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M ISSION — After several years of b u m p ing along without stable leadership, American L egion St. Denis Post 140 is hoping to br i n g more veterans underneath a revival tent to save its state charter. "We haven't really been functioning for years," said Toni Cordett, the new Post 140 Commander. "We've been told by the • tate eommander we're on the verge of losing our charter. We need to get our membership up and our dues paid." The fact that the Post has been "dormant" doesn't mean members have not attempted to play an active role in the community. Longtime members like Bill Burke and Antone Minthorn have long participated in community events, most prominently in parades or as flag bearers. But it's younger participants Cordell hopes to recruit. "When you think of veterans you think of Antone and Bill, men in their 70's," she said. "You don't think of yourself as a veteran when you first come out. Young people don't understand they are a vet and have services and we're here to help them with benefits and transfer to civilian life." Through an American Legion Post, Cordell said, veterans can have access to myriad services. With their charter intact the St. Denis post would be able to send youth to Boys and Girls

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M ISSION — A record r e t ur n o f Pacific lamprey to the Umatilla River has fish managers optimistic that their restoration efforts are working, but it isn't stopping them from embarking on an artificial propagation program that would be the first of its kind in

the United States. This year, the Umatilla River recorded a return of 404 adult lampreys, breaking last year's mark of 319. In 2012, a total of 104 adults returned to the river. Prior to those years, the returns weren't more than a handful. In addition to r e p air ing h abitat throughout the Umatilla River system,

Seahawk fans were ready The Seattle Seahawks came up one play short of a second Superbowl title Feb. 1. Employees at the Nixyaawii Governance Centergathered Friday, Jan. 30, for a pre-Superbowl party that included salsa competition, a dance contest, raffle prizes, fantasy football, a kicking contest, photo opportunities, free food and a questionairre contest. *

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ews 'I'm happy to show through action that becoming pregnant is not a setback. Reaching your dreams and goals is simply a matter of work ethic and dedication.' - Mariah Watchman

Young entrepreneur lands maternity modeling job GARRISON, N.D. — Even though she is expecting the birth of her son on Easter, pregnancy hasn't stopped Mariah Watchman from living her fashion model dream. "I'm happy to show through action that becoming pregnant is not a setback. Reaching your dreams and goals is simply a matter of work ethic and dedication," Watchman said. An enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Watchman is the daughter of Lindsey Watchman, who is employed at Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center. She is the grand-daughter of the late Eva Watchman-Shippentower. She proudly wears her enrollment number — X-2584 — tattooed on the back of her neck. In 2012, Watchman was a finalist on "America's Top Model," one of TV's most popular reality shows, but has switched away from the shiny hmehght of the runway to magazine modeling, fashion shows and instruction for would-be models, particularly Native Americans. After her experience on the TV show, which was broadcast in front of a large tribal audience live at Wildhorse Casino, Watchman had the opportunity to sign with New York 8z LA Models, but instead decided to stay in North Dakota where her fiance, Tony Damian, and her mother, reside.

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Since her decision to manage her own career, Watchman has hosted model workshops, participated in Native fashion shows, coached runway technique, and made appearances — primarily at schools — as a motivational speaker. She participated in the last Rock the Native Vote Rally with Twilight's Chaske Spencer in Oneida, Wisc., and attended the Dreamcatcher Charitable Foundation Gala in Canada where she met and was in the company of Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Gil Abrahamson (Jacob's father from Twilight) and John Herrington, the First Native astronaut in space. All that was squeezed in between the last two years of college basketball at Nueta Hidasta Sahnish College on the Fort Berthold Reservation where she led her team to the Montana-Dakota Tribal College Championship. After learning of her impending motherhood contII"ute~ p"otos with fiance Tony Damian member of the Star family on the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation — Watchman had the desire to continue her career but needed another outlook. So on Nov. 7 of last year, 18 weeks into her pregnancy, she signed with Expecting Models, a maternity modeling agency based out of New York and Los Angeles. The contract is valid through April of 2016. On Jan. 7, Watchman flew from North Dakota to

San Francisco and went straight from the airport to a fitting for Old Navy. The photo shoot was the next day for OldNavy.com 2015 spring website use. She flew back to the "icebox" of North Dakota at 27 weeks pregnant. "My agency had been waiting for my tummy to grow for bookings," Watchman said. "I've gained a mere 10 pounds so far and I'm in my last trimester." Watchman said photos from the OldNavy.com should be on the company's website in March. "If you click on the maternity tab I should be one of the three models that pops up on the site," she said. She also has been "on option," which means the booking/job is not confirmed, but the company considers her. She has been on option for Target, Gap and J.Crew. "I still have about four months to work before I can't fly anymore at about 35 weeks, so fingers crossed I'll book another big client," Watchman said. "My agency will represent me and my son for one full year after he is born for the baby /mommy division where we will be put up for jobs like Pampers." During November, the same month that she signed with Expecting Models, Watchman became a young business owner and started N8TV, LLC, a company with the purposes of retail, photography, and model workshops. "I feel a sense of duty to take what has been learned from the eight years of my modeling career and apply it to my people," said Watchman, a 2009 graduate of Nixyaawii Community School. "I aspire to produce and take part in model workshops on different reservations to share my experience, and the experience of other accredited native designers, photographers, and models, and provide opportunities and outlets for those interested."

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Conner elected to lead Youth Council MISSION — The Youth Leadership Council for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation elected 15 new members during a Youth Leadership Summit Jan. 18 and 19. Vance Home Gun, a Salish & Blackfeet native from A r l ee, M o n t ana, on the Flathead Reservation, attended the summit as a guest speaker. "Watch what you say to others and to yourself. Watch your words. Tongues do a lot of damage," said Home Gun, a motivational speaker who was named 2013 Champion of Change by theCent er for N a t iv e A m e r i can Y o ut h a n d the founder of an organization named Y oyoot Sk w k w i m l t ( Strong Y o u n g

People). Home Gun told young people to listen to the elders and respect their authority and wisdom, live a drug-free and alcohol-free life, keep their promises, and live the life of their ancestors. " I encourage you al l t o t h i n k b e c ause thinking takes work and if y o u don't put i n th e hard w or k t hen yo u won't succeed," he said. "Think good thoughts and then put your good, positive thoughts to action." Virginia Conner was elected Leadership Council Chair in a run-off election against incumbent Kelsey Burns, who had served from 2013-2014. Conner, the incumbent secretary, was nominated from the floor. In all, there were two dozen nominations from th e fl o or . Th i rty v o t ers elected four o f f i cers and 12 at-large members.

Youth Leadership Council for the CTUIR, front row left to right: Kaitlynn Melton, Cecillia Hoffman, Alyssa Farrow, Virginia Conner, Sequoia Suppa, Peyton Lamere, katelynn Redbird, No'alani Malumaleumu. Back row left to right: Lennox Lewis, Eljiah Bevis, Tracker Denny, Kelsey Burns, Zech Cyr, Tahner Bates,and Vincent Sheoships. Not Pictured: Sonara Malumalumu and Auralia Heay CUJ photolDallas Dlck

T he largest candid ate gr ou p w a s from Sunridge M i d dle School, which had seven candidates to fill two positions. During elections, candidates were given two m i n u tes each to introdu ce themselves and talk about their goals as potential leaders. They were asked q uestions by BO T T r e asurer A a r o n H ines, w h o s e r v e d a s e l e c t io n f a cilitator. Ot her y o u t h i n a t t e n dance w ere also a l l o w e d t i m e t o a s k t h e questions. Lennox Lewis of Nixyaawii Community School was elected Vice Chair, Cece Hoffman of Pendleton High School was elected as Treasurer, and Alyssa Farrow of Nixyaawii Comm u nity School was elected Secretary. The 2015 Sunridge M i d d l e School members at-large are Zech Cyr and Vincent Sheoships; Nixyaawii Community

School members at-large are Elijah Bevis and Kaitlynn Melton; Pilot Rock memb ers at-large are Tracker Denny an d Tahner Bates; Pendleton High School at-large members are Payton Lamere and Sequoia Suppa; HelixHigh School member is No'alani Malumaleumu; and Athena-Weston School District at-large members are Auralia Heay and Kaelynn Redbird. F ollowin g t h e e l ections, the n e w Council appointed Kelsey Burns as cultural ambassador and Sonara Malumalumu as College Advisor. Staff from the Prevention and Syst ems of Care at Y e l l o w h aw k T r i b a l Health Center facilitiated the event and spoke to the youth about healthy choices and the importance of communication. Board of Trustees member at-large Justin Quaempts talked to the youth about a healthy self-image.

Guest speaker Vance Home Gun spoke to CTUIR Youth.

