Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
January 25, 2023
On the Council agenda in February
The following are some of the
items coming up on the Februar y
agenda of Tribal Council (subject
to change at Council discretion):
February 6
Invocation
9 a.m.: Bureau of Indian Affairs
update with Brenda Bremner, BIA
Agency superintendent.
10: Bureau of Trust Funds Ad-
ministration update with Kevin
Moore.
11: Realty items with Greta
White Elk, BIA Realty.
1 p.m.: Covid update with the
Response Team.
2: Legislative update conference
call, federal and state.
3: Tribal attorneys update.
Tuesday, February 7 – Enter-
prise updates
9 a.m.: Warm Springs Telecom
with Tim York.
10: Credit enterprise with Lori
Fuentes.
11: Warm Springs Ventures with
Jim Souers.
1 p.m.: Warm Springs Housing
update with Daniel Wood.
2: Warm Springs Timber LLC
with Brian Prater.
Wednesday, February 8
9 a.m.: Appellate Court rules
update with Robert Brunoe, Sec-
retary-Treasurer.
10: Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission Enforcement at
Columbia, discussion with Aja
DeCoteau, Mitch Hicks and Brent
Hall.
1 p.m.: Indian Health Service
update with Hyllis Dauphinais,
clinic chief executive officer.
2: Health and Human Services
update with Caroline Cruz.
3: Managed Care update with
Mike Collins.
Monday, February 13, 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m.: Joint Committee meet-
ing at the Fire Management con-
ference room.
Tuesday, February 21
9 a.m.: Secretary-Treasurer up-
date with Robert Brunoe.
10: March agenda and review
minutes.
11: Draft resolutions.
1 p.m.: Enrollments with Lucille
Suppach-Samson, Vital Statistics.
2: Office of Information Sys-
tems update on directorship dis-
cussion.
Tribal Ski and Snowboard Day February 3
The Tribal Ski and Snowboard
Day at Mt. Hood Meadows is com-
ing up on Friday, February 3. This
is an opportunity for War m
Springs youth, families and indi-
viduals to enjoy time in the snow
on Mt. Hood.
Beginners and experienced ski-
ers and snowboarders are welcome
to participate.
Transportation is available, and
everything you need is provided.
To sign up, send an email to Sue
Matters of KWSO:
sue.matters@wstribes.org
In the mail, include your name
and contact information. All par-
ticipants must also complete a
group consent form. Any unac-
companied minors need a ‘Con-
sent to treat medical release form’
including insurance information
and parent or guardian signature.
Please provide names and ages
of each individual in your group,
whether the participants will ski
or snowboard; and whether you,
and others with you will ride the
bus, or drive yourself up to Mt.
Hood Meadows.
On the Ski Day, if you are
transporting yourself, meet at Ver-
tical at Mt. Hood Meadows at 9
a.m.
For those using the Mt. Hood
Meadows transport: The bus will
arrive at the Warm Springs Com-
munity Center at 7:15 a.m. for the
7:30 departure. Please be on time
(call 541-460-2255 by 7:15 a.m.
if you are running late).
Check in with the day’s coordi-
nators—Sue or Heidi—for the fol-
lowing: Lift tickets and equipment
rental instructions; beginner in-
structions and schedule instruc-
tions. Lunch will be at noon.
Some background
The Mt. Hood area is part of
the Ceded Lands of the Confed-
erated Tribes of Warm Springs—
the area is part of the 10 million
acres of traditional homeland of
Highway 26 corridor, Greeley
Heights, West Hills, Tenino Apart-
ments, Elliot Heights, Trailer Courts,
Miller Heights, Upper Dry Creek,
Sunnyside, Wolfe Point and Kah-
Nee-Ta.
When there is a boil water no-
tice, you need to bring tap water to
a rolling boil, boil for one minute,
the tribes that were subject to the
Treaty of 1855.
Under the treaty, the Warm
Springs and Wasco tribes relin-
quished the approximately 10 mil-
lion acres of land, but reserved the
Warm Springs Reservation for use.
