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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Fifty Years of Rodeo
T his summer will see the
Fifty Year Anniversary of
the Pi-Ume-Sha All Indian
Rodeo.
The rodeo committee is
planning a special Anniver-
sary celebration, and is offer-
ing an invitation to families
of past and still living cow-
boys and cowgirls of Warm
Springs.
“We would like to recog-
nize those who were affiliated
with the rodeo club and as-
sociation, as a member or
competitor,” said Cheryl
Tom, committee chair-
woman.
Anyone interested in
sponsoring an event, in your
family member’s name, is
welcome.
Please call Cheryl for
more information, 541-460-
0110.
play for 21 and over.
Special events: $20 for
KPs, Long Putt and Long
drive, $5 mulligans each, $10
four-foot putting string. For
information call Janell , 541-
325-1472. Email:
JSmith@indianheadgaming.com
You can make payments
to: Janell Smith c/o Warm
Springs Casino Enterprises;
PO Box 890 Warm Springs,
97761.
Low returns hit
salmon seasons
Linda Larson captured this shot at the 2018 Pi-Ume-Sha Rodeo.
Jayson Smith photos
High School Boyz basketball team of Warm Springs
with Jarryn Black, Jeston Leonard, Rodney Mitchell,
Kahne Herkshan, Donnie Bagley, Dylan Heath,
Byron Patt and Derrek Main.
10 and Under: the
Lil’ Tigers won the cham-
pionship. Runner-up was
3 Tribes; and finalists
were Lil’ Higs and the
Warm Springs Cougars.
All tourney 10-un-
der: Dre Plazola, Lil’ Ti-
gers. Jaurissa Bellanger,
Lil’ Tigerz. Kiellen Allen,
3 Tribes. Brinly Holyan,
3 Tribes. Accalia Charley,
Cougars.
DelGene
Switzler, Cougars. Kylen
Stevens, Quartz Creek.
Kalisa Smith, Quartz
Creek.
Warren
Wallulatum, Lil’ Hogz.
Indian Head Casino to
host Relay golf scramble
Indian Head Casino and
the Plateau Travel Plaza in
May will host the Relay for
Life—Jefferson County
Golf Scramble. The four-
person scramble will be on
Saturday, May 18 at the
Desert Peaks Golf Course
in Madras.
The entry fee is $240 per
team ($60 per individual).
The fee includes green fees,
cart, lunch and gift bag.
There is a $15 bonus slot
26th Cougars tourney
W arm Springs Cougars
Youth Organization in
April hosted the Twenty-
Sixth Cougars High
School boys basketball
tournament, and the 10
and 13 Under Coed tour-
neys. The games made
for a wonderful weekend
showcasing young bas-
ketball talent, said tour-
nament director Austin
Greene. Here are the re-
sults:
April 24, 2019
The Washington state
Department of Fish and
Wildlife has decided anglers
within its jurisdiction will not
be allowed to keep any
chinook, including jacks, or
any sockeye this summer on
the Columbia River.
The department an-
nounced plans last week for
recreational salmon fisheries
for this year after the Pacific
Fishery
Management
Council’s meeting in
Rohnert Park, Calif.
Although there will be no
summer season, fall salmon
fishing is still expected to be
allowed from the Bonneville
Dam upstream to the blue
bridge at Pasco, from August
1 through the end of the
year.
The steelhead fisheries in
the Columbia and Snake riv-
ers will be similar to those
in 2017, when a similarly
low run was projected, ac-
cording to the report.
The season for steelhead
will be closed on the Co-
lumbia River from The
Dalles Dam to McNary
Dam in September. The
John Day Dam to the blue
bridge will be closed in Oc-
tober and November. The
Columbia River from the
blue bridge upstream to
Hanford will be managed
in-season, but start with a
limit of two hatchery steel-
head.
The Snake River also will
be managed in-season with
a one hatchery fish limit up-
stream to Couse Creek boat
ramp and only steelhead less
than 28 inches in size re-
tained.
Alisha Yallup, Lil’ Hogz.
13-and Under: #Hack-
ers won the championship..
Runner-up: White Swan. Fi-
nalists were Tigarz and the
Squatch Hunters. Most
Valuable Players: Skytus
Smith, #Hackers; adn Talise
Wapslali, #Hackers.
