Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
January 29, 2020
A featured speaker at Women’s March
Katherine Quaid was a
featured speaker at the 2020
Central Oregon Women’s
March in Redmond. Ms.
Quaid spoke at the Fourth
Annual event:
To d a y I a m m a r c h i n g
alongside the women who
raised me. My mother, my
auntie and cousin and sister.
We come from a family of
strong women—Women who
inspire me to take action to
address the inequalities that
plague our societies, to resist
the systems that attempt to
colonize and destroy us, to
flourish and bring joy to a
world on fire.
I come to this place as a
climate organizer. I am called
to this work for a just world
that acknowledges the rights
and sovereignty of indigenous
communities, and seeks to
build a future no longer de-
pendent on the colonial struc-
tures of capitalism, patriar-
chy and white supremacy.
I do this work for all liv-
ing beings. For the ber ries
that grow in our mountains,
for the salmon that swim up
the river, for the elk beyond
the prairie, for the roots that
grow across the plateau. Cli-
mate change is taking this
away, it’s torching our lands,
and displacing communities
world wide.
Courtesy
Katherine Quaid at the Central Oregon
Women’s March, Redmond.
The march drew more
than two-hundred partici-
pants.
February clinic to protect your herd
by Scott J. Duggan
Warm Springs OSU Extension
OSU Extension will host
our annual brucellosis—also
called ‘bangs’—clinic, Thurs-
day, February 20.
USDA veterinarians will
be here to administer the
brucellosis vaccine to heifers
4-12 months of age. In ad-
dition, a de-wormer can be
administered to cattle of all
ages.
Cattle owners need to call
OSU Extension and let us
know how many cattle you
have, and what type of vac-
cinations they would like ad-
ministered.
Cattle vaccinations will
take place at the War m
Springs rodeo arena, or at the
rancher’s home. Cost of the
brucellosis vaccine is $1 and
the cost of Ivomec de-
wormer is $3.
If you’re interested,
please contact OSU Exten-
sion at 541-480-3091; or
send an email:
scott.duggan@oregonstate.edu
Brucellosis is a highly in-
fectious disease, and is ca-
pable of spreading from ani-
mals to humans. The name
of the human form of bru-
cellosis is undulant fever, a
painful disease that causes
fatigue and headaches fol-
lowed by high fever, chills,
joint pain and weight loss.
Long-term effects in-
clude arthritis, chronic fa-
tigue and recurrent fevers.
While undulant fever does
not typically kill its victims,
it is a serious disease that can
plague its victims for the rest
of their lives.
Humans contract undu-
lant fever by eating raw meat
from an infected animal, or
by drinking or eating con-
taminated, unpasteurized
milk products. Additionally,
if you slaughter an infected
animal, the bacteria can en-
ter your system through cuts
in your hands or touching
your eyes with hands that
are not clean.
Due to the risk of infec-
tion, brucellosis is the only
vaccine given to cattle that
requires a veterinarian to ad-
minister the shot. After the
vaccine is given, a small metal
tag is placed in the ear of the
heifer where it remains for
the rest of their lives. This
metal tag is proof that the
heifer is protected from bru-
cellosis.
Brucellosis is primarily a
disease of the cow and local-
izes in the udder. Bulls can
be infected, but they do not
readily spread the disease.
Brucellosis in cattle causes
decreased milk production,
weight loss, lameness, abor-
tion of calves and infertility.
Signs of brucellosis infection
in cattle are slow to appear
and difficult to detect in sick
animals.
Until cows start aborting
calves or giving birth to weak
calves, there is no visual sign
that an animal is infected.
Brucellosis is highly con-
tagious, spreading very easily
between cattle as the calf, the
membranes and the uterine
fluids all contain large quan-
tities of bacteria.
When brucellosis is de-
tected in a herd, cattle must
be quarantined, and infected
animals are humanely slaugh-
tered, as there is no cure for
the disease.
