Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
High school football Friday
The 2017 Madras High School
football season starts this Friday,
September 1.
The team will play at The Dalles
Wahtonka High School, game time
at 7 p.m. The following week on
Friday, September 8, they play at
the Cottage Grove High School.
The home opener is then on Fri-
day, September 15 against Valley
Catholic.
This is week three of practice
under second-year head coach Kurt
Taylor. The White Buffalos this year
are looking to turn around a couple
winless seasons. In some other high
school sports action:
The White Buffalos boys and girls
soccer teams host Ridgeview this
Thursday, August 31. The junior
varsity teams play at 3, and the var-
sity teams play at 5. Also this Thurs-
day, the volleyball team hosts
Redmond, freshman and JV at 4,
varsity at 6 p.m.
Summaries of Tribal Council
August 22, 2017
(Contined from page 5)
5. Enrollments/relinquishments.
· Motion by Joseph adopting
Resolution No. 12,370, enrolling
seven individuals. Seconded by
Brigette. Question; 7/0/2, Chair-
man not voting. Motion carried.
· Motion by Joseph adopting
Resolution No. 12,371, relinquish-
ment of a 13-year-old minor child
to enroll in the Confederated
Tribes and Bands of the Yakama
Nation. Seconded by Valerie.
Question; 6/0/3, Chairman not
voting. Motion carried.
· Motion by Brigette adopting
Resolution No. 12,372, relinquish-
ment of a 10-year-old minor to
enroll in the Confederated Tribes
and Bands of the Yakama Nation.
Seconded by Valerie; Question; 6/
0/3, Chairman not voting. Motion
carried.
· Tribal Attorney, Howard
Arnett and Vital Statistics will re-
view the paperwork of a minor
child to be presented during the
next Enrollment presentation for
a decision.
6. July 2017 Financial update.
7. Other business:
· BIA Superintendent will look
into the sewage dumping from con-
tractors on the Nena Springs fire.
8. TERO Commissioners.
· The Secretary-Treasurer will
meet with the TERO staff to re-
view budgets and plans for re-
mainder of 2017.
· Ventures Board of Directors
will be present on August 28.
9. With no further discussion
the meeting adjourned at 5:08 p.m.
August 23
1. Roll call: Chief Joseph
Moses, Chief Alfred Smith Jr.,
Chairman Eugene Greene Jr., Vice
Chairman Charles Calica, Carina
Miller, Lee Tom, and Valerie
Switzler. Minnie Yahtin, Recorder.
2. 2017 and 2018 budget up-
dates.
3. Housing update.
4. Honor Veterans Powwow.
· Expenditures from the last 2
years will be submitted to the Sec-
retary-Treasurer.
5. Land Buyback Program co-
operative agreement.
· Motion by Charles authoriz-
ing the Chairman to sign the Co-
operative Agreement for the Land
Buyback Program. Seconded by
Valerie; Question; 4/0/2, Chair-
man not voting. Motion carried.
6. Children’s Protective Ser-
vices quarterly update.
· Tribal members and former
CPS staff expressed concerns.
7. Centralized Billing and High
Lookee will be rescheduled to
September’s agenda.
8. With no further discussion
the meeting adjourned at 4:46 p.m.
August 30, 2017
Page 7
Council approves 2017 Ceded Lands hunting
(Continued from page 6)
Bull elk: Rifle, bow or
muzzleloader; Oct. 25 - 29,
2017. Two tag per tribal mem-
ber. No season limit.
Youth antlerless elk: Rifle,
bow or muzzleloader; Aug. 26
- Dec. 31. Two tag per tribal
member. No season limit.
The off-reservation hunt
area is on federally man-
aged lands. Private land
hunting is subject to all
state hunting laws and re-
quirements.
2017 off-reservation
special hunts
The Antelope, Bighorn
Sheep, Bear, and Cougar hunts
will take place on the Warm
Springs off-reservation hunt
area (see map at BNR). Tribal
members must carry their tribal
ID, valid hunting tag(s) and
present to law enforcement of-
ficials when requested while
hunting off the reservation.
Legal weapons: Prong-
horn, bear, and cougar:
Centerfire Rifle (.22 caliber or
larger), muzzleloader (.40 cali-
ber or larger open or peep sights
and open ignition) and archery
(40 lb. or greater recurve, long,
or compound bow). Bighorn
Sheep: Centerfire rifle (.24 cali-
ber or larger), muzzleloader (.50
caliber or larger open or peep
sights and open ignition) and
archery (50 lb. or greater
recurve, long, or compound
bow).
