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January 2022 - Confederated Umatilla Journal

Volume 30, Issue 1

CUJ

January 6th, 2022

The official publication of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

STEPPING INTO POWER Sams sworn in at Lincoln Memorial; CTUIR member receives Tribal recognition prior to departing for D.C.

I looked and I want my people to know that we are in good hands with the Biden-Harris Administration, who respects the diversity that we are as Americans and wants to bring our voices to the table. And I look forward to ensuring strong consultation happens not only with my Tribe, but with all the Tribes of the United States.”

BY CARY ROSENBAUM CUJ Editor

One December day Chuck Sams was in a suit and tie in front of the Lincoln Memorial, shaking hands with Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland after being sworn in as National Park Service Director. Days later, he’s in a NPS Ranger uniform being celebrated by his Tribal nation with an honor song. As of early January, the CTUIR member — and first-ever American Indian to serve as National Park Service Director — is off and running. “We’ve been working very hard and the staff there are magnificent,” he said. “National Park Service, I think, is truly blessed to have some of the most dedicated employees in service to the United States. They’ve been very welcoming in having me join them. They have provided a number of briefings and understandings of how the National Park Service works, internally. “They’re also open to new changes and new direction and new strategy,” Sams added. “Unfortunately, they’ve been without a director for five years. And I think there have been a number of issues around that. You really do need somebody who is presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed to be ultimately their advocate on the votes within the Administration. But more importantly, I think, also with Congress to ensure that the resources are there and the budgets are met so they can do the important work they do for the American people.” On Dec. 16, Sams stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial, having selected the location after accepting a suggestion from Haaland to perform the swearing in at the National Mall. In a powerful moment, Haaland told Sams to look down. He was standing on a location inscribed as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, “I have a dream” speech location. “We took a moment to reflect and look out on the National Mall, and (Haaland) said, ‘You’re being entrusted with these monuments, memorials, parks on behalf of the American people.’ But I want you to look at your feet. I was standing on (Dr. King’s mark),” Sams recalled. “And (Haaland) said that we are now the embodiment of Dr. King’s dream.

Haaland said, ‘You’re being entrusted with these monuments, memorials, parks on behalf of the American people.’ -CHUCK SAMS ABOVE: CTUIR member Chuck Sams’ official National Park Service Director photo. BELOW: Sams received recognition from the CTUIR, including BOT Chair Kat Brigham, during a send-off on Dec. 24. BOTTOM: Sams was sworn in on Dec. 16 by Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Wikipedia, Dallas Dick, DOI photos

Sams also wanted it at the Lincoln Memorial due to the former President’s second inaugural speech inscribed on the wall. “It really talks about the importance that the union will only last as long as we want it to as Americans,” he said. “It was pointing at that everyone was at fault for the Civil War, and we will only be at fault with each other if we don’t figure out how to build a stronger union. I’m greatly appreciative of the President and his appointment to become the 19th National Parks Service Director and really believe in the Biden-Harris Administration’s push to form that more perfect union. I think that being part of the National Park Service where we hold those common grounds are key to continuing on to tell our stories as Americans and continue building a more perfect union.” Before he left, the CTUIR celebrated him at the Tribal Longhouse, where drums, singing and dancing culminated with the presentation of a Pendleton blanket to Sams, who gave a brief farewell speech. “I’m very pleased and honored and humbled by the Tribe wanting to do a recognition before we leave our homelands once again to venture east,” he said. “But I’m also comforted by the Biden-Harris administration and the number of Natives that are See SAMS STARTS on uylɨ́xs (6)

INSIDE THE CUJ Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation 46411 Timine Way Pendleton, OR 97801

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ABOUT THE CUJ

The Confederated Umatilla Journal (CUJ) was created in 1975 as the official publication of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR), which includes the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla people. The 6,000+ circulation newspaper is based out of Pendleton, Oregon, is produced by the CTUIR’s Communications Department and is printed monthly in Lewiston, Idaho.

Richard V. LaCourse (1938-2001) helped found the CUJ in 1975 with the motto, “Only an informed people has its future in its own hands.” An investigative journalism award in his name is presented every year by the Native American Journalists Association.

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Mailing Address: Confederated Umatilla Journal 46411 Timine Way Pendleton, OR 97801 By Phone: 541-429-7005 Fax: 541-429-7005 General inquiries via email: cuj@ctuir.org

STAFF

Interim Publisher: Jiselle Halfmoon jisellehalfmoon@ctuir.org Editor: Cary Rosenbaum caryrosenbaum@ctuir.org

NEXT DEADLINE

Print subscriptions can be purchased The CUJ prints on the first Thursday by contacting the CTUIR Finance Deof each month. partment at 541-429-7150 or visiting Next publish date: February 3rd the Finance desk at Nixyaawii GovContribution deadline: January 18th ernance Center, 46411 Timine Way, Advertising deadline: January 25th Pendleton. Though the newspaper is LETTERS TO THE EDITOR free around the area, we do charge GUIDELINES: for mailing subscriptions to cover the • Word limit: 300. printing and postage costs per issue. • Letters containing information Those prices are as follows: found to be inaccurate/libelous will One year: $15, Two years: $28 not be published. ADVERTISE • Letters containing profanity will $5.50 per column inch not be published. Common sizes: • One letter per issue will be Full page: $417 published. Campaigning is not Three Quarter Page: $323 allowed. Half page: $229 • Author’s full name, address and Quarter page: $132 phone number must be listed for Business Card: $52 verification purposes.

LANGUAGE LESSON Edition: K̓sɨ́t̓al (Imatalamłaamí Sɨ́nwit), wilúupup (weyiiletpuutímt)

Imatalamłaamí Sɨ́nwit

weyiiletpuutímt

English

Ánɨm

ˀením̓

Winter

K̓sɨ́taas

yaw̓íckin̓ika(ay)

North

K̓sawišáaš.

ˀicwéey̓š wéeš.

I am cold.

Kapúwitk!

kapohí!

Put on your coat!

Iwá k̓sɨ́t ámčnipa.

ˀicwéey̓š híiweš ˀéemti.

It is cold outside.

Ipásc̓atiša.

hiˀpéeceše.

It is foggy.

Tax̣ʷíiłi ɨsčɨ́t

tehšíin ˀíškit

Icy road

Łamayíyi.

hiléew̓ce.

It is hibernating.

K̓sɨ́t̓al

(Comes from k̓sɨ́t “cold”,

referring to January as the month of cold weather)

ARTIST CREDIT

This issue’s theme is based on the artwork of Louis Boyd, a Colville tribal artist. His work can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/ludawolf03 and purchased at https://syilxart.squarespace. com. To submit your artwork for theme consideration, email us at CUJ@CTUIR.org.

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(Refers to January as the month “when cold air travels”)

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January 2022 - Confederated Umatilla Journal OPINION / BOT COLUMN

2022: The year we hoped 2020 would be

ometimes the hours of the days seem to go by slowly, but every year I bet we can all look back and agree how fast the year has gone by. Honestly 2021 was a blur. For better or for worse, 2021 offered many lessons for us to carry on. No matter where you reside at. Now the optimism is setting in for 2022. The Election season felt like it didn’t even happen. Before you knew it there’s a new make-up of the Board of Trustees. It’s very strange to not have Jeremy Wolf, Armand Minthorn, and Jill-Marie Gavin in the Board Chambers. Oddly, we didn’t even spend much time together in the chambers with a full quorum last term. Everything was on zoom or Microsoft Teams (which I despise heaviBoots Pond ly). I learned so much from all three of them since 2019 with their varied levels of experience. Their presences will be greatly missed, but my confidence level is very high for the newly re-appointed/appointed members of the Board to carry on the work and help this community transition in this young decade. At the start of a new term there is about two weeks of orientation just to provide updates and set priorities for the new term. After being sworn in we got into motion with a tight schedule. The Board attended the 2021 Tribal-State Annual Summit, virtually, with the other nine tribes of Oregon. The Board went over the many codes, policies, and procedures (BOT Secretary Procedures Policy, BOT Procedures Code, Etc.). We also appointed delegates to the numerous Committees and Commissions the tribe has. Outside of the boardroom, we took several tours of some of the Tribal entities and other land the tribe

owns. Our members explored the remodeled Tamastslikt Culture Institute as they begin preparations for the 25th anniversary in August 2023, a momentous occasion to be sure. We had a bus tour of Coyote Business Park. A place many Board members are eager to see have growth in businesses, especially given the team that has been hired in the past year. While at the Business Park, we saw the almost complete infrastructure of the Emergency Preparedness building, a building that should be finished before February rolls around. Lastly, the Board toured Yellowhawk and saw the growth the new building has had, there are talks of expanding the building because of the high demand for services. Of course there’s also early planning for the Board retreat which is set to happen in early February. The Board retreat is when the Board sets up plans for the term and gives direction to staff on what issues will be prioritized. While every issue is important, it’s critical that the Board is able to prioritize what needs to be done and what’s able to be done in a short two year window. I know I’m not the only Board member who thinks this, but it truly is an exciting time to see what happens next. There was a lot of hope when 2020 came along. A century ago the roaring 20s came along in the nation, a decade that boosted the economy and changed the culture of the nation. The thought of what the 2020s could be was similar to the era over 100 years ago. Currently I feel many of us are feeling a bit nostalgic for everything that happened prior to the pandemic. Yet there is a feeling that 2022 is going to be the year we hoped 2020 would be. Happy New Year to all!

Board of Trustees

Chair Lindsey X. Watchman

Vice Chair Aaron Ashley

Vice Chair Michael Ray Johnson Secretary Shawna Gavin

Secretary Sally Kosey

Leadership assignments Board of Trustees Agrees to Committee/Comdivvied up among BOT mission Assignments and Appointments to Positions with Outside Entities

PRESS RELEASE

The nine members of theof Board of Trustees discussed The nine members the Board of Trustees how to divvy up assignments to CTUIR advisory comdiscussed how tocommissions divvy up assignments to mittees and regulatory as well as appointmentsCTUIR to CTUIR Boards consisting of both tribal and advisory committees and regulatonon-tribal members, and outside organizations, such ry commissions as well as appointments to as councils, boards, or committees that CTUIR elected CTUIR Boards consisting of both tribal and representatives serve on. non-tribal members, and outside Board members made a conscious effort organizato divide up assignments in an as equitable wayboards, so that each person sits tions, such councils, or committees on two to three committees, commissions, or boards,on. as that CTUIR elected representatives serve well as a fairly balancing participation and time comBoard members made a conscious effort to mitment to outside entities. divide assignments anany equitable way so The BOT up Chair does not sitinon committees or commissions butperson does serve to that each sits as onCTUIR two torepresentative three commita range of outside organizations. Here’s how the Board commissions, or boards, as well as a fairchosetees, to divide up their assignments: ly balancing participation and timeCommittee, commit• Aaron Ashley: Science and Technology Landment Acquisition Committee to outside entities. The BOT Chair does • Sandy Health Commission, Gaming not sit Sampson: on any committees or commissions but Commission, Fish and Wildlife Commission (ex oficio) does serve as CTUIR representative to a range • Sally Kosey: Cultural Coalition, Tamastslikt Culoutside organizations. Here’s how the Board tural of Institute Board • Lisa Ganuelas: Committee, Water Comchose to divideFarm up their assignments: mission, Tribal Employment Rights Office (TERO) Committee AaronPond: Ashley = Science Technology • Boots Economic and and Community DevelopmentCommittee, Committee, Education and Training Committee, Land Acquisition Committee Head Start Policy Council • Corinne Sams: Law and Order Committee, Fish and Sandy Sampson = Health Commission, GamWildlife Commission See BOT ROLES on páx̣at (5)

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation 46411 Timíne Way Pendleton, OR 97801

General Council

Chair Kathryn Brigham

Treasurer Sandra Sampson

NEWS / BOT

Boots Pond is an At -Large Board of Trustees Member and can be reached at bootspond@ctuir.org.

