Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Excel
training
in W.S.
The Confederated Tribes,
Warm Springs Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity
Act
(WIOA),
and
WorkSource will host free
Microsoft Excel workshops
in November.
An introductory level
Microsoft Excel class will
be on Friday, November 11
starting at 1:30 p.m. The
second class will be on Fri-
day, November 22 also at
1:30. The classes are at the
Warm Springs Education
building.
Each class is free and will
last about two hours.
You must attend the first
class in order to take the
second class. Must be 18 or
older. Bring picture ID or
other proof of age.
Seats are limited. To re-
serve a spot call Deanna at
541-777-0286; or email:
dfender@coic.org
November 6, 2019
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Around Indian Country
Keystone pipeline leak in North Dakota
Several members of
the Confederated Tribes
visited North Dakota
during the Standing Rock
Sioux stand against the
Keystone XL pipeline.
The issue was that the
pipeline would cross tra-
ditional sacred land, in-
cluding a burial ground.
A fear was that the
pipeline could pose a
threat to the land, and this
has proven to be a well-
founded concern.
Last
week
TC
Energy’s original Key-
stone pipeline leaked an
estimated 383,000 gal-
lons of oil in northeast-
ern North Dakota.
Crews then shut down
the pipeline that carries
tar sands oil from Canada
through seven states af-
ter the leak was discov-
ered. It remained closed
a number of days.
The Calgary, Alberta-
Courtesy
Protest scene at North Dakota pipeline site, 2017.
based company, formerly
known as TransCanada, said
in a statement the leak af-
fected about 22,500 square
feet of land near Edinburg,
in Walsh County.
The company and regu-
lators said cause was being
investigated.
Crude began flowing
through the $5.2 billion pipe-
line in 2011.
It’s designed to carry
crude
oil
across
Saskatchewan
and
Manitoba, and through
North Dakota, South Da-
kota, Nebraska, Kansas and
Missouri on the way to re-
fineries Patoka, Illinois and
Cushing, Oklahoma.
It can handle about 23
million gallons daily.
The pipeline spill and
shutdown comes as the
company seeks to build the
$8 billion Keystone XL
pipeline that would carry tar
sands oil from Alberta,
Canada, to refineries in
Texas.
The proposed Keystone
XL pipeline has drawn op-
position from people who
fear it will harm the envi-
ronment.
Together, the massive
Keystone and the Keystone
XL network would be
about five times the length
of the trans-Alaska oil pipe-
line.
The original Keystone is
designed to carry crude oil
across Saskatchewan and
Manitoba, and through
North Dakota, South Da-
kota, Nebraska, Kansas and
Missouri on the way to re-
fineries in Patoka, Illinois,
and Cushing, Oklahoma.
It has experienced prob-
lems with spills in the past,
including one in 2011 of
more than 14,000 gallons
of oil in southeastern
North Dakota, near the
South Dakota border.
In 2017, the pipeline
leaked an estimated
407,000 gallons of oil
onto farmland in north-
eastern South Dakota, in
a rural area near the
North Dakota border.
The company had origi-
nally put the spill at about
210,000 gallons.
Federal regulators said
at the time the Keystone
leak was the seventh-larg-
est onshore oil or petro-
leum product spill since
2010.
North Dakota’s big-
gest spill , and one of the
largest onshore spills in
U.S. history, came in
2013, when 840,000 gal-
lons spilled from a
Tesoro pipeline in the
northwestern part of the
state. The company
spent five years and
nearly $100 million clean-
ing it up.
Around Indian Country
Indian student count finally being updated for the modern era
Slowly but surely, the
Trump administration is
working to modernize the
popular Johnson O’Malley
Program for Indian students.
The program helps pay
for a wide range of initia-
tives, from school supplies
and learning competitions to
field trips and powwows, for
Indian students across the
nation.
But funding levels have
been stuck at 1995, despite
rises in costs and growth in
tribal populations.
Thanks to a new federal
law that tribes, Indian edu-
cators and supporters in
Congress fought for, the
situation is finally changing.
The Johnson-O’Malley
Supplemental Indian Educa-
tion Program Moderniza-
tion Act requires the Bureau
of Indian Affairs to update
the student count for the
modern era.
“An accurate count of eli-
gible students is the first
critical step to advocating
for adequate JOM funding
across the country,” Marita
Hinds, a citizen of the
Pueblo of Tesuque who
serves as president of the
National Indian Education
Association, said during the
National Congress of
American Indians 76th an-
nual convention last month.
