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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
September 27, 2017
Colville tour tower for ideas on fish passage
On the Upper Columbia River
in north-central Washington, the
federal government built the Grand
Coulee and Chief Joseph dams with-
out any kind of fish passage. This
completely devastated salmon and
steelhead—fish the Colville tribes
relied on from time immemorial.
The Columbia Basin Fish Ac-
cords of 2008 are a partnership
agreement among tribes—Warm
Springs, Colville, Umatilla and
Yakama—and the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, Bureau of Reclama-
tion, and the BPA.
The Accords have provided
nearly $1 billion in funding for fish
restoration projects in the Colum-
bia Basin. The kinds of projects
specified include habitat restoration,
hatchery production and lamprey
projects.
The Chief Joseph Fish Hatch-
ery, at the Chief Joseph Dam, is an
example of an Accords hatchery
project. The Colville built the hatch-
ery from 2010 to 2013, and cel-
ebrated a First Return last year.
In the Accords, fish passage
above dams is also a priority. The
Colville—a band of 12 tribes from
that region of the Columbia—have
Diversity group
offers awareness
training in Nov.
The Let’s Talk Diversity
Coalition is one of six re-
gional Health Equity Coali-
tions in Oregon.
Their mission is to cre-
ate inclusive conversations
and empower communities.
The coalition offers a
four-part Cultural Aware-
ness Training.
The next training is Ex-
periencing Poverty and Its
Effect on Health on Thurs-
day, November 2 from 9
a.m.-3:30 p.m. More than
500 people have partici-
pated so far in training.
To learn more about reg-
istering, you can visit:
letstalkdiversity.net
Courtesy Lisa Dubisar/PGE
PGE fisheries biologist Rebekah Burchell (far left) talks Rodney Cawston, Mike Marchand, Ron Suppah,
Carissa Eichman, Chief Joe Moses, Alfredine Smith and others during the tour of the fish tower.
been studying the idea of fish pas-
sage above the Chief Joseph and
Grand Coulee dams.
Warm Springs Tribal Council-
man Ron Suppah—who was
Chairman during the Accords ne-
gotiations—invited a Colville
team—Colville Natural Resources
director Rodney Cawston, Coun-
cil Chairman Mike Marchand,
and tribal attorney Carissa
Eichman—to tour projects on the
Warm Springs Reservation.
The tour included the fish
hatchery, and especially the selec-
tive water intake tower at the
Round Butte dam. The tribal-
PGE fish tower—and the effort
to get adult fish back above the
dam—have seen success in bring-
ing fish back up above the dam.
Hands
Across the
Deschutes
River Bridge
Chiefs for Recovery and
Madras Best Care invite the
community to come cel-
ebrate Recovery Month—
Hands Across the Deschutes
River Bridge this Saturday,
September 30, starting at 10
a.m.
There will be a meet and
greet with testimony at the
Rainbow Boat Launch.
Prayer services will be held
at the Old Shell Station for
those lost in addiction. A light
meal will be provided.
This will be the Second
Annual Recovery Month—
Hands Across the Deschutes
River Bridge.
For more information con-
tact Aldo Garcia at 541-771-
8596; or Michelle Wells-Elliot
at Best Care, 541-475-4822.
Fire Management will be con-
ducting fall burning in Oct.-
Nov. Call Brad Donahue, 541-
553-8301 with questions.
Grant supports Museum at Warm Springs partnership
T he Museum at Warm Springs
and the High Desert Museum just
received a grant for $110,662.
The funds come from the Insti-
tute of Museum and Library Ser-
vices, through a Museums for
American grant.
The Museum at Warm Springs
can use some of the funds to im-
prove and update parts of the
museum permanent exhibit.
Meanwhile, the High Desert
Museum is planning to improve
its Native American exhibit, By
Hand Through Memor y—Indian
Nations of the Columbia River
Plateau.
The grant will help both muse-
ums with training programs and
workshops, opportunities to learn
the latest in museum presentation.
The partnership arrange-
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
Display at the Museum at Warm Springs.
ment—a Native American mu-
seum and a large region mu-
seum—is unique and exciting,
said Carol Leone, Museum at
Warm Springs executive director.
Museum standards and technol-
ogy change all the time, and the
grant helps in keeping up with
these latest developments, Ms.
Leone said.
In awarding the grant, the In-
stitute of Museum and Library
Services is supporting the project,
Weaving Stories: Creating Stronger In-
stitutional Partnerships to Enhance Cul-
turally Relevant Visitor Experiences.
This grant “empowers the mu-
seum professionals at both institu-
tions to expand their capacity to
develop place-based exhibits, pro-
grams and practices that honor In-
digenous perspectives, both past
and present,” said Dana Whitelaw,
High Desert Museum executive
director.
“This is a tremendous oppor-
tunity to support and further de-
velop our partnership with the
Museum at Warm Springs, to work
together and leverage expertise at
both museums,” Ms. Whitelaw said.
“We are ver y honored to be
awarded this funding, and to part-
ner with the Museum at Warm
Springs.”
Weaving Stories includes multi-day
workshops, and intensive learning
experiences to foster relationships
across organizations and advance
staff expertise.
Weaving stories is based on the
successful National Science Foun-
dation funded Cosmic Serpent and
Native Universe models. These NSF-
funded models explore the com-
monalities between western science
and Native knowledge.
Weaving Stories is a three-year
project, divided into three phases
built around intensive learning ex-
periences. The cultural engagement
phase—this December through
December 2018—will center on a
foundational four-day workshop
advancing understandings of land,
place and culture among stakehold-
ers.
During the exploration phase—
January 2019 to November
2019—core project staff will travel
to museums in Washington, D.C.
and the Northwest to learn about
innovations in exhibit design and
challenges in interpretation of com-
plex stories.
The development phase—De-
cember 2019 to April 2020—will
include a four-day workshop that
will enable staff to work
collaboratively on exhibit concepts
and program design.
CRITFC position
The Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Com-
mission is advertising
for an administrative
assistant. Department:
Fish Management. Full-
time regular, non-ex-
empt (GS 7/8). Salary:
$40,673 - $52,870;
$45,044 – $58,561.
Location: Portland.
Closing date: October
13. Primary responsi-
bilities: Provide admin-
istrative support to the
Fisheries Management
Department and coordi-
nate with other depart-
ments as needed. Fa-
cilitate communication
within the Fish Manage-
ment Department, the
Commission staff, the
Commissioners, tribal
technical staffs, tribal at-
torneys, tribal fishers,
and state and federal
agencies.
Also, provide backup
and support for Fish Sci-
ence and Policy and Liti-
gation Support as neces-
sary. Here is the link to
the job applicant pro-
cess:
critfc.org/blog/jobs/ad-
ministrative-assistant-2/