BOT to consider new info before deciding on pot B Wil Phinne of the CUJ

MISSION — With T r u stees mostly open to further discussion, the Board for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) kicked the marijuana can down the road during a work session Jan. 28. Although the Board, led by Treasurer Aaron Hines and at-large member Bob Shippentower, asked for more information from government departments and the General Council, it set no f u r t h er meetings to officially discuss pot — for medical, recreational, or c o m m e rcial (growing hemp) purposes. The Board said it wants to meet with U.S. District Attorney Amanda Marshall soon to discuss the federal government's role in marijuana prosecution in Indian

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Country, in light of Oregon voters' recent approval of recreational marijuana use and possession, and a U.S. Justice Department memo that says the feds will take a hands-off approach to pot in states that have done so. Meanwhile, the most outspoken atlarge BOT member — Justin Quaemptssaid he will attend a national conference on the topic of marijuana Feb. 27 at the Tulalip Resort Casino. Organizer Robert O d aw i P o r t er, a tribal law expert and former president of Seneca Nation in New York, says there's been a lot of d i scussion among tribes since the DOJ announced in December that it would allow tribes to grow and sell marijuana. A few tribes are moving ahead with l egal pot b u s i nesses. But fo r m a n y ,

c oncerns abou t s u b s t ance ab use ar e paramount. If the BOT discussion is any indication, the CTUIR finds itself in the former position. Porter said the conference will explore the legal, business, social and cultural questions facing tribes when it comes to marijuana. In any event, any question of keeping it illegal or making it legal was not answered. It makes no difference that Oregon has legalized medical marijuana nor that voters legalized recreational pot in November. Pot is illegal on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. It is illegal according Tribal Criminal Code. And it is illegal according to federal law. Several depar t m en t d i r e c tors an d

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program managers attended the work session intending to p r o v ide informat ion; the T r u stees mostly t oo k t u r n s expressing their opinions as information was provided by CTUIR attorney Brent Leonhard. L eonhard p r o v i d e d i n f o r m a t i o n through a PowerPoint and suggested several scenarios in which the Tribes would have to consider no matter whether they keep marijuana illegal or if they make it legal. If it is left illegal, then there is the question of prosecution. " Tribes have no j u r i s d i c t io n o v e r non-Indians (except in some domestic violence cases )," said Leonhard. "So cases have been referred to the county. See Mari uana Pa e 34

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Starkey in Union County. About 875 adult lampreys are splashing around in seven large plastic totes at the Minthorn Springs holding facility along the Umatilla River on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. After the 400 are used for the Grand Ronde, the remainder will be released to the Umatilla River to supplement the lampreys that are expected to return this spring. Now, however, following models used by the Finns and Japanese, tribal biologists want to incorporate artificial propagation into their mix of tools to invigorate the enigmatic species, which often is called an eel even though it is a fish. The artificial propagation element is planned for implementation in the Walla Walla and Tucannon rivers in the next few years. What's more, researchers intend to use a variety of high-tech instruments to learn more about the passage characteristics, routes, timing and interactions between lampreys- as juveniles downstream from the river to the ocean and as adults returning from the Pacific back to upstream spawning grounds — with large-scale projects. The CRITFC member tribes (Umatilla, Yakama, Nez Perce and Warm Springs), together with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S. Department of Energy are developing a juvenile lamprey acoustic tag. "It's been used in the salmon world for years to see

A lampreyisa prehistoric creature that' s been around some 530million years, according to A aron Jackson Lamprey ProjectLeaderin the Fisheries Program of the Department of Natural Resources for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. To put thatin perspective, dinosaurs went extinct 60 million years ago and salmon have been around 20 million years.

taries and the mainstem Columbia River to insure safe passage for fish going out," he said. Currently, lamprey artificial propagation research is being conducted at the William Grant Water and Environmental Center Aquatics Lab at Walla Walla Commuhow salmon interact with hydro projects. Now we need nity College. Some of the artificially propagated lamprey to make a miniature of an already-miniature tag for would be available for testing there to learn more about lamprey," said Aaron Jackson, Lamprey Project Leader spawning, incubation, food, space requirements, etc. in the Fisheries Program of the Department of Natural "When it comes to recovering lamprey we think we Resources for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla have three methods available to use: fix the habitat Indian Reservation. and hope lamprey naturally recolonize on their own, The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (forwhich is not likely; use adult translocation that's now merly Battelle ) is in effect; and artideveloping the tag ficial propagation. W e're e x p l o r i n g at a cost of approxi mately 53.5 m i l all three," Jackson l ion, w i t h p a r t i a l said. f unding p r o v i d ed Tribal members by the USACOE Acw ere th e f i r s t t o cord obligation of notice that popula550 million over 10 tions were declinyears for lamprey i ng rapidly in t h e projects. 1 970s an d t h e i r "It's a sw e e t c oncerns " f el l o n deal" because the deaf ears" as mant ribes didn't h a v e agers considered the money for dethe lamprey a trash velopment, much fish, Jackson said. l ess to m ass p r o " Ma n ag e r s duce the tag. CTUIR lamprey research team members, holding the "cryptic" creatures, include c o u l d n 't s ell a t a g But the Depart Aaron Jackson, LampreyProjectLeaderin the FisheriesProgram ofthe Department fo f y ou to go catch ment of Ener w i l l of N a tural Resources, Kanim Moses-Conner, Jerrid Weaskus and Tony Montoya. a la m re " Jack amprey, foot much of the bill son said. to develop the prototype tag, Jackson said, because it Fish c o u nters at the major dams were having trouble wants to use the same technology to study East Coast s e eing through the lamprey attached on the windows American Eels, which are no relation to the Pacific t o c o unt salmon. They'd push a button and shock the Lamprey. lamprey with an electrode and the fish would fall back Jackson figures it has taken 50 years or so to un dow n s t ream within the fish ladder. derstand artificial propagation techniques for salmon O n sma l l e r-river fish ladders, which weren't conculture — the spawning, incubation, hatching, optimal s t r u c ted for lampreys in the first place, fish managers diet,andspacerequiredforrearingprior to release — and fastened angle iron to stop lampreys from attaching learning about lamprey isn't going to happen overnight. t h e m selves along the sidewall of the ladder to climb The research in artificial propagation is two-fold . o v e r smaller dams. They were successful in that regard First, artificial propagation will create more than jua sl amprey drastically declined thereafter, Jackson said. veniles for release, and second, it will p r ovide "tes t Then a l ong came 550 million for lamprey fixes from animals." the Bonneville Power A d m i n i s tration Fish A ccord "Tribes aren't comf or table w it h e x p eriments on Settlement. Among the projects were ladders built existing, remnant wild populations, and we need these s p ecifically for lamprey, creating what Jackson called a animals to learn critical juvenile passage issues in tribu"highway through existing fishways."

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The 50-year-old pitted concrete fish ladders needed a smooth surface for lamprey so metal faces were attached. The first such fabrication in a Columbia Basin tributary was constructed at Three Mile Falls Dam, three miles from the mouth of the Columbia on the Umatilla River. Success didn't come overnight. In fact it didn't happen in the next couple of years. In 2009, only a half dozen lamprey climbed the new ladder. Jackson said lamprey have such a sensitive olfactory that the metal needed time to "season" before it smelled enough like the river to coax the fish up the surface. Currently, the Umatilla Tribes, in conjunction with the Yakama Nation and the Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish Commission, are developing a master supplementation plan for each tribe's respective basins. For the CTUIR, this includes the John Day, Umatilla, Grand Ronde, Walla Walla and Tucannon rivers. According to the plan, the John Day will be a "control river" with no changes to its current wild fish management practices. Some 5,000 to 10,000 lampreys every year enter the John Day system — about 400-500 miles of river and stream. There will be no t r anslocation, no artificial propagation — just a control sample by which the other rivers can be compared. On the other hand, the Umatilla, Grand Ronde, Tucannon and Walla Walla "need help," Jackson said. "Our work in the Umatilla looks promising, enough to think we could maybe have the opportunity some day for tribal members to harvest lamprey," Jackson said. Lampreys that reach the Umatilla River have to navigate McNary Dam on the Columbia and four more Snake River dams to make it to the Grand Ronde. "Lampreys have several options before they choose the Grand Ronde," Jackson said. "Knowing that challenge, we're giving them a ride right to the Grand Ronde. With a significant number to occupy and recolonize prime habitat, they hopefully w il l i n crease pheromones, which are thought to be a key to attract more." Jackson chalks the upwards trend in Umatilla River returns to passage improvements made particularly at the mainstem Columbia River projects and at Three Mile Falls Dam. "The answer is unclear and just because passage is improving, we still need to understand why we're seeing the increase," Jackson said. "We would like to attribute the success we have seen in the Umatilla River to our recovery actions that began in 2000, but the lamprey will never tell us all of their secrets."

