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January 21, 2015
Around Indian Country
Memorial, Special a t Lincoln's Pow wow
A memorial and stone
setting for Anna Clements
is set for Saturday, Feb. 7,
starting at 9 a.m. at the
Agency Cemetery.
Washut services at 10
a.m . at th e S im n ash o
Longhouse. Meal to fol
low. Family and friends are
invited.
T he A nna C lem ents
W om en’s Team R ound
Dance, 30 and Over Me
morial Special, will be Fri
day through Sunday, Feb.
13-15 at the Sim nasho
Longhouse.
Anna was a founding mem
ber o f the Lincoln’s Birthday
Powwow, this year celebrat
ing its thirty-eighth anniver
sary.
First place team: $3,000
plus Pendleton jacket.
Two consolation prizes:
blankets and prize money. Ï
B uckskin dresses, shell
dresses, and a short fringe,
p referred . C o n tact Shayla
Stwyer for more information,
541-777-7658. :
BI A goin g forward w ith C oquille
tribe’s off-reservation casino
Round B ustle S pe
cial
The Jarvis M. Stwyer
R ound Bustle Special,
with $1,000 first-place
prize plus jacket, is com
in g up at th e 2015
Lincoln’s Birthday Pow
wow at Simnasho. There
will also be two consola
tion prizes.
D a n c e rs m u st be
w earin g arm bustles.
C ontact Jarvis Stwyer
for in fo rm atio n , 541-
777-7616.
The Coquille Tribe is get
ting closer to an off-reserva
tion casino in Oregon.
The tribe submitted a land-
into-trust application to use a
2.4-acre site in M edford for
. a Class II facility.
The Bureau o f Indian Af
fairs has finally announced its
intent to prepare an environ
mental impact statement for
the project.
“Thé tribe has submitted
an application to the BIA re
questing that approximately
2.4 acres o f land be trans
ferred from fee to trust sta
tus, u p o n w hich the tribe
Some material from the w ould .renovate an existing
remains was removed for ge bow ling alley to convert it
netic testing. Those tests are into a gaming facility,” a no
Underway in D enm ark, the tice published in the Federal
Post said.
Register last week stated.
Scientists publish research into ‘Kennewick Man’
Scientists have finally pub
lished their research into the
9,500-year-old rem ains o f
the Kennewick Man.
The Washington Post ob
tained a copy o f Kennewick
Man: The Scientific Investi
gation o f an A ncient A m eri
can Skeleton, which is due out
on September 10.
The paper said the 688-
page book makes the case
that Kennewick Man was not
a “longtime resident” o f the
area in Washington where he
died nearly 10,000 years ago.
Scientists instead suggest
that he may have come to the
area from fu rth e r up th e
N o rth w e st co ast o r from
Alaska.
“K ennew ick Man could
not have been a longtime resi
dent o f the area w here he
was found, but instead lived
m ost o f his adult life some
where along the N orthw est
and N o rth P acific c o ast
where marine mammals were
readily available,” the co n
cluding chapter o f the book
states, the Post reported.
F ive N o rth w e s t trib es
claim Keiinewick Man as an
ancestor. He was discovered
in 1996 on federal land that
w as o n ce a p a rt o f th e
Umatilla Reservation.
Instead o f returning the
remains to the tribes, how
ever, the 9th Circuit Court o f
Appeals in 2004 said the re
mains were too old to be cov
ered by the Native American
Graves Protection and Repa
triation Act. The book is the
result o f 16 days o f studies
th a t w ere conducted after
scientists won the case.
The U.S. Army Corps o f
Engineers retains custody o f
the remains and hasn’t deter
mined what to do with them.
Scientists, however, want to
continue further studies.
As part o f the process, the
BIA will hold a scoping meet
ing in Medford on February
3. The agency will then issue
a draft ElS— and, eventually,
a final ElS——but there is no
timeline for a decision.
Generally, land placed in
trust after 1988 can’t be used
for gaming. T he Coquilles,
however, are seeking an ex
ception in Section 20 o f the
Indian G am ing Regulatory
A ct that applies to tribes that
were restored to federal rec-
A re m in d e r from
th e D ia b e t e s P r e
v e n tio n P r o g r a m :
D o n ’t forget to challenge
yourself to eating 5 fruits
or veggies every day! f.
ogmtron.
The tribe gained recogni
tion th rough the Coquille
Restoration Act in 1989. The
law requires the BIA to place
up to 1,000 acres in trust.
The tribe already operates
the Mill Casino, a Class II
facility. M edford is ab o u t
186 miles away.
Vocational R ehabili
ta tio n
in W a rm
Springs has orienta
tio n s every M onday
at 3 p.m. at th e ir o f
fice in the industrial
park. O rie n ta tio n s
a re a ls o h e ld on
Tuesdays at 3 p.m.
a t th e C o m m u n ity
Counseling Center.
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