Colten Bell holds up a root he dug up during a children’s root digging trip April 24. For more photos, turn to page 16A.
Mari Mills and her mother, Rae Ann Oatman, spend four nights a week practicing yoga at Wellness Wave. Read about it on page 4B.
Oregon Governor Kate Brown met with the Board of Trustees for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation April 27 on her tour of Eastern Oregon. They talked primarily about mental health concerns. Turn to page 3A for the story.
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New Yellowhawk is ‘fantastic’ Community turns out for opening of Tribal Health Center By the CUJ
MISSION – Dr. Rex Quaempts said the clinic he remembers as a kid was smaller than his office at the new Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center that opened to the public May 1 on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. When the doors opened about 1 p.m., following an hour of drumming, singing, speeches and a ribbon cutting, hundreds of community members entered the doors and flowed through the circular building on guided tours of the 64,000 square-foot state-of-theart facility that boasts, among other things, 15 medical exam rooms and 10 dental chairs. “It’s fantastic,” said elder John Brown. “It’s a big time difference. Everything is so nice and everybody is so happy.” The ceremonial “soft grand opening” of the new clinic, under construction for more than a year, was bittersweet for the community which was mourning the loss of three elders at the end of April. Tribal Members and other community members rejoiced at the opening, but it wasn’t without acknowledgement that many were absent from the ceremony. Master of Ceremonies Yellowhawk on page 17A
Dr. Rex Quaempts, Medical Director at Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center, was one of the speakers during the “soft grand opening” May 1 on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Hundreds of people turned out for ribbon-cutting ceremonies and tours of the 64,000 square-foot facility. For more photos turn to page 4A. CUJ photo/Phinney
First fish Malvin Jamison holds up one of the fish caught in the first salmon harvest of 2018. See more on page 18A CUJ photo/Dallas Dick
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Tyler Close, a senior at Nixyaawii Community School, came up with the top trash prize, a fire extinguisher, pulled out of the Wetlands Park swamp, during Earth Day clean-up activities April 23. All 75 students from NCS turned out to pick up litter around the park.
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Kayden Coy, 5, and Abigail Coy, 4, sharing a garbage bag provided by the Tribal Environmental Recovery Facility, search for litter in the weeds on the east edge of Wetlands Park on the Umatilla Indian Reservation during an Earth Day event April 23. They were with their mother, Brittany Cline.
Every year on Earth Day Natalie Pond fills garbage bags along Kirkpatrick Road on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. She had filled one bag and was on her second even though, she said, the pickings were slim. CUJ photos/Phinney
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With their best “looking east� pose, the trio of Richie Minthorn, Ashlynn Looney and Lillian Picard were finishing their tasks before a hamburger and hotdog feast at Wetlands Park. Minthorn and Picard are sophomores; Looney is a freshman. The Tribal Environmental Recovery Facility (TERF) sponsored Earth Day activities.
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CUJ News Oregon Governor Kate Brown, with First Gentleman Dan Little sitting beside her, discussed issues with the Board of Trustees for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation April 27. The Board’s chief concern was mental health, but they also talked about water issues and other matters. Also pictured here are the governor’s assistants (behind her) and Tribal staff, including from left, Chuck Sams, Communications Director; Jane Hill, Legislative Affairs Manager; Eric Quaempts, Interim Executive Director; and Naomi Stacy, Lead Tribal Attorney. CUJ photos/Phinney
BOT talks with Gov. Brown about mental health, water By Jill-Marie Gavin of the CUJ
MISSION – Oregon Gov. Kate Brown heard about several issues when she visited the Umatilla Indian Reservation April 27, but none was more important to the Board of Trustees (BOT) than mental health. The Governor stopped at the Nixyaawii Governance Center to meet with the policy makers for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) during her tour of eastern Oregon, which also included stops in La Grande and Pendleton. BOT members took turns for nearly an hour addressing Brown, but the primary statements pertained to mental health concerns. Member-at-large Woodrow Star talked about Tribal Court’s lack of recognition by the state of Oregon regarding mental health referrals. Star said because
the state of Oregon’s legal system does not recognize the authority of CTUIR’s Tribal Court, judges have been unable to commit defendants involuntarily to seek mental health treatment. This inability to require defendants to seek mental health help has been detrimental to Tribal members because they end up in county jail where assistance is inadequate. Members-at-large Sally Kosey and Rosenda Shippentower told Gov. Brown about situations they had witnessed in which mentally ill individuals required police responses. Kosey, who teaches culture and dancing at the Mission Longhouse on Wednesday evenings, said that during a culture night activity a well-known member of the community with mental health issues scared the children in her care. “We had a gentleman come in and scare the heck
Oregon Governor Kate Brown listens to the Board of Trustees for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation April 27.
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Ed staff shares promising grad rates does that five times that’s nearly a month of school days they miss MISSION – The growing percentout on. We are here to give you age of Native American graduates (parents) tools to be better advoat Pendleton High School (PHS)was cates for your students.” the highlight of conversation at a After discussing the importance Parent Night hosted by the Education of attendance Commander moved Department at Cay-Uma-Wa Head on to the topic that excited parents Start April 19. and families in attendance the The night was a Parent Night most. The facts and figures on and Public Hearing for the Title VI increased graduation rates came Grant and led by Youth Services and from Education Specialist and CUJ photos/Gavin Recreation Program Manager Lloyd Zelma Selam played during Parent Night April 19. Wrap-Around Services provider Commander. Brent Spencer. During the introOther topics of discussion and priorities of staff in- duction of Title VI staff Spencer pointed out that 2018 cluded getting Native students on level with non-Indian graduation rates for Native American students at PHS is students in the standardized testing, offering culturally up to 90 percent and puts them nearly at the same level responsive academic support, and decreasing absentee- as non-Indian students, specifically with their white ism among Native students. peers who have the highest high school graduation rate. Regarding absenteeism, Commander said, “Every Parent night on page 17A day matters. If a student misses three days a month and By Jill-Marie Gavin of The CUJ
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Facts & figures about the new health clinic The new Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center will be a little more than 64,000 square feet – nearly twice the size of the current clinic. The building materials used are intended to be low maintenance. The heating and cooling system, along with insulation and high efficiency windows, are designed to cut the consumption of power to half of the current building code. (Path to Net Zero.) Solar will be used to offset the power usage, starting with 70KW solar currently bid into the construction, but also pre-wired on the roof to accommodate an additional 230KW, which will make the building completely “net zero” energy consumption.
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The architecture is designed for better patient flow and integrated health services. Dental Operatories are expanded to 10 from 4. There will be 15 Medical exam rooms with 4 talking rooms. Two Telemedicine rooms will be available for specialty work not available within the local area.
Cutting the ceremonial grand opening ribbon May 1 was, from left, Lisa Guzman, Yellowhawk CEO; Gary Burke, Board of Trustees Chair for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; Shawna Gavin, CTUIR Health Commission Chair; and Brian Sewell, owner’s representative for Wenaha Group. Holding the ribbon are Carrie Sampson, Yellowhawk Quality Director, at left, and Kaeleen McGuire, Yellowhawk Communications Manager, at right.
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Activity rooms will be available for prevention and community health. Employee work areas are all team rooms where staff will work together to provide patients the services they need. Due to team room concept, additional talking rooms are available for private conversations throughout the building. A demonstration kitchen is available for cooking classes and other community events. In general, the areas will allow for more flexibility for future medical services. Physical therapy, audiology and optometry are coming soon. TERO (tribal employment) numbers have been consistent at about 28 percent through complete project. 122 trees will be planted in the landscape. Plants were purchased from the CTUIR Native Plant Nursery.
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Signs in Native languages show patients and visitors where to go in the new 64,000 square foot health center.
Kat Brigham, a member of the CTUIR Board of Trustees, sits in one of the 10 dental chairs at Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center. Dental Director Grady Shaver gave Brigham a tour of the new department.
Three young girls check out the goodies at the dental booth during the soft grand opening at the new Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center May 1.
Treats included Yellowhawk signature cookies and a lot more.
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Freshman Trayton Bale and sophomore Isaiah Pacheco, members of the Nixyaawii Gold Eagles Wings Singers, performed an honor song while employees of Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center and members of the community gathered in front of the new facility May 1. An estimated 300 people turned out for the “soft grand opening” that took place at noon. Tours of the state-of-the-art clinic followed during the afternoon.
“The building is beautiful and the project team had a good cross section of staff. They all worked well together. The thing that struck me the most was how enthused and excited the employees were. Everywhere you went there were smiles wall to wall. A new facility ramps up pride and professionalism a great deal. It’s a darn exciting outcome for our community. The wellness component and preventative care being implemented into our healthcare system is so important for our community now. A lot more young people are more interested in getting involved. I was very pleased and proud my mom (Myrna Tovey) got to spend time there, she really believed in it. I was glad she got to see it.”
Dave Tovey, Special Project Consultant for Indian Land Tenure Foundation
A chocolate fountain was a big hit for strawberry lovers, including, from left, Thelma Eagleheart, Isabelle Sigo, and Mackenzie Kiona. Community members walked from station to station learning about Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center May 1.
Dr. Rex Quaempts (in vest) and Yellowhawk staff talk in one of the conference rooms with Umatilla Tribal EMTs about services at the new clinic
Gary Burke, Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, made remarks before the ribbon cutting, as did Shawna Gavin, CTUIR Health Commission Chair; Lisa Guzman, Yellowhawk CEO; and Dr. Rex Quaempts. Don Sampson served as master of ceremonies.
“I appreciate the staff of Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center, the Tribal government, General Council and the design and construction teams for all their work and thoughtfulness in its design and function. It serves as an example in new infrastructure by integrating our past with current technologies (i.e. Path to Net Zero and building design). It’s an achievement in collaboration and an investment in our future and it turned out beautifully.” Jeremy Wolf, Board of Trustees Vice Chair
“Seeing the new building and watching this happen, seeing it completing the circle, has been a true honor. To be here and see it actually happen is a joy and the connection between all the staff and the new building is a remarkable experience.” Tayler Craig, Yellowhawk Switchboard Operator and
Happy Canyon Princess Yellowhawk went all out with an ice sculpture to commemorate the opening of the new health center.
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Tessa Woods hands a prescription to a patron at the Yellowhawk pharmacy, which was in operation on the opening day.
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The courtyard or “meadow” at the new Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center is a place to relax and reflect.
Good health: a personal right and a Treaty right
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reator provided all our People with the resources we would need to have healthy and sustainable lifeways. We were given our First Foods to nourish us and we were given our medicines to heal us. Since time immemorial all that we needed was provided by the waters, land, and air we breathed. Our People led a healthy lifestyle that included regular exercise and a balanced diet. Between the 1770’s and the 1850’s, European explorers and American settlers brought diseases that Indian people had never encountered on the Columbia Plateau. The most deadly were smallpox, malaria, viral influenza, yellow fever, measles, typhus, bubonic plague, typhoid fever, cholera, and pertussis. Several epidemics swept through our territory such that by the Treaty signing in 1855 more than 80 percent of our populations were lost due to illness. Our Treaty signers understood the need for medicine, both traditional and non-Indian forms. Article 2
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of our Treaty specifically calls out for the President of the United States, who may from time to time at his discretion, determine what proportion thereof shall be expended for such objects as in his judgment will promote their well- being, and advance them in civilization,… for medical purposes… These words - this promise - is to provide for our well-being, our health and our medical needs. This promise was made in perpetuity. With President Johnson’s War on Poverty movement of the late 1960s and President Nixon’s recognition of broken treaty promises, our Elders pushed the federal government to make good on their obligation under our Treaty. By 1970 Yellowhawk Clinic was completed and dedicated to improving health on our reservation. The Clinic employed professionals from Indian Health Services to meet our basic medical and health needs. Over the past 47 years the Clinic has made great strides to expand services to the Tribal
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membership. A few years ago Yellowhawk staff leadership, the Health Commission and the Board of Trustees decided it was time to upgrade, expand and develop a Tribal Health Center to meet our needs now and into the future. This month we opened the new Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center. Our leadership recognizes the words our Elders said regularly, “Anam ku waqis ku kwalani ku kwalani wa im ku tananma pawa waqis ku kwalani.” When you are healthy and happy, the People are healthy and happy. This new facility and the services housed within it have the potential to greatly improve our health physically, emotionally, and some would say, spiritually. By having healthcare professionals who practice modern medicine with an understanding of our traditional practices we can truly rebuild our population. ~ CFS III
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CUJ Op-Ed/Columns Letter to Editor Vote for Tom Bailor To the Editor, Tom Bailor, Umatilla County Commissioner candidate, is not only a truthful and excellent leader, he is an outside-of-the-box thinker focused on county issues such as water use, municipal consumption, affordable housing, community health and economic growth. A quality some might know about him is that Tom Bailor is frugal. In this day of political misspending, maybe the idea of a county commissioner spending your money like it is coming from his own frugal pocket should be given a chance. Case in point. Knowing that after years and years of needing and asking, the Pendleton Police Department still has no safe room to take someone who is in a crazed state for their own safety and protection. A frugal candidate like Tom probably would not have chosen an expensive remodel of the front yard of the court house and instead given that money to the safe room fund. Please support frugal and smart change and effort over ego. Sally Sundin
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Tulips and other flowers are blooming as spring sunshine works with earlier rain to turn the earth green and colorful. CUJ photo/Phinney
Trump takes hard line on health care
Yes, tribal nations are sovereign, but the U.S. still has obligations for their wellbeing By Graham Lee Brewer, High Country News
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n April, the Trump administration made the remarkable step of asserting that tribal citizens should be required to have a job before receiving tribal health care assistance. Several states are seeking to force the requirement on tribal health care systems that have always operated within their sovereign nations. The Trump administration contends that tribal members should be considered a race, not a political class, as courts have always viewed them, and should not be exempted from state regulations, Politico reported on April 29. The administration has repeatedly denied requests from tribes — sovereign nations that oversee their own health care systems — that they be exempt from the Medicaid work requirement, which would force potential recipients of government health coverage to work or look for work. (For similar reasons of sovereignty, Native Americans are exempt from paying penalties for not having health coverage.) Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas have been given federal permission to implement work requirement rules for Medicaid. Ten other states have made similar requests. More than 600,000 Native Americans live in those 13 states. Indigenous communities already face higher than average rates of unemployment and poor health, as well as a severe lack of job opportunities, and adding a work requirement for medical treatment on tribal lands could potentially exacerbate those pressing issues. Nevertheless, Trump’s Health and Human Services administrator, Seema Verma, suggested in an April 4 tweet that making patients work can be one way doctors can help them: “Doctors know that helping individuals rise out of poverty can be the best medicine!” The Trump administration’s racial approach to tribes is “a remarkable departure from U.S. history, U.S. policy, and U.S. law,” Taiawagi Helton, a professor at the Oklahoma College of Law, told me the last
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week of April. According to the Supreme Court, tribal citizenship is not a racial classification, it is a political one. When it comes to tribal members, the U.S. government is dealing with the citizen of another nation. All three branches of the government have affirmed the sovereignty of tribes since the founding of the country. In 1886, the Supreme Court affirmed the right of Congress to decide how to deal with tribal nations, giving the federal government enormous power over the hundreds of nation states within its borders. At the same time, the U.S. government has long recognized that generations of conquest have left those nations dependent on the federal government, and the U.S. has made explicit legal promises to provide assistance. “Providing care through the Indian Health Service has been a part of the responsibilities that the United States voluntarily undertook,” Helton told me. “So it would be extraordinary to claim that this is a racial classification, when it isn’t, and (deny) the commitment that we undertook, sometimes explicitly in a treaty and sometimes based on the guardian and ward relationship between the U.S. government and tribal governments.” In an interview with Politico, Mary Smith, a member of the Cherokee Nation who was acting head of the Indian Health Service under the Obama administration, underlined the federal government’s responsibility to uphold commitments made to the tribes it had once sought to destroy. Medicaid, she said, is “the largest prepaid health system in the world — they’ve paid through land and massacres — and now you’re going to take away health care and add a work requirement?” It’s complicated, but broadly speaking, tribes are individual nations that have entered into treaties with the United States, under which the U.S. government promised to provide assistance to them. “To reject both of those things is contrary to both law and the moral standing of the United States,” Helton said. Even with Medicaid, citizens of sovereign tribal na-
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tions still face more challenges accessing health care than the average American. Reducing or eliminating any of those funds could leave thousands of Native Americans with even less health care options. “Officially Medicaid represents 13 percent of the Indian Health Service’s $6.1 billion budget (just under $800 million),” writes Mark Trahant, editor-inchief of Indian Country Today. And many of those states depend heavily on federal funding to provide health care to underserved areas. Trahant points out that in Alaska, for example, “40 percent of its $1.8 billion Medicaid budget is spent on Alaska Native patients.” Creating stricter rules for access, such as adding work requirements, will mean “fewer people will sign up for Medicaid, and the Indian Health Service — already significantly underfunded — will have to pick up the extra costs from existing appropriations,” Trahant writes. “That will result in less money, and fewer healthcare services, across the board.” The assertion that tribal nations are a racial distinction and not a political classification also highlights the Trump administration’s troubling lack of understanding about tribal sovereignty. It is unsurprising that the current administration would hold such a misguided view on Native identity. In 1993, Donald Trump testified before a House subcommittee and noted that certain tribal casino operators “Don’t look like Indians to me,” indicating he views tribal membership on outward appearances, such as skin color or dress. The president, in other words, seems to have no interest in understanding Indian Country. That is unfortunate for the millions of Native Americans who belong to arguably the country’s most invisible minority. Given that tribal nations once flourished across this continent, only to be decimated by colonization, upholding the treaties to care for the survivors and their ancestors through a functioning health care system is the very least the U.S. could do. Wado.