Information for each of the
following categaries is presented
in order: Hunt, sex, weapon
ues, season start, season end,
number of tags and season bag
limit.
Pronghorn antelope: Ei-
ther sex; Rifle, bow or
muzzleloader; Aug. 22 - Oct. 1.
Two tags per tribal member. No
season limit.
One Bighorn sheep ram per
tag. Tag(s) will be awarded to four
tribal members through a public
drawing. Hunters may sign up for
the lottery draw at the Natural
Resources office front desk or call
in to enter drawing. Any prior suc-
cessfully drawn big horn sheep re-
cipients from previous hunts are
not eligible to apply for these hunts.
The successful hunter must
present any har vested sheep
within 72 hours for genetic sam-
pling, pinning, aging and inspection
to the local ODFW office in the
district where the hunt occurred.
Private lands will limit access for
highlighted hunts. Do not apply
unless you have access to a place
to hunt.
Bighorn sheep W. Johnday:
Ram only; Rifle, bow or
muzzleloader; Sept. 1 - Nov. 30,
2017. Tag lottery draw. One ram
sheep available.
Bighorn Lower Deschutes
River: Ram only; Rifle, bow or
muzzleloader; Sept. 1 - Nov.
30, 2017. Two tags lottery draw.
Two ram sheep available.
Bighorn Sheep Aldrich: Ram
only; Rifle, bow or muzzleloader.
Sept. 1 - Nov. 30. Tag lottery draw.
One ram sheep.
Bear: Cubs less than one year
and sows with cubs less than one
year are protected. Kill report re-
quired within 72 hours of harvest
reported to CTWSBNR or local
ODFW office within 10 days of
the kill to be checked and marked.
Fall black bear: Either sex;
Rifle, bow or muzzleloader; Aug.
22 - Dec. 31. One tag. No season
limit.
Spring black bear: Either sex;
Rifle, bow or muzzleloader; Apr.
1 - May 31, 2018. One tag, no sea-
son limit.
Cougar: It is unlawful to take
spotted kittens or female cougars
with spotted kittens. Kill report re-
quired within 72 hours of harvest
reported to CTWSBNR or local
ODFW office within 10 days of
the kill to be checked and marked.
Cougar: Either sex; Rifle,
bow or muzzleloader; Jan. 1 -
Dec. 21, 2017. One tag, no
season limit.
The off-reservation hunt
area is on federally man-
aged lands. Private land
hunting is subject to all
state hunting laws and re-
quirements.
2017-2018 Off-reserva-
tion upland game bird
hunts
The upland game bird hunt
will take place on the Warm
Springs hunt area (map at
BNR). Tribal members must
carry their tribal ID and present
to law enforcement officials
when requested while hunting
off-reservation.
Legal weapons: Shotguns,
archery, pistol fire shot shells,
rim fire 22s (forested grouse
only).
Information as follows: Up-
land bird; season, bag limit; pos-
session limit.
Chukar/Hungarian
(Gray) Partridge: Oct. 7,
2017 - Jan. 31 2018. Eight per
day;
24.
Califor nia/Mountain
Quail: Oct. 7, 2017 - Jan. 31,
2018. Ten per day; 30.
“Blue” and Ruffed
Grouse: Sept. 1, 2017 – Jan.
31, 2018. Three per day; nine.
Turkey, fall: Oct. 7 – Dec
31, 2017; spring: Apr. 15 –
May 31, 2018. One turkey ei-
ther sex; two turkey of either
sex.
Rooster Pheasant: Oct. 7
– Dec. 31. Tw per day; eight.
Migrator y game birds:
refer to ODFW 2017-2018
state synopsis seasons, bag lim-
its and other federal state re-
quired information.
dfw.state.or.us/resources/
hunting/docs/2017-
18_oregon_game_bird_regs.pdf
Around Indian Country
Youth, Tulalip helping improve huckleberry habitat
W hen Inez Bill’s father died 15
years ago, she wanted to gather
huckleberries for his funeral, so she
headed up to Mount Hood.
“It was devastating,” Inez re-
members. “I would probably need
at least 12 gallons for my father’s
memorial. There was not enough.
We didn’t even pick a gallon of
berries.”
Inez is a member of the Tulalip
tribe. Traditionally, the tribal mem-
bers ate huckleberries—at home
and in ceremonies—brewed tea
from the leaves, and used the juice
to dye their clothes.
Huckleberries were abundant
thanks to forest fires, which opened
up wetlands and meadows and
made space for short, shrubby
plants that need the sun—plants
like huckleberry bushes.
But for decades the Forest Ser-
vice has tried to put out fires as
fast as possible. So there isn’t
much huckleberry habitat left.