GOVERNMENT

Interpreter Thomas Morning Owl

At-large BOT Members: Boots Pond Corinne Sams Lisa Ganuelas Toby Patrick

General Council contact Info Office: 541-429-7378 Email: GeneralCouncil@ctuir.org Meeting updates and information on: www.ctuir.org/government/general-council

Executive Director: Donald G. Sampson Interim Deputy Executive Directors: Matt Johnson & Teara Farrow Ferman

General Council www.ctuir.org email: generalcouncil@ctuir.org Phone & Fax: 541-429-7378

General Council Draft Agenda January 20, 2022 – 2:00 PM Hybrid: In-person & Virtual via Zoom

Note:

1. Call to Order 2. Invocation 3. Ascertainment of Quorum a. General Council Officers b. Board of Trustees c. General Council Members 4. Approval of Agenda 5. Approval of Executive Summary – November 18, 2021 6. Old Business

In person attendance is limited to the first thirty (30) people, each screened for Covid19, then invited into Council chambers.

Masks required-worn properly throughout meeting For zoom meeting ID or call-in phone access, email General Council Secretary Shawna Gavin at shawnagavin@ctuir.org Please include your CTUIR tribal enrollment # for verification.

7. New Business a. Board of Trustees Chair Annual Report – Kat Brigham, BOT Chair b. Health Commission Annual Report – Shawna Gavin, HC Chair c. Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center Annual Report – Aaron Hines, Interim CEO - YTHC d. Tamastslikt Cultural Institute – Bobbie Conner, TCI Director 8. Open Mic 9. Announcements/Notes 10. Adjournment

______________________________/ __12/30/2021______________ Chairman Lindsey X. Watchman Date Lindsey X. Watchman, Chairman ~ Michael R Johnson, Vice Chair ~ Shawna Gavin, Secretary ~ Thomas Morning Owl, Interpreter

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NEWS / BUSINESS

Fossek, Paradise reflect on Discover Program experience BY CARY ROSENBAUM CUJ Editor MISSION - Two CTUIR members completed their Discover Program tenures. Robert Fossek was selected as the first-ever Program Manager-level trainee, while Monica Paradise receive the supervisory-level training. “The Discover module grows each year and with the two amazing participants in 2021,” Discover Program Manager Lorene Broncheau said. “Robert and Monica have helped shape the program for success in the future.” Fossek came to the program after 25 years of experience with the CTUIR as a Public Safety and Fish & Wildlife employee. He is an Army veteran who holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Eastern Oregon University. He said he signed up for the program to gain the opportunity to observe and learn from other departments within the CTUIR. “After hearing positive comments from past Discover participants, I decided to apply for the program,” he said. “The entire year has been hectic while attempting to balance home life and work life. While in the program, I changed positions with my employer and luckily I was able to work around the change. “I also had commitments in my personal life that required my presence and was able to also balance that out as well. Working

Robert Fossek and Monica Paradise pose by a CTUIR Discover Program Poster. Courtesy photo

around the changing requirements with the COVID pandemic also created its own difficulties. This not only required flexibility on my part, but also with the individual departments that participated with the program. It is difficult to make plans and schedules when you have the possibility of different COVID restrictions right around the corner.” Paradise has worked for the CTUIR since 2017 and holds a Bachelor’s in

Business Administration from EOU and a Master’s in Legal Studies from the University of Oklahoma. She, too, transferred positions during the program, moving from a Financial Specialist in the Office of Child Support Enforcement to the Account I - Budgets and Contract Position in Finance. Gaining management experience was Paradise’s goal with joining the program. “I felt like it was a great opportunity to

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module that Tribal Member employees can utilize.” Paradise called her experience “rewarding for career and personal growth.” “Each department showcased the ways the tribe is able to exercise sovereignty by inter-twining cultural values with western customs,” she said. “I felt privileged to hear stories of tribal growth and development; I want to be a part of the ongoing success. I shared so many touching moments with individuals who

have sheer passion for our children, elders, education, development, the treaty, self-determination, First Foods and the community. There were such special and relatable experiences, and moments when I laughed so hard I cried. The entire year has been more than what I expected and I am thankful the tribe offers a service for tribal employees to empower themselves.” She would tell others interested in the Discover Program to go for it. “It is a great experience to get to know more about departments in the organization

and what our past leadership brought to the table for us to carry on,” Paradise said. “I was able to comprehend more about the Treaty of 1855 and how our current leadership exercises the rights for the people & our future generations. It is important for me to identify how the different eras of federal policy molded our tribal people and how successful the tribe has been to progress forward and thrive. I will tell anyone, that the Discover Program helps you see in deeper depth these aspects of tribal government

and tribal survival.” Broncheau said Paradise proved week in, week out that she is an outstanding role model for Tribal youth. “She is, and will continue to be an asset to our tribal government as an employee,” Broncheau said. Her hard work and dedication has pushed her to reach her goals. Thank you Monica for your time and participation in the Program this year.” Participants in the CTUIR Discover Program are selected by the Pamawaluukt Empower Program.

NEWS / BUSINESS

CTUIR adds 10 positions in 2022 BY THE CUJ MISSION - The Board of Trustees authorized the creation of 10 new positions within the CTUIR organization for 2022. Information Technology will see an organization-high, four new faces join the team. New positions approved are as follows: Office of Information Technology, Help Desk Supervisor, Computer Tech I, Computer Tech II, Network Tech, all full-time. Communications Department: Administrative Support Position, Public Relations Specialist, full-time Office of the Executive Director, Administrative Services Manager, Deputy Executive Director, full-time Public Safety: Emergency Manager, full-time. Public Works: Fleet Management Coordinator, full-time To monitor job listings, go to https://www.ctuir.org/career-opportunities/ There are currently 40 openings at the CTUIR.

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Protection Planning Commission, Wildhorse Foundation Board Board of Trustees representatives do not serve on the Enrollment Commission nor the Election Commission. There are three Boards that have participation from both CTUIR and non-CTUIR members: Cayuse Holdings, LLC, the Nixyaawii Community Fund Board, and Tamastslikt Trust Board. As far as outside organizations that have CTUIR representation, the Board and Office of Executive Director identified 56 organizations that require CTUIR participation. These outside organizations range from long-standing permanent tribal entities like the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission to temporary federal rulemaking committees like the Department of Interior Self-Governance PROGRESS Act. The outside organizations cross a range of disciplines or issue areas from education to justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women to fish and wildlife habitat restoration and hazardous waste cleanup at the Hanford Site.

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in the current administration (Secretary Haaland, Pueblo of Laguna; Robert Anderson, Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Solicitor at the Department of Interior; Jamie Pinkham, Nez Perce Tribe, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Janie Simms Hipp, Chickasaw Nation, General Counsel of the United States Department of Agriculture).” “It’s comforting to know that as we head to Washington there are a number of American Indians in this Administration, many of whom I have the pleasure of knowing and calling my friend.” Sams said he already has familiarity with more than 125 National parks and monuments, but will likely gear up for an aggressive touring schedule which includes some of the most and least well-known in the nation. “The staff and I are working on a very aggressive schedule,” he said. “I think that if you look, the Secretary of the Interior has gone out and made sure to get out in the field to see everything that she is responsible for. She’s very encouraging for her bureau heads to do the same thing: to really get a feel of what’s going on out there. “So I look forward to seeing a number of, not just the national parks, but the national monuments and memorials and

Confederated Umatilla Journal - January 2022 TRIBAL SUPPORT: Recently sworn-in National Park Service Director Chuck Sams, a CTUIR member, walks with a line of support from his Tribal and family members. Dallas Dick photo

some of the lesser known parks to go out and see, and talk with the staff there. I think it’s important that their voices are being heard and understood to see how we can help improve their work culture, their work environment and make sure they have those resources to deal with the influx of Americans who are coming and now rediscovering many of these

smaller hidden gems in America.” Paying homage to his mentors, Sams wanted CTUIR members to understand he knows he didn’t make it this far on his own. “I fully know I didn’t get here by myself,” he said. “There are many mentors: Antone Minthorn, Les Minthorn, the late Jay Minthorn, the late Frenchy

Halfmoon, the late Rosemary Narcisse. These Tribal elders, these Tribal leaders really did pave the path forward and help me understand this road that I’m on and made sure that I knew where my own history lied and where I need to go to not just help my own people but to be of service to my own Tribal nation and the United States.”

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Winter Air Quality Newsletter Wood Stove Heating:

• Burn cleaner, hotter, and longer: use only seasoned/dry firewood. • Store outside wood covered to protect from rain/snow. • Check internal moisture content of wood before burning • Use an EPA certified wood stove to burn more efficiently: more heating with less wood, and decreased harmful emissions. • Check the wood stove burning advisory on the CTUIR burn line at (541) 429-7080, and help keep local air quality healthy for all. During air stagnation events, wood stove emissions contribute to unhealthy air. • Use only clean paper or dry kindling as fire starter. Never burn trash.

Indoor Air Quality:

• Vent home indoor air once or twice daily if temperature permits. This decreases CO2 levels, humidity, and risk of mold. A couple easy options: • Open a door for 5-10 minutes to exchange air. • Crack a window in one part of the house, and turn on the bathroom exhaust fan for 10-15 minutes. • Use the bathroom or kitchen exhaust fan when showering or cooking. This vents excess humidity, as well as grease and smoke particulates • Curious about your indoor air quality? Contact the CTUIR Office of Air Quality and leave a message with your contact info: (541) 429-7080 We can assist by loaning an indoor air quality monitor.

Figure 1. Covered woodsheds protect cord wood from moisture. Dry wood burns cleaner, hotter, and more efficiently. Creative Commons: Flickr user Kurt Morrow

Outdoor Air Quality:

• Outdoor burning: check the CTUIR burn line to see if it is okay to burn first at (541) 429-7080. • Air Stagnation: common in Mission through the winter months, during temperature inversion events. Causes unhealthy levels of air pollution to be trapped and build up for days at a time.

Figure 2. Temperature inversion with valley fog, from on top of Cabbage Hill. This type of weather is common to low elevation CTUIR lands in winter, leading to poor air quality in Mission due to buildup of wood smoke. Photo: Mason Murphy

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January 2022 - Confederated Umatilla Journal

OPINION / EDITORIAL

New year, Influenza new CUJ T

here’s a certain nostalgia to the CUJ that I’ve noticed some people in the Tribal community have. Rightfully so. When change occurs, not everyone enjoys it. During one of my first months as editor in 2021, I moved the obituaries to the B Section. This prompted someone to contact a Board of Trustees member, who let me know there was an informal complaint. I really felt like I had touched a Tribal artifact without the proper gloves. But many more sent positive messages in that time period and loved the “new direction.” It’s not hard to know who to side with when the scale’s tipping in Cary Rosenbaum one direction. With the coming of the new year, perhaps the biggest change to the CUJ in recent memory is occurring — a fairly major redesign. Old logo, gone. Certain content, moved. It’s hard to warn you on Page 7 (hopefully nobody is hyperventilating!) but maybe the headline will attract your eye. When I was hired as CUJ Editor last year, I had a vision of what I wanted to bring. Changes were more subtle because we were already well into 2021. With a fresh start at Issue No. 1, here were some goals with this year’s redesign. 1) Hopefully, the CUJ is grabbing your attention. Impact has always been important to me. I want people to see the Tribal publication and want to pick it up. (Why would I do this job if I didn’t think Tribal affairs were important, right?) Goal number two is to make more sense and organization to the layout. Because many from outside the Tribal community pick the paper up, they should know in the first few pages exactly what it is they’re looking at. A third goal was to make it “feel” more like a Tribal publication. The CTUIR Language Department has been a great help in supplying page and section numbers. I also looked back on CUJs from the 1970s and 80s to bring a somewhat similar feel, with some newer-age design techniques that are Native-inspired. Ideally, that will be dominantly CTUIR inspired in the coming months! To conclude, this column was strictly about the redesign. In the coming month, we hope to hire a reporter to really increase our overall offerings and appeal. 2022 is going to be our year! With that said, thank you for reading. Your overall concern about the direction of your Tribal newspaper is inspiring. Keep the comments and concerns coming. And Happy New Year! Cary Rosenbaum (Colville Confederated Tribes) is the Editor of the CUJ. Contact him at caryrosenbaum@ctuir.org.