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CUJ Almanac Obituaries Arlene “Abby” Ann Farrow-Stapleman Arlene “Abby” Farrow-Stapleman passed on to the spirit world on April 27, 2018 at her home on Tutilla Flats in Mission, Oregon. She was born on May 10, 1960 in Pendleton, Oregon to the late Elzie and Emma (Sheoships) Farrow. Abby was an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) and grew up on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. She worked at Wildhorse Resort Casino Hotel as an assistant manager, the CTUIR Education Department as an Indian Education Counsel for the Pilot Rock schools and the CTUIR Tribal Daycare as an assistant manager before health issues caused her to retire early. Abby traveled Abby Farrow-Stapleman throughout the Pacific Northwest and Canadaattending pow wows and rodeos. She was a fancy shawl dancer in her youth and a short-fringe traditional dancer in her teen and adult years and was an exceptional beadwork artist. Abby’s love for horses and rodeos in her youth followed her into adulthood where she met her husband Richard Stapleman in 1986 at the Yakima Rodeo. Abby enjoyed attending Nixyáawii Community School basketball games to watch her grandnephews and niece and other family members. She took great pride in her family and extended family member’s participation in traditional activities. Abby took pride in gathering traditional foods and medicines and participating in tribal longhouse activities. She is proceeded in death by her parents, Elzie and Emma, brother Michael “Jughead” Far-
row, sister Louella Farrow, and nephew Gideon Farrow. She is survived by her loving family, husband Richard Stapleman, daughters Adrienne Farrow (Jeremy), AaronessaFarrow-Frank (Brian), granddaughters Emmalyn, Aaronessa, Adairah, grandsons Tiydan and Tréson, brothers Matthew, Bear (Linda) and Eldon Farrow, sisters Ceceila Sheoships, Therese Farrow and Carol Farrow-Morgan (David), nephews Matthew(Patty), Burke (Dawn), Dan, and Jeremiah (Donna) Farrow and Shawn and Joseph Meuchel, nieces Teara Farrow Ferman(Mauricio), Keysha Ashley (Aaron), Ciel Love (Nathaniel), Alyssa Farrow, great-nephews Tiyapo Farrow, Ira, Jace, and Ellis Ashley, Trent Hunt, Dresdon and Casey Farrow and Thaddeus Love, and great-nieces Marissa Baumgartner, Yessenia Ferman, Chelsea and Celia Farrow, Azure Rose, and Sophia Ferman.
Clarissa Alexander
Clarissa (Doxtator) Alexander was born March 5, 1934, in Oneida, Wisconsin, to Clifford and Melinda Doxtator as the third of 11 children. She was delivered at home by an Indian woman physician – Dr. Rosa Minoka Hill. Clarissa graduated from Seymour High School and attended Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas. Having the opportunity to transfer to the Umatilla Bureau of Indian Affairs Agency in Oregon, she applied, was offered the job and moved to Pendleton, Clarissa Alexander where she would make her lifetime home. She met and married Ervin Parr and together they had three children – Isaac, Terri and Pamela. They later divorced. She then met Stanley Alexander. They married and added to the family with Laurie, twins Sandra and Melinda, and LeAnn. In 2015, Clarissa and Stan celebrated the milestone of
their 50th wedding anniversary. A family and community gathering was held at the longhouse with their family and friends. She was always a sports fan. She was a member of the Monday Night Women’s Bowling League for many years and also traveled to different tournaments. Along the way, she made many lifelong friends. When she wasn’t participating, she was watching. Clarissa was a spectator at the many sports events of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She grew up in Oneida, Wis., just outside Green Bay and, as such, was a lifetime Green Bay Packers fan. Second to the Packers, she also cheered on the Seattle Seahawks. Clarissa was also an avid baseball fan, having supported her father and brothers on the Oneida teams. And later, Stan on the Umatilla team. She was also a Seattle Mariners fan. In addition she followed college sports including Washington State, Washington, Oregon and Arizona State, the schools where her children and grandchildren attended. Along with sports she also attended the other school events of her family – band, orchestra and choir concerts. Clarissa was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers, Clifford Jr., Donald, Roman, Allen and Victor Doxtator; and two sisters, Rachel Reed and Pat Doxtator. She is survived by her husband Stan; sisters Marilyn Danforth, Ruth Ann Miller and Gloria Doxtator; son Isaac (Marie); daughters Terri (Ivan), Pam (Dave), Laurie (James), Sandra, Melinda and LeAnn; 13 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Clarissa’s family would like to extend a thank you to the St. Anthony and Kadlec care teams. A resident and member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Esther Lynn Huesties, passed away the night of April 15, 2018. Her Indian name was Himtuliink. She is preceded in death by her sister-in-law, Mylie Huesties and nephews Brett and Warren Huesties. She leaves behind one daughter, Althea Loretta Marie Hicks (Huesties).
Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Walla Walla. She was born on Oct. 2, 1929. Recitation of the rosary will take place Friday, May 4 at 7 p.m. at St. Andrews Mission Catholic Church. Mass of Christian Burial will be held Saturday, May 5 at 10 a.m., also at St. Andrews Church. Burial will be at St. Andrews Cemetery immediately following the service. Burns Mortuary of Pendleton is in charge of arrangements. Sign the online condolence book at Burns Mortuary of Pendleton.
Weather According to preliminary data received by NOAA’s National Weather Service in Pendleton Oregon, temperatures at the Pendleton airport averaged slightly warmer than normal during the month of April. The average temperature was 51.2 degrees which was 0.5 degrees above normal. High Temperatures averaged 62.9 degrees, which was 0.8 degrees above normal. The highest was 80 degrees on the 26th. Low temperatures averaged 39.5 degrees, which was 0.3 degrees above normal. The lowest was 29 degrees, on the 3rd.There were 2 days with the low temperature below 32 degrees. Precipitation totaled 1.71 inches during April, which was 0.51 inches above normal. Measurable precipitation -at least .01 inch- was received on 11 days with the heaviest, 0.41 inches reported on the 11th.Precipitation this year has reached 5.42 inches, which is 0.36 inches above normal. The highest wind gust was 61 mph which occurred on the 7th.
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Esther Huesties
Esther was the daughter of Rex and Alvina Huesties. Her siblings are Brian Huesties, Raymond and Feather Huesties, and Jeremy and Althea Wolf. Her nieces and nephews include; Clarise and Garrett Huesties, Richard and Oscar Huesties, and Aiden, Manaia and Stella Wolf. On her mother’s side, she came from the Burke, Pond, Patrick, and Jones families, and the Ross and Combs families on her father’s side. Esther considered Velma Loretta (Burke) Dunfee her sister also –the three were seldom seen without each. She worked at Yellowhawk Tribal Health Clinic for over ten years. She loved her patients and knowing she was helping Esther Huesties people. Esther loved to laugh and smile. Along with serving on different committees and commissions, she was also a cook at the Longhouse. Esther’s favorite character was Goofy, and her equally infectious sense of humor gained her a large circle of friends. She was a stellar softball player and enjoyed watching her family play sports. She was a Happy Canyon Princess in 1993, and graduated from Pendleton High School in 1994. There will be a dressing and viewing on April 17, 2018 at Burns Mortuary, starting at 2:00 pm. A non-denomination service will be open at 6:00 pm at the CTUIR Longhouse, with a Washat Service following at 7:00 pm. On April 18, 2018, after a final service at 7:00 am, she will depart from the Longhouse and be buried at Pond Cemetery. A meal will follow after the burial at the Longhouse. Her Pallbearers are Matt Farrow Jr., Burke Farrow, Marc Heckathorn, Lance Winn, Levi Wilson, Troy Gentis, Garrett Huesties and Aiden Wolf.
1.Tribal Linguist 2. Education Culture Coordinator 3. Communications Officer (Dispatcher) On Call/Part-Time 4. Public Transit Driver - Part Time (2 positions) REVISED 5. Shaptian Language Archival Specialist 6. Health/Mental Health Coordinator 7. On-Call Public Transit Bus Driver REVISED 8. Communication Officer (Dispatcher) 9. Equipment Operator I 10. Senior Activities Coordinator 11. Archaeologist (2 positions) 12. Loan Clerk I 13. Cook’s/ Computer Lab Assistant 14. Police Officer (2 positions) 15. Re-Education / Intervention Facilitator For more information visit: Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Att: Office of Human Resources Online 46411 Timine Way Pendletown, OR 97801 http://ctuir.org
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Pet info day being planned for June
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MISSION – A Pet Information Day is being organized by the Housing Department for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The date hasn’t been confirmed, but Marcus Luke, Housing Department Director, said it’s likely going to be a Monday, either June 18 or 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Housing’s animal control officer, Kendyl DeJong, is organizing the event, Luke said. Luke said several organizations plan to attend, including Blue Mountain Wildlife and PAWS. Also, Pupcakes, a Pendleton pet store, intends to be there. Luke expects others to participate as well. A circus tent with hay bales will be available to beat the heat. Watch for more information in the June CUJ.
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Pendleton Pioneer Chapel received three prestigious awards in 2009
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Glaciers on Greenland, rainforests of Costa Rica Ermia Butler exploring the world this summer
Ermia Butler, a junior at Nixyaawii Community School on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, will take advantage of study opportunities in Greenland and Costa Rica this summer. CUJ photo/Phinney
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his summer Ermia Butler will experience climate extremes, which is exactly what she wants to understand. It won’t be exactly the way she intended, but it will still be the difference between ice and fire. Or close anyway. Butler, a junior at Nixyaawii Community School (NCS), planned to spend nearly a month studying the Greenland Ice Sheet and then, after returning to the states for about a day, she would would fly off to Fiji to clean-up the beaches for endangered turtles. Scheduling fouled that up so she changed direction. Now instead of the South Pacific she’s been accepted into a program in Costa Rica. She’ll still get the same rainforest conservation features, but she won’t be studying climate change. Instead, she’ll be involved in an Animal Rescue Project in August. Still, with the first trip to Greenland, she’s in for a change in scenery and temperature. Her wardrobe will shift from polar parka to rainforest poncho and her adventures will change from exploring a back-lit snow pit to soaring above the
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canopy on extensive ziplines. A 17-year-old junior at NCS, Butler is one of five high school students selected from the United States to participate in the Joint Science Education Project (JSEP), a high-level forum involving the Greenlandic, Danish and American governments. In addition to the five American students, 10 students from Denmark and 13 from Greenland will take part in the project, June 25 through July 18, at Kangerlussuaq. The American students will develop independent research projects under the mentorship of graduate students from Dartmouth University, which covers all costs. The JSEP application, flagged by NCS Post Secondary/Career Counselor Michelle Van Pelt, was a “why not” opportunity for Butler, who wants to learn lessons outside the classroom and beyond the borders of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. “Without first hand exposure, I cannot begin to grasp the reality and significance of how important polar research affects all regions of earth, including my reservation,” Butler wrote in one of her short essay application responses. “Through these experiences, I am sure to develop a passion for learning more than I could ever imagine. Our tribal lands need to be protected and learning scientific assessment methods
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and understanding more about the impacts of climate changes will help us to prepare for the future.” Butler said she was inspired last year when she attended a Native Youth Community Adaptation and Leadership Congress in West Virginia. There students from across the country discussed conservation challenges and environmental issues impacting native peoples. “It opened my eyes and showed me the world was changing,” she said. “It made me want to learn about new things. I’d never heard about polar science before. I didn’t know you could study ice sheets. I never knew what you could do with snow and ice layers, ice molecules.” In her application essays, Butler said all American Indian tribes are united, be it through songs, legends or traditional teachings, by the sacred responsibility of stewardship for the environment and the things that live in it. “It may sound mythical or stereotypical of American Indian people as caretakers of the land, but there is much relevance and responsibility to learn about climate change and global warming,” she wrote. “The Butler on page 11A
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Umatilla people honor a set of foods as holy and immensely critical for the survival of the people. Water, salmon, deer, roots and berries. Water is highly regarded as the provider of life for all things and without it nothing will or can exist. The water is alive as it gives life. “In order for me to advocate for tribes to understand the changes in atmosphere, the doom and reality of global warming on tribal lands, it is imperative that I pursue a degree in the field of science,” Butler wrote. “We must save our tribal lands and rivers to ensure root and berry plants thrive, the preservation of the rivers for our salmon, deer and elk.” Initially, Butler had planned to travel to Greenland, fly back to Albany, New York on July 20, and then leave the next day for the Global Leadership Adventures (GLA) program in Fiji. But that was cutting it too close, so she switched her GLA destination and schedule from Fiji to Costa Rica. She’s still raising money for her Costa Rica trip and is accepting contributions at https://www.gofundme. com/glagreendland. Polar science is certainly intriguing, she said, but the chance to visit the Central American country was also compelling. From Aug. 6-19, Butler will learn about Costa Rica’s animal rescue and wildlife conservation efforts. With its rainforests, volcanoes, hills and valleys lined with rows and rows of coffee plants and sugar cane, the Orosi inland region offers some of the richest scenery to be found in Costa
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Rica. The students will experience horseback riding, whitewater rafting, surfing or stand-up paddleboarding on a beach excursion. “Before environmental science, I thought about marine stuff,” Butler said. “I want to see what they’re both like and see what’s interesting. I think maybe my mind could be changed.” Butler, who lives with her brother, Travis Eastwood, said people would consider her “introverted and nerdish.” She said she’s just fine spending time studying and enjoys being alone. However, traveling to Greenland and Costa Rica may take her out of that comfort zone. “My strongest work characteristics are my desire to learn and travel to different places to acquire knowledge,” Butler said in one of her essay answers. In fact, last summer she applied for and was accepted into four national programs. She juggled three camps in Washington state, West Virginia and Idaho. During Christmas break, she flew to Boston to visit the Harvard campus. “Traveling allows me to experience opportunities first hand, try new foods, learn about cultures, environments and make connections,” she wrote. She has yet to fly outside the United States and is eager to do so. She said in her Greenland essays: “I am hopeful that you will allow me the privilege and opportunity to board a plane or ship to join your brotherhood of researchers, scientists, graduate mentors and fellow high school students. I would be honored to represent my country, tribe and school … I’m not afraid to leave the boundaries of my beautiful reservation.”
