Anson Crane is the Business Development Services Entrepreneur of the Year. Read more on Page 4A.
Luis Ortega had it all figured out in the Nixyaawii Community School chess tournament. More on Page 8B.
Avery Quaempts is one of four Native girls on a 10U all-star softball team heading for state. More photos on Page 1B.
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BOT talks voter intent, residency But makes no decisions By Jill-Marie Gavin of the CUJ
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Elders Tessie Williams, left, and Roberta Kipp, right, members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, were among those commemorating the Treaty of 1855 with a Treaty Day Parade June 7. For more photos, turn to page 10A.
MISSION – A long discussion about the intricacies of a voter’s intent manual was followed by an indepth debate about how the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) will resolve residency requirements that have been looming since the 2017 election. In a work session June 23, the CTUIR Board of Trustees considered options suggested by the Election Commission, under the advice of Tribal Attorney Dan Hester, regarding voter intent – that is, how voters mark their ballots. Though the Election Commission did not propose any changes to the residency requirements, the BOT also discussed the reservation boundary issue for candidates, an issue that came to the forefront when the election of BOT member Sally Kosey was questioned in January by some BOT members and some community members. The Board did not take action on the voter intent manual when it met Monday, July 2, and decided at the June 23 work session that it will reconvene on the residency matter in a couple of months with more options from the Election Commission. The June 23 work session was peppered with questions, most coming from Secretary Kat Brigham, Vice Chair Jeremy Wolf, and BOT member Rosenda Shippentower. Kosey did not make any comments during Voter intent, residency on page 14A
Heroes on the Water Marine veteran Ray Wetter was one of the Heroes on the Water at Indian Lake June 23. Nearly two dozen veterans used 14 fishing kayaks to relax during three days of camping. For a story and photos turn to Page 17A. CUJ photo/Phinney
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CUJ News Elder project mined from stacked-rock removal By the CUJ
MISSION – A new “Elder-in-Residence” project, envisioned to engage tribal elders to lead field investigations that will document traditional activities, will be funded by BPA as part of mitigation for the removal of a religiously significant rock cairn, a stacked-rock feature, during construction of the Quenett Creek Substation near The Dalles. According to a Memorandum of Agreement with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR), the Bonneville Power Administration will provide funding of up to $602,132 for the creation of the Elder-in-Residence project. The MOA satisfies requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act with total funding of up to $855,859 to the CTUIR Cultural Resources Protection Program (CRPP) for the Elder-in-Residence project; support for two archaeological field/oral history technicians; five years of site monitoring at Quenett Creek and integration of a traditional use geodatabase. The Elder-in-Residence project will be part of the CTUIR’s First Foods Program, a cultural program designed to “protect, preserve and perpetuate” traditional practices of the Confederated Tribes. The Program is based on the concept of First Foods, which include water, salmon, deer and elk, roots and berries. Teara Farrow Ferman, interim director of the Department of Natural Resources, said funding for trips and interviews will be spread out over four years. Existing staff will handle the Elder-in-Residence project work. However, an oral history technician will be hired, Farrow Ferman said. The Elder-in-Residence project will engage with tribal elders who will lead field investigations to identify and document traditional activities, many of which would have occurred at Chalukshwaakwl, which is the area near Quenett Creek that the CRPP has identified as a historic property of religious and cultural significance. Such activities would have included root gathering, hunting, fishing, camping and routes of travel. The results of these field investiga-
First Elder-in-Residence trip took place in June
The photo above shows the rock cairn (stackedrock formation) in place with construction going on around it before it was relocated. Shown at right below is the relocated rock cairn.
tions, according to the MOA, would be documentation that could be used to facilitate and expedite future consultation with the federal government through the formal identification of other “historical properties of religious and cultural significance” in advance of federal projects. This could potentially reduce the time needed by the CTUIR to formally identify such sites during future National Historic Preservation Act consultation. The CRPP describes Chalukshwaakwl as an area with known association to traditional year-round habitation sites, burial locations, trails, food procurement, spiritual activities, petroglyph sites and resource gathering. According to the Memorandum of Agreement, BPA’s construction of a new substation is needed to accommodate Northern Wasco County Public Utility District’s interconnection request for 300 megawatts of power to meet increased load demand.
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The first Elder-in-Residence trip took place in June when the Cultural Resources Protection Program (CRPP) and an elder visited an area on ceded land. Because CRPP has promised confidentiality, the CUJ isn’t naming the elder who participated. Teara Farrow Ferman, CRPP Manager, said the elder talked about hunting, camping, gathering, trespassing issues, road closures, specific people and families, campsites, cabins, and the historical era of non-Indian settlers coming to the area. The elder stressed the importance that tribal members know about and return to the areas used in the past, Farrow Ferman said. As an example, she said the elder was surprised when talking to a young man who didn’t know about Indian Lake on land owned by the CTUIR south of Pilot Rock. Farrow Ferman said it was important for the elder to see what was happening to the land today. The elder was aware of previously used hunting areas now closed to travel. Future interviews will focus on Minthorn Springs (village site), Imnaha and Joseph areas (fishing, camps, and territories).
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of plants related to first foods and for medicinal and ceremonial purposes.” Here’s how the rest of the funding will be used: Photos from CTUIR Cultural Resources Protection Program
Following CTUIR’s identification of existing stacked-rock formations, BPA redesigned the substation to reduce its footprint and minimize impacts. However, one of the stacked-rock features could not be avoided. In addition to the removal of the stacked-rock feature associated with traditional funerary practices, the CRPP determined that the BPA work “degrades the integrity of the landscape and how it relates to traditional activities” and “impacts its traditional use as a source
$147,058 – To hire two archeological field/oral history technicians; $33,060 – To provide five years of site monitoring to ensure protection in situ of existing stackedrock features on BPA property in the vicinity of the Quenett Creek substation. $15,783 – To support integration of oral history interviews and traditional use information into CRPP’s Traditional Use geodatabase, which will be used for future consultation concerning CTUIR’s traditional use areas within the Tribes’ usual and accustomed area. $20,245 – For purchase of CRPP equipment to assist with documentation and preservation of tribal history and archaeological sites.
The CTUIR Board of Trustees approved the MOA on May 21.
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CTUIR tribal leaders and staff joined by students from the Ataw Miyanasma Learning Center Summer Jumpstart and Continued Learning Program and the day care to be the groundbreakers for the Education Facility June 15. From left is Ela Morris, Katherine Morris, BOT Secretary Kat Brigham, Maelyn Stanger, TERO Program Manager Aaron Hines, Lauralee Stanger, BOT Member at Large Woodrow Star, NCS School Board Member Randall Melton, Gabriella Calvillo, NCS Principal Ryan Heinrich, BOT Vice Chair Jeremy Wolf, BOT Member at Large Rosenda Shippentower, Van SoHappy, GC Chair William Sigo IV, BOT Chair Gary Burke, BOT Treasurer Doris Wheeler, Solomona Malumaleumu, Abigayle McIntosh, Education Director Modesta Minthorn, BOT Member at Large Sally Kosey and Michael Moses.
Ground blessed for Tribal Education Facility By Jill-Marie Gavin of the CUJ
MISSION – The dream of a new Education Facility has lived in the minds of current and past elders for decades and now, finally, people of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) have been able to carry those dreams forward. Tribal and community members gathered June 15 at the Bowman property, just west of the new Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center, to sow prayers, songs and hopes into soil broken to eventually become the foundation of a new Education Facility that will include Nixyaawii Community School. Construction is expected to be completed in time for school to start in September of 2019. One after another, speakers recounted the long-held visions of an education facility for students of all ages - Modesta Minthorn, CTUIR on the Umatilla Indian Education Department Director Reservation. “Our elders were relentless in their demands,” said Education Director Modesta Minthorn. “They wanted the best for our children and recognized that the people who took care of our children needed the best facility to do their jobs.” Each speaker remembered clearly the elders who had a voice in the process of creating education facility plans that were approved by the CTUIR Board of Trustees earlier this year. The ages of community members that will learn in this building ranges from infancy to elder. The “cradleto-grave” dream of many has been realized in the design
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of the facility. Randall Melton, NCS School Board member, thanked BOT Chair Gary Burke spoke of his own schooling, all of the community members, students and parents a true Indian education, which started as a young child who attended the groundbreaking. and came from his grandfather. He said he wanted to Melton is not an enrolled CTUIR Member, but he be like his uncles, grandparents and dad. moved to the Mission area in the 1980’s and recalled his One thing that was clear as he learned to hunt and days in the summer recreation program and his mother exercise his treaty rights was the need to stay rooted working in the Education Department. He said much of firmly in the culture of his tribe. his college education was due “Culture always has to be reto the help he received from the minded,” Burke said. “You can CTUIR Education staff. learn everything, but you don’t Four of Melton’s own chilforget who you are and where you dren have advanced through came from.” the ranks of CTUIR Education This message has been told to programs, from Cay-Uma-Wa youth on this reservation continuHead Start to Nixyaawii Comously and Burke said it is a mesmunity School. Melton said he sage that must live on in this new hopes people will remember facility that fuses cultural teachthose that made the facility ings with academic excellence. possible and to keep creating The process of the education opportunities for students still facility was in the works before to come. Chair Burke was elected, he said, As the ceremony concluded, but he remains proud to be a part General Council Interpreter of the project. Thomas Morning Owl shared He is most proud of the students that the Bowman Property was and their visions, and recognized once home to a great battle bethe efforts of the NCS administratween the CTUIR people and tion, parents and educators of the the Shoshone Bannock Tribe. He said battles will continue Tribes. to be fought on the same land Another thing on the mind of - Thomas Morning Owl, once the facility is built, not those who showed up to bless the General Council Interpreter with the weapons of our anland was the safety of the young cestors, he said, but those of people who will eventually roam the mind. the halls of CTUIR’s newest buildMorning Owl said, “This site we are giving to our ing. The 63,000 square foot Education Facility will be children will arm them with ability and knowledge to home to all the Tribes’ education programs, including take over our legal, economic and education battles of day care, Head Start, Adult Education, Language and the future. It is our responsibility to prepare them for that here in this building.” the high school. Other speakers for the event included Master NCS Principal Ryan Heinrich said to see the beginning of construction is surreal for both staff and of Ceremonies Fred Hill, Mildred Quaempts, BOT Treasurer Doris Wheeler, BOT Member at Large students. “The past 15 months of planning and stages has been Sally Kosey, General Council Chair William Sigo IV, awesome,” Heinrich said. “I had no idea how much Wenaha Group owner’s representative Scott Rogdetail goes into every part of the planning from the ers, and BBT Architects principal owner Al Levage from Bend. furniture to the color of the walls.”
‘This site we are giving to our children will arm them with ability and knowledge to take over our legal, economic and education battles of the future. It is our responsibility to prepare them for that here in this building.’
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Buy-Back offers sent to landowners with fractional interests Prospective sellers must respond by Aug. 14 WASHINGTON – Landowners with fractional interests on the Umatilla Indian Reservation have until Aug. 14 to consider and return accepted offers from the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations. The Department of Interior announced in late June that more than 2,000 landowners on the Umatilla Reservation have been sent purchase offers, which can be returned in pre-paid postage envelopes provided. The BuyBack Program implements the On the land consolidation Umatilla Indian component of the Reservation, Cobell Settlement, which provided 2,035 offers $1.9 billion to were made to consolidate landowners f r a c t i o n a l interests in trust for a total offer or restricted land amount of more within a 10-year than $27.3 period set to expire in November 2022. million. The As a result purchase offers of the Buy-Back P r og r a m, t r i b a l represent a total across of 741 tracts with ownership Indian Country a total of more now exceeds 50 percent in more than 10,500 than 27,000 tracts of fractionated land (representing interests. an increase of approximately 120 percent for the locations where implementation has occurred), strengthening tribal sovereignty and selfdetermination. Since the Buy-Back Program began making offers across Indian Country in December 2013, more than 762,000 fractional interests and the equivalent of nearly 2.2 million acres of land has been transferred to tribal governments. To date, the Program has made nearly 240,000 offers to Indian landowners. “The Buy-Back Program provides a range of benefits – to landowners, to tribal nations, and to local communities,” said Program Director John McClanahan. “Landowners receive fair market value payments for voluntarily transferring their interests, which are immediately held in trust for the Tribe, preventing further fractionation. In addition, the strong communication and cooperation among various Interior and Umatilla Tribal staff has produced greater opportunities and new resources for landowners. Their efforts to share appraisal information for possible co-owner purchases represent a positive step toward leveraging the Program’s funding to achieve the Settlement’s goal of consolidating fractionated land.”
Crane named Entrepreneur of Year by Business Development Center By the CUJ
MISSION – Well-known DJ Anson Crane was shocked when he learned he had been chosen as Entrepreneur of the Year, an award that carried with it a check for $5,000, when the Business Development Service bestowed honors June 13 at Wildhorse Resort & Casino. The award is presented annually to a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation to help expand business operations. Outside of Crane’s late-night DJ sessions at Crabby’s Underground in downtown Pendleton, you can find him at most community events. He recently volunteered to spin records at the Family Bike Safety Day at Wetlands Park. He frequents the Community Picnic, the Yellowhawk Fun Run and many other events on the Reservation, either MC’ing from behind his turn tables or with his three children in tow. When Crane took the stage to accept his award he said he was in utter disbelief. “This is very shocking,” he told an audience of about 50 people. “I remember the first year I applied for the award. I still have my name tag from that first luncheon.” He couldn’t believe he was considered and thanked all the staff who helped with the lunch for their hard work. He told the other nominees – William Elk III of Red Crane Media and Chelsey Parker of Pier 104 – that they were winners, too. Crane said his choice not to go to college and pursue his business as a full time job was challenging at times. Days were spent walking the community and networking. His love of music is what drove him to continue his pursuit of being a business owner. Crane lives by a simple motto: “Music is life.” Growing up listening to music, hearing the beats from his speakers, helped turn his passion into work. He said raising his three children was not always easy with no certainty of a paycheck, but that need drove his dedication to his business. Wildhorse CEO Gary George said of the award, “We are excited about this time to honor and celebrate our entrepreneurs. We want to encourage and support business owners always.”
Crane, or DJ Big Whispr, served as a DJ and MC during the Family Bike Safety Day at Wetlands Park in Mission June 23.
Chelsey Parker, left, and William Elk, right, were also honored for their contributions to Native American entrepreneurship. Parker and Elk were recognized with runners-up awards for their work in cosmetology, and media, respectively.
Also recognized during the luncheon were youth receiving aid in pursuing training opportunities over the summer. From left is Allyson Maddern, Magi Moses, Ashlyn Looney, Lyndsey Pasena Littlesky, Adilia Hart, Moses Moses, Lark Moses and Zech Cyr.
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CUJ News Oregon Democrats OK Native American caucus By Wil Phinney of the CUJ
PENDLETON – A Native American caucus was created by the Democratic Party of Oregon (DPO) at its State Central Committee meeting in Pendleton June 11. Antone Minthorn, a longtime Democratic leader in Indian Country, and Carina Miller, a Council member for the Warm Springs Tribe, spoke to the 105 delegates and guests at the General Session before the DPO’s unanimous vote to approve the Native American caucus. “This gives all nine tribes of Oregon
a seat at the table, together,” said Minthorn, a former chair of the General Council and Board of Trustees for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR). “It gives the tribes a tremendous opportunity to help not only themselves, but the state and region with economic development, and management of natural resources, the environment, employment, all the social aspects…” Miller echoed Minthorn, saying: “The formation of a Native American caucus in the Democratic Party is an exciting, long-
overdue achievement. This will provide a space for the nine tribes of Oregon, as well as the urban tribal populations and Native American Oregonians to address voting barriers, set legislative priorities, support Native candidates, educate and spread awareness on tribal issues, and engage or re-engage Native voters participation.” The effort was spearheaded by Valdez Bravo, a Standing Rock Sioux Indian, who serves as DPO First Vice President. The heavy lifting of creating a caucus charter and bylaws came from five
women: Diane Doctor, Michelle Singer, Ruth Jensen, Amber Shulz and Miller. Minthorn said there has been talk for years, but there “just wasn’t the energy or commitment within the Democratic Party of Oregon to take the steps to initiate a caucus.” Two years ago, Minthorn went to the state platform convention because he wanted to include “treaty rights language” in regard to the takeover of the Malheur National Refuge, which Oregon Native American caucus on page 19A
Wildhorse Pow-Wow July 6-8 Hundreds of dancers, including little guys like Alexis Payer, who was 3 in 2016 when he competed in a Tiny Tots contest, will be at the Wildhorse Resort & Casino Pow-Wow July 6-8 on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. At left, dancers that create so much color exit the grass arena during a previous pow-wow. Temperatures are expected to be high for the action. For more check out the Wildhorse ad on Page 24B or visit Wildhorse on line.