Sadly, ranchers can lose
their entire herd to the dis-
ease, resulting in substantial
economic losses. In the past,
this scenario was not uncom-
mon. Since the adoption of
a national surveillance pro-
gram, losses have dropped
from 124,000 affected herds
in 1956 to 700 in 1992 and
less than ten herds today.
Prevention is the key to
preventing another disease
outbreak.
Be proactive and get
your herd vaccinated. This
inexpensive vaccine will help
insure your herd is pro-
tected from this devastating
disease.
Groups protest disenrollment trend
The 9-year-old girl
couldn’t understand.
How could anyone tell
her she was no longer
Modoc? And if she was no
longer Modoc, what was
she?
Her
mother
Syd
Colombe struggled to an-
swer her questions.
She tried to convince her
daughter to not allow their
family’s disenrollment from
the Modoc Nation to affect
her sense of identity.
“You’re always Modoc,”
Colombe told her. “Nobody
will ever tell you that you’re
not. Nobody can ever take
that from you.”
In May, Colombe
learned her tribe’s leader-
ship had removed her and
most of her family from the
tribe’s citizenship rolls, add-
ing them to the thousands
of Native people to be
stripped of their tribal citi-
zenry.
Following a brief hiatus
from 2016 to 2018—when
many tribal politicians
feared the public shame
elicited by the removal of
tribal citizens—tribal
disenrollment is again on
the rise, said Gabe Galanda,
an attorney and citizen of
the Round Valley Indian
Tribes who has written ex-
Cow Creek donation welcome
The NeighborImpact
Food Recovery Program in
Redmond received good
news in the form of a grant
for $12,000 from Cow Creek
Umpqua Indian Foundation.
The funds will be applied
toward costs associated with
collecting and delivering
food
through
the
organization’s distribution
network in Central Oregon.
NeighborImpact’s Food
Recovery Program collects
produce, dairy products,
bread and meat from 18 gro-
cery stores in Deschutes
County. The organization
transports the food in refrig-
erated trucks to its ware-
house for distribution to 55
emergency food sites that,
combined, feed over 22,000
persons every month.
The program eases food
demands by sustaining and
expanding the food recov-
ery system.
“NeighborImpact is very
thankful to the Cow Creek
Umpqua Indian Foundation
for this grant award,” said
Carly Sanders, food pro-
gram director.
tensively about tribal
disenrollment and has rep-
resented
victims
of
disenrollment.
It is estimated that
11,000 tribal members have
been disenrolled from 80, or
15 percent, of the 573 fed-
erally recognized tribal gov-
ernments since 1934, when
tribes began organizing gov-
ernments based on the In-
dian Reorganization Act.
Prior to spring 2016,
tribes conducted numerous
mass
disenrollments,
Galanda said. However,
tribes mostly halted the prac-
tice until March 2018, when
the Omaha Tribe decided to
remove 15 citizens from its
rolls, Galanda said.
He attributed that brief
lull in disenrollment to the
federal efforts to intercede
in disenrollment disputes
that were undercutting the
federal government’s stated
desire to bolster tribal gov-
ernments.
“It had a stigmatizing ef-
fect on disenrollment,”
Galanda said.
By comparison, now,
there is again a more
hands-off approach to dis-
enrollment, which Galanda
said has once again cata-
lyzed the disenrollment
movement.
Mardi Gras Gorge Celebration
THE
DALLES—
Transport yourself to the
French Quarter of New
Orleans at the Columbia
Gorge Discovery Center’s
Mardi Gras Masquerade
Celebration. From 7 to
11 p.m. on Saturday, Feb-
ruary 8.
All over the age of 21
are welcome to enjoy au-
thentic food and drinks,
live jazz music, and pro-
fessional Tarot card read-
ings.
The evening will be
highlighted by a Louisiana
low-country boil from
Rooted Café in the
museum’s River Gal-
lery—transformed into
the streets of New Or-
leans.