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Confederated Umatilla Journal - January 2022

NEWS / HEALTH / COVID-19

Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center sees surge in COVID cases By CARY ROSENBAUM CUJ Editor MISSION - A December and early January surge in COVID-19 cases has caused restrictions to go back into place on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. “Yes, we are using the utmost caution with this recent spike in cases and doing our due diligence to limit exposures where possible but know not all are able to work from home, including most of our staff,” Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center CEO Aaron Hines said. A testing clinic in the parking lot will continue to be held Jan. 6-7 from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. to help identify cases and slow the spread. Only weekly data is available at this point, and as of Dec. 30, Yellowhawk had diagnosed 58 cases, with 39 being vaccinated individuals. Yellowhawk said it cannot confirm if the cases are linked to the Omicron variant. “We are busy testing our community with the help of (the Oregon Health Authority) and are actively trying to bring more resources in staff, tests and other supplies to the clinic,” Hines said. “We have pulled staff from other departments to help with testing and contact tracing and will continue to do so when and wherever needed. For both positive and negative tests our staff is trying to reach out the same day. For those that test positive, our hope is that they will get

Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center staff members work vigorously at a COVID-19 testing event Jan. 4 in Mission. Courtesy photo

fully traced the same day they get tested, however due to our limitations others will only be notified.” Hines said the CDC’s December guidance changes which shorten isolation time to five days conflict with what needs to be done to protect the local population. “Some states and public health authorities have adopted these as guidelines,” he said. “We are in the middle of a surge of positives in the vaccinated and unvaccinated population. We are not in a position

to lower our threshold of defense. The protocols for our community have not changed, we are not updating our isolation or quarantine guidelines. A majority of the population on the CTUIR are high risk so we feel it is safe and prudent to follow the 10 day isolation to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our community.” Hines’ advice for the upcoming month? “We ask that everyone do their part — stay home if you can,” he said. “If you get tested and are negative for COVID-19,

please seek out additional testing for the Flu and RSV and stay away from others. If COVID is ruled patients need to make an appointment with their provider about testing for other viruses that are contagious. Wear protective masks, surgical grade if possible, wash/sanitize your hands and social distance – the guidance has not changed.” The next weekly case count will be available Jan. 6 at https://www.facebook. com/Yellowhawk4U.

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NEWS / CULTURE / ENTERTAINMENT

Johnson, Craig-Allen selected as Happy Canyon Princesses PRESS RELEASE PENDLETON – The Happy Canyon Board of Directors is proud to announce Marley Johnson and Samantha Craig-Allen as the 2022 Happy Canyon Princesses. They will serve as the 2022 ambassadors for the Happy Canyon Night Show, Oregon’s official outdoor night pageant that takes place each night of the world-famous Pendleton Round-Up. “We are absolutely thrilled to have these two talented local young women represent Happy Canyon this next year,” said Happy Canyon President Tanner Hawkins. “Their family roots run deep in local tribal history and in Happy Canyon, so we’re honored to have them serve as our representatives in 2022.” Johnson, 20, is the daughter of Micah Johnson and Julie Rowell of Portland. She is of Nez Perce, Cayuse and Walla Walla. She has attended Happy Canyon and the Pendleton Round-Up nearly all of her life, and began competing in Junior American Indian pageants at age 3. In 2019, Johnson took third place in the Senior American Indian Pageant, and has participated in the Happy Canyon Nigh Show several times. As a Happy Canyon Princess, Johnson will continue a family legacy, most recently passed down by her aunt Drew (Johnson) Rivera, who was a Happy Canyon Princess in 2000. Johnson is a descendant of Chief Joseph’s sister, Sarah. Her grandfather, William Johnson, was the first tribal member to pass the Oregon State Bar and has been Chief Judge at the CTUIR Tribal Court for over 30 years. Her paternal

Samantha Craig-Allen (left) and Marley Johnson (right) were named Happy Canyon Princesses for 2022. They posed for a photo with Happy Canyon President Tanner Hawkins. Dallas Dick photo

grandparents, Bill and Darcy Johnson, as well as her maternal grandparents, Gail and Robert Picard all reside on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and her grandfather, Charles Rowell of Pendleton, currently lives in Portland. Johnson’s trappings belong to Sally Kosey, and her dress was beaded in 1999 by Myrna Strong for her aunt, Drew Johnson. Her purse, leggings, and cuffs were also beaded by Myrna Strong and gifted to her Aunt Vickie Johnson in 1997. The moccasins that Johnson will wear as a Happy Canyon Princess have been in the family for more than 100 years. Johnson is a graduate of St. Mary’s Academy in Portland and is currently a sophomore at Mt. Hood Community College, where she plays both basketball and softball. Her goal is to complete an Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer Degree at MHCC and transfer to a university where she plans to continue to pursue

athletics and a degree in journalism or communications field. “I am proud and humbled to be selected as a 2022 Happy Canyon Princess,” Johnson said. “Being selected as a Happy Canyon Princess means so much to me. It allows me to act as a role model for youth and the honor to represent Oregon Natives, specifically my Indigenous urban community. I look forward to giving back to the community as well as gaining new experiences.” Craig-Allen, 19, is the daughter of Sandra Craig of Pendleton and Sheldon Allen of Culdesac, Idaho, and is a 2020 graduate of Pendleton High School. She is of Umatilla, Cayuse and Nez Perce descent and an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR). Her maternal great-great grandfather Dick Johnson was with the Nez Perce band during the War of 1877, as well as her great-great

grand uncle See Ya Kun llp llp, who was the son of William Craig, Craig-Allen’s great-great great-great grandfather. William was a Scottish Mountain Man from West Virginia who married Isobel, the daughter of “Old James,” who was a Sub Chief and Medicine Man with the Upper Nez Perce in Idaho. William became an interpreter during the Treaty of 1855 for his father-inlaw Old James. Craig-Allen is also the descendant of Fishhawk, who was a Cayuse Warrior, and was her maternal great-great-great grandfather. Craig-Allen plans to enroll at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, where she’d like to improve her skills in writing, dance and acting. She currently works at McDonald’s at Arrowhead Travel Plaza. She says she applied to become a Happy Canyon Princess because of her late grandfather, Fermore Craig Sr., who was a part of Happy Canyon for more than 75 years. Craig-Allen cherishes the memories she has of participating in Happy Canyon with her grandfather before his passing and looks forward to continuing the tradition in her family. “What I am excited about being a Happy Canyon Princess is being able to get in touch with my culture even more and making my family proud for representing our Tribe, Happy Canyon, and, most of all, my families,” Craig-Allen said. “Also, I’m looking forward to all of the traveling and making new friends, experiences and getting to know (fellow Princess) Marley more.” The Happy Canyon Night Show takes place Sept. 14-17, 2022.

FINANCIAL READINESS IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS HOMEOWNERSHIP

Are you ready to build a home at Nixyáawii? Are you financially secure? You need to have a stable income source that can be verified by your lender and demonstrate you manage expenses responsibly.

Is your credit in good shape? Lenders use your credit report to see if you are a responsible borrower. Check your credit score early in the process so you can correct any issues.

Are you ready to settle down in one place? Homeownership is a long-term commitment. If you’re not ready to settle down for at least five years, renting may be a better option.

Are you comfortable with the responsibility of home maintenance? Homes require maintainence. A home owner is responsible for replacing fixtures and making any repairs to the house.

Can you save money for a down payment and closing costs? Prepare for the additional expenses you will incur including the downpayment and any fees charged by the lender.

Can you afford to pay a mortgage? Be ready to prioritize your mortgage payment before other expenses. A bank will foreclose on your home if you stop paying your mortgage– a devastating hit to your credit report.

Nixyáawii is a new twelve-acre neighborhood located south of the Nixyáawii Education Center and Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center. The neighborhood will allow CTUIR Tribal Members to build homes and live on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Shovel-ready lots will feature utility access, paved roads and sidewalks, alleyways and plans for a community park. More information at www.Nixyaawii.com.

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NEWS / COMMUNITY

Cayuse Holdings employees buy gifts for local foster kids Nearly 40 workers offer donations to assist families

Cayuse Holdings employees provided dozens of gifts for local foster kids around the holidays. Courtesy photo

PRESS RELEASE Cayuse Holdings employees participated in an annual tradition and donated gifts for 47 local foster children, including 37 in care of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and 10 in care of the State of Oregon. Nearly 40 employees purchased gifts for the children, who ranged in age from infants to age 18. Debra Croswell, Cayuse Shared Services President, and organizer of this year’s event estimates the total amount exceeded $3,000 in gifts. She explained that for several years, local Cayuse employees chose tags from a Christmas tree in the Cayuse headquarters – each tag representing a local foster child. Starting in 2020, Cayuse created a Virtual Giving Tree on their website where employees stationed in the Pendleton area and all over the United States were able to select foster children tags. Croswell said many employees shop online and ship the gifts to Cayuse’s office, while others prefer to donate funds to the event organizer who shops locally. Cayuse employees organize and wrap the gifts, then hand them off to representatives from the CTUIR Department of Children and Family Services and the State of Oregon’s local children and families division, who get them to the children before Christmas. Cayuse Holdings and its subsidiaries employ approximately 500 people who are stationed on the Umatilla Reservation, around the United States and overseas. For more information about the company, go to www.cayuseholdings.com or find them on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram as Cayuse Holdings.

January 5 Happy Birthday Gabriel! With love, Moses family

NICHT-YOW-WAY ELDERS ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING INFORMATION 1st Friday, each month 9:00 AM Senior Center 51 Umatilla Loop Pendleton, OR 97801 CTUIR Tribal Members 55+ Refreshments provided For more information, please contact: Alan Crawford, Elder Coordinator (541) 429-7388

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NEWS / COMMUNITY

Pendleton community comes together to serve free Christmas dinner PRESS RELEASE

PENDLETON - Over 380 meals were served to walk-ups at Salvation Army or delivered to the Pendleton and CTUIR communities by the Pendleton Community Action Coalition. Deliveries included CAPECO’s Promise Inn, Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center’s Elder’s Program, and to families that signed up through the Pendleton School District, Nixyaawiii Community School, and CTUIR DCFS. Briana Spencer said compared to the 250 meals served last year, this was a huge undertaking, but our community came together to fill the need. A full Christmas dinner was provided with ham, turkey, stuffing, potatoes, pumpkin pie, water, and sauces. PCAC received a $3,000 sponsorship from the Northwest Health Foundation through our fiscal sponsor, the Rural Organizing Project and received additional funding from tax-deductible contributions made through our fiscal sponsor, CAPECO. We also received numerous in-kind donations from local businesses, Spencer said. This event would not have been possible without the support of our donors and our communities’ compassion.

Volunteers helped the effort to package Christmas meals for the community.

The Pendleton Community Action Coalition teamed up with the Salvation Army to serve free Christmas meals to more than 380 people in December. Deliveries were brought to several local locations, and were up from the 250 distributed in 2020. Courtesy photo

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FEATURES / BUSINESS / ENTREPRENEURSHIP

POLISHING HER CRAFT

Tribal member brings style and flair to nail salon business

BY CARY ROSENBAUM CUJ Editor PENDLETON - Aubry Booth-Spencer is driven. The CTUIR member and entrepreneur has a list of goals for 2022 that she’s eager to achieve. Among those: Maintaining her Nail Salon, Art Gallery and Barbershop called “Beautiful Hand Creations” to the highest quality; keeping policies and worthiness known and true; promoting herself; engaging with the community; hosting events for community and tribal members; and becoming a social media guru. Booth-Spencer and her fiance Crys-

My goal is to help my community feel as beautiful as they are.’

