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Spilyay T ym oo, W arm Springs, O regon Page 3 February 17, 2016 New manager at Community Health Katie Russell is the new manager o f the tribes’ Com munity Health program. She has been a community nurse at the clinic for a number o f years. Katie started working for the Confederated Tribes in 2004, when she and her hus band moved to the area. Katie grew up in Southern California. She went to Azusa Pacific University, near Los Angeles, where she earned a Bachelor o f Science Degree in Nursing. - After school, Katie’s hus band got a job in C entral Oregon. They moved here, and Katie began working at Visit from Native Ainu o f Japan the clinic. She had been serving as interim Community H ealth p ro g ram m an ag er— w ith E d m u n d Francis and Fay H urtado— for the past few months. Caroline Cruz, Health and H u m an Services director, an nounced last w eek th at Katie was .hired as the per m anent manager o f the de p a rtm e n t. C o m m u n ity Health has about 22 employ ees. These include Maternal Child Health, Nutrition, Com munity Health Nursing, Com munity H ealth Representa tives, and social workers. Courtesy Shiraoi Ainu Museum. Dried salmon outside a building at the Shiaoi Ainu Museum. T h e Ainu are the N a Malheur standoff threatened artifacts T here are thousands o f Paiute cultural artifacts at the M alheur W ildlife Refuge. The area includes tribal burial and other sacred sites. M em bers o f the group that took over the refuge are now in custody, facing federal charges. A rchaeological crimes should be among the charges, said BIA Superinten dent John Halliday. During the militia standoff, Mr. H alliday sp e n t a few weeks at Burns, meeting with the Burns Paiute leaders, and fed eral 1'aw en fo rc e m e n t agencies. “Those were tense times,” Halliday was saying recently. Some o f the artifacts at the refuge date back at least 9,000 years, he said. There was a video, Halliday said, o f some o f the militia members h andling N ative artifacts. And they were using backhoes, digging in areas that should not be disturbed, A BIA presence was an important aspect o f the fed eral response, to ensure that the tribal perspective was fully represented. For in stan ce, th e p ro s e c u tio n should include violations o f thé Archaeological Protection Act, Mr. Halliday said. T he tribal archaeologist should have the opportunity to go through the collection and ensure its safety, he said. A W arm Springs police officer accompanied Halliday to Burns, and the BIA, he said, will reimburse the de partment for the expense. tive people o f the Shiraoi area o f N orthern Japan. They have fought to keep their culture alive through cen tu ries o f Jap an ese governm ent policies o f forced assimilation. Clearly, the Ainu have much in com m on with the Native people o f the N orth America. And last week, a delegation from S hiraoi v isited W arm Springs. They shared gifts, and talked with tribal mem bers about the cultures o f the Ainu, and that o f the Wasco, Warm Springs and Paiute. The Shiraoi delegates are interested in developing a c lo ser re la tio n sh ip w ith Warm Springs, said Tribal Council vice-chairwom an Evaline Patt. An exciting idea would be to develop an exchange stu dent program between the Confederated Tribes Warm Springs and the Shiraoi- Ainu, Councilwoman Patt said. The Shiraoi delegation brought inform ation from the S hiraoi A inu M u seum, explaining some of the history o f the Native people o f that region o f the country. The Ainu lived on the indigenous foods o f the region. Their culture was distinct from the domi nant Japanese culture. The Ainu people today continue to keep the tra ditional food knowledge and traditions a l i v e - identical to the cultural aspects o f the Confeder- atéd T ribes o f W arm Springs. Council to meet on education MOU Tribal Council is sched uled to m eet next week with the Education Com mittee. The discussion is on the education memo randum o f understanding between the tribes and the Jefferson County school dis trict 509-J. T he m eeting is set for Tuesday m orning, Feb. 23. Later that day, Tribal Coun- cil is scheduled to m eet with Vital Statistics and ad- m inistrative services on adoptions. This is for dis cussion purposes only. Photos courtesy Elizabeth Asahi Sato Tribal Council vice chair Evaline Patt meets with Shiraoi Ainu delegates. PIONEER ROCK & MONUMENT Election: registration a BIA voting requirement (Continued from page 1) These meetings would re sult in candidates who would run for election under the Current Constitution. Meanwhile, the BIA will co n d u ct an election on a number o f proposed amend ments to, the tribal Constitu tion. This will happen some time before April 11. O ne o f these proposed amendments would result in Tribal Council members be ing elected from the member ship at large, rather than by district. If this amendment passes, then the election process un der the cu rren t C o n stitu tion— based on the district n o m in a tio n s and candi- Only those who register w ill partici p ate in the Consti tutional vote. There is no minimum requirement regard ing the number o f registered voters. dates— would appear to be nullified. And this would re quire another election in or der to seat the Twenty-Sev enth Tribal Council. One o f the proposed Con stitutional amendments calls for the Tribal Council elec- tions to be conducted by the BIA. So, if this amendment passes, then the BIA would conduct the election o f the Twenty-Seventh Tribal Coun cil. U nder the current C on stitution, the Tribal Council election—‘-conducted by the tribes— will decide eight po sitio n s : T h re e m e m b e rs fro m Agency, th ree from S im nasho, an d tw o fro m Seekseequa. A proposed am endm ent calls for the election o f nine Tribal Council members. A critical aspect of the up co m in g C o n stitu tio n a l am endm ent vote is the re quirement that eligible mem bers— 18 years and over— OSCAR'S EXPERT AUTO REPAIR Complete Service Foreign & Domestic register to vote with the BIA. Only those who register will participate in the Consti tu tional vote. T here is no m inim um requirem ent re garding the number o f regis tered voters. So, registration is para mount. As Tribal Council m an K ah seu ss Jac k so n pointed out at Council last week: It is entirely possible, in theory at least, that a small num ber o f people— say, a couple o f hundred members, for example— register to vote in the BIA election. 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