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‘Outside money’ fixing Wildhorse Creek fish passage Project calls for new bridge over South Third Street Bridge in Athena By the CUJ
ATHENA – A project to build a South Third Street Bridge over Wildhorse Creek next to Athena Park will reopen more than 20 miles of upstream habitat for steelhead, Coho salmon, Pacific lamprey and freshwater mussels. The Wildhorse Creek – Athena Fish Passage project, a multi-source funded effort, is a partnership between the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and the Umatilla Basin Watershed Council. The total project price is $748,000 with the money coming from a variety of sources. Richard Christian, project leader for the CTUIR Fisheries Program, and Michael Ward, Executive Director for the Watershed Council, worked diligently to put together funding for the project, which is designed to rectify current fish passage issues and provide access to
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historic spawning and rearing habitat in upper Wildhorse Creek. Ward said these types of projects are sometimes observed with jaundiced eyes by people who think their local taxes are being spent. But that’s not the case here. “We’ve worked really hard to pull money from as far and wide as we could and we’re proud of bringing this money in,” Ward said. “We’re fixing this [bridge] with outside money. We look for and fight for this money all winter.” Ward said a recent study by Oregon State University and the Oregon Water Enhancement Board found that relatively small ventures like this Wildhorse Creek project can have big economic-development impacts on rural communities. The Wildhorse Creek project, Ward said, is calculated to create two dozen jobs with money coming in from outside sources. Further, he noted, the project will stay “as close to home” as possible for materials and contractors. “We’ll do as best we can to use local folks,” Ward said. The biggest source of funding, about $450,000, will come through the CTUIR
from Bonneville Power Administration grant dollars. About $350,000 of that will be for implantation in this year’s BPA funding with another $100,000 contributed earlier for the design of the project. Other funding sources include two grants. One was $54,808 from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) Restoration Enhancement Fund. The other was for $140,000 from the Fish Passage Compensation Fund, a joint program between ODFW and the Oregon Department of Transportation. Additionally, the Oregon Water Enhancement Board contributed $70,000 for an initial feasibility study. The Tribes paid for about half of that study. Umatilla County Public Works Department is expected to contribute in-kind work valued at about $20,000, and the City of Athena is expected to pitch in about $10,000 of in-kind work. The project is on public land owned and managed by the City of Athena and Umatilla County, as well as private land, and is within a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)designated floodplain. The portion of the reach upstream of the South Third Street
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Bridge is adjacent to the Athena City Park and private residences adjoin the project both upstream and downstream of the bridge. Neighboring land uses include recreation, residential, and transportation, with agricultural uses further downstream. Fish passage at the site is currently blocked by a concrete structure on the upstream side of the bridge, which includes a concrete apron with no jump pool and a four-foot-tall concrete sill. According to the project engineering survey, the existing concrete-box culvert and associated walls and road surface will be removed. Fish passage and channel stability will be provided by the construction of a roughened riffle in the stream. The existing structure will be replaced with a full-spanning precast concrete bridge deck, paved surface, precast modular concrete abutments, and a combination bridge rail and sidewalks. Because of Hodaka Days in June and the Athena Caledonian Games in July, and because harvest activities will further utilize the bridge through the summer, the project construction won’t start until September with completion expected by the end of October.
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CUJ Editorials BIA re-org: A Disaster on the horizon O
n March 13, 2017 President Trump signed an executive order to reorganize the executive branch of government. On January 10, 2018 Interior Secretary Zinke announced his plan to reorganize the Department of Interior. Secretary Zinke believes the reorganization will help plan for the next 100 years of land and water management, shift resources to the field, improve coordination across bureaus and other agencies and empower the field to be more responsive to regional and local needs. The reorganization calls for the creation of 13 Common Regions with boundaries established by watersheds and basins. On the surface, this sounds good. Though we have to ask, how will this affect Indian Country? Since the announcement by the Secretary, several regional Bureau of Indian Affairs directors have been reassigned or have chosen to retire. Long standing relationships have been disrupted or severed even before the formal reorganization has taken place. Tribes have not been formally consulted on the proposed changes despite claims by the Trump Administration that they would not move forward without Tribal in-
put. A number of important positions have been left vacant at the headquarters of the BIA since President Trump took office. By May of this year, Tribal leaders across Indian Country received a Dear Tribal Leader letter from John Tahsuda, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. He announced that beginning in June, Interior decided to hold informal listening sessions with Tribes, not formal consultation. These sessions were scheduled in Missouri, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, California, Alaska, Oklahoma, and Mississippi. Note that there is not one planned in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho specifically). There are 42 federally recognized tribes in our region. Why is there no direct consultation with our governments? The Dear Tribal Leader letter states that by creating the 13 regional offices, the current 10 Interior Bureaus that operate in 40 distinct regions will more effectively operate and integrate services resulting in operational and administrative efficiencies. There is no recognition that these new regions will break up traditional relationships between Tribes that have cultural, language and familial relations.
Under one proposal the Umatilla Tribe would work with a BIA regional office out of Montana, while our relations at Yakama and Warm Springs would continue with a BIA regional office in Portland. Change is inevitable, but what was so broken with the system that it needed to be fixed or reorganized in the first place? The call for reorganization did not come from the field, nor the Tribes. The United States has never been effective in communicating with the Tribes. At one time we could blame this on language barriers. Not today. Mostly what we have seen in the news about the proposed changes doesn’t seem to enhance services to Tribal governments and their People. The reorganizations looks like a reduction in the federal workforce – a workforce that has great responsibilities for protecting and preserving the lands of the United States and Tribes. This reduction of the workforce and reorganizations will most likely result in less services and more unfulfilled Treaty obligations. ~ CFSIII
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Looking for answers Dee Zimmerlee, a Clatsop County woman, is trying to identify some pictures that were in her grandmother’s belongings. She is Clatsop and Okanagan through her grandmother from Yiamist, daughter of Chief Coboway. She believes the man in the photo is her great grandfather, Bartholomew Gervais. It was a post card that was never sent, but was addressed to Mary Gervis, Elsie’s mother, Pendleton, Oregon. It reads: “I can not come back now will have to stay here a while. The baby is fine and dandy. When you receive this picture write to me. Mary Johnson. The picture of the baby on the back of the woman has Miss Elsie Gervais, her grandmother’s name, written on the back in her handwriting. The other baby picture has Elsie Wapito, 3 mo. old. Umitilla Indian on the back. Dee Zimmerlee’s grandmother was born in Pendleton, Dec. 4, 1901. She lived in the area for several years. In 1910, they lived in the McKay area. If anyone has more information, they can email dzimmerlee@ aol.com.
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hen human was stood up on the land, Creator told us we had to fulfill a promise to steward the land, water, air and creatures upon it. Growing up on the Reservation we were instructed as how to best achieve this promise. Only take what we need, give back for what we take, pick up after ourselves and protect the resources given to us by Creator. Our grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles taught us that when we visited a place we must leave it better than we found it. We were to insure our campsites, fishing sites, recreational areas were left in as natural a state as possible. We should be disheartened to learn that during this fishing season several sites along the Umatilla River and the tributaries have been trashed. The Tribal government has received a number of reports that area sites along Meacham Creek, Isquulktpe Creek, and the upper sections of the Umatilla have been littered with trash, cans, and broken bottles. This is no way to treat the land, to treat our resources. Tribal government will step up patrols through Public Safety and the Natural Resources Departments to better enforce our no littering laws. While this can be a good deterrent, each of us should take the responsibility when we see such behavior to call it out and have those who would desecrate the land pick up their mess and dispose of their trash properly. If you pack it in, pack it out. If we poison the land, water, air, and animals, they will poison us. Good stewardship is key to not only our survival, but our prosperity as humans. ~ CFSIII
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Cotton candy clouds over Thornhollow Evening sky watchers were blessed with some brilliant vistas in June and should expect more as summer comes full blast to the Umatilla Indian Reservation. As the first week of the new month arrived, temperatures were forecast to push the century mark. Wheat harvest was just around the corner and the cool pools of the Umatilla River were calling. CUJ photo by Dallas Dick
CUJ Op-Ed/Columns The challenges of the probate process By Dave Tovey
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ne of the unique and often tragic realities of trust land management is the probate process. It’s complex and too often a prolonged process, especially if your relative didn’t have an executed will to establish how the individual’s property is distributed. Several things have changed in Indian probate after the American Indian Probate Reform Act (AIPRA) that was passed in 2004. What this law did was set standard probate provisions for all Tribes unless a given Tribe adopts their own Probate Code. The Umatilla did adopt an initial Code in 1998 and after the requirements of AIPRA, the current Code was adopted in 2008 with Secretary of Interior approval shortly thereafter. What this Code essentially determines is that only Umatilla Tribal members can inherit trust land through the probate process. Over the years, we know of families that become frustrated when they learn the lands they received from their forebearers is being lost and, under the Code provisions, is being purchased by the Tribes because there were no Tribal member heirs to the individual passing. It is incredibly important, particularly at this point in the second wave of the Land Buy-Back Program (LBBP), that individuals and families plan and consider how they can keep their lands within their families. It has been so since the Tribes’ Inheritance
Code was in place, but even more now that there are other options available. Certainly, it is highly recommended that every Tribal member have an active will in place. Without a will, the probate judge is left with distributing an individual’s trust assets among the eligible heirs. Most often these are equally transferred to heirs, which may cause more fractionation and perhaps in ways that are not preferred. A will is the key tool where the individual can make that decision. It’s sure understood how difficult those decisions are, especially if one has a number of heirs or children and that some may get more than others, but to do nothing takes those decisions away from the family. Fortunately, the Tribes have maintained resources over the years to provide free will-writing assistance. We at the Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) are proud that we began the initial resources and efforts to have on-site will-writing services. The current individual doing this is Mary Guss, an attorney from Arizona, who is under contract to help people to make those estate planning decisions and craft a will to carry those wishes out. She can be contacted through the Tribes’ Office of Legal Counsel or can be reached at maryguss@hotmail.com or cell phone 360324-5644. There are other things that a Tribal member without Tribal member heirs, or a landowner that is enrolled elsewhere with no Tribal member heirs can do. As noted earlier, the LBBP may have selected
your family allotments for purchase offers. If you cannot find a way to pass along your lands to an eligible Tribal member, it might make sense to accept the purchase offer. The other alternative is selling to another Tribal member owner on the allotment(s) you own. A loan program has been set up for this purpose and I can help you connect with those that might be looking to make such purchases. Feel free to contact me at jdtoveyjr@outlook.com or cell phone 541-969-6633 and we can see what might be done. Finally, I will note there’s a great deal of effort underway to provide even more direct estate planning services and resources toward the effort of you and your family having more consolidated ownership and management control over your assets. I have worked with the Foundation for the past years on a major initiative to establish streamlined processes and funding for will writing, gift deeding, land purchase loans, and other tools. The Umatilla Indian Reservation was set up for “the exclusive use” of the Tribes and Tribal members. The more and better we can make it so that you can own, manage, and live on your own land with comfort that your descendants will be able enjoy those same benefits into the future. Thanks for reading. Dave Tovey is a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. He is the former Executive Director for the Tribes.
CUJ Letter to the Editor We need free press, not editorial board To the editor, I see that the Board of Trustees has made it their priority to establish an editorial board for the CUJ. Who asked them to make this a priority? When the current BOT members were candidates, not one of them brought this up as a campaign issue. Most campaigned on wanting a transparent government. It’s becoming clear to me that the BOT is one step away from creating a censorship board, which gets them closer to
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establishing a dictatorship. The CUJ is the Tribal membership’s only real source of information as to what goes on during BOT meetings and work sessions. The CUJ reports the words our elected officials are saying, good and bad, that affect all of us. It seems they do not want us to learn about what they say in their meetings. The creation of an editorial board will only serve as a political benefit to themselves. Some current BOT members got caught in their own lies. They publicly exposed themselves to say they only believe in a diminished reservation, not the 1855 Treaty reservation, and their attempt to bully fellow BOT members who live within the original
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reservation. The CUJ has two staff. They have won numerous awards for their reporting. No one I know has said the CUJ is a problem. Why would anyone want a three-tofive-person editorial board overseeing their work? The BOT will appoint themselves to ensure the outcomes they want. That is just a waste of time and financial resources. A newspaper’s job is to report on the activities and information about government. Without a free press we will only be told what the BOT wants us to know, not what we may need to know. David Sams Thornhollow
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CUJ Almanac Public notice ADVERTISEMENT ESPSALE OF TIMBER EMIGRANT SPRINGS (ESP) TIMBER SALE Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) SALE OF TIMBER, EMIGRANT SPRINGS (ESP) TIMBER SALE, UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION. The Timber Sale is comprised of 23 trust and tribal fee parcels totaling approximately 787 forested acres to be logged. The sale area is located in Township 1 North, Range 35 East, Umatilla County, Oregon, about 23 miles from Pendleton, OR. Total estimated volumes are 8,181 thousand board feet (MBF) of sawlogs and an additional 336 MBF of pulp material. Estimated volumes/species and minimum acceptable bids are: 4020 MBF DF/WL @ $240; 748 MBF PP (6”-11” DIB) @ $80; 713 MBF PP (12”-17” DIB) @ $110; 200 MBF PP (18”-23”DIB) @ $170 ; 5 MBF PP (24”+ DIB) @ $190; 2496 MBF GF/OS @ $180 ; and 336 MBF pulp at $5.00 (non-biddable). Volumes are based on Scribner Decimal C Scale. Stated Volumes are estimates and are not guaranteed. This sale will be offered as a sealed bid/ oral auction. Sealed bids will be received until 16:00pm PST on Tuesday August 14th, 2018 at the BIA Umatilla Agency Headquarters, (PO BOX 520) 46807 B Street, Pendleton, OR 97801-0520. A bid deposit in the form of a certified check, bank draft or irrevocable letter of credit, drawn payable to the order of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, in the amount of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS AND NO CENTS ($50,000) must accompany each
sealed bid. On the following day, Wednesday August 15th, 2018 at 14:00 (2:00PM) PST, a public opening and oral auction will be held at the BIA Umatilla Agency Headquarters. A sealed bid is required to take part in the auction. The highest bidder based on the total estimated value for the entire sale will be selected. Sale information including the Prospectus, sample contract, and bid package may be obtained from Richard Gardner (richardgardner@ctuir.org), at 541-429-7225 or Andrew Addessi (andrewaddessi@ctuir.org), at 541-429-7245.
Weather CTUIR Weather Report June 2018 The average daily temperature was 79.9 degrees with a high of 93 degrees on June 24 and a low of 39 degrees on June 12. Total precipitation to date in June was 0.42” with greatest 24-hour average 0.16” June 9. Five days out of the month had precipitation level greater than .01 inches with one day greater than 0.10 inches. Snow, Ice Pellets, Hail total for the month: 0.00” with greatest 24 hour: 0.00”. Greatest Depth: 0.00”. The average wind speed was 10.4 mph with a sustained max speed of 36 mph from the South West on June 13. A peak speed of 45 mph occurred from the South West on June 13. The dominant wind direction was from the Northwest. There were 2 Thunder storms, 5 rain days out of 30, 1 Haze events/days in the month of June. Air Quality Index values remained good through June.
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Julian Simpson gets 25 years for murder of Pendleton man By Phil Wright of the East Oregonian
PORTLAND - Julian Darryl James Simpson is going to federal prison for 25 years for the 2016 murder of Tony Jimenez Jr. of Pendleton. Simpson, 25, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, pleaded guilty in October 2017 to seconddegree murder for shooting and killing Julian Simpson Jimenez following a party at a residence on Willow Drive in Mission on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Judge Anna J. Brown handed down the sentence June 27 at the federal courthouse in Portland. Simpson’s public defender, Benjamin Andersen of Portland, in memos to the court pushed for a sentence of more than 17 years to almost 22 years, plus credit for the time Simpson spent in jail. The judge instead followed the recommendation from federal prosecutors. Simpson and co-defendant Victor Joseph Contreras attended a party March 19, 2016, at Beau Welch’s home on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. According to court documents, disputes escalated between possible rival gang members, and Welch shut down the party and asked people to leave. Jimenez backed up Welch. Outside the home, Simpson, Contreras and others became combative, and a fight
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broke out. According to the sentencing memo from United State attorney Billy Williams, Simpson said, “Let’s blast these fools,” chambered a round into his semiautomatic pistol and fired two shots. One struck Jimenez in the back of the head. Contreras took out his pistol and fired 20 rounds, hitting Welch just above the ankle. Welch recovered; Jimenez died from the injury. Simpson and Contreras ran. Contreras fell into a nearby pond, where police found him and, eventually, the Glock pistol he tossed. Simpson made it back home to Idaho, where police arrested him the next week on warrants for probation violations of two separate drug convictions. Law enforcement also took a Ruger pistol off Simpson. Simpson’s previous criminal history was for drug crimes, according to Andersen, and Simpson was clean and sober until letting Contreras re-enter his life. Andersen claimed no one saw Simpson shoot Jimenez, and Contreras admitted he bought the Glock and the Ruger pistols in Idaho. The prosecution argued Oregon State Police crime lab tests showed the gun Simpson had in Idaho fired the bullet that killed Jimenez. Contreras in July 2017 pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury, as well as possession and shooting a firearm in connection with the assault. He faces more than 10 years in prison, according to court documents. The court set his sentencing for July 19.
Notice of Proposed Changes to 2018-2019 Treaty Big Game Hunting Regulations for Public Comment Pursuant to authorities outlined in Section 2.06 and 2.07 of the Fish and Wildlife code of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR), the CTUIR Fish and Wildlife Commission opens the 30 day comment period on proposed changes to the treaty hunting regulations for 2018-19. The proposed changes include update of season dates to the current year and addition of cow elk tags for Starkey Experimental
Forest Hunt. At the end of the 30-day comment period, the Commission may adopt the proposed changes, adopt as modified in response to comments or suspend the changes. The full Treaty Hunting Synopsis may be found on the CTUIR Web site. Proposed changes are as follows: Addition of 10 tags for cow elk hunting in the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range as follows: Season: November 3 - 11 Bag Limit: One cow elk Data collection and reporting requirements remain the same.