Bring your feathers,
beads, masks, voodoo
charms and best Mardi
Gras outfits. Admission
is $20 and includes the
low-country boil.
For more informa-
tion, phone 541-296-
8600 ext. 201, or visit
gorgediscovery.org
Page 7
Man killed
in hit-and-run
Anthony Shadley, 59, tribal member, was killed
on January 21 after being struck by a vehicle. Mr.
Shadley had been walking along Highway 97 in the
north area of Madras.
The south-bound commercial vehicle, a Volvo
semi-trailer, did not stop at the scene, continuing
eventually to Los Angeles. Through investigation—
using video from a nearby Madras restaurant, and
weigh-station video from the Oregon Department
of Transportation—law enforcement agencies lo-
cated the vehicle and the driver in Los Angeles
County.
The driver, Jose Manuel Bernal-Mendoza, was
arrested and charged with second-degree manslaugh-
ter, criminally negligent homicide, failure to perform
the duties of a driver, and reckless driving. Appar-
ently, Bernal-Mendoza and fellow driver were on a
scheduled commercial delivery run.
The driver’s supervisor said “Bernal-Mendoa told
him he swerved to avoid a dark shadowy figure but
did not believe he hit anything,” according to a Ma-
dras Police affidavit.
The fatal incident taking the life of Mr. Shadley
was the second serious vehicle-pedestrian crash on
the same north Madras stretch of Highway 97 within
a 24-hour period: The day before, a 55-year-old man
was seriously injured trying to cross Highway 97 near
Northeast Chestnut Street. He was among a small
group of men heading to the warming shelter, po-
lice said. In that case, the driver stopped and has
been cooperative with investigators.
To wood cutters from
the Timber Committee
To tribal wood cutters: Your resale permits for
2019 will expire on January 31. You will need to
complete the transport process from the woods to
your residence by the end of the month.
The 2020 resale permits will be the only legal
permits after January 31. This applies to the 2020
permits issued in 20 ½ cord permits or ten 1-full
cord permits.
We are also in discussions of moving toward elec-
tronic permits for the 2021 wood cutting year that
would be for both free use and resale permits.
The committee will have public meetings in the
future to allow tribal members a chance to voice
their opinion or concerns with this proposed pro-
cess.
The committee will put public announcements out
with dates, locations and times of the public meet-
ings.
Resolution of Tribal Council
3rd-party
billing
Whereas the Confeder-
ated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Or-
egon operate programs pur-
suant to an Indian Self-De-
termination Agreement with
the Bureau of Indian Affairs
and the Indian Health Ser-
vice; and
Whereas the Tribal
Council has historically aug-
mented a number of pro-
grams that could or would be
authorized under the agree-
ments, through the use of
tribal revenues, due to the
lack of adequate funding
available under the agree-
ment; and
Whereas the Tribal
Council recognizes that the
tribal revenues are inad-
equate to finance programs
and services at the level iden-
tified within the current year
budget, and for the year
2020 at the current budget
level; and
Whereas the Tribal
Council desires that those
programs and services that
may be continued through
2020 by making planned al-
location of Health Services
Fund collections (“third
party billing”); now therefore
Be it resolved by the
Twenty-Eighth Tribal Coun-
cil, pursuant to Article V,
Sections (l)(a),(d), (l)and (u)
of the Tribal Constitution
and By-Laws that the Sec-
retary-Treasurer/CEO is
hereby authorized and di-
rected to take such actions
as are necessary to provide
for the allocation of Health
Services Fund collections
(“third party billings”) for
the calendar year 2020 as
indicated in the exhibit (at-
tached to resolution), and to
program such savings are
expected at the end of the
calendar year 2019 for the
one year budget plan for the
year 2020. (Resolution no.
12,648)
Cascades East Transit provides
transportation around Warm Springs
and to Madras with Connections to
other Central Oregon Towns. You
can see their schedule for ‘route 20’
at kwso.org: Click on the community
tab and choose transit from the
drop-down menu.