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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Heath photos at museum Living Traditions
L iving Traditions at the
Museum at Warm Springs
this Friday, March 29 will fea-
ture the photography of Ed-
ward Heath. Join the mu-
seum and guests as Mr. Heath
hosts a discuss regarding a
selection of his photography.
The show will be on dis-
play from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
in the museum lobby. Mr.
Heath was chosen as a ‘Lead
Artist’ for his photography,
including images captured
during the 2018 Treaty Con-
ference at the museum.
For more details about the
museum Education program
contact Tamera Moody at
541-553-3331 ext. 407. Her
email is:
tamera@museumatwarm
springs.org
Edward Heath Photography.
Victory for Yakama Nation in gas tax dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court
ruled in a split decision last
week that a provision in the
1855 Treaty between the
Yakama Nation of Indians
and the U.S. preempts
Washington state’s fuel tax.
The case before the court
involved Cougar Den, a
wholesale fuel importer in-
corporated under Yakama
law. Cougar Den obtains
fuel in Oregon and trans-
ports it using Washington
state’s public highways, sell-
ing the product at gas sta-
tions located within the
Yakama reservation.
Because this transport
of fuel involves public high-
ways, the Washington State
Department of Licensing
argued that $3.6 million in
state taxes, penalties and li-
censing fees were owed.
The Yakamas, though,
claimed that a treaty provi-
sion reserved a “right, in
common with citizens of the
United States, to travel upon
all public highways.”
Writing an opinion joined
by Justices Sonia Sotomayor
and Elena Kagan, Justice
A thank you...
For your support during
my time as Miss War m
Springs, special thanks to:
The Confederated Tribes
of War m Springs Tribal
Council, the Museum at
Warm Springs, the Credit
enterprise, Indian Head Ca-
sino, KWSO, Anita Jackson
Embroidery,
Bridget
McConville, Eugene ‘Austin’
Greene Jr., CR Begay, Ed-
ward Heath, C Bar Ranch
in Powell Butte, Dick and
Bob Cain and Ty Yazzie, Jim
and Becky Soules.
Thank you to Nor and
Sandra Sampson, Alyssa
Macy, Rosie Tom, Linda and
Phillip David, Gilbert
Brown, Orthelia Patt,
Evaline Patt, Lovie Colwash,
James Sam, Char maine
Billey, Nonie Garrison, Cap-
tain Moody, Tamera Moody,
Arlissa White, Natalie Kirk,
Linda Meanus, Danny
Martinez, Kristin Grisewood
and Ashlynn Wolfe. And:
Mary Harris, Mackie and
Jody Begay, Colin Chief,
Toni Minthorn, Terri
Carnes, Aurolyn Stwyer,
Archie Caldera, Linda
Larson, RJ Arynfard, Jonah
Moorse, Ron Gregory,
Stephen Breyer noted that
the treaty’s protection of the
right to travel on public high-
ways includes travel with
goods meant for trade.
A tax on certain goods
would impose a burden on
the protected travel and
would not be consistent with
a fair reading of the treaty.
Furthermore, there is
substantial precedent allow-
ing the treaty to pre-empt
state law in other circum-
stances, such as the purchase
of fishing licenses, where
conflict exists.
Tanya Coutier, Chips and
Whitney Kalama, Bonnie
Burke, Hoss and Berta
Rideshorse,
Lydia
Fallsdown, Logan and Sierra
Queampts.
Delson Suppah Sr.,
Deanie Smith, Val Switzler,
Michele Cary, Sue Matters,
Liz Smith, Brutis Baez,
Mariann and Chuck Smith,
Michael Smith, Darlene
Highfill, Regina Heath,
Sammy BruisedHead, Birda
Kirk, Moira “Scottie”
Henry, Terry and Gladys
Squiemphen,
Marcia
Simtustus, Anthony Allen.
And last but not least to
my mom Joie Simtustus.
Thyreicia Simtustus
In a concurrence joined
by Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, Justice Neil
Gorsuch dismissed Washing-
ton state’s attempt to read
the treaty “only as a prom-
ise to tribal members of the
right to venture out of their
reservation and use the pub-
lic highways like everyone
else.”
Such a reading would
betray the original under-
standing of the right-to-travel
provision and would lead the
Yakama to “be made prison-
ers on their reservation.”
March 27, 2019