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— ff _ _ special Special LonecTioi Collections and Archives f & ,ym ° ° - Spilyay Tyn? uisftion DeP^ 4 S » I «99 C oyote News, est. 1976 A p ril 2 9 , 2015 P.O. Box 870 Warm Snrings, OR 97761 LW? " , „ o , o « s ° " Eu9ene OR V oi. 4 0 ? ■ * April - Hawit'an - Spring - Wawaxam ATNI at Kah-Nee-Ta T h e C o n fed erated T rib es o f W arm Springs will ho st the Mid Year Conference o f the Affiliated Tribes o f N orthw est Indians. The c o n fe re n c e is s e t fo r M o n d ay through Thursday, May 18-21, at Kah-Nee-Ta. The A TN I conference is one o f several im p o rta n t item s o n the Tribal Council agenda for May. A t their meeting on Monday, Council set th e agenda fo r th e fcoming month. On Council agenda O ne o f the items is a meeting in Warm Springs with the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. CRITFC will share inform ation on the issue o f coal transportation along the Columbia and Deschutes rivers. T he tribes are concerned about the potential for an énviron- mental disaster from the transport o f coal. “It’s, not a question o f if, but when,” said Councilman Carlos Smith, CRITFC chair. A t least one tribal m em ber has a fishing site that would be impacted by the developm ent o f a new coal transport facility at the Columbia, he said. The federal government required no E nvironm ental Im pact State m ent for this development, w hich is n ot consistent with the approach they took with the Cascade Locks casino proposal. In a related item, the Council in May will look at the possibility o f a tax on railroad cars that pass through the reservation. The Confederated Tribes in May will w ork on the m em orandum o f understanding betw een the tribes and the 509-J school district. The current agreement is set to expire this summer. Some other items on the May agenda: T he effect o f state m arijuana legalization on the tribes and reser vation. A meeting with state officials re garding off-resefvation hunting. D iscussion o f the position o f tribal secretary-treasurer. Weavers of the Confederated Tribes of - Warm Springs are spending some time this spring getting ready for the 2015 conference of the Northwest Native American Basket Weavers Association. The conference this year is marking Its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, and is set for the fall at Kah-Nee-Ta. For the conference promotional material, Natalie Kirk, curator of the Museum at Warm Springs, made these baskets available from the museum collection. The baskets are from the three tribes of the Confederation. Alyssa Macy/Spilyay dents w ho are entitled to the irriga tion water actually receive the wa ter, Spino said. A current problem is that the canal runs dry for some o f the resi d en ts. T h e re are 54 h o m e s at Sidwalter that could use the irriga tion water, Spino said. Spino presented to Tribal Coun cil a draft charter for a Sidwalter Irrigation District, proposing a five- m em ber board. A t th e C ouncil m eeting, tw o people voiced their current opposi tion, or concerns about the irriga tion district draft charter. Susan G uerin said the residents need to have m ore in p u t on the content o f the charter. Some sug gestions have not been incorporated into the draft, she said. “This needs to be fair to everyone,” she said. J.S. Postage PRSRTSTD Warm Springs, OR 97761 50 cents 25th Honor Seniors Day There will be some special en tertainm ent at the W arm Springs H onor Seniors Day this year. “I can’t tell you yet w hat it is, but we will have som ething special,” said Wilson Wewa, Senior Program director. S en io rs D ay is m a rk in g its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary this year. “We’ve never had bad w eather dur ing any H onor Seniors Day— knock on wood,” Wilson said. H onor Seniors Day will be on Fri day, May 8. The day will see guests from all around the region. A group is com ing up from D uck Valley in Nevada, am ong oth ers. “They’ve already booked their rooms at Kah-Nee-Ta,” Wilson said. Tribal enterprises and other do nors have been generous this year, he said, contributing some great gift items. T he salmon dinner this year will also feature buffalo meat. uereK Matthews pnoto. 2015 Miss Warm Springs Suzanne McConville addresses the audience at the Miss Indian World Competition. Sidwalter considers irrigation district The Sidwalter area may create an irrigation district to oversee and im prove the dehvery o f irrigation water to the residents there. T hrough an irrigation district, grant funding would be available for im provem ent to the Sidwalter irri gation headworks and canal, said tribal w ater engineer and W ater C ontrol board m em ber Roy Spino. The irrigation water for Sidwalter com es o u t o f M ill C reek. T h e headworks could use improvements that w ould cost about $100,000, Spino told Tribal Council last week. This would help with fisheries in Mill Creek. The irrigation canal itself could also be im proved, m aking fo r a m ore efficient use o f water. This could leave m ore w ater in Mill Creek; and ensure that all the resi- ECRWSS Postal Patron ,Seña's Glendon Smith said the Sidwalter . said, “but we also w ant to make area already has a livestock district, sure the residents there are in creating a potential conflict o f au agreement,” thority over the irrigation water. C ouncil vice chairw om an Chico H olliday said im prove Evaline Patt said it is im portant m ent to the irrigation system could to make sure that all the resi h av e m an y b e n e fits , fro m dents w ho are entitled to the firefighting efforts during the sum irrigation w ater share the re- mer, tot the 4-H livestock program. . source equally. T he Water C ontrol Board and Councilman Reuben Henry others have been working on the spoke in favor o f irrigation sys Sidwalter irrigation district idea for tem im provem ents that would about 18 m onths. Spino said that if keep th e salm on fro m Mill steps are taken to establish the dis C reek o u t o f th e irrig atio n trict, then grant funding could be ditch. available for improvements in 2017- Sidwalter would be the first Tribal Council would like to see irrigation district on the reser a consensus am ong the Sidwalter vation, and could serve as a residents on the proposal before m o d el fo r o th e r areas th a t making a final decision. m ight consider a similar ap “I see the need to m ove this proach. along,” Councilman Orvie Danzuka 1' — Dai/e McMechan Council okays WSFPI mill plan Tribal Council accepted a plan by the W arm Springs Forest Products Industries enterprise that will keep the mill in operation. The workforce at the mill will go from 104 to about 85, and there will be cost savings such as salary reductions. A key part o f the plan has to do •with timber stumpage payments that are owed to the tribes. The approved plan o f operation calls for a 36- m onth repayment schedule. Councilman Orvie D anzuka and Chief Joe Moses voted against the proposal, feeling that an earher ver- sion— with a 24-m onth repayment schedule— should apply. Nevertheless, all on Council ex pressed support for the mill, and the process that led to the new opera tion plan. “It’s good to see every one w orking together— the BIA, Forestry, W SFPI and the board— and I hope that continues,” C oun cilman D anzuka said. W SFPI interim m anager Jo h n K atchiajr. also said the cooperation among the parties has been produc tive, and is necessary now and in the future. In approving the W SFPI plan, Council Chairman Austin Greene Jr. v o ted to 'b re a k a tie am ong the Council members. C hairm an G reene em phasized that W SFPI needs to be diligent in meeting the monthly payments to the tribes. Otherwise, he said, the BIA will issue a cease and desist order stop ping the operation. The plan is pro posed by W SFPI, not Tribal C oun cil; so it is up to W SFPI to irnake it work, Chairman G reene said. Ab fer
