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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
July 1, 2020
Columbia Plateau Native stories online
The virus pandemic has
meant that Confluence
Story Gatherings have been
on delay. The last gathering
of the Confluence Colum-
bia River Native heritage
storytelling was in February,
when a panel of Indigenous
historians and leaders led a
thought-provoking discus-
sion in Vancouver.
The gatherings are on
hold; yet the themes and les-
sons are timeless, and rel-
evant today as we work to-
ward a more inclusive un-
derstanding of the land we
share.
The Story Collection can
be seen at the site
confluenceproject.org
The collection includes a
two-part podcast from that
Story Gathering, along with
a selection of writings and
interviews around the no-
tion that our ecology is in-
extricably linked to Native
history and our future to-
gether.
Colin Fogar ty, the
Confluence project.
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High Desert welcomes silver fox
Visitors returning to the
High Desert Museum after
its three-month closure will
meet a new mammal in the
museum’s care—a 1-year-old
gray fox.
The fox arrived at the
High Desert Museum shortly
before the facility’s closure
to the public. The museum
has not yet chosen a name
for the animal.
The female fox was
found severely malnour-
ished and with a seriously
injured hip as a pup in
southwestern Oregon. She
was brought to Bend after
surgery to remove part of
her femur.
Cares Act
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Tribal Council has
taken action to utilize
some of the funds pro-
vided to the tribe by Con-
gress under the Cares Act
to assist the membership,
said Raymond Tsumpti,
Council chairman.
Grants will assist mem-
bers with coronavirus pan-
demic related expenses
such as loss of income,
added expenses for food,
utilities, transportation,
housing, educational needs,
home care, medical ser-
vices, and other costs in-
curred responding to the
crisis.
Additional grants will be
provided in October of this
year.
These grants will be ex-
empt from federal taxation.
The tribes are in the pro-
cess of setting up the pro-
gram, including the hiring
of the Cares Act adminis-
trator.
Silver fox still to be named
The fox also was wear-
ing a collar around her neck
when found: Professional
wildlife rehabilitators deter-
mined she is habituated to
humans, meaning she
doesn’t have adequate fear
of humans to be able to sur-
vive in the wild.
The museum’s reopening
day in June marked the first
time the general public has
gotten to see the fox. She is
one of the first new mam-
mals to come into the
museum’s care in several
years.
“This gray fox is inquisi-
tive and very active,” says
museum executive director
Dana Whitelaw.
The fox is in an outdoor
habitat that’s specially de-
signed for her needs. The ex-
hibit includes a hollow log,
an above-ground shelter, a
ground-level shelter and a
below ground-level den, as
well as two climbing struc-
tures, a resting shelf and a
variety of rocks and other
logs.
“This fox is very playful,”
museum Curator of Wild-
life Jon Nelson says. “She
loves to climb and is ex-
tremely agile despite her hip
surgery.” Gray foxes are
both cursorial and arbo-
real—meaning they both
run and climb.
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