All Tour ney 13 and
Under: Trinity Wheeler,
White Swan. Stohi Lewis,
White Swan. Amare Jones,
#Hackers. Falon Garcia,
#Hackers. Seneca Ball,
Tigerz. Sasha Esquiro,
Tigerz. James Napyer,
Squatch Hungers. Doralynn
Charley, Squatch Hunters.
Jevarre Meither, Cougars.
Katelynn Tanewasha, Cou-
gars. Simone Fiander, White
Swan. Appollo Blueback,
White Swan.
High School Boys:
Eschcala Boys won the
chamionship. The Boyz
were the runner-up. Finalists
were Medicine Society, and
NAIMU. Most Valuable
Player: Thatcher Mullen,
Tribes demand seat at
river treaty negotiation
Eschcala Boys. Mr. Hustle:
Amial Rhoan, Medicine So-
ciety. Beyond the Arc:
Dapri Miller, six in one
game.
All Tourney: Kevin
Sanchez, Eschcala Boys.
Thayden Mullen, Eschcala
Boys. Byron Scott, The
Boyz. Donnie Bagley, The
Boyz.
Abel Nunez,
Eschcala Boys. Kahne
Herkshan, The Boyz. Dapri
Miller, Medicine Society.
James Williams, Medicine
Society. Aaron Culps,
NAIMU. Isiah Cochran,
NAIMU.
Thank you to the
coaches.
10 Under: Quartz
Creek, Wubs Stevens. Lil’
Tigerz, Rosa Graybael.
Warm Springs Cougars,
Preston Toms. Lil’ Hogz,
Young Boise. 3 Tribes,
Mysti M.
13 Under: Tigerz,
Brent Graybael. #Hack-
ers, Cece LeClaire. Cou-
gars, Moose Tanewasha.
White Swan, Jode
Goudy. Squatch Hun-
gers, Tonya Tewee.
High School: The
Boys, Byron Scott.
Naimu, Larry Scott.
Medicine Society, Harry
Hisatake. Eschcala,
Aldo Garcia.
Thank you to the
sponsors: Warm Springs
Power and Water Enter-
p r i s e s, Wa r m S p r i n g s
Composites, and Identity
Zone.
Rodney Cawston’s father
and grandfather passed down
stories of such abundant
salmon fishing in the U.S.
Northwest’s Columbia River
that the banks were a feast
of red flesh. But Cawston,
chair of the U.S. Confeder-
ated Tribes of the Colville
Reservation, has never seen
fish harvests like those.
He was born after the
United States and Canada
began construction in the
1930s of a series of more
than 450 dams along the
Columbia basin, which drains
a watershed the size of
France across seven U.S.
states and one Canadian
province.
While the project was
praised for generating elec-
tricity for the area and irri-
gating farmland, indigenous
tribes mourned the loss of
traditional fishing grounds
but hope negotiations over a
1964 treaty governing the
river could resolve this.
As the United States and
Canada conducted a fresh
round of negotiations this
month in Victoria, British
Columbia, to update the
1964 treaty—which can be
ter minated in 2024—
Cawston and fellow tribal
leaders want to be formally
represented in talks.
“We have no representa-
tion even though our people
have lived for thousands of
years in this region,”
Cawston said, adding that
the river’s 15 U.S. tribes had
seen their requests for for-
mal representation at the ne-
gotiations rebuffed.
Despite the lack of for-
mal participation, Cawston re-
mains cautiously optimistic
he might one day experience
what his forefathers did.
“With the renegotiation
of this treaty, I really look
forward to seeing salmon
passage behind Chief Jo-
seph Dam and Grand Cou-
lee Dam,” he said.
Community notes...
Youth ages 16–18 are
being recruited to work on
the Central Oregon Youth
Conservation Corps Crews
this summer.
They positions to fill in
War m Springs, Madras,
Prineville, and several other
locations.
They are looking for crew
members and adult crew
leaders.
Get details and apply at
heartoforegon.org.
The deadline is May 1.
Warm Springs Sanitation
reminds residents to place
the totes at the road.
This will help Sanitation
save time, so they can make
all the scheduled pick- ups
with the staff and equipment
presently available. If you
have questions please call the
landfill at 541-553-3163.
Ronnie Thomas is selling
raffle tickets for a chance
to win one boys and one girls
26-inch bicycle. Tickets are
$20 each and the drawing is
on June 1. His phone num-
ber is 541-325-2904.