The tribes also kept their rights to
harvest fish, game and other foods
off the reservation in their usual
and accustomed places.
Recognizing that the Mt. Hood
area, including Meadows, is part of
the Ceded Lands, Meadows each
year hosts events for tribal mem-
bers. There are berry-picking out-
ings, and coming up in February the
Tribal Ski and Snowboard Day.
and cool before using.
Or use bottled water for drink-
ing, making ice, washing dishes,
brushing teeth, and preparing
food.
Emergency Management’s water
distribution hours are 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. week days, and they are open
during the noon hour.
California’s salmon population plummets amid new threat
They’ve been pushed to the
brink of extinction by dams,
drought, extreme heat and even the
flare of wildfires, but now
California’s endangered winter-run
Chinook salmon appear to be fac-
ing an entirely new threat - their
own ravenous hunger for ancho-
vies.
After the worst spawning sea-
son ever in 2022, scientists now
suspect the species’ precipitous
decline is being driven by its ocean
diet.
Researchers hypothesize that the
salmon are feasting too heavily on
anchovies, a fish that is now
swarming the California coast in
record numbers. Unfortunately for
the salmon, anchovies carry an en-
zyme called thiaminase, which
breaks down thiamine — a vita-
min that is essential to cell func-
tion in all living things.
In humans, a critical deficiency
of thiamine, or vitamin B1, can
lead to heart failure and nerve dam-
age. In female salmon that are re-
turning to rivers and streams to
spawn, thiamine deficiency can be
passed on to their many hatchlings,
which suffer problems swimming
and experience high rates of death,
researchers say.
Now, with government agencies
and Native American tribes fear-
ing the collapse of the winter-run
Chinook, scientists are embarking
on a campaign to determine why
For W.S. Little League
The following are some impor-
tant dates coming up for the Warm
Springs Nation Little League sea-
son:
January 31: Early registration
deadline. February 1: Late regis-
tration.
Febr uar y 28: Coaches
meet and coach registration
deadline.
March 12: Player registra-
tion deadline. March 13: Man-
datory coaches meeting; fol-
lowed by tryouts.
$20.5 million award
to CRITFC and tribes
In a first-of-its-kind deploy-
ment under Bipartisan Infra-
structure Law funds, NOAA this
month awarded approximately
$20.5 million for the coordinated
management of fisheries, ocean
and coastal resources.
The recommended federal
funds will significantly enhance
existing collaboration among
tribal government, states and the
federal government, and provide
needed capacity to advance their
work.
Through this recommended
funding, the awards will support
projects to advance regional ocean
partnerships and data sharing
among ocean users, and include the
engagement of federally recog-
nized tribes with existing regional
ocean partnerships.
Regional ocean partnerships
are regional organizations con-
vened by governors to work
collaboratively across multiple
states, in coordination with fed-
eral and tribal governments, on
common priorities and chal-
lenges.
A total of 13 awards were dis-
tributed to tribes and partners:
$1.1 million will go to four fed-
erally recognized tribes or tribal
organizations—including Columbia
River Inter-Tribal Fish Commis-
sion—to support tribal actions re-
lated to regional ocean and coastal
priorities.
Ski area at Meadows.
Issue at treatment plant brought water notice
The tribes and Public Utilities
had to issue a boil water notice
for last Thursday, January 19. This
was in regard to the Agency water
system, and was a precautionary
notice while testing of the water
was under way.
The Agency water system
serves the Campus area and the
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the anchovy population has ex-
ploded off the California coast, and
why winter-run Chinook are seem-
ingly ignoring all other prey.
Warm Springs Recreation invites departments to
participate in a Valentine’s Day office decorat-
ing contest. The theme is ‘Show the Love
NDN Style.’ Offices must be decorated
by Februar y 14 at 5 p.m.
If your workplace wants to get in on
the competition, call Recreation 541-553-3243 to
register by Monday, February 6.