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Top left: Master of Ceremonies Donald Sampson, patients and guests stand during a moment of silence before the soft opening ceremonies begin.
Marilynn Colcord, Yellowhawk’s Patient Care Coordinator Manager, provides visitors with information and goodies from the Medical Department. During Yellowhawk’s soft opening, each department had informational booths highlighting services and programs at the new clinic.
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From Left to Right: Lisa Guzman, Yellowhawk CEO, Gary Burke, Chairman of the CTUIR Board of Trustees, Shawna Gavin, Chair of CTUIR Health Commission, Brian Sewell, Owner’s Representative from Wenaha cut the ribbon to the new doors of Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center. Carrie Sampson, Quality Director and Kaeleen McGuire, Communications Manager hold the ribbon.
awaii Young Eagle Singers share a Flag song during the soft opening events.
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Nixyaawii Community School continues early registration MISSION – Early registration continues for incoming freshmen and transfer students at Nixyaawii Community School (NCS) between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Because of building capacity limits, an enrollment cap of 75 students has been set for the charter high school on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The school will be able to accommodate the first 16
incoming students with preference given to freshmen, according to NCS Principal Ryan Heinrich. Registration packets can be picked up at the school. The school currently has an enrollment of 77, including a freshman class of 27 students. The decision to cap enrollment at 75 was made by the Nixyaawii School Board of Directors in March.
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out of our girls,” Kosey told the Governor. “He was really tough to reason with; he came in using profanity and screaming. Eventually we had to call the police and they trespassed him. If anyone comes in we feed them, doesn’t matter if they’re homeless, but sometimes these people (suffering from mental illness) come in and there’s nothing we can do for them.” Shippentower expressed her concern for the community members who are unaware of their effect on people around them and said she fears for their safety in the event someone may harm them in retaliation for their erratic behavior. She said, “We need something we can use to help these people.” Shippentower said tools in eastern Oregon are seriously lacking and have made getting help for Tribal members exceedingly difficult. “The plea is here, we need help. We don’t want anyone to get hurt,” Shippentower said. Brown said that unfortunately in many rural areas and across all of Oregon the county jail has become a primary provider for mental health services, and that
should not be the case. She said the state tools for involuntary commitment are limited and that she would check with her team to ensure a tribal representative would be added to an advisory group to discuss necessary statutory changes. Secretary Kat Brigham brought up the development of the Walla Walla salmon and steelhead hatchery. Brigham shared that the hatchery plans and funding have been secured for decades, but the development of the hatchery has been held up by the Oregon Department of Environment Quality. Brown said she would have staff check on the status of permits. Other topics brought up by the BOT were water resource issues, including the Umatilla River water rights settlement, lamprey restoration and treaty rights at Willamette Falls.. In thanking the governor for her visit, BOT Chair Gary Burke noted that many tribes are envious of the CTUIR’s close relationship with Brown. He thanked her for taking time to stop on the Umatilla Indian Reservation and speak with the Board before she continued on her tour of Pendleton.
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Municipal well number 6 gets key water permits of low development, there are 20 wells within one mile of well number 6, acMISSION – Municipal well number 6, cording to the Tribal Water Commission the gravity-flow wellhead drilled in 2011 report. Of the 20 wells, 17 are finished to a that’s expected to deliver 900 gallons of water per minute to the Mission Com- depth of less than 300 feet. Well number munity Water System, cleared two huge 6 was drilled to a total depth of 1,068 feet bureaucratic hurdles in March and April. but was sealed at 405 feet in the Grande Well number 6 is located about a quar- Ronde Basalt Aquifer. “Little vertical transport of water is ter mile off the east side of South Market Road about two miles south of Interstate believed to occur between these levels 84 on land owned by the Confederated and there should be little impact on the Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation 17 wells by pumping from the proposed new well,” the Water Commission report (CTUIR). The Confederated Tribes’ Water states. Three wells are recorded at depths Commission on March 20 and the Land Protection Planning Commission on greater than 400 feet. One serves Shenandoah, a 59-home deApril 24 approved permits, both with similar conditions, which will allow con- velopment; one is used to irrigate pasture and one is unused. struction of a 37-footThe Shenandoah tall 750,000-gallon well is 469 feet deep reservoir and about The Water Commission and the water-beartwo miles of a 16- permit for well number 6 ing zones encouninch water line, plus allows a pumping rate of tered when drilled the installation of a 900 gallons per minute were at 150-170 feet, pump, to supply the 270-302 feet, and 382Mission Community and a quantity of 200 acre 469 feet. The separaWater System. feet for each of the first tion of these wells The water line will five years. By comparison, from well number travel about 1.5 miles the other five wells in the 6 should minimize south on the west the impact of pumpside of South Market Mission Community Water ing, according to the Road and connect System are permitted for Water Commission to the current water a total of 755 acre feet. Of report. However, system that exists at the report continues, Coyote Business Park that, the Wildhorse Resort (golf course) accounts for “some level of inSouth. fluence is to be exThe well was ap- 24 to 47 percent of the total pected.” proved with a con- annual use of the municipal Three Shenanditional-use permit doah residents who in 2010 and drilled system. attended the April in 2011. However, 24 Land Protection the well was capped pending funds for the remainder of the Planning Commission public hearing said they were okay with the CTUIR project. According to the Tribal Planning Of- plans, although Gary Alger said residents fice staff report, “The project is needed to hoped that at some point the housing accommodate present and future growth development would be able to hook into in the Mission Community to meet the the Tribes’ water system. The Land Protection Planning Comdemands for commercial, domestic and public facilities as estimated in the CTUIR mission’s approval came with several conditions, including two stream zone alWastewater System Master Plan.” The well’s location allows access to an teration permits for work in or near South aquifer separate from municipal wells 1-5 Patawa Creek. One was for the discharge and, thus, spreads the supply of water of overflow from the reservoir and well for tribal development among different discharge, and one was for the waterline underground water sources. Addition- crossing of South Patawa just south of ally, the location is at a higher elevation Lloyd Road. Additionally, water from the than the other wells, and allows for areas reservoir must be de-chlorinated before within the water service area to be sup- it is released into South Patawa Creek. Also, the CTUIR Cultural Resources plied via gravity-feed rather than by a booster pump. This provides for a greater Protection Program will conduct a survey level of reliability in the event of a power and test the project area, and likely will have a monitor on site during construction. outage, according to the staff report. The permit requires the CTUIR Public The Water Commission permit for well number 6 allows a pumping rate of 900 Works Department to install a flow and gallons per minute and a quantity of 200 meter for all water discharged from the acre feet for each of the first five years. well, and requires reports to the Tribes’ The pumping rate can increase to 400 Department of Natural Resources on a acre feet in subsequent years if there is monthly basis showing water usage and no evidence of negative interference with water levels from each of the Tribes’ wells. The Water Commission voted 2-0-0 neighboring wells or aquifer decline. By comparison, the other five wells in favor of the permit application. John in the Mission Community Water Sys- Barkley presided over the meeting and tem are permitted for a total of 755 acre had no vote. The Land Protection and Planning feet. Of that, the Wildhorse Resort (golf course) accounts for 24 to 47 percent of Commission voted 3-0-0 to approve the the total annual use of the municipal application. Billy Bronson presided over system. Although it is located in an area the meeting. By the CUJ
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During a trip to the mountains to prepare for the Children’s Root Feast, students from Cay-Uma-Wa Head Start, Nixyaawii Community School and the After School Program attended. Above, Ayanna Star holds up a freshly dug root April 24.
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Boys from Head Start, the After School Program and Nixyaawii Community School (Deven Barkley in blue shirt and white head scarf) served meat and salmon during Children’s Root Feast April 26.
Children’s Root Feast teaches students culture CUJ photo/Dallas Dick
Mitzi Rodriguez stands with Kaya Frost as she prepares to give away her roots during a First Diggers Ceremony at the Mission Longhouse.
MISSION - Students gathered at the Mission Longhouse on April 26 to celebrate Children’s Root Feast. The After School Program, led by Linda Sampson, Cay-Uma-Wa Head Start and Nixyaawii Community School brought bus loads of students from pre-K through 12th grade up the old highway near Cabbage Hill to gather roots in preparation for the First Food’s feast. Youth were taught how to care for the roots and how to serve in the traditional way of the Washat religion observed on the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
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Drummers and singers from the community came together at the Mission Longhouse to hold a ceremony for first diggers from Head Start, Nixyaawii Community School and the After School Program. Students participated in Washat before serving lunch.
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Avery Quaempts drives her Kupin into the ground as she digs for roots April 24. CUJ photo/Gavin
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Donald Sampson called for a moment of silence to honor the families and friends of those who passed before an invocation officially started the event. After Yellowhawk staff, Health Commission, Board of Trustees and community members observed the traditional Washat invocation, Sampson introduced Board of Trustees Chair Gary Burke, who offered remarks about the new facility. Burke thanked the Creator for making the new facility possible and said the building was a vision that elders have had for decades. Way back in the 70’s, Burke said, there were elders who spoke of the facility that opened under partly sunny skies on the Bowman Property near the Nixyaawii Governance Center. “Today’s future has arrived,” Burke said. “I guess you could call them (elders) prophets because they saw this coming a long time ago. People always went to them to see what was coming.” The stories were foretold to Burke as a young man and elders always said it would be their children and grandchildren running the clinic. Sampson mentioned several employees who worked for decades at the clinic before retiring. Some of those employees have fully-grown children who continue the lineage of Yellowhawk employment. Health Commission Chair Shawna Gavin took the podium after Chair Burke and also thanked the people who helped the clinic come to fruition. She mentioned those who helped the physical development, such as the Tribal Employment Rights Office Commission and administrative staff, as well as Tribal Members who were referred to construction positions by TERO. She also thanked past commission members who were instrumental in planning the current facility. Gavin recalled times in meetings when Myrna Tovey was a commission member and she used to comment that she didn’t want to discuss the new facility if it wasn’t going to actually happen. Gavin said Tovey’s sternness helped push along the project. Gavin also gave special recognition to atway Betty (Motanic) McLean who served many years on the commission. She said, “Betty McClain had a keen eye for budgets when she was there. She would go line by line and point out anything she didn’t think added up. All of those who came before us created a
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pathway and made it easier for us to get this done.” Previous interim Yellowhawk CEO Sandra Sampson was unable to attend the opening ceremony, but many speakers mentioned her by name, including Gavin. “Sandy Sampson was the chair of the Health Commission when I started back in 2006,” Gavin said. “She is a fireball and she never quits. We are very grateful for all her hard work here.” In closing Gavin said it would be a disservice to not thank previous CEO Tim Gilbert, who was presiding over the clinic when the group broke ground in 2016. New Yellowhawk CEO Lisa Guzman, who was hired March 26, also welcomed everyone to the ceremony and thanked the BOT and Health commission for helping her get acclimated in her position. The most instrumental person who helped Guzman, she said, was Sandra Sampson. Guzman also shared a heart-warming email Sampson sent her on the morning of the ceremony. The last speaker to take the podium before letting the community enter the facility was Dr. Quaempts, Yellowhawk’s Medical Director. Practicing self-care and prevention were huge pieces of advice that Quaempts shared with the community in attendance. “Finding the time to take care of ourselves is difficult, but if we don’t do so we end up falling apart, and if we fall apart our families fall apart,” Quaempts said. “If our families fall apart we end up with all those chronic diseases that hurt us such as heart disease, substance abuse, anxiety and depression.” Quaempts recalled growing up amongst the tribe and said the first medicine man he remembers was Ike Patrick. Watching young people pass away over the years from preventable diseases was a large part of why Quaempts pursued a career in medicine. Quaempts said much of the new clinic is medicine, but a larger part of wellness is prevention. He encouraged community members to eat healthy foods and get exercise to prolong their lives and quality of life. He said getting outdoors to dig roots and eating traditional foods is the best way to increase health. Quaempts said, “Our way of life is our wellness center.”
From left,Oregon Historical Society (OHS) Executive Director Kerry Tymchuk, Board member Paul Andrews, Chief Operations Officer Lisa Noah participate in stick game during a visit to Tamastslikt Cutlural Institute April 21.
Oregon Historical Society learns Stick Game
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Above Michael Ray Johnson explains how stick game is played. Abigayle McIntosh, left, and Lisa Faye McIntosh helped demonstrate the traditional gambling game to members of the Oregon Historical Society (OHS). Director of Tamastslikt Cultural Institute Bobbie Conner is a member on the OHS Board of Trustees.
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First fish ceremony returns to CTUIR By the CUJ
MISSION - Long ago the first fish ceremony was observed in the traditional religion of Washat according to General Council Interpreter Thomas Morning Owl, but it hasn’t been observed in many years. He said the last he recalled of bringing in the fish in a ceremonial sense was decades ago. He said he’s not sure why the tradition was lost, but it is on its way back. The practice of bringing in roots and berries is still strictly observed by Tribal Members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, but until this year salmon have not been given the same treatment. Morning Owl said CTUIR invests millions of dollars each year into the rivers and restoration of salmon and that should be reflected in cultural practices.
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Tony Montoya leads young fishermen into the Mission Longhouse for a first fish ceremony in April.
The five fish caught were brought into the Mission Longhouse and one fish was cooked and eaten in small increments by those who were present for the ceremony.
