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A2 The BulleTin • Thursday, OcTOBer 21, 2021 The Bulletin LOCAL, STATE & REGION how to reach us CIRCULATION didn’t receive your paper? start or stop subscription? 541-385-5800 PHONE HOURS COVID-19 data for Wednesday, Oct. 20 Deschutes County cases: 20,066 (111 new cases) Deschutes County deaths: 125 (zero new deaths) Crook County cases: 2,835 (17 new cases) Crook County deaths: 46 (zero new deaths) Jefferson County cases: 3,707 (30 new cases) Jefferson County deaths: 52 (zero new deaths) Oregon cases: 354,681 (1,343 new cases) Oregon deaths: 4,235 (9 new deaths) COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles Bend on Monday: 76 (17 in icu). The Bulletin had been tracking the seven-day average case count based on state data since local coronavirus cases were first reported in March of last year. Starting with the July Fourth weekend, the state stopped providing county-level data for weekends or holidays. 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The Bulletin retains ownership and copyright protection of all staff-prepared news copy, advertising copy and news or ad illustrations. They may not be reproduced without explicit prior approval. Study: 270 Native students died at Oregon boarding schools BY DILLON MULLAN Oregon capital Bureau A new database sheds light on the dark history of federal boarding schools for Native American students in Ore- gon. Pacific University archivist and asso- ciate professor Eva Guggemos and vol- unteer historian SuAnn Reddick collab- orated to document at least 270 students who died in custody at boarding schools in Forest Grove and Salem between 1880 and 1945. Their new website, published Oct. 11, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day and hosted by Pacific University, includes names and burial locations, a timeline of the schools and a bibliography with a spreadsheet of detailed notes on each student, who came from a wide range of tribes and nations. “Sometimes they would write on the school roster and annotate it and say they died on this date. Other times it wasn’t so simple and there would be no official school record at all of some stu- dents,” Guggemos said. “Some informa- tion was only in contemporary newspa- per articles. There were hospital records, cemetery records, occasional bits from letters and diaries.” The school first opened as the Forest Grove Indian Industrial Training School in 1880, then moved to its current loca- tion as the Chemawa Indian School in Salem in 1885. Guggemos started looking through school rosters shortly after arriving in Forest Grove in 2011, and she and Red- dick sourced the National Archives & Records in Seattle along with Pacific University and state library archives. According to the research, four years after the founding of the school in For- est Grove in 1884, about 175 students were present on campus from Puyal- lup, Warm Springs, Alaska, Chehalis, Spokane, Umatilla, Nez Perce, Yakima, Sound and Grand Ronde reservations or villages. Reddick started researching the school’s history in the 1990s. eva Guggemos/submitted Students stand in front of the Chemawa Indian School in 1905. “Back in the day when I was initiat- ing this research I went to the Oregon State Library and spent many hours scrolling through these terrible mi- crofilm machines taking those little sheets of film, laying them on a plate and printing them,” Reddick said. “I had a friend who was a page. We took this rickety old elevator down into the stacks and would look for books. Sometimes you just go fishing.” Across the American West, federal boarding schools like Chemawa took children as young as 6 away from their families and aimed to eradicate their native culture by punishing them for speaking their own languages or prac- ticing their own traditions. The most common causes of death found by Guggemos and Reddick were infectious diseases like tuberculosis, meningitis or influenza. The researchers traced around 175 students at the Chemawa School Cemetery and two students at Forest View Cemetery in Forest Grove. In June, U.S. Secretary of the Inte- rior Deb Haaland announced a Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, a “comprehensive review of the troubled legacy of federal boarding school pol- icies.” While the researchers found 270 deaths of indigenous students in Or- egon, they also found around 40 re- mains were never returned home. The locations of around 50 students are still unaccounted for. Reddick said she hopes the database can help family members and histori- ans with their own research. “This is only the beginning for many people who may want to find missing family members. These are aunts and uncles who didn’t have children who people might still be searching for,” Reddick said. “Our hope is that we will be contacted by families and tribes who recognize the names.” LOCAL BRIEFING Forum to follow Bulletin reporting on graduation rates A forum Thursday continues the conversation on The Bulletin’s recent reporting about graduation rates among youth experiencing homelessness. The forum, hosted by the