Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
October 26, 2016
Looking back on 30 years at Warehouse
A ll
of the tribal depart-
ments know Clint Smith: He
is the manager of the tribal
Warehouse, where the de-
partments get their office
supplies and equipment.
Clint has been with the
Warehouse for 30 years. His
niece Juanita earlier this
month hosted an apprecia-
tion lunch for Clint to mark
the occasion. “I want to
thank her for that,” he says.
Clint signed his hire pa-
pers at the Warehouse on
October 15, 1986. “Not
many people remember the
day they were hired for a job,
but I’ve always remembered
that date,” Clint was saying
the other day.
As a young man Clint
worked at Kah-Nee-Ta for
seven or eight years, as the
game room attendant.
He went to college, and
when he came back to the
reservation he saw the job
Clint Smith, Warehouse manager.
advertisement for a Ware-
house delivery driver.
There were 28 applicants.
The Warehouse manager at
the time, Joe Anstett, inter-
viewed the candidates, and in
the end hired Clint as the
driver. A few years later he
worked his way to the Ware-
house manager position.
The Warehouse has always
been housed in the same
building at the industrial park.
Though Clint has seen many
changes over the years.
He remembers some of
the first computers that ar-
rived for the tribes. They were
the old-style Macs with the
keyboard and screen and
computer all in one piece.
There are all kinds of com-
puter equipment, old printers,
etc., outside of the Ware-
house. Once enough items are
piled up, then a semi-truck
will come and pick them up
for recycling.
Salmon conference focuses on floodplains
The Columbia River does
not recognize international
boarders and neither should
its floodplains.
That message was deliv-
ered to over 300 attendees
at the 2016 Future of Our
Salmon conference, where
speakers challenged the re-
gion to combat climate
change by restoring the criti-
cal connection between
floods, floodplain habitat
and a healthy river system.
The conference carrying
the theme—Healthy Flood-
plains, Living Rivers—drew
elected officials, scientists,
government officials, tribal
leaders from Canada and
the U.S., and a broad range
of professionals to the
three-day event.
Conference presenta-
tions touched on a number
of topics including science,
policy and tribal culture.
They dove deep into un-
derstanding public percep-
tions around floods and
flooding, and habitat resto-
ration projects that are re-
connecting flood-plain habi-
tat with stream function.
And they looked toward
a future that includes a re-
gional approach moderniz-
ing flood risk management,
restoring flood-plain habitat
for fish and wildlife, and ad-
dressing climate change im-
pacts to the Columbia River
Basin through changing flow
patterns.
The conference will be
critical to developing a uni-
fied strategy to address cli-
mate change impacts for the
benefit of the region’s fish,
wildlife, and communities.
“This land is so very pre-
cious,” said Klickitat River
Chief Wilbur Slockish Jr. “It
grows our First Foods. It pro-
vides us with the resources
that sustain us. We are all of
made of this Earth and we
will all go back to this Earth.
That is why the tribes fight
so hard and why we all need
to fight for it.”
U.S.
Senator
Jeff
Merkley reflected on the
evolution of the Columbia
River and its path forward
during his keynote address:
“I think about the Colum-
bia River and how it was be-
fore the dams went in. It was
a very different river. We are
at a different point in time
now and we have a vital
stake in how the Columbia
River is managed from this
point forward.”
Taylor Aalvik, Council
member and director of
Natural Resources for the
Cowlitz Tribe, spoke to the
significance of the renego-
tiation of the Columbia
River Treaty:
“We are on the eve of a
monumental opportunity to
reshape the Columbia River
system for a very long
time,” he said. “That is the
renegotiation of the Colum-
bia River Treaty, so it reflects
all of the functions and all
of the needs of a healthy
river system.”
Pauline Terbasket, execu-
tive director of Okanagan
Nation Alliance, said:
“Don’t ask what the world
needs you to do. Ask what
makes you come alive and
do that because we need you
to come alive. Our river
needs you to come alive.”