That’s why the Tulalip Tribe, like
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs, is working with the Forest
Service to recreate open patches
in the forest.
Cathy Whitlock, a professor at
Montana State University, looks at
tree rings and lake sediments to
study the history of fire. She says
fire records don’t track the climate
in the wet forests of western Wash-
ington and Oregon, which means
people were setting forest fires.
“People were using fire for
food-gathering and improving the
berry-collecting,” says Whitlock, the
director of the Institute on Eco-
systems at Montana State. “They
were using it to improve travel, for
Courtesy photo
Tulalip teens are working to clear brush from a huckleberry field not
far from the Skykomish River.
hunting.”
What the Tulalip are doing to-
day is a little different:
It’s a hot, dry August morning,
and a group of teens is gathered
on the slope of a mountain not far
from the Skykomish River. They’re
wearing sunglasses and gardening
gloves and grazing on huckleber-
ries while they await instruction.
The Tulalip Tribe is working with
the Forest Service to maintain a
patch of huckleberries in the Mt.
Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
“We had a forester come
through with a chainsaw and cut a
bunch of the saplings here,” Holly
Zox tells the teenagers. She’s a bota-
nist, ecologist and contractor for the
Tulalip Tribe.
The teenagers’ job is going to be
to pull those dried-out saplings
down the hillside: “What we’re go-
ing to do is go up, form a fireline,
and pass it all down so that we
can pile it up and free those huck-
leberries,” Zox tells the kids.
The land the teens are trying
to clear is federal land; it’s part of
the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie Na-
tional Forest.
Today’s brush-clearing is part
of an agreement between the For-
est Service and the Tulalip Tribe
signed five years ago. The agree-
ment is based on the 1855 Treaty
of Point Elliott, which reserves
the Tulalip’s right to hunt and
gather in unclaimed lands.
“The tribes see their treaty right
as more than just the ability to
gather,” says Libby Nelson, who
helped negotiate the agreement.
The tribe’s members also, she says,
“want to be part of the steward-
ship as they had been for thou-
sands of years.”
The agreement allows the tribe
to keep some clear-cut Forest Ser-
vice land open for huckleberry
habitat. “Logging is kind of do-
ing what prescribed burns and tra-
ditional burning used to do to keep
certain areas open and from hav-
ing the conifers overtake these ear-
lier forest stages and meadows,”
she explains.
Controlled burns are still on the
table for the future—but for now,
the tribe is focusing on clearing the
land with chainsaws—and teenag-
ers. This isn’t just a chance for
the kids to get involved in main-
taining land for huckleberry habi-
tat. It’s also an opportunity for
them to taste the berries—often
for the first time.
“I thought it was just a regular
old blueberry and then I tasted it,”
says 14-year-old Martel Richwine,
a member of the Tulalip Tribe.
“I was like, ‘Wow, this is more
delicious than a blueberry.’ It had
that little pop kind of like those
little boba balls. It just has that little
pop of that nice, sweet juice that
you have.”
Now that the Tulalip can access
this huckleberry grove, tribal elder
Inez Bill says she has all the huck-
leberries she needs. Today, she and
a coworker are brewing huckle-
berry tea.
“Knowing that we have an area
that we can go into and to plan
for future generations to have this
area set aside for our use,” Bill says,
that’s really what the Treaty of
Point Elliott was all about.
Lummi Tribe
declares state of
emergency after
salmon spill
The Lummi Nation declared a
state of emergency on Thursday
after thousands of farmed salmon
spilled into tribal treaty waters in
Washington.
Tribal fishermen are trying to
catch as many of the Atlantic
salmon as possible. The goal is to
protect native fish species from
being eaten or exposed to dis-
eases, Chairman Timothy Ballew
II said.
“The tribe has not received con-
firmation that the Atlantic salmon
spill has been contained, so we have
to assume that the invasive fish
continues to spill into these waters,
putting the spawning grounds for
native salmon species at risk,”
Ballew said.
The fish came from a fish farm
operated by Cooke Aquaculture in
the Deepwater Bay off of Cypress
Island. In a statement last week, the
company said “several thousand
Atlantic salmon” escaped from
holding pens, but a spokesperson
subsequently said that the figure
may be far higher.
The state is also encouraging
people to catch as many of the fish
as possible. As the name implies, the
farmed Atlantic salmon are not
native to the Pacific Ocean.
“The Atlantic salmon bring with
them pollution, virus and parasite
amplification, and all that harms
Pacific salmon and our waters of
Washington,” said Kurt Beardslee,
the director of the Wild Fish Con-
servancy Northwest.