CTUIR member Aubry Booth-Spencer has a goal of making people feel as beautiful as they are at ‘Beautiful Hand Creations,’ a new nail salon, barber shop and art studio in Pendleton. Courtesy photo

-AUBRY BOOTH-SPENCER tal Rodriguez opened their doors on Dec. 1 in Pendleton. The business is located at 307 SW 6th St. Rodriguez does men’s barber cuts and art, while Booth-Spencer handles the nails and also creates art.

EMPLOYEES OF THE MONTH!

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DID YOU KNOW?

ur traders introduced new technological goods such as steel, knives, pot, pans, blankets, etc. This was done to entice the Indians in the fur trade. The fur companies in fact had already established a long tradition of working with Indians to exploit their knowledge of the environment. Iroquois Indians employed by fur companies came to live in the Pacific Northwest. Fur traders, however, had to make local connections. “The Umatilla abounded with beaver, and the Indians were induced to trap this animal, as its skin could easily be sold to the white traders.” The Tribes essentially became involved in the Traders competition for furs.

Support Employee of the Month Supervisor of the Month Antonia King, Club Wild Lead PC Host Antonia is always positive and willing to step-up to support the club and her co-workers when needed. She is very hands on and helpful with the employees and promotions as well. She has been a great addition to our team and has helped out tremendously

Cree Enright, HR Tribal Employment Specialist She is just someone you can count on. No matter what the task, Cree is always there to lend a helping hand and her creative opinion. She has done an amazing job with the November Native American Heritage Month; putting out a beautiful educational display, as well as, developing fun activities and games for employees to participate in throughout the whole month! She is passionate about her work and it shows.

Front Line Employee of the month Rosco Crooke, Cineplex Cashier Rosco at the cineplex always carries a professional and positive demeanor. He is always courteous and very helpful every time we visit the cineplex! He leads by example and it shows with all the cineplex staff.

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For Booth-Spencer, COVID-19 put a small damper on her ambitions. She moved to the area after living 12 years in Ontario, Oregon. “I have had challenges with COVID,” she said. “When I moved here, my household got COVID-19 and I wasn’t able to open as fast as I would have liked to. I took care of myself, my fiancé and my grandmother, but we all pulled through. And eventually the end of the year I was able to meet up with the realtors and get my salon space right after all of our quarantines were over.” Booth-Spencer said her 3-in-1 business is located next to Eden’s Kitchen and is available only by appointment, which can be booked on Facebook or through texting 541-212-6819. Opening her doors was a dream come true, she said. “I’ve been doing nails since I was nine years old,” she said. “I’ve always known this is what I wanted to be: A Salon owner and being my own boss.” She spent the last seven years working in nail and hair salons gaining experience and courage “to open up a salon in my own hometown,” she said. “My goal is to help my community feel as beautiful as they are,” she said.

NEWS / CRIME

Pendleton man receives prison sentence for multiple crimes on UIR PRESS RELEASE PORTLAND - A Pendleton man was sentenced to federal prison Dec. 1 for shooting a family member with a semi-automatic pistol and distributing methamphetamine. Royce Francis Speedis, 34, was sentenced to 77 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release. According to court documents, in early March 2019, Speedis and co-defendant Lavella Ruth Thompson, 28, also of Pendleton, arranged to purchase methamphetamine on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. On March 7, 2019, three individuals drove to the reservation to meet and sell methamphetamine to Thompson. Thompson arrived in an SUV and tried to convince the three people to follow her to a second location to complete the sale. When they declined, Thompson returned to the SUV. Three men then exited the SUV with guns and opened fire into the sellers’ car. One passenger in the sellers’ car There’s a lot to look at when stopping at Beautiful Hand Creations nail salon, barbershop and art studio, including this painting by Kito Rodriguez. Courtesy photo

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PHOTOS / COMMUNITY

FAMILY FUN NIGHT A Family Fun event was hosted by Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center in December. ABOVE: Fabian Spencer and Luka Worden work on crafts. RIGHT: It’s a three-generation photo, as Marissa Baumgartner (center) holds her daughter Walula and poses with her mother Keysha Ashley. Aaron Worden photos

TAMÁSTSLIKT CULTURAL INSTITUTE | EAT. SHOP. EXPLORE. | JANUARY 2022 How long since you've visited Tamástslikt? Have you ever visited Tamástslikt Cultural Institute? We just want to remind you that our world-class exhibits focus on the history and culture of three American Indian Tribes, the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, beginning with traditional culture and history and including the later history of encounters with non-Indian immigrants: Lewis and Clark, early fur traders, missionaries, Oregon Trail immigrants, and contemporary society, in what is now northeast Oregon, southeast Washington and western Idaho. Our Tribes welcomed and assisted the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804-1806 then some 40 years later, the Oregon Trail cut through the heart of our homelands. Tamástslikt brings the story alive with a 14,000 square foot exhibit space that incorporates artifacts, photography, video and interactive multi-media exhibits. Our Museum Store sells American Indian arts and crafts, as well as books, CDs, apparel, home décor, beading supplies and exclusive design Pendleton Woolen Mills Indian blankets. Guests can anjoy a lunch of native-inspired dishes at the Kinship Café. We look forward to your visit!

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PHOTOS / GOVERNMENT

NUTRITION BREAK

SPECIAL OATMEAL: In mid-December, Kristi Gartland hosted a nutrition break at Nixyaawii Governance Center. The once-popular opportunity to snack on healthy foods was phased out during the COVID pandemic. Courtesy photos

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being struck in the back of the head. The methamphetamine sellers provided conflicting accounts of Speedis’ involvement in the shooting. A ballistics analysis later linked a Ruger rifle recovered from Speedis’ family’s residence on the reservation to spent cartridge casings found at the shooting scene. However, no arrests were made following the shooting. On April 17, 2019, Speedis and his sister engaged in an argument with their cousin on the reservation. When the cousin attempted to leave, Speedis pulled a black semi-automatic pistol from his waistband and fired a single round that traveled through his cousin’s right leg into his left leg. On April 23, 2019, a federal grand jury in Portland returned a two-count indictment charging Speedis with assault with a deadly weapon and using a firearm in connection with a crime of violence. On Aug. 19, 2020, Speedis was indicted a second time, along with Thompson, on one count each of conspiring with one another to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and interference with commerce by robbery. One year later, on August 23, 2021, Speedis pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon and conspiring to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. On September 7, 2021, Thompson pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge. She was sentenced in December. Acting U.S. Attorney Scott Erik Asphaug of the District of Oregon made the announcement. This case was investigated by the Umatilla Tribal Police Department and the FBI. It was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon.

WORKFORCE IS NOW RECRUITING! FOR INFORMATION CONTACT

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Workforce Development Coordinator Dept. of Children & Family Services

(541)429-7304

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PROGRAM UPDATE / CAY-UMA-WA

The Bear Classroom at Cay-Uma-Wa Head Start prepare for a lesson.Courtesy photo

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Greetings everyone from all of us here at the Cay-Uma-Wa Head Start Program. We have been very busy through the holidays in November and December. The following are what the children in the classrooms have been doing. Bear Classroom: Students have worked on letters using Play-Doh, we used rhythm sticks to practice different movements that go along with our songs, and we have been working on counting to 100. Children have also been practicing writing their names daily as well as making different projects that require them to cut pictures out of magazines and different sizes of papers. We have also been practicing the alphabet using sign language and we have been learning our days of the week. During their Winter solstice party they worked together to make a life-sized gingerbread house and decorated it together using markers. They also created designs on cookies that they were allowed to eat after. In November our program hosted a Family Engagement activity and it was called the Family Feast. Our staff (Trinette and Tierny) cooked three kinds of soup and we had those for lunch as well as frybread and salad and cake. Families had a great time at the Longhouse and we had about 30 in attendance. In December 2021 both classes visited the Children’s Museum and we want to especially thank all the parents that were able to join us on our field trip. And special thanks to the Wildhorse Resort for providing the big bus for us, and everyone enjoyed the ride. The Wolf Den

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The Wolf Den has started out the year building our classroom community. Learning social and emotional skills and ways to self-regulate. We offer choices in class, this liberates our children and gives them the power when dealing with strong emotions. Our enrolled students choose a breathing exercise upon their arrival to start their day in the right state of mind. We practice conscious discipline at circle time and throughout the day, by wishing students or teachers that are not

Haylen (above) from the Wolf Classroom and Christopher (below) from the Bear Classroom at enjoyed the Children’s Museum.Courtesy photos

in attendance, well. Teaching these skills helps children develop their emotional intelligence, cope with big emotions, learn and show empathy, and have good relationships with peers. This helps our children to feel more connected to others and thrive in their environment. Alongside social and emotional learning we have been working on school readiness through play as well as the Umatilla language. We are grateful for our family involvement this year. We were able to host a feast in November with our families and students at the long house. In December we took our students to the children’s museum. Thank you to all the parents who were able to join us, the partnership with our student’s families is important to our program and means a lot to us at Cay-Uma-Wa Head Start.

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NEWS / CAPITOL / COVID RELIEF AID

CTUIR and Grande Ronde receive aid PRESS RELEASE Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced Dec. 6 that the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation will receive a combined more than $2.7 million in resources from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to help them deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. “This public health crisis has landed hard on tribes in Oregon and nationwide putting in long hours to provide quality community care in the face of this devastating pandemic,” Wyden said. “I’m proud to have helped pass the American Rescue Plan and gratified that essential resources from this lifeline legislation are heading to these two tribes. I’ll keep battling for tribes throughout Oregon to receive similar health care resources that help them survive this public health crisis and be well-positioned to keep their members healthy.” “Oregon’s recovRon Wyden ery from this public health crisis requires full access to resources and equipment for every community, including our Native and tribal reservations,” said Merkley. “This American Rescue Plan funding will allow the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and the Confederate Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation to

build the medical infrastructure necessary to support their communities during COVID-19 or any medical emergency, and I will continue fighting to ensure all communities are fully equipped to navigate and pull through this crisis.” The grant funds Jeff Merkley will be distributed as follows to help the recipients with the COVID-19 pandemic: • $1.725 million to the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde to build a health facility and buy an ambulance and related equipment • $988,031 to the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation to buy and ambulance and related equipment “The Umatilla Tribal Fire Department has been in need of new rapid response vehicles and equipment for some time and so this award will help us to greatly improve the emergency services that our Fire Department provides to the Umatilla Indian Kat Brigham Reservation community,” said Tribal Chair Kat Brigham. “We thank Senators Wyden and Merkley for their work to help secure this funding for the Tribe.

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OPINION / THANK YOU

Thank you sponsors for the elders!

Outgoing Elders Advisory Group Chair Alan Crawford (left) and vice-chair David Wolf. Courtesy photos

A special thank you to all the sponsors for the donations for the Elders: CTUIR General Council, CTUIR Board of Trustees, CTUIR Department of Children & Family Services, CTUIR Veterans, Wildhorse Resort and Casino Cayuse Holdings, Jaimie Crane, Ellen Taylor and Dawnie Smith, Dionne Bronson, Julie Johnson, Georgia White, Meghan Richards, Pendleton Warming Station, Julie Taylor & Family, Jamie Ingle, Nicht-Yow-Way Elders Group, Man Cave Barber Shop – Jennifer Elder, Conner Family, Betty Van Pelt, Mary Halfmoon. Thank you to Anson Crane for always being available to DJ for the Elders. Thank you Elders Advisory Group for your 2020 - 2021 Service Alan Crawford, Chair David Wolf, Vice Chair Roberta Kipp, Secretary/ Treasurer Congratulations to the Newly Elected Elders Advisory Group! Mary Halfmoon, Chair Lorena Thompson, Vice Chair Susan Sheoships, Secretary/ Treasurer

Outgoing Elders Advisory Group Secretary Roberta Kipp. Courtesy photo

There are a total of 679 CTUIR Elders 90 + = 12 80+ = 49 70+ = 128 60+ = 316 55+ = 174 The Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS)

OPINION / HELP, PLEASE!

