Spilyay T ym oo, W arm Springs, O regon
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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.
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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—
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Only those who register
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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.
In that case, a small frac
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m ake th ese fu n d am en tal
changes to the Constitution.
Shiraoi Ainu gift bag presented to
Confederated T ribes.
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