Marita Hinds, president
of the National Indian Edu-
cation Association, ad-
dresses the National Con-
gress of American Indians
Seventy-Sixth annual con-
vention in Albuquerque,
New Mexico in October.
Consultation under the
new law began a few
months ago and already it’s
proven to be a complex af-
fair. A preliminary report
released by the Bureau of
Indian Education last week
shows just how much has
changed since 1995, when
the student count was fro-
zen at 271,884 American
Indians and Alaska Natives.
“Braveheart won Best
Picture that year, the
Macarena went viral and
Amazon sold its first book,”
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mon-
tana, once said of the out-
dated numbers during con-
sideration of the JOM bill
he co-sponsored during the
last session of Congress.
To find out what was
happening in 1995, Daines
said he relied on the search
engine Google, which didn’t
even exist at the time.
Popular culture isn’t the
only new data point: Ac-
cording to the new docu-
ment, announced to the
public last week, the Indian
student
population,
unsurprisingly, has grown
significantly in the last two
decades.
The highest estimates
come from the U.S. Census
Bureau, the federal agency
currently preparing for the
2020 Census.
According to the report,
anywhere from 581,241 to
600,217 American Indian
and Alaska Native students
are enrolled from preschool
to grade 12 across the na-
tion.
Figures from the U.S.
Department of Education
aren’t too far behind. Ac-
cording to the National
Center for Education Sta-
tistics, the clearinghouse for
public school data, between
502,152 and 570,825
American Indians and
Alaska Natives could end
up in the JOM student
count.
Finally, the BIE itself
has some numbers to share
but the report warns of in-
complete information. By
contacting entities that re-
ceived JOM funds, the
agency counted 341,126
American Indian and
Alaska Native students in
2014.
The BIE is doing the
same this year and so far
has counted 200,000 stu-
dents. The figure is low
because not every recipi-
ent of JOM funds,
whether it be a state gov-
ernment, a public school
district or a tribe, has not
provided information for
the count.
“The diversity of data
sources and their associ-
ated methods for estimat-
ing numbers of American
Indian and Alaska Native
students introduces a great
deal of complexity when
considering combining or
using multiple data sources
together. “ the preliminary
report states.
Despite the difficult
task, the report presents a
recommendation to Indian
Country. According to the
BIE, the JOM student
count should be based on
the higher estimate from
the National Center for
Education Statistics, or
570,825 students.
“The U.S. Department
of Education-National
Center for Education Sta-
tistics is based on actual
reported numbers from
schools across the nation,”
the report reads.
For the last few fiscal
years, Congress has pro-
vided less than $15 million
for JOM, according to BIA
budget data and testimony
from the National
Johnson-O’Malley Asso-
ciation, one of the many
advocates for the modern-
ization law. A student
count of 570,825, though
lower than the U.S. Cen-
sus Bureau estimates,
could lead to a significant
increase in funding for the
program.
In contrast, the JOM
contractor responses are
believed to be unreliable,
the report states. So even
if the BIE manages to get
data from every single en-
tity, it’s likely to be a signifi-
cant undercount, according
to the report.
“The Bureau of Indian
Education believes the num-
ber of eligible Indian stu-
dents is much higher than
current contractor data due
to low response rates from
contractors in the field and
the short turnaround time
for reporting,” the docu-
ment states.
So what’s next? Indian
Country has until Decem-
ber 30 to provide com-
ments about the prelimi-
nary report, according to an
October 29 notice in the
Federal Register.
The December 30
deadline is close to the De-
cember 31 deadline im-
posed by Congress on the
BIE. A ‘final’ report is
supposed to be due on the
latter date.
In addition to engaging
in consultations for an up-
date student count, the
Trump administration has
proposed a new JOM rule.
The comment period
closed on August 26. A fi-
nal rule hasn’t been re-
leased.
In the Tribal Court of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
Please note: All hearings are
conducted at the Warm Springs
Tribal Court.
Warm Springs Ventures,
Petitioner, vs. Noree
Guerin, Respondent; Case
No. CV24-17. TO: Noree
Guerin, Warm Springs Ven-
tures:
YOU ARE HEREBY NO-
TIFIED that a CIVIL COM-
PLAINT has been filed with the
Warm Springs Tribal Court. By
this notice you are summoned
to appear in this matter at a hear-
ing scheduled for the 9 TH day
of December, 2019 @ 10:00
AM
CHARLENE SMITH,
Petitioner, vs KRISTY GIL-
BERT, RESPONDENT;
Case No. EPO13-16. TO:
CHARLENE
SMITH,
KRISTY GILBERT:
YOU ARE HEREBY NO-
TIFIED that a SHOW CAUSE
HEARING has been filed with
the Warm Springs Tribal Court.