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1. Executive Director 2. Public Transit Bus Driver (2 Positions) 3. Public Transit Bus Driver (2 Positions) 4. On-Call Public Transit Bus Driver (3 Positions) 5. On-Call Public Transit Bus driver (2 Positions) 6. Archaeologist (2 positions) 7. Loan Clerk I 8. Police Officer (2 positions) 9. Re-Education/Intervention Facilitator 10. Seasonal Farm Assistant 11. Social Services Case Worker 12. Foster Care/Child Care Coordinator 13. Surveillance Operator (2 positions) 14. Archaeologist 15. Fisheries Habitat Biologist I/ll-Walla Walla Basin Fish Habitat Enhancement Project (2 positions) 16. Indian Lake Caretaker - Seasonal 17. Victim & Witness Assistant 18. Equipment Operator I 19. Web Programmer 20. Tribal Transportation Planner 21. Grounds Keeper Supervisor 22. Computer Support Technician II 23. Resident Services Coordinator For more information visit: CTUIR Att: Office of Human Resources Online 46411 Timine Way Pendleton, OR 97801 http://ctuir.org
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General Council
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Chair Willie Sigo, IV
Vice Chair Jeremy Wolf
Vice Chair Michael Ray Johnson
Treasurer Doris Wheeler
Secretary Shawna Gavin
Secretary Kathryn Brigham
Interpreter Thomas Morning Owl
At-large BOT Members: Aaron Ashley General Council contact Info Sally Kosey Office: 541-429-7378 Rosenda Shippentower Email: GeneralCouncil@ctuir.org Meeting updates and information on: Woodrow Star
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General Council Officers, who organized the Treaty Day events, rode together in a golf cart. From left, General Council Chair William Sigo IV, Interpreter Thomas Morning Owl, Secretary Shawna Gavin and Vice Chair Michael Ray Johnson. Below, Antone Minthorn shows his patriotism with one of the small American flags handed out by the American Legion.
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CTUIR Chief Judge Johnson was the Treaty Day Parade Grand Marshal and rode with his son, Matt Johnson, during the parade in Mission June 7.
Treaty Day Toni Cordell, Veteran’s Service Coordinator, organized the Nix-Ya-Wii Warrior’s Memorial ceremony.
Celeste Reves wore a salmon suit and swam the entire parade route.
Among one group of floats and parade riders was Mitzi Rodriguez along with several youth. From left is Emery Bronson, Sunhawk Thomas and CTUIR veteran Art McConville in the Treaty Day Parade June 7.
Caleb Minthorn carried his environmental message advocating better air quality.
Jason Jones sits atop a family horse during the Treaty Day Parade June 7.
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A herd of Wildhorse golf carts followed by riders on horseback bringing up the rear of the Treaty Day parade.
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Umatilla Tribal Police Department Officer Dave Williams led the Treaty Day Parade into the Mission community June 7.
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Treaty of 1855 states: “Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the treatyground, Camp Stevens, in the Walla-Walla Valley, this ninth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive, by and between Isaac I. Stevens, governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for the Territory of Washington, and Joel Palmer, superintendent of Indian affairs for Oregon Territory, on the part of the United States, and the undersigned chiefs, headmen, and delegates of the WallaWallas, Cayuses, and Umatilla tribes, and bands of Indians, occupying lands partly in Washington and partly in Whipman Andrew Wildbill leads line of tribal elders and veterans into the Veteran’s Memorial during Treaty Day commemoration ceremony June 7. Oregon Territories, and who, for the purposes of this treaty, are to be regarded as one nation The CTUIR Tribal Flag had a big presence acting for during Treaty Day Activities June 7. and in behalf of their respective bands and tribes, they being duly authorized thereto; it being understood that Superintendent I. I. Stevens assumes to treat with that portion of the above-named bands and tribes residing within the Territory of Washington, and Superintendent Palmer with those residing within Oregon. “ Dionne “Peace Out” Bronson, RaeAnn Oatman with dogs Beyonce (purple wing dress) and Mar Mar (the leader), Sacas Wildbill and his mother, Ashley Harding, were representing Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center in the Treaty Day Parade.
Logan Quaempts leads a contingent of horse riders at the end of the parade commemorating Treaty Day on the Umatilla Indian Reservation June 7. Other riders, from left, include Thomas “Red” Jones, Jason Jones in war bonnet, Jacq Jones, and Bobbie Conner.
Smokey Bear leans down to give Darryl Joe McKay a high five during the Treaty Day Parade June 7 in Mission, Oregon. McKay’s mother J’Shon Thompson, left, and Firefighter Billiedawn Hines, right, look on.
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Maelyn Stanger attended Spring Fest with mother Cece Stanger June 8 at the Nixyaawii Communty School. The event was hosted by the Nixyaawii Honor Society.
Grace Moses took the plunge down the giant slide at the Spring Fest June 8. CUJ photo/Jill-Marie Gavin
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Pete Stanger beat the heat with water balloons during the Spring Fest June 8.
NCS students who helped with the festivities included from left, Kylie Mountainchief, Ermia Bulter, Kaitlynn Melton and EllaMae Looney. The event was hosted by the NCS Honor Society.
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the discussion regarding residency. After going through a suggested manual, the Election Commission proposed a resolution, but before it could be considered Shippentower asked Election Commission Chair Michelle Thompson what had been prepared for the residency requirements within the Election Code. Thompson said the residency requirements could be solved via General Council referendum on the 2019 ballot or within code amendments. “We are looking for a little more direction from the board… the code reads those residing within the boundaries as defined in Article 1 of the Treaty of 1855. Does that need to be changed to diminished boundaries?” Thompson asked. Under Section 3.06 Qualifications for Holding Office, the code reads: “Any enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes over 18 years of age may hold office on the General Council or the Board of Trustees; Provided, that no person shall be eligible to be an officer of the General Council or a member or officer of the Board of Trustees unless that person resides within the boundaries of the Umatilla Indian Reservation as defined in Article 1 of the Treaty of 1855 at the time the elected official is sworn into office as provided in section 3.17 (B) and (C) of this Code and throughout the course of his/her term.”
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The Election Code section was cited saying the two should be done together several times when Kosey’s residency was to ensure all of the voters’ wishes are called into question during BOT meetings honored. Shippentower said she is asked in January of 2018. Kosey brought the mat- frequently by Tribal Members if the BOT ter up in a General Council meeting and has laid the residency issue to rest. discussed the issue in a CUJ letter to the Wolf, who arrived later in the work editor and a story as well. session, said the residency issue is As a result of very different from those discussions, the recommended Hester said he wanted the BOT asked the voter intent code Election Commisamendments and to make sure the BOT sion to clarify the may warrant the was aware that past residency requirereestablishment of leaders didn’t like ments for BOT canthe Constitutional didates. Amendment Comthe use of the term Shippentower mittee adopted by “diminished boundaries” asked Thompson: the General Council “What’s on the years ago. and the BOT members map? Mr. Chairman “I don’t think throughout the 1980’s gave a definition anyone likes the wanted no recognition and I think that we language of diminbetter not do a resoished boundary, but of the “diminished lution if we are not for our Tribe we do boundary.” answering all of the have specific jurisquestions regarding diction,” Wolf said. the Election Code.” “Even for our garAttorney Dan Hester said, “If it is the bage, jurisdictionally we have areas that wish of (the BOT), or if you want, we can don’t include Pendleton. But as far as change it to ‘as recognized by the U.S. how it’s been drawn, the Treaty of 1855, governments.” what does it mean to us? A map has to be Brigham said several times throughout drawn, either how we see it or how the the work session that she wanted to move U.S. government sees it.” forward with the voter intent manual Wolf said the BOT needed to be careful and tackle the residency issue later. Ship- because if the Tribes use a map that refers pentower countered Brigham each time to the “diminished boundary” it could be
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Coach Ken Mayfield competed in the Pie Eating Contest at the Spring Fest held by the Nixyaawii Honor Society June 8th in the field in front of the Nixyaawii Community School.
“used against us.” Hester said he wanted to make sure the BOT was aware that past leaders didn’t like the use of the term “diminished boundaries” and the BOT members throughout the 1980’s wanted no recognition of the “diminished boundary.” General Council Chair William Sigo IV had another idea. “I’ve been thinking about this issue and what if (in the code) we used language such as the living boundary?” he asked. “It would set a precedent and show that we do plan on getting more land.” Hester said the BOT could adopt a map, for voting purposes, that didn’t adhere to the state or U.S. government’s view of what the Umatilla Indian Reservation entails. Chair Gary Burke said the current reservation boundary and residency requirements can be found as you drive onto the reservation. “The sign says word for word when you are coming and leaving the reservation. That’s the existing law right now. It’s exactly what it says here,” he said. Election Commission member Andrea Hall told the Board that the CTUIR has had board members from Pilot Rock, Richland and Milton-Freewater. “Part of colonization is impeding our Voter intent, residency on page 15A
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own boundaries,” she said. Shippentower said of Hall’s comment, “That’s what we’re trying to fix now, this is one of the qualifications (for serving on the BOT).” Brigham brought up again the need to move forward on the voter intent manual and working more on the residency requirement. “This needs more time. I said we have 40 minutes, well now we have 30 minutes. We have and will talk again before the 2019 election. We all have views,” Brigham said. Shippentower said she had been contacted continuously and asked the other BOT members how many of them have been contacted or visited about the residency requirements. “Why don’t we just do it all at once? It makes me feel like a joke, like we’re piecemealing along and I think it would be good to get it all out and addressed,” Shippentower said. Brigham suggested that a resolve be added to the code amendment resolution that noted the BOT’s intent to address the residency down the road. Shippentower said it may be three work sessions before it is finally finished. Hall said, “I don’t believe this should be determined by an isolated population (the BOT); it should be determined by the General Council.” She recommended the issue be brought to referendum for a General Council vote. After more argument between Ship-
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pentower and Brigham, Wolf said, “This is a question that needs to be answered…. If we have an election tomorrow we need to have something that is reflective of eligibility.” He also said there are both examples of when Tribal Members were allowed to serve while living outside the reservation boundary and when those serving were asked to step down because of their residency. Said Wolf, “Let’s just draw a line, give us a line, draw a map and we will make a call.” Hester suggested the Election Commission reconvene and prepare a narrative, a map and return to the Board with options. The timeline to do so, he said, should only be a couple of months. Wolf suggested again that the Constitutional Amendment Committee be brought into the decision-making process to review the options if the matter is moved to referendum rather than through a code amendment. Since the committee has been dormant Shippentower asked if a new committee could be formed. Burke asked the Election Commission if they had any preferences on how the BOT proceeds. Thompson said, “Either or is fine with us. We can have some options and come back and have a work session on just that (residency requirements).” Brigham summarized the wishes of the BOT and said they would reconvene on the matter of residency in a couple months.
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Tribes, Montana struggle to control Yellowstone bison hunt By Laura Lundquist of the Missoula Current
MISSOULA - Although not without incident, the tribal bison hunt outside Yellowstone National Park is running more smoothly. But that could change as more tribes consider joining the hunt. Representatives of six tribes and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) gathered for their annual meeting this week to review last year’s bison hunt and to consider what changes might be needed to keep hunters safe as two more tribes ask to be included. In 2006, the state gave two tribes – the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and the Nez Perce Tribe – the go-ahead to hunt bison on public land outside Yellowstone as a tool to manage the bison population. Then the ShoshoneBannock and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation started making the trek and the Yakama Nation joined last year. In February, the Blackfeet Nation joined the hunt for the first time, but hadn’t been informed about safety rules (in a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)) that four other tribes had hammered out last fall in a memorandum of understanding. As a result, some Blackfeet hunters unknowingly disrupted a system developed to bring
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Tribes and the state of Montana are trying to control hunts outside Yellowstone.
order to a hunt that some have criticized as chaotic. Some tribal hunting is allowed near West Yellowstone, but the majority of bison are shot on the 7-acre bottleneck called Beattie Gulch on Forest Service land west of Gardiner. Bison exit the park at this pinch point but usually don’t get far before being shot by hunters lined up outside. In the past, the situation could get dangerous as groups of desperate hunters would fire at the same animals from all directions. Hunters field-dressing their kills reported hearing bullets whiz by their heads. It got so bad a few years ago that Custer National Forest Supervisor Mary Erickson considered implementing a safety closure of Beattie Gulch. But she
was pleased with what happened this winter. All the game wardens reported that the hunt went far better than others they’d experienced, with few citations issued and only six wounded bison that ran back into the park. “The MOU was really great mitigation; it was a better tool to deal with that,” Erickson said. The agreement required the various tribal wardens to work closely with each other. No more than 25 hunters with guns – five from each of the five tribes participating last year – could hunt in Beattie Gulch each day. Umatilla representative Jeremy Wolf said it wasn’t easy getting the tribes to agree. In fact, the Shoshone-Bannock tribe refused to sign the MOA. “It doesn’t happen very often – you don’t get sovereigns at the same table to sign onto something,” Wolf said. “It’s very difficult. We have history. But when we’re able to lay down our differences and look toward the future, I think good things have happened.” While tribes found some unity, they pointed out that the state of Montana hasn’t signed the MOA either. That was a problem in one incident this winter when a state hunter claimed a bison shot by a Umatilla hunter and no
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‘It doesn’t happen very often – you don’t get sovereigns at the same table to sign onto something ... We have history. But when we’re able to lay down our differences and look toward the future, I think good things have happened.’ - Jeremy Wolf, CTUIR Board of Trustees Vice Chair
FWP wardens were available to deal with the situation. But when FWP Operations Chief Mike Volesky asked the group to review a draft MOU written by the state, tribal representatives said they didn’t want to start over. The governor should sign their four-tribes MOA and other issues could be worked out over time, Wolf said. And after all the work they put into developing the rules last summer and getting their tribes’ approval, tribal Yellowstone bison on page 22A
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Veterans relax at Indian Lake By the CUJ
INDIAN LAKE – Tucked inside a black hoodie, behind a beard and black-framed glasses, a skinny Jason Baker rocked back and forth between lodge pole pines about a kayak’s length away from the banks of Indian Lake. It was his 16th day coming off meth in a six-week in-patient drug-addiction-treatment program at the Jonathan M. Wainright Memorial VA Medical Center in ‘If I didn’t have Walla Walla. “I haven’t been fishing since the VA I’d I was a little kid,” Baker said, be screwed. standing among other veterans under blue skies at the It gives you man-made lake on land owned some security by the Confederated Tribes of when you’re the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR). completely Baker and 21 other veterans insecure. participated in Heroes on the This program Water (HOW), which provides alternative therapeutic options makes me to established Post-Traumatic feel alive. This Stress Disorder (PTSD) treatment providers. is putting real HOW helps wounded warsubstance riors “relax, rehabilitate and in my life, reintegrate through kayak fishing and the outdoors.” showing me Each experience in the VAwhat life can approved “ecotherapy” probe like as long gram “reduces the impact of post-traumatic stress and as I apply traumatic brain injury while myself.’ providing much-needed com- Jason Baker radery and support,” according to the HOW webpage. Baker was one of a handful of vets from the VA rehab facility that took part in the camping, fishing and kayaking event June 22-24. Other veterans came from as far away as Vancouver, Washington, and ranged in age from a Korean vet to a Navy sailor who finished his stint just three months ago. Baker was comfortable in his surroundings, as much for the veteran companionship as the quiet and beauty of nature.