Genealogy help would be appreciated

Good Morning! My name is Raymond Tsumpti Jr an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. I have two daughters with ancestry from the Umatilla tribe and we don't know their biological grandfather from the Umatilla reservation. My daughters' mother was born in October 1974 in Pendleton to Atwai Lauraina Leda Johnson and unknown Umatilla reservation member. He was not identified as the Father to Jolene Hintsala. We believe some of my daughters' family may remember the

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COMMENTARY

Sisterhood mentality has Golden Eagles soaring NCS girls hoops BY CARY ROSENBAUM

look poised for deep run at State 1A tourney

CUJ Editor

Nixyaawii Community School coach Michael BadWarrior says any one of his girls can net 15 to 20 points on a given night. With a team dominated by nine juniors, the Golden Eagles look strong entering the conference schedule in January, having toppled schools from 2A to 4A en route to an 8-2 record — good enough to earn the No. 6 ranking by the OSAA for the 1As. BadWarrior credited the bond between teammates for the success, calling them a sisterhood. “Everybody works really hard,” he said. “We try not to base the girls’ values from point-wise. Something I’ve tried to instill with them is everyone has a different role to play. ... We try to make it apparent that it is a team sport. We’ve been trying to grow that sisterhood bond the past three years now.” In his first season, BadWarrior has the NCS girls looking more than ready to take on their 1A-7 Old Oregon League opponents. NCS started the season 5-0, with wins over Riverside (home and away), Heppner, Grant Union and Irrigon, before losing a tight 52-49 contest to 3A Stanfield. The girls rattled off two more wins over Umatilla and Union before stumbling 47-35 against 3A Burns. They bounced back with a 50-43 victory over Grant Union to finish out the Baker Holiday Tournament. Their biggest threat, according to OSAA rankings, is No. 16 Wallowa (6-4). BadWarrior said his team emphasizes defense. The Golden Eagles allow just 40.1 points per game, while scoring 52.7. “We do a lot of pressing, so that opens

BY ERIC WATKINS EliteOregonGirls.com

LEFT: Nixyaawii Community School’s Mersayus Hart puts up a shot against Stanfield on Dec. 15. RIGHT: Kyella Picard tosses a crafty shot up versus Stanfield. Wil Phinney photos

See NCS GIRLS on nápt (2) LEFT: Jae Dean Looney, one of nine juniors on NCS, dribbles around the defense. RIGHT: Sophomore Diamond Greene dribbles the ball down court. Aaron Worden & Wil Phinney photos

LEFT: NCS’ Alayna Bevis lays the ball up. CENTER: Gracie Moses leaps to win a jump ball against Umatilla on Dec. 21. RIGHT: Izabelle Sigo cruises by the defense on a fast break. Wil Phinney & Aaron Worden photos

f you know anything about 1A from Central Oregon, then you’re familiar with Nixyaawii. The school is located in Pendleton near the I-84 freeway and primarily serve the Native American population from that particular part of the state. The Golden Eagles are all Eric Watkins too familiar to the basketball programs in 1A, as Nixyaawii found themselves in back-to-back state championship games back in 2017 and 2018. Those teams faced off with Molalla 1A powerhouse Country Christian, splitting the results with a roster carried by all-state selections Mary Stewart and Milan Schimmel. Their 68-39 steamroll of Country Christian in 2017 gave the Golden Eagles their second state title in school history (2011), with Nixyaawii falling a mere three points short of back-to-back titles in 2018 against the same Country Christian program. After a few years in a slump and a promising Spring, Nixyaawii has the roster experience and an impressive resume that makes returning to state an expectation in 2022. Fast forwarding to this season, Nixyaawii has put together some quality games that bolster the type of street credit the program gains in the 1A landscape, with their road dub over 2A #4 Union being the crown jewel of those performances so far. Mersayus Hart stands out as the leader of this team on the floor, demonstrating her ability to take over on both sides of the ball. Hart leads by example: Takes calculated risks on defense to create more possessions, and she takes the ball right to the opposition without fear. She doesn’t settle for anything less than an opportunity at a shot, drawing many fouls in the process of things. Alongside Hart is an See WATKINS on nápt (2)

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Nixyaawii Community School’s Ella Stewart fights for position against Stanfield on Dec. 15. The Golden Eagles lost 52-49 to the 3A opponent, but are on a roll this season. Wil Phinney photo

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up a lot of steals for a lot of different girls,” BadWarrior said. Thoughts of winning the school’s third State 1A Girls Championship are exciting, and possible — if not this year, maybe next. “It’s exciting,” BadWarrior said. “The core group is pretty much the same. Everybody is improving over time too. “We’re hoping to make a pretty good run through our regular season and take a strong showout for districts and state.”

For success this season, NCS is relying on captains Sophie Bronson and Kyella Picard, both juniors. Picard was injured last season, and can play small or big. Seniors Keyen Singer and Eva Oatman also provide leadership and experience. BadWarrior stressed that his successful team is just as dedicated to basketball as they are academics. “First and foremost, it’s student-athletes first,” he said. “We gotta make sure the girls perform as well as they do on the court as they do in the classroom, so emphasizing grades. The school aspect is pivotal to me. We make that apparent every day.”

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army of shooters that decide to play like Iowa State, throw up treys and hope that they stick. The team shoots roughly at a 35% to 40% clip from downtown, making them a difficult outing for opposition that have size advantages. Sistine Moses and Sophie Bronson excel in this department, standing out easily as the Golden Eagles best threepoint snipers on the floor. Nixyaawii is at a size disadvantage in comparison to Crane, Country Christian, Jordan Valley, and Damascus Christian, touting their tallest player at around 5’9″ or 5’10”. With that in mind, Golden Eagles Head Coach Michael BadWarrior has developed a system that adapts to their strengths and puts them on full display. The perimeter centric approach was literally designed with teams like Nixyaawii in mind, it keeps a team that’s undersized competitive by giving them perimeter options to gain points without facing the big middles in the paint. Against Union, seven to eight times out of every ten possessions the Golden Eagles would revert to deep or mid-range jumpers, occasionally driving to the rack with mixed success against a larger Bobcat height lineup. On defense, they clog the paint

with a 2-3 zone that forces opponents into lower percentage shots, essentially playing Russian Roulette that the opponent won’t hit more of their shots from deep than they will. It’s not an ideal approach, but it has brought Nixyaawii success this season against bigger teams from the 2A level like Union and Stanfield. The Golden Eagles should roll through the Old Oregon League and find themselves with a Top 5 seed in the 1A playoffs. Their cold starts defensively, and offensive turnovers are a point of concern. Those types of things get you blown out or in a hole against the cream of the 1A crop, but as Crane, Jordan Valley, and others have demonstrated, they’re just as vulnerable to those issues as Nixyaawii has been. The Golden Eagles must use their league play and other tournaments to work on cleaning up their game, fine tuning it, and ultimately mastering it. They’ve demonstrated their potential and I’m excited for their program, but it’s still a work in progress for them. If they can achieve this by March, then Nixyaawii has a realistic shot at bringing home a blue trophy in 2022. With nine juniors and two seniors, the Nixyaawii will be a program in the mix the next two seasons so keep an eye on the Golden Eagles, as sleeping on them would just simply be a crime.

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SPORTS / BASKETBALL

‘Younger brother’ NCS squad making noise in 1As BY CARY ROSENBAUM CUJ Editor MISSION - There’s a certain association to success that stands out among the Nixyaawii Community School boys basketball team. Sure, the school is the returning State 1A Champion. But if you look deeper into the roster, there are many younger brothers to successful athletes in NCS’ history. “I call them the ‘Younger Brothers,’” first-year Head Coach Jeremy Barkley said. “Little brothers have it tougher sometimes with expectations.” Right now, expectations are high. After an 0-2 start, the Golden Eagles are red hot with 8-straight victories. After plummeting down in OSAA polls, they’re back up to No. 10. Old Oregon League-rival Powder Valley is ranked No. 1 at 9-1. “The season’s going well,” Barkley said. “We're starting to play better. We're playing as a team and as a group. The kids that I'm coaching, most of them played for me in AAU. “I've been coaching them since 4th grade, we were the Cayuse Young Chiefs. They got good chemistry because they played for quite a while. It's just like old times, playing good team basketball.” Sophomore Baron Moses is the team’s leading scorer at 20 points per game. Junior Aaron Barkley is the team’s do-it-all threat, with 13.6 points per game, 36 steals, 43 rebounds and 37 assists. Junior Dylan Abrahamson is what Barkley calls his “floor Chief,” an ode to the guard’s heritage as a descendant of atway Chief Peo-Peo-Mox-Mox. He is the facilitator leading the team in assists at 6.1 per game to go along with 12.4 points and 31 steals on the season. A fourth player, junior Coyote Jackson, is a double-digit scorer at 1.5 points per game. The lone senior, Kirk Houle, is what Barkley calls the guy who does all the dirty work. “He does all the extra things,” he said. “He’s a good defender, good rebounder, brings good energy and attitude.” Stepping up as a freshman is Symon Picard. “He’s starting to come around,” Barkley said. As the returning state champions, Barkley said the team has done its bes to represent the successful tradition. “It's been fun. Last year's team was a little different; especially trying to replace someone like Tyasin Burns, someone I would consider to be the best athlete we've ever had at Nixyaawii,” he said. “It helps to have a core of kids who have played together. We used to win those AAU tournaments. So we have high expectations. We used to beat teams from Tri-Cities, Hermiston, Walla Walla. We're from See NCS BOYS on uynápt (7)

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ABOVE: NCS’ Leading-scorer Baron Moses takes it hard to the rack. RIGHT: Aaron Barkley dishes the ball. Wil Phinney photos

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NEWS / ENTERTAINMENT

Wildhorse employee has humor-filled history BY MARY LIBERTY-TRAUGHBER CUJ Correspondent MISSION - If you see Fran Moore on the golf course, at work at Wildhorse Resort & Casino, or anywhere else around Pendleton or Walla Walla, be sure to take the time to meet him. You’ll be amused at his colorful backstory. Moore began working as the Director of Information Systems at Wildhorse last June. Although he was looking towards retirement and playing lots of golf to prepare, he read about the job opening at Wildhorse and applied. In the process, Moore met with Wildhorse CEO Gary George who described a job to him that sounded like a challenge he could really enjoy tackling. Born in Las Vegas and raised in Sacramento, Moore has always lived in the western US. He attended Chabot College, Holy Names University, and UC Berkely in California. But Moore is well traveled; he has had extraordinary experiences and seen

many parts of the world. In his college days, Moore got involved with an improvisation group and found comedy to be something he enjoyed. He became a stand-up Fran Moore comic for Tommy T’s Comedy Club where he was also an emcee and performed live with his improv group. Then Moore began touring. He traveled and worked with Professor Irwin Corey, Pat Paulson, Sinbad and Jay Leno. He worked clubs and cruises and opened for the likes of Tower of Power and Janet Jackson. While working as Senior Systems Engineer for Visa, Moore traveled to well-known destinations like Europe, Latin America, Singapore and Hong Kong, to name a few, where he set up data centers and trained personnel.

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Closer to home, Moore was also involved in the arts. He adapted Antigone, a Greek tragedy, for the stage which he performed and directed in the theatre. He performed another adaptation for radio. At one point, Moore slowed down enough to start a family but his career was very much on the move. Mastery of his technical skills led him into gaming systems and he began working for Computerized Bookmaking Systems in Las Vegas, a division of American Wagering. From there, Moore went to InfoGenesis, a product of Agilysys. Eventually, Moore landed at Cache Creek Casino Resort in California where he rocketed from technical support to Vice President of Information Technology. He was discovered by TribalNet and began sharing his expertise with other tribal gaming professionals through articles he wrote and appearances at conferences. Moore joined TribalNet’s Gaming/Hospitality Board in 2018 and the Gaming & Lei-

sure board in 2010. But it’s not only Moore who has spent time in the limelight. Moore is married to Tammy and they have two daughters. His youngest daughter, Amia, performed on America’s Got Talent this season as a member of the dance group ChapKIDZ. The group was a favorite of Simon Cowell’s who said more than once that their performances were the “best of the night” and proclaimed “I absolutely love you!” After six incredible performances, ChapKIDZ was eliminated in the semi-finals but Amia continues to dance, backing up Pop celebrities like Megan Thee Stallion and Wolftyla. The most important part of Moore’s background, though, and what landed him in the Blue Mountain region, is his expertise in gaming, point-of-sale, and other network systems, along with his ability to communicate highly technical ideas to laypeople. And it doesn’t hurt that he’s a golfer.