The songs used to honor each first food are being lost and applications are being forgotten by not abiding with Tamanwit (the law of the land), according to the Umatilla master speaker. Each time roots and huckleberries become mature and are harvested by Tribal Members, they are introduced to the Longhouse in a
through no fault of their own (youth) that the loss of these songs occurs. We are culturally weakening our bond with our first foods. We must strive to teach and leave behind a legacy that was taught to us by our elders. If we do not pass it along then we are stealing from the future generations”
ceremony that is unique to first foods. He said that if the elders of our time can teach the youth of these sacred practices then succession is guaranteed but without the proper teaching then tradition will pass away as each generation expires. He said, “If we cut corners then it is
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Recreation wreckers A trio of TERO workers - Ike Van Pelt with broom, Aaron Dodge standing, and Darold Foote on his knees - were doing demolition and clean-up work at the Nixyaawii Community Center in preparation for construction crews to begin remodeling that will last about three months. Van Pelt is enrolled Umatilla, Dodge has lived here seven years and is enrolled Warm Springs, and Foote, the grandson of atway Cecelia Bearchum, is from Lame Deer, Mont., and is enrolled Northern Cheyenne. Van Pelt said it gets hot inside when the sun shines, but Foote said the biggest concern was the black widow spiders. Remodeling work mostly mean reorganizing the building. It will include, however, adding new locker rooms, turning old locker rooms into restrooms and updating classrooms and a work-out room on the south side. The work also will make the building ADA compliant.
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US won’t restore Yellowstone grizzly bear protections BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - U.S. officials will not restore federal protections for Yellowstone-area grizzly bears, despite a court ruling that called into question the government’s rationale for turning management over to states that are now planning public hunts for the animals, according to an announcement April 27 in in the Federal Register. The disclosure from the Interior Department follows a months-long review of a decision last year to lift protections in place since 1975 for about 700 bears in and around Yellowstone National Park. That review was launched when a federal appeals court said in a case involving gray wolves in the Great Lakes that the Interior Department needed to give more consideration to how a species’ loss of historical habitat affects its recovery. Like wolves, grizzly bears in some parts of the U.S. have bounced back from widespread extermination, yet remain absent from most of their historical range. Interior officials said in the filing that they disagreed with the wolf case ruling. They said Yellowstone’s grizzly bear population had recovered and noted that other populations of the animals living outside the three-state Yellowstone region remain protected as a threatened species. Wyoming and Idaho have proposed limited public hunts for grizzlies this fall. Hunters would be allowed to kill as many as ten male bears and two females in Grizzlies on page 19A
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CTUIR celebrates Week of the Young Child Ruth AlonsoJackson signs in at Cay-Uma-Wa during Week of the Young Child ‘Wacky Wednesday.’
X’avier Chavez wore his hair in spikes during ‘Wacky Wednesday’ at Cay-UmaWa headstart.
MISSION – The Week of the Young Child (WOYC) is an annual celebration hosted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) celebrating early learning, young children, their teachers and families. During the WOYC Ataw Miyanasma Day Care and Cay-Uma-Wa Head Start held separate themed celebrations each day of the week. They joined together to take a WOYC walk on April 19.
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Loren Sampson sat meekly before school on Wacky Wednesday at Cay-Uma-Wa Head Start during Week of the Young Child.
CUJ photos by Jill-Marie Gavin Brent Welch wore his clothes backwards to celebrate Wacky Wednesday at Cay-Uma-Wa Head Start.
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Chickasaw tribe to expand company in NC, not OK home turf
A group of administrative professionals were honored April 25. More than 45 employees were recognized.
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CTUIR Administrative Professionals recognized
Education Director Modesta Minthorn recognizes administrative assistant Andria Scott, left, and CACFP Supervisor Rosie Jackson, right during Admin professionals day April 25.
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Wyoming and one male and no females in Idaho. Final decisions on the hunts are pending. Montana officials decided against a hunt this year. Conservation groups and Native American Indian tribes have challenged the lifting of protections in federal court. They argue that killing grizzly bears would diminish the
Forty five employees of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation where honored April 25 with huckleberry cake and punch for Administrative Professionals Day. Each Administrative Professional was recognized and commended by their supervisors for keeping the organization up and running. Tasks mentioned ranged from brewing coffee to making travel arrangements, what ever roll is needed. The admins received movie tickets and a paid day off in appreciation for all the work they do for CTUIR.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) - An American Indian tribe plans to expand a subsidiary in North Carolina with more than 350 jobs over five years rather than moving company headquarters to its Oklahoma home turf. North Carolina officials said March 27 that engineering design company Corvid Technologies LLC will stay in the Charlotte-area town of Mooresville, where it now employs around 90. Corvid was acquired in 2015 by Chickasaw Nation Industries, and the Norman, Oklahomabased tribal enterprise also weighed moving the company’s headquarters. The modeling and simulation firm for Pentagon clients including the Missile Defense Agency and Special Operations Command could receive up to $13 million in North Carolina and local tax breaks and other benefits as it expands. Corvid’s average wage of more than $110,000 will be double the Iredell County average of nearly $48,000.
chances of Yellowstone’s bears repopulating other areas where grizzlies once roamed. Andrea Santarsiere with the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the plaintiffs in that case, said the announcement reflects a belated attempt by federal officials to justify last year’s decision. ``They still occupy less than 5 percent of their historical range. That’s just not recovery,’’ she said.
UPPR safety Training May 17 MISSION – Union Pacific Railroad Safety Training will be held May 17 from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Cayuse/Umatilla Conference Room at the Nixyaawii Governance Center. Required for all CTUIR Members to access Meacham Creek Maintenance Road. Training lasts approximately 30 minutes with question and answer period to follow.
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Visiting candidate
Jamie McLeod-Skinner, a candidate for U.S. Congress, talks with Julie Taylor, director of the Department of Children and Family Services, while watching women peel roots in the Longhouse April 25. Peeling roots are Brosnan Spencer on the left, Kristen Parr at the end of the table, and Marissa Baumgartner on the right. At top left is Vickie Read, who was traveling with the candidate.
CUJ Briefly Fishers meeting May 15
MISSION – The Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) is scheduled to hold a Fishers meeting May 15. The meeting will be held at the Nixyaawii Governance Center in the Winaha and Qapqapa conference room (L201A). This is a specially scheduled FWC meeting. For more information call Preston Bronson at 541-429-7277 or Jeremy Wolf at 541-429-7382.
Finance class May 9
MISSION – The Wildhorse Business and Development Services (BDS) will hold a financial literacy workshop May 9. The Understanding Your Business’ Financial Health Workshop is scheduled from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the BDS building behind the Wildhorse Resort & Casino. Dinner will be provided for participants. To register or for more information call Raven Manta at 541-966-1920 or send an email to raven.manta@wildhorseresort.com.
Indian Lake clean-up set for May 12
MISSION – The Department of Economic and Community Development is hosting an Indian Lake Clean-Up Day May 12. The event will include lunch at noon and a free night of camping for participants. The clean-up starts at 9 a.m. and will go until 2 p.m. Those interested in participating are asked to bring their own tools. Suggested tools include battery operated drills, pick axes, rakes, shovels, wheel barrows, chainsaws, work boots and gloves. There will be garbage gathering, painting and construction projects.
EOU Spring Pow Wow in La Grande May 18,19
LA GRANDE – The Eastern Oregon University Indian Arts Festival Spring Pow Wow will be held May 18 and 19. Admission is free and there is no dancer fee. There will be Hand Drum, Men’s Slick Style and Women’s Short Fringe Traditional specials. Thomas Morning Owl will serve as Master of
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Ceremonies, Alan Crawford is serving as Whip Many, Judy Farrow is the Whip Woman and Isaiah Welch is the Arena Director. The host drum is Purple Rain of Pendleton, OR. For more information visit www.eou.edu/powwow
Farmer’s Market May 4
PENDLETON – Pendleton Farmer’s Market will hold first market of the year May 4. The seasonal market will take place each Friday through October at 300 Block Main Street. For more information visit www.PendletonFarmersmarket.net.
Entrepreneur Awards at Wildhorse on June 13
MISSION – The Entrepreneur of the Year Awards are scheduled June 13 at the Wildhorse Resort & Casino. The awards will be held in the Cayuse Hall at 11:30 a.m. The event is hosted by the Wildhorse Business Development Services and is held in order to celebrate Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Native American Small Business day. There will be a luncheon to honor the contributions of Native American small business owners. Tickets are available for purchase beginning May 17 at the Business Development Services office and cost $20. For more information call 541-9661920.
Parent, Family Night scheduled May 17
MISSION – The CTUIR Education Department Title VI Family Night will be held in the Mission Longhouse May 17 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Dinner will be provided and catered by Dickey’s BBQ. The Education Dept. will be available to meet with families and parents. The presentation is Pendleton School District regarding Impact Aid. For more information contact Lloyd Commander at 541-429-7887 or at LloydCommander@ctuir.org.
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Native students statistically have the poorest graduation rates in Oregon and across the U.S., Spencer and Commander made sure to reiterate how important it is to congratulate staff for their involvement in driving those numbers up. Indian Education Coordinator Kim Minthorn, who works out of PHS as well as other area schools, was quick to say that the improvement in graduation rates is the result of several parties. She said, “It was a group effort, we all worked together as a team. The school district, higher education, the education staff, it was all of us.” Minthorn works closely with high schoolers at PHS, Nixyaawii Community School and Hawthorne Alternative School. She said one of the most important pieces to what she does with students is developing a plan with them for their future. She said making plans for their future helps them keep their goal in mind. That looks different for each student, some may go on to community college or a university and some have plans for vocational school or to go straight to work. Other areas of interest and conversation during the evening were the test scores Title VI students are
receiving in standardized tests. While tribal students do well in some areas they are 19 percentage points behind their non-Native counterparts in math and reading. In order to drive those numbers up Commander said the education department is attempting to incentivize after-school tutoring and summer school. The last subject Commander wanted to touch on was the hiring of Spencer as the Wrap-Around Services Specialist. Before Spencer was hired Title VI coordinators and educators often would make referrals for families to use outside sources for support, such as Department of Children and Family Services for housing assistance or Yellowhawk Prevention Program for therapeutic assistance, and after those referrals were made there was no employee able to check up on the outcome. Spencer’s job will be to check with the referral agency as well as follow up with families to ensure the service requested was provided. The next Parent Night and Public Hearing for the Title VI Grant will be May 17 at the Mission Longhouse from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Dinner will be catered by Dickey’s BBQ. For more information contact Lloyd Commander at 541-429-7887.
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After year away, Schimmel back with NY Liberty NEW YORK (AP) — Shoni Schimmel is back with the New York Liberty in training camp and feeling refreshed after sitting out last season. The former WNBA All-Star guard spent time with her family and used the time off to get herself right mentally. “I needed a break, going from high school to college to the pros,” Schimmel said at the first day of New York’s training camp April 29. Her grandmother had been sick and recently passed away. “Last year we talked about it and said I’ll be back (this) year. I suspend- In this June 16, 2016, Associated Press photo, New York Liberty’s Shoni ed myself,” Schimmel said. Schimmel watches during the first “Being able to take that half of a WNBA basketball game in year off, I want to thank Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica the Liberty. I’ve come back Hill, File) ready to work.” The time away from the WNBA gave Schimmel a chance to also recover fully from a concussion suffered in August 2016 that sidelined her for the remainder of that season. “I was out seven weeks with it,” she said. “I never had had one before and didn’t know how to handle it. I took my time to get myself ready.” Schimmel, the eighth pick in the 2014 WNBA draft, played in 17 games for New York in 2016 after getting traded from Schimmel back with Liberty on page 5B
Swim pass application deadline set May 25
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Tyree Burke pitched the second game of a doubled header for Weston-McEwen April 26, leading the TigerScots to a 23-3 win over the Vikings in the Class 3A Special District 1. Weston-McEwen won the first game 18-10. As of press time, WestonMcEwen was 4-11 overall with a 3-4 league mark. CUJ photo/Dallas Dick
PENDLETON – Swim passes to the Pendleton Aquatic Center for low-income families and individuals are first-come, first-served, according to a news release from the Tribal Recreation Program. The first day of swimming at the Pendleton Aquatic Center is June 8. The Recreation program is designating 55 swim passes for low income families and eight swim passes for individuals. Families must show Recreation staff some type of verification that they are low-income and will be prioritized for receiving a swim pass. Swim passes on page 4B
Zech Cyr was among 11 high school students who took part in RadioActive workshop in Tri-Cities in April. See more on page 10B.
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Donyale Jackson, advocate in the Family Violence Services program, hands out bracelets before the Step by Step Walk April 25. Lisa Minthorn laughs as she puts her bracelet on. See more on page 18B.
CUJ Sports Aaron Noisey receives OADA Leadership Award SUNRIVER – Nixyaawii Community School Athletic Director Aaron Noisey on April 16 received the 2018 Class 1A/2A/3A Leadership Award from the Oregon Athletic Director Association (OADA). Noisey received the award during the OADA State Conference at Sunriver Resort near Bend. The award luncheon also honored retiring members, years of services and awards of merit, and concluded with scholarships recipient presentations. Noisey has served several years as NCS Athletic Director and also has been coach of the boys’ basketball team. He teaches health and physical education at the charter school on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Last winter, Noisey coached freshman basketball at Pendleton High School.
All-comers ‘just for fun’ youth track meet May 12 PENDLETON – No registration is needed for a “just for fun” track meet scheduled to start at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 12, at Pendleton High School. The meet is for children ages 18-months to 12 years old and will include a 4 x 100-meter end-of-the-day family relay race. Field events include long jump and softball or tennis ball throw. Various running events are planned. Ribbons will go to all participants. Sponsors are Pendleton City Club and Mid-Co Bus Company. For further information, please contact Pendleton Parks and Recreation at 541276-8100 or visit pendletonparksandrec.com. The Parks Office is at 865 Tutuilla Road (next to Olney Cemetery) and is open Monday – Friday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
District time for PHS, NCS golfers PENDLETON – Zech Cyr and Reese Shippentower are playing numbers three and four on the Pendleton High School golf team, which was heading to one of the state’s two Class 5A regional tournaments, this one at Emerald Valley Golf Club in Creswell near Eugene May 7 and 8. Shippentower was playing his best golf of the season heading into the tournament, shooting an 85 at Prineville’s Meadow Lakes in the last week of April. During a practice round at Emerald Valley, Cyr and Shippentower fired 93 and 94, respectively. Coach Steve Utter said PHS players will have to shoot their best scores to grab one of the five spots available to qualify for a state appearance. The top two teams “clear and above” are Summit from Bend and Marist, Utter said. Utter said Shippentower “works his tail off” and has a “chance to shine and help us.” Shippentower is one of four seniors on the squad. Cyr, a junior, is “always one of the last guys off the course and is usually one of the first ones working,” Utter said. “He’s out every day with a good attitude. He’s a student of the game and tries
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Zech Cyr plays for Pendleton High School’s varsity boys team.
to pick something up from everybody.” The top for PHS are Jared Geier, Trever Reyes, Cyr, Shippentower and Seth Wood.
put that hit the bottom of the cup and bounced straight up and out or she would have had runner up by herself. Georg has a great long game but her short game has improved this spring. “She works hard. She’s hitting her wedges well lately and has consistently been in the 80s. It all came together at Trysting Tree,” Curtis said. “We’re playing our best golf before regionals.” Along with George, the top five include juniors Rylee Harris and Makenzie McLeod, sophomore Sarah Powell, and freshman Gracie Broadfoot.