Ray Wetter in the red kayak and Dylan Heidebrink in the gold kayak take off onto the calm waters of Indian Lake Saturday, June 23. CUJ photo/Phinney
Jason Baker was one of the veterans from the in-patient drug rehabilitation program at the Walla Walla VA Center who took part in the Heroes on the Water event at Indian Lake. Photo by Jim Davis/Heroes on the Water
“These people know what it’s like to be in the military,” said Baker, who was homeless when he arrived at the in-patient treatment facility in Walla Walla. He spent 11 months in Iraq, got out in 2009 and had a tough time “re-inserting into society.” He couldn’t find work and his addiction “took off.” Nine years later, he’s checked in to the treatment center. He doesn’t plan to return to Yakima and his old crew. He hopes to find transition housing in Walla Walla
Seven members of the Columbia Basin Fly Casters taught veterans how to cast a fly rod at the Indian Lake Heroes on the Water weekend. Photo by Jim Davis/Heroes on the Water
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after he finishes the VA’s program. Ericka Orvald worked on the B1 bomber for three years before leaving the Air Force in 1995. She went to college and had a child in North Carolina. She wound up in Yakima and for a time worked at Virginia Mason Memorial Hospital. But somewhere along the line life went south. She ended up at the VA’s drug-rehab center in Walla Walla without shoes. In the forest, though, next to the calm lake, she was at peace. “It’s good for sobriety,” she said. Before coming on this trip Orvald tied fishing flies at the VA center and sent them to her dad for Father’s Day. At Indian Lake, she tied more flies and learned to cast a fly rod from members of the Columbia Basin Fly Casters (CBFC). Seven members of the CBFC brought their gear and expertise, and spent the weekend fishing with the veterans. Then Orvald paddled away in a kayak and caught too little trout that she put back in the lake. “It’s gorgeous ... So peaceful ... A slice of heaven ... Everyone made it so pleasant,” she said. One of those people who made it pleasant was Toni Cordell, the Veterans Services Representative for the CTUIR. Unfortunately, and Cordell acknowledges this, the event was not well advertised and no veterans (other than Cordell) from the CTUIR or the Pendleton Heroes on the Water on page 22A
A grant from the Wildhorse Foundation paid for a new trailer to haul the 14 kayaks owned by the Southeast Washington Chapter of Heroes on the Water. Photo by Jim Davis/Heroes on the Water
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Record lamprey return cultural win for Tribes started noticing lamprey numbers in the interior Columbia Basin dip. The population became functionally extinct in UMATILLA - When Aaron Jackson the 1970s. Tribal members alerted people was growing up in eastern Oregon, he’d to their concerns. never seen a lamprey in the Umatilla “Their concerns fell on deaf ears by River. Tribal elders remembered managers for quite some time,” Jackson harvesting the fish there for ceremonies. said. But by the time Jackson was a kid, 40 In the early 1990s, BPA began funding years ago, lamprey were gone. a lamprey restoration project with the Now, Jackson is the lamprey biologist tribe. After years of research, the tribe for the Confederated Tribes of the began collecting lamprey from dams Umatilla Indian Reservation. He’s on the Columbia River, bringing them overseeing one of the many efforts upstream and releasing them just before throughout the Columbia Basin in they spawned. Washington and Oregon that aims to Early on, things moved slowly. restore lamprey runs. Jackson hopes, “You could count all the fish at Three one day, tribal members will be able to Mile Dam (on the Umatilla River) on harvest lamprey from the Umatilla River your two hands,” Jackson said. Tribal — and that the fish will be self-sustaining. members traditionally harvested lamprey “To be able to have a harvest here in at that dam. the Umatilla, we’ll be able to, once again, Flash forward about 25 years. walk in the footsteps of our ancestors “Last year, we had a return of 2,076 that harvested lamprey here since time lamprey to Three Mile Dam. This year, immemorial,” he said. With funding help from the Bonneville Pacific lamprey like the one held here by Kanim Moses-Conner in 2015 have returned to the Umatilla within the first three weeks of May we broke that record,” Jackson said. Power Administration, the tribes have River this year in record numbers. CUJ file photo Jackson said lamprey numbers have worked to move lamprey around the for other creatures, lamprey are also N o w , l a m p r e y n u m b e r s h a v e also increased elsewhere, like near Hood dams and up to the Umatilla River. “ W e u n d e r s t a n d t h e c u l t u r a l very important to a healthy functioning dramatically increased. So far this River, where there are fewer obstructions significance of Pacific lamprey to the ecosystem such as in the Umatilla River spring they’ve seen more than 2,600 fish for them to pass. They’ve also seen tribes which is one reason we’ve funded so it’s great to see our efforts paying off.” migrating up the Umatilla River to spawn. lamprey numbers come back as soon as Tribal members were excited when Jackson said he thinks they’ll see at dams have been removed on the Elwha lamprey projects in the Umatilla,” said Lorri Bodi, vice president of environment, they saw the fish start returning. In 2011, least 3,000 lamprey this summer. It’s still and the White Salmon rivers. Biologists are also working to fish and wildlife with the Bonneville Jackson thought 129 fish in the river was not enough for the tribe to harvest, but it’s moving in the right direction. produce lamprey, like salmon are bred Power Administration. “As a food source a major step. “The due diligence in hatcheries. has now moved to “It’s one big a sense of miniexperiment in the ‘It’s important to have m i d - C o l u m b i a accomplishment. Closed on Mondays We’re not there yet, a healthy, robust and Basin,” Jackson said. Open Tuesday-Sunday but things are looking He said the tribe 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. thriving population better,” Jackson said. hopes to release their On call 24 hours a day in the Umatilla Lamprey are what first hatchery-pro541-922-5123 our native people in duced lamprey in River because Evenings 541-922-5567 the Northwest called the next year or two. not only do they a “first food.” They’re Then they’ll have have an ecological served at dinners and more tools to help inGET READY FOR ROUND-UP feasts at the longcrease lamprey numimportance in the house and used at bers to harvestable food web, but it’s funerals and wedpopulations, good dings. also important for news for tribal elders. “It’s important to “It gives (the elour tribal culture and have a healthy, robust ders) an opportunity our tribal history — and thriving poputo reflect when the lation in the Umato be able to carry on lamprey populatilla River because not tions used to be like our traditions.’ only do they have an that when they were ecological importance kids, and they had - Aaron Jackson, Lamprey Project in the food web, but Leader for the Confederated Tribes of opportunities to harHeavy moccasin-weight white buckskinu the Umatilla Indian Reservation it’s also important vest lamprey here Domestic deer hides in turquoise, blue, red, black, purple and green for our tribal culture that they haven’t had and our tribal history since the 1960s,” JackMoose and elk hides — to be able to carry on our traditions,” son said. Jackson said. Right now, lamprey can be harvested Although there’s still a lot unknown at Willamette Falls, near Portland, a long Good stock of ribbon shirts and wing dresses about Pacific lamprey, biologists do way from home. XL and 2XL know they spend up to seven years as Biologists have seen a lot of fish larvae in streams before migrating out to passage improvements on the main stem sea, where they live for up to three years Columbia River, Jackson said, but that Drum frames, rawhide, blankets... before returning to spawning grounds in could come into question. Northwest streams. When the U.S. Army Corps of 5 buckskin dresses - 3 women’s, 2 childrens In the 1960s and 1970s, it was a Engineers put its 2019 budget proposal common practice to eradicate what together, it didn’t request any additional 3 trade cloth shell dresses - 2 women’s, 1 child’s people thought were “trash fish,” Jackson funding for a 10-year lamprey passage said. Managers in the West would often project that’s wrapping up this year. put the pesticide rotenone in the rivers Previously around $5 million had been EVERYTHING IN THE STORE ON SALE... to kill off fish like lamprey and suckers dedicated to lamprey passage each year, Discounts on all your supplies right down — and make space for more desired fish, said Matt Rabe, the Corps’ Northwestern to sweet grass and sage... like salmon and steelhead. All of this was Division spokesman. before biologists realized the ecological “We’ll continue to operate and Looking forward to seeing all my friends this summer as you prepare for pow-wow season importance of those lesser-loved fish. and the Pendleton Round-Up - Jim Carrico That’s about when the tribe first Lamprey on page 19A By Courtney Flatt Follow, NWPB/EarthFix
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impacted the Burns Paiute Tribe. “It didn’t go very far from there, but Bravo wasn’t there yet. When Bravo came along Native American issues began to get on the platform,” said Minthorn, a Democratic National Convention delegate from 1984 (Jesse Jackson) to 2008 (Barack Obama). Minthorn addressed a Native American caucus workgroup session prior to the General Session, in which he talked about the growth of the economy on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the success of reclaiming land, and the return of salmon to the Umatilla River basin. It was important for Bravo to hear that message, he said. “Bravo came along at a good time because he can look at the CTUIR as a model of development, visionary development,” Minthorn said. “The CTUIR has been up in front here in Oregon regarding our restoration of water and salmon in ‘... caucuses the Umatilla, are how we Walla Walla, give voice to and Grande Ronde. We also constituency have built the groups and Governance with that Center so we can administer voice there grants and fedis power to eral programs, organize, and we’ve hired the people to elevate and make that work. champion That’s employment and an issues, and economy. We to endorse have a business candidates park, a hotel, Arrowhead. We and ballot are beginning measures.’ to generate income so that we - Valdez Bravo can invest our own revenues. The Umatilla Tribe has come a long way with fundamentals based on treaty rights. The Umatilla Tribe has been proactive, not reactive, and successful up to this point.” In an email to the CUJ, Bravo said the DPO must continue to elect more Native American leaders in all levels of government to advocate in a variety of places and positions. “Within the Democratic Party, caucuses are how we give voice to constituency groups and with that voice there is power to organize, elevate and champion issues, and to endorse candidates and ballot measures,” Bravo said in the email. “I am hopeful that the Native American Caucus will serve as a structure for Na-
Carina Miller, Antone Minthorn and Valdez Bravo at the Pendleton Convention Center between sessions at the Oregon Democratic Party State Central Committee quarterly meeting.
tive Americans all around the state to communicate, collaborate, and organize around issues and ideas that improve the lives of Native Americans throughout Oregon.” Bravo told the General Session that “… we plan for this to be a hub that allows tribal communities and Indians from around the state to connect and work together.” Minthorn said Native Americans coming together can have “one hell of an impact … working together to help each other and the state and nation.” Minthorn said the CTUIR has a history of working with conservative Republicans like Oregon Sen. Bill Hansell, U.S. Congressman Greg Walden and the late Oregon Representative Chuck Norris. “As the Tribes began to rebuild the nation and self-governance, we decided to negotiate not litigate on the Umatilla Basin Project and we started setting firm footing with guys here,” he said. Those relationships can happen on the state level, too. “When I was in office we talked to each other all the time and we made decisions. Democrats were just as hostile way back as Republicans. The caucus just makes the potential for tribes working together with the state that much greater. I think we all have to come together and understand where we are today and how we got here.” According to a report on Native voting demographics by the National Congress of America Indians, in 2010 about 34 percent of potential 18-and-over Native Americans were not registered to vote. Bravo, an Army veteran (1995-2003) in Operation Enduring Freedom, noted that Native Americans did not become United States citizens until 1924 and some states didn’t grant Natives the right to vote until the 1960s. “Understanding the complicated history of tribes and the U.S. government, and the often harmful policies will be key in involving Natives in politics and
I have heard time and time again the dehumanization attached to our political identities is a major factor in the lack of civic engagement,” Bravo said. “However, with 120 Native Americans currently running for State legislature, statewide office and Congress right now, it’s more important than ever that we have a seat at the table and the ability to have many voices representing the many different tribal communities in our state. The Democratic Party of Oregon overwhelmingly supporting this caucus is a wonderful step in reshaping the relationships between Tribes, Democrats and government.” The first DPO Native American Caucus will meet Aug. 12 at Lane Community College in Eugene at the third-quarter meeting of the State Central Committee. For more information visit dpo.org.
maintain what is in place — the passage systems that were constructed over the past 10 years,” Rabe said. “We’ll continue to count the lamprey at each of our facilities. But as far as any new work, I think that that is probably on hold until future opportunities are investigated and approved.” Rabe said the Corps will continue to work with tribes to understand their priorities and concerns about lamprey passage. Jackson said it’s frustrating because they’re just starting to see progress. Those fixes on the main stem of the Columbia River probably contributed to getting lamprey up into the Umatilla River, a tributary of the Columbia, he said. “We have a long ways to go, like up into the Grand Ronde River,” he said, “if things come to a standstill and we don’t see funding for main stem efforts, it’s going to be hard times for lamprey in (the) upper (basins).” For now, Jackson said, lamprey numbers in the Umatilla River are only continuing to grow. He said others are starting to translocate adult lamprey after the success here. The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation has started moving lamprey to the Grande Ronde River. The Nez Perce Tribe is also releasing lamprey into the Wallowa River. “It feels good that we’re doing something right in the environment for a change, instead of reading all the stories of things that are going wrong,” Jackson said. This story is reprinted with permission from Oregon Public Broadcasting. For more news, visit opb.org/pressroom. It was originally published June 15.
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NORMAN Okla. - The Native American Journalists Association on Tuesday announced its 2018 National Native Media Award winners. The Confederated Umatilla Journal won 20 awards for work published in 2017. The CUJ was second in General Excellence and second in Best Layout and Design to the Cherokee Phoenix, which was founded in 1828. The newspaper of the Cherokee Nation has an editorial staff of 12 people that includes four editors, three reporters, one multi-media staff member, two administrative staff, an advertising sales representative and a distribution specialist. The third place in General Excellence went to the Mvskoke News in Minnesota with a staff of 10 people that includes a manager, managing editor, three reporters, two contributors, two in advertising and sales, and a layout-anddesign person. Additionally, CUJ staff members won 18 individual awards, including seven first place awards. Tribal member Dallas Dick, a freelance photographer, won a first place award
for a sports photo he took at the BAAD tournament. He won two other photography awards as well. Tribal member Jill-Marie Gavin, who was only on board at the CUJ for a month in 2017, won two awards. She took second for best health coverage and third for best column. Five first place awards were won by CUJ Editor Wil Phinney – three for photos and two for stories. One of the stories was for best environmental coverage about lead shot in eagles; the other was a news story about Natives marching to protect women’s rights. Miranda Vega Rector, who was a reporter in 2017, won a first place for her health coverage on a story about wellness improvement. In July in Miami, NAJA will present more than 230 awards recognizing excellence in reporting by Native and non-Native journalists across the U.S. and Canada. NAJA received more than 500 entries for papers competing in three different size categories. The CUJ competed in Division II, a category for newspapers with a circulation between 5,000 and 10,000. The CUJ prints about 8,000 copies a month, which are distributed to CTUIR households, to
a subscriber list, and free around the Mission and Pendleton community. Here’s a complete list CUJ awards: General Excellence – second place Best Layout – second place Professional Division II Best health coverage – Miranda Vega Rector, first place, Wellness program sees 83 percent improvement Best sports photo – Dallas Dick, first place, Teegan at BAAD Best health coverage – Jill-Marie Gavin, second place, Mental health becomes priority for family Best feature photo – Dallas Dick, second place, Bronze star returned to hero’s daughter Best news photo – Dallas Dick, second place, Muddy river Best column – Jill-Marie Gavin, third place, Sexual assault: Responsibility, reluctance and healing Best editorial – Chuck Sams, third place, Immigration is in the news Best feature story – Miranda Vega Rector, third place, Program teaches smart financing Associate Division II Wil Phinney First place awards: Best sports photo, Peasly Rodeo; Best news photo, Swearing in; Best feature photo, Drummers; Best Environmental Coverage, Get the Lead Out; Best News story, Natives March to protect women’s rights Second place award: Best feature story, Happy Valentines Third place awards: Best news photo,
The photo, above, entitled “Teegan at BAAD” won Dallas Dick the first place sports photo award. The photo originally ran in the April 2017 CUJ. At left, the cover of one of the CUJs entered in the General Excellence category featured a photo by Aaron Worden.
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Deep roots connect Bobbie Conner to EOU By Victoria Hart, Eastern Oregon University Public Relations
LA GRANDE - Centuries of family history connect Bobbie Conner to Eastern Oregon University. Conner, who serves as vice chair of EOU’s Board of Trustees, gave the keynote speech at the university’s commencement ceremonies June 16. In her address, Conner highlighted her ancestors’ ties to the Grande Ronde Valley. “My grandmother travelled this area 110 years ago as a child on horseback to gather food from plants, fish and game,” she said. “My great-great grandmother, a medicine woman, died nearby…. We continue to come here, to our home, today.” Her mother Leah Conner, who attended the ceremonies, graduated from EOU 51 years ago with an education degree and inspired her children to further their education. “My mom started college in 1950 at Willamette University, and she finished here 17 years later,” Conner said. “She was a non-traditional student by every stretch of the imagination — she was brown, she was tribal, she was a single head-of-household, she had children in tow, and she was a devoted daughter of parents who sometimes needed her on the other side of the hill in Pendleton. We were fairly poor in cash and assets, but rich in culture and family support.” In 1984, Conner believes she and her mother became the first family on the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) with master’s level graduates in two successive generations. Conner said many more have joined their ranks since then. “The good news is that education is the great equalizer in our society,” she said. “Her degree meant an end to lowly paid recreation jobs and waitressing.” Conner said her mother tended to be the only Native American educator in every school district she taught in throughout Oregon and Washington. In one of those school districts, 40 percent of the students were Native American. “She became a role model for me and all of the students in that school every day,” Conner said. “Everyone seemed to seek her advice. She was valuable and valued ... she could help solve problems.” In her own career, Conner has become a resource and a mentor to many. An enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla, she has served as director of the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute since 1998. Conner is Cayuse, Umatilla and Nez Perce, and actively mentors young scholars in tribal cultural preservation. A well-published writer and speaker, she co-authored a chapter in the tribes’ history book “As Days Go By,” and contributed to “Lewis and Clark through Indian Eyes.” In 2007, she received the Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award for her work representing the CTUIR. “My ancestors and all the generations of my family have revered the Grande Ronde Valley and the home of EOU, as it is a magnificent place of abundance to
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Bobbie Conner, left, poses with mother Leah Conner, right at EOU commencement ceremony.
our Cayuse people,” she said. A long-time Eastern Oregonian, Conner graduated from Pendleton High School and returned home after building a career across the country. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon, and went on to graduate from Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management. During 13 years at the U.S. Small Business Administration, Conner progressed from an internship position to the Sacramento District Director. Before that, she spent five years at a nonprofit in Seattle, working with Indian education projects throughout the Pacific Northwest. The value of education runs deep in Conner’s family history. “One hundred years ago, my grandfather returned from WWI and he didn’t yet have the right to vote — that came in 1924,” she said. Her grandfather asked to take posthigh school studies in drafting and surveying at a government boarding school, but, Conner said, “his chance to learn was denied. He was told to stay home and learn to farm.” Nonetheless, he helped begin the Indian Festival of Arts that preceded EOU’s longstanding Indian Arts Festival and Pow Wow. “When my mother graduated all those years ago, her proud parents were here for commencement,” Conner said. “Her father insisted that his children go to college, and all but one of them did.” In 2015, she joined EOU’s inaugural Board of Trustees. Earlier this year she joined the Oregon Community Foundation Board of Directors, where she has served on the organization’s Eastern Oregon Leadership Council. Conner is also a member of the Ecotrust Board of Directors, the Tribes’ Land Acquisition Committee and the Tamkaliks Celebration Committee. “This is a very, very special place,” she said. “I love this place — this valley, the mountains, the rivers, the streams and this university. What I learned from my grandmother’s and grandfather’s stories about this homeland was this — it does not matter what anyone else thinks of you, it matters what you think of yourself. You have to believe in you and all of your possibilities. You must act on your beliefs. You can prevail.”
