Spilyay Tymoo
Coyote News, est. 1976
First tribal
Response Plan
for MMIP
In a first for the U.S. District of
Oregon, the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs Tribal Council
has unanimously adopted a Miss-
ing and Murdered Indigenous Per-
sons Tribal Community Response
Plan.
The Response Plan team began
working with tribal community
members on the project in 2022.
Council has also worked with Warm
Springs Public Safety, the Police
Department, the U.S. Attorney’s
Office in Portland, the Attorney’s
Office MMI cordinator for Or-
egon, and other partners.
The Tribal Community Re-
sponse Plan, or TCRP, is a guide
for how tribal law enforcement, res-
cue teams, community members
and media will respond when some-
one goes missing from the tribal
community.
The plan is tailored to the spe-
cific needs, resources and culture
of the tribal community.
The Warm Springs TCRP estab-
lishes four different sets of guide-
lines relevant to MMIP: Law en-
forcement, victim services, public
and media communications, and
community outreach.
The overall goal of the TCRP
is to recognize the critical need for
an immediate and consistent re-
sponse to missing persons reports
from the Warm Springs Indian
Reservation, and establish a for-
mal process for responding to and
investigating these reports; and to
outline the actions that will be taken
by tribal authorities.
Simnasho
Fire update
The Simnasho Fire had burned
across about 1,500 acres, as of the
Fire Management report earlier
this week.
The blaze at the time was about
40-percent contained, burning in
grasses and some timber about five
miles west of Simnasho, and two
miles east of Highway 26.
The fire started the evening of
Friday, July 21 in the vicinity of
the water towers on the sound
side of Highway 9, east of High-
way 26.
Structure protection was in
place by late Friday, as crews
worked through the night. Wind
was a factor in the initial spread
of the fire.
Highway 26 was closed for a
time Friday night, and Highway 9
was closed for much of the week-
end.
Aerial support was assisting Fire
Management engine crews and
hand crews.
The boundaries of fire as of
earlier this week: Highway 26 to
the west, Highway 9 to the north,
the S-450 road to the east, and
the Warm Springs River to the
south. The west, north and east-
ern flanks were solid, with
firefighters working their way in-
ward.
July 26, 2023 - Vol. 48, No. 15
Summer - Shatm
PO Box 489
Warm Springs, OR 97761
ECR WSS
Postal Patron
U.S. Postage
PRSRT STD
Warm Springs, OR 97761
Canoe Family on Journey to Muckleshoot
The N’Chi Wanapum Canoe
Family of the Confederated
Tribes spent the weekend at the
Lummi Nation in Washington, as
they make their way to the final
destination at Muckleshoot.
The family is scheduled to ar-
rive at the Swinomish Tribal Com-
munity this Wednesday, July 26;
and then travel the following day
to Camas, Washington.
Friday they are to arrive at
Tulalip then paddle to
Suquamish, both tribal commu-
nities. After a Saturday stay at
Suquamish, they travel to Alki
Beach at Seattle; then July 31 to
August 6 they are at Muckleshoot.
Like the many other tribal ca-
noe families on the Journey to
Muckleshoot, the Warm Springs
family follows the protocol of
meeting other tribal communities
while on the journey, including
the for mal request to come
ashore. The Canoe Families travel
by waterways to the destination,
accompanied by family and friends
who drive and help with the logis-
tics. You can follow their journey
at their Facebook page: N’Chi
Wanapum.
Scenes from N’Chi Wanapum
Canoe Family Journey to
Muckleshoot ~ Photos
courtesy of the Family.
Museum 30-year anniversary exhibit opens
The Museum at War m
Springs 30-Year Anniversary
exhibition opens this Wednesday
evening, July 26. The opening
reception will be at 6:30 p.m.,
and the public program to fol-
low at 7. The exhibition open-
ing reception and public pro-
gram are free and open to the
public.
The exhibit is called Territo-
ries, Stories and the Long
Memory of the Land: The Mu-
seum at War m Springs Cel-
ebrates 30 Years ~ 1993-2023.
The exhibit chronicles the
history of the museum through
original archival documents, his-
toric photographs, audio and
video components and engaging
text.
The show also includes origi-
nal architectural designs, mod-
els and artworks from the col-
lection of Donald J. Stastny,
representing the architects of
record Stastny & Burke Archi-
tecture, and additional artworks
from the museum collections.
Besides his work as architect,
Mr. Stastny was a long-time
member of the museum board
of directors, and past board
president.
During his presentation this
Wednesday evening, he is to re-
visit the origins and progress of
port of the exhibition.
Territories, Stories and the Long
Memor y of the Land will be on
view in the museum Changing
Exhibits Gallery through early Sep-
tember 2.
Gala Fundraiser, arts classes
Eddie Kao/MAWS
By the 1993 Museum at Warm Springs Grand Opening
Capital Campaign Donor Recognition display at the
museum are Angela Anne Smith, curator and exhibits
coordinator, and Sunmiet Maben, operations manager.
the design process that created the
Museum at Warm Springs.
In addition, Anne Lawrason
Marshall, professor emeritus of
Architecture and American Indian
Studies at the University of Idaho,
will make a presentation.
Her dissertation is Indigenous
Architecture: Envisioning , Design-
ing and Building the Museum at
Warm Springs, a history of the
processes of creating the museum.
Following the program, Mr.
Stastny will sign copies of his
book, Portals: Seeking Transcen-
dence. Copies will be on sale for $100
each with proceeds going to benefit
the museum.
A special thank you to the Or-
egon Heritage Commission for sup-
The date for the museum An-
nual Gala Fundraiser celebration
riday is announced for October 13
at Tetherow Rsort on Skyline Ranch
Road in Bend. For information
about tickets and table sponsorships,
contact Bill Flood at 503-710-5413;
or email:
bill@billflood.org
Meanwhile, the second class in
the summer and fall series of com-
munity traditional arts classes are
going on at the museum, the cur-
rent classes through July 28.
Participants are 18 years and
older, are tribally-affiliated and are
advanced weavers.
Courtesy MAWS
Grand Opening of the museum, March 14, 1993.