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r P.O. Box 870 Warm Springs, OR 97761 ECRWSS Postal Patron Coyote News, est. 1976 May 14, 2014 May - Xawit’an Voi. 39, No. 10 Spring - Wawaxam horses crossed the glacier, “We w ere told to keep very quiet— don’t even breath.” A nd they made it safely over. V iola is alm o st 93. She was b o rn in early July o f 1921, at the area th a t is now E lm er Q u inn P ark. In th e old days p eo p le w ould gather there by the river for a F o u rth o f July celebration. They w ould dry tro u t and camp for a few days. I n July o f 1921, “My m other was pregnant,” Viola says. “She stayed there at the camp, and I was born in one o f the tents.” Dave McMechan/Spilyay See V IO L A on page 12 Edna Gonzalez and her mother Viola with Senior of the Year blanket. Tribes host unmanned vehicle fly-overs the Federal Aviation Administra tion to operate UAV testing on the reservation as part o f the Pan Pacific UAS Test Range Com plex (PPUTRC). The PPUTRC is comprised of test ranges in Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii. In O regon, Tillamook and P en d leto n also w ere ap proved. The PPUTRC is based out o f th e U n iv e rsity o f A laska Fairbanks. T he C onfederated Tribes this m onth hosted the first unm anned aerial vehicle fly-overs on the res ervation. Staff from O regon State Univer sity and the company Virtual D ata O perations Support (VDOS) oper ated the UAV flight, coordinated by W arm Springs Ventures. OSU is interested in studying the effects o f wildland fires. During the recent fly-over, the UAV flew above th e a r e a o f t h e r e s e r v a t i o n t h a t burned last summer, making a video recordings The following week they were scheduled to conduct a flight above a controlled bum, said Seth Johnson, o f VDOS. T he plan was to fly over the area before the controlled burn, and then again afterward, Johnson said. T h e in form ation gathered by OSU forestry personnel could help generate strategies for reforestration strategies. The use o f UAV’s for this purpose could be valuable for for esters nationwide, once UAVs are integrated into the national airspace system. Economic development Courtesy of Seth Johnson/VDOS This UAV system flew over an area of the reservation that burned last year. V DO S is a pioneer in the com mercial application o f UAVs. The company is led by Brian Whiteside, w ho is now working with Ventures in developing the reservation UAV program. A fter three-plus years o f work, the tribes received approval from “W hile UAVs o r ‘d ro n e s ’ have historically been used for military applications, the FAAs directive from Congress is to in teg rate UAVs in to the N a tional A irspace System, so that commercial operations can ben efit fro m th e tech n o lo g y as well,” says V entures’ C EO Jeff Anspach. Tribal leadership is hoping the program boosts economic devel opm ent and job creation. : See U A VS on page 12 Group developing process for salvage vehicle removal Public Safety officials m et with Tribal Court, the Land Use Services program and Land Use C om m ittee to discuss the re moval o f salvage vehicles from W arm Springs. Currently, no company is au thorized with a perm it to remove broken down cars and trucks from residences in the comm u nity. There are environmental con cerns with removing these ve hicles, and that is why a perm it is required. A new policy and procedures are being developed by the Land Use Planning committee that will better address accountability for the towing companies that get permits. The group also discussed le gal issues related to car owner ship, and the rights o f an indi vidual to have vehicles removed from their property. The group will m eet again to continue to improve the process. Workers building the scoreboard at the Warm Springs Academy'' (see page 8 for construction update.) L f; -I tl T he Jefferson C ounty School D istrict 509-J has received a $1.64 million grant for W arm Springs EL ementary. T he funding comes from the U.S. D epartm ent o f Education School Im provem ent G rant p ro gram. This federal funding is designed to help im prove student achieve ment. The funds will be distributed over a three-year period* Warm Springs Elementary is one o f three in the state receiving ESI grant funding. T he other two are E ast G resham E lem entary, and Woodlawn Elementary in Portland Public Schools. T h e O re g o n D e p a rtm e n t o f Education identified eligible schools based on a variety o f factors includ ing reading and m ath scores from 2011 through 2013 and school rat ings on O regon’s new accountabil ity system. Prevention conference at Kah-Nee-Ta M eth am p h etam in e is a m ain source o f personal danger and com munity damage. Solutions to the problem were a focus o f a three- day conference this week at Kah- Nee-Ta Resort. Tribal and other health officials were on hand, with experts in the field o f drug abuse prevention. Over 100 people attended the conference. O n Monday at the conference a topic was high intensity drug traffic areas, or HIDTAs. The reservation is the only federally recognized tribe to be designated as an H ID TA . There was a presentation on how local law enforcem ent works with other agencies including the D E A and FBI in identifying and appre hending drug traffickers.. L ater in the afternoon D r Jay W ursher presented inform ation on methamphetamine and the many ill effects o f its use. O n T u esd ay th e d is c u ssio n turned to suicide prevention. The conference concludes Wednesday with a discussion about tobacco and a talk about how the Community can respond to w hat was learned. MHS graduation coming up June 7 Dave McMechan/Spilyay — Sue Matters 50 cents Grant award to W.S. Elementary Some time with tribal elder Viola Kalama In the early days the travel was by horseback. “We went everywhere on the reservation,” Viola Kalama was saying last week. “We rode in the M utton Mountains, to M ount Jefferson, all over.” She remembers in the sum mer they would ride to M ount Jefferso n fo r huckleberries. There was a small glacier they had to cross— a prime huckle berry area was on the other side. But it was dangerous: In the past someone’s horse had slipped on the ice, sending the horse and rider careening down. Viola rem em bers, as their U.S. Postage PRSRTSTD Warm Springs, OR 97761 The Madras High School gradu ation this year will be held at the Jefferson County Middle School. The change in location is required because the high school athletics field, where graduation ceremonies áre usually held, is under renova tion. G raduation is set for Ju n e 7.