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community participated. Still, it was a new experience even for Cordell. “The comradery was great … talking with other vets … dam flyboys, squids, whatnot. I’ve been up here years and years, at Culture Camp, and I’d never been out on the lake. It’s beautiful out there,” she said. Cordell was the “button pusher” for Sam Horn, founder and president of the Southeast Washington Chapter of Heroes on the Water, which brought its 14 kayaks to the lake. Cordell took care of all the Indian Lake details, Horn said. The CTUIR Fish and Wildlife Committee waived the $5 fee for veteran fishing licenses.
Horn hauled the kayaks in a bright red trailer purchased with some of the $7,800 grant received from the Wildhorse Foundation. The grant will purchase more kayaks, too. On the lakes’ edge, Jason Baker was still rocking back and forth, but the sun was shining and he was around likeminded people. “If I didn’t have the VA I’d be screwed,” he said. “It gives you some security when you’re completely insecure. This program makes me feel alive. This is putting real substance in my life, showing me what life can be like as long as I apply myself.” For more information on Heroes on the Water Southeast Washington Chapter call 509-889-8237 or find them on Facebook
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The CTUIR will be working on its second round of the Land Buy-Back Program. Bill Tovey, the Umatilla Tribes’ Director of Economic and Community Development, said the CTUIR is partnering with the Indian Land Capital Company (ILCC) to make available loans funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to individual Umatilla members who want to obtain a controlling interest within their allotments for farming or ranching operations. “The collaborative efforts involving the Umatilla Tribe, ILCC, and the BuyBack Program demonstrate a multipronged approach to addressing fractionation at Umatilla,” Tovey said in a DOI news release. Various informational tools are avail-
able to landowners, who are encouraged to think strategically about their options and carefully consider how to use the funds they receive from selling their land. Detailed frequently asked questions are available at www.doi.gov/ buybackprogram/FAQ and additional information to help individuals make informed decisions about their land can be accessed at www. doi.gov/buybackprogram/landowners/informeddecisionmaking. Landowners also can contact the Trust Beneficiary Call Center at 888-678-6836, visit their local Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians to ask questions about their land or purchase offers, request a copy of the appraisal completed for their land, and learn about financial planning.
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representatives accused the state of not doing its part to educate newly admitted tribes. Volesky said that hasn’t been the state’s role. “The Blackfeet didn’t have the opportunity to be part of the MOU [MOA] that dictated how things would happen in Beattie Gulch. That was unfortunate timing, and so there was probably still conflict going on that we hoped to avoid. We’ll cop to bad timing on that. But it’s not fully in the state’s control,” Volesky said. Wolf said the signatory Tribes to the current MOA will be working over the summer to secure the participation of the other hunting Tribes as well as the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks in the hunt safety protocol identified within the MOA. “The current MOA is meant to be adaptable in scope and inclusion of the other entitites but it certainly proved successful for the signatory Tribes, increasing coordination and communications at the policy, enforcement and hunter levels during last winter’s bison hunt,” Wolf said in an email to the CUJ. If a process can’t be worked out, new problems could arise. The Crow and the Northern Arapaho have recently started
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the process to verify that they have treaty rights to hunt and historically hunted around the park. Once approved, their members will join the other tribal and state hunters vying to fill their bison tags. This year, those hunters were fairly successful, killing a total of 368 bison. Add that to the 130 sent to quarantine and the 663 bison captured and sent to slaughter for a total of 1,161 bison removed from the population. Approximately 4,400 bison remain in the park, although that count is unofficial, said YNP Chief Ranger Tim Reid. But that total is pretty close to the park’s long-term goal of 4,200 bison. “That’s the social carrying capacity. The park can support more bison than what we have – the ecological carrying capacity when the number of elk in the ecosystem is 6,200,” Reid said, citing a 2009 research paper. “The 3,000 number was framed in the 1990s as a zero-sum equation when bison couldn’t be outside the park. It was a long time ago. It’s time for ground-truthing and the debunking of urban legend.” This story was published June 14 in the Missoula Current, “Missoula’s New Journal.”
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CUJ News It’s all adding up for Sophie Van Pelt Young Tribal member heading to MIT to study medical robotics By Wil Phinney of the CUJ
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OISE – Sophie Van Pelt has always been a perfectionist when it comes to math. Even when she was in first grade, when she missed a simple addition question on a worksheet she cried so hard her mom had to come pick her up from school. There was no outside pressure to get every answer correct, she just had an instinct to get it right. That character trait has driven her throughout her primary and high school education. Next month she will head to MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology – to continue studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She’s a smart one. Van Pelt wants to develop autonomous surgical robots that can provide medical assistance to remote places, perhaps Indian reservations, where there is limited access to highly qualified medical professionals. “A lot of places don’t have the resources that first-world countries have,” Van Pelt said. “People across the world need access to health care and this could be the answer to a lack of doctors.” Van Pelt, 18, was born in Pendleton to Nijone Lockhart and Robert J. Van Pelt, and spent her first few years on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. She moved with her mom, an older sister and younger brother (she now has a 2-year-old brother) to Boise where she started second grade. It wasn’t long before her math skills became evident. She attended three schools simultaneously for her high school education. She went to Borah High School, from which she graduated, for English and Social Studies. She attended a Magnet School for three STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) classes a day, and a technical school for one class a day. She didn’t take run-of-the-mill easy-to-pass elective classes. She tried guitar but found out she wasn’t musically inclined. In tech school, she studied AC/DC circuits and programmable logic controllers – essentially, she
‘People across the world need access to health care and this could be the answer to a lack of doctors.’
Sophie Van Pelt heads to MIT this fall on the Gates Scholarship.
explained, the logic behind photogate sensors. Got that? That logic may go over some people’s heads, but it comes naturally to Van Pelt. She was intrigued by the way the systems worked and found that kind of thing enjoyable. “I couldn’t stop thinking about what it could do,” she said. She started fixing trinkets at home. A broken heater, her brother’s electronics. She took the lead on a 35-member robotics team sponsored by Hewlett-Packard and designed, rather than fixed, her team’s electronic project. The team, a club sport, met in a garage and worked with lathes, CAD and 3D modeling. “It was really cool, a lot of learning,” Van Pelt said. Last summer she applied for MITES (Minority
Introduction to Engineering and Sciences), a six-seek engineering class with professors. She made lots of friends and connections, which helped when she applied to MIT last fall. And that was a good thing since MIT was her only choice. “One and done. I didn’t apply anywhere else.” And then she received the Gates Scholarship. The Gates Scholarship is a highly selective, full four-year scholarship for exceptional minority high school seniors. It is awarded to 300 top student leaders each year to promote their academic excellence through college graduation. After graduating with an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degree, Van Pelt’s goal is a master’s degree in Applied Biomedical Engineering with a focus on medical robotics and autonomous surgical robots. The devices already exist, but she wants to give them the ability to work on their own in remote locations. “A computer can teach itself if it has enough data,” Van Pelt said. “It’s exciting. I have an idea of where I want to go and we’ll see where the opportunity presents itself.” Van Pelt isn’t sure where her love of math and science came from. Her mom is artsy, but driven by attention to detail, so that may be part of it. As a Native American, Van Pelt said she sees things differently, but doesn’t play as an individual. “Some of my goals may be different and my eyes may have a different way of looking at things, but I love the community aspect of learning. I see it as a team sport more than as a single player. “One thing doesn’t define me,” Van Pelt said. “I’m definitely more than a Native American.” She will leave for MIT at the end of August and like all freshmen will be living in a dormitory. She plans to join any Native American club and the AISES (American Indian Science and Engineering Society). She may not get to continue her high school study routine, which is to watch Netflix (The Office or Friends, and when she’s done with that Parks and Rec) while doing homework. “One screen on Netflix, the other open for writing,” she said. She also reads and listens to “trashy teen music” at the same time. She discovered she likes the repetitive motion of a rowing machine. She reads op-ed columnist Roger Cohen, who writes about international affairs and diplomacy in the New York Times. She’s studying Biomedical Engineering and autonomous surgical robots at MIT for crying out loud.
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Towering over the competition Brianah “Bay Bay” Matamoros is the tallest girl on Pendleton’s 10-and-under girls softball team, which destroyed its competition at the District Tournament in Pilot Rock in June. At left, Matamoros has her eye on the softball ready to pound it to the outfield. At right, the Hermiston girls are dwarfed by Matamoros at second base. Scoring in double digits in all four of its games, Pendleton shut out Hermiston, Pilot Rock and La Grande. The girls gave up three runs to Baker. None of the games lasted for more than four innings before they were called for a 15-run rule.
Ella Sams goes after a high pitch in a game against Hermiston during the District Tournament in Pilot Rock June 16. Sams and three other Native American girls play for Pendleton’s 10U softball all-stars, who are headed for the State Tournament in Medford July 18-23. Before they go, the girls have fundraising events lined up. They will be washing cars July 6 from 12:30-4 p.m. at Mission Market. On July 10, they will be selling raffle tickets for a variety of prizes, including Pendleton blankers, at the Nixyaawii Governance Center. And on July 11, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the girls will be selling Indian tacos at the Nixyaawii Community Center gym concession area.
Addison Kosey puts some power behind her swing in a District Tournament game.
Avery Quaempts smacked a double with this swing during a District Tournament game in Pilot Rock in June.
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Winners in the costume contest at the Yellowhawk Fun Run were Kasen Redcrane, right, with second going to Celeste Reves, left. For more on the Fun Run, go to Page 5B.
Jada Burns, a standout athlete from Irrigon, signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Chemeketa Community College. For more turn to Page 3B.
Scott Anderson, right, holds his first place trout from the Indian Lake Fish Derby. His son, Logan, left, was third. For more, turn to Page 2B.
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Fish Derby winners The 32nd annual Indian Lake Fish Derby took place June 16. More than 50 people participated trying to catch trout in the lake south of Pilot Rock that is owned by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The event is organized each year by the CTUIR Department of Economic and Community Development. Leigh Pinkham-Johnston takes the lead for DECD. Sponsors provided monetary donations, gift cards, and/or products from their businesses. Winners received cash. Participants ranged from small fries like Riley Doescher, who caught a fish nearly 18 inches long, to 82-year-old Jim Donnelly.
Winners of the 11-andyounger age group were, from left, first, Ethan Zimmerman, 11, Pendleton, 185/6-inch. 2, Riley Doescher, 5, Pendleton, 175/8-inch. 3, Griffen Coiner, 11, Pendleton, 137/8-inch.
Winners of the12-17year-old age group were, from left, first, Owen Conn, 12, Pendleton, 18-inch. 2, Ryan Clark, 14, Echo, 143/4-inch. 3, Osten Garton, 12, Pendleton, 14-inch.
Winners in the adult division were, from left, first place Scott Anderson, Pendleton, 251/2-inch. 2, Russell Doescher, Pendleton, 205/8-inch. 3, Logan Anderson, Pendleton, 183/8-inch.
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CUJ Sports Burns signs with Chemeketa IRRIGON – Jada Burns, a standout student athlete at Irrigon High School, has signed a letter of intent to play basketball – and perhaps softball – a Chemeketa Community College outside Salem. Burns, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, is a foursport athlete who also lettered in varsity volleyball and football. Burns was torn between Chemeketa and Pacific University in Forest Grove, but when the Storm hoop coach said there was a chance Burns could play on the diamond that made her decision easier. Her softball college career isn’t a sure thing, but the chance to play was enough for Burns to make the call for Chemeketa. “I already had my plans (to go to Pacific),” Burns told an East Oregonian reporter. “Then, the coach contact Royer (Irrigon girls basketball head coach Mike Royer) and I was kind of like, ‘Ehhh,’ because it was just for basketball and then Royer mentioned to him I was really into softball too.”
Chemeketa offered a scholarship of two terms for Burns, who plans to pursue a major in exercise science and become a physical therapist. In addition to her education, Burns thinks Chemeketa will help her make a decision between basketball and softball. Her competition in the South Region of the Northwest Athletic Conference should also help her make any decision to play at a university level. At Irrigon, Burns reached the 1,000-point milestone. She was the point guard for the squad, which won the Columbia Basin Conference title when she was a junior. She made first team all-conference and third team all-state honors. Irrigon moved up to class 3A this year and met tougher competition. Burns averaged 15.7 points a game and led Irrigon to a 12-10 record and made first team all-Eastern Oregon League honors. In June she was named to the second allEastern Oregon League softball team. East Oregonian reporters contributed extensively to this story.
Jada Burns signed her letter of intent to play basketball, and maybe softball, at Chemeketa Community College, with her grandparents, Leslie Burns and Richard Wills, by her side. Contributed photo
NCS boys go 19-3 in spring/summer league MISSION – A team of boys that play for the Nixyaawii Community School (NCS) Golden Eagles next winter won 19 of 22 games in a month-long spring/ summer basketball league that ended in late June. NCS Coach Shane Rivera said the off-season competition gave the Golden Eagles a chance to see some of the top Class 1A schools in the state. “It doesn’t necessarily give you an exact forecast, but you get an idea of who is coming back,” said Rivera, who led a young Golden Eagles team to the state tournament in Baker last year. The spring competition also provides players the opportunity to see how they match up as individuals. “Play in the summer builds confidence and gives you some momentum heading into the next year,” Rivera said. “We should have a successful season if it pans out. The pieces are there for sure.” NCS won two tournaments – one at Condon and another at La Grande. At Condon June 2 and 3, the boys whipped Condon, Arlington, South Wasco, Sherman and Prairie City, which had four returners from last year’s runner-up state champion squad. At La Grande June 8 and 9, coached by Gilbert Diaz, Ken xxxx and Aaron Ashley, the Golden Eagles beat varsity teams from La Grande, Baker and Ontario, then outlasted Lakeside, a Plummer, Idaho school with a majority enrollment of Indian students. At the Sherman County Invitational June 16, the team was a little shorthanded, but still beat Horizon Christian, St. Paul, Hosanna Christian, and Lyle, Washington. The season included eight games during the month played in Umatilla – two
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Participants in the Nixyaawii Community School basketball summer league, shown here after winning the tournament at La Grande, included, from left, Mick Schimmel, Dazen Sigo, Moses Moses, Shaydin Jones-Hoisington, Tyasin Burns, Jace Ashley, Quanah Picard, Magi Moses, Deven Barkley, Coach Ken Mayfield; and kneeling in front, Jared Wildbill, Luis Ortega, Coach Gilbert Diaz, and Isaiah Pacheco.
games one night a week. Wins came over Irrigon, Stanfield, and Riverside. Two of the three losses came to Umatilla during the weekly games. The third loss came against Trinity Lutheran at the Sherman tournament. The squad consisted this summer of between 10 and 13 boys, some of whom were unable to make it to all the games. Players included Mick Schimmel, Deven
Barkley, Dazon Sigo, Tyasin Burns, Moses Moses, Magi Moses, Jace Ashley, Luis Ortega and Jared Wildbill, and Shaydin Jones-Hoisington. Rivera said no freshmen turned out for the spring ball. The NCS coach said he expects some of the players to compete more in 3-on-3 tournaments. He hopes, too, that they will lift weights and run this summer,
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but nothing has been organized. Rivera wanted to thank parents and community members who helped with the spring/summer league and named Sandra and Linda Sampson, and Liz Bill, for being “front and center” especially for the Sherman tournament. He thanked the Tribes for use of the elders van and Wenaha Group for paying tournament fees.
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Pendleton 12U heading to state The Pendleton Little Leauge 12U softball all-stars won the District Tournament in Pilot Rock June 19-22 and will play in the State Tournament July 7-12 in Baker City. The team includes Chaynne Spencer, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. She is the daughter of Taryn Minthorn and the late Brandon Spencer. The team consists of, front row from left, Madeline Schumacher, Bailey Moore, Lilli Brooks, Chaynne Spencer and Leah Wilson; and back row from left, Laine Burke, Kiyah Hunter, Samantha Wilks, Avery Krigbaum, Melanie Boatman and Nessa Neveau. Coaches are Scott Wilson, Gordy Schumacher and Brandon Krigbaum. Gordy Schumacher works for the CTUIR in the Range, Ag and Forestry Program. In addition to the 12U Little League all-stars, Chaynne has played two years for a Pendleton traveling 12U team. Contributed photo
Donald “Eagle” Williams, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, has qualified and has been invited to the U.S. Power-Lifting Association National Championships July 13-15 at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas. Williams, Umatilla/Wallowa band Nez Perce and Kiowa, the son of CTUIR member David Williams, will compete in the 110K weight (242-pound) weight class. Williams had to have qualifying totals in two meets between June 2017 and June 2018. He did it in December 2017 with a 501.2 pound deadlift and a 500-pound squat, plus a 400-pound bench press. Williams has been training in Albuquerque with training partner Bryson Brun, a “Polynesian uso (brother)” who holds a New Mexico state record power-
lifting record. Williams said he wanted to thank his sister, Robin Minthorn, and brother-inlaw, Gabe Minthorn, for allowing him to training and prepare for the big New Mexico meet. He said he was happy to train with their daughter, “my little buddy” Roxie Minthorn, and his own daughter, Brylee Williams, who at age 6 already is lifting. Williams said he plans to return to the Umatilla Indian Reservation and start setting power lifting records in Oregon. He plans to move back in August and obtain his U.S. Power-Lifting Association strength coach certification. “I will be glad to help any of those interested in the sport. It’s an amazing way to test your true strength and mental capacity along with the dedication and consistency,” Williams said in an email. “After this awesome milestone in my powerlifting journey, the only thing next besides world’s is a strongman contest which I plan on competing in while in Oregon.”
