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Spílygy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon May 14, 2014 Baptist Church welcomes new pastor Pastor Jim Isaac has been in the Baptist ministry for 30 years. H e has held revival meetings across Indian coun try, on reservations from the eastern U.S. to Puget Sound. H e has pastured on the Navajo Reservation, with the Dakotas in Montana, and the Chippewas in Wisconsin. He served as president o f the Indian Bible College at Flag staff, Ariz. Pastor Jim is the only N a tive A m erican p a s to r in N o rth A m erica w ith tw o earned Doctorate degrees: a Doctorate in Ministry, and a PhD. H e jokes, “I like to say I ’m educated beyond my in telligence.” Pastor Jim and wife Lola m oved to- W arm S prings about a m onth ago. H e now serves as pastor at the Warm Springs Baptist Church. “It’s very nice here. We like it,” he was saying last week. Dave McMechan/Spilyay Pastor Jim Isaac and w ife Lola at the church. “W e’re h ap p y to have him,” said Susie Smith, who is congregation mem ber with her husband Buck. Since form er pastor John left som e m onths ago, the ch u rch had b een in v itin g in te rim p a s to rs , su ch as from Bend, to speak on Sun days. Meanwhile, they put word out that the church was look ing for a perm anent pastor, and the congregation was happy to choose. Pastor Jim from the applicants. A m ong the good points: P astor Jim is familiar with Indian reservations, as he has pastored on many. H e is origi nally from Oklahoma, and is a m em ber o f the Choctaw Nation. His wife is active in the ministry. She organized the Chippewa Gospel Singers, a popular group with its own CD o f Gospel tunes featur ing Amazing Grace. W arm S p rin g s B a p tist Church Sunday school is at 10 a.m,, Sunday worship ser vice at 11. There is Wednes day evening Bible study at 6 p.m . Y ou can reach th e church at 541-553-1267. Tribal Council May agenda items (The following are some o f th e item s on the May Tribal Council agenda) 11 - High Lookee Lodge 1:30 p.m. - Telecom 3 - Ventures Monday, May 19 Wednesday, May 21 9 a.m .-12 p.m . E arly Childhood Education Head S tart/Early H ead Start In- Kind Training with Elizabeth M cD ougall and P a tricia Trow. 1:30 pm E C E /E H S up date with Kirstin Hisatake Enterprise Updates 9 a.m. - Power & Water 10 - Warm Springs Forest Products 11 Composite Products 1:30 p.m. Credit' 3:00 pm W ednesday-Thursday - Tuesday May 20 Enterprise Updates 9 a.m. - Indian Head Ca sino 10 - Kah-Nee-Tah CRITFC meeting. Monday, May 26 Tribal organization closed for M emorial D a y ' After school hours at club The Warm Springs Boys and Girls Club is open 3- 5:30 after school, and on no school days from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. , The club is located in the Vern Jackson home. All school age youth can attend the club. Stop by for an application, the fee is $25 for the school year. Car show at M adras Prim ary school M adras Prim ary School will be having a fundraiser car show on May 31 from 12-4 p.m. at Westside school on Fourth Street in Madras. There will be cars, food, games and an auction. I f anyone would like to have their car in the show, contact the Madras Primary school at 541-475-3520. Summer academy taking applications High school students are in v ite d to apply fo r the Bridge o f the Gods Summer Academy at Lane Comm u nity College and the Univer sity o f Oregon. The acad emy will be held June 15-28. Applications are due May 23. F or m ore in fo rm atio n contact James Fiorendo 541- 463-5238. O r go to: lan ec c.ed u /m cc/b rid g e- gods-summer-academy Tuesday, May 27 9 a.m. - Secretary-Trea surer update with S-T. 10 - June A genda/travel delegations/review minutes with S-T 11 D raft resolutions with S-T 1:30 p.m. Legislative up date call 3 p.m. Enrollm ents with Vital Stats (Note: All draft resolutions must be sent to the S /T by email in word form two weeks prior to being taken into coun cil for presentation. Copy to lynn davis at the mgm t office. Dave McMechan/Spilyay The tribes w ill host th e SB 770 Health Cluster meeting at Kah- N ee-T aonM ay28. The SB 770 m eetings allow b o th a d m in is tra to r s fro m D e p a rtm e n t o f Health and Human Ser vices and tribal repre sentatives to meet quar te rly and w o rk on is sues together to m ain tain a cooperative rela tionship. Howlak Tichum Billy Frank Jr., 1931-2014 B illy F ran k Jr., th e tribal fisherman who led the Northwest “fish wars” that helped restore fishing rights for American Indi ans four decades ago, died last week at age 83. Frank was arrested for salmon fishing aS a boy in 1945— an event that led him on a long campaign for tribal tights. H e and others were re peatedly arrested as they staged “fish ins” demand ing the right to fish in their historical waters, as they were guaranteed in trea ties when they ceded land to w hite settlers in the 19th century. Frank was jailed more than 50 times. The efforts were vin dicated in 1974, w hen U.S. District Judge George Boldt affirmed the tribes’ right to half o f the fish harvest— and the nation’s obligation to honor the old treaties. Over the next 40 years, Frank continued to advo cate fo r trib a l fish in g rights and protection of natural resources, includ ing salmon. Only weeks ago, he and other tribal members met with federal environmen tal regulators to push for more stringent water qual ity standards to reduce the amount o f pollution that accumulates in fish. The stan d ards w ould esp e cially p ro te c t n ativ e p e o p le w h o eat large am ounts o f salmon and other fish from Washing- ton state waters. . “Billy was a staunch ad vocate for tribal so v er eignty and treaty reserved fishing rights, as well as the region’s salm on popula tions,” said Paul Lumley, executive director o f the C o lu m b ia R iver In te r- Tribal Fish Commission. “Hrs impacts knew no boundaries and were often felt frpm the streams o f the Pacific N orthw est to the halls o f Washington, D.C. Billy was a living icon whose legacy will be seen in every fish return, every tribal fishery and every battie for those resources that has yet to be fought.’’ i Merye Hayes, fisheries p olicy liaiso n w ith th e Suquam ish T ribe, knew Frank for 25 years. “H e’s been so inspiring to all the tribes,” Hayes said. “H e believed in the work that he was doing. He will be missed by the tribal people and p eo p le w ho believe in the resources that he so wanted to pro tect.’’ Around Indian Country Yurok Tribe to release condors in N. Calif. Tribal tradition holds th e California condor as sacred, w ith ancient stories saying the giant birds fly closest to the sun and are the best mes sengers to carry prayers. Now, after five years o f research, the Yurok Tribe o f N orthern California has re ceived permission to release captive-bred condors into the Redwood Coast, where the giant bird hasn’t soared for more than a century. The Oregon Zoo condor program is participating in this project. The Confeder ated Tribes o f Warm Springs have been advocates o f the zoo condor program since its in cep tio n ab o u t a decade ago. Atwai Chief Wallulatum was asked to name the first condor that hatched at the zoo. Seven possible sites BIA Roads workers repair the fence on the Hollywood Boulevard bridge over Shitike Creek. J ake. suppah@wstribes.org ldavis@wstribes.org) Additional items for con sideration: School building with BIA. Tax group meeting. Page 7 The Yurok officials signed a m em orandum o f u n d er standing with state and fed eral' agencies and a condor conservation group, allowing for test releases as a final assessm ent o f w hether the region can support the en dangered birds. T hé first releases could come in the next one to three years, tribal biologist Chris West said. Meetings will be-, gin in July to work out pro tocols and select a release site. Seven sites are Under con sideration on Redwood N a tional and State Parks and sidered their spirit is in that, too. They are singing with you, and praying w ith you,” she said. “We can get feathers from the U.S. Fish and Wild life Service, but it’s not the same thing as being able to go out there and collect the feathers we need from con dors flying over o u r own skies.” Reduce recovery risks private land within about 50 miles o f each other, prima rily so u th o f th e K lam ath River. W ith federal funding in short supply, the tribes will work to develop private fund ing to cover the estim ated a n n u al c o st o f a b o u t $400,000, West said. The return o f the condor is p a rt o f Y urok env iro n mental work, along with ef forts to restore salmon num b ers a n d im p ro v e fo re s t health. Condor feathers are part o f traditional regalia used in ceremonial dances, said tribal microbiologist Tiana Williams. With no condors flying over tribal lands, there are no new feathers to replace old plumes worn out from use. “W hen a species like con dor or eagle gives you mate rial for your regalia, it is con For Fish and Wildlife, es tablishing another population o f condors far from the five existing sites in Southern and central California, Arizona, and Mexico's Baja California would reduce the risks asso ciated w ith the giant bird's recovery. C o n d o rs once flew, the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Canada. There are just over 400 California condors in the world now, and only about 230 in the wild, said Jo h n McCamman, condor coordi nator for Fish and Wildlife, in Sacramento. T hat’s up frotn just 22 birds in 1982, he said. C ondors face threats to their recovery, the top dan ger being ingesting lead shot or bullet fragments in an ani m al carcass, M cC am m an said. West would like to see a new fo rm a t fo r releasing birds, starting with a pair of mature adults, and gradually adding younger birds for a total o f six. All the birds would be fit ted with tiny radio transmit ters on their wings and tails, allowing biologists in the field to track them, and some with GPS satellite trackers, which send a position to a biologist's desk computer. T hat makes, monitoring for lead poison ing easier. Using $600,000 in grants from Fish and Wildlife, the tribe has been assessing habi tat, taking b lo o d sam ples from turkey vultures to as sess the threat o f lead poi soning and testing dead sea lions th at w ash up on the beach for DDT. Low lead, DDT levels The lead levels in the vul tures were lower than any w here else in the condor's range, West said. D D T contam ination has also been low er than else where. Like eagles, condors in the 1960s an d 1970s becam e unable to hatch their eggs b ecau se D D T m ade th e shells too thin. To provide the greatest genetic diversity possible, b ird s w o u ld co m e fro m breeding program s in O r egon, Idaho and California, an d all th e release sites, McCamman said. The Fish and Wildlife Ser vice, the National Park Ser vice, the California D epart m en t o f Parks and R ecre ation, and the Ventana Wild life Society all signed the mem orandum .
