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Letters to the editor
From tribal
administration
Conference Room 3 at
the administration builidng is
first come first serve: When
scheduling, you to need to
request at least two weeks in
advance.
When you need to cancel
or postpone your request,
please share this information
as soon as possible, in order
to give another person or de-
partment a chance to book
the room. Also, the Secretary-
Treasurer has priority on
Conference Room 1. At ad-
ministration, CR schedules
these meetings.
From Pastor
Pastor Rick invites the
community to senior citizen
YouTube exercise at 10 a.m.
on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays.
Tuesdays are noon Pot-
luck Devotion and video
Bible study at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesdays at 10:45 a.m.
is home economic skills
training and AA at 6:30 p.m.
For more information call
541-325-1741.
Land Return
The Yakama Nation is
celebrating the Fiftieth An-
niversary of the ‘Land Re-
turn Ceremony.’ Fifty years
ago in 1972, President Ri-
chard Nixon issued an ex-
ecutive order that affirmed
Mount Adams sits within the
boundaries of the Yakama
Nation.
However, the Yakama
Tribal Council says the or-
der did not settle the dis-
pute, since Klickitat
County argued Mount
Adams along with 121,000
acres should be treated as
state land.
However, since then, the
U.S. Supreme Court has con-
firmed the land belongs to
the Yakama Nation.
Jack-o-Lantern
carving contest
A Jack-O-Lantern compe-
tition is coming up at the Ma-
dras Halloween Night Mar-
ket at the Fifth and D streets,
happening Saturday evening,
October 22 from 5 to 9 p.m.
Using real pumpkins, par-
ticipants can carve, paint or
decorate their pumpkins.
Complete pumpkins can be
dropped off at the Art Ad-
venture Gallery, 185 SE Fifth
St., on Friday and Saturday,
October 21-22, between
noon and 4 p.m.
Winners will be deter-
mined by the People’s Choice
voting at the Halloween Night
Market the October 22 Sat-
urday evening. Voting catego-
ries include:
Best painted, carved or
decorated pumpkin—Ages
12 and under. Best painted,
car ved or decorated
pumpking—13 and up.
Best painted, car ved or
decorated pumpkin by a
business. And best painted,
decorated or craved pump-
kin design inspired by Ma-
dras.
Winners will be notified
by the Art Adventure Gallery,
so please make sure your
contact information is in-
cluded when you drop off
your entry.
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Warm Springs Recreation and
Papsalaxamisha host Fri Yay Fun on
Friday, October 14 starting at noon at
the Community Wellness Center.
Pay increase
Heart of Oregon Corps
is taking action during these
times of inflation and in-
creased housing costs to sup-
port the young people in our
community. Heart of Or-
egon Corps is announcing
major increases in its stipend-
based job training programs
this fall. Stipends are increas-
ing about 30 percent for two
AmeriCorps National Ser-
vice-based programs includ-
ing: YouthBuild and High
Desert Conservation Corps.
Youth and young adults in
these programs earn stipends
while learning job skills dur-
ing AmeriCorps ser vice.
AmeriCorps service projects
include constructing afford-
able housing, supporting non-
profit childcare centers, and
improving public lands.
Along with these changes
Heart of Oregon Corps is re-
naming their ‘AmeriCorps’
program to the ‘High Desert
Conservation Corps.’ This
program, which started in
2006, is a year-round, non-
residential young adult con-
servation corps. That means
that central Oregon-based
young adults serve on dy-
namic, local crews that leave
and return daily to improve
public lands right in their
own backyards.
Many young members of
the tribes have taken part in
Heart of Oregon Corps pro-
grams, helping them gradu-
ate high school, earn college
credits, learn job skills, and
earn money. If you are in-
terested in earning school
credits, and a good stipend,
give Heart of Oregon staff
a call at 541-633-7834. Or
see the website:
heartoforegon.org
Looking forward to a great Halloween with Warm Springs artist Travis Bobb.
Happy
Birth-
day
Ooh -
Bubba
and I
Love
You.
Indigenous
Food Hubs
Spilyay Tymoo
(Coyote News, Est. 1976)
Publisher Emeritus in Memorium: Sid Miller
Editor: Dave McMechan
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Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our of-
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The Department of the
Interior is bolstering food
sovereignty efforts across
Indian Country with its new
program: Indigenous Food
Hubs.
The program—a partner-
ship between the Bureau of
Indian Affairs and the Bu-
reau of Indian Education—
will bring Indigenous foods
and nutritional education to
Bureau of Indian Education
schools and detention cen-
ters.