Student-athlete heading to Western Washington U Kaia John, a recent graduate of Zillah High School in Washington, was a member of the state champion 4 x 400 relay team, which competed at Eastern Washington University in late May. John is the daughter of Sydney and Robin John and the grandaughter of Lehigh Jon /Sr. and atway Sharon (Hoptiow) John of Wapato and Micki Shrader and Frank Hillman of Lapwa/ Lenore, Idaho. John was a varsity member of the girls basketball team, and the track and field team. She also ran cross country. In the classroom, John achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.89 while earning 18 college credits in chemistry, physics, pre-calculus and English. She is secretary of the school’s Honor Kaia John Society. She was first runner-up in the 2017 American Indian Beauty Pageant on Main Street during the Pendleton Round-Up. John plans to attend Western Washington Univeristy and follow in her grandmother’s footsteps in the nursting field. She wants to become a board certified Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner.
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Community Wellness Gabe Sheoships recognized as PSU ‘Outstanding Faculty’ PORTLAND – Gabe Sheoships has been recognized as the “Outstanding Faculty” at the fourth-annual Indigenous Nations Studies Community Awards Banquet at Portland State University (PSU). The banquet took place June 18 at the PSU Native American Student and Community Center. Sheoships is a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. He is an adjunct faculty instructor in the Indigenous Nations Studies program, University Studies Gabe Sheoships department, and Education Director for Friends of Tryon Creek, where he works to reclaim the urban forest through cultural ecology, according to the awards program. Sheoships teachings are centered on Indigenous Science, directed at the protection of First Food resources, grounded in traditional ecological knowledge. Sheoships has a Master of Science degree in fisheries biology from Oregon State University along with a Bachelor’s degree from PSU. Fifteen other individuals were honored at the banquet.
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Mission showed up in full force to participate in the annual Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center Fun Run. During the event there was a 1-mile walk/run, a 5k run and a 10k run. Total, in all three events combined, 56 runners and walkers participated. Families and pets walked together in the 1-mile event. Above Andrea Hall, left, and RaeAnn Oatman, right, walk their puppies during the 1-mile walk/run. Jareen Hines took first in the 1-mile, Stella Hines, her sister, took second and Bryson Red Crane took third.
Blackfeet Tribe bans drug dealer from rez GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) _ The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council banned a convicted drug dealer from coming onto the reservation in northern Montana. Tribal Council Chairman Harry Barnes told the Great Falls Tribune the decision is a message to drug dealers who would prey on reservation residents and is a reaction to concerns that the U.S. attorney’s office is not doing enough to prosecute drug cases on the reservation. The council passed a resolution 5-3 on June 7 saying that Mark John Keuter ``is immediately excluded and banished’’ from the reservation, Barnes said. Keuter, 58, was sentenced in April for criminal possession of dangerous drugs. He is reportedly in a diversion program and could not be reached for comment. Barnes complained the tribe needed to act because members don’t believe the U.S. attorney’s office is doing enough to prosecute reservation-related drug cases. ``We’ve asked previous U.S. attorneys to enforce drug laws, but drug crimes are not high on their priority list,’’ Barnes said. But if a tribal leader takes a bribe, ``it’s a big headline.’’ Leif Johnson with the U.S. attorney’s office in Montana said Wednesday the office does take drug cases on the reservation, ``and we prosecute them all. That has been the rule for quite some time.’’ U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme spoke Wednesday at the Indian Drug Trafficking Training Conference in Albuquerque, saying the key to reducing drug use on the reservations is having federal, state and tribal law enforcement officers work together on task forces to arrest drug traffickers and reduce the supply.
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Milan Schimmel, center, took first in the 5k. Eriek Sheoships, left, finished in second place and Tom Wamsley, right, finished third.
After the 10k was over for Weyekin Bill, left, and Joe Pitt, center, there wasn’t much to do for the pair but wait. Pitt came in first and Bill finished 50 seconds later, but they were a good six minutes before the third place runner Cliff Bannister, right, so they decided keep running. Few chose to wear a costume on the gloomy day but Celeste Reves, who won first place in the contest, decided to go Hawaiian, and Kasen Red Crane came in second in his Ninja Turtle costume. Both can be seen on page 1B.
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Jareen Hines, center, and Stella Hines, left, took off running the second the 1-mile event started. It paid off because Jareen came in first and Stella finished second. Bryson Red Crane, left, finished third.
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Checkmate Nixyaawii School starts chess club MISSION – A new chess club started offering tools for students to learn from their mistakes and plan for the future at Nixyaawii Governance Center during the spring term this year. Science Teacher Zach Gaulke said that the idea to start a chess club came from Career and Post-Secondary Counselor Michelle Van Pelt and began a chain reaction that put the plan into motion. Van Pelt approached Gaulke and said Board of Trustees Member at Large Woodrow Star expressed interest in getting the kids set up to start the club. When Star and Gaulke linked up, the plan moved forward. Star supplied the students with everything they needed to get started. He provided chess boards, sets, timers and even snacks. “Michelle somehow knew he (Star) loved chess,” Gaulke said, “I didn’t realize how much he really, really loved chess.” After Star’s donation the student interest skyrocketed. Gaulke said he supervised and taught the students but in the end it was really Star’s baby. Chess was something Gaulke felt comfortable teaching to the students as he had played it since he was
Nixyaawii Community School student Lark Moses considers her next move against Ryan Yallup during the Chess Club’s first tournament June 7.
quite young. The biggest lesson Star hopes the kids will learn, besides the technical aspects of the game, is strategy and the way chess relates to life. Star said, “Chess is a game of strategy and is a great metaphor that means a lot in life. It’s a game that teaches you something with each loss. It makes you more prepared for the next game and these students need that because many times in life you will fail.” How you come back from that, Star said, is what’s important. The process of losing and learning is not lost on many of the students who competed in the first chess tournament held by the club June 7. Keala Pizer, a NCS senior, said she plays each day and at lunch and in
between classes. She said, “At first I always lost and I can tell I’m doing a bit better. I like the challenge I can tell my skill level has gone up.” She said that each time she Keala Pizer loses she can see where she went wrong and plans for her next game. Her favorite part of having the club is being able to hang out with friends and classmates in a different setting, rather than par-
ticipating in sports.. At least six students were consistently attending the chess club but that number began to climb a little near the end of the school year to closer to eight, Gaulke said. Gaulke said he hopes the club will continue to grow in the 2018-2019 school year and become a tradition at the school. Moses Moses won the tournament with Luis Ortega coming second and Ryan Yallup in third. Over the summer Star wants to make sure the community, especially the youth, had access to continue playing to game so he donated a few more chess sets to Mission Market. They are available in the dining area for those who would like to play.
Magi Moses, left, watches Joseph Simon right, make his next move during the Chess Club Tournament at Nixyaawii Community School June 7.
Moses Moses shows a chess board used during the club’s play at the Nixyaawii Community School. Moses won the tournament.
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Free Rock and Roll Camp Aug. 13-17
Mustangers All-Around Teegan Herrera and his horse, Oreo, were the 8-and-under All-Around champions for Mustanger Play Days held Sundays in April and May at the Mustangers Arena on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Herrera wanted to thank his grandfather, “Guy Guy,” for hauling his horse, which was provided by Cort Herrera. He also wanted to thank Gorge Outfitters Supply, owners Bud and Wendy Herrera for sponsoring the year-end award, and to Mustangers board members, event timers, cooks and volunteers for their efforts during the Play Day season. Contributed photo
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PENDLETON - Back for its 13th year, Rock and Roll Camp is set for Aug. 13-17 at the Pendleton Center for the Arts. Registration is open for teens 13-18 years old for five full days of rock-androll learning. The camp is free and lunch is provided. No music experience necessary. What do teens actually do at Rock and Roll Camp? Most campers put together bands and work on learning or practicing their instruments. They’ll also work on writing and performing original music. Other campers take photos, interview musicians, and write stories about the world of Rock & Roll. “Rock and Roll Camp brings in people from all around the region,” said Kaisa Hill, Pendleton Center for the Arts Coordinator of Education and Outreach. “Over the years, Rock and Roll Camp has become a summer staple for teens. We hear from campers all the time about their exciting experiences during camp and the anticipation they have for the next year.” When they’re not making or writing about music, campers participate in music-related workshops. The workshops change every year, but rock-nrollers can expect options like Women in Rock, Create a Band Logo, or Concert Dance Moves. Teens can mix and match workshops that they attend. At the end of the week on Friday, all those involved
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Grace Moses participating in the 2017 Rock and Roll Camp.
will help organize a blowout concert to showcase some of the projects that came out of the week. Although camp is free, pre-registration is strongly encouraged as space is limited. Parent permission forms are also required. Daily camp sessions run Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. in the 400 block of Main Street at the end of the Farmers Market. To register, stop by the Pendleton Center for the Arts at 214 NW Main Street. Registration forms can be downloaded
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at www.pendletonarts.org or find us on Facebook @pendletonrockandrollcamp. The Pendleton Center for the Arts is a hub of the downtown Pendleton community providing a place to view, buy and make art in a beautifully renovated 1916 Carnegie Building. Rock and Roll Camp is made possible through the generous support of many sponsors including Umatilla County Cultural Coalition, Ford Family Foundation, Herbert A. Templeton Foundation, Robert and Marcia Randall Charitable Trust, and many more. Contact 541-278-9201 for more information.
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Atway Janie Pond among inductees for R-Up, Happy Canyon Hall of Fame PENDLETON – The Pendleton RoundUp and Happy Canyon Hall of Fame in May announced its 2018 inductees, which include the late Janie Pond as the Native American recipient; long-time RoundUp volunteer Bill Dawson; pro rodeo contestant Brad Goodrich, and; bareback bucking horse Smith & Velvet. The late Janie Pond grew up in Eastern Oregon and spent most of her life on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Twice she served as a Happy Canyon Princess. Pond inherited the role of “Whip Woman” from her mother in 1958. In
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this role, she was responsible for keeping historic wagons and stagecoaches used discipline within the tribe. in the Westward Ho! Parade. During the Dawson has also been recognized for Round-Up, she su- his service to the Round-Up by received pervised all the In- the Round-Up Outstanding Volunteer dian participants in Award, the Orville Gerberding Memorial the arena to make Award, and just recently, he was named s u r e t h e y w e r e Grand Marshal for this year’s Westward properly dressed in Ho! Parade. traditional regalia. Dawson is a veteran of the U.S. Navy Pond insured the and, beyond the Round-Up, volunteers performances in the with the Red Cross, Umatilla County Bill Dawson arena met the allot- Heritage Station, and the Pendleton ted time constraints Chamber of Commerce. by cueing the drummers and dancers. Brad Goodrich of Stanfield was the In addition to her Happy Canyon and All-Around and tie-down champion at Round-Up involvement, Pond was a root the 2004 Round-Up. He won the tie-down digger for the tribe title again in 2008. and volunteered for Goodrich made the the Eastern Oregon short-go finals 25 Spilyay Club, the of the 30 years he Oregon State Nahas competed in tive American StuPendleton. dent Club, and the He has competWashington State ed in the tie-down Indian Club. and steer roping, Bill Dawson has steer wrestling, been a Round-Up and wild cow volunteer for over milking. Goodrich 50 years, beginning is a six-time NFR on the hay crew qualifier. While and later working a student at Blue Brad Goodrich on telecommunicaMountain Comtions. The majority of his volunteerism, munity College and Southwestern Oklahowever, has been in maintaining the homa State University, Goodrich was a
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College National Finals Champion three times. He has won numerous Columbia River Circuit Titles and the Harley Tucker Award three times. Smith & Velvet was a four-time Bareback Bucking Horse of the Year in the PRCA. Owned by the Christensen Brothers Rodeo Company, he bucked at the Pendleton Round-Up in the 1970’s and early 80’s. In his last appearance at the Round-Up, in 1982, he carried World Champion JC Trujillo to the Bareback Championship. In 1983, he was tragically killed in a truck and trailer accident, along with several of the Christensen Brothers top rodeo NFR bucking stock. Smith & Velvet was inducted into the PRCA Pro Rodeo Hall of Champions in August of 2017.
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ON BEHALF OF THE UMATILLA TRIBAL POLICE DEPARTMENT and myself, I want to thank all of the following in no specific order: Woodrow Star for donating two Huffy BMX Bicycles that were raffled to two great kids in the community; Cody Webster, Wildhorse Security Bike Team for helping with “traffic control.” UTPD Officer Josh Stedman, UTPD Bike Team and UTPD Officer William Morris, UTPD Bike Team. Kylie Mountainchief for keeping track of the Umatilla Tribal Recreation Department bikes and helmets. Sue Peterson for helping with set up, and Pendleton on Wheels (POW) for the use of their bike rodeo equipment and the helmet donations. Lloyd Commander, CTUIR Recreation Department, for the use of their bikes and helmets. Steve Filkins, Brad Filkins and David Filkins for assisting with the planning and implementation of the event. Kathleen Peterson and Tim Elliott for handling the raffle and fixing bikes when needed. Anson Crane for the outstanding music and the very generous donation of his time and equipment. Sgt. Hodges, Two Rivers Correctional Facility and the inmates that refurbished the lost and found bikes that were also raffled off to members of the community. Wildhorse Foundation for their generous donation, without which there would have been no food at the event. Public Safety Director Ray Denny for assisting with the shopping. The support of Chief Tim Addleman of me in order to host the event as part of our Community Policing efforts at the Umatilla Tribal Police Department. And, all the fantastic community members who showed up to make the event a success. David Pell Williams, Senior Officer Community Policing Officer Umatilla Tribal Police Department ON BEHALF OF THE CTUIR EDUCATION DEPARTMENT I would like to thank everyone that organized and participated in the Education Facility Groundbreaking Ceremony on June 15, 2018. The day marked a huge milestone for our community and I was pleased with all of the effort put in to making the day so wonderful for our community. I sincerely appreciate all of the people that spoke at the groundbreaking: Gary Burke, CTUIR BOT Chair; William Sigo, CTUIR GC Chair; Ryan Heinrich, NCS Principal; Scott Rogers, Wenaha Group Representative; Al Levage, BBT Architects representative; Mildred Quaempts, CTUIR Language Program; Thomas MorningOwl, CTUIR Language Program; and Fred Hill for emceeing. A big thanks to the CTUIR Public Works crew that made sure we had a space to the ground breaking and provided the set up. A special thanks to Andrea Hall who put everything together for the event. And thank you to the Afterschool Program and Daycare children that showed up and helped break ground….you made it special. Taaminwa, Modesta Minthorn Pinawoolenmay Director of Education, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation WHEN YOU OPEN THE CTUIR WEBPAGE THIS QUOTE is what you’ll see: “We love our country – it is composed of the bones of our people and we will not part with it.” Cayuse Delegation Treaty of 1855. It is with this fierce and independent spirit that we try to live each day. It is the hope of the General Council officers that each tribal member is familiar with the 1855 Treaty, it’s available on the tribal website or by request. What is this Treaty and why do we honor June 9 each year? According to Webster’s dictionary, “Treaties are legally binding contracts between sovereign nations that establish those nations’ political and property relations.” Article VI of the United States Constitution states that “Treaties are the supreme law of the land.” The Treaty doesn’t grant us rights, it preserves existing rights. This being said, the General Council officers are excited to have
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recognized 1855 Treaty Day 2018. This year’s event was very well attended. To set the tone of this year’s event, the General Council officers chose to use Cayuse/ Nez Perce words: PÍITAMALWITNIM LÉEHEYN TIMÍIPN̓ IT̓ EŠ (Treaty Day Commemoration) with the words Inspire- TÁAHAWLAPŠA; I n f o r m - Š E P É E C U K W E C E ; I m p a c t ŠEPÉECUKWECE. We would like to thank the following (in alphabetical order): Alaina Mildenberger – Public Works –Volunteer: Booth Coordinator Billy Nerenberg – Cayuse Technologies – Parade Judge Carman Chalakee – Department of Natural Resources –Planning Volunteer CTUIR Board of Trustees – allocate event funds CTUIR Chief Judge William Johnson – Grand Marshal & Speaker Damien Totus – Language Department – provided translation for Treaty Day and Theme Gary George – WRC CEO – Parade Judge Kathryn Ferguson – Cultural Resources Walla VA – Provided Student Volunteers Kristen Parr - Language Department - provided translation for Treaty Day and Theme Lisa Guzman – YTHC CEO – Parade Judge Michael R Johnson – Yellowhawk Sr Ctr/GC Officer –Planner Public Safety Department – Parade coordination Ray Denny – Public Safety Director – Parade Director Public Works Department – Setup, logistics, cleanup Syreeta Azure - Language Department - provided translation for Treaty Day and Theme Thomas Morning Owl - Language Department - provided translation for Treaty Day and Theme Timothy Addleman – Public Safety –Volunteer – Community Various Departments who took time to provide informational booths at the longhouse annex. Wenona Scott – YTHC Prevention – Volunteer Coordinator Wildhorse Resort & Casino – donated boxed lunches and bottled water; loaned golf carts The parade was a rousing success and the winner of this year’s pizza party was Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center Prevention Program!!! Those involved with the float were: Marissa Baumgartner heading up the float with RaeAnn Oatman, Dionne Bronson, Ashley Harding, Jay Stanley, Wenona Scott, Ian Sampson, Lindsey Watchman, and several youth and elders. The whole prevention team! Congratulations Yellowhawk!!!! Thank you all who attended. General Council Officers: William Sigo, Chair Michael R Johnson, Vice Chair Shawna Shillal-Gavin, Secretary Thomas Morning Owl, Interpreter A SINCERE THANK YOU FIRST AND FOREMOST TO OUR ELDERS AND YOUTH who participated in the Treaty Day Parade. Our theme was Culture Is Prevenion and we took first place! A huge thank you to the CTUIR Celebration Committee for putting on an amazing event each year and to Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center for giving staff the opportunity to participate in cultural events in our community. We are very thankful for the opportunity to spread awareness and provide opportunities for our children and people to thrive. A special thank you to the Prevention team for all of their help and float decorating! Sincerely, Marissa Baumgartner and the Prevention Staf Deadline for thank you letters is July 24.
