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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Opposition to Goldendale project
The proposed Goldendale En-
ergy Storage Project has been well
received in some quarters, but it
is sharply opposed by several Na-
tive American tribes, primarily the
Yakama Nation and also the
Warm Springs, Umatilla and Nez
Perce tribes.
Why are the tribal nations op-
posed to the project? The answer
requires an understanding of trea-
ties and the relationships between
the U.S. Government and the
tribes. In 1855 when the Yakama
Nation signed a treaty with the
U.S. government, it ceded lands
outside the reservation to the gov-
ernment. However, the treaty al-
lowed them to retain some rights
to the ceded lands, among them
to hunt, fish, and gather in the area
in perpetuity.
To further understand the
tribes’ opposition requires a dive
into the Final Environmental Im-
pact Statement documents pub-
lished in December of 2022 by
the Washington Department of
Ecology. Appendix H is a ‘Tribal
Resources Analysis Report’ and
provides the most comprehensive
look at tribal nations’ opposition
to the project. The following ex-
cerpt is taken verbatim from the
report; while being edited for clar-
ity and brevity.
Tribal traditions are interwoven
into the ecosystems in which tribal
members live, from hunting and
gathering to sacred sites—places
and activities that have spiritual
and cultural meaning. The
Godendale developer has pro-
posed mitigation for impacts to
some of the natural resources, but
Courtesy DOE
Site of the Goldendale energy storage project.
the tribes have indicated that this is
not sufficient. The proposed project
would have unique impacts on tribal
communities and tribal members.
This report seeks to explain those
impacts within the cultural context
of the tribes. Therefore, it is im-
portant to listen to the feedback
provided by the tribes on whether
there is mitigation that would help
to reduce project impacts. To date,
there is no information available
about mitigation proposed by or
supported by the tribes that would
reduce impacts on tribal cultural
and other resources to a level that
is less than significant.
Washington Ecology continues to
engage with tribes to better under-
stand project impacts. Current un-
derstanding of the construction and
operation of the proposed project
indicates significant and unavoid-
able adverse impacts on tribal and
cultural resources. These impacts in-
clude hunting and traditional gath-
ering of wildlife and vegetation, as
well as archaeological sites and tra-
Railway
and
an
avid
outdoorsman, Rhodes took pho-
tos of railroad work sites along
with his many travels through-
out the Pacific Northwest.
The photos shed a little more
light on a present-day investiga-
tion into Fort Simcoe and the gov-
ernment-run Indian boarding
school that operated there for
nearly 60 years.
In the Tribal Court of the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs
CTWS, Petitioner, vs ROBIN
WARNER, RESPONDENT; Case
No. JV17-18. TO: ROBIN
WARNER,
TYRONE
LAWRENCE, MALLORY &
TOMMY GILBERT:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTI-
FIED that an ASSISTED GUARD-
IANSHIP REVIEW has been filed
with the Warm Springs Tribal Court.
By this notice you are summoned to
appear in this matter at a hearing sched-
uled for the 15 TH day of MARCH,
2023 @ 9:00 AM
CTWS,
Petitioner,
vs
ANTONIA WAHSISE, RESPON-
DENT; Case No. JV58-09. TO:
ANOTNIA WAHSISE, CASEY
GRAHAM, STEPHANIE &
JACOB MAY:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTI-
FIED that an ASSISTED GUARD-
IANSHIP REVIEW has been filed
with the Warm Springs Tribal Court.
By this notice you are summoned to
appear in this matter at a hearing sched-
uled for the 27 th day of MARCH, 2023
@ 9:00 AM
CTWS, Petitioner, vs ROBIN
WARNER, Respondent; Case No.
JV17-18. TO: ROBIN WARNER,
TYRONE
LAWRENCE,
MALLORY&TOMMY GILBERT:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTI-
FIED that an ASSISTED GUARD-
IANSHIP REVIEW has been sched-
uled with the Warm Springs Tribal
Court. By this notice you are sum-
moned to appear in this matter at a
hearing scheduled for the 15 TH day of
MARCH, 2023 @ 9:00 AM
JANICE SUPPAH, Petitioner,
vs GARRETT SUPPAH SR, Re-
spondent;
Case No. DO18-
23. TO: JANICE SUPPAH,
DEECE SUPPAH, GARRETT
SUPPAH JR:
Skatepark: Grand
Opening day this month
ditional cultural properties, used
for camping and traditional tribal
rituals, such as ceremonies and vi-
sion quests.
Without effective mitigation
that would reduce significant im-
pacts to tribal and cultural re-
sources, those impacts would be
considered unavoidable. There-
fore, there would be significant
and unavoidable adverse impacts
to cultural and tribal resources.
The study area is within lands
ceded by the Yakama Treaty of
1855. Additionally, the area is, and
has historically been, used by the
Yakama Nation, Warm Springs,
Umatilla and Nez Perce Tribe for
hunting, traditional gathering,
camping, and traditional tribal ritu-
als, such as ceremonies. In their
scoping comment letter, the
Yakama Nation states that the
project area is one of “exceptional
cultural importance” to them and
that to this day, tribal members ex-
ercise ancestral harvest and ceremo-
nial practices.