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Many gather from around the region to learn how climate change affects the Umatilla Indian Reservation and discuss ways to overcome effects B M i randa Rector of the CUJ

MISSION — Water levels in the Umatilla River have dropped about 25 percent over a 105-year (1904-2009) period, according to Kyle Dittmer, Hydrologist and Meteorologist for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, who was one of several speakers on Jan. 8 at the Climate Change event on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The first class in a series, which was a concerted effort of several departments within government departments of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR), was moderated by Mervyn L. Tano, attorney and president of the International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management. A panel of four experts made presentations to an audience of about 60 people that represented a wide range of CTUIR staff, city of Pendleton and Umatilla County officials. Members of the CTUIR Board of Trustees were invited, but none attended. The following summarizes the presentations of the speakers: Stephen Bieda III, Meteorologist at the National Weather Service Forecast Office, spoke about how climate change impacts weather. One of the main areas he focused on was Global Warming. Natural greenhouse gasses, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor, are in the Earth's atmosphere and absorb half of the sun's radiation to warm the Earth's surface; this is known as the Greenhouse Effect. However, human activities involving greenhouse gasses are enhancing the greenhouse effect and therefore causing a rise in global average temperature, this is known as Greenhouse Warming. So how does global-scale warming affect the Umatilla Indian Reservation? According to Bieda's research, the Pacific Northwest has had a quicker increase of temperature in the last two decades with a greater temperature change over the Lower Columbia Basin and along theBlue Mountains. Because of the increasing temperatures, snow water equivalent has also decreased 40-60 percent over the Blue Mountains since 1950. In addition, abnormally hot days and nights, as well as heat waves, will become more frequent; extreme cold days and nights will occur less often and become warmer. Kyle Dittmer, Hydrologist and Meteorologist at Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, talked about the climate change impacts to water. Some of the statistics he gave are based on a three-year moving average gathered over decades of time. • Over the last 100 years linear

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Alvina Huestiesis speaking to a panel while Carl Sampson and daughter, Kathy Sampson-Kruse, look ahead. CUJ photolMIranda Vega

Columbia basin historical annual flow timing and extreme high and low temperatures have warmed 1-2 degrees flows in the coming years." Fahrenheit. Actions that can be taken to help • The Umatilla Basin flow has derestore climate changes are to prepare clined 22 to 28 percent between 1904society to adapt and be flexible to the 2009. changing weather, reduce greenhouse • The Umatilla basin flow onset date gas emissions by using more natural has shifted 17 to 31 days earlier (threeenergy and less oil, and promote natural water storage such as small ponds year moving averages). • Water temand watersheds. Emily York, peratures in the lower Columbia Coordinator One thing to note is that at Bonneville Dam of the Oregon weather and climate are not commonly exceed Public Health one in the same. the state standard Division's Cliof 68 degrees mate and Health Fahrenheit, which Program, spoke Weather is the current greatly increases climate conditions in the atmosphere, about salmon mortality, change and its including temperature, rainfall, impacts to huduring the summer months. wind, and humidity which can man health. York • Other impacts explained that be highly changeable. include loss of low there are many level mountain areas that climate Climate, however, is the snow, water qualchange impacts ity, and warming and they include average conditions of the atwater temperatures mosphere, typically consisting heat, drought, that will stress the wildfire, floods of 30 years of weather data. salmon. and storms, sea "The climate The climate is much more levels, allergens, of the past, which infectious disease constant. served to provide and other indirect a stable environimpacts. mental base-line for over 10,000 years, The following points are taken from is changing rapidly and in ways that is the Executive Summary of the Oregon hard to predict any given day, month, Climate and Health Profile Report: or year," said Dittmer." The tribes • Oregon is likely to experience more need to build a buffering capacity to extreme events like heat waves, wildhelp counteract the unpredictability of fires and storms. • Changes are likely to lead to health climate change impacts. The immediate issue for the Confederated Tribes impacts from drought, deteriorating air of The Umatilla Indian Reservation quality, wildfires, heat waves, water(CTUIR) will be the changing of river borne disease, increased allergens and

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diseases spread by ticks and mosquitos. • American Indians risk further loss of culture traditions, sustenance, and way of life. "As the climate changes, we're exposed to new health risks. Oregon's Public Health Division is working to better understand how we can prepare for these new risks and protect our communities. Together with local health jurisdictions, state agencies, and non-profit partners we're identifying Oregon's most vulnerable populations and developing strategies that build community resilience across the state," according to the Oregon Health Authority. Darrin Sharp, Faculty Research Assistant at the Oregon Climate Change Institution (OCCRI) at Oregon State University, talked about the climate change impacts to first foods. The warming of the earth's temperature greatly affects both food and agriculture, including salmon, crops and animal health. Sharp noted that projections anticipate a warmer future, with overall annual precipitation about the same, but with probably slightly drier summers. Higher temperatures would mean more precipitation in the winter falling as rain, instead of snow, and earlier snowmelt in the spring. Coupled with drier summers, thesechanges could have important impacts on First Foods. "Reduced summer stream flows and higher water temperatures may make it more difficult for migrating salmon to pass both thermal and physical obstacles," according to research done by Sharp. "Indigenous foods and crops may benefit from CO2 fertilization and warmer winters, while others may see productivity decline due to warmer, drier summers." "What does that do to my tomato garden and how do I keep the soil moist in my garden ... and what exactly will I do when the temperature rises?" asked Keith Kirts, who is a member of the Climate Watch group in Wallowa, Ore. Kirts was among the attendees from across the region. Other locals included Carl Sampson, Chief of the Walla Wallas, and his immediate family; Alvina Huesties, daughter of atway Raymond Burke, Chief of the Umatillas; representatives of Umatilla County and various CTUIR employees and community members. Next sessions of the series, dates to be announced, will cover topics such as human health, economics and the built environment, said Stuart Harris, Director of the CTUIR's Department of SciSee Climate Pa e 33

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Tribes diligently watching legislative bodies he U.S. 114~ Congress, Oregon's 87'" Legislative f e d e ral budget that allocates funding for the Bureau of Assembly and Washington's 2015 Legislative I n d i a n Affairs and the contracts we hold that provide Regular Session are all in session. The influ th e n ecessary services for our community. In addition, ence of federal and state governments' representatives t h e BOT and staff are being vigilant for bills that will are far reaching into Indian have a direct influence on Country. our sovereignty. For the C o n f e d e r a ted • In Oregon, the BOT has Tribes Qf the Umatflla Indian „fi o f i t ized the rem oval Qf Reservation the Board of a sunset clause to Senate StrIdeS by enSUrIng OUr Trustees (BOT) have taken a Bill 412; this wo ul d conVOICe> OUI' COnCerns> OUr proactive stance by reviewtinue the authority of Tribal ing, analyzing, developing olice officers to have the needS and OUf SO+ereIgnty p same and commenting on legispowers and p r otec• lative issues being present is b e i n g r e s p e c t e d a n d tion as other Oregon law e nforcement of f icers. I n bodies. cooperation with the nine CTUIR's staff pr o v i d es federally recognized Tribes aSSemblieS. critical analysis and sugin Oregon, the BOT is supgestions on how best to apporting legislation that will proach favoring, dissenting, ensure our tax sovereignty or being neutral on federal and state laws. B e tween b y c l arifying state statute that recognizes Tribal governthe three legislative bodies over 10,000 bills, potential m e n t s are the sole entity with the authority to tax real laws, will be introduced before these three bodies retire. p r o p erty improvements on Tribal Trust land. The BOT On the federal level, the BOT and staff are closely is a l s o s upportiveof educationalfunding,asproposed monitoring the president's proposed budget to Conb y G o v e r nor Ki tzhaber, for the Tribal Achievement gress. The BOThas prioritized ensuring that the United G a p , a pilot program that will address Tribal student States meets its trust responsibilities by supporting a ab s e nteeism across the state.

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In Washington, the BOT has prioritized working on legislation that concerns the transfer of federal lands into state hands, ensuring that the state has limited law enforcement against tribal hunters, and supports the creation of a legislative commission on Indian Services representing over 30 Tribes' interests in the state. The Washington legislature has numerous bills introduced dealing with water issues and the staff in the CTUIR Department of Natural Resources is monitoring and addressing these bills as they come before the various committees. Of most importance to the BOT is ensuring water quality standards are set to a level that protects human consumption of fish. Since the founding of the United States and its legislative body in 1789 and the development of the Oregon Territorial Legislature in 1848 Indians have faced laws being made about them without any real representation. Even after Indians were made U.S. citizens in 1924, we have not had any real representation in either federal or state legislative bodies. Today, we are making great strides by ensuring our voice, our concerns, our needs, and our sovereignty is being respected and addressed in these assemblies. The work of the BOT and staff protects our rights and ensures our Constitution and treaty are being upheld as equals to the other sovereigns that surround us. — CFS III

What does sovereigntymean? Ask yourself nyone from around here who is on social media or standing around with other Tribal members will quickly see or hear comments such as, "If we are sovereign, why are we paying taxes? If we are sovereign, why is gas at Arrowhead so high? If we are sovereign, why don't we have more housing? If we are sovereign why aren't all of our jobs filled by Tribal members?" So what is Tribal Sovereignty? Well you may recall that when President Bush was first running for office nearly 15years ago, he was famously quoted as saying, .. tribal sovereignty means that, it's sovereign. You're a — you're a — you have been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." That's confusing enough for just about anyone. The definition, as by Merriam-Webster dictionary is: Sovereignty — a country's independent authority and the right to govern itself. So, what exactly is Tribal Sovereignty then? Where does it originate? How do we practice it, as a People? As I understand it and as it was explained to me by my elders, when our Creator stood us up, we received a great gift, free will. Free will is our individual ability to determine how we act. Prior to contact with European explorers, immigrants and the settlement of the West by the United States, we understood that sovereignty, as a concept of self-governance, was laid in the foundation of how we interacted with one another, based upon our