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CTUIR receives annual historic preservation grant
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Pamáwaluukt Empower Program blanket drawing set for July 20 MISSION - The Pamáwaluukt Empower Program will hold a drawing July 20 for a Pendleton blanket and other logo items with winners chosen from among tribal members employed in governance and administration who have completed and submitted an Employee Status Survey to the Office of Human Resources for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR). The survey intends to gather information about career mobility, training and educational needs, and for those contemplating retirement. The Pamáwaluukt logo is embroidered on the Pendleton blanket. Deadline for the survey is noon July 20 and the drawing will be held in the afternoon, with the winner announced in the August editions of the Spotlight and CUJ. Pamáwaluukt means “each person raising themselves up” as named by the Elders Language Program in the Department of Education. It is designed to assist CTUIR members employed in all facets of employment, including cover letters, resumes, interview tips, and offers the Discover training module yearly addressing supervision and management.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Park Service announced in May $48.9 million in historic preservation grants for U.S. states, territories, and partnering nations, and $11.4 million for historic preservation grants to 175 tribal historic preservation offices. Historic Preservation Fund grants pay for tribal preservation programs and assist tribes in the preservation of their cultural heritage and promote the protection of historically significant sites, according to a Department of Interior press release. The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, through its Cultural Resources Protection Program, receive a grant amount each year from the Historic Preservation Fund. This year CTUIR will receive $73,178.
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Kimberly Weathers, a breast cancer survivor, gets some help during the Relay for Life Survivor Lap June 16 at Roy Raley Park in Pendleton. She needed the wheelchair because she had surgery on her left knee and then injured her right knee. She was “bone on bone” in her left knee so Dr. Bradley Adams drilled holes in her bones to promote growth. Then, hopping around during the first week after surgery, she injured the other knee. Thus the wheelchair, pushed at the Relay by, from left, Gunnar Weathers, “Nana Pat” Patricia Baird, Kannan Weathers, and Pistol Weathers. The Weathers family has been involved in the Relay for Life since 2012, two years after Kimberly was diagnosed in November of 2010 with two forms of breast cancer in her first trimester of her pregnancy with Pistol Tuff.
DID YOU KNOW? Until the early 1900s, the culture of the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla Indians was based on a yearly cycle of travel from hunting camps to fishing spots to celebration and trading camps and so on. The three tribes spent most of their time in the area which is now northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington. They had lived in the Columbia River Region for more than 10,000 years. There were no buffalo in this area. The most plentiful foods were salmon, roots, berries, deer and elk. Each of these foods could be found in different places and each was available in different seasons. This meant that the Indian people had to move from place to place from season to season to their food and prepare it to be eaten and to be saved for the winter. They followed the same course from year to year in a large circle from the lowlands along the Columbia River to the highlands in the Blue Mountains.
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Deadline July 16 for BMCC financial aid PENDLETON – The deadline is July 16 to complete fall-term financial aid documents for Blue Mountain Community College (BMCC). Documents submitted by that date will ensure students get awarded by the time school starts in August, according to Annie Smith, Native American Liaison and Success Coach in the Higher Education Program for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Students should log in to the WolfWeb and click on “Financial Aid.” There are usually additional documents that need to be submitted before an award will be processed, Smith said in an email. If students still need to register for fall term classes or have questions regarding the BMCC admissions process, they
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Devon Hall maneuvers through an obstacle course under the watchful eye of officers with the Umatilla Tribal Police Department. Hall celebrated her ninth birthday during the Family Bike Safety Day event at Wetlands Park and won a new bicycle.
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Young riders learn rules from experts By the CUJ
MISSION – Devon Hall celebrated her ninth birthday June 23 at Wetlands Park at the Family Bike Safety Day event organized by Umatilla Tribal Police Officer David Williams. She wore a helmet with pig ears as she maneuvered through an obstacle course at the basketball courts. She learned when to stop and when to go, and what to look out for on the paved park trails that were made into mock city streets. Then, after a hotdog lunch, she topped off her day winning one of the two brand-new Huffy bicycles donated by Woodrow Star, a member of the Board of Trustees for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR). Hall was one of about 18 riders – kids riding bikes with training wheels and teenagers on mountain bikes, plus at least a dozen volunteers, including three Filkens brothers (Brad, Steve and David) teaching older riders the rules of the road. Williams, one of two UTPD officers – the other two were William Morris and John Steadman – emphasized the importance of bike safety and particularly of wearing a helmet. Fourteen bicycles were given away in a raffle and anyone who needed a helmet received one. “You can’t stress enough the importance of wearing a helmet and obeying the rules of the road when biking,” Officer Williams said. “Helmets protect the skull and the brain. We have a group of smart kids out here that need their heads protected in case they fall and hit the concrete or anything else hard.” The 14 bicycles given away were lost-and-found bikes that UTPD sent to Two Rivers Prison in Umatilla where inmates made them rideable. Williams said bikes impounded by
Jacob Jesse Jones celebrated his 11th birthday at the bike rodeo at Wetlands Park on the Umatilla Indian Reservation June 23.
police are held for 90 days. “The raffle gets the bikes back into the community,” he said. “Each kid who wins the raffle gets a helmet and the opportunity to register it with us.” Pendleton on Wheels donated the bike helmets, and also loaned UTPD mock road signs, plus cut-outs of cars and buses, to turn the paved paths into little city boulevards.
Tim Elliot was there with a tool kit and almost immediately was helping a youngster with a flat front tire on his training-wheel bike. Kathleen Peterson helped all over the place, including with the raffle. Kylie Mountainchief checked out BMX bikes loaned by the CTUIR Recreation Department in case anyone showed up without a ride. Some parents rode Rec Department bikes alongside their children. Wildhorse security officer Cody Webster was on his bike to volunteer where needed. And Anson Crane, recently named Entrepreneur of the Year, was doing his thing, volunteering his time with music for the event. Malaeloa Malumaleumu won the other new Huffy bike donated by Woodrow Star. Recipients of the refurbished bicycles were Ella Stewart, No’alani Malumaleumu, John Diaz Sr., John Diaz Jr., John Diaz, Kylie Mountainchief, Kiara Templin, Marie Templin, Molly Jones, Jose Tiscareno, Feather Najera and Tiyelan Farrow.
PENDLETON – Trevino Brings Plenty, a poet and musician from Portland, will headline the First Draft Writers’ Series July 19 at the Pendleton Center for the Arts. Brings Plenty is an “American and Native American; a Lakota Indian born on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, USA,” according to a news release. Some of his work explores the American Indian identity in American culture and how it has through genealogiTrevino Brings Plenty cal history affected indigenous peoples in the 21st century. “He writes of urban Indian life; it’s his subject,” the release states. Brings Plenty will take the First Draft Writers’ Series stage at 7 p.m. His remarks will be followed by a short discussion with the audience and Open Mic, where up to 10 local writers can read 3-5 minute selections of their own work. The event is free and open to the public. In college, Brings Plenty worked with Primus St. John and Henry Carlile for his poetry work, studied with Tomas Svoboda for music composition, and Jerry Hahn for jazz guitar. He is singer/songwriter/guitarist for the musical ensemble Ballads of Larry Drake. He has read/performed his work at poetry festivals as far away as Amman, Jordan, and as close to his home base at Portland’s Wordstock Festival. His published works include Wakpá Wanái, Ghost River (2015); Real Indian Junk Jewelry (2012); and Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (2008). His music and spoken word works can be heard on his website, trevinobringsplenty.com. First Draft Writers’ Series is every third Thursday and is supported by Oregon Humanities and Arts Council members. The Pendleton Center for the Arts is located in the old library building, just over the Main Street bridge. More information about First Draft or other events and classes can be found at pendletonarts.org or by calling 541278-9201.
Tamkaliks Celebration begins July 20 in Wallowa Umatilla Tribal Police Officer David Williams directs young bicyclist paused at a stop sign set up on the paved paths at Wetlands Park during a Family Bike Safety Day June 23.
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WALLOWA - The 28th Annual Tamkaliks Celebration and Friendship Potluck will be held from July 20 through 22 at the Tamkaliks Pow Wow Ground. Friday evening the festivities start at 7 p.m. and will continue through Sunday ending with a Championship Dance.
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Luke sprints at State Jr Olympics Marcus Aaron Luke (in red) finished first in his 100 meter heat and fourth overall with a time of 11.37 seconds in the USATF State Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships in June at Jesuit High School in Beaverton. Luke was competing against 27 other sprinters in the 15-16-year-old division. He also ran the 400 meters but did not place. Luke made a regional competition to be run July 6, 7 and 8 at Summit High School in Bend. He runs for a team called Rising Phoenix.
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Art at the Relay Four Stanger sisters – Riley 7, Maelyn 6, Lauralee 11, and Malaya 13 - participated in crafts provided by the Pendleton Center for the Arts at the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event at Roy Raley Park in Pendleton June 16. CUJ photo/Phinney
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Woods highlights BMCC ceremony PENDLETON - The Class of 2018 featured 161 graduates who walked in the Blue Mountain Community College commencement ceremony on Thursday, June 14, at the Pendleton Convention Center. Charles Woods, pictured above, performed an honor song with hand drum. Families, friends and faculty filled the space with applause and tears as the graduates were called to the stage to receive their degrees. Annie Smith, Native Student Counselor and CTUIR Liaison in the BMCC Student Success program, was in attendance.
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Idaho tribe joins lawsuit against big opioid manufacturers
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LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho tribe has joined a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors. The Lewiston Tribune reports the Nez Perce Tribe said in a release that a lawsuit was filed Friday in Idaho’s U.S. District Court that targets opioid distributor McKesson Corp., the only supplier of the addictive pain relievers to the tribe’s clinic, Nimiipuu Health. The suit will be consolidated with a larger case being tried in Cleveland, joining more than 400 other related lawsuits. The tribe’s complaint argues resources have been depleted and health care, law enforcement and child protection officials are stretched thin combatting the widespread effects of addiction in the community. Most Read Nation & World Stories 1Judge orders Vancouver, Wash., teen to start paying off $37M for starting Columbia Gorge wildfire 2The princes, the president and the fortune seekers 3What is lava haze? A look at Hawaii’s latest volcanic hazard VIEW 4Florida marks milestone in Everglades python control program VIEW 5A Staten Island man found a safe with cash in his backyard — then things got weird Unlimited Digital Access: $1 for 4 weeks The tribe is seeking monetary damages “three times its actual damages” on multiple counts, including accusations of false or misleading marketing and gross negligence. No specific financial judgment was requested.
Community Picnic scheduled for Aug. 2 MISSION - The 13th Annual Confederation Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Community Picnic will be held August 2 at the July Grounds. The picnic is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. and will end at 7 p.m. The event is open to the public and is hosted by the CTUIR Housin Department. For more information call 541-429-7920.
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Board of Trustees Minutes DATE: April 16, 2018
BOT Present: Doris Wheeler, Treasurer; Kathryn Brigham, Secretary; Rosenda Shippentower, Member; Aaron Ashley, Member; Woodrow Star, Member; Sally Kosey, Member and William Sigo, General Council Chairman. Gary Burke, BOT Chairman on personal leave and Jeremy Wolf, Vice Chairman on administrative leave. Quorum present. Old Business. None. Next Resolution 18-029: None. Other Board Action: None. BOT Travel Reports. Deferred. BOT Leave and Travel Requests. 1) Gary Burke, travel May 2 and June 6 to West Linn to attend Willamette Falls Lock Commission meeting. 2) Jeremy Wolf, April 23-25 to Spokane, WA to attend Columbia River Treaty meeting, April 25-26 to attend CRITFC meeting in Portland, Ore. 3) Kat Brigham tentative personal leave, April 19-20, depending upon service arrangements. Personal leave on May 4 from 7:30 – 9:30 AM. Travel, May 21-24 to attend ATNI at Toppenish, WA. 4) Rosenda Shippentower, travel June 2224 to attend Annual Pi-Uma-Sha Treaty Days at Warm Springs. 5) Sally Kosey, personal from 3-4 PM on May 1. Personal leave from 3-4 PM on May 22, Personal leave 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM on May 23. MOTION: Rosenda Shippentower moves to approve leave requests. Sally Kosey seconds. Motion carries 4-0-0.
DATE: April 23, 2018
BOT Present: Gary Burke, BOT Chairman; Jeremy Wolf, Vice Chairman; Doris Wheeler, Treasurer (arrived at 10:00 AM) Rosenda Shippentower, Member; Aaron Ashley, Member; Kathryn Brigham, Secretary; Woodrow Star, Member; Sally Kosey, Member and William Sigo, General Council Chairman on personal leave. Quorum present. Old Business. None. Next Resolution 18-029: None. Other Board Action: Letter to Office of Management and Budget OMB regarding Hanford 2019 Budget. A work session was held on April 19 to review draft letter to Mr. Mulvaney, OMB requesting an explanation as to how the OMBdeveloped budget is compatible with Executive Order (EO) 12898. MOTION: Jeremy Wolf moves to approve the letter. Rosenda Shippentower seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 4-0-0. BOT Travel Reports. 1) Kat Brigham reported on April 3rd W3MP at Walla Walla Community College. April 16th WWBWC meeting held at Milton-Freewater. 2) Rosenda Shippentower reported on April 9-11 TERO Spring Conference she attended at Portland. April 14-15 trip to Portland World Forestry Center to attend the Museum at Warm Springs’ 25th Anniversary dinner and awards. 3) Willie Sigo reported on April 16-19 trip to Worley, ID to attend NW Indian Housing Association Quarterly meeting and training. MOTION: Aaron Ashley moves to approve reports. Jeremy Wolf seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 5-0-0. BOT Leave and Travel Requests. 1) Rosenda Shippentower, Travel, May 17-18 to Spokane, WA to attend Healing Lodge meeting. Travel, June 4-6 to Warm Springs to attend Oregon Summit on Opioids & Other Drugs. 2) Sally Kosey, birthday leave, May 24. Travel, May 10-12 to Seattle, WA to attend 8th Tribal Leadership Summit. MOTION: Jeremy Wolf moves to approve leave requests, after confirming Sally Kosey’s May 1012 trip dates. Rosenda Shippentower seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 5-0-0
DATE: April 30, 2018
BOT Present: Gary Burke, BOT Chairman; Jeremy Wolf, Vice Chairman; Doris Wheeler, Treasurer; Kathryn Brigham, Secretary; Rosenda Shippentower, Member; Woodrow Star, Member; Sally Kosey, Member and William Sigo, General Council Chairman. Quorum present. Aaron Ashley, Member on personal leave. Old Business. None. Resolution 18-029: Topic: Board Priorities and Responsive Work for 2018-19. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby adopts the attached Board priorities and responsive work for the 2018-19 Board Term: AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board directs the Executive
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Director to implement the Board Priorities and responsive work and to provide regular briefings, including at six-month progress reporting intervals, to the Board concerning progress in achieving these priorities; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, the Board has determined that Board priorities should be distinguished from other ongoing work by receiving the following preferences: 1) the Board, staff, committee and commissions will adjust their use of Time to give particular attention to these topics; 2) the Board, staff committees and commissions will place emphasis on these priorities when communicating with each other, with the General Council, and with the Tribal community; 3) these priorities will receive preference for receipt of discretionary funding as those opportunities arise (although no budget appropriations are made with enactment of this resolution; 4) departments will collaborate closely on these priorities; and 5) department work plans and budgets maybe adjusted when feasible to reflect the importance of these projects; AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 30th day of April, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-029 and Priorities as amended. Woodrow Star seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 2 for (Kat Brigham and Woodrow Star) – 5 against (Rosenda Shippentower, Doris Wheeler, Sally Kosey, Jeremy Wolf, and William Sigo) – 0 abstaining. Discussion on the exhibit language. MOTION: Jeremy Wolf moves to table the 2018-19 BOT priorities. Rosenda Shippentower seconds. Discussion: BOT work session will be scheduled this week. Question. Motion carries 5 for (Jeremy Wolf, Rosenda Shippentower, Doris Wheeler, Sally Kosey and William Sigo) 2 – against (Kat Brigham and Woodrow Star) – 0 abstaining. Other Board Action: Commission/Committee Update and Application Review by Kat Brigham, BOT Secretary. CTUIR Culture Coalition, 1 vacancy, one application from Matilda Hoisington. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to appoint Matilda Hoisington for a two year term. Rosenda Shippentower seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 7-0-0. Farm Committee, 1 vacancy, two applications from Antone Minthorn and Matilda Hoisington. Antone Minthorn’s application was removed because a CTUIR employee can only be on one commission or committee according to the TPPM. ACTION: Kat Brigham moves to appoint Matilda Hoisington to Farm Committee for 3 year term. William Sigo seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 5 for (Kat Brigham, William Sigo, Jeremy Wolf, Doris Wheeler, and Rosenda Shippentower) – 2 against (Woodrow Star and Sally Kosey) – 0 abstaining. Law & Order Committee, 1 vacancy, three applications from Matilda Hoisington, Vincent Sohappy and Charles F. Sams Jr. ACTION: by secret ballot Charles Sams was reappointed to Law & Order Committee for a 2 year term. Tiicham Conservation District, 1 vacancy, one application from Matilda Hoisington. MOTION: Rosenda Shippentower moves to re-advertise the vacancy. Woodrow Star seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 6 for (Jeremy Wolf, Doris Wheeler, Sally Kosey, Rosenda Shippentower, Woodrow Star, and William Sigo IV) – 1 against (Kat Brigham) – 0 abstaining. Economic & Community Development Committee (ECDC), 1 resignation from Teara FarrowFerman. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to accept ECDC recommendation to accept resignation from Teara Farrow Ferman’s and advertise for vacant position on the ECDC with term expiring on Aug. 1, 2018. Rosenda Shippentower seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 7-0-0. Election Commission, fill position that has been vacated by Esther Huesties passing on. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to advertise for one vacant General Council Appointed position on the Election Commission. Woodrow Star seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 7-0-0. 2018-19 Commission/Committee Annual Training. Review with BOT with suggested changes. BOT Secretary informed the BOT the PowerPoint presentation is currently being finalized. The conference room rental and luncheon menu will be brought back to BOT for approval and will make request to use the DEB voucher to pay for both. MOTION: Sally Kosey approve
corrected memo to schedule training for May 29th from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM at Wildhorse Resort & Casino with lunch provided. Woodrow Star seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 7-0-0. Will advertise for one positon on the Economic & Development Committee and one position on the Election Commission-GC position until December 21, 2021. BOT Secretary asked the BOT for clarification on if current vacant positon term should to be full term or the remaining term. It was the consensus of BOT to fill the vacancy until term ends. All applications will be due Monday, May 21, 2018 by 4:00 PM. A BOT work session will be scheduled May 25 at 8:30 A< to review applications and will take action on the application appointments on Monday, June 4 since May 28th is Memorial Day Holiday. BOT Travel Reports. Deferred. BOT Leave and Travel Requests. 1) Gary Burke: Travel, May 2-5 to Salem for Tribal Leaders meeting with Congressional delegates. Travel, May 10-11 to Eugene to NAAC meeting at U of O. Travel, June 2-6 to Kansas, MO to attend NCAI Convention. Travel, Jun 21-25 to attend PiUma-Sha Treaty Days. 2) Aaron Ashley, Travel, June 2-7 to Kansas, MO to NCAI. 3) Kat Brigham, Travel, May 2 to Portland, OR for Oregon House Democrats event, BOT already approve May 3 for Senator Jeff Merkley to attend Annual Bending Toward Justice Awards/Luncheon. Travel, May 4 to Baker City to American Leadership Forum. 4) Sally Kosey, Personal leave, May 23rd from 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM. Amend previous personal leave granted for May 24 to May 25. MOTION: Rosenda Shippentower moves to approve leave requests. Sally Kosey seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 7-0-0.
