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Spilyay Tyrr Coyote News, est. 1976 September 17, 2014 Vol. J P.O. Box 870 Warm Springs, OR 97761 ECRWSS Postal Patron OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1230 SW PARK AVE- PORTLAND, OR 97200 n o , i y U.S. Postage PRSRTSTD Warm Springs, OR 97761 50 cents Septem ber- Wanaq’i - Summer- Shatm Grand re opening planned at HR department First semester at k-8 Academy T he C onfederated Tribes’ H u man Resources Department recently welcomed Elizabeth Asahi Sato as the new director. She brings her unique leadership experience and enthusiasm to the department. T h e chan g es at H u m a n R e sources are enough to w arrant a grand re-opening, Elizabeth says. “ We’re going to have a new way o f doing business,” she was saying recently. “We want to provide com plete service, and work with the com munity with open arms.” The departm ent should be a re source for everyone, from teenag ers looking for their first jobs to el ders and everyone in between. Leadership, experience Dave McMechan/Spilyay Students who ride the bus arrive at school. Buses pick up kids who live more than a mile from the academy. N io re than 600 students arrived at the Warm Springs K-8 Acad emy for the fall semester. T he first w eek w en t well, said G lenna D eSouza, princi pal. T he lunch schedule had to be adjusted during th e first couple days, and an addition was m ade at the playground. O th e r wise everything w ent smoothly, she said. There are 465 students in grades k-5, and 163 in grades six through eight. There are 27 classroom teach ers, plus physical education teach ers, special education teachers, m e dia, m usic and o th er specialized teachers. The doors o f the school open at 7:50 a.m., and the first bell rings at 8:05. In the m orning the k-5 stu dents have breakfast in their classrooms, while the older stu dents have breakfast in the com m o n s area. P a re n ts sh o u ld check in at the fro nt office if they are visiting. Tribal Council approves off-reservation hunting regs Tribal Council in August adopted regulations for off-reservation hunt ing. Tribal Council has authorized off-reservation hunting on lands ceded pursuant to the June, 1855 Treaty. Tribal members this year need just the tribal tags, plus tribal identifi cation, to hunt on the ceded lands. The tribal hunting area is limited to federally managed lands (prima rily N atio n al F orests and BLM lands); private land hunting is sub ject to all state hunting laws and re quirements. Tags for off-reservation h unt ing are available at N atu ral Re sources. Regulations are for deer, elk, bighorn sheep, antelope, black bear and cougar. There will be four bighorn sheep tags available this year. Bighorn tags are on a lottery system. You can sign up at the N atural Resources office. The drawing for big horn tags w ill be on Friday, Septem ber 20 at noon. Having just the W arm Springs tribal tag for off-reservation hunt ing is a new developm ent this year. In previous years m em bers had both a tribal and a state tag. The Tribal Council found that use o f a state tag was inconsistent with self- regulation o f hun tin g u n d er the 1855 Treaty. Additionally, the off- reservation seasons are longer for than they have Been for decades, providing for much m ore sub sistence hunting for members. The tag limit is two per mem ber, although additional tags can be issued after the first two have been filled and reported to the N atural Resources Branch. I f you have questio n s, you can reach N atural Resources at 541- 553-2001. (Seepage. 11 for resolu tions and regulations.) Elizabeth has years o f experience working in the private sector. She is the founder, president and chief ex ecutive officer o f Rise to Excel lence. Rise to Excellence provides tech nical assistance, training and advice to entrepreneurs, em erging busi nesses, nonprofit organizations and ministries in the Northwest. Elizabeth was born in Yokohama, Japan. She is half Japanese and half Native American. H er father is of the H o-C hunk nation. H e was sta tio n e d in J a p a n w h e n he m e t E liz a b e th ’s m o th e r. Elizabeth w ent to the University o f O regon, earning a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, and a cer tificate in ethnic studies. She at tended the prestigious Waseda Uni versity in Tokyo, Japan. Elizabeth is working on a thesis to earn an Executive Master’s in PubEc Admin istration ffom Portland State Uni versity See HR o n page 7 B end F ilm Festival showing in W S . N ext m onth the W arm Springs community will welcome the people from the Bend Film Festival. They will show two Native-theme movies at the W arm Springs k-8 Academy. O n Friday, O ctober 10 they will show the documentary Return of the River. This is about the rem oval o f the dam on the Elwa River in Wash ington state. T he showing will be at 6 p.m. O n Saturday, O ctober 11 they will show Winter in the Blood, pro- ducedby Sherman Alexie, from the book by the Native American au thor James Welch. The showings will be free to the pubEc. T he trailer for Return of the River is on Facebook and Vimeo.