David Browneagle, vice
chair of the Spokane Tribe,
added: “The fish, the ani-
mals, and the plants have
always taken care of us. But
it’s our turn now. It’s our turn
to take care of the water;
to take care of the animals;
to take care of the plants
so our great-grandchildren
can have a future. If we
don’t come together to fix
this—if we don’t do some-
thing now—my great-grand-
son may not have a ‘now.’”
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Around Indian Country
Arrests at NO DAPL site
Eighty-three people were arrested over the week-
end at a protest against construction of the Dakota
Access Pipeline, authorities in North Dakota.
The Morton County Sheriff ’s Department said
300 protesters trespassed on private property and
“engaged in escalated unlawful tactics and behavior”
at a spot three miles west of State Highway 1806,
along the pipeline right-of-way.
The suspects were charged with criminal trespass
and engaging in a riot, the sheriff ’s department said.
Construction equipment has been damaged at pre-
vious protests. About 20 protesters, including actress
Shailene Woodley of the movies Snowden and Diver-
gent, were arrested earlier in October in the same
area.
The 1,172-mile pipeline would stretch from the
oil-rich Bakken Formation—a vast underground de-
posit where Montana and North Dakota meet
Canada—southeast into South Dakota, Iowa and Il-
linois.
Protesters say the pipeline will damage the envi-
ronment and affect historically significant Native
American tribal lands, and grave sites.
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, whose reserva-
tion in North Dakota is near the pipeline route, and
other tribes oppose the project.
Standing Rock Chairman Paul Archambault issued
a statement saying, “Police are also routinely strip
searching protesters, even when they have only been
charged with a misdemeanor offense. Like days of
old, this is a thinly veiled attempt to dehumanize and
degrade Native people. Thousands of people have
come to Standing Rock in prayerful protest of the
pipeline and millions more support the Tribe in our
efforts to protect our sacred places and water.”
The conference
Held at the Oregon Con-
vention Center, last week’s
event followed an intensive
technical workshop held in
August that laid the founda-
tion for the conference gath-
ering.
The Columbia River In-
ter-Tribal Fish Commission
created the Future of Our
Salmon conference in 2011
to facilitate dialogue between
co-managers of the resource
and a broad range of other
interested parties in an on-
going quest for a unified vi-
sion of fish restoration in
the Columbia River Basin.
The conference is held
every two years with each
conference focusing on a
different theme that impacts
regional salmon restoration
efforts.
Seven tribes, first nations,
and inter-tribal organizations
from the U.S. and Canada
hosted the conference, spon-
sored by 27 different enti-
ties. To view a full list of
hosts, sponsors, and presen-
tations visit the conference
website at:
critfc.org/future
Cowlitz oppose coal terminal
The Cowlitz Tribe is opposing a proposed coal
export terminal on its aboriginal territory in Wash-
ington. Neither the state nor the federal govern-
ment have adequately consulted the tribe about
the proposed Millennium Bulk Terminals, Chair-
man Bill Iyall said. He said environmental studies
fail to address the impacts of the project.
“The draft EIS consistently understates, mis-
represents and simply does not have relevant sig-
nificant information,” Iyall said.
The tribe isn’t the only one raising objections.
Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs, for instance, have spoken against the pro-
posal; and the city council in Vancouver passed a
resolution in opposition.
