Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
March 29, 2017
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Teams getting ready for Language Bowl
T he 2017 Language
Bowl is a little over a
month away, and the
Culture and Heritage
Department and
language students are
gearing up for the
competition.
Numu, Ichishkeen
and Kiksht language
students with the
Warm Springs Acad-
emy Rise & Shine
program will be going ,
with teachers from
Culture and Heritage.
The Language Bowl
this year will be at the
Wildhorse Resort and
Casino in early May.
Dave McMechan photos/Spilyay
Rise & Shine Numu language students Sebastian Bisland, Lilian
Libokmeto, Leland Libokmeto, Gunner Bailey, Ovienda Bisland,
Serenity Bisland and Felix wallulatum, with teacher Charmaine Billey
(top photo right).
Kiksht students Mariah Johnson, Erin Sanchez, Sierra Sanchez,
Arima White (front); and Jeremiah Blackwolf, Skytus Smith, Mark
Johnson III, Glen Brunoe (back).
Danial and Garret Jackson, Rise & Shine Ichishkeen students, with Culture and Heritage teacher
Arlita Rhoan (top).
With Culture and Heritage teacher Jefferson Greene, students Ashland, Jessica, Marie, Kara,
Knekt, Red Sky and Jessiah; and at front Delmer, River, Edwards, Dream, Mathew, Braden,
Daniel and Kaden.
Judge: More water over dams for fish
A judge this week or-
dered federal agencies to
spill more water over Co-
lumbia and Snake river
dams to help threatened
and endangered salmon
and steelhead, though not
until next year after test-
ing.
The order from U.S.
District Judge Michael
Simon came in response
to a motion filed by con-
servation groups together
with the state of Oregon
and the Nez Perce Tribe.
The groups represent the
plaintiffs in a long-standing
lawsuit over dams in the
Columbia River Basin.
Last year, Judge Simon
rejected the federal plan for
managing dams to protect
salmon. Federal agencies are
now in the process of writ-
ing a new plan.
The plaintiffs had asked
the court to order as much
spill as the law allows start-
ing in April. State laws set
limits on how much water
can be spilled over dams be-
fore the gases produced in
the process become harm-
ful to fish.
In his response, Simon
said the federal agencies
need time to test the ef-
fects of additional spill to
avoid unintended conse-
quences.
He delayed the court
order for increasing spill
until the spring of 2018
to allow the agencies to
test out spill options and
develop tailored plans for
individual dams.
School: board meeting April 4 on superintendent
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Deanie Smith of the Edu-
cation Committee has said
the matter may be put to me-
diation, with a state Educa-
tion official, such as Ms.
Campbell or Holcomb, act-
ing as mediator.
Meanwhile at the 509-J
district: The positions of
three members of the cur-
rent board—tribal member
Laurie Danzuka, Tom
Norton
and
Lyle
Rehwinkle—are up for elec-
tion this spring. At least three
candidates from War m
Springs have said they are
interested in running.
The deadline to register in
the May 16 election is April
25. Check with the county
clerk, or online, for options
on options for registering.
Regarding the position of
district superintendent: The
509-J search committee this
month announced its top two
candidates for the job. One
is Ted Zehr and one is Ken
Parshall.
Mr. Zehr served for six
years as principal at Century
High School, and also as ex-
ecutive director of second-
ary schools in the Hillsboro
The Living Well with Chronic
Conditions program is a six-week
workshop that teaches skills for liv-
ing a healthy life for those with a
chronic condition that may involve
pain, fatigue, or depression.
district.
Mr. Parshall has been the
principal at Warm Springs
Elementary for the past two
years. Previously he was
principal at McKay High
School in the Salem-Keizer
district, as well as assistant
superintendent there.
The current 509-J super-
intendent Rick Molitor is
stepping down at the end of
the school year in June. The
school board is scheduled to
meet on April 4 to discuss
the hiring of the new super-
intendent.
The first workshop of a new se-
ries of classes will be held Tues-
day April 4 at 9 a.m. at the Diabe-
tes Prevention Office next to the
Family Resource Center. To regis-
ter call 541-553-5513.
Klamath fishery may completely close
Both sport and commer-
cial salmon fishing near the
Klamath River could be com-
pletely closed this year as a
result of what the Pacific
Fishery Management Coun-
cil is projecting to be the low-
est return of spawning Chi-
nook salmon on record.
“The salmon runs this year
will present a challenge for
ocean fishermen and manag-
ers throughout the West
Coast,” council executive di-
rector Chuck Tracy said.
“In the north, several coho
runs will keep ocean quotas
lower than normal. In the
south, the low forecast for
Klamath River fall Chinook
is unprecedented, and the
most restrictive alternative
the council will consider al-
lows no ocean fishing be-
tween Cape Falcon, Oregon
and the U.S./Mexico border
after April 30 this year.”
The council recommends
fishery management mea-
sures to the federal govern-
ment each year and provides
several alternative options.
For the Klamath Man-
agement Zone, which runs
between the Oregon border
to the Humboldt Bay south
jetty, every alternative the
council is recommending
would close sport and com-
mercial ocean salmon fish-
ing.
Local salmon fisherman
David Bitts who serves as the
California troll salmon advi-
sor to the council said that
this year’s season looks very
much like 1992, which he said
was the leanest year he’s ex-
perienced. Bitts said they ex-
pect about 12,000 Chinook
salmon spawners to return to
the river this year when they
would want to see about
35,000 to 40,000.
“It’s going to be a grim year
and I hope there are enough
fish in the ocean that people
can catch enough to get
through the year,” he said.
U.S. v. Oregon: positive report at Council
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The tribes’ “fair share”
of the catch was deter-
mined to mean that the
tribes’ fish harvest is split
50/50 with non-tribal
fishing.
Since this initial ruling,
the case has stayed open
as a way for the court to
monitor the U.S. v. Oregon
management agreement.
10-year agreement
In 1977 the court ap-
proved a five-year agree-
ment that established an
in-river harvest-sharing
for mula between the
tribal and non-tribal fish.
This plan failed be-
cause it did not include
controls on ocean harvests,
or specific measures to re-
place fish runs destroyed by
development. It was also in
1977 that the four Colum-
bia River Treaty Tribes es-
tablished the Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Commis-
sion.
The parties eventually
came to longer-term agree-
ments that have been accept-
able to all parties.
Then in more recent
years, the Columbia Basin
Fish Accords of 2004 set
aside $1 billion to implement
tribal fishery projects in the
Columbia and tributaries.
And the tribes and states
reached a ten-agreement
U.S. v. Oregon management
agreement.
This is one that is set
to expire at the end of the
year, but which could be
extended another decade,
Mr. Ogan said.
This was welcome
news to the Council mem-
bers. Ogan said the case—
implementing the tribal
treaty fishing rights—is
the one he takes most
pride in working on. “It
doesn’t get any more im-
portant than the treaty,”
he said.
The Fish and Wildlife
Committee of the Con-
federated Tribes has been
a great help in the negoti-
ating process, Ogan said.