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individual actions and needs. The rights to fish, hunt, and gather were determined by our individual needs and by the communities'needs when encamped and living with others (family, kinsman and friends ). The acts of fishing, hunting and gathering were of such great importance that when the Treaty was negotiated our ancestors ensured they were included explicitly

control, housing needs, and employment rights. Tribal government is only as strong as the Tribal members who express their collective needs, wants and desires. We as a People express our sovereignty by attending General Council, attending Board of Trustee meetings and work sessions, being members of comm i ttees

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not governed by the leaders, but by the needs of the people themselves. I was brought up to believe that sovereignty was truly vested in the individual and the individual was responsible to the collective, his Tribe, his People. Our collective sovereignty is vested, today, into Tr i bal government. W e express our authority to determine our future and to govern ourselves through our Tribal Constitution and the Treaty of 1855. While we may not express our individual sovereignty as we once did, we still have reserved the right to it because we have not proclaimed individually to have given it up. With that said, there are often remarks made by Tribal members that question why Tribal government doesn't express its sovereignty on such issues as taxation, price

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society and a Tribal nation that is reflective of o ur values, our c u l t u r e and our norms. So, why are we paying taxes? Why are we gas prices high at Arrowhead? Why isn't there more housing? And so on. Well, I believe it is because there are not enough Tribal members attending the forums that will address these issues on our behalf. By not showing up and participating in these forums, individuals are expressing their free will to act on their own and not on the collectives needs. In doing so we let others make decisions on our behalf without expressing our wants or needs adequately. If we are to be sovereign, we must act in the best way possible to ensure our individual and collective needs are met now and for those future generation who are coming. — CFS III

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Welfare rancher threatens iconic bighorn sheep read recently in the Jan. 9 edition of High Country News that well known Wyoming scofflaw, trespasser and welfare rancher, Frank Robbins is threatening one of the largest remaining herd of native bighorn sheep in the lower 48. Robbins has brought flocks of domestic sheep onto his private property and leased BLM lands in the middle of occupied wild bighorn habitat. It appears he is thumbing his nose at the federal government's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for revoking his cattle permit after nine years of blatant violations of the permit conditions to use our public lands for his personal profit. In response to BLM's efforts to meet their fiduciary obligation to wisely manage the public resources, he has put one of our most iconic and culturally important wildlife species in peril while giving the sheep industry a black eye.

The jury is no longer out on the issue of disease transmission between domestic sheep and goats and our wild bighorns. We now know the lethal pathogens carried by many domestics mean near certain death for the bighorn that have no immunities against their ravages. Both domestic and wild sheep are extremely gregarious and mix readily in the field. Once contact is made between the two species, the lethal pneumonia runs through the bighorn herds, often killing a majority of the adults while infecting lambs for years to come. This decimates the populations, impacting herd production for years, and sometimes decades, thereafter. Robbins knows this as well and is holding our wild bighorns hostage in a pitiful attempt

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to leverage the BLM to do his will or maybe just as a poke in their eye for enforcing the law on him. At the same time, bighorn populations throughout the West, including those residing outside Yellowstone National Park, are in catastrophic decline due to the same domesticsheep borne pathogens. So it begs the question, how can it be legal for someone like Robbins to turn domestic sheep into biological weapons in an act of domestic terrorism against the public resources of this great nation? Many states have laws prohibiting the transport, ownership or release of non-native species specifically because of the risk of disease and parasite transmission to indigenous wildlife and fish. Likewise, we have laws that limit the use of our private lands when our actions impact our neighbors or the community at

large. We prohibit the creation of attractive nuisances on our private property and hold landowners liable when someone is injured as a result of their misdeeds. Yet Robbins is allowed to bring an ocean of disease bearing non-native ewes, an irresistible attractant to bighorn rams, into the middle of one of the last remaining healthy herds in the country with total impunity? Like most Americans, I support private property rights. I'm not opposed to public lands grazing or the domestic sheep industry. In fact, I raise a small farm flock of hair sheep myself on my private property in rural Oregon. But, when the use of private or public lands threatens the public resources we all enjoy, the majority needs to stand up and say "enough". It's time we had an open discussionabout where one's personal property rights end and their personal responsibility to the public begin. We need to hold Mr. Robbins liable for his reckless and malicious acts rather than leaving that liability on the backs of one of our most economically and culturally important wildlife species. He should be held financially, civilly and criminally responsible for any loss to the public's resources resulting from his actions. And, we need to work with our local commercial and small farm sheep growers to find ways to assure separation between domestic and wild sheep. By doing so, we can help ensure the co-existence of these two culturally and economically important species for the enjoyment of future generations throughout the West.

Carl Scheeler is a wildlife bioligst who lives in Pendleton. He worksfor the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.

Climate change threatens our treaty resources Climate change is real. Last year was the warmest on record in the United States. With over 7 billion humans on Mother Earth, we've simply emitted too much carbon and other 'greenhouse' gases into our atmosphere the past 250 years that threaten our livelihood, treaty resources and the lives of future generations. "No challenge .... poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change," said U.S. President Barack Obama in his State of the Union Address January 20th. "The best scientists in the world are telling us that our activities are changing the climate..." We are desalinating and warming oceans,bleaching and deteriorating coral reefs. Glaciers and polar ice caps are melting. The rate and number of species dying — the mass mortality events — are accelerating for numerous species at unprecedented levels. Warmer weather and less snowpack in our basins seriously John Barkleir impact fisheries, creating a 'ripple' effect throughout our aboriginal lands and the Pacific Northwest. Severe droughts are expected, as central California already knows. The Umatilla and Grand Ronde basins have been impacted the most with less snowpack, arriving and melting earlier than normal. On January 17th the temperature here was 55 degrees and onthe 25th itwas 65 degrees. Since 1895 the average temperature in the Pacific Northwest has

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increased 2 degrees. "We are seeing more extremism in the weather," said Kyle Dittmer, a scientist with the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, in a Climate Change workshop here January 8. "We've seen a 28 percent decline in the Umatilla basin, and when adding irrigation it's 35-40 percent." Political science, however, is in denial. U.S. Senate Republicans back a measure that climate change is real, but they claim man is not to blame, despite overwhelming science that indicates otherwise. We still rely on 19th century fossil-fuel-burning economics. Further investments into new green energy technologies are in order. Oregon is now the number one state where people — called 'climate refugees' — are moving. This will increase demand on diminishing water resources, especially in summer. Warming waters can result in anadromous fisheries advancing north to colder streams. What other severe impacts does climate change have on our First Foods? What countermeasures can we implement to reduce our own carbon footprint? While hunting Dec. 31st on Dry Ridge near Table Rock, snow was over one foot deep and drifted up to three feet is some spots. Three days later it was

all melted. As a young lad in the 1960's spring times were relatively mild, with ample snowpack melting gradually into June, feeding our rivers with cold, clean water. You could stand in the sun all day without getting sunburn. So far this winter we've had three snow storms, three melt downs, and snowpack level in the Umatilla River basin is 47 percent of normal. The Klamath basin is 17 percent of normal! Indian tribes must address the impacts of climate change, instill conservation measures, and develop strategic contingency plans to protect and preserve our Treaty resources as best we can, despite the political and economic challenges, and prepare for future generations. Climate change is real and we earthlings are the main cause.

While hunting Dec. 31" on Dry Ridge near Table Rock, snow was over one foot deep and drifted up to three feet in some spots. Three days later it was all melted.

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John Barkley servesas chairman of the Tribal Water Commission,on which he has served for 17years. [Editor's note: as of January 28th the snowpack level in the John Day River basin was 69 percent; the level in the Grand Ronde basin was 70 percent; the upper Deschutes basin was 28 percent; and the Willamette basin was 16%.]

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Julyamsh canceled January 2015 Weather information summarize data taken at the Pendleton Weather Station Lat 45 40 N and Lon -11851 Wfrom Jan. 1-29. Temperature is reported in degrees Fahrenheit and time in Pacific Standard Time. The average daily temperature was 36.2 degrees with a high of 64 degrees on Jan. 24 and a low of 7 degrees on Jan. 1. With a departure from normal of 1.0 degrees Total precipitation to date in Dec. was 0.72" with greatest 24hr average 0.35" Jan. 17-17. 7 days out of the month had precipitation level greater than .01 inches with 2 days greater than 0.10 inches. There was a departure of -0.63" from average for the month of January. Snow, Ice Pellets, Hail total for the month: 0.4 inches with greatest 24 hour: 0.4 inches. Greatest Depth: 1.00 inches. The averagewind speed was 4.9 mph with a sustained max speed of 29 mph from the West on Jan. 18. A peak speed of 36 mph occurred from the West on Jan. 16. The dominant wind direction was from the West. There were 5 clear, 8 partly cloudy and 12 cloudy days in the month of January. Air Quality Index values remained stable in the low range throughout the month of January.

