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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Council, CRITFC discuss Columbia River treaty
The United States and
Canada agreed in the early
1960s to the Columbia
River Treaty. The countries
first began work on the
treaty at least two decades
before the signing.
The first negotiations to-
ward the treaty—in the early
1940s—went slowly. Then
in 1948 the Columbia River
experienced major flooding
from British Columbia to
Astoria. The flood com-
pletely destroyed the town
of Vanport, then the sec-
ond-largest city in Oregon.
The event prompted the
countries to work toward a
solution, with the final treaty
signed in 1961.
The primary focus was
flood control coordination
between the U.S. and
Canada in regard to the
Columbia River. Another
important factor was hydro-
power generation, with the
U.S. agreeing to share a per-
centage of U.S. Columbia
River hydro revenue with
Canada.
Tribes in the U.S. and
Canada had no input dur-
ing the negotiation of the
1961 treaty, now set to ex-
pire in 2029.
The sides for the past
few years have been nego-
tiating toward a new treaty,
with the original hydro-rev-
enue sharing aspect of the
first treaty a particular point
at issue.
And this time around the
tribes in the U.S. and Canada
have a place at the negoti-
ating table.
Tribal interests are pri-
marily in regard to fisher-
ies, as management of the
Food cart
trainer/
manager
(Continued from page 1)
The goal of the food
cart train/manager is to
provide food safety,
food handling, culinary,
menu preparation, cus-
tomer service, and food
business management
training to at least 25 cli-
ents in one year, with the
possibility of training
more community mem-
bers if future funding
arrives.
WSCAT hopes to op-
erate the cart as a profit-
able endeavor so that it
can pay the trainees and
interns working in the
Courtesy WSCAT
Architects conceptual rending of the food court
area next to the small business incubator building.
cart.
WSCAT seeks to develop
and open a food cart pod in
2020, in conjunction with its
Old Commissary small busi-
ness incubator project.
Trainees/interns working in
this program may be en-
couraged to apply for space
in the new food cart area.
Essential job func-
tions:
1.
Training
War m
resource impacts the tribes’
own treaty rights with the
federal government.
The Columbia River In-
ter-Tribal Fish Commission
is the coordinating body for
representation of the inter-
est of the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs,
Yakama Nation, the
Umatilla and Nez Perce.
Jaime
Pinkham,
CRITFC executive director,
and Jim Heffernan,
CRITFC policy analyst, met
last with the Warm Springs
Tribal Council.
Springs tribal and com-
munity members in how
to operate a food cart:
· Recruit trainees
into the food cart train-
ing program using social
and print media, radio,
recruitment at commu-
nity events, and referrals
from tribal and youth
programs.
· Co-organize up to
5 site visits to food cart
pods in Portland, Bend,
and other locations.
Provide trainees
with a deeper under-
standing of what
makes a great food
cart: quality food, ef-
fective branding, great
ambience, and more.
(Job description continues on
page 9.)
July 17, 2019
They discussed the cur-
rent state of tribal partici-
pation in the U.S.-Canada
treaty negotiations. Fifteen
tribes in the Northwest are
now cooperating to come up
with ‘common views’ to
present to treaty negotia-
tors, Mr. Pinkham said.
Carbon program
Following the CRITFC
meeting, Council met with
the Branch of Natural Re-
sources to consider future
options for carbon seques-
tration.
The tribes are managing
part of the forest to gener-
ate revenue through carbon
sequestration, the sale of
credits to companies in Cali-
fornia.
A question is whether to
expand the program. The tribes
own several parcels of forested
land off the reservation, but
these properties would not ap-
pear suited for participation in
the carbon program.
On the reservation, forest
land is put to commercial use
through logging. Expansion
of the tribal carbon program
would have to take these fac-
tors into consideration.