Historic photos shed new light on boarding school
Sometime in the last two
weeks of April 1909, a man pho-
tographed two women and two
men on the porch of the
commander’s house at For t
Simcoe in the Yakama Valley,
Washington. A young Native girl
stands near them, but apart.
The amateur photographer
was John Clark Rhodes. A sur-
veyor for the Great Northern
March 8, 2023
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTI-
FIED that a CONSERVATOR/
GUARDIAN HEARING has been
scheduled with the Warm Springs
Tribal Court. By this notice you are
summoned to appear in this matter
at a hearing scheduled for the 23 RD
day of MARCH, 2023 @ 2:30 PM
ASHLYN JOHNSON, Peti-
tioner, vs TYRONE MEDRANO,
Respondent; Case No. RO15-20.
TO: ASHLYN JOHNSON,
TYRONE MEDRANO:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTI-
FIED that an RESTRAINING OR-
DER EXTENSION has been sched-
uled with the Warm Springs Tribal
Court. By this notice you are sum-
moned to appear in this matter at a
hearing scheduled for the 22 ND day
of MARCH, 2023 @ 11:00 AM
CTWS, Petitioner, vs WILMA
BAZA, Respondent; Case No.
JV12-18. TO: WILMA BAZA,
GINA & MICHAEL GISH:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTI-
FIED that an ASSISTED GUARD-
IANSHIP REVIEW has been sched-
uled with the Warm Springs Tribal
Court. By this notice you are sum-
moned to appear in this matter at a
hearing scheduled for the 3 RD day of
APRIL, 2023 @ 2:30 PM
CTWS, Petitioner, vs LEONA
TENORIO, Respondent; Case No.
JV81-15. TO: LEONA TENORIO,
MARTIN MEDINA, CPS, JV
PROS:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTI-
FIED that an CUSTODY REVIEW
has been scheduled with the Warm
Springs Tribal Court. By this notice
you are summoned to appear in this
matter at a hearing scheduled for the
4 TH day of APRIL, 2023 @ 10:00
AM
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Until recently, the 19 Fort
Simcoe photos Rhodes took re-
mained with his family. Recently, his
great-niece, Jeanne Webb, presented
the photos to the Yakima Herald-
Republic so they could be shared
with the public for the first time,
and given to organizations that will
keep them for the future.
(from page 1)
Once the fundraising started
for the Warm Springs park,
with great success, the scope of
the project grew to include the
new ramps of concrete, instead
of wood, and other improve-
ments at Elmer Quinn Park.
The labor for the most part
was volunteer by the Tactics
team. Collective Concrete pro-
vided their services for the
major pouring work.
The Warm Springs Skatepark
is an example of how dedica-
tion and a good idea can bring
about great accomplishments.
Cooperation and sharing were
the keys to bringing this project
to fruition.
The Confederated Tribes by
Council resolution dedicated
$10,000 to the project,
matched by Jefferson County.
Pacific Source of Central Or-
egon has been a major donor.
Supporters of the Warm
Springs Skatepark would like
to thank the sponsors, who
are noted on the Grand
Opening announcement flyer
(on page 1).
Last condor sighting in Washington
occurred in 1897. Can they come back?
Language offers one place to
begin, because if something as dis-
tinct as a condor inhabits a defined
area over the course of genera-
tions, then a word for the bird will
surely follow. That’s the way it
works moving upstream through
the Columbia Gorge, searching the
eras before, during and after Euro-
American contact.
When Samuel Black, the
Hudson’s Bay Company agent in
charge of Fort Walla Walla in the
late 1820s, compiled a basic vo-
cabulary for the three main tribal
tongues he heard spoken at the
post, he included condor words in
Walla Walla, Nez Perce and Cay-
use languages. Eugene Hunn, an
anthropologist working with
Yakama people in the 1970s, re-
corded different words for con-
dor in two other distinct Sahaptin
dialects spoken upstream around
the Big Bend.
Then there are the body parts.
Before the closing of the Colum-
bia River’s John Day Dam in 1957,
an archaeological excavation at the
Five Mile Rapids section of The
Dalles uncovered thousands of
bird bones in a layer that dated
back thousands of years. Among
them were no less than 63 indi-
California condor
vidual California condors, the
fourth-most common bird in the
complex.
A recent re-examination of the
avian remains from Five Mile Rap-
ids revealed several hundred marks
consistent with the action of meat
butchering in other birds. The
people had applied their knives
very differently to the condors,
however, cutting distinct swipes
across the wing bones that appear
to have targeted primary and sec-
ondary flight feathers.
Such cut marks might lead di-
rectly to an Edward Curtis photo
taken in the early 1900s of an el-
der at Wishram Village. The village
site is still located on the Columbia’s
north bank, hard by the former
great fishery at Celilo Falls and only
a few riffles upstream from Five
Mile Rapids. The elder from
Wishram Village holds a gigantic
black feather in one hand that
could only have come from a con-
dor wing.