to come.
As a former collegiate ath-
lete, I have experienced the
powerful influence sport plays
in community connection and
wellness. I am excited to vol-
unteer with program-partners
to provide assessment tools
to measure program out-
comes. I am seeking input on
how best to capture some key
concepts in our first year of
assessment. Some questions
for evaluation include:
How do you define suc-
cess for the youth, and their
community, participating in
this event?
What has been most suc-
cessful, as well as most chal-
lenging, for recruitment and
retention of athletes?
How do you think the pro-
gram can better support and
include key partners in mak-
ing the event successful?
Along with these initial
questions, we are also inter-
ested in any other areas you
would like to give feedback
on. My personal deadline to
gather community input is
Friday May 2. If you have
any questions, please feel free
to contact me at 541-868-
6554. Or:
bhinchcl@uoregon.edu
I appreciate your time and
look forward to hearing from
all of you,
Brittany Hinchcliffe
Native co-op
A cooperative business, or
co-op, is a type of business
comprised of members who
both own the business and
make use of the services pro-
vided by the co-op.
Membership in a co-op
provides some sort of finan-
cial benefit to its user-own-
ers.
In a co-op comprised of
individual business people,
like crafts-people, each user-
owner earns more money by
being a member of the co-
op than they would on their
own.
The co-op group here in
Warm Springs is interested in
forming a Native arts and
crafts co-op that would op-
erate a storefront and pro-
vide a space for local people
to sell their work.
The storefront would pro-
vide co-op members several
advantages. The co-op would
provide a public space where
community members could
sell their products year round.
Co-op members could also
have the opportunity to in-
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Publisher Emeritus: Sid Miller
Reporter: Patti Tanewasha
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teract with their customers
and tell the story of their
work with dedicated on-site
studio space.
This co-op is still very early
in the planning stage, so here
is your opportunity to learn
more and have input in the
co-op development process.
Co-ops can be set up in
many different ways depend-
ing on the needs of the co-
op members.
If you would like to know
more and want to be con-
tacted about co-op develop-
ments in the future, please
call 541-553-3148.
Chris Watson, War m
Springs Community Action
Team.
Raffle
My name is Mary Olney,
and I am a candidate for the
2014 Weaselhead Powwow
queen.
I would really appreciate
your help to reach my new-
est goal. I am selling raffle
tickets at $1 each. We are raf-
fling off one $1,000 prize;
two $500 prizes; two $100
prizes; two $50 prizes; and
autographed Seahawks jersey;
a headed vest, a hunting rifle,
an Xbox, a 7" tablet, a PS4
system; a Howard’s certifi-
cate, and many additional
prizes.
The Weaseltaill Celebra-
tion will be May 23-25 at
White Swan, Wash. You do
not need to be present to win.
Thank you for your time and
attention.
Mary Olney
Birth
Aldo Garcia and Dellarae
Suppah of Warm Springs are
pleased to announce the birth
of their son Attica Yellow
Wood Garcia, born on April
7, 2014.
Attica joins brothers Aldo,
Josiah, Damon, Avan, Allen
and Aleron; and sisters
Shareya and Falon.
Grandparents on the
father’s side are Delbert and
Sharlayn Garcia of Warm
Springs.
Grandparents on the
mother’s side are Roman
Suppah of Warm Springs;
and Pat Allen and Raymond
Johnson of Warm Springs.
Wishes...
Happy Birthday to my
handsome sons - Michael Belgard
and Truman Merrifield. Have
a good one!
Happy Birthday to my hus-
band David - Love you always.
Your wife, Dinah.
Public lecture
The Phi Beta Kappa Al-
pha of Oregon Chapter is
hosting the program Ameri-
can Indians in the American
P o p u l a r I m a g i n a t i o n this
month at the University of
Oregon.
This will be a free event.
The featured speaker will be
Phi Beta Kappa 2014 Visit-
ing Scholar, Philip Deloria.
In this lecture he will ex-
amine the curious and pain-
ful dynamics surrounding In-
dian visibility in popular cul-
ture. The program is on
Wednesday, May 14 at the
University of Oregon Emu
ballroom, starting at 7:30 p.m.
Deloria will discuss topics
such as Metamora, Last of the
Mohicans, Hiawatha, Cher,
dreamcatchers, motorcycles,
sports teams, George Catlin,
Buffalo Bill, Avatar, The Lone
Ranger, among others—
paired with Indian invisibility
in most social, economic, and
political discussion.
Deloria combines the ar-
guments of his books Playing
Indian and Indians in Unex-
pected Places to advance the
case for Indian people’s deep
engagements with modernity
over the last 120 years.
Philip Deloria is the
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Col-
legiate Professor at the Uni-
versity of Michigan, with a
joint appointment in the de-
partments of History and
American Culture.
He has served as president
of the American Studies As-
sociation, as a council mem-
ber of the Organization of
American Historians, and as
a trustee of the Smithsonian’s
National Museum of the
American Indian.
He is also the coeditor of
The Blackwell Companion to
American Indian History and
C.G. Jung and the Sioux Tradi-
tions: Dreams, Visions, Nature,
and the Primitive by Vine
Deloria Jr.
The upcoming lecture is
sponsored by the College of
Arts and Sciences, Depart-
ment of English, Department
of History, the University of
Oregon libraries, Many Na-
tions Longhouse, the Native
American Studies Program,
Oregon Humanities Center,
Robert D. Clark Honors Col-
lege, University Housing, Di-
vision of Undergraduate
Studies, and Phi Beta Kappa.
