Spilyay Tymoo
Coyote News, est. 1976
June 10, 2015
Vol. 40, No. 12
P.O. Box 870
Warm Springs, OR 97761
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Council okays truck stop plan
The Confederated Tribes are
moving forward with the develop-
ment of a truck stop at the tribes’
Madras property.
The truck stop will create be-
tween 40 and 60 new jobs, and will
generate significant new revenue for
the tribes.
At a conservative estimate, the
truck stop will generate an average
of more than $2 million a year.
The new jobs will have tribal
member preference, following the
policy at Indian Head, said Harold
Baugus, casino general manager.
Tribal Council on Tuesday ap-
proved the financing proposal for
the project, as presented by the
Gaming board, casino management
and legal counsel.
The tribes own 10 acres of trust
land at the Madras Industrial Park.
The property has not been used in
recent years.
The Gaming proposal calls for
development of a truck stop with
gas pumps, a restaurant, conve-
nience store, some Class 2 gaming,
among other amenities.
The truck stop and Indian Head
will cross-market their services,
strengthening the brand of both
establishments. Truck stop gas
points, earned at the casino, are an
example.
See TRUCK STOP on 7
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
Banquet for
Graduates
Music,
wrestling at
Indian Head
M adras
High School seniors
graduated on Saturday, in a cer-
emony at the new football sta-
dium. Meanwhile the annual
Warm Springs Graduation Ban-
quet is this Thursday evening,
June 11.
This year the Graduates Ban-
quet is being held at the Warm
Springs Eagle Academy. Dinner
will start around 5 p.m.
This is for high school and
higher education graduates. Con-
tact Carroll Dick at Higher Edu-
cation if you plan to attend.
The Head Start-Early Head
Start graduation ceremony is set
for June 19, starting at 10 a.m.,
at the Warm Springs Community
Center.
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
The Madras High School graduation ceremonies were held on Saturday at the new stadium.
Tribes view Falls Legacy Project design
Tribal leaders in May toured
Willamette Falls with Gov. Kate
Brown. The site tour was organized
by the Willamette Falls Legacy
Project.
Legacy Project organizers are
planning the development of a pub-
lic riverwalk along the edge of the
Willamette, providing public access
to the views of the falls. The falls
are a usual and accustomed fishing
place of the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs.
The May 29 tour kicked off the
Riverwalk Design phase, with the an-
nouncement that Mayer/Reed,
Snøhetta and Dialog will lead the
design efforts of the project.
Willamette Falls is the second
most powerful waterfall in North
America.
For more than a century now the
public has not had a viewing area
of the falls. The Legacy Project is
working to change that.
Oregon City, Clackamas County,
Metro, the State of Oregon and the
site’s private owner, Falls Legacy
LLC, along with a dedicated team
of community advocates, business
people and interested members of
the public, are working to make the
project happen.
The 10-acre tribal property
is located just past the
entrance to the Madras
Industrial Park.
Alyssa Macy photos
Warm Springs Chief
Delvis Heath (above)
views an area by the falls.
The Willamette Falls
Legacy Project envisions
a riverwalk where the
public can view the
spectacular falls. An area
of the falls (left) is used
by Warm Springs tribal
members for eel fishing.
The Indian Head Casino Sum-
mer Concert Series starts this Fri-
day, June 12, with a concert by Hell’s
Bells, the best AC/DC tribute band.
This Saturday, June 13, at Indian
Head will be Micro Championship
Wrestling by Hulk Hogan Produc-
tions, with a pre-show Monster
Supercross Show. Micro Champion-
ship Wrestling is a wrestling event
involving midget wrestling.
Both shows start at 8 p.m. Tick-
ets are available at the casino. Call
541-460-7777. Must be 21 or over.
Indian Head also has some
Father’s Day specials coming up this
month (see page 12).
Willamette
Falls eel
season open
Eel fishing season is open for
tribal members at Willamette Falls.
Tribal Council by resolution last
week opened the season through
July 31. The resolution includes fish-
ing regulations:
Lamprey harvest is limited to the
east side of Willamette Falls, by
hand or with hand powered tools.
Harvest is open on Friday, Sat-
urday, Sunday and Monday of each
week. The Fishing hours are sun-
rise to sunset.
This is a subsistence fishery. The
Branch of Natural Resources will
monitor and enforce the fishery in
regard to tribal members. Tribal
members who harvest eels at the
falls must carry tribal enrollment
cards.
The tribal eel fishing season at
the falls is conducted under the
Treaty of 1855, as the site is a usual
and accustomed fishing area of the
tribes.
(The Tribal Council resolution is
on page 8).