Spilyay Tymoo
Coyote News, est. 1976
January 30, 2019 - Vol. 43, No. 3
Wiyak’ik’ila – Winter - Anm
The tribal story as taught in schools
For years the tribal story as
taught in schools has been mis-
represented. The curriculum, de-
veloped from the non-Indian per-
spective, has been incomplete and
incorrect.
This is changing as the nine
tribes of Oregon are developing
Native American curricula that
will be taught in public schools.
Warm Springs Culture and
Heritage, a department of the
new Education Branch, is devel-
oping the curriculum of the Con-
federated Tribes.
Working with tribal elders,
Deanie Smith at Culture and
Heritage is coordinating the Warm
Springs project. The group meets
at the Education building, and has
developed a draft curriculum that
will be refined over the coming
months.
The team also hosts commu-
nity meetings, seeking input. The
most recent, for instance, focused
on the three Native languages of
the Confederated Tribes.
Five specific topics are covered
in the overall curriculum: Tribal
History, Sovereignty, Culture, Lan-
guages, and Tribal Government.
Three levels of study—for el-
ementary school students, middle
and high school—are included.
The final curriculum will be
complete and submitted to the
Oregon Department of Educa-
tion by August. This will then be
incorporated into the lessons of
the public school system, replac-
ing the versions that are incom-
plete or inaccurate in regard to
the Native people.
Culture and Heritage for
years now has been teaching
tribal languages, history and cul-
ture in schools. The new curricu-
lum will broaden this approach,
giving students a better under-
standing of the tribal experience.
See SB 13 on page 2
Construction work on Veterans Memorial
PO Box 489
Warm Springs, OR 97761
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Lincoln’s
turning 42
The Simnasho community will
host the Forty-Second Annual
Lincoln’s Powwow, February 8-10.
Memorial releases and opening of
the longhouse floor is this Saturday,
February 2.
Dance competition categories are
Tiny Tots, Junior Boys and Junior
Girls, Teen Boys and Teen Girls,
Adult Men and Adult Women, and
Golden Age Men and Golden Age
Women.
Specials include the Mother and
Daughter Special; Outgoing Junior
Queen Special; Outgoing Senior
Queen Special; and more specials
to be announced.
The Johnson family will sponsor
host a Men’s Traditional Special,
Honoring Fathers, in memory of
David Johnson. Traditional danc-
ers 18 and up are invited to partici-
pate on Saturday night of the pow-
wow.
The Lincoln’s Powwow Raffle
grand prize is a 32-inch television.
Royalty candidate is Feliciana
Conner, who is selling raffle tickets.
You can purchase tickets from
Feliciana in person or through
Paypal (paypal.me/felicianaconner).
You can also purchase tickets from
Alyssa Macy at the tribal adminis-
tration building.
There will be a stone-setting for
Emery Ross Yallup at 9 a.m. on
Saturday, Febr uar y 2 at the
Simnasho Cemetery, followed by a
Memorial at the Longhouse.
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
W arm Springs Construction this week began preparing the ground
for the Warm Springs Veterans Memorial Park. The memorial will
be at the far end of the north field by the museum.
The Confederated Tribes and the Spirit Mountain Foundation
have provided initial funding for this project. Additional funding
will be needed to complete the project as planned, but resources
are in place to begin the long-planned memorial.
The park will be in honor of all veterans from the
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, representing all military
branches and all major conflicts, from the early tribal Scouts to the
present day.
The memorial will display the official seals of all the branches
of service, along with seven flags. According to the design, there
will be 10 pillars on a raised mound with the names of the
veterans inscribed on the pillars. And there will be walkways of
bricks inscribed with the names of donors.
Tribal Council approved the project last year, as presented by
the Veterans Memorial Park Committee.
Tribal Council
meeting with
state officials
Courtesy Veterans Memorial Park Committee
Architects conceptual drawing of the Veterans Memorial Park.
Council to consider cannabis funding proposal
The Tribal Council agenda for
the end of January includes con-
sideration of a resolution to fund
the hemp project. Council was
scheduled to meet this Wednesday,
January 30, on a funding resolu-
tion.
CP Enterprise, a project of
Warm Springs Ventures, is propos-
ing the hemp, or non-recreational
cannabis operation on the tribes’
Schoenhagen farm property.
The CP Enterprise team would
like to have the funding—made
possible by the carbon sequestra-
tion revenue—soon, in order to
start growing.
The hemp operation would be
overseen by the tribes’ Cannabis
Commission, responsible for en-
suring compliance with all regula-
tions.
Tribal Council late last year
approved the CP Enterprise-Ven-
tures hemp plan. The supplemen-
tal budget process is also complete,
with the final piece in the funding
process being the resolution to
transfer the funding.
Ventures and CP Enterprise last
year changed from the initial rec-
reational cannabis proposal to
hemp, which is less strictly regu-
lated and less crowded.
Hemp produces non-THC,
CBD-based products that have
many applications, especially
through medicinal and health
products. T he 304-acre
Schoenhagaen property is trust
land, located across the river off
Highway 26. The grow opera-
tion, storage and processing fa-
cilities, and an office space
would be located on site.
ATNI winter meeting
Tribal Council members this
week also joined other tribal lead-
ers from around the region for
the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest
Indians Winter Conference.
A focus on the agenda this
winter was the tribal response to
climate change.
Addressing the conference,
the president of the Quinault
Nation told the delegates that
Northwest tribal governments
have the sovereign authority to
regulate and tax big oil as a re-
sponse to climate change.
Quinault president Fawn
Sharp said tribes are taking the
lead on this because other gov-
ernments are not willing to take
the steps necessary.
Dave McMechan
Tribal Council this week is plan-
ning an important government-
to-government meeting in Warm
Springs with state of Oregon offi-
cials.
As part of the meeting, Coun-
cil was expecting to welcome Or-
egon Governor Kate Brown.
The meeting was scheduled
for Thursday of this week, Janu-
ary 31.
Gov. Brown, the thirty-eighth
governor of Oregon, is serving
in her second term, having won
re-election in 2018. She has also
served in the Oregon House and
Senate, and as Secretary of
State.
Other items on the Tribal Coun-
cil agenda this week include draft
resolutions and enrollments, dis-
cussion of the Burlington North-
ern Santa Fe vs. Clark County law-
suit, and the February agenda.
Some items for future consid-
eration, as stated in the January
Council agenda:
A government-to-government
meeting with the Yakama Nation.
The Tribal Fishing Code, and
financials from the end of 2018.