Phi Beta Kappa was
founded in 1776, and is the
nation’s oldest academic
honor society, with half a
million members across the
country.
Buy Back under way
The Department of the Interior has sent purchase
offers totalling more than $100 million to nearly 16,000
landowners with fractionated interests at the Pine Ridge
Reservation.
These offers will provide landowners the opportu-
nity to voluntarily sell their interests, which would be
consolidated and held in trust for the Oglala Sioux Tribe
of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Pine Ridge is among the
most highly-fractionated locations in the United States;
landowners with purchasable interests have been located
in all 50 states.
The Buy-Back Program was created to implement
the land consolidation component of the Cobell Settle-
ment, which provided a $1.9 billion fund to purchase
fractionated interests in trust or restricted land from
willing sellers, at fair market value, within a 10-year pe-
riod. Interested sellers will receive payments directly into
their IIM accounts. Consolidated interests will be trans-
ferred to tribal governments for uses benefiting the tribes
and their members.
Staff are ready to answer owner questions. Land-
owners can contact the Trust Beneficiary Call Center at
888-678-6836 with questions about their purchase of-
fers. Or visit their local Office of the Special Trustee
for American Indians or Bureau of Indian Affairs of-
fice. Or go to:
doi.gov/buybackprogram/landowners
Participation in the Buy-Back Program is voluntary
and selling land does not jeopardize a landowner’s abil-
ity to receive individual settlement payments from the
Cobell Settlement. Cobell Settlement payments are be-
ing handled separately by the Garden City Group, 800-
961-6109.
Tribes, lawmakers highlight importance of river treaty
The United States and
Canada are preparing to ne-
gotiate the Columbia River
Treaty. The current treaty has
been in place since 1964.
The treaty tribes of the
Columbia, including the Con-
federated Tribes of Warm
Springs, are encouraging
President Obama to make the
treaty negotiation a priority
this year. The new treaty will
become binding after 2024.
Regional entities—lead by
the Bonneville Power Admin-
istration and the Corps of
Engineers—made recommen-
dations in December 2013, as
to changes that should be con-
sidered in the treaty.
“The Pacific Northwest
depends on a healthy Colum-
bia River system to provide
environmental sustainability,
national energy independence,
protection of public safety
and infrastructure, and eco-
nomic well-being,” the recom-
mendation document begins.
“The Columbia River
Treaty has provisions that
should be improved to ad-
dress this region’s longterm
ability to meet these objec-
tives. Consequently, the
region’s sovereigns and stake-
holders believe that modern-
ization of the Treaty is in the
best interest of the United
States.”
You can read the full rec-
ommendations at: crt2014-
2024review.gov
Meanwhile last week, 26
lawmakers representing the
states of Oregon, Washing-
ton, Montana and Idaho de-
livered a letter to President
Obama urging him to make
the treaty negotiation a pri-
ority this year.
In the letter, the lawmak-
ers highlighted the impor-
tance of the treaty, and
asked the administration to
take direct action on the is-
sue by mid-year 2014, as
called for in regional recom-
mendations.
“It is essential that the ad-
ministration now advance
this work through discus-
sions with Canada to ensure
that a post-2024 Treaty bet-
ter reflects the interests of
our constituents in the region
and the United States as a
whole,” the letter says.
“As you convene an Inter-
agency Policy Committee on
the recommendation, we
draw your attention to the
recommendation’s clear call
for a decision and action by
the administration on this
matter by mid-year.”
The states’ congressional
members in their letter also
underscored the importance
of the Obama Administra-
tion to be open and trans-
parent in the treaty negotia-
tions with Canada, and for
the administration to con-
sider input from Northwest
lawmakers and regional
stakeholders as the process
moves forward.
“The Columbia River
provides significant eco-
nomic and cultural benefits
to our region and how it is
managed through the treaty
will have major impacts into
the future. Therefore, it is
important that you remain
in regular and close commu-
nication with the Pacific
Northwest congressional
delegation during the Inter-
agency Policy Committee
process and keep us ap-
prised of potential negotia-
tions with Canada.
“In addition, we encour-
age the administration to re-
main open to input from and
engagement with concerned
regional stakeholders, many
of whom have valuable ex-
pertise in managing the Co-
lumbia River and played an
integral role in developing
the recommendation,” the
letter says.
Paul Lumley, executive
director of the Columbia
River Inter-Tribal Fish Com-
mission, spoke in favor of
the approach as advocated
by the lawmakers.
“We are pleased with the
proactive message delivered
by
the
Northwest
Congressional delegation,
expressing the need to priori-
tize diplomatic actions with
Canada on the Columbia
River Treaty, and to align the
National position faithfully to
the regional recommenda-
tion,” Lumley said.
“Our tribes agree that
modernizing the treaty
should be a priority of this
administration, as negative
environmental and economic
consequences occur with
each day of the current
Treaty’s implementation.”
There remains consider-
able domestic work to do in
preparation for negotiations
to modernize the treaty, in-
cluding comprehensive re-
views of flood risk manage-
ment and options for fish
passage restoration, he said.
“Both the Administration
and the Northwest delega-
tion should fully support re-
gional sovereigns and federal
agencies to complete these
tasks.”