DATE: May 14, 2018
BOT Present: Gary Burke, BOT Chairman; Jeremy Wolf, Vice Chairman; Doris Wheeler, Treasurer; Kathryn Brigham, Secretary; Rosenda Shippentower, Member; Woodrow Star, Member; Sally Kosey, Member and William Sigo, General Council Chairman. Aaron Ashley, Member on personal leave. Quorum present. Old Business. NoneNext Resolution 18033: None. Other Board Action: None. BOT Travel Reports. 1) Jeremy Wolf to Washington DC from May 7 to 10 as part of CRITFC delegate for CTUIR. 2) Gary Burke to Eugene to attend Spring NAAC Board meeting at U of O. 3) Kat Brigham to Milton Freewater on May 8 to attend WWBC 101 Water Rights presentation. To Seattle, WA on May 10 and 11 for Tribal Leaders Summit at U of W. 4) Sally Kosey to Seattle, WA on May 10 and 11 for Tribal Leaders Summit at U of W. MOTION: Rosenda Shippentower moves to approve trip reports. Doris Wheeler seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 7-0-0. BOT Leave and Travel Requests. 1) Jeremy Wolf, travel on May 22-24 to Portland for CRITFC; personal leave on May 30 from 9 to 10:30 AM; Travel to Omaha from June 18-20 to meet and tour with UPRR board. 2) Rosenda Shippentower, travel to Lincoln City from June 11-13 for HWC Retreat. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to approve six leave requests. Rosenda Shippentower seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 7-0-0.
DATE: May 21, 2018
BOT Present: Jeremy Wolf, Vice Chairman; Doris Wheeler, Treasurer; Kathryn Brigham, Secretary; Woodrow Star, Member; and Sally Kosey, Member. Gary Burke, BOT Chairman; Aaron Ashley, Member; Rosenda Shippentower, Member; and William Sigo, General Council Chairman on travel. Quorum present. Old Business. Ratify polled letter to Governor re: Lost Valley Farm CAFO. CTUIR letter listed previous and present concerns about the Lost Valley Farm dairy outside of Boardman being out of compliance now the State of Oregon is pursuing an injunction to end operations at the facility. MOTION: Woodrow Star moves to ratify letter to Governor Brown regarding Lost Valley Farm CAFO. Sally Kosey seconds. Motion carries 4-0-0. Resolution 18-033: Topic: Legal Services Contract for Telecommunication and Broadband Services. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby approves the Professional Services Agreement between the Confederated Tribes
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and Jim Deason, Esq., attached to this Resolution as Exhibit 1C, to provide legal services to the Umatilla Reservation Telecommunications LLC; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby authorizes its Interim Executive Director to execute the Professional Services Agreement, or one containing substantially similar terms, and to take such further action as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Resolution. AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 21st day of May, 2018. MOTION: Sally Kosey moves to adopt Resolution 18-033. Kat Brigham seconds. Motion carries 4-0-0. Resolution 18-034: Topic: Cayuse Board of Director Nomination – Bibas. RESOLVED, the Board of Trustees approves the appointment of Shlomo Bibas to the Cayuse Technologies Board of Directors for a three year term beginning from June 1 2018 and to end on June 1, 2021 AND BE IT FINALLY AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 21st day of May, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-034. Doris Wheeler seconds. Motion carries 4-0-0. Resolution 18-035: Topic: BPA Quenett Creek Substation Memorandum of Agreement. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby approves the attached Memorandum of Agreement between the Confederated Tribes and BPA and authorizes its Chairman to execute it on behalf of the Confederated Tribes and to take such further action and execute other documents, if any, that are necessary to carry out the purposes of this mitigation and this Resolution; AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 21st day of May, 2018. MOTION: Woodrow Star moves to adopt Resolution 18-035 with corrections. Sally Kosey seconds. Motion carries 4-0-0. Resolution 18-036: Topic: National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Amended Tribal Membership. RESOLVED, that the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, which is the official governing body of the above named Tribes, hereby authorizes Gary Burke who is the official principal tribal official, to take the necessary action to place the Tribes in Membership with NCAI; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that based on the Tribal citizenry of 3, 108 persons, the Tribe shall have 130 votes, in accordance with Article II – Members, Section B 1d; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that pursuant to Article III – Members, Section B1(b) of the NCAI Reservation designates the following persons as Delegate and Alternate Delegates, and instructs them to become Individual Members in Good Standing in National Congress of American Indians in order to fulfill their responsibilities as Official Delegates to the National Congress of American Indians Annual Session, Mid-Year Session and Executive Council Sessions. Delegate: Gary Burke, Board of Trustees Chairman; Alternate: Jeremy Wolf, Board of Trustees Vice Chairman; Alternate: Doris Wheeler, Board of Trustees Treasurer; Alternate: N. Kathryn Brigham, Board of Trustees Secretary; Alternate: Aaron Ashley, Board of Trustees Member; Alternate: Woodrow Star, Board of Trustees Member; Alternate: Rosenda Shippentower, Board of Trustees Member; Alternate: Sally Kosey, Board of Trustees Member; Alternate: William Sigo IV, General Council Chairman Ex-Officio. OFFICIAL TRIBAL ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER: Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, 46411 Timine Way, Pendleton, OR 97801, (541) 2763165 and Facsimile (541) 276-3095. AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 21st day of May, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-036 with corrections. Sally Kosey seconds. Motion carries 4-0-0. Other Board Action: None. BOT Travel Reports. None. BOT Leave and Travel Requests. None.
DATE: June 4, 2018
BOT Present: Jeremy Wolf, Vice Chairman; Doris Wheeler, Treasurer; Kathryn Brigham, Secretary; Rosenda Shippentower, Member; Woodrow Star, Member; Sally Kosey, Member and William Sigo, General Council Chairman. Gary
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Board of Trustees Minutes Burke, BOT Chairman and Aaron Ashley, Member on travel to attend NCAI. Quorum present. Old Business. Polled Resolution 18-037: Investment Portfolio Investment-Authorize Portfolio Investment in Doradus Hospitality Fund L.P. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby authorizes investment in Doradus Hospitality Fund, L.P. a limited investment partnership, the amounts up to $2 million, in the Perpetual Funds portfolio. AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, or his authorized designee, is authorized to take all actions necessary to implement the above named investments, including execution of all appropriate documents. AND, that said Resolution has not been modified, amended, or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 22nd day of May, 2018. MOTION: Sally Kosey moves to ratify Polled Resolution 18-037. Kat Brigham seconds. Motion carries 6-0-0. Polled Resolution 18-038: Head Start Renewal Grant Application. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees approves and authorizes the submission of the Cay-Uma-Wa Head Start Renewal and COLA, Grant Application #90CI009955 for Year 3 Federal Assistance Continuation Refunding Grant Application (Exhibit 1), Budget (Exhibit 2) and COLA (Exhibit 3); AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees authorizes the Executives Director to prepare, submit negotiate and execute the Cay-Uma-Wa Head Start Policy Council and the Tribal Education Administration, provide periodic reports to the Board of Trustees regarding accomplishments and obstacles in such implementation; AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 4th day of June, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to ratify Resolution 18-038. Woodrow Star seconds. Motion carries 6-0-0. Resolution 18-039: Topic: Walla Walla ASR Permit Report. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees accepts the Report as completion of ASR permit appeal settlement agreement; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby authorizes the Confederated Tribes’ Department of Natural Resources and Office of Legal Counsel to develop options to formalize a collaborative natural resource management relationship with the City of Walla Walla; AND, that said Resolution has not been modified, amended, or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 4th day of June, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-039. Sally Kosey seconds. Motion carries 6-0-0. Resolution 18-040: Topic: 2016 Local Road Safety Plan. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees enacts the proposed 2016 Local Roads Safety Plan (LRSP) and directs the Executive Director to execute the necessary contracts and programs documents required to accomplish the projects and make modifications as necessary to implement the 2016 Local Roads Safety Plan; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board directs the Executive Director to forward this resolution and Exhibit 1 the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Local Road Safety Plan to the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Umatilla Agency and the Northwest Regional Office, Division of Transportation. AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 4th day of June, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-040 as amended. Woodrow Star seconds. Motion carries 6-0-0. Resolution: Topic: IGA – Athena-Wildhorse Fish Passage Project. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to defer until after June 6 BOT WS and if needed to poll. Rosenda Shippentower seconds. Motion carries 6-0-0. Resolution 18-041: Topic: Umatilla Army Depot. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby directs its Interim Executive Director to establish a Tribal team to negotiate the transfer of former Depot wildlife lands to the Confederated Tribes, which team shall be composed of appropriate representatives of the Departments of Natural Resources and Economic and Community Development and the Office of Legal Counsel; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby directs that the Tribal team be chaired by William Sigo, General Council Chairman who serves as the Confederated Tribes’ alternate member on the Columbia
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Development Authority (CDA) Board; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby directs that the Tribal team carry out its negotiations with the CDA pursuant to the Confederated Tribes Term Sheet attached to this Resolution as Exhibit 2C; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that any agreement between the Confederated Tribes and the CDA for the transfer of former Depot wildlife lands to the Confederated Tribes shall be subject to Board of Trustees review and approval. AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 4th day of June, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-041 with corrections and amendments. Sally Kosey seconds. Motion carries Other Board Action: Commission/Committee Update and Application Review by Kat Brigham, BOT Secretary. Economic & Community Development Committee, 1 vacancy with one application from Leo Stewart. MOTION: Rosenda Shippentower moves to appoint Leo Stewart by acclimation. William Sigo seconds. Motion carries 6-0-0. Tiicham Conservation District, 1 vacancy with two applications from Matilda Hoisington and Lavon Herrera. ACTION: by secret ballot Lavon Herrera was selected to serve on the Tiicham Conservation District for a two year term. No terms expiring, no action needed. Will advertise for one positon on the Election Commission which is General Council term to be filled until December 31, 2021. All applications will be due Monday, June 18 by 4PM. A BOT work session will be scheduled June 22 at 8:30 AM to review applications and will take action on application appointments on Monday, June 25. BOT Travel Reports. 1) Aaron Ashley, ATNI Conference at Toppenish, WA from May 20-24. 2) Gary Burke, ATNI Conference at Toppenish, WA from May 20-24. LCIS Meeting at Willamette
University, Portland on May 15 and then to for regular LCIS meeting at Salem on May 16. 3) Jeremy Wolf, CRITFC meeting at Portland on May 23-24. 4) Kat Brigham, ATNI Conference at Toppenish, WA from May 22-24. WWBWC meeting at Milton Freewater on May 21. 5) Rosenda Shippentower, Healing Lodge at Spokane, WA on May 17 & 18. ATNI Conference at Toppenish, WA from May 20-24. MOTION: Sally Kosey moves to approve reports. William Sigo seconds. Motion carries 5-0-0. BOT Leave and Travel Requests. 1) Jeremy Wolf, June 12-14 to Missoula, MT to attend Interagency Bison Management Plan meeting. June 20-22 to Portland for CRITFC meeting. June 7, personal leave from 7:30 AM to 1:30 PM. 2) Kat Brigham, travel request, June 7 to Portland to attend US Attorney’s Office event. 3) Rosenda Shippentower, personal leave on June 19 & 20. 4) Sally Kosey, travel request, June 12 to Portland to attend United for Kids Gubernational Forum meeting. 5) Woodrow Star travel request, June 25-29 to Idaho Falls, ID to attend State/Tribal Govt. Working Group national conference. 6) Willie Sigo, verbal travel request and will complete the travel form requests for June 18-19 to Squamish, WA to attend HUD Conference. June 20-22 to Warm Springs to attend 4 Chairs meeting. MOTION: Woodrow Star moves to approve leave requests, 10 written and 2 verbal. Kat Brigham seconds. Motion carries 5-0-0.
DATE: June 11, 2018
BOT Present: Gary Burke, BOT Chairman; Jeremy Wolf, Vice Chairman; Doris Wheeler, Treasurer; Kathryn Brigham, Secretary; Rosenda Shippentower, Member; Aaron Ashley, Member; Woodrow Star, Member; Sally Kosey, Member and William Sigo, General Council Chairman. Full quorum present. Old Business. None. Resolution 18-042: Topic: IGA – Athena – Wildhorse Fish Passage Project. RESOLVED,
that the Board of Trustees agrees to the terms contained within the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA), attached hereto as Exhibit 1; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees authorizes its Chairman to execute the IGA and take any other action necessary to implement its terms. AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 11th day of June, 2018. MOTION: Jeremy Wolf moves to adopt Resolution 18-042 as amended. Kat Brigham seconds. Motion carries 8-0-0. Resolution 18-043: Topic: Cultural Resources Fund Phase III Application. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees supports the Language Program project application for Phase III Language Revitalization Projects; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees authorizes the submittal of the grant application with necessary application forms, budgets, and certificates; AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 11th day of June, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-043. Sally Kosey seconds. Motion carries 8-0-0. Other Board Action: None. BOT Travel Reports. 1) Aaron Ashley, travel to Kansas, MO from June 2-7 to attend NCAI Conference. 2) Gary Burke, travel to Kansas, MO from June 2-7 to attend NCAI Conference. 3) Kat Brigham, June 7 to Portland to attend Investiture for Billy Williams, OR US Attorney. June 5 to Walla Walla Community College to attend W3MP meeting. 4) Rosenda Shippentower, travel to Warm Springs from June 4-6 to attend Oregon Tribal Summit on Opioids and Other Drugs. MOTION: Sally Kosey moves to approve reports. Woodrow Star seconds. Motion carries 8-0-0. BOT Leave and Travel Requests. 1) Kat Brigham, June 15 all day for personal leave. MOTION: Rosenda Shippentower moves to approve leave requests. Aaron Ashley seconds. Motion carries 8-0-0.
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