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Chart showing incidence of Covid-19 in the tribal community since the
pandemic began in March 2020. As shown, there has been a recent increase in
known positive cases, as the tribes must continue the safety precautions.
Around Indian Country
Northwest tribes against Columbia energy project
The Confederated Tribes
of War m Springs have
joined other Northwest
tribes in opposing an energy
project at the Columbia
River.
Most of the federally rec-
ognized tribes in Washing-
ton—now joined by Warm
Springs, the Umatilla and
Nez Perze—are pushing the
Washington state govern-
ment to deny permits to a
developer, because its project
along the Columbia River
would mean the unavoidable
destruction or damage to
sites sacred to the area’s
tribal nations.
Although the tribe sup-
ports developing more clean
and renewable energ y
projects, tribal leaders have
pledged to withhold support
from a project “if it’s going
to impact what we hold
dear,” Yakama Nation Tribal
Council member Jeremy
Takala said.
Councilman Takala added
this isn’t the only clean en-
ergy project—including other
pumped storage proposals—
on or slated for Yakama
treaty lands that has raised
concerns for the tribe.
“The tribe has said loud
and clear that we do support
green energy, but not at the
cost of the destruction of
irreplaceable sites, espe-
cially if they have food,
gathering or medicine
uses,” Councilman Takala
said.
The Yakama Nation has
opposed the proposal from
the beginning. And the three
other tribes who have also
traditionally used the land for
ceremonial and resource pur-
poses—the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs, the
Umatilla Indian Reservation
and the Nez Perce Tribe—
have said that the project
would likely destroy or have
serious consequences for
sites and areas they also con-
sider sacred.
Tribes: Agency is contributing to salmon decline
Damming the powerful
waters of the Columbia River
was a boon for cheap, clean
electricity. But the fish that
swam those waters are dying
out. And the agency in charge
isn’t stopping that.
Jeremy Takala, a biologist
and member of the Yakama
Nation Tribal Council, said
the tribe has shovel-ready
salmon habitat restoration
projects waiting for funding.
“It’s really frustrating,”
Takala said in a recent speech
at a save-the-salmon rally in
Portland. “BPA basically man-
aging our funding source, it
just does not make sense. It’s
a really, really huge conflict
that frustrates the tribes.”
Bonneville and its spend-
ing have factored heavily into
negotiations
between
salmon advocates and the
Biden administration.
Jim McKenna, an adviser
to Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
who is involved in the ne-
gotiations, said Oregon,
tribal nations and salmon ad-
vocates are asking the ad-
ministration to greatly in-
crease funding for fish
hatcheries and habitat res-
toration, and to put tribes
and other local fish and wild-
life biologists directly in
charge of how to spend the
money.
“The bucket of money
is woefully inadequate,”
McKenna said. “And,
Bonneville is not the agency
that should be managing
those funds.”
Ultimately, that funding is
paramount to whether the
government will honor the
treaty, signed over 150 years
ago, that assured the Yakama
tribe of its right to take fish
where they always had “at all
usual and accustomed places.”
Bill Bosch, who has spent
decades working for the
Yakama Nation’s fisheries
program, said the federal gov-
ernment must fully fund
tribes’ hatcheries and habitat
efforts, unless it intends to
spend the money itself on
removing dams and restoring
the natural river.
“If you’re not willing to
fund one or the other of
those,” Bosch said, “then are
you basically saying you’re
going to abrogate the treaty?”