Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
April 12, 2017
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N8V Thunder
Cougar tourney
champions
N8V Thunder won the
championship of the
Twenty-Third Annual
Warm Springs Cougars All
Indian Boy’s High School
Basketball Tournament.
N8V Thunder, from
Yakama, won a close final
game—68-66—against
Chiloquin.
Who’s Next of Warm
Springs took third, and the
Burns All Stars were fourth.
The Most Valuable
Player award went to
Nathan Buck of the N8V
Thunder.
The tournament, help
April 8-9, was hosted by the
Warm Springs Recreation
Department.
The Mr. Hustle award
went to Dakota Ceja of
Burns. Top rebounder was
Jager Hogan of Chiloquin.
High Scorer was
Damean Frank of Who’s
Next. And the Beyond the
Arc award went to Isiah
Holmes of Chiloquin.
The All Tourney team:
Jason Axtell of N8V
Thunder. Shae Yeahquo of
Chiloquin. Byron Patt of
Who’s Next. Kanim Smith
III of the Burns All Stars.
Trevor Smith of N8V.
Tr ue Gibbons of
Chiloquin. Damean Frank
of Who’s Next. Dakota
Ceja of the Burns All Stars.
Antonio Beltaran of the
NAYA Warriors, Portland.
And Kahne Herkshan of
the Medicine Society,
Warm Springs.
Coaches awards went to
Satch Miller of War m
Springs Recreation; Gary
Westley of the NAYA War-
riors; Harry Hisatake,
Medicine Society; Clayton
Buck, N8V Thunder;
Tristan Smith, Who’s Next;
Andrew Beers, Burns; and
Romaine Miller, Chiloquin.
Canoe Family plans journey
The N’chi Wanapum Canoe Family has meetings
every other Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Greeley Heights
community center.
The next meeting is this Wednesday, April 12; fol-
lowed by April 26, May 10 and 24, and June 7 and
21.
The family is planning the next canoe journey,
making gifts and regalia, and jamming. The family
invites all to attend.
For more information contact Ervana Little Eagle
or Colleen Johnson.
Casino hosting Relay for Life golf
Indian Head Casino is
hosting the Relay for Life 4-
person golf scramble tour-
nament in May. Prizes in-
clude a $1,000 Bandon
Dunes golf experience,
Nike gear, golf equipment,
gift cards and more.
The tournament is set for
Saturday, May 20 at the Kah-
Nee-Ta golf course. Entry
fee is $60 for an individual,
Fisheries disaster in Calif.
Jayson Smith photos/Spilyay
N8V Thunder (left) won the
tourney championship.
Diversity
Coalition
plans training
The Let’s Talk Diversity
Coalition announced the
schedule for their next four-
part series of cultural aware-
ness training.
In July part 1 will cover
‘Building Cultural Awareness.’
Part 2, in September, will be
‘Creating a Welcoming Envi-
ronment.’
The third part of the train-
ing will be in November, and
will focus on ‘Experiencing
Poverty and Its Effect on
Health.’
Part 4 in December will
be on ‘Going Deeper: Pov-
erty and Its Effect on
Health.’
The Let’s Talk Diversity
Coalition is an Oregon
Health Authority office of
Equity and Inclusion-Re-
gional Equity Coalition.
To learn more, including
how to register for the train-
ing sessions visit:
letstalkdiversity.net
$240 for a team of four. This
covers the green fees, cart,
breakfast sandwich, lunch
and a goodie bag.
Special events: $20 for
KPs, long putt and long drive,
$10 for mulligans, $10 four-
foot putting string (one per
team).
For information call Janell
Smith at Indian Head Casino,
541-325-1472.
California tribes and fish-
ermen arew calling on Gov.
Jerry Brown to declare a
fisheries disaster because of
the dismal forecast for this
year’s salmon season.
“There are a lot of tears,
and a lot of questions about
how am I going to feed my
family,” said Yurok Tribe
General Counsel Amy
Cordalis “People are in dis-
tress.”
These statements came
exactly a year after top state,
federal and tribal officials
gathered at the mouth of the
Klamath River to sign a re-
newed agreement to remove
four dams from the river.
The agreement seeks to
improve water quality for
fish and downstream com-
munities such as the Yurok,
Karuk and Hoopa Valley
tribes.
Tribes and other organi-
zations see dam removal
and changes to the federal
government’s management
of the river as being key so-
lutions to the underlying
causes of this year’s low
salmon return.
Last month, the Pacific
Fishery Management Coun-
cil—which recommends
fishery management mea-
sures to federal regulators—
forecast the lowest return of
spawning Chinook salmon to
the Klamath River on
record at about 12,000 fish.
The council began meet-
ing last week to finalize its
recommendations, all of
which include a full closure
of commercial and sport
fishing in Klamath Manage-
ment Zone, which runs
from the Oregon-California
border to Humboldt Bay’s
south jetty.
Salmon fisherman fur-
ther south also expect ma-
jor reductions in their har-
vest.
Tribal fishery scientists
such as Michael Belchik of
the Yurok Tribe said the low
return of spawners is the
result of several severe
years of drought conditions
and river management prac-
tices, which caused the wa-
ters to warm and become
hot beds for toxic algae and
deadly parasites.