CTUIR Treaty Day 3-on-3 tourney
Reproductive rights rally at Raley
Youth spent their Treaty Day Saturday shooting hoops during the June 3-on-3 event hosted by General Council.
People gathered to protest recent overturning of Roe V. Wade Supreme Court decision.
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CUJ
Confederated Umatilla Journal The The monthly monthly newspaper newspaper of of the the Confederated Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Indian Reservation Pendleton, Oregon
Pendleton, Oregon
Board increases funeral funds for CTUIR members By the CUJ
MISSION – The Board of Trustees (Board) for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) passed a resolution to amend the Funeral Assistance Code 7-0-0 during their June 27 meeting. Enrollment Department Director Toni Minthorn met with the Board in a work session June 22. The Funeral Assistance Code lays out how Tribal Member funeral services funding is to be used by families of the deceased. Some of the items eligible for use of funeral funds includes purchase of one Pendleton blanket, travel assistance for family of the deceased, caskets, money to purchase food for the service, money to pay cooks for the service and funds to pay for mortuary services. In September of 2021 the Board passed resolution 21-084 which raised the maximum direct funeral allowance to $5,000. According to the resolution for the second Funeral Assistance Code amendment in under a year, the allowance is being raised again in response to rising costs. “Due to the recent increases in the cost of supplies available through the Confederated Tribes, primarily the casket and Pendleton Blanket costs, the $5,000 limit is no longer sufficient to cover the costs of a basic funeral,” the resolution
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JULY, 2022
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Search underway for burial sites of Cayuse Five UO students take on monumental task with Tamastslikt By Wil Phinney for the CUJ
Treaty Day returns to Mission
The Treaty Day Parade kicked off an all day event June 9. Above Whipman Andrew Wildbill leads General Council Chair Lindsey Watchman and David Wolf, Tribal Member and Vice Commander of the George St. Denis Post 140 American Legion, into the Veteran’s Memorial directly following the parade. See more Page 10A. CUJ Photo by Dallas Dick
After two months of research, a group of University of Oregon honors students have narrowed potential sites in Oregon City where they think five Cayuse men were buried or reburied after they were hanged for the death of missionary Marcus Whitman. Whitman’s wife, Narcissa, and 11 others were killed as well but the five men were indicted only for the murder of Marcus Whitman. Recent tribal generations have not been able to determine the location of their burials but students in the UO colloquium have given members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (Confederated Tribes) reason to believe the five bodies could be located. “While the five Cayuse men hanged in 1850 in Oregon City have come to be called “the Cayuse Five” in recent years, we must remember their names and the
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INSIDE THE CUJ Wildhorse Pow Wow returns to Mission Tiny tot girl dances in her jingle dress on Friday of the Wildhorse Pow Wow in Mission. The pow wow has been out of commission since 2019
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