Indigenous food is about
more than just nutrition:
Food is an important part of
Native cultures, traditions,
history and community.
The Indigenous Food
Hubs will work to provide
healthier food to Indigenous
communities and help to re-
pair the damage done to In-
digenous foodways by the
harmful policies of the past,
including colonization, relo-
cation and assimilation of
tribal communities.
For the first time, a nutri-
tionist will be hired to sup-
port the BIE and BIA in de-
veloping and implementing
culturally appropriate nutri-
tion and training standards
that draw from Indigenous
knowledge.
Additionally, the program
will draw upon Indigenous
knowledge to develop ap-
proaches to food that incor-
porate: Culture, social deter-
minants of health, nutrition,
land management, and con-
servation.
Assistant Secretary for
Indian Affairs, Br yan
Newland (Ojibwe).
October 5, 2022
To farmers
The Central Oregon
USDA Far m Services
Agency is hosting a NAP in-
formation meeting from 1
to 3 p.m. on October 19 at
the Redmond USDA Ser-
vice Center conference
room, located at 625 SE
Happy Birthday—Someday we’ll go on
a trip again!
I Love You, Not Stopping Ever Honey!
Salmon Ave., Redmond.
Presentations will include
NAP program information
such as sign-up deadline for
hay and grazing crops (No-
vember 30); coverage op-
tions, eligible crops, filing
acreage reports, filing losses,
submitting production and
applying for payments.
Please join the meeting to
learn about the Farm Service
Agency Non-Insured Crop
Disaster Assistance Pro-
gram—NAP. For more infor-
mation call Lissa Biehn at
541-298-8559 ext. 110. Or
email: lissa.biehn@usda.gov
Court ruling threatens sovereignty, safety
WASHINGTON, D.C. –
Native American leaders
have called on Congress to
reverse a Supreme Court
ruling that expands states’
ability to prosecute crimes
on tribal land, a ruling they
said threatens their sover-
eignty and their ability to pro-
tect their citizens.
Witnesses told a House
Natural Resources subcom-
mittee that the Castro-
Huerta ruling tramples on
200 years of legal precedent
about tribal jurisdiction and
has made it harder for them
to pursue cases of domestic
violence or missing and mur-
dered Indigenous people,
among other crimes.
“This departure from
well-established law by the
U.S. Supreme Court repre-
sents a real threat to tribal
sovereignty,” said Cherokee
Nation Attorney General
Sara Hill. “No longer did
states lack jurisdiction unless
Congress authorized it. Now,
states have jurisdiction unless
Congress has specifically pre-
empted it.”
But a handful of witnesses
at the hearing defended the
ruling that they said lets states
take over criminal cases
when tribal courts do not
have the resources and fed-
eral courts are not interested.
“The consequences of
this decision on victims of
crime were immediate,” said
Matthew J. Ballard, District
Attorney for Oklahoma Dis-
trict 12.
He said that before the
Castro-Huerta ruling, of-
fices like his “stood nulli-
fied in our efforts to en-
sure the safety of our com-
munities” while federal
agencies “lack the re-
sources, capacity, and,
frankly, will to execute these
functions.”
Muscogee (Creek) Ambas-
sador Jonodev Chaudhuri said
the Supreme Court’s Castro-
Huerta ruling harms tribal sov-
ereignty but also “dangerously
infringes on Congress’ ability”
to set laws.
“In the midst of this
chaos, the Castro-Huerta
decision has been a beacon
of hope for Native Ameri-
can victims of crime,”
Ballard said in his written tes-
timony.
Castro-Huerta was the
second in a pair of Supreme
Court rulings that upended
the prosecution of cases in
Oklahoma, but its impact is
being felt in Indigenous com-
munities across the country.
The dispute began in
2020, when the court consid-
ered the case of Jimcy
McGirt, a Seminole who was
convicted in Oklahoma state
court of sexually assaulting
an Indigenous child.
McGirt argued on appeal
that 19th-century boundaries
for the Muscogee reserva-
tion had never been changed,
and that the land where he
committed his crime was still
tribal territory. The Supreme
Court agreed and overturned
his conviction, saying state
courts are prohibited from
prosecuting Native Ameri-
cans for crimes committed
against other Indigenous
people on tribal land.
McGirt was quickly re-
tried and reconvicted in fed-
eral court, but not before the
ruling set off a wave of ap-
peals, and reversals, in Okla-
homa. The state appealed
dozens of those cases to the
Supreme Court, which
agreed to hear the Victor
Manuel Castro-Huerta case.