By this notice you are summoned
to appear in this matter at a hear-
ing scheduled for the 3 RD day of
DECEMBER, 2019 @ 9:30
AM
ORDER SHOW CAUSE has been
filed with the Warm Springs Tribal
Court. By this notice you are sum-
moned to appear in this matter at
a hearing scheduled for the 3 rd day
of December, 2019 @ 11:30 AM
been filed with the Warm Springs
Tribal Court. By this notice you
are summoned to appear in this
matter at a hearing scheduled for
the 7 th day of NOVEMBER,
2019 @ 3:00 PM
CTWS, Petitioner, vs
VICTORIA MEDINA, RE-
SPONDENT; Case No.
DO176-06; DO177-06. TO:
VICTORIA
MEDINA,
AGUSTIN PEDRAZA JR.:
YOU ARE HEREBY NO-
TIFIED that a CUSTODY RE-
VIEW has been filed with the
Warm Springs Tribal Court. By
this notice you are summoned to
appear in this matter at a hearing
scheduled for the 11 TH day of
December,2019 @ 11:00 AM
Tiffany Hunt, Petitioner,
vs Juliene Govenor, RESPON-
DENT; Case No. RO44-19. TO:
Tiffany Hunt/ Aaron Hunt:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTI-
FIED that a RESTRAINING
ORDER SHOW CAUSE has been
filed with the Warm Springs Tribal
Court. By this notice you are sum-
moned to appear in this matter at
a hearing scheduled for the 3 rd day
of December, 2019 @ 11:00 AM
LOIS SQUIEMPHEN,
Petitioner, vs SYLVIA
SPINO, RESPONDENT;
Case No. JV22-12; JV23-12.
TO: LOIS SQUIEMPHEN,
SYLVIA SPINO:
YOU ARE HEREBY NO-
TIFIED that a MODIFICA-
TION HEARING has been filed
with the Warm Springs Tribal
Court. By this notice you are
summoned to appear in this mat-
ter at a hearing scheduled for the
2 ND DAY OF DECEMBER,
2019 AT 9:00 AM
Tiffany Hunt, Petitioner,
vs Aaron Hunt, RESPON-
DENT; Case No. RO45-19.
TO: Tiffany Hunt/ Aaron
Hunt:
YOU ARE HEREBY NO-
TIFIED that a RESTRAINING
CTWS, Petitioner, vs ALI-
CIA YAZZIE, RESPON-
DENT; Case No. JV22-12;
JV23-12. TO: ALICIA YAZZIE,
GARRETT SUPPAH JR.,
DEECE SUPPAH:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTI-
FIED that a
ASSISTED
GUARDIANSHIP REVIEW has
PROBATE
In the matter of the estate
of Leontyne Tanewasha-Davis,
W.S., U/A, deceased. Estate no.
2018-PR45. Notice is hereby
given that Leontyne Tanewasha,
who at the time of her death
last known residence was 3108
Highway 3, Warm Springs, OR,
died on the 15 th day of Novem-
ber, 2018, and the court has ap-
pointed Valerie Squiemphen as
public administrator.
In the matter of the estate
of Tammy M. Robinson, W.S.,
U/A, deceased. Estate no.
2019-PR22. Notice is hereby
given that Tammy M. Robinson,
who at the time of her death last
known residence was 1188
Shitike Creek Rd., Warm Springs,
OR, died on the 27 th day of May,
2019, and the court has ap-
pointed Valerie Sqiuemphen as
the administrator.
Busy government office in The Dalles has an
immediate opening for a temporary office Program
Technician position.
Duties include general office activities support-
ing FSA programs administered at the field office
level. Successful applicant must be reliable, have
professional attitude, and enjoy working with the
public.
Individuals interested in applying need to con-
tact Lissa Biehn, office manager, at 541-298-8559
ext. 110. Or:
Lissa.biehn@usda.gov
Or apply at Wasco/Hood River Co. FSA at 2325
River Rd, Ste 1. The deadline to apply is this
Thursday November 6, 2019. FSA is an Equal Op-
portunity Employer.