Spilyay Tymoo
August 5, 2015
Coyote News, est. 1976
Vol. 40, No. 16
August – Shatm – Summer - Shatm
PO Box 498
Warm Springs, OR 97761
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Head Start celebrating Fifty Year anniversary Fire crews
The Warm Springs Head Start
program began in the summer of
1965, and this month is marking its
Fifty Year Anniversary. Head Start
will host a celebration on Monday,
August 31, all day at the commu-
nity center.
This will be a celebration of the
past and current Head Start employ-
ees, and the children and families
who have been a part of the pro-
gram over the years.
“We want to thank all of the
people who have contributed, and
helped make Head Start what it is
today,” said program director
Kirstin Hisatake.
Most people in the community
have been part of Head Start in one
Courtesy Warm Springs Head Start
Head Start students with teacher at ECE.
way or another, either as an em-
ployee, or as a child or parent who
has relied on the program.
Warm Springs Head Start is
among the longest-serving in the
U.S.: The National Head Start As-
sociation began in the summer of
1965, and like Warm Springs this
month is celebrating its Fifty Year
Anniversary.
Warm Springs Head Start has
been housed at the Early Child-
hood Education Center since
1992. Before, the program was
located at various sites around the
community, for instance at the
community center, and earlier at
the Baptist Church.
Warm Springs Head Start em-
ploys 36 people, with an additional
six youth workers during the sum-
mer. Warm Springs Head Start
now operates on a five-year
grant. (See page 4 for more on the
Head Start anniversary.)
Tribes starting budget process for 2016
Tribal management and Finance
held an introductory meeting this
week regarding the 2016 tribal bud-
get.
Some of the goals as set out dur-
ing the meeting include increasing
member understanding of the ap-
propriation ordinance no. 67; and
providing opportunity for member-
ship input into the 2016 tribal bud-
get.
The meeting on Monday, held at
the Credit Enterprise conference
room, was the first of many on the
upcoming budget.
When they took office in 2013,
the Twenty-Sixth Tribal Council
made balancing the tribal budget
a top priority, and accomplished
the goal for 2014 and 2015. This
was painful but essential, as defi-
cit spending of previous years had
created a critical situation for the
tribes.
The priorities in budgeting, as set
on at the Monday meeting, are
Treaty needs, essential services and
administrative needs, and entitle-
ments. The general fund budget re-
lies on sources of revenue from en-
terprises, timber stumpage, and in-
direct revenues such as contracts
and grants.
Council members will work
with the members in developing
a proposed budget, which will be
posted in public places by Octo-
ber 1.
District and General Council
meetings follow. The final bud-
get is then posted some time 30
days after the posting of the pro-
posed budget.
Old photos show 1930s era reservation
T he Forestry Department at
the Branch of Natural Re-
sources has come across some
interesting old photographs of
the reservation.
The photos are from the
1930s Great Depression era,
when crews were here working
with the Civilian Conservation
Corps, or CCC.
The crews worked on differ-
ent projects around the reserva-
tion and the neighboring national
forest. The work included fire
prevention and water storage
projects, for instance.
Vernon Wolf, acting forest
manager, acquired the photos
from Keala Hagmann, who
found them in the National Ar-
chives in Seattle.
Ms. Hagmann was working on a
research paper, examining an histori-
cal aspect of timber on the reser-
vation and nearby forest land.
She was analyzing timber inven-
tory data from the 1920s, and mean-
while came across the series of pic-
tures of the CCC workers on the
reservation.
See CCC on page 5
Entrance to Agency
Grounds (above), and logs
for HeHe mill (top).
remain on
high alert
The Confederated Tribes have
been fortunate so far this summer,
as the reservation has not yet seen
a large wild fire.
Forest and wild land fires have
been burning in Washington and
California, and in other parts of
Oregon, but not on the reservation.
Warm Springs Fire Manage-
ment, though, remains on high alert,
said William Wilson, assistant Fire
Management officer logistics.
Fire Management has up to ten
fire engines plus a helicopter on
duty. During normal conditions, the
agency has six engines and no heli-
copter. The drought and heat have
created the extreme fire condition,
Wilson said.
Fire regulations preclude the use
of sparking devices—chainsaws, for
instance—in the woods after 1 p.m.
When the device is turned off, the
person must remain on the site for
two hours. A person responsible for
igniting a wild fire can be held liable
for the cost of the response, up to
$10 million.
See FIRE on page 3
Vandalism
to tribal
property
The Warm Springs Telecom is an
enterprise of the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs: The prop-
erty of the Telecom is the property
of the Confederated Tribes.
So destruction of Telecom prop-
erty is really destruction of the prop-
erty of the tribes and the tribal
membership.
The Telecom tower by the Pelton
dam was vandalized on July 21. The
suspect or suspects attempted to
pull the tower down with a chain
that was attached to a vehicle.
The tower serves Telecom cus-
tomers in the Agency area, includ-
ing Power and Water Enterprises.
The damage to the tower was sig-
nificant. Insurance will cover some
of the cost, but the Telecom has to
pay the difference to cover the cost
of reconstruction.
The Telecom supports programs
on the reservation such as the Boys
and Girls Club. “That money could
have been used for some better
purpose,” said Jose Mantanane,
Telecom general manager.
“This saddens and disappoints us
as a company, and it impacts the
tribes as a whole,” Jose said. “But
we’ll keep going, working to give the
tribes the best service possible.”
Seventy-five to 100 customers
were impacted by the damage to the
tower. Jose said he wishes to thank
the customers, including Jim Manion
and staff at Power and Water En-
terprises, for their patience while the
situation was being addressed.
See TELECOM on page 3