Spilyay Tymoo
Coyote News, est. 1976
March 27, 2019 - Vol. 43, No. 7
May – Xawit’an – Spring - Wawaxam
Twenty-Eighth Tribal Council election
Tribal Council Election Day is
next Thursday, April 4.
Voting will take place from 8
a.m. until 8 p.m. at the Commu-
nity Center.
The Agency District candi-
dates are Mike Clements, Austin
Greene Jr., Leona Ike, Anita Jack-
son, Cassie Katchia, Dan Martinez,
Carina Miller, Jeff Sanders Jr.,
Wilfred Sando, Glendon Smith,
Randy Smith, Lola Sohappy, and
Valerie Switzler, and Marcia Soliz
(write-in).
The Simnasho District candi-
dates are TJ Foltz, Priscilla Frank,
Raymond Moody, Evaline Patt, JP
Patt, Harold Pennington, Levi Van
Pelt, Raymond Tsumpti, Sal
Sahme, Emerson Sqiuemphen,
Jaylynn Suppah, Lincoln Jay
Suppah, Ron Suppah, and Aurolyn
Stwyer.
The Seekseequa District can-
didates are Reuben Henry, Brigette
McConville, Gerald Tufti,Wilson
Wewa, and Martha Winishut .
Since 1938
The Confederated Tribes
adopted the tribal Constitution and
By-Laws in early 1938.
Article IV of the Constitution
establishes the Tribal Council and
its essential aspects. Article IV
reads:
The Council shall consist of
eleven members, to be selected
from the districts...
Representation from the dis-
tricts shall be as follows: Simnasho
District, three elected members
and the recognized chief of the
district, or his successors; Agency
District, three elected members,
one of whom shall represent the
Sidwalter Flat area, together with
the recognized chief of the dis-
trict, or his successors; Seekseequa
District, two elected members and
the recognized chief of the dis-
trict, or his successors.
Members of the Council shall
be elected for terms of three years
except that the chiefs shall serve
for life, and their successors shall
be selected in accordance with
tribal custom.
The first election of the Tribal
Council shall be called by the
present Business Committee as
soon as possible after the adop-
tion and approval of this Con-
stitution (February 14, 1938).
All members of the Commu-
nity of either sex, who are mar-
ried, or who are over 21 years
of age, are entitled to vote in the
district in which they reside.
Elections of membership on
the Council shall be set by the
Tribal Council at least 30 days
in advance of the expiration of
the term of office of the mem-
bers. Duly elected councilmen
shall take office on the first
regular meeting date of the
Council following their elec-
tion.
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Pageant
this evening
The 2019 Miss Warm Springs
Pageant is set for this Wednesday
evening, March 27 at the Agency
Longhouse.
Dinner will be served at 5, as a
Farewell Dinner for 2018 Miss
Warm Springs Thyreicie ‘Reicie’
Simtustus, who will present the
crown to the new Miss Warm
Springs. The community is invited.
The Miss Warm Springs tradi-
tion started in 1955, during the
centennial celebration of the
Treaty of 1855. The first Pag-
eant happend in 1969, and since
then this community event has
been held annually with few ex-
ceptions. To date, 41 women have
served as Miss Warm Springs.
Councilman, war veteran, longtime leader passes
Charles ‘Jody’ Calica ~
Wall-A-Hee- 1947-2019
Charles ‘Jody’ Calica, Vice-
Chairman of the Confeder-
ated Tribes of Warm Springs
Tribal Council, passed away
March 18, 2019 at his home
and surrounded by family.
He will be greatly missed
by many who knew him and
worked with him on natural
resources, economic develop-
ment and tribal policy.
Mr. Calica was a Tribal
Council Representative for
the Simnasho District.
Mr. Calica’s tribal heritage
descends from the Tiah Band
of the Ichischkin or Warm
Springs People, and the
Clackamas band of the Kiksht
or Wasco People.
His father came from the
Philippines as a World War II
Veteran. His Indian name is
Wall-a-hee, which has a proud
history and represents kinship
ties with the people of the
Yakama Nation.
After graduating from Ma-
dras High School, Mr. Calica
enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
Upon completing training he
was assigned to the Guided
Missile Frigate, USS Reeves,
home-ported out of Yokosuka,
Japan.