George lead PHS girls squad On the girls’ side, junior Megan George has consistently been the top golfer for Pendleton High and is expected to qualify for the state tournament, according to Coach Dave Curtis. The girls play their regional May 5 and 6 at Sunriver near Bend. It’s a 12-
team tournament with Bend and Summit picked as the team favorites. The girls’ squad, which finished second in state last year with co-medalist Haley Greb, who has graduated, includes three juniors with tournament experience. “If they play like they have been we have a good shot,” Curtis said. George led the team with a 77 at the state preview in late April at Trysting Tree in Corvallis. That score gave her a tie for second place with the girl who tied Greb last year for the state title. Curtis said George had one
Pilot Rock’s Lankford leading NCS boys
Adult co-ed soccer starting PENDLETON – An adult co-ed soccer league is being established with games planned on Tuesdays and Thursdays from May 22 to July 26. The league is for players ages 15 and older. Games will be played from 6-8 p.m. at Grecian Heights Park on Tutuilla Road. Cost is $45 per player. You can register as an individual and be assigned to a team, or you can request to be paired with a family member. Teams will be formed with an attempt to create competitive balance based on gender, experience level, and age, according to information from the Pendleton Parks and Recreation Department. Unofficial group practices will begin May 22. Team rosters will be announced at the end of May. Games begin June 7 and will continue on Tuesday and/or Thursday evenings, depending on the total number of teams registered. League play will continue into late July. For further information, please contact Pendleton Parks and Recreation at 541276-8100 or visit pendletonparksandrec. com.
Megan George is Pendleton High School’s number one golfer and is likely to qualify for state at the regional tournament at Sunriver.
Tyanna Van Pelt played at Pendleton Country Club in April.
MISSION – Nixyaawii Community School will take a full boys team and two girls to the Special District tournament at Pendleton Country Club May 7 and 8. The tournament this year includes 1A-4A with Enterprise and Heppner expected to be the team leaders on the boys’ side and Heppner girls expected to win on the girls side. Baker and La Grande are included in the competition. Nixyaawii Coach Ryan Heinrich said Heppner has a shot at the state title. The Golden Eagles, which co-ops with Pilot Rock, started the season with 19 golfers, but the ranks have dwindled. Eight golfers remain with two boys who were competing for the fifth spot on the varsity heading into the final season tournaments. “Those six were at practice every day. The girls just don’t want to compete. Some were going prom shopping this
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week,” Heinrich said. “I told them if they want to play at district they have play in at least three meets and only two did.” That would be Susie Patrick and Milan Schimmel. Patrick was third at the end of April when she shot 95 at Big River Golf Course in Umatilla. This is Schimmel’s first year and she is steadily improving. For the boys, Pilot Rock’s Riley Lankford will have a shot again at the district title. He’s won it the last three years. Lankford shot 73 at Wine Valley Country Club in Walla Walla in late April and has shot in the 70s in three other tournaments. “He should be going back to state as an individual,” Heinrich said. As for the team, “the kids would have to shoot their best rounds to make it. They all would have to shoot under 105 to go as a team.”
Wilbur Oatman will play for NCS.
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Taylor Quaempts, daughter of Louie Quaempts and Dolores Gonzalez, pitches for Triangle Softball against the Yankees in a Triangle Little League game played in Athena in April.
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At left, Kannan Weathers, son of Bill and Kimberly Weathers, reaches for the ball as Brice Crawford reaches first base in a Triangle Little League game played in Adams. Weathers plays for the Red Sox and Crawford plays for the Cubs.
Kymani Van Pelt, the 8-year-old son of Michelle Van Pelt and the step-son of Damien Totus, runs to first base after smacking a single in a Little League game April 14 at Kenny Melton Field in Pendleton. Kymani, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR), is the grandson of Abbie and Mary Van Pelt, and Elvira and Mike Pasena. He plays for the AA-Division Dodgers coached by Gary James, who manages the Fisheries Program in the CTUIR Department of Natural Resources. CUJ photo/Phinney
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MISSION - The sixth annual Mammoth Cup Golf Tournament is set for Friday, May 18 at the Wildhorse Resort Golf Course. This scramble format tourney is the premiere fundraiser for Tamástslikt Cultural Institute, the interpretive center and museum of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Since its opening in 1998, more than a half million visitors have enjoyed its spectacular setting at the base of the Blue Mountains. Inside its walls of native stone and wood are 45,000 square feet of exhibits, archive vaults, research library, museum store, café and meeting spaces. Tamástslikt Cultural Institute has become a major attraction and a source of pride not only for tribal members, but all of the region. The Mammoth Cup is Tamástslikt’s major fundraising event and is named in recognition of the two mammoth teeth excavated when Wildhorse Resort Golf Course was being built. Designed by legendary golf architect, John Steidel, Wildhorse Resort Golf Course features 18 holes of spectacular play, featuring several lakes, long fairways and deep bunkers. Foursomes (and singles) can register for the Mammoth Cup through May 7. The entry fee is $95 per person (taxdeductible; member discounts apply) and includes green fees, complimentary range balls, tee prize, box lunch, and the Indian Taco Awards Banquet. There are many prizes to be won, beverage carts throughout the day, a raffle for merchandise, golf items and rounds, and lots of side bets including a $10,000 Hole-in-One, Wrong Hand Putting Contest, longest drive and more. The Dixon Challenge is back. Participants can win golf balls, an Aurelius driver, gift certificates, entry into the $1M Fiesta Bowl Hole in One, and more. Dixon Golf is an eco-friendly golf company that manufactures four different golf balls, as well as apparel made from eco-friendly products. The shotgun start is at 1 p.m. Registration opens at 11 a.m. The awards banquet featuring Indian tacos will follow on the patio of the Clubhouse Grill immediately following the tournament. The Mammoth Cup has become one of the most anticipated golf events annually and is made possible through the support of Wildhorse Resort & Casino, CHI St. Anthony Hospital, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pepsi/Pendleton Bottling Co., Byrnes Oil Co., NW Public Affairs, Wenaha Group, Aristocrat, Bally, AGS, Ainsworth, and media partners East Oregonian and Port of Kennewick. For questions and to enter, call Cassandra at Tamastslikt Cultural Institute, 541-429-7723 or register online at www. tamastslikt.org/shop/events/6th-annual-mammoth-cup-golf-tournament/. For more information, call Mike Hegarty at the golf course, 541.276.5588.
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Kola KOs foe in MMA main event By the CUJ
LEWISTON, Idaho – An hour after making her 175-pound fighting weight – she dropped 27 pounds in 26 days – Kola Shippentower-Thompson learned that her aunt had died unexpectedly. It was a devastating blow that at first stole her focus, but she knew there was still work to be done. And she did it quickly. Thompson dropped Kristy Renee Bowers in 33 seconds to win the professional main event in the THUNDER & LIGHTNING Mixed Martial Arts fights at Clearwater River Casino in Lewiston, Idaho, April 28. “It was a rollercoaster,” Shippentower-Thompson said in a Facebook conversation. “The weight cut was tough, but my coach had me on a good schedule and plan so I didn’t feel drained. After making weight I felt amazing and on top of the world. I got news about my auntie [Abby Farrow Stapleton] about an hour after weighing in and everything just … sucked.” Shippentower-Thompson said she was “bawling” her eyes out and couldn’t stay focused on what she’d been preparing to do for the last two months. She wanted to return to the Umatilla Indian Reservation to be with family. “But I knew she would want me to finish the job,” Shippentower-Thompson wrote. Before the fight she was still emotional. “Physically I was feeling ready and like I was about to dominate, but my heart and my mind were just not in the game,” she said. “I called my parents and they reminded me of why I’ve put in all this work and that she’d be watching and she would be taking my feelings and thoughts with her so I needed to stay strong.” During her warmup, Shippentower-Thompson said, she was thinking of her game plan. “I felt strong, fast and unstoppable. I kept thinking of all the struggles and hurdles my family had gone through and it was coming down to this, and I wanted
Kola Shippentower-Thompson with Coach Wade Sauer, left, and former Jiu-Jitsu teacher Jeremy Harrington, right, following her fight in Lewiston.
to make sure it wasn’t going to be a close fight at all,” she wrote. She bounced into the cage. (You can watch it on a couple of different Facebook posts.) “She [Bowers] walked into the cage and I stared her down. Already knew I was in her head. And as soon as that cage door closed it was a done deal.” Shippentower-Thompson knocked Bowers down with a right. Bowers got up and ShippentowerThompson knocked her down again, and then jumped on her and pummeled her with lefts and rights. The referee was quick to pull her off and stop the fight. “After the fight ended everything just overwhelmed me,” Shippentower-Thompson messaged. She dropped to her knees on the cage floor and “bawled my eyes out.” “I thought of my auntie and my brother that’s battling cancer, just hoping I made them proud.”
247-pound deadlift Kola Shippentower-Thompson, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, broke the Oregon state women’s deadlift record, then reset it twice March 10 at the North American Bench Press & Deadlift Championships at the Shilo Inn Airport in Portland. Shippentower-Thompson will try to better her mark of 247 pounds when she lifts again in both the deadlift and bench press in another WABDL (World Association of Bench and Deadlifters) competition June 30.
Pendleton High lists spring athletes PENDLETON – The list of Native student athletes at Pendleton High School is long and encompasses every spring sport. Here’s the list compiled by counselor Kim Minthorn: Track Boys – Patrick Hendren, Anton Hughes, Aaron Luke. Girls – Kya Creger, Nakia Thomas, Brooke Zander. Golf Boys – Zech Cyr, Reese Shippentower,
Cyrus Spino-Harris. Girls – Megan George. Tennis Girls – Denae Smith, Kalan Spencer. Softball Varsity – Chelsea Farrow. Junior varsity – Kaiya Spencer, Korie Spencer. Freshman – Celia Farrow. Baseball Junior varsity – Jon Begay, Gabe Kauffman. Freshman – Tucker Zander.
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Low-income deadline is 4 p.m. on Friday, May 18 at the old WIC building where the Recreation program currently is located. Applications are available now at the old WIC building. Another 13 swim passes are designated for above-income. Recreation will draw names by lottery at 1 p.m. May 25 for those swim passes because more applications are expected than can be funded. Over-income swim
pass deadline is Friday, May 18 as well. Any over-income applications received after the deadline will not be considered. Over-income applicants should leave a phone number so they can be notified if their name is drawn. Swim passes can be picked up at the Pendleton Parks Office at 865 Tutuilla Road 541-276-8100 or the Pendleton Aquatic Center. Recreation will not distribute swim passes. For more information, call 541-4297887.
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Nodin Benton points to the rugby player he’s going after in a drill during the first Saturday of East Oregon Youth Flag Rugby April 7 at Grecian Heights Park in Pendleton. Nodin is the grandson of Bobby Benton and the son of Bobby Benton Jr., who recently moved from Kansas to the Umatilla Indian Reservation where he has been working construction at the Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center. Also carrying rugby balls are Heizel Vasquez in gray and Aubrie Marshall behind Nodin.
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Cole McGuire, the son of Kaeleen McGuire, tries to evade opponents in a flag-stealing drill at the East Oregon Youth Flag Rugby practice in early April. The activity, part of the Pendleton Parks and Rec Program, took place on Saturdays throughout the month and was to culminate on May 12. A second youth camp is planned in June the week after school lets out.
About two dozen youngsters, including tribal youth, turned out for East Oregon Youth Flag Rugby camp at Grecian Heights Park in Pendleton on Saturdays in April in Pendleton. Eric Gabriel, Risk Manager at Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center, who started the rugby program in Pendleton about 10 years ago, recently passed the torch to Chris and Craig Perkins to run the Sasquatch (boys club) and Wendigo (girls club). “We’re starting the kids young so we can continue to build a strong rugby community and give the kids an alternative sport and an extra outlet,” said Gabriel. In the Pendleton youth program, each participant receives a rugby ball and T-shirt. On the first day, April 7, “the weather was not optimal for other sports but darn near perfect for rugby. The kids ran and ran and ran and didn’t complain because they were learning something new and had a blast for two straight hours.” The program was in conjunction with Pendleton Parks and Recreation and Rugby Oregon. The last day for the first camp was to be May 12. A second rugby camp is planned in June.
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Atlanta. The former Louisville star was the MVP of the 2014 All-Star Game and is a talented 3-point shooter. “She does some things you can’t really teach,” first-year Liberty coach Katie Smith said. “It’s good to have her here. She’s an easy going person who can shoot it, pass it and wants to be here, and that’s half the battle.” The Liberty are deep at guard with Brittany Boyd, Lindsay Allen and Bria
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Hartley running the point last season. New York also drafted Kia Nurse in the first round. Schimmel looked to be more fit then the last time she played with the Liberty. “I’m definitely ready to compete and am in shape,” said Schimmel, who will turn 26 on Friday. “I’m more excited to play then I’ve been in a while.” She watched the Liberty as much as she could while she was away. “It was different being on the other
side and watching,” she said. “They did pretty well last year, but came up a little short.” New York had the league’s third best record, but for the second straight season was knocked out in the second round of the playoffs. Coach Bill Laimbeer left to take over the Las Vegas Aces, and the Liberty promoted Smith to be the head coach. The Liberty will look to be more of an uptempo team, and that suits Schimmel’s game well.
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Tutuilla Presbyterian Church Evangelistic May 19th and 20th Saturday May 19th:
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Community Wellness Wellness Wave recognized for autism inclusiveness By the CUJ
MISSION – Mari Mills and her mother, Rae Ann Oatman, go to Wellness Wave four days a week to participate in yoga classes. “It’s her happy place,” said Oatman. Mari, a 17-year-old junior at Nixyaawii Community School, is one of the 3.5 million Americans that live with an autism spectrum disorder. Oatman, who works at Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center, said she needs yoga just as much as her daughter. When she misses a day she feels agitated and grumpy. “When I moved back, I knew it was a place for us together,” said Oatman, who has always kept physically fit. Acosia Red Elk teaches yoga, but Wellness Wave is also a place where her 16-year-old son, Paris, who also has autism, comes to relax. And that’s not easy for him, his mother said. “Sometimes he might just sit,” Red Elk said. “Sometimes he might fall asleep, but he’s comfortable. It’s a place where he can deal with daily stress.” Red Elk said Wellness Wave is a place where “we don’t have to talk about feelings. We can just be present and autistic people live in the moment.” Wellness Wave, the yoga studio on the
Rae Ann Oatman and her daughter, Mari, a 17-year-old junior at Nixyaawii Community School, take a break from a yoga class. They go to yoga four times a week. Wellness Wave was recognized during Autism Awareness Month. On hand for the presentation were, from left, Ed Cortez, Rae Ann Oatman, Tania Wildbill, Acosia Red Elk, and Susie Calhoun.