Resolution of Tribal Council
Cannabis
Whereas pursuant to
Section 743.200 of Warm
Springs Tribal Code
(“WSTC”) Chapter 743
(Marijuana Cultivation, Pro-
cessing, and Sale), Tribal
Council established a three-
person Warm Springs Can-
nabis Regulatory Commis-
sion (“Cannabis Commis-
sion” to oversee, regulate
and license any entity in-
volved in the cultivation, ex-
traction and marketing of
marijuana and related prod-
ucts on the Warm Springs
Indian Reservation; and,
Whereas pursuant to
WSTC Section 743.205(1),
the Tribal Council appointed
a five-member Cannabis
Commissioner Selection
Committee (“Selection Com-
mittee”), composed of Tribal
Council members, Valerie
Switzler and Carina Miller,
Secretary-Treasurer/CEO,
Glendon Smith, and at large
members, Public Safety Gen-
eral Manager, Stan Suenaga,
and Jefferson County Cir-
cuit Court Judge, Daniel
Ahern ; and,
Whereas the Selection
Committee prepared, pub-
lished and advertised
through a Cannabis Regu-
latory Commissioner Job
Announcement for applica-
tions for the three Cannabis
Commissioner positions;
and,
Whereas the Selection
Committee reviewed four-
teen applications for the
three Cannabis Commis-
sioner positions applying the
“Qualification Consider-
ations” set out in WSTC
Section 743.205(3)a. that
each Commissioner must
have expertise and knowl-
edge in two or more of
eight enumerated fields and
that one Commissioner
must be a Warm Springs
tribal member and one
Commissioner must be a
non-tribal member; and,
Whereas following de-
liberation and discussion,
the Selection Committee has
unanimously nominated the
following three applicants,
all of whom the Commit-
tee determined satisfy the
WSTC
Section
743.205(3)a. “Qualification
Considerations”, for confir-
mation and appointment by
the Tribal Council to the
Cannabis Regulatory Com-
mission:
1. Ronald L. Roome;
non-member position to
serve for a three-year term
(Exhibit “A” to this resolu-
tion for Mr. Roome’s appli-
cation letter/resume),
2. Starla Jade Green;
tribal member position to
serve for a three-year term
(Exhibit “B” to this resolu-
tion for Ms. Greene’s appli-
cation materials),
3. Shana M. Radford;
non-member position to
serve for a three-year term
(Exhibit “C” to this resolu-
tion for Ms. Radford’s ap-
plication letter/resume);
and
Whereas pursuant to
WSTC Section 743.240,
which requires the Tribal
Council to “designate from
among the Cannabis Com-
missioners of the Cannabis
Commission a Chair, Vice-
Chair, and Secretary of the
Cannabis Commission”, the
Tribal Council has deter-
mined that Ronald L.
Roome should be desig-
nated Chair, Shana M.
Radford should be desig-
nated Vice-Chair and Starla
Jade Green should be desig-
nated Secretary of the Can-
nabis Commission; and,
Whereas the Tribal
Council believes that ap-
proval of the nominations
of the Selection Committee
for Cannabis Commission-
ers and designation of Can-
nabis Commission officers
as set out above are in the
best interests of the Confed-
erated Tribes and its mem-
bers; now, therefore
Be it resolved by the
Twenty-Seventh Tribal
Council of the Confeder-
ated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Or-
egon, pursuant to Article V,
Section 1, (l), (s) and (u) of
the Tribal Constitution and
By-Laws, and WSTC Sec-
tion 743.205(1), that the
Tribal Council hereby ap-
points the following individu-
als to the Warm Springs
Tribal Cannabis Regulatory
Commission;
1. Ronald L. Roome
(three year term commenc-
ing August 1, 2016)
2. Starla Jade Green
(three year term commenc-
ing August 1, 2016)
3. Shana M. Radford
(three year term commend-
ing August 1, 2016); and
Be it further resolved
by the Tribal Council pursu-
ant to Article V, Section 1 (l),
(s) and (u) of the Tribal Con-
stitution and By-laws, and
WSTC Section 743.240 that
the following Commission-
ers are hereby designated of-
ficers of the Warm Springs
Cannabis Regulatory Com-
mission;
Chair: Ronald Roome
Vice-Chair: Shana M.
Radford
Secretary: Starla Jade
Green
Be it further resolved by
the Tribal Council has estab-
lished compensation for the
Cannabis Commission at the
rate of $500 Full day meet-
ing; $125 per hour for phone
conferences; $60 per hour
for outside work to not ex-
ceed 6 hours and for travel
from outside of War m
Springs, or travel of more
than 30 minutes to attend to
duties and for reasonable and
necessary expenses (mileage)
incurred at the government
rate in connection with the
performance of their office
(Cannabis Commission) roles
and duties; and
Be it further resolved
this resolution rescinds and
amends resolution no. 12192,
approved on July 12, 2016.
Resolution 12,192A.