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Tribal spokeswoman Heather Keen s ays the cancellation is related to t h e instant racing controversy. The July event is the largest outdoor powwow in the Northwest and among the largest in the nation, with 1,600 participants and up to 30,000 spectators over three days. It's been held in Post Falls for 17 years. The tribe had talked about moving the event to the Coeur d'Alene Reservation, but they lack the necessary space and facilities. Information from: The Spokesman-

Feb. 12 Chamber topic is Social Media MISSION — Bradshaw Ad v ertising of Portland will speak at the Nixyaawii Chamber of Co m m erce membership luncheon Feb. 12 at Tamastslikt Cultural Institute on the Um atilla In d ian Reservation. Admission is 515 for members, 517 for non-members and includes lunch. The topic of the luncheon, which will take place from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., is "Social Media — the How and the Why for Small Businesses." Bradshaw representatives will touch on the basic online media opportunities that small businesses should be using,

how to make what you are doing now more productive, and how to maintain and measure online activities. Following the luncheon will be a onehour workshop to help attendees address their specific issues, questions, and challenges on how to get started with social media or how to maximize what they are currently doing. The workshop is 510 per member; 515 per non-member and runs from 1:15 p.m. — 2:30 p.m. Space is limited for the workshop; reservations are required. RSVP to nixyaawiichamber@live.com by noon on Tuesday, Feb. 10.

'Finding Inner Balance' workshop series starts in February MISSION — Throughout the coming year, the Tribal Vocational Rehabilitation program will offer personal growth activities through a series of workshops called "Finding Your Inner Balance." T he first activity w i l l b e " F i n d i n g Your Inner Balance through weaving" on Tuesdays from 1:30- 3:30 p.m. in February at the Senior Center. Sessions will

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This notification formally announces that applications are now being taken from Tdbal Members who wish to serve on the Commissions/Committees listed below. Appointed members will receive a $100.00 stipend per meeting effective January 1, 2015.

2 positions for Election Commission — GC Appointment term ends Dec. 31, 2015, meetingheld as needed

1 position for Enrollment Commission — GC Appointment, 4 year term, meetings held on 2nd Thursday at 10 AM when needed d & 4th 1 position for Science & Technology Committee -2 year term, meeting held on 2n Thursday ofeach month at2 PM

1 position for TERO Commission — 2 year term, meetings held on 1ta & 3rd Tuesday of each month at 1:30 PM

Chair Gary Burke

1 positon for the Water Commission — 2 year term, meetings are held on the1ta & 3rd Tuesday ofeach month at8:30 AM 1 position for the Credit Board — 3 year term, meetings are held2nd 8 4th Tuesday at noon

At-large BOT Members: Armand Minthorn Justin Quaempts Bob Shippentower Woodrow Star

Vice Chair Leo Stewart Treasurer Aaron Hines

2 positons for the Tiicham Conservation District-2 year term, meetings held on the1ta Tuesday of each month from 1-4 PM 2 positions for the Umatilla Cultural Coalition — 2 year term, meet as needed to review and act upon applications (No Stipend)

General Council Chair Alan Crawford

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Kat Brigham CTUIR Deputy Executive Director: E x ecutive Director: David Tovey Debra C r oswell

All applications will be due on February 16, 2015 by 4:00 PM and BOT will make appointments on February 23, 2015. Applications available at the Nixyaawii Govemauce Center or online atwww ctuir or overnmeut/committeescommissions Completed applications should be submitted to the Nixyaawii Governance Center lobby. For more information, call 541-276-3165. Completed applications are to be returned to the Nixyaawii Governance Center switchboarddesk. Ifyou haveanyquestions,please contact KatBrigham, BOT Secretary 541-429-7374 or DorisScott, Secretary II at 541-429-7377.

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Land Buy-Back Update

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«<»> Offers Due 45 days After Offers Are Offidally Released «<»> Offers Due: A roximatel March 21, 2015

Back ound: The Cobell Settlement was approved on November 24, 2012 to provide $1.9 Billion to the Trust Land ConsolidationFund. A cooperative agreement signed on May 19, 2014 with the Department ofInterior Land Buy Back Program BLBBP" and the CTUIR Board of Trustees passed by BOT Resolutions ¹12-074 and ¹13-047, respectively, provided guidance to prioritize the acquisition of 400 of the 1,300+ allotments on the Umatilla Reservation. CTUIR is categorized as 28u of 150 most fractionated of allotted Tribes in U.S. Areas were prioritized by: Culturally sensitive areas and access to

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659 Willing Sellers requesting to sell alljportion of th e ir interests - Contact Umatilla-LBBP ContactCenter Toll Free at 855 359-7434

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IRIRRrjjaalLbj010: The CTUIR Inheritance Code approved Board of Trustees Resolution ¹08028 on April 7, 2008 and approved by BIA on May 16, 2008. The CTUIR declares itsintent to exercise its rights to prevent the transfer of trust lands within the Umatilla Indian Reservation to a person named in a will who is not an enrolled member of the C onfederated Tribes. Please reference C TUIR I n heritance Cod e a t : http://ctuir.ora/system/files/InheritanceCode.pdf.

Selling your land p~lun a~ril on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, however, it will assist CTUIR

in developing a stronger land base for Tribal use in: farming, expansion~preservation of wildlife or riparianareas; access to Tribal fee property; First Food resources,thereby creating opportunities to make CTUIR lands more productive for the Tribe and the community. Any land interest you sell remains in trust with ownership will be transferred to CTUIR to: Reduce highly fractionated ownership on allotments Increase CTUIR land ownership Increase CTUIR sovereignty and self-determination ff r D I r in n r . You w i l l r eceive a Fair Market Value (FMV) for any land interests you sell,based on your share in thewhole tract,plus a $75base payment per offer. ya Your payment will be deposited into your Individual Indian Money (IIM) account or a check will be issued and mailed to your most current address. Contact the Umatilla Ofilce of Special Trustee at the Umatilla Bureau of Indian Affairs Agency 541-278-3786 or TBCC 888-678-6836 to updateyour address, or assistance reading Quarterly Statements of Individual Indian Monies (IIM). IF you do not want sell your fractionated interests of allotment on the Umatilla Indian Reservation you do not need to do anything. The lack of response will indicate that you are not interested in selling. If you own property on other reservations contact the Trust Beneficiary Call Center or the Tribal Land Department where the land is located.

Im ortant Contacts: Umatilla Land Buy-Back Contact Center: (855) 359-7434 Mon-Fri 10: 0 0 -6:00pm (PST) Andrea Hall, Umatilla Tribal Land Buy Back Program: ( 5 4 1 ) 429-7490 Mon-Fri 7:3 0 - 4:00pm (PST) Leslie "Sass" LeCornu, Acquisition 8t Disposal(Conveyance:(541) 276-3792 Mon-Fri 7:30 - 4 :00pm (PST) Kelly George, CTUIR Land Acquisition: (541) 429-7483 Mon-Fri 7:3 0 - 4:00pm (PST) Kevin Moore, OST Fiduciary Trust Officer: Mon-Fri 7:3 0 -4:00pm (PST) Trust Beneficiary Call Center PBCC) (888) 678-6836 Mon-Fri

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Construction jobs starting soon at new housing project MISSION — The construction season is beginning early this year — in midFebruary — with the projected construction starting on th e T i l l i cum G r ange Housing Development, according to the Tribal Employment Rights Office on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Carpenters enrolled with a federally

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County crews working community service on rez M ISSION — Work cr ew s f ro m t h e Umatilla County Com m u n ity Co rrections department serve the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) through Community Service. Individuals on work crews do community service, 10 to 1,000 hours, in lieu of jail time or fines, explained Della Beers, Umatilla County Work Crew Coordinator. CTUIR depar t m e nts such as Publ ic Wo r ks, H o u s i ng , an d E c o n o m i c a nd C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e n t e mplo y t h e w o r k c r e w s a l l o w i n g t hem t o s e r v e t h e r e s e r v a t i o n o n a monthly b a si s. "It's such a good project," said Della

Beers,"It's a good opportunity for them to do something good and rewarding to give back to the community." "I'm glad I came today," said Zachery Thompson, enrolled Warm Spring Native. Although he wasn't scheduled for community service until later in the month, he requested to join the work crew on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. For further information on the Umatilla County Co rrections Communi ty Service program contact Della Beers at 541-276-7824 The CTUIR T r i bal C o ur t can al so provide information on w o r k ing community service in lieu of tribal fines at 541-276-2046

