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Cow Creek Umpqua: $5,000 donated to area charity - The Family Access Network has received a $5,000 donation from the Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation. The money will help provide food, clothing, shelter and medical care to Deschutes County children and families in need. So far this year, the organization has helped over 6,200 children and their families meet their basic needs.
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Gaming: Casino Battle Royale and OPE Oil Sands - The two guys from Lake Oswego who want Oregonians to approve a giant casino in east Multnomah County are back again. Last week, Matt Rossman and Bruce Studer got approval to begin gathering signatures for a constitutional amendment that would allow for private casinos in Oregon.
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Government: Census releases data on American Indian population - Almost half of American Indians and Alaska Natives identify with multiple races, representing a group that grew by 39 percent over a decade, according to U.S. Census data released Wednesday. Of the 5.2 million people counted as Natives in 2010, nearly 2.3 million reported being Native in combination with one or more of six other race categories. Seventy-eight percent of Natives live off tribal reservations. The majority of Natives live in 10 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington.
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Karuk: Klamath draft report released; Thompson: 'The time for Congress to act is now' - A draft report released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of the Interior says a landmark agreement to remove dams in the Klamath Basin will restore salmon and sustain irrigation for farmers in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Overall, the report is good news, said Karuk Tribe spokesman Craig Tucker. "It's another affirmation that implementing our agreements is good for fish, good for farms, good for the economy and good for America," Tucker said.
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Klamath: Sycan project benefits economy, environment - An ongoing restoration project at the Sycan Marsh will repair wildlife habitat and produce timber for sawmills and wood for biomass plants, said Criag Bienz, director of the Nature Conservancy's Sycan Mash preserve. The project is a partnership between the Nature Conservancy; Lomakatsi Restoration Project, an Ashland non-profit, and the Klamath Tribes' Forest Warriors, a restoration work crew.
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Lower Elwha Klallam: 'After the Dam' subject of presentation - Robert Elofson, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe river restoration director, presents "Elwha River Ecosystem: After the Dam" at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, at the Elwha Klallam Heritage Center, 401 E. First St., Port Angeles. He will discuss the tribe’s view of the dam removal and what to expect in the future.
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Lummi: Jake Finkbonner Beat a Flesh Eating Disease, Earns Inspirational Youth Award - Jake Finbonner, Lummi, an 11-year old of considerable inner strength and courage, will be receiving the Seattle Children’s Inspirational Youth award today at the 77th Annual Seattle Sports Star of the Year banquet. Jake’s story became international news. When the Vatican learned that the Finkbonners had prayed to Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, they sent investigators to the hospital to learn more about Jake’s story. This was when doctors told the investigators they had no clear medical explanation for Jake’s recovery. These findings were forwarded to the Congregation for Causes of Saints, and now, the Blessed Kateria Tekakwith is the first American Indian to be certified a Saint by the Catholic Church.
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Lummi-Nooksack: BBWSD manager calls for local solution to tribal water rights issue - With two local native tribes seeking a federal determination on possession of local water rights, the general manager of the Birch Bay Water and Sewer District (BBWSD) is calling for a solution from within Whatcom County. Earlier in January, representatives from the Nooksack and Lummi tribes sent letters to the U.S. Department of the Interior requesting a federal court decision over what water rights the tribes have within the state. The tribes say six years of negotiations over the extent of their water rights have stalled, and they are asking the Department of the Interior to take the state of Washington to court over the issue.
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Nez Perce: Clearwater River Casino plans expansion - Plans are being finalized for the expansion of the Clearwater River Casino. "Overall, the goal is to bring more customers in," said Nez Perce Tribal Committee Treasurer Joel Moffett. "Provide them with a better experience, a more exciting experience and hope that they will stay a while."
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Powwow: Tribes hold fourth annual First Nations Powwow - Looking for a little weekend excitement? Plan to visit northeast Salem on Saturday for the local tribal powwow. The fourth annual Gathering of Oregon's First Nations Powwow is scheduled from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Pavilion at Oregon State Fairgrounds & Exposition Center, 2330 17th St. NE. The free event is organized by the five federally recognized tribes in western Oregon — the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, Coquille Indian Tribe, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and Confederated Tribes of Siletz — and it serves to recognize and celebrate native people who pre-date Oregon's 1859 statehood.
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QayQayt-Sto:lo: New gathering place honours First Nations - The New Westminster campus of Douglas College now has another community amenity. On Jan. 19, the college hosted a two-part opening ceremony, complete with speeches from Lt.-Gov. Steven Point and Chief Rhonda Larrabee of the QayQayt Nation, celebration dances from the Douglas College student pow wow group, and opening and closing prayer songs from an elder from the Sto: lo First Nation. "From time immemorial, our lands have been