Umatilla Indian Reservation, was recognized April 24 with a Certificate of Appreciation for being a “Beacon of Light” during Autism Awareness Month. The certificate was presented by Susie Calhoun from the Tribal Vocational Rehabilitation and Ed Cortez from Trenditions, Inc., which is a Pendleton employment and alternative-to-employment agency that provides services to individuals with developmental disabilities. Tania Wildbill, owner of Wellness Wave, said she was honored to receive the commendation, but was even more excited to see what yoga can do for individuals with autism.
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“It’s so powerful to see Wellness Wave be the bridge for mother and daughter to get rejuvenated and find the tools for calmness in a healing place,” she said. Calhoun said the Tribal Vocational Rehabilitation (TVR) collaborates with many Tribal, state and local programs working with community members on the autism spectrum exploring their educational and employment goals. This includes working with employers, schools, and other supporting entities that build on the individual success of each person’s ability along the way. “Having a place in our community that is open to understanding the importance
of sensory and spatial needs that are often important to people with autism is monumental,” Calhoun wrote in an email. “We are grateful to have Tania Wildbill through Wellness Wave be an inclusive business on the Reservation with her forward thinking in meeting the needs of everyone in our community.” That inclusiveness, said Cortez, is what makes Wellness Wave so important to the community. And Red Elk agrees. “Mari is to my left every day. If she bursts out laughing when it’s quiet, it’s really neat. Everybody feels welcome, they feel a part of this place. It’s awesome that you are acknowledging this place,” she said.
Attention Umatilla Tribal Landowners! Are you looking to purchase other owners’ interests on your allotment(s)? As you may know, the next round of Land BuyBack Program offers are expected to be sent in early June and this could help you secure ownership control over your land. We are providing long-term loans (up to 30 years) at low interest (4%) so that you can acquire other interests on allotments you own. We will provide any and all assistance needed by you and your family to complete these purchases. Please contact the: Tribal Credit program at
Credit@ctuir.org Marlenehale@ctuir.org 541-429-7152 Marlene’s direct line
Or, Dave Tovey with the Indian Land Capital Company, the organization that secured the USDA Highly Fractionated Lands Program loan funds. jdtoveyjr@outlook.com 541-969-6633
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Crow’s hosts NCS student art May 25-June 29 Opening reception Friday May 25 from 5-7 p.m.
in the Crow’s Shadow studio under the direction of CSIA Master Printer Judith Baumann. The students have been visiting once a week receiving instruction MISSION – Nixyaawii Commu- in the technical aspects of linocut and nity School’s Student Print Exhibition silkscreen processes, and have produced their own limitedat Crow’s Shadow edition prints. Institute of the The resulting Arts will showcase works are of reprints produced by markable quality a select group of and exemplify the students who have creative potential created multi-color of these talented linocuts and silkyoung artists. screen prints. The exhibition An opening recan be viewed durception to view the ing Crow’s Shadstudents’ artwork ow’s regular hours, and honor their 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monachievements is set day through Frifor Friday, May 25, day until the show from 5-7 p.m. Prints closes on June 29. will be for sale with The Crow’s Shadow all proceeds going gallery is free to visit directly to the stuand open to the pubdent artists. lic. The exhibiting This is the fourth printmaking stu- Brother Fox is a two-color linocut by Kylie dents are Dancing Mountainchief, a sophomore at Nixyaawii year of this collabCommunity School. Crow’s Shadow photos orative project; it Star Leighton, Eris funded through mia Butler, EllaMae Looney, Cloe McMichael, Kylie Moun- contributions to Crow’s Shadow general operating fund, either by direct donation tainchief, and Tyanna Van Pelt. Over the past school year these stu- or by print purchases. Renowned local painter James Lavadents have been learning printmaking
Students learn to register a silkscreen with Crow’s Shadow Master Printer Judith Bauman. Pictured from left are Cloe McMichael, Baumann, Dancing Star Leighton, Tyanna Van Pelt, Ermia Butler, and Kylie Mountainchief.
dour founded Crow’s Shadow in 1992 to provide a creative conduit for educational, social, and economic opportunities for Native Americans through artistic development. Karl Davis, Crow’s Shadow’s Executive Director, said this partnership with Nixyaawii Community School perfectly encapsulates the mission statement.
Said Davis, “It is exciting to see the students embrace their time in the studio, learn new avenues to explore their creativity, and have the opportunity to showcase their talents. We hope that this experience serves as a positive creative outlet for the individual students, but also reaches the surrounding community.”
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CTUIR Summer School June 18-July 5 PENDLETON - Summer school is planned June 18 through July 5 for students starting first grade through eighth grade. Instruction is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Thursday for three weeks at Washington Elementary School. Summer School will be taught by certified teachers and aids and supported by Indian Education Coordinators, according to a news release from Lloyd Commander, Recreation Program Manager for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR). Summer School will serve breakfast and lunch at staggered times to maximize instructional time. On the last day of Summer School July 5 there will be a “huge” celebration and activity day for parents and students at Washington, Commander said.
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Summer School application packets are available now at the Recreation program (at the old WIC building). Students will be sent home with an application packet for Summer School during the last three weeks of school this year. Students that are recommended to attend summer school by their teachers should be ready to attend on June 18, according to Commander’s news release. If your child is not on the summer school list then they do not need to attend this year, Commander said. Limited busing will be provided from areas selected by Mid-Co Bus Company for those students that sign up. Parents will be notified of the bus schedules. The goals of Summer School are: l To increase attendance consistency. Incentives will be offered to students that attend regularly.
l To utilize technology to enhance instruction. Integrated technology will be utilized in all content areas. Students will use Chromebooks, computers, and electronic games with math and reading programs. l To increase reading and math fluency by utilizing books, computers, flash cards, games and other materials. Activities will include water days, sports days, art days, obstacle course and a scavenger hunt. “We expect this Summer School to be a terrific event so plan on sending your child or children every day,” Commander said. The Summer Recreation program will begin July 9, so there will be no overlap of programs. For more information please call Commander at 541-429-7887 or email Lloyd at lloydcommander@ctuir.org.
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Cyr participates in RadioActive workshop RICHLAND, Wash. - Zech Cyr, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and president of the CTUIR Youth Council, participated April 14 and 15 in RadioActive’s remote pop-up workshop at the Tri-Cities campus of Washington State University. He was among 11 high school students who learned how to record and edit audio, conduct radio interviews, write scripts, and record their voices in a professional studio. The split into groups of two to three and were paired with a professional journalism mentor to produce original short radio stories. Cyr’s group created a story about ethnic/cultural studies and why it should be a required class for all high school students. In the radio story, Cyr had the option of taking the class at his school (Pendleton High School) while the other two students in his group did not. RadioActive’s Lila Kitaeff, who led the workshop, has worked as a media maker and youth media educator for well over a decade. Here’s how she said Cyr and the other students described their story: “Ethnic studies are important to create open-mindedness and eliminate prejudice. If we don’t learn our history, we don’t know we are.”
Zech Cyr, center, participated in a RadioActive workshop April 14 and 15 at the Tri-Cities WSU campus. He was with students Joshua Sivonen and Anisa Rodriguez, and mentor Esmy Jimenez, a Yakima-based reporter for NW Public Broadcasting. Contributed photo
The other two participants in Cyr’s group were Anisa Rodriguez, who attends Chiawana High School in Pasco, and Joshua Sivonen, who attends Tri Tech Skills Center in Kennewick. Their mentor was Esmy Jimenez, a Yakimabased reporter for NW Public Broadcasting, and a graduate of Prosser High School. Lead facilitators for RadioActive’s
workshop included award-winning journalist Anna King, who reports on rural issues and nuclear waste cleanup for the Northwest News Network. King has reported on events and issues related to the CTUIR. RadioActive is a collaboration between KUOW in Seattle, WSUTC and Murrow College’s Northwest Public Broadcasting (NWPB).
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Tribal reps attend Chicago conference on assault Cloe McMichael and Tyanna Van Pelt, students from Nixyaawii Community School, along with Donyale Jackson with Family Violence Services for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR), are pictured at Cloud Gate in Chicago on a side trip during the Conference on Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Gender Bias. The girls are part of the Nixyaawii Youth Leadership Against Violence. Brent Leonhard in the CTUIR Office of Legal Counsel and Kelly Sager from Tribal Courts also attended the conference, which focused on sexual assault, intimate partner violence, stalking, human trafficking, and elder abuse. The three-day conference brought together law enforcement personnel, prosecutors, victim advocates, judges, parole and probation officers, rape crisis workers, health care professionals, faith community members, educators, researchers and others. This year more than 2,200 people from 11 countries participated. Contributed photo
Old Dominion to rock Happy Canyon Arena Sept. 8 PENDLETON, Ore. – Breakout country band Old Dominion will kick off the Pendleton Round-Up and Happy Canyon week when they take the stage in the Happy Canyon Arena on Saturday, Sept. 8. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 20. The band has emerged as one of country music’s hottest bands with two American Country Music Award nominations for New Artist of the Year and
Vocal Group of the Year. Old Dominion’s highly-anticipated sophomore album, Happy Endings, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and No. 7 on the Top 200. The band’s latest single, “Written In The Sand,” follows the success of the album’s debut single, “No Such Thing As A Broken Heart,” which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Country Airplay and
MediaBase charts. This isn’t the first time Old Dominion will take the Happy Canyon Arena stage. Old Dominion opened the kick-off concert for Big & Rich in 2014. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 20, at 8:30 a.m. and range in price from $46 to $150. To reserve tickets, call 800-45-RODEO (select option 1 for tickets) or visit www.pendletonroundup.com.
Young artist Sacas Wildbill was among the young artists in the Pendleton School District’s annual art show April 17-19 at the Pendleton Convention Center. The event displayed a piece of artwork from every student that attends school in the district. Wildbill is the son of Andrew Wildbill and Ashley Harding and attends school at Washington Elementary. Contributed photo
An OSHA 10 Class will be held on MAY 23 & 24, 2018; 9am-4pm @ the NIXYAAWII GOVERNANCE CENTER For more information, please contact the TERO staff at 541-429-7193 or by email at terostaff@ctuir.org CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED – PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL TO SIGN UP May 2018
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NEWLY CERTIFIED ACUEDETOX SPECIALISTS include from left, Wenona Scott, Bobby Benton, Pam Fisher, Jean Stark, registered trainer Delores Jimerson, Kristin Bourette, Mystie Haynie, and Julie Brandenburg. Jimerson is a registered trainer and can train anyone how to do Acuedetox. After the transition into Yellowhawk, the specialists plan to offer Acuedetox on a more regular basis. Jimerson said after their two-day clinic, in which they saw about 230 community members, the demand for Acuedetox appointments has been strong. Jimerson and Wenona Scott have been invited to the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) conference and share their story of how they’ve grown Acuedetox in our community and trained several community members.
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U.S.Forest Rangers attending the Pacific Northwest Summit in Walla Walla spent April 18 on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, including several hours touring the Meacham Creek Restoration Project. Bill Gamble, District Ranger for the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, called it a “shining example of what we can accomplish in restoring our landscapes and ecosystem process when healthy relationships form the foundation of restoration efforts.”
Forest Rangers visit Rez Mike Lambert, Meacham Creek Restoration Project manager and a Fisheries Habitat Program Supervisor in the Department of Natural Resources for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR), points to where U.S Forest Rangers will gather at three sites along Meacham Creek for presentations. Richard Christian, CTUIR Fisheries Habitat Project Leader, discusses the Meacham Creek Floodplain Restoration and InStream Enhancement Project with Forest Service Rangers. Ethan Green, Umatilla Fisheries Assistant Habitat Biologist, to the left of Christian, assisted with the presentation. CUJ photo/Phinney
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Ketchum next up at Wildhorse
MISSION – Wildhorse Resort & Casino has a variety of upcoming entertainment ranging from an acoustic country star to an exotic male dance show. Here’s the quick spring and summer rundown:
May 26 – Country superstar Hal Ketchum will perform at 8 p.m. Ketchum is known for singles like “Small Town Saturday Night,” “Past the Point of Rescue,” and “Hearts are Gonna Roll.” June 2 – Hunks: The Show is set for 6 and 9 p.m. shows. They are billed as the world’s foremost exotic dance show with a high-energy performance featuring “some of the sexiest men alive.” They sing, dance and strip in choreographed routines to thumping beats and dazzling light shows. June 16 – Kim Russo: The Happy Medium, with a show at 8 p.m., appeared on A&E’s hit show, Paranormal State, and their hit TV show “Psychic Kids.” She also has appeared on The Biography channel’s “Celebrity Ghost Stories” featuring country legend music star Loretta Lynn. She is currently the host of the weekly running series “The Haunting Of …” July 27 – Naughty by Nature, Tone Loc and Sir Mix-a-Lot at 8 p.m. Naughty by Nature is a Grammy Award winning, platinum-album selling New Jersey group with a 20-year track record of creating the hits and party anthems that have become the soundtracks of our lives. Their music has smashed through mainstream barriers all while remaining true to the sound, message and grit of the hood. Tone Loc is best known for his deep, gravelly voice and his million-selling hit singles hit songs “Wild Thing” and “Funky Cold Medina.” An occasional actor, he has performed in several feature films, including Blank Check and Posse. Sir Mix-A-Lot, who grew up in Seattle, is best known for “Baby Got Back.” He is one of rap’s great Do-It-Yourself success stories. Coming from a city with any hip-hop scene to speak of, Mix-A-Lot co-founded his own record label, promoted himself, produced all his own tracks, and essentially pulled himself by the proverbial American bootstraps. However, it took singing with Def American label, coupled with an exaggerated, parodic pimp image, to carry him into the mainstream. July 28 – Ramon Ayala, who drew the biggest crowd in Wildhorse concert history last summer, returns by popular demand. Ayala is one of the most recognized and best-selling artists in Mexican music. He is known for performing, composing and writing Norteno and Conjunto music. Dubbed the “King of the Accordion,” Ayala has recorded more than 113 albums for which he has received four Grammy Awards.
Rachel Matamoros sews her ribbon skirt during the workshop led by Dorothy Cyr April 14 at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts.
Ribbon skirt workshop Dorothy Cyr is a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, gives instructions during a ribbon skirt workshop April 14 at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. The skirts are widely used among Northern Plains tribes. Pictured from left are Carman Chalakee, Cyr, Nikki Whiskeyjack, Annie Smith and Verna Patrick. According to “Beyond Buckskin,” a website dedicated to promoting and selling Native American made fashion, older skirts were made from hide and decorated with pigment, and, with the introduction of European trade goods, cotton calico and ribbons were also used to carry on the meanings and teachings. The silhouette of the skirt itself comes from a sacred place, and it follows the outline of the mikiiwaap (Cree), or tipi (Dakota). The bottom of the skirts would touch the earth’s medicines, and as the women walked, “Mother Earth would always know who it was that was making their presence felt on her back” and the prayers were answered accordingly. Crow’s Shadow photos
This photo shows the bear design detail of Nikki Whiskeyjack’s finished skirt.