Community Watch program reducing housing-area crime of seven members led by Tribal Police Officer Dave Williams and a Community MISSION — It's been one year and five Steering Committee. months since the Community Watch pro"All members are volunteers... The gram began on the Umatilla Indian Reser- o nly real r e q u i r e m ent i s a d e s ir e t o vation and, accordmake the reservaing to Marcus Luke, tion a safe place to Interim Director of raise children," said the Department of Officer Williams. Housing, there has Officer Williams been a decrease in is a 24 year military c riminal activity i n v eteran w h o h a s housing areas. served as a Police "Crime has absoOfficer for 15 years, lutely decreased," 21 years working for said Luke. "We conthe Confederated c entrate o n c r i m e Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservap r event io n t o r e - Tribal Police Officer Dave Williams duce illegal activiCUJ photolMIranda Vega t i O n (CTUIR). "He's an asset to ties, including drug and alcohol-related issues, traffic tickets the Housing Department," said Luke. or pet problems." "He and other officers are working to Community Watch is a program made improve relationships wit h th e comup of community m embers who pass munity by being a friendly face in the a background check and are over 21 neighborhood, interacting with children years of age. Members attend monthly with prevention education and assisting meetings where they can openly ask where needed." q uestions, gain know l edge on law f u l C urrently , C o m m u n i t y W a t c h i s procedures, and receive guidance on how tackling a project to set up drop boxes in to handle and report potentially dangerseveral areas for anonymous written tips ous situations. Members are not required to the Police Department. to patrol and can keep their identities For more information, contact Rosenanonymous. The team currently consists da Shippentower at 541-969-1214.

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Language Program, Nixyaawii team up in high-tech project MISSION — The Imatalam language is thousands of years old and only a handful of fluent speakers remain, but state-of-the-art technology and the "Language Keepers" may keep the native tongue alive. When you think of the Umatilla language, you may quickly think of words like "mish?" or phrases like niix maycqi. You certainly don't immediately think of iBooks, phone apps or soundcloud, but those are terms that likely will put you in touch with your native language faster than any other method. The words online at "soundcloud.com" are spoken by Damien Totus, one of the teachers in the Language Program in the Education Department for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Curious? Stoprightnow and log on to your computer. Enter soundcloud.com. In the search box type in d totus. (Our apologies if you have to go through an obnoxiously confusing sign-up process.) When you do get to the "d totus" page, click on one of the icons to hear Damien's voice giving the English word followed by the word in Umatilla. There are hundreds ofwordsin 22 tracks rangingfrom human plurals to subject form pronouns, interrogatives, body parts,animals, trees and bushes, distils, relatives, combinations, possessive pronouns, foods, general things, adjectives, objectform pronouns, locations, verbs,months, and numbers (1-100). As an example, the track for body parts lists the Umatilla words for arm pit, bladder, head, face, body, forehead, hair, ears, eyes, eyelashes, eyebrows, nose, cheek, chin, mouth, tongue, teeth, throat, shoulder, neck, back of the neck, chest, arm, elbow, wrist, hand, thumb, pointer finger, middle finger, ring finger, pinky, belly, belly button, hips, leg, knee, ankle, foot, heel, toes, thigh, back, butt, lungs, heart, liver, and stomach. Totus, who teaches the Umatilla language at Nixyaawii Community School (NCS), admits he was apprehensive about using technology over traditional methods to teach the language. After all, he had learned by listening to his grandmothers and speaking it at home. "I was very stubborn," Totus said. "I'd seen the work of all my co-workers, the work of my dad, the elders, the recordings, the re-does to say the word right.

Making the trip to Anchorage were, front row from left, Nixyaawii Principal Ryan Heinreich, Nixyaawii Career Counselor Michelle Van Pelt, University of Oregon technology teacher Robert Elliott; back rowfrom left,C TUIR Language Teacher Damien Totus,and studentsTeata Oatman and Lennox Lewis.

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I knew that if the recording was wrong it was my responsibility to say it right and clearly. There were so many steps back to move one step forward." The Language Keeper moniker came about to help NCS students identify themselves when they were raising funds for a trip to Anchorage, Alaska, to present at the National Indian Education Association Conference. They were one of three high schools chosen from across the United States for the honor of making the language presentation. Little did they know that several other tribes would not only like their presentation and language-learning model, but they liked — and want to use or even buythe Language Keepers name as well. What to do with that conundrum isn't high on the list of concerns at this point. Meanwhile, the students raised their money for the trip. Most of the cash came from patrons and employees at Wildhorse Resort 8z Casino where the students were allowed to sell fruit cups. There wasn't much other financial assistance from the community. The project — Youth Become Language Leaderswas spearheaded by theNorthwest Indian Language Institute at the University of Oregon. Robert Elliott worked with Totus and students at NCS to build a small library of e-books to be used by young learners in preschool and afterschool language programs. Nixyaawii Community School students Teata Oatman and Lennox Lewis collaborated with Elliott to present at the NIEA conference in Anchorage. Their 75-minute presentation was more than well received. Oatman, dressed in full regalia, and Lewis, gave their presentation in the Umatilla language before finishing the presentation with a Power-Point video showing

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NCS students talking about why language is important to them. Language teachers Thomas Morning Owl and Fred Hill also made comments. Michelle Van Pelt, career /post secondary counselor at NCS who served as audio /media technician, joined the group in Alaska. She said the presentation acknowledged the hard work of all the Nixyaawii students involved in the language project. "The Language Keepers are currently using language meaningfully, learning valuable technology skills and reshaping their identity as language leaders," Van Pelt said. "This project is one example that highlights the community goals established and defined in the Nixyaawii School charter, which mandated the tribal languages as core curriculum. This is only one of several developed media modules that are attempting to meld and bridge old teaching technique with modern technological advances." This spring the Language Keepers will make a similar presentation at the Native American Student Advocacy Institute, which is College Board Diversity Conference. NCS was one of a handful of schools selected from among hundreds of applicants to make presentations. The Conference will take place June 4 and 5 at Washington State University in Pullman. "There is a perception of what people think of NCS but there is so much talent here," Van Pelt said. "On a communal levelthe Language Keepers is providing empowerment for youth to take ownership and become agents of change within the revitalization community. This provides a foundation in which students become active members in language learning, teaching and revitalization which is at the heart of the charter."

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DID YOU KNOW? Indians have conformed to the Euro-Americans usage of the term "Chief", which to them is a person who maintains absolute control over the people, like foreign monarch. For the Sahaptian-speaking peoples, such a person doesn't exist; but because the term has been used so frequently in Indian-white relations, the Indians have conformed to its usage. For the Indian people, the term "chief" may be spoken as mayux or miyoxat in Umatilla or Nez Perce. The term most accurately denotes "leadership", whereby such a person, whether man or woman, is vested with the responsibility of seeking and promoting the will of the people. Gathered from www.CTUIR.org

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troduced the Happy Canyon Board of Directors, Court Director Clay Briscoe re-introduced the 2014 Happy Canyon Princesses Jory Spencer and Marissa Baumgartner for the last time in their reign as Princesses. They each gave the new Princesses some words of advice and a little guidance in starting into their year with Happy Canyon. The 2014 Princessesthen passed offthe Beaded Happy Canyon Bags to the new Princesses as the "right of passage," transferring their position and responsibilities to Miss Harris The next event was the Christmas Pow and Miss Penney. Wow Dec. 27 atthe Longhouse on the For the Princesses, January ended Umatilla Indian Reservation where they with a representative of the Pendleton were introduced to the W oolen M i l l s, w h o t ribal com m u n i ty . I t comes from Portland was their first opporonce a year specifitunity to give an introcally to show and fit ductory speech telling t he Prin cesses w i t h -."'id the packed Longhouse the Woolen Mill's new e what it means to be a g arments that w o n ' t cr princess. There defibe released to the pubnitely were some jitters, l ic unti l m u c h l a t e r but they will continue in the year. Debbie to build on this speech Briscoe, who d e t erand give it to over 60 mines the Princesses different gatherings Happy Canyon Princesses sign completelineofcloththroughout the year. c on tr a c ts w i t h Happy Canyon i n g t h r o u g h o ut t h e The next event was President Jaso n Hill, Court and yea r , worked with the r Clay Briscoe and Woolen Mills and the the next day fo r t h e yalty D i r ecto • p t h, h Co u rt Chaperson n or s arty, w c princesses to select is put o n t h r o u g h a each garment that will joint effort from Round-Up and Happy be worn throughout the year. It is a fun Canyon to thank youth volunteers that and exciting time for the Princesses to c ommitted time and effort to th e tw o get to see and actually order garments organizations over the last year. that aren't available to the public. On Jan. 9 at a dinner at Mac's Bar February looks to be a little less busy and Grill, Mary and Josephine signed for the Princesses with just the Happy t heir P r i n c ess con t r a cts i n f r o n t o f Canyon and Round-Up Joint Helpers their parents and witnessed by Happy Party to thank adults who donate time C anyon President Jason Hi ll, C o u r t and efforts, and with some, their profesand Royalty Director Clay Briscoe and sional expertise, without which Happy Court Chaperone Toni Mi n thorn. The Canyon would not be possible. contract between Happy Canyon and The Princesses will attend an annual the Princesses is signed every year by Court Social between the Round-Up and the new Princesses as a formality of the Happy Canyon Courts and chaperones. understanding of the responsibilities of This is a fun afternoon where the two a Happy Canyon Princess. Courts, Directors and Chaperones can The next morning was the official spend an afternoon just "playing" toannouncement celebration of the Pringether to get to know one another. The cesses to the general public at the antwo Courts attend 90 percent of their nual Happy Canyon A n n ouncement functions and events together, so knowParty held at the Pendleton Convention ing one another better makes each event Center. There were many dignitaries and all the more enjoyable as friends. Pendleton community officials, along The "Pvincess Tvrrils" ariii appear peviodicrriiy with Tribal d i g n itaries in attendance thvorcghorcithe year so CUI verrdevs and the Tvibrrl comshowing a strong support of the new munity can better fouoru theveign of Happy Canyon Princesses. Not a seat was left open to PvincessesMary Hrrvvis rrnd Josephine Penney. Pvincess Tvrrils is submitted by Clay Bviscoe, Happy Canyon sit in. Once Happy Canyon President Court Director. Jason Hill welcomed everyone and in-