City Club of Central Oregon, will be available online and feature three community members with per- sonal knowledge on the topic. Uriah Barzola is a formerly homeless Bend High School grad- uate and Southern Oregon Uni- versity freshman. Eliza Wilson is the program director of J Bar J Youth Services’ Grandma’s House and lived at The LOFT, Bend’s homeless shelter for youth, in high school. Steve Wetherald is a special education teacher and graduation coach at Bend High School and was a mentor to Barzola. Zack Demars, The Bulletin’s special projects reporter, will mod- erate the forum. Registration for the event, which begins at noon, is available online at cityclubco.org. Following the forum, The Bul- letin will host a Solutions Work- shop on Nov. 4 to bring commu- nity leaders and change-makers together to design solutions for the region’s homeless youth. “The goal of the Solutions Workshop is to follow-up after the forum with a group of commu- nity members, digging deeper into the issue,” said Heidi Wright, pub- lisher of The Bulletin, in a press release. The series is the first in a quar- terly partnership between the pa- per and the City Club. “Our community is demanding better ways to engage on issues. After our forums, we always felt there was a missing opportunity to take the conversation further,” said Kim Gammond, City Club executive director. “By partnering with The Bulletin we can begin to go deeper into issues and work to- ward solutions.” — Bulletin staff report Environmental groups sue over post-wildfire tree removal BY GEORGE PLAVEN capital Press Three environmental groups are suing the Umpqua Na- tional Forest in southwest Or- egon seeking to block a road- side logging project removing dead and burned trees from the massive Archie Creek Fire in 2020. North Umpqua District Ranger Sherri Chambers signed off on the Archie Creek Fire Roadside Danger Tree Project on Aug. 18, logging approximately 2,642 acres of fire-damaged trees along 65 miles of Forest Service roads. In her decision memoran- dum, Chambers said the proj- ect is critically important for public safety along the routes, which provide access for fire- fighting and recreation. “Although I am aware there are tradeoffs associated with this and every action, I believe I have an obligation to prior- itize the health and safety of employees, partners, stake- holders, and the public who will be working, visiting, and recreating in the area accessed by the these roads and road segments,” Chambers wrote. Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild and Umpqua Watersheds filed a lawsuit on Thursday asking a federal judge to halt the project, arguing it was ap- proved without the necessary review under the National En- vironmental Policy Act. Nick Cady, legal director for Cascadia Wildlands, said the Forest Service is disguising commercial logging as safe- ty-driven hazard tree removal. “The vast majority of this logging is simply not necessary for public safety reasons,” Cady said. “If the Forest Service were to take the time to analyze on the ground where logging was needed, this project would be much smaller in scale and non-controversial.” Conservationists have also challenged post-fire logging along 404 miles of roads in Oregon’s Willamette National Forest, where the Beachie Creek, Lionshead and Holiday Farm fires wreaked devastation in 2020. Under NEPA, the Forest Service is normally required to analyze and disclose the envi- ronmental impacts of its man- agement actions. CLOCK SERVICE & REPAIR TIMESMITHY Marvin Davidson || 541-241-0653 61419 S Hwy 97, Suite Q • Bend • Behind Richard’s Donuts However, the Umpqua Na- tional Forest approved the Archie Creek Fire project as a “categorical exclusion,” allow- ing it to sidestep the review process, according to the law- suit. A categorical exclusion as defined by NEPA may issued if the agency’s actions “do not in- dividually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the hu- man environment.” While Chambers acknowl- edged potential environmen- tal impacts — including the presence of threatened and environmental species, such as the northern spotted owl — she determined there were no extraordinary circumstances that would warrant conducting a full environmental impact statement. “My conclusion is that it is possible and appropriate to re- duce roadside danger trees and associated fuels on these 65 miles of forest roads while still maintaining current and future habitat function on the land- scape,” Chambers wrote in her decision memo. The lawsuit says logging would negatively impact old- growth forest, riparian areas and critical spotted owl habitat within the project area, which should require additional re- view and public comment. It also states that most trees targeted for cutting pose no immediate public danger since the identified roads are not maintained for passenger cars, and receive little traffic. The Forest Service had planned to implement the project immediately, though the plaintiffs are asking for a preliminary injunction and to remand the decision back to the Forest Service for addi- tional NEPA review.
