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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).
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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.
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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.