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Feds accuse 15 people of stealing Yakama Nation scholarship funds By Kate Prent,aman of the Yakima Herald-

TOPPENISH, Wash. — Fifteen people, including an interim manager and former manager, are facing federal charges for allegedly stealing 5179,000 worth of scholarships from the Yakama Nation Higher Education Program. The suspects were awarded a total of 67 checks ranging from 51,000 to 56,500 for studies at colleges and universities that reported the students had never enrolled or completed coursework, according to the indictments handed down in U.S. District Court in Yakima. According to investigators, the fraudulent scholarship applications were submitted between 2009and 2012. The tribe's higher education program administered both federal Bureau of Indian Affairs student assistance funding and the tribe's own scholarship program. Estimates of how much money was available for scholarships through the program each year was not available Jan 28. Calls from the Yakima Herald-Republic to the Yakama Nation Tribal Council requesting comment were not returned. FBI agents and Yakama Nation police arrested 11 people on Jan. 26, said Ayn Dietrich, an FBI spokeswoman in Seattle.

They made courtappearances in Yakima on Jan. 27. Those not arrested were expected to report to court this week, Dietrich said. Among those indicted were Priscilla Marie Gardee, interim manager of the program, and Delford Neaman, former manager. Also indicted were Phillip Stevens, Anthony Linn Gardee, Sophia Leta Gardee, Tamera Jean Gardee, Latonia Wheeler, Cynthia A. Arthur, Crystal L. Miller, Arnetta Amy Blodgett, Brycene Allen N e aman, G i l b er t O n e p ennee, Odessa P. Johnson, Phillip A. Burdeau Sr. and Susan Aleck. According to program documentation from 2013, scholarship funding was to go to Yakama students attending a college or university full time. Awards were granted at the rate of 51,500 per academic year for undergraduate students and S3,000 a year for graduate students. Students who withdrew from school were required to refund their scholarships.

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ing, tipis, parfleches, woman's saddles and other possessions. The travel and trade network changed further with the introduction of the non-Indian and their trade items. The fur trade began in the late 1700s with Oregon coastal tribes and quickly spread inland. With the non-Indian came the military in the early 1800s in Oregon territory. With the introduction of non-Indian trade goods began the trade of horses for such items as blankets, beads, cloth, food provisions, kettles, spoons, and later the introduction of cattle and oxen to the area in the 1830s. The Cayuse had been the first Indians in the vicinity of Fort Nez Perce to trade beaver and horses for guns and ammunition. However, they showed more interest in caring for and trading horses than furs. Occasionally, horses were given to aid white men in their expedition to cross mountains. ayuse trade continued to be chiefly in horses, which never ceased to be an important measure of their wealth. Prestige and wealth were partially reflected by the number of horses that a person owned. Horses

nature's coloration by painting and otherwise decorating their mounts as they did themselves, creating an illusion of physical unity between man and beast to match what they considered the mystical union between them. At no time was this more apparent than when chiefs and warriors maneuvered their mounts before a battle. In their migrations they depended upon their mounts, which were also excellent pack horses, carrying up to three hundred pounds of gear and supplies,such as lodge mats and robes. Children were tied on gentle animals. And when the Cayuses made camp, the pack horses were turned loose to graze nearby as their owners set up housekeeping. Louie Dick Sr. takes partin a wild horse roundup at the Telephone Ridge corral. He helped out roundingup and branding the horses from the open range. The photograh, which was damaged by waterspots, isin the collection of Tamastslikt Interpretive Institute.

were a reflection of status, not only wealth of horses but also evidence by those in high status, headsman, sometime being buried with their favorite horse. hile Indian people to the east of the Cayuse were trading animal pelts to non-Indians for goods, the Cayuse could obtain these same

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goods by trading horses. The Cayuse adopted the Great Plains philosophy of war as their own power grew and as others learned to respect it. Cold, taciturn, and high-tempered, they fought less for territory than for booty and glory. Young Cayuse males soon learned that by bringing home captured women, children and horses they could raise their status in the eyes of their people. Among the Cayuses, as among peoples of the coast and unlike those of the Great Plains, status and possession were rooted in individuals and family groups rather than bands or tribes. In preparation for war, the Cayuses decorated themselves and their horses with paint, feathers, and other trappings. Young men who wished to prove themselves on their first raid trailed off to steal horses. The Indians preferred white horses, with mottled black and white their second choice.The animals' necks were dappled with streams of red and yellow; tails were black and red, clubbed in a knot, and tied short. Head and tail were ornamented, the former with a feather cluster some twenty inches above the ears and the latter with two feather streamers and, as the trade increased, ribbons. In sum, the Indians augmented

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raditional lifeways gradually evolved into an inclusion of horse culture, which can be seen in trade practices from pre-Treaty to Treaty and post-Treaty times. When the Tribes entered the Treaty, the event of the Oregon Trail had already made Native people interested in securing enough land for their horse and cattle herds (which were part of this new economy as well ). Young Chief's desire for the Grande Ronde Valley at the Treaty was a testament to this fact. In the post-Treaty era, allotment acts, divided and diminished lands, limited access to seasonal migration routes, and struggles to secure hunting and fishing rights define the historical context. This wealth in horses helped support the gradually evolving Indian economy at the time of the settlement of the Oregon Country and the later establishment of the reservation.

n the Spring, the Indian people would go into the mountains and round up the herds. Once they were rounded up into a corral the horses would mil and mill until they mothered up, like cows, the colts would go with their mothers and then the people could see their brand. The herd was communal, all ran together as tribal horses. Tribal members who found and caught a slick, an unbranded colt two years or older, could keep it as their own.

To participate in the wild horse round ups you had to be male, at least fifteen years old, and know how to rope and handle horses. There were usually 20-25 horse wranglers rounding up 200300 head of horses. W ild h o r ses caught w er e ei t h e r c laimed and b r a n ded o r s o ld . T h e c laimed an d b r a n d e d h o r ses w e r e u sually t u r n e d l o o s e u n t i l t h e n e x t r ound up . T h e o n e s they w a n t e d t o sell w er e sol d t o n o n - I n d i a n s f or 525-30. D e m o s t B i r d s m a n u sed to buy a lo t o f h o r ses for t h e A rmy .

n the 1950s, a Hollywood company filmed the Great Sioux Uprising movie on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Some of the wild horses were used in this movie. However, after filming was completed, the tribal superintendent at the time rounded up all the wild horses and had them shipped off to a canner in Portland. The non-Indian ranchers had been complaining about the wild horses getting into their wheat crops. Tribal elders say this was one of the last wild horse rounds held on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Wild horse round ups came to an end in the 1950s.

rade in horses and or grazing rights often figured into "friendly" early negotiations of land use and access to traditional resources. It is evident that horses were more than simple trade objects. They were embedded socially within the culture, creating friendly negotiating tools in contact times, something over which to establish a good relationship by, and perhaps create obligations of a reciprocal relationship into the future.

y 1890, the Umatilla Indian Reservation was the leading livestock producing reservation in the United States. In a few short years, however, the rapidly changing landscape saw the demise of our once great horse herds. aintaining our horse herds was difficult because the range lands were all allotted and closed. Our dependence upon the horse was reduced once the railroad was constructed in 1881. In essence, we were forced to give up our most precious resources. Our annual expeditions, round ups, and horse races, and horse breeding were all but a memory in the few Cayuses and Appaloosas that remained.

