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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Billy Chinook Clan
Gathering this weekend
This weekend will see the
Clan Gathering of descen-
dants and relatives of William
‘Billy Chinook’ Parker, wife
Annie Holliquilla and their
families.
The Great Clan Gathering
will be this Saturday and Sun-
day, August 18-19 at the
Warm Springs community
Center. The welcome will be
out at 10 a.m. on both days.
Richard Macy has been or-
ganizing the gathering for the
past several months. He will
have on display at the com-
munity center an extensive
family tree that has been years
in the research and making.
Mr. Macy says, If you are
descended from any of the fol-
lowing elders, you are family:
Frank Polk, Waliba, Billy
Chinook, Annie Holliquilla.
Peter Brunoe, Amy Andrew,
Jerry Brunoe, Sophie Andrew.
Amy Sallow, Cain Brunoe,
Easton Aguilar, Emma Parker.
Matilda Parker Stacona, Eva
Brunoe, Frank Brunoe, Bessie
Brunoe, Joseph Zak. Frank
Pete, Charles Reed, George
Reed, Adeline Brunoe.
Jeanette Brunoe, August
Brunoe, Lorraine Brunoe.
Buford Johnson, Sr., Francis
Greene and Jasper Switzler.
There may be others as well,
Macy says.
The weekend will feature
potluck, and meeting new fam-
ily. You can learn more on
Facebook at Billy Chinook/
Annie Holliquilla
August 15, 2018
Enrollments: planned well in advance
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Tribal Council added the baseline
census year concept for automatic
enrollment purposes in 1975.
Adding the census baseline
meant that all applicants for enroll-
ment would have blood quantum
determined by examining the par-
ent/grandparent whose name ap-
pears on the 1940 census.
For those on the 1940 census list,
all of their Indian blood would be
considered Confederated Tribes
blood for the purposes of enroll-
ment.
Tribal Council later added the
1960 baseline for enrollment pur-
poses in 2008.
For example, consider the child
of a biological tribal member par-
ent born in 1958 who was one-quar-
ter Warm Springs, one-quarter Na-
vajo, one-quarter Choctaw and one-
quarter white, and whose name ap-
pears on the 1960 census.
Using only the 1940 census as
the baseline, the child would only
be one-eighth Confederated Tribes
blood, and would not eligible for
automatic enrollment.
However, using the 1960 cen-
sus as the baseline, the tribal mem-
ber parent has a total of three-
quarters Indian blood, all of which
would be considered Confederated
Tribes blood.
Thus, the child could be auto-
matically enrolled as having one-
quarter or more Confederated
Tribes blood.
The February 2019 referen-
dum asks tribal voters to add the
1980 census to the list of baseline
census years for determining the
Confederated Tribes blood quan-
tum.
The Twenty-Seventh Tribal
Council approved the referendum
well in advance of the February
15, 2019 date to ensure that Vital
Stats has enough time to have vot-
ers update registration information
and to mail out and receive bal-
lots.
Additional information will be
provided in the coming weeks to
assist Tribal members with mak-
ing an informed vote.
Overview of tribal enroll-
ment changes
April 2016: Resolution 12,157
provided policy clarification of
amended Article III, Section 2(a)
of the Constitution as follows:
“In determining the quantum
of blood of the Confederated
Tribes for application for enroll-
ment, all the Indian blood of en-
rollees of the Confederated Tribes
as show on the census roll of the
1940, 1960, or 1980 shall be in-
cluded as the blood of the Con-
federated Tribes.” Simnasho Dis-
trict representatives invoked Ar-
ticle VI of the Constitution and By-
Laws to call for a tribal referen-
dum on the resolution.
September 2008: Resolution
10,934 provided for an expanded
interpretation of Article III, Sec-
tions 1 and 2, specifically, “shall be
interpreted to include the lawful
and valid membership blood quan-
tum from a member or former
member of the Ichiskin (Sahaptin
or Warm Springs), Kiksht (Chi-
nook or Wasco) and/or Numu
(Shoshonean or Pauite): People
wherein a close ancestral affiliation
can be documented and confirmed
by formal Tribal Council action.”
September 2008: Resolution
10,933 provided policy clarification
of amended Article III, Section
2(a) of the Constitution as follows:
“In determining the quantum of
blood of the Confederated Tribes
of an application for enrollment,
all Indian blood of enrollees of the
Confederated Tribes as show on
the census roll of 1940 or 1960
shall be included as blood of the
Confederated Tribes.”
Januar y 1975: Resolution
4,301 provided policy clarification
of amended Article III, Section
2(a) of the Constitution as follows:
See ENROLLMENTS on 10