DID YOU KNOW? The Cayuse Tribe was known for their large horse herds that grazed in the foothills of the Blue Mountains. Cayuse ponies were stout and able to move quickly through the steep and timbered Blue mountains Prestige and wealth was partially reflected by the number of horses that a person owned. Gathered from www.ctuir.org
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‘Don’t fear the Reaper’ Blue Oyster Cult played to a sold-out crowd at Wildhorse Resort April 20 with hits like Don’t Fear the Reaper, Godzilla and Burnin’ For You. The hard rock/heavy metal band, which originated as Soft White Underbelly in Stony Brook, New York, in 1967, includes two of the original “Cult” members - Donald “Buck Dharama” Roeser (lead guitar and vocals, second from right) and Eric Bloom (lead vocals and “stun guitar,” second from left). The band’s name came from a 1960’s poem written by manaager Sandy Pearlman. In the poem, the “Blue Oyster Cult” was a group of aliens who had assembled to secretly guide Earth’s history. The next Wildhorse concert will feature Country superstar Hal Ketchum in an acoustic guitar concert May 26. CUJ photo/Phinney
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PENDLETON – Sunridge Middle School in Pendleton announced its March Bronc Pride Award Winners for sixth, seventh and eighth grade. It included many native students. Here’s the list provided by Janet Maddern, Title 6 Indian Education Coordinator, at Sunridge. Sixth grade – Chloe Alferez, Ike Arthur, Andrea Eichholz, Rylee Etchamendy, Jareen Hines, Avyn Watchman and Kenny Wolf. Seventh grade – Kailee Christenson, Diamond Greene, Billie Higheagle, Richard Huesties, Grace Moses and Summer Wildbill. Eighth grade – Lindsey Atkinson, Rosie Blue Thunder, Shavaneaux Bell, Ella Chrisman, Isabelle LeCornu and Lindsey Pasena-Littlesky.
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MISSION – Antone Minthorn has been elected Commander of George St. Denis American Legion Post 140. Other officers elected for the 2018-2019 term include David Wolf, vice-commander; Gary Hildebrand, adjutant/finance officer; Toni Cordell, service officer; Chuck Sams, chaplain; and Aric Lyons/Abel Matamoros, sergeants-at-arms. Cordell is also Veterans Service Program Manager for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
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Crow’s Shadow announces artist-in-residence PENDLETON — Marwin Begaye has been selected as the final artist-inresidence for the 2018 season at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, the nationally renowned printmaking facility on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Begaye will spend two weeks at Crow’s Shadow developing limitededition prints, which will be hand pulled by CSIA master printer Judith Baumann. The final prints will enter Crow’s Shadow’s permanent collection, which is frequently lent to various cultural and learning institutions around the region and across the nation. At the end of Begaye’s artist residency the public is Marwin Begaye invited to Crow’s Shadow for an artist talk and studio visit, which is scheduled from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, May 31. Begaye (Navajo/Diné) is an accomplished painter and printmaker, particularly known for his highly detailed linocut and woodblock carving, according to a news release from Crow’s Shadow. His imagery often combines figurative elements related to his cultural identity, along with ornately patterned backgrounds inspired by weaving designs. Begaye deploys humor and sharp-edged wit in some of his images that critique corporate advertising and “culture jamming” - when advertisers bombard the public with pop-culture messaging regardless of negative effects on people.
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Begaye is especially deft at indicating issues that affect Native people, the news release states. Begaye is an Associate Professor of Painting and Printmaking at the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.). He has an MFA in Printmaking and a BFA in Painting, both from the University of Oklahoma, and also holds Associates degrees from the Institute of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe, NM) and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (Penn.). He is the recipient of multiple awards including the Oklahoma Visual Artists Coalition Visual Arts Fellowship in 2007, a Red Earth award in 2009, and earlier in 2018 was a guest Artist-in-Residence at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, and a visiting guest artist at Goldsmith’s College in London. This will be Begaye’s first time working at Crow’s Shadow Press.
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A participant in the Step by Step event looks at a poster that provides information about sexual abuse of native women. CUJ photos/Phinney
Participants in the Step by Step Walk included Nixyaawii Community School students Cloe McMichael, Ermia Butler and Alyssa Tonasket. Behind them are Kristi Gartland and Senior Officer David Williams.
Bringing awareness, Step by Step For the eighth year, Family Violence Services orchestrated the Step-by-Step: Together We Can Make a Difference Walk as part of April’s Sexual Violence Awareness Month activities on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. “We hold the walk to bring awareness to sexual assault across the country, but especially in Native Country,” said Donyale Jackson, Advocate in the Family Violence Services Program for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR). Jackson said one in three American Indians and Alaska Native women will be raped in their lifetimes. In Oregon, about one out of every six adult women, or about 230,000 adult women, has been the victim of forcible rape sometime in her lifetime. Following the walk and a spaghetti lunch, the Nixyaawii Youth Leaders Against Violence performed a skit called “A Youth Cry For Help.”
Jackson said the skit shows how hard it might be for a youth experiencing dating violence or abuse in a relationship to get help. Although abuse can happen to both girls and boys, this skit is based on a young native girl’s experience. “She turns to many people, but they do not understand the abuse or know how to help her,” Jackson said. Eventually, the skit shows how things could turn out differently if everybody recognized abuse and could suggest ways to end it. About 40 people participated in the activities. Several CTUIR departments and programs were represented, including Head Start, Language, After School, Title VI Coordinators, Umatilla Tribal Police, Board of Trustees, Wellness Program, Children and Family Services, Nixyaawii Community School students, and members of the community.
Members of the community walked “Step by Step” April 25 as part of Sexual Violence Awareness Month activities on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Among those pictured here, from left, are Modesta Minthorn, Officer Russell Holt, Lisa Minthorn, Keysha Ashley, Rosie Jackson (in hat), Tyanna Van Pelt (tie die T-shirt), Desiree Coyote and Ermia Butler.
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Thank you letters MY PEOPLE, I WOULD LIKE TO CONVEY FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART a huge thank you to all near and far who made the time to be in attendance at the services for “atwaii” Ip suh nuu wiis kin, James Phillip Minthorn. As his mother my heart was shattered, to bring a child into the world, to be the first to hold and have him wrap his tiny fingers around yours. Then to be there again to hold his hand, rub his chest, ask the Creator to take care of him by his Indian name, and witness his last breath. I am hurt, angry and adjusting my lifestyle again, but I fear the Creator’s upper hand and believe He will see me through this difficult time. I was told by several people to forgive him for keeping his illness to himself; he didn’t want to hurt you! I was also told the tears I shed were a beginning of healing, although I was taught you don’t shed tears until the clothes are shown and then you cry. I thank each and every one who came to see him and to those he requested to see respond by being there. He truly had a big heart for his family and friends. I had many come up to me and express how he was to them and that they were going to really miss him. The staff at NGC, Yellowhawk, Housing, Casino, Golf Course, Tamastslikt, Mission Market and certain bars in town. People expressed how friendly, respectful, courteous, always a smile, hand shake, high five, knuckles, laughter and never left without giving a hug or two. The evening services were uplifting especially the second seven. I had comments from the dancers; those sitting and a few elders told me it was so uplifting some danced on air, it made them really sweat and the sounds all blended together so beautifully. I was taught when a person sings,
if the song comes from the heart it can make you feel light as air and so happy inside you could burst! I was still recovering from my surgery, but I over did it; that is why I left early. To see the Longhouse filled on both sides and the dance floor filled with all ages it made me think of my Granny’s words: “you always treat people good” and I believe he did. Thank you to the hunters, the cooks, the drummers and singers, and all the speakers who stepped up to express their heartfelt feelings. For all who attended your attendance was recorded on your piece of paper, which the Creator will see when your big day comes. A few words of advice to the community - have value for your life and the breath you have, treat people like you want to be treated, always cherish your children, let them know you love them, be a good example, show self-respect, respect others and their property and always love your family and mean it! Sincerely, “Et twaii lish” Marjorie Williams-Waheneka THANK YOU TO ALL THE DRUMMERS AND DANCERS that attended and supported the Blue Mountain Community College Powwow on April 12. Special thanks to Fred Hill, Kim Minthorn, Vincent Sheoships, Zech Cyr, Chyenne Bronson, Beto Zamudio, Ava Zamudio, Tyler Close, Victoria Star, Robert Windy Boy, Ashlynn Looney, Pierce Watchman, Kaydon Higheagle, Malaya Stanger, JuJu Matamoros, Denae Smith. Many Thanks, Annie Smith, Native American Higher Education Coach and Liaison
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JOSEPH – Hermiston artist Doug $4 million, four-year investment by OCF Hyde has been chosen for the Joseph in arts and culture around Oregon. Main Street Art project. Hyde will receive a $25,000 artist Hyde, who traces Nez Perce, Assini- award in three installments over a yearboine, and Chippewa tribal ancestry, long period, with additional grant money attended the Institute of American Indian available for artist travel, expenses, Arts in Santa Fe and the San Francisco Art and artwork production. The second Institute in the 1960s. While recuperating finalist for the project was Yakima artfrom serious injury after a second tour ist Toma Villa. Each finalist had time in Vietnam, Hyde to draft a proposal learned to use power for jurors from tribal tools to cut and shape and local communistone. Sculpting in ties. Hyde’s proposal stone and bronze bedeals with Nez Perce came the passion and removal and return focus of his life. to the Wallowas. He Plateau Indian Art will visit the city and on Main Street is a meet with local artproject of the Josephy ists and Josephy CenCenter for Arts and ter and city officials Culture, funded by a in the near future generous grant from before developing a the Oregon Comfinal plan. munity Foundation In 1998, one of (OCF). The Josephy Hyde’s sculptures Center’s namesake, was installed at the Alvin Josephy Jr. White House. In helped bring the Nez 2008, his bronze, Perce story back to This is a sketch of Doug Hyde’s concept Little Turtle, was American attention drawing and photo of the stone sculpture of purchased for the “Daybreak Star,” a Nez Perce woman. with his classic hispermanent collection tory of the tribe, The of the Smithsonian’s Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Cultural Resource Center. Northwest, published in 1965. The Josephy Center and Oregon The grant is part of OCF’s “Creative Community Foundation are proud Heights” initiative, which encourages to give Doug Hyde the chance to non-profits, artists and citizens through- tell the Nez Perce story in the town out the state to “test new ideas, stretch named for its most famous leader, creative capacity, and provide unique op- Chief Joseph. portunities” for Oregonians to experience For more information on Plateau Art innovative arts and culture. The initiative on Main Street, contact Rich Wandschneihas thus far invested more than $945,000 der at 541-432-0505, or rich.wandschneithrough 13 Oregon non-profits, part of a der@gmail.com.
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Board of Trustess Minutes DATE: March 19, 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; and William Sigo, General Council Chairman. Sally Kosey, Member on personal leave. Quorum present. Old Business. None. Resolution 18-018: Topic: Approval of Flow Study Ecology Contract. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees approves the Steering Committee’s budget recommendation to continue the Walla Walla Basin Integrated Flow Enhancement Study and the development of a contract with Ecology and the Partnership; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby authorizes the Confederated Tribes’ Executive Director to execute a contract with Ecology and the Partnership consistent with this resolution, upon completion of the Confederated Tribes’ formal internal review process; AND, that said Resolution has not been modified, amended, or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 19th day of March, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-018. Woodrow Star seconds. Motion carries 7-0-0. Resolution 18-019: Topic: Columbia River Treaty Delegation. RESOLVED, to ensure the meaningful participation and collaboration of the Columbia Basin tribes in the negotiation of a modernized Treaty, that the U.S. Department of State should include representatives from the tribes within the negotiation framework; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Confederated Tribes nominates the Executive Director of the Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish Commission, currently Jamie Pinkham, and the Executive Director of the Upper Columbia United Tribes, currently D.R. Michael, to represent the Columbia Basin tribes on the negotiating team established by the U.S. Department of State to negotiate the terms and conditions for a modernized Columbia River Treaty with Canada, consistent with the terms of the Regional Recommendation; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the designated tribal representatives will be supported throughout the negotiation process by a tribal caucus drawn from the elected governments of the Columbia Basin tribes; AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full forces and effect. DATED this 19th day of March, 2018. MOTION: Rosenda Shippentower mover to adopt Resolution 18-019. Woodrow Star seconds. A BOT work session will be scheduled to provide BOT an update on the Columbia River Treaty. Motion carries 6 (Jeremy Wolf, Doris Wheeler, Woodrow Star, Aaron Ashley, Rosenda Shippentower, and William Sigo) for – 0 against – 1 abstaining (Kat Brigham). Other Board Action: Motion to accept Mission Community Master Plan. Submitted by JD Tovey, Planning Director during work session held on Thurs. March 15. MOTION: Jeremy Wolf moves to accept the data and information developed during Mission Community Master
Plan project, through the Transportation Growth Management Grant, and to direct staff to utilize the appropriate data and information in the future updates to the Mission Community Plan, Transportation Systems Plan, Capital Improvements Plan, Housing Strategy Plan, Land Development Regulations, and other relevant plans and codes as deemed necessary. William Sigo seconds. Motion carries 7-0-0. BOT Travel Reports. Deferred BOT Leave and Travel Requests. 1) Gary Burke, personal leave on Fri. March 23, Thurs. 20 and Fri. 30. 2) Jeremy Wolf, travel April 4-6 to Portland to attend Columbia River Treaty meeting. 3) Kat Brigham, travel May 10-12 to Seattle to attend Eighth Tribal Leadership
DATE: March 26, 2018
BOT Present: Gary Burke, BOT Chairman; Jeremy Wolf, Vice Chairman; Doris Wheeler, Treasurer; Kathryn Brigham, Secretary; Rosenda Shippentower, Member; Aaron Ashley, Member; and Sally Kosey, Member. William Sigo, General Council Chairman on personal leave and Woodrow Star, Member on travel. Quorum present. Old Business. Participation in NCAI Amicus Brief. Official polled action was taken on March 22 for CTUIR participation in the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) amicus briefings. MOTION: Jeremy Wolf moves to ratify polled motion approving CTUIR to participate in the NCAI amicus brief as corrected. Aaron Ashley seconds. Discussion: The poll will be corrected to show the votes received by email. Motion carries 6-0-0. Resolution 18-020: Topic: Amendments to Financial Responsibility Code. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby amends Sections 1.01.C, 4.07.H and 5.04A of the Financial Responsibility Code as shown below with new language underlined and deleted language lined through: Section 1.01.C The Umatilla Tribal Court shall have jurisdiction and authority to hear, recognize and enforce or refuse to recognize and enforce foreign judgements against any person who resides, is domiciled on or who is employed on the Umatilla Reservation and who is property within the jurisdiction of this court. Section 4.07.H A Writ of Garnishment shall be effective for 3 years from the date of issuance or until the amount established in the Writ of Garnishment is satisfied, whichever is less. If the amount established in the Writ remains unsatisfied at the end of the 3 years, the Writ may be annually renewed by filing a petition for renewal that identifies the remaining amount owed to the judgment creditor and a copy of the original Writ of Garnishment issued by the Tribal Court. Section 5.04.A In order for a foreign judgment to be recognized and enforced, such judgment shall be filed by it proponent with the Umatilla Tribal Court within the time limited for enforcement of the foreign judgment in the jurisdiction where the judgment was entered but in no event shall such application be made more than ten years from the date of entry
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of such judgment in the jurisdiction in which it was originally entered. AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that these amendments shall be effective immediately. AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 26th day of March, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-020. Sally Kosey seconds. Motion carries 5 for – (Kat Brigham, Sally Kosey, Aaron Ashley, Doris Wheeler and Rosenda Shippentower) – 0 against – 1 abstaining (Jeremy Wolf). Other Board Action: Commission/Committee Update and Application Review by Kat Brigham, BOT Secretary. Economic & Community Development Committee (ECDC), 1 vacancy with two applications from Les Minthorn and Kyle McGuire. By secret ballot Les Minthorn was reappointed to the Economic & Community Development Committee (ECDC) for a 2 year term. Science & Technology Committee (STC), 1 vacancy with two applications from Kyle McGuire and Lewis Carter. By secret ballot Lewis Carter was appointed to the Science & Technology Committee (STC) for a 2 year term. Terms Expiring: Antone Minthorn, Farm Committee, term expires May 4. Charles F. Sams, Law & Order Committee, term expires May 2. Lavon Herrera, Tiicham Conservation District, term expires May 2. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to send letters notifying member of expiration of terms and advertise for the vacancy. Aaron Ashley seconds. Motion carries 6-0-0. Will continue to advertise for 1 position for CTUIR Culture Coalition – 2 year term, meets as needed – No stipends. All applications will be due Monday, April 23 by 4:00 PM. A BOT work session will be scheduled April 27 at 8:30 AM to review applications and will take action on the applications appointments on Monday, April 30. BOT Travel Reports. 1) Jeremy Wolf, March 21-23 to Portland for CRITFC regular meeting. 2) Kat Brigham, March 22-23, to Portland for Mighty Columbia conference. MOTION: Aaron Ashley moves to approve reports. Sally Kosey seconds. Motion carries 6-0-0. BOT Leave and Travel Requests. 1) Aaron Ashley, travel request to Burbank, WA to attend USFWS Laliik Working Group meeting. 2) Kat Brigham, personal leave on March 27 half a day and 28 all day. 3) Sally Kosey, personal leave April 3. MOTION: Doris Wheeler moves to approve leave requests. Motion carries 6-0-0.
DATE: April 2, 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. Polled Resolution 18-021: Cultural Resource Fund Phase III Application. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees supports the Cultural Resources Protection Program project application for Phase III Cultural Site Protection 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 29th day of March, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to ratify Polled Resolution 18021. Woodrow Star seconds. Motion carries 8-0-0. Resolution 18-022: Topic: NCAI Tribal Membership Dues. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees, authorizes the payment of dues for National Indian Gaming Association of $15,000 from the BOT budget and Wildhorse Resort and Casino will reimburse half; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLED, that the Board of Trustees hereby appoints Woodrow Star, Board Member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation as our representative to NIGA, and appoints the following as alternate representatives to NIGA Gary Burke, Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Jeremy Wolf, Vice-Chairman; Doris Wheeler, Treasurer; N. Kathryn Brigham, Secretary; Aaron Ashley, Member; Rosenda Shippentower, Member; Sally Kosey, Member and William Sigo, General Council Chairman Ex-Officio; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that these appointment will remain in effect through 2017 and until our December 2019 CTUIR tribal elections when the Board of Trustees will reappoint or replace our representatives. AND, that said Resolution has not been modified, amended, or repealed and is
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still in full force and effect. DATED this 2nd day of April, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-022 as amended. Rosenda Shippentower seconds. Motion carries 8-0-0. Resolution 18-023: Topic: Umatilla Reservation Telecommunications, LLC-Management and Steering Committee updates. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby eliminates the Assistant Manager position such that the Confederated Tribes’ Executive Director shall serve as the sole Manager of Umatilla Reservation Telecommunications, LLC unless and until a full-time Manager is hired; AND BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees appoints Jeremy Wolf, BOT Vice-Chair, as the BOT Member on the Steering Committee to advise the Manager of Umatilla Reservation Telecommunications LLC; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees may make future changes to the membership of the Steering Committee by motion. AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 2nd day of April, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-023 as amended. Rosenda Shippentower seconds. Motion carries 8-0-0. Resolution 18-024: Topic: UPRR Temporary Land Use. Deferred. Other Board Action: National Tribal Horse Coalition (NTHC) meeting. Donation request for BOT to host luncheon for the meeting on Tues. April 17 at Tamastslikt Cultural Institute. MOTION: Rosenda Shippentower moves to defer agenda item until Katherine Good Luck provides additional information. Woodrow Star seconds. Motion carries 8-0-0. BOT Travel Reports. 1) Aaron Ashley, March 28 to Burbank, WA to attend Laliik Working Group meeting with US Forest Service. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to approve report. Rosenda Shippentower seconds. Motion carries 8-0-0. BOT Leave and Travel Requests. 1) Gary Burke, travel, Grand Ronde, April 9-11, Oregon Tribes Meeting. Travel, LCIS, May 15 to Willamette University and May 16 to Salem. 2) Kat Brigham, travel, April 24-25, to Portland to attend WW Basin co-managers’ meeting. Travel, April 3 to Portland to attend Sen. Merkley fund raiser event. 3) Rosenda Shippentower, travel, April 14-15 to Portland to attend Warm Springs Museum Annual fund raiser event. Personal leave May 1-3. Personal leave on May 11. MOTION: Jeremy Wolf moves to approve leave requests. Rosenda Shippentower seconds. Motion carries 8-0-0. MOTION: Rosenda Shippentower moves to recess at 11:58 AM until 1:30 PM. Aaron Ashley seconds. Motion carries 8-0-0. Gary Burke, BOT Chair called the meeting back to order at 1:35 PM. 2:00 PM. Eric Quaempts, Interim Executive Director update on Temporary Land Use Agreement for UPRR. He received a clean copy and forwarded it to BOT for review. Resolution 18-024: Topic: Temporary Land Use Agreement for UPRR. RESOLVED, the Board of Trustees adopted a motion at their meeting on March 26, 2018 requiring the issuance of a Notice of Trespass to UPRR and directing staff to develop a Temporary Land Use Agreement to resolved the trespass issue, which Agreement is subject to Board of Trustees approval; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, a Notice of Trespass was issued to UPRR on March 27, 2018 by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby approves the attached Temporary Land Use Agreement and authorizes its Chairman to execute the Agreement on behalf of the Confederated Tribes; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby requests that the BIA defer to the monetary compensation and other terms that we have negotiated in the Temporary Land Use Agreement, that the Board hereby waives any requirement for an appraisal in connection with the Agreement, and finds that the Agreement contains terms that are in the best interest of the Confederated Tribes, all as authorized by 25 CFR Section 162.420(a); AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby directs its Interim Executive Director to ensure that the Northwest Grain Growers and the BIA Umatilla Agency Superintendent execute the Temporary Land Use Agreement to show their consent to its terms, to monitor UPRR’s reclamation of the site upon the expiration of the Temporary Land Use Agreement 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
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full force and effect. DATED this 2nd day of April, 2018. MOTION: Woodrow Star moves to adopt Resolution 18-024 as amended. Kat Brigham seconds. Motion carries 8-0-0.
DATE: April 9, 2018
BOT Present: Jeremy Wolf, Vice Chairman; 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 travel. Doris Wheeler, Treasurer on personal leave. Quorum present. Old Business. National Tribal Horse Coalition (NTHC) request BOT provide lunch for their meeting. NTHC is having a meeting at TCI on April 17 from 1:00 to 4:30 PM and are requesting BOT provide lunch. Estimated total for 15 people are $274.95 for an Indian Taco lunch. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to approve luncheon to be paid for by Board of Trustees (BOT) Wildhorse Resort & Casino (WRC) Departmental Expense Book (DEB) voucher. Sally Kosey seconds. Motion carries 6-0-0. Resolution 18-025: Topic: Office of Special Trust (OST). RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees authorizes the Chairman, Treasurer, Executive Director or Interim Executive Director, Director of Finance and Accounting Manager to correspond directly with OST and to execute all documents that are necessary to request disbursements of Tribal funds which are on deposit with the Office of Special Trustees (OST) to be deposited directly into another Tribal account, to request access to Tribal records held by the OST, to request information regarding Tribal accounts and to set Tribal Investment and liquidity objectives; AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby authorizes the Director of Economic and Community Development, Land Project Manager and the Range Ag & Forestry Program Manager to request information regarding Tribal accounts as needed from time to time for the conduct of routine business; AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby directs authorized Finance staff to annually provide OST with an updated list of authorized individuals to account for personnel changes with the Confederated Tribes; AND, BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby instructs OST to distribute from the Tribes account PL7076703 to the Tribes General Fund Account currently held at U. S. Bank, Pendleton, Oregon, quarterly on the first business day of every January, April, July and October, the entire account balance if the balance is in excess of $1,000; If the balance is less than $1,000 hold until the next quarter. AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 9th day of April, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-025 with changes. Sally Kosey seconds. Motion carries 6-0-0. Resolution 18-026: Topic: Opioid Litigation Contract. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby approves the Legal Services Agreement between the Confederated Tribes and the law firms of SKIKIS CRAWFORD SKIKIS & JOSEPH, LLP and JOHNSON, JOHNSON, LUCAS & MIDDLETON (“The Firm”); AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby authorizes its Chairman to execute the attached Legal Services Agreement; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby approves of the draft complaint that is attached to this Resolution and directs that steps be taken to be finalize and file the attached complaint, or one containing similar claims, on behalf of the Confederated Tribes; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby directs its Interim Executive Director and Lead Attorney to work with the Firm in gathering the opioid abuse information that the Board of Trustees requested under Resolution 18-015 and to report to the Board of Trustees on a regular basis on the status of the filing of any lawsuit on behalf of the Confederated Tribes and progress in settling such claims. AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 9th day of April, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-026. Woodrow Star seconds. Motion carries 5 for (Kat Brigham, Sally Kosey, Woodrow Star, Aaron Ashley, William Sigo) – 1 against (Rosenda Shippentower) – 0 abstaining. Resolution 18-027: Topic: ROWWG Scope of Work Update. RESOLVED, that the portion of Resolution No. 09-119 (Exhibit 1) creating the
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Rights-of-Way Working Group membership be amended to include staff representation from Department of Public Works, Tribal Planning Office, Department of Economic and Community Development Land and Tax Programs, Department of Natural Resources Cultural Resources Protection Program and Office of Legal Counsel with Tribal Planning Office being the lead Rights-of-Way Working Group facilitator; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Rights-of-Way working Group extend its scope to include the resolution of utility rights-of-way/easement related issues in addition to road rights-of-way/easements by gathering all necessary information, attempt amicable resolution of disputes, and make recommendations to the Board of Trustees based on Confederated Tribes’
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Community Wellness
From left, Native American Higher Education Liasion Annie Smith and MC Fred Hill announce categories at the BMCC Pow Wow April 12.
BMCC Pow Wow showcases youth
Dahza Joseph , left, fancy danced in the Tiny Tot category during the BMCC Pow Wow April 12th. Hazel Quaempts, right, danced jingle in the category.
Junior boys-1, Sheldon Joseph. 2, BayBay Matamoros. 3, Bryson Bronson. Junior girls-1, Jareen Hines. 2, Olivia Allen. 3, Dasha Joseph. 13 and over men-1, Logan Quaempts. 2, Gary Smith. 3, Redhorse Wesley. 13 and over women-1, Katrina Walsey. 2, Mackenzie Kiona. 3, Mollee Minthorn.
From left, sisters Jareen Hines and Stella Hines talk and walk during an inter-tribal at the BMCC Pow Wow April 12.
Juju Matamoros danced jingle during an inter-tribal at the BMCC Pow Wow April 12.
CUJ photos by Jill-Marie Gavin From left, Sheldon Joseph, Lewis Allen and Bryson Bronson dance in the junior boys category during
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Board of Trustees Minutes Continued from page 21B policies, statutes and regulations; AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and it still in full force and effect. DATED this 9th day of April, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-027. Rosenda Shippentower seconds. Motion carries 5 for (Kat Brigham, Rosenda Shippentower, Woodrow Star, William Sigo and Aaron Ashley) – 0 against – 1 abstaining (Sally Kosey). Resolution 18-028: Topic: Community Recreation Center Renovation Project. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby approves the Standard Form of Agreement between Owner and Contractor, AIA Document A101-2007, between the Confederated Tribes and Jackson Contractor Group, Inc. (Jackson) attached to this Resolution as Exhibit 1C for renovation of the Community Recreation Center; AND BE IT FURTHER RE-
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SOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby authorizes its Chairman to execute the attached Agreement and to take such further action and execute documents that may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Resolution; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees acknowledges and confirms the limited waiver of its Tribal sovereign immunity as set forth in Article 9 of the attached Agreement. AND, that said Resolution has not been modified amended or repealed and is still in full force and effect. DATED this 9th day of April, 2018. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to adopt Resolution 18-028. Rosenda Shippentower seconds. Motion carries 6-0-0. Other Board Action: Letter of Support for Confluence Project. At the April 4th meeting with the Confluence Executive Director Colin Fogarty, Silas Whitman and Antone Minthorn, they requested a letter reiterating our support for this project origi-
nally given in 2010. It is our understanding that this letter is important to the viability of the project, including the success of a grant proposal to the Federal Lands Access Program to support the project. MOTION: Kat Brigham move to approve letter. Sally Kosey seconds. Motion carries 6-0-0. Nomination of Bill Tovey to Regional Solutions Advisory Committee. The Regional Solutions Program was established by the Oregon Legislature in 2014 by adopting HB 4015 (ORS 284.752 to 284. 754), which authorizes the Governor to appoint members to the Regional Advisory Committees. The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (Confederated Tribes) are respectfully requesting that you appoint Bill Tovey as a member of the Greater Eastern Oregon Regional Solutions Advisory Committee. The Confederated Tribes feel strongly that Bill would be an asset to both the Advisory Committee and the Eastern
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Oregon region. MOTION: Sally Kosey moves to approve letter. Woodrow Star seconds. Motion carries 6-0-0. BOT Travel Reports. 1) Jeremy Wolf, April 4-5 trip to Portland to attend Columbia River Coalition meeting. 2) Woodrow Star report on 3 trips. 1) Hanford meeting on March 7-8 at Richland, WA. 2) Meeting with Sen. Heidkamp at Portland on March 26 and 3) US Attorney Summit on Marijuana at Portland on Feb. 28. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to approve reports. Woodrow Star seconds. Motion carries 5-0-0. BOT Leave and Travel Requests. 1) Rosenda Shippentower, travel request to Toppenish to attend ATNI Annual Convention, May 20-24. 2) Willie Sigo, travel request to ATNI Annual Convention at Toppenish, WA, May 20-24. MOTION: Kat Brigham moves to approve leave requests. William Sigo seconds. Motion carries 5-0-0.
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