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T astating. Our life as a free and mobile people had now succumbed to the inevitable changes that were taking place. At the turn of the century, it seemed as if our great horse herds were disappearing before our eyes. Even though a few herds remained, many were later rounded up, sold, and used as dog food, glue, and fertilizer. n the 1940s, wild horse round ups on the Umatilla Indian Reservation took place at Thornhollow, Telephone Ridge, Cayuse,Gibbon, above St. Andrew's Mission, Meachum, Boiling Point, Big Johnson, north side of McKay Creek, mouth of Rail Creek, Red Spring, Coyote Canyon, Starkey, and Kamela. Horse corrals were

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December 29 2014 BOT Present: Gary Burke, BOT Chairman; Leo Stewart, Vice Chairman; Aaron Hines, Treasurer; Kat Brigham, Secretary; Bob Shippentower, Member; Armand Minthorn, Member; Woodrow Star, Member, Justin Quaempts, Member and Alan Crawford, General Council Chairman. Full quorum. Old Business. None Resolution 14-070: Topic: BIA Invasive Species Proposal. BOT supports the efforts outlined in the 2015 Invasive Species Proposal and the request to BIA for $60,400 to carry out these efforts Motion carries unanimously. Other Board Action:Commission/Committee Update by Kat Brigham. BOT passed a motion to accept Mary Holt's letter of resignation from Election Commission and advertise for one position on the Election Commission. Motion carries unanimously. Will continue to advertise for following positions: A) 1 position on the Cultural Resource Committee, 2 year term, they meet on the 1" and 3"' Tuesday of each month; B) 1 position on the Election Commission-General Council appointment with term ending December 31, 2015 with meetings held when necessary; C) 1 position on Tiicham Conversation District, 2 year term and they meet on the 1" Tuesday of each month from 1 to 4 PM and D) 1 position on the Tribal Water Commission, 2 year term and meet 1" and 2"'

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Police probe harassment of Pine Ridge kids at game RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Police are looking into reports that some children from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation were subjected to racial slurs and sprayed with beer while attending a Rapid City Rush hockey game last weekend. Rapid City P o l ice Lt. M ar k E i senbraun said his department opened an investigation Jan. 27 after concerned parents called with m ore information. C haperones for the students from t h e A merican Horse K-8 school in A l l e n s aid the harassment occurred d u r i n g a game Jan. 25 at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. The Civic Center has not been able to identify the men responsible for the alleged harassment, but it said they were guests of a suite rented by Rapid City

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ence and Engineering. The sessions are coordinated by an interdepartmental team within the CTUIR to obtain local information, concerns and ideas related to climate change. "Resilience is more than simply being able to withstand climate changes. It is about gathering the best science and having the foresight to make wise decisions that enable us to determine our own destiny," said Harris. "We can choose how to adapt if we plan early enough. For example, the Wellness Center might be able to include climatebased design, knowing that elders are more sensitive to heat stress. The housing department might consider climateresistance structures and solar power. The purpose of the current grant is to gather the basic science information to help each CTUIR department plan for the changes we will see in the next 50 years." The team hopes to build a data b ase gathered from i n f o r m a t i o n relayed at the sessions and use it to design research approaches to determine po t en tial i m p a cts to the Umatilla I n d ia n Reservation stemming from changing w eather, Harris said.

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sues and things I've run into because this crosses a lot of lines," said Craig Balzer, executive director at the Civic Center. "First of all, it is very racially charged. I've seen enough reports on the statements that have been made to see clearly that was the case."

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With 91 (marijuana law ), the county will no longer prosecute. It's still a federal c rime, but the feds have said it w o n ' t prosecute low-level cases in states that have legalized marijuana use." A nother scenario t h a t m a y l e a v e people scratching their heads? Consider one Indian and one nonIndian cited for the same marijuana crime at the same time at the same place on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The Indian would be prosecuted in Tribal Court. The non-Indian wouldn't be prosecuted at all for three reasons: the Tribes don't have j urisdiction; marijuana is legal in th e state; and the feds have said they won't mess with small amounts. There are ways to make it work from a federal standpoint, Leonhard said, but it might be a little cumbersome. Tribal Prosecutor Kyle Daley is a sworn US Assistant District Attorney and as such can prosecute felony crimes, even lowlevel cases. So Daley could conceivably prosecute a case in the federal courthouse above the Post Office in Pendleton. The question would be the worth of his time away as the tr i bal p r osecutor versus whatever penalty may be involved. Leonhard's information dealt with law and order, but also looked at societal concerns that painted a picture of"rampant" marijuana use on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. N obody g a sped w h e n L e o n h a r d repeated an Alcohol and Drug report / survey that showed: • Nearly 60 percent marijuana use by adults under 25 years old; • Just over 50 percent for adults 25 to 50 years old; • 50 percent use for adults over 50 years old; • Vast majority began using at age 18 or younger; • 7 percent of males and 2 percent of

females began use at 9 years or younger. Board Chairman Gary Burke, Vice Chairman Leo Stewart, at-large member Armand Minthorn and at-large member W oodrow Star indicated they w o u l d keep the current policy that keeps illegal all marijuana use — medical, recreation and commercial (hemp). Shippentower and Hines asked for more information before they would make an "informed" decision. And Quaempts encouraged his cohorts to "read a book" and learn more about marijuana before they make an uninformed decision. Burke said he would hear from tribal departments, but w h a t ever he hears " doesn't make it l egal or r i g ht" a n d marijuana "still interferes with young peoples' minds." Stewart was strongly opposed, saying the Tribes should look at family values before the money it could make cultivating and selling hemp as a commercial product. (Hemp does not contain the chemical qualities that affect users of medical or recreational marijuana. ) Saying the Board should be "guided by experience," Minthorn said at least four times that there needed to be more discussion before a decision should be made. "Foresight is important, but if we say yes we need to know the consequences. This discussion will go on," M i n thorn said. Then he declared: "Drugs are drugs, period. End of discussion." "Even though marijuana is rampant we have to continue to try to control it. Currently marijuana is a problem and it will only get bigger. We need to prepare for it," Minthorn added. Star looked back on his days as the chief of police on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations. He remembers "pot parties" with "non-Indian hippies" and Continued on a e 35

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pot grown on back porches. But he also remembers that federal officials wouldn't take acase unless itwas "100 pounds or a million dollars' worth of plants." "I'm against it bu t yo u h ave to be realistic. That all happened 25 years ago when I was arookie. We have some hard decision making," Star said. Quaempts first questioned Leonhard's report about patients being forced to choose prescribed pharmaceuticals over prescribed marijuana. "So, you're saying substitute something that can kill you w ith something that's been documented can't kill you. That's an o d d w o r l d p e r s p e c t i v e," Quaempts said. Later he noted that cigarettes, which kill about a half m i l l ion A m e ricans a year, are sold at Arrowhead Travel Plaza on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, but marijuana, which is a proven medicine that has never killed anyone, remains illegal. "It's strange that we are talking about medical benefits that help everything from anxiety to cancer. We're delving into personal lives, and now we're medical professionals, too? This is 2015. Pick up a book," Quaempts said. Quaempts acknowledged the use of marijuana for all ages in the tribal community. He put the onus on parents. "They need to talk w i t h t h eir k i d s. We know anything in the body affects a kid until age 25. Teach what's right and wrong. Kids are smart. Marijuana is really not the devil," Quaempts said. "Alcohol can kill you, cocaine can kill you, heroin can kill you, and with marijuana you may want to eat something." Like he did last month, Quaempts also extolled the benefits of hemp, which is a strain of marijuana without THC, the chemical that provides the "high" that users get. Hemp is used for a variety of things, from rope to lotion to cloth for teepees. Some claim hemp is the strongest, most durable fiber in the world. Quaempts challenged Board members to read "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" and asked if any had read the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act. When nobody responded, Quaempts suggested: "Google it." Shippentower said he would take no position until he had seen all the information. He said he was in agreement with Hines that the entire community should be heard. Shippentower was critical of the Housing Authority's decision to develop a drug-testing policy and then imposed it without informing residents. Shippentower asked earlier in the meeting that if marijuana is rampant in the projects, c ould i t b e c o n c l u ded t ha t t h e p r e occupant drug testing was not working at Housing. Hines said he was at the work session to listen. "We don't need to decide today. We'll get all the information together and make an informed decision," Hines said. Want the paper in your mailbox? Subscribe. 46411 Timine Way Pendleton, OR 97801

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Weston-McEwen guard Sharice Quaempts (24) reaches to take the ball from a Pilot Rock dribblerduringa game Jan.24 atThe R ock.O thersin the photoinclude Ammarae Bronchea with the head band and Kayla Peterson. Tribal member Chelsea Quaemptsisinjured. /n their lastgame, Weston-McEwen whipped Stanfield, 45-32, behind leading scorer Broncheau with 12 points and four steals. The Columbia Basin Conference district tournamanent will be played Feb. 19-21 The Class2A state championship tournament will be played in Pendleton March 5-7.

1A, 2A hoops wind down with state tourneys in Baker City and Pendleton March 4-7 Jason Bushman, playing for the Helix Grizzlies, drives against Nixyaawii's Hunter McKay in a recent Old Oregon Trail Class 1A League game. The Golden Eagles from Nixyaawii Community School haven't had much competition in their league this season and are expected to win the district title in Baker City Feb. 19-21. The state tournament also is in Baker, March 4-7.

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