The ship was assigned to com-
bat duty stations patrolling the
North Vietnam Coast and Aircraft
Carrier Escort in the Gulf of
Tonkin from 1966-1968.
He attended college at the Uni-
versity of Oregon, where he en-
gaged in volunteer service for the
Chemawa Indian School, Oregon
Correctional Institute, and Oregon
State Penitentiary.
He was later recruited into the
Teacher Corps Program, training
at the MacLaren School for Boys.
He transferred and completed
Tribal Council okays two
cannabis project resolutions
Tribal Council adopted two
resolutions last week regarding
the cannabis project. One reso-
lution adopted a cannabis, or
hemp code; and the second ad-
justs the existing tribal code to con-
form to the new code provisions.
The tribal Cannabis Commis-
sion is the regulatory body for
the hemp project. Some provi-
sions of the tribal regulations
follow provisions of the re-
cently approved federal 2109
Farm Bill.
This law, encompassing
many farming matters, also
greatly reduced the regulation
of hemp. The hemp version
of cannabis contains only trace
amounts of THC or psycho-
active chemical.
There are, though, many
uses for hemp, from medicine
to clothing, and even indus-
trial kinds of products.
The tribal grow operation,
initially at least, will focus on
hemp production at the tribes’
Schoenhagen property.
See HEMP on page 10
an undergraduate degree in educa-
tion from Oregon State University
and continued his graduate stud-
ies.
His work with Jefferson County
School District began in 1973, and
he was later recruited by the Con-
federated Tribes of Warm Springs
in 1976 as the Education Director.
Throughout his 37-year career,
he served in a number of middle
to senior executive positions includ-
ing municipal manager, Natural
Resources general manager, and
Chief Operations Officer.
He also served three consecu-
tive three-year term appointments
as the Secretary-Treasurer/Chief
Executive Officer for the Twenty-
Third, Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-
Fifth Tribal Council terms.
Mr. Calica’s only break in direct
tribal service would be during his
employment as Bureau of Indian
Affairs superintendent of the
Northern Idaho Agency, working
with the people and issues of Nez
Perce, Coeur D’ Alene and
Kootenai Reservations from 2002
to 2004.
Other governmental responsi-
bilities have included serving on the
Oregon Parks and Recreation and
Heritage Commissions and Oregon
Juvenile Justice Committee.
Of the numerous other career
experiences included serving on the
board of directors for the Oregon
Historical Society, Inter-Tribal Tim-
ber Council, Oregon Indian
Education Association and the
National Indian Juvenile Justice
Task Force.
Law to void ‘fraud’ document of 1865
The tribes, the courts, and fed-
eral and state agencies recognize
the Treaty of 1855 as the only
treaty between the U.S. and the
Confederated Tribes.
A document called ‘the
Hungtingon treaty of 1865’ is gen-
erally recognized as a fraud. No-
torious aspects of the Huntington
document include no compensation
to the tribes, and hardly any tribal
signatures. The document then
says the tribes give up off-reserva-
tion rights to usual and accustomed
fishing, hunting and gathering
places. And there is a provision
saying members need written
BIA permission to leave the res-
ervation.
This month a federal legislative
delegation from Oregon—Senators
Merkley and Wyden, and Congress-
man Walden—joined the tribes in
advocating the formal abolition of
the Huntington document.
In introducing this legislation,
the Senators and Congressman rec-
ognized the document as “a fraud,”
“sham” and a tremendous wrong.
Gov. Kate Brown last month
also recognized as much, meeting
with the Tribal Council and giving
her support to the effort.
Support from the governor is a
great help: The tribes were work-
ing on a formal repeal of the Hun-
tington document during former
governor Kitzhaber’s time in office.
The tribes had federal legislative
support at that time as well, espe-
cially from then-Senator Mark O.
Hatfield. Kitzhaber was uncoopera-
tive, though, and the project stalled.
Removal of the Huntington
document would recognize existing
law. A 1997 U.S. Forest Service
summarizes the prevailing view of
the 1865 document:
“The Treaty of 1855 remains the
only document describing the rights
of the Warm Springs tribes. As a
matter of policy, the Forest Service
recognizes only the Treaty with the
Tribes of Middle Oregon, 1855.”