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PHOTOS / HEALTH / HORSE MEDICINE

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Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center is utilizing horses for healing. The K’usiinmí Tawtnúkt “Horse Medicine” Equine therapy is a unique form of therapy that allows people to seek relief from mental health/substance use problems by spending time interacting and communicating with horses. Jon Eagle Sr. trained the staff in becoming one with the spirit of the horse. Eagle owned the horses previously and knew Yellowhawk was working to get its Horse Medicine Program going but had a hard time locating horses. Eagle then donated one of the horses, and Yellowhawk bought another. The light one is a 4-year old male named Sundance; the darker one is a 3-year old male named Sundown. Both are descendants of Chief Sitting Bull’s horses. Pictured above is, from left, Kelsey Burns, Fabian Spencer, J’Shon Thompson, Sierra Quaempts, Wenona Scott, Clifford Stanger, Michael R. Johnson and Maurice Bronson, Nov. 18 at the tribal arena. Dallas Dick photo

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PROGRAM UPDATE / TIMINE WAY NORTH

Apartment complex coming in 2023 BY J.D. TOVEY The Timíne Way North Apartment complex project is coming in spring of 2023. The upcoming year will be a busy one for construction on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Timíne Way North will be an apartment complex to the north of Yellowhawk and Nixyáawii Education Center. The project will include 25-30 studio, 1 bedroom and 2 bedroom units designed for market-rate working professionals. Construction is expected to start in the spring of 2022 and be completed in spring of 2023. In November, the Housing Development Team selected the design-build team which includes Chervenell Construction, Cole Architects, and Akana, a native owned engineering and planning firm. The Board of Trustees approved the contract and preliminary site information and design constraints work is underway. There will be opportunities for the community to provide input into the design throughout

the month of January. Please stay tuned to the CTUIR website for information and ongoing project updates. We will also have some project design information on large display boards in a number of locations on the reservation such as the governance center, Seniors’ Center and other locations. Timíne Way North apartments will help fulfill long needed housing options as identified in the Tribes’ Comprehensive Plan and Housing Strategy Plan. Those plans ask for a range of housing options from small studio apartments, moderate home site development, such as Nixyáawii neighborhood also being constructed in 2022, all the way up to larger home sites in future development projects. The leadership and direction of current and former Board of Trustee Priorities through those policies found in the Comprehensive Plan and Housing Strategy Plan has laid the groundwork for the drastic increase in housing stock and housing options over the next few years. For updates and information as it is released, please check out the CTUIR website.

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The Tribal Employment Rights Office (TERO) begins a new construction season in FY 2022 and those interested in working on TERO construction projects must register with an updated TERO skills survey. The survey includes your experience, skills and abilities and it’s important that you update any experience gained during the FY 21 construction season. In order to be eligible for dispatch by TERO, the skills survey must be on file and each client must

sign in with TERO each week to demonstrate that they are available and seeking employment. TERO will offer OSHA 10 training on January 10-11. This training is free to tribal members and registered TERO clients, and is required by most contractors on construction projects. TERO anticipates a busy construction season in 2022 and most employment opportunities pay prevailing wage. If you are interested contact the TERO office at 541-429-7506.

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PHOTOGRAPHY / YOUTH BASKETBALL

FUTURE STARS? Pendleton’s Sunridge Middle School team features a number of CTUIR faces. Might they be future state champions? Wil Phinney photos

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PHOTOGRAPHY

STATE CHAMPS RECEIVE JACKETS In December, the 2021 1A State Champion Nixyaawii Community School team received championship jackets, which were presented to them by the Board of Trustees. Championship rings are to follow. Dallas Dick photo

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a small town and I was proud of them back then. “It helps me to step into those shoes when I already know how the team operates. They're a good group. Like anything, there's challenges. We went on an 8-game winning streak.” Barkley thinks the team might be undefeated had it not been for issues and injuries early on. The team was down three starters, so freshmen athletes came in and played hard — dropping the opener 50-49 to Riverside. One highlight from that game was Weptas Brockie, who was moved up from junior varsity, draining a game-tying three pointer. “It was his first ever varsity game and (Weptas) hits a big 3. I was proud of the whole team,” Barkley said. “We only lost by 1 point and we were right in the game with all the set backs.” Landon Picard, Dylan Monaco, Saint Schimmel and Kaiwin Clements round out the varsity squad. Barkley believes any one player can step in and contribute. “We're going to be super competitive,” he said. “I think it will come down to us and Powder Valley for the League title. They got a good team. They've got a couple kids that have been around for a while. It will be a good match; we only play them once in league over there. That's definitely one circled on the schedule.” With the recent COVID-19 spread, the entire NCS team was tested on Jan. 5. “The nice thing is we're almost 100 percent vaccinated, so that helps a little bit with quarantine,” Barkley said. Barkley, who took over for Ryan Sams — prior to hoping he and his son Greyson would return to NCS this season — applied for the coaching job and was made an assistant coach. Aaron Noisey then stepped down, and Barkley was offered the gig. “I just figured it's my time to step up and try to help the kids out,” he said. Board of Trustees Vice Chair Aaron Ashley and Barkley’s brother Josh serve as assistants.

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ENVIRONMENT / FIRST FOODS

Bridging Cultural and Political Gaps Through Indigenous First Foods health benefits, first foods could play a meaningful ecological role in climate change mitigation. “These are the keys to human survival and resilience,” Sheoships said.

BY BRIAN OASTER Underscore A city isn’t the most likely place for an Indigenous crop revival. But across the greater Portland area in Oregon, municipalities like Metro and the City of Portland have been partnering with organizations and tribes to promote Native American land access and cultivation of first foods, the term used for traditional local foods that have nourished Indigenous people for centuries. In a city park, a drained lakebed, an old grazing lot, and along an urban creek, first foods are returning to areas where they once flourished before the land was covered by farms and urban sprawl. The partnerships are historically significant, considering Portland didn’t even allow Native Americans to live within city limits until 1920. Today, most American Indians and Alaska Natives live in urban centers, and Portland is home to the ninth largest urban Indigenous population in the country. “People in the city have often felt disconnected and without access to the community that goes along with the longhouse,” said Gabe Sheoships, Cayuse and Walla Walla, of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Sheoships is executive director of Friends of Tryon Creek, a nonprofit that partners with Oregon State Parks to

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Gabe Sheoships, executive director of Friends of Tryon Creek and a CTUIR member, stands at the confluence of Tryon Creek and the Willamette River in Lake Oswego. Alex Milan Tracy photo

promote stewardship of and access to a 650-acre state natural area in Southwest Portland. He is also actively involved in Portland’s first foods and traditional ecological knowledge movement. “Portland has such a large urban [Na-

tive American] population, and people who are reconnecting to their culture,” he continued. “First foods that are native to these lands help people find that connection, the knowledge of local tribes.” Beyond their cultural importance and

About a decade ago, Curt Zonick, the senior natural resource scientist at Metro’s Parks and Nature Department, said he grew tired of the organization’s actionless talk about diversity, equity and inclusion. “I just got frustrated with this nebulous discussion around it,” he said. Zonick brainstormed with colleagues about doing “something real.” Metro serves the tri-county area that encompasses Portland and surrounding cities. It manages around 17,000 acres of forests, parks, trails, and other pieces of land, according to its website. Zonick oversees restoration projects on about a dozen properties, including Quamash Prairie, a meadow that is about a 30-minute drive southwest from downtown Portland in rolling farmlands past Tigard. Another is the Multnomah Channel Natural Area, a wetland near where the Willamette River splits around Sauvie Island. Zonick asked the City of Portland’s Parks and Recreation Department to connect him with the Native American Community Advisory Council, which

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January 2022 - Confederated Umatilla Journal advises the city on parks projects. He set up a formal invitation for NACAC members to examine some of Metro’s properties, and extended the invitation to the greater urban Indigenous community to access and use those properties however they saw fit, with no strings attached. “We really just had a 20-minute spiel where we showed slides of a bunch of our sites and said, ‘Hey, we’ve restored these. We want to welcome you back to these sites. We think there’s more that could be happening here,’” Zonick recounts. “We wanted to make sure we were offering without asking, welcoming without expecting.” He said it felt like he had waited 10 years to invite the neighbors over for a barbecue. “And it’s not even my land, right?” The Indigenous community’s interest in Quamash Prairie was immediate. And Zonick chalked it up to the presence of a legacy patch of small, flowering lilies called camas. THE KALAPUYA RECLAIM AN HEIRLOOM CROP “Quamash Prairie is in the ancestral homelands of the Tualatin Kalapuya,” said Greg Archuleta, a tribal member and cultural policy analyst at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. The tribal government’s 11,500-acre reservation is southwest of Portland, but the more than 30 tribes and bands that make up the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde once lived across what’s now Oregon, Washington and California. “So the lands are within our ancestral homeland area,” Archuleta said. He said that was a foremost reason for Grande Ronde’s interest in Metro’s offer. Another was camas. Camassia quamash, the prairie’s namesake, blossoms in little purple clusters atop tall stems that stand a foot or two high amongst the grasses. A traditional way to prepare camas is to slow roast the bulb for three days in an earthen oven, which brings out a sweet chestnut flavor. It’s an important first food for Kalapuyan people, an ethnic group that includes tribes in the Willamette Valley. “It was one of the major trade staples for this area,” Sheoships said, explaining that many of the Indigenous people who maintained a presence in this region, even if they didn’t live there year round, depended on camas and wapato through trade channels. While camas isn’t growing directly in Tryon Creek State Park, Sheoships said there’s a patch just off the creek up against an affluent residential neighborhood. The large, dense camas patch at Quamash Prairie, according to Zonick, has likely survived since before colonization. At the time Zonick “inherited” the site through Metro, he said the meadow had been used for grazing, so it hadn’t been plowed, which is why the camas survived. Consequently, however, thick pasture grasses were choking out the bulbs. Metro cleared out the pasture grasses, but in doing so, introduced selective herbicides that the camas bulbs absorbed. Grand Ronde has been monitoring the herbicide levels closely, and Archuleta says they’re now low enough that they wouldn’t be harmful if the camas were eaten. Archuleta also mentioned other traditional foods growing in Quamash Prairie, including cattail, tarweed and

‘In cities and urban environments, I think there’s a lot of people who maybe feel shut off from their culture. It’s harder to access their traditional foods or their cultural practices. -GABE SHEOSHIPS wapato, as well as plants used for basketry. The prairie is giving urban Native Americans access to first foods, cultural resources and ceremonial space that’s hard to come by in a metropolitan area. And one of the ways Grand Ronde has stepped in to care for the land is by burning it. ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FOODS Two years ago, Grand Ronde’s fire program visited Quamash Prairie to conduct a controlled burn. Prescribed fire has grown more popular in recent years as a way to prevent uncontrolled wildfires, but it’s also a traditional form of managing first foods that was practiced for centuries before colonization. Burns cultivate fire-resilient food species like white oak acorns, and the ash nourishes camas growth. The Willamette Valley now has a reputation for vineyards and Douglas fir forests, but originally it was mostly white oak savanna, carpeted with camas, sprinkled with edible acorns and maintained with good fire. Zonick said it might have been easier to hire a contractor to do a controlled burn at Quamash Prairie. But he knew burning was important to local tribes, so he went to Grand Ronde. “It was so easy,” Zonick said. “It was one of the best fires I’ve ever done.” Archuleta, for his part, says Grand Ronde is also looking forward to more burns in the future. And Zonick wants to make sure that all tribes and Indigenous people in the area, not just Grand Ronde members, are able to access and maintain Quamash Prairie. First foods also provide a more climate-friendly model of eating. Consider a hamburger, Sheoships suggests: streams in Oregon have been channelized to promote livestock grazing. “So that cow may have trampled on some salmon habitat in John Day and is now being served on your plate for a profit,” Sheoships says, adding that beef represents competing interests with meat that comes from “natural relationships,” like salmon, buffalo, elk, moose, and deer. The key to prolonging our collective survival, Sheoships says, is first foods, including restoration of native fish, first food plant resources, healthy game, and healthy ecosystems that include fire. “Long-term resilience in general, with climate change, etcetera, is how all these things come together to complement one another,” he said.

Katniss (it’s the namesake of The Hunger Games protagonist) or Sagittaria latifolia. The bulbs were traditionally harvested by wading into the water and digging them up with your toes, then tossing the whole plant into a canoe. Wapato Lake was once surrounded by over a dozen Kalapuyan buildings, and was an important food resource center. But it was drained in the early- to mid-1900s by a coalition of farmers. Since the early 2000s, the land has changed hands between organizations interested in wetland restoration. It’s now owned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Archuleta said Grand Ronde hopes to replicate its success at Quamash Prairie on Wapato Lake. “We’re working with them there to hopefully be able to one day in the future be able to gather wapato there again,” Archuleta said. Sheoships says wapato and camas were traditionally the biggest plant foods of the Willamette Valley. “All of the wetlands and sloughs in the metro area supported camas,” he explained, “and wapato, of course.”

First foods are also making a comeback elsewhere around the metro area, including in Northeast Portland’s Cully neighborhood where the city’s parks and recreation department has worked with Indigenous community members to develop a Native Gathering Garden. And out by Grand Ronde’s reservation, the Nature Conservancy has returned to the tribe over 600 acres of land, which holds some of the last remaining white oak savanna in the region. At Metro, Zonick is piloting a fiveyear, inter-governmental agreement to hire various tribes to burn at a number of Metro-operated sites, a different one every year, for land restoration, just like they did at Quamash Prairie. “I’m glad it happened sooner rather than later,” Zonick said of the successful Quamash Prairie collaboration. “But it could’ve happened sooner. We could’ve done this 10 years earlier.” Sheoships is pleased to see more Indigenous people “finding ways to connect in urban environments.” “In cities and urban environments, I think there’s a lot of people who maybe feel shut off from their culture,” he said. “It’s harder to access their traditional foods or their cultural practices.” But growing first foods and keeping alive traditional ecological knowledge bridges those gaps. “First foods that are native to these lands,” Sheoships said, “help people find that connection.”

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NEWS / ENTERTAINMENT / ENVIRONMENT

CTUIR members featured in documentary BY THE CUJ MISSION - CTUIR members Cathy Sampson-Kruse and Donald Sampson appeared in a documentary which was viewed locally in Mission and Pendleton. “Necessity, Part II, Rails, River and The Thin Green Line” is an environmental documentary that “follows activists as they enlist the necessity defense in a jury trial after being arrested for a direct action at Zenith Energy in Portland. “The story of climate resistance in the Pacific Northwest brings into view a historical landscape of tribal leaders, Indigenous activists and white allies as they resist oil trains and trucks carrying these highly inflammable products through treaty lands. “In following the path of oil-by-rail and oil resistance along the Columbia, we revisit lessons of the New Deal era of building massive dams and what climate activists take from that era in thinking about a Green New Deal.” Donald Sampson can be heard in the film narrating an animation sequence about “The Monster Who Came Up The River.” Screenings were held in December at Nixyaawii Community School and Pendleton Center for the Arts. A discussion followed. Sampson-Kruse detailed her resistance

A movie poster for “Necessity Part II: Rails, Rivers & The Thin Green Line” shows Tribal member Cathy Sampson-Kruse, and is listed on IMDB. Courtesy

efforts in the film, which trailer features a quote on black snakes (oil-carrying trains) passing through Tribal lands.

“In 2013, I was arrested for blocking a mega-load train shipment of equipment traveling through Confederated Tribes of

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January 2022 - Confederated Umatilla Journal

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PHOTOGRAPHY / CULTURE / POWWOW

LEFT: Male dancers 40 and older enter the circle as part of a special competition put on during the Nixyaawii Christmas Celebration Pow Wow held December 23-24. RIGHT: The winners of the special competition were Jarv Miles Stwyer, first place, Warm Springs; Brian George, second place, Toppenish, Wash.; and Kellen Joseph, third place, Mission. Dallas Dick photos

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January 2022 - Confederated Umatilla Journal

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NEWS / STATE / EDUCATION / HEALTH

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LEROY BUSHMAN Leroy Vincent Bushman, 95, of La Grande, passed away on Thursday, December 9, 2021 at a local care facility. A Graveside Service will be held at Hillcrest Cemetery on Friday, December 17, 2021 at 2:00pm. Casual dress is preferred by the family. Leroy was born on February 2, 1926 in Pendleton, OR to Fred and Iva (Eads) Bushman. He resided in Gibbon, OR for 27 years and then lived in Perry, OR from 1974 until his death. He attended elementary school in Perry and graduated from La Grande High School. He married Beverly Graybeal on June, 24, 1947. Leroy served in the United States Navy during WWII aboard the U.S. Bosque and the battleship U.S.S. Iowa. He was aboard the U.S.S. Iowa in Tokyo Bay for the duration of the surrender of Imperial Japan. Leroy worked for Union Pacific Railroad as a Signal Maintainer from 1946 until his retirement in 1988. In their early years of marriage, he and Beverly traveled all over the Pacific Northwest on a signal gang. He was an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and the oldest living WWII veteran for the CTUIR.

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Leroy enjoyed yardwork and gardening. He was an avid fly fisherman and big game hunter. Camping with his family was always a favorite activity. He was very supportive of his children’s and grandchildren’s sports involvement and loved attending their games to cheer them on. Leroy is survived by his children, Julie Alexander (Dale) of Pendleton, OR, Jeffrey Bushman (Lisa) of Summerville, OR and Steven Bushman (Brandy) of La Grande, OR; 11 grandchildren, Cristy (Malone) Miller, Neil Alexander, Nicole Alexander, Joel Bushman, Ryan Malone, Joseph Alexander, Rebecca (Bushman) Varland, Chelsea (Malone) Musgrove, Tylor Ketchum, Jason Bushman and Thomas Bushman; 20 great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife, Beverly Bushman; parents, Fred and Iva Bushman; brothers Clenton Bushman and Berton Bushman; daughter Diana Malone; and infant daughter, Lora Anne. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.lovelandfuneralchapel.com.

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COLUMBIA RIVER INTER-TRIBAL FISH COMMISSION IS HIRING THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS: Policy Development and Litigation Support Department Treaty Fisheries Community Outreach Liaison One (1) Vacancy This position will be support outreach, contract tracing and wrap around support services for tribal communities along the Columbia River gorge. Native Americans disproportionately experience many of the health conditions that put them at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19. The onset of the COVID crisis has drawn into stark contract the long-standing health disparities that exist here in the Columbia River Gorge. The In-Lieu and Treaty Fishing Access Sites (IL-TFAS) represent highly vulnerable locations. Tribal members living along the Columbia River may have very limited access to electricity, communications, technology or to basic health care services. These individuals may also experience higher incidence of chronic health conditions that place them at increased risk for COVID-19. The primary

Watershed Department SCHISM Modeler/Oceanographer One (1) Vacancy This position will work collaboratively with fish scientists and managers to integrate numerical hydrodynamic modeling into conservation and management programs for critical fish species and stocks in the Columbia River, focusing on Upper Columbia summer and fall chinook and Snake River fall chinook, but including other salmonid species, lamprey, and sturgeon. Work may include incorporating high resolution wetland modeling, water control structures, and aquatic vegetation modeling into the existing CMOP SCHISM model and continuing development of individual based modeling of juvenile salmon. This position may also participate in or lead production of peer reviewed articles, technical reports, and grant proposals. Classification: Regular, Full-time. Salary: $75,799 - $80,854. Location: Portland, Oregon. Closing Date: January 15, 2022. Staff Accountant/Accounts Payable One (1) Vacancy This position primary function is the processing of all phases of the Accounts Payable cycle. The position provides support to accounting functions. The position also helps maintain accounts receivable; ensures weekly bank deposits, maintenance of credit card, charge account and petty cash accounts; prepares general ledger journal entries; assists in special project management; participates in internal and external audit; and works in other areas managed by the Department. Classification: Regular, Fulltime. Salary: $44,155 - $67,946. Location: Portland,

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January 2022 - Confederated Umatilla Journal

Jobs Oregon. Closing Date: Open Until Filled. Fishing Site Maintenance Department In-Lieu and Treaty Fishing Access Sites Fishing Site Maintenance Worker Two (2) Vacancies These positions will provide the maintenance of the 31 Tribal In-Lieu and Treaty Fishing Access Sites located along 150 miles of the Columbia River. The FSMD crews perform work that involves a variety of trade practices to maintain, repair, and improve existing public facilities. Skills include painting, plumbing, carpentry, masonry, electrical, custodial work, and maintaining sanitation standards in all facilities. Maintenance workers use hand and power tools to accomplish the work. Classification: Regular, Full-time. Salary: $34,496 - $36,796. Location: The Dalles, Oregon. Closing date: Open Until Filled. Enforcement Department Hood River Office CRITPD-Police Officer Multiple Vacancies The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Police Department (CRITPD) is based in Hood River Oregon. The CRITFC Police Department provides 24-hour policing focused on the 150 mile stretch of the Columbia River from Bonneville to McNary Dams and adjacent lands by vehicle and boat. CRITPD has commissions from all four CRITFC member tribes (Yakama, Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Nez Perce), the Bureau of Indian Affairs, some Washington counties, and are Oregon-certified officers. The department enforces treaty fishing regulations and criminal laws, responds to search and rescue emergencies, and provides archeological resource protection. CRITPD also provides full police services on tribal lands along the Columbia River. Classification: Regular, Full-time. Salary: $51,516 - $56,261. Location: Hood River or Boardman, Oregon. Closing date: Open Until Filled. CRITPD-Dispatcher Multiple Vacancies Columbia River Inter-Tribal Police dispatchers are based in Hood River, Oregon and are the communication link for all incoming communications to the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Police Department (CRITPD). Dispatchers are directly responsible for the operation of all office radio communications and telephone equipment, they monitor patrol officer activities, and answer incoming emergency calls for service, business, and assistance calls. The position works rotating shifts to support the round the clock police service provided by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Police Department. Classification: Regular, Full-time. Salary: $39,937 - $43,661. Location: Hood River, Oregon. Closing date: Open Until Filled. Human Resources The Human Resources 2-person team works together and communicates about the planning and action details for procedures, policies, and concerns. A complimentary balance of skills and interests provides service to eight departments and 125 permanent employees. The Human Resources Generalist will have broad knowledge of human resources functions. Recruitment is the primary responsibility of the Generalist including job analysis/classification, benchmarking, recruitment, advertising, placement, on boarding, and employee satisfaction checks. Working under the direction of the Human Resources Manager, the Human Resources Generalist is responsible for developing, administrating and coordinating day-to-day human resources operations. Open until filled All positions are permanent full-time unless otherwise noted. The complete job description, minimum skills, application requirements, deadlines, and pay information are available on the CRITFC website www.critfc. org Careers. Incomplete applications will not be accepted.

The Court Appointed Special Advocate Community Outreach Coordinator is currently a full time position with UMHS. CASA’s mission is for trained volunteers to advocate for safe and loving homes for foster children. The main job responsibilities include, but not limited to providing outreach and recruitment efforts to reach new CASA volunteers within Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and surrounding region. If you are interested in this position please contact UMHS, Human Resources at 541-56-6878 or go to https://umchs.com/careers/#top to complete application.

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BOT Minutes

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Water Commission of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation will hold the following public hearing: Stream Zone Alteration Permit Application (SZA), File SZ-21-05 – filed by Umatilla County, 3920 Westgate Street Pendleton, OR 97801. The application requests to replace the Thorn Hollow Bridge. The Thorn Hollow Bridge crosses the Umatilla River at River Mile 70. The bridge was damaged in 2020 during a flood event. Umatilla County considers the damaged bridge a safety and transportation hazard and has closed the bridge for use. The scope of work proposed by the applicant is the demolition and removal of the damaged bridge and construction of a new bridge. An existing culvert south of the bridge will be replaced with a box culvert. Riparian vegetation will be removed in work areas. Debris containment netting will be installed beneath the south span of the bridge prior to demolition to prevent debris from entering the stream. A temporary cofferdam\revetment will be constructed from the north bank extending past the south pier and granular fill will be placed on the north bank and within the cofferdam area. Abandoned abutments and piers will be removed to at least 3-feet below mudline. Construction of the new bridge will be entirely in the uplands with no in-water work required. Best Management Practices (BMPs) will be implemented as necessary to minimize impacts to waterbodies in the vicinity of the project area. Following completion of construction, any temporary site modifications will be removed, and the area surrounding the project area will be returned to pre-construction conditions. A public hearing will be held on Tuesday, January 18, 2022 pursuant to Section 4.04 of the Tribal Water Code, beginning at 8:30 AM at the Nixyaawii Governance Center 46411 Timine Way, Pendleton, OR 97801, Conference Room 101A (Walla Walla) and also remotely via Microsoft TEAMS or ZOOM, to consider the application. The public is entitled and encouraged to attend the hearing and submit oral or written testimony pertinent to this application. Written testimony may be presented at the hearing or must be received by the CTUIR/ DNR Water Resources Program, 46411 Timine Way, Pendleton, OR 97801 before the close of business January 13, 2022. The Tribal Water Commission may render a decision on the application at the close of the hearing or defer a decision to a later date. Deliberations shall be open to the public. The Commission may approve, approve with conditions or deny the applicants request. The applicant and participants will be notified of the Commission’s decision in writing. The Water Commission’s decision is subject to the appeals provision set forth in Section 1.13 of the Water Code. For further information or to be placed on the hearing agenda for oral testimony please contact Kelly Warren, Water Code Administrator-Water Resources Program at 541-429-7271 or email KellyWarren@ ctuir.org.

mil/brac/index.html. Hard copies of the full EA with all appendices, the 2021 PA Amendment, FNSI, and draft FOST, are also available in the following libraries: Boardman City Library, 200 South Main Street, Boardman, OR 97818; Hermiston Public Library, 235 E. Gladys Avenue, Hermiston, OR 97838; Heppner Public Library, 444 North Main Street, Heppner, OR 97836; and Umatilla Public Library, 700 6th Street, P.O. Box 820, Umatilla, OR 97882 or by contacting Michele Lanigan, 503-428-4082, michele.m.lanigan. civ@army.mil. The public comment period is for 30 days and begins on December 18, 2021 and ends January 18, 2022. Submit written comments to Michele Lanigan, michele.m.lanigan.civ@army.mil no later than 5:00 p.m. on January 18, 2022.

New Business: Proposed Resolutions: Next resolution number is 21-107: i Resolution 21-107: Topic: Confederated Tribes’ ARPA 2020 Revenue Loss Calculation. RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby approves the Confederated Tribes’ American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) 2020 Revenue Loss Calculation attached to the Resolution as Exhibit 1C; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby directs that all ARPA funds received by the Confederated Tribes be deposited into the Tribal Contingency Fund; AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby revises the ARPA appropriations set forth in Resolution 21-101 as follows: a) The appropriation to the Public Works Department for the feasibility studies and assessments of the Wastewater Treatment Facility (WTF) shall be an appropriation from the Tribal Contingency Fund; and b) The appropriation to the Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center for feasibility studies of a Wellness Center shall be an appropriation of the ARPA funds received from the Indian Health Service. MOTION: Sally Kosey moves to adopt Resolution 21-107. Lindsey Watchman seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 6-0-0. Other Board Action Items: i. Commission/Committee Appointments by Sally Kosey, BOT Secretary. MOTION: Corinne Sams moves to approve BOT appointments to the Commission/Committee and outside organizations. Sally Kosey seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 6-0-0. BOT Travel or External Meeting Reports: Deferred. BOT Leave and Travel or Outside Meeting Requests: Boots Pond, two personal leave requests: 1. 12/17 for 3 hours from 1 to 4 PM. 2. 12/22 all day. Corinne Sams 3 leave requests: 1. 12/22 personal leave all day. 2. 12/17 personal leave all day. 3. 12/16 Virtual meeting from 8:30 AM TO 4 pm for monthly CRITFC meeting. Kat Brigham two leave request: 1. 12/22 birthday leave. 2. 12/15 travel to Yakama Nation to attend 4 CR Tribes meeting re: CR Housing. Lindsey Watchman, 2 requests: 1. 12/27-12/30 personal leave. 2. 12/10 polled travel to Echo from 5:30 to 7 PM re: WHF public grand opening. Sandra Sampson, 6 requests: 1. 12/17 personal leave all day. 2. 12/9 polled personal leave from 11 AM to 4 PM. 3. 12/7 polled personal leave from 7:30 to 8:30 AM. 4. 12/14 virtual meeting from 10 AM to noon r: NWIHS tribal consultation. 5. 12/16 virtual meeting from 8 AM to noon re: contract Support Advisory Group mtg. 6. 12/16 & 12/17 virtual meeting from noon to 5 PM re: CRITFC monthly meeting. MOTION: Corinne Sams moves to ratify and approve leave requests. Boots Pond seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 6-0-0.

UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT For Public Review The public is hereby notified of the availability of the Finding of Suitability to Transfer (FOST) for the closure, disposal, and reuse of Umatilla Chemical Depot (UMCD), Oregon. The UMCD, located east of Hermiston, in Morrow and Umatilla counties, was closed in August 2012 under the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Act. Of the 17,148.72 acres, 9,540 acres will transfer out of Army Control to the local reuse authority, the Columbia Development Authority (CDA). The purpose of the FOST is to document the environmental suitability of the CDA parcels consistent with Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) Section 120(h) and Department of Defense (DOD) policies. In addition, the FOST includes the CERLCA Notice, Covenant and Access Provisions, and other Deed Provisions, and the Environmental Protection Provisions (EPPs) necessary to protect human health or the environment after transfer. Prior to the development of the FOST an Environmental Assessment was developed, in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and associated implementing regulations issued by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 40 CFR 1500–1508 and the Army implementing regulation, “Environmental Analysis of Army’s Actions” (32 CFR Part 651). The EA and Draft Finding of No Significant Impacts (FNSI) underwent a 30-day public comment period in August 2016. Since then the Programmatic Agreement (PA) was amended, underwent a 30 day public comment period from July 15 to August 16, 2021. The FNSI was updated and underwent another 30 day public comment period from September 23, 2021 to October 25, 2021. A digital copy of the FOST, FNSI, the EA and the 2021 PA Amendment is available for review by the general public via the Internet at https://dcsg9.army.

BOT Minutes Date: December 6, 2021 BOT PRESENT: Kat Brigham, BOT Chair; Aaron Ashley, Vice-Chair; Sandra Sampson, Treasurer (at another meeting arrived at 10:14 AM); Sally Kosey, Secretary; Toby Patrick, Member; Boots Pond, Member; Lisa Ganuelas, Member; Corinne Sams, Member and Lindsey Watchman, General Council Chairman. Old Business: a. Official Polled Action: i. No. 21034: Topic: Columbia River Treaty Non-Disclosure Agreement for the 12/7/21 meeting. MOTION: Sally Kosey moves to ratify poll action 21-034 as amended. Corinne Sams seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 7-0-0. ii. No. 21-035 Topic: Transportation Termination of the Motor Fuel Tax.Agreement. MOTION: Boots Pond moves to ratify poll action 21-035 with amendment. Corinne Sams seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 7-0-0. New Business Proposed Resolutions: Next resolution number is 21-104: i. Resolution 21-104: Topic: UPRR Arlington PTC Towers (TCNS 231121). RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby approves the attached Exhibit 1C Confidential Mitigation Agreement between Union Pacific Railroad and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Regarding the TCNS 231121 Arlington Positive Train Control Structures and authorizes its Chair to execute it on behalf of the Confederated Tribes and to take such further action and execute other documents, if any, that are necessary to carry out the purposes of the Confidential Mitigation Agreement and this Resolution; MOTION: Corinne Sams moves to adopt Resolution 21-104. Sally Kosey seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 7-0-0. ii. Resolution 21-105: Topic: UPRR Echo PTC Tower (TCNS 231120). RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees hereby approves the attached Exhibit 1C Confidential Mitigation Agreement between Union Pacific Railroad and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Regarding the TCNS 231120 Echo Positive Train Control Structure and authorizes its Chair to execute it on behalf of the Confederated Tribes and to take such further action and execute other documents, if any, that are necessary to carry out the purposes of the Confidential Mitigation Agreement and this Resolution; MOTION: Sally Kosey moves to adopt Resolution 21-105. Boots Pond seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 7-0-0. BOT Travel or External Meeting Reports: Kat Brigham, 11/30 Zoom Four Chairs meeting. MOTION: Sally Kosey moves to approve travel report. Sandra Sampson seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 8-0-0. BOT Leave and Travel or Outside Meeting Requests: Polled Requests: Corinne Sams, 11/30 Virtual meeting from 1 to 3 PM re: pre-meeting for Salmon Strategy Briefing. Sandra Sampson, 12/6 from 8:45 to 10:30 AM personal leave. Sally Kosey, 12/2 PL from 2:30 to 4 PM Regular requests: Sally Kosey, 1//11/22 personal leave all day. Corinne Sams, 12/20 personal leave all day. MOTION: Corinne Sams moves to ratify and approve leave requests. Sally Kosey seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 8-0-0. Date: December 13, 2021 BOT PRESENT: Aaron Ashley, Vice-Chair; Sally Kosey, Secretary; Toby Patrick, Member; Boots Pond, Member; Lisa Ganuelas, Member; Corinne Sams, Member and Lindsey Watchman, General Council Chairman. Kat Brigham, BOT Chair personal leave. Sandra Sampson, Treasurer, personal leave. Old Business: Old Business: a. Official Polled Action. None b. Polled Resolutions: i. 21-106: NCFS Small Business Application. MOTION: Corinne Sams moves to ratify Polled Resolution 21-106. Boots Pond seconds. Discussion. Question. Motion carries 6-0-0.

EDTIOR’S NOTE: The BOT Minutes following Dec. 13 were not approved/released to the CUJ in time for print due to inclement weather. They will be featured in the February CUJ.

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 December. The average temperature was 34.7 degrees which was 1.5 degrees above normal. High Temperatures averaged 42.2 degrees, which was 2.7 degrees above normal. The highest was 68 degrees on the 1st. Low temperatures averaged 27.3 degrees, which was 0.4 degrees above normal. The lowest was -7 degrees, on the 31st. There were 21 days with the low temperature below 32 degrees. There were 6 days when the high temperature stayed below 32 degrees. Precipitation totaled 2.01 inches during December, which was 0.54 inches above normal. Measurable precipitation -at least .01 inch- was received on 15 days with the heaviest, 0.84 inches reported on the 19th. Precipitation in 2021 totaled 9.38 inches, which is 3.28 inches below normal. Since October, the water year precipitation at the Pendleton airport has been 4.39 inches, which is 0.39 inches above normal. Snowfall totaled 17.8 inches with at least 1 inch of snow reported on 6 days. The heaviest snowfall was 4.6 inches reported on the 30th. The highest wind gust was 48 mph which occurred on the 11th. The outlook for January from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center calls for below normal temperatures and above normal precipitation. Normal highs for the Pendleton airport during January are 41.8 degrees and normal lows are 28.9 degrees. The 30 year normal precipitation is 1.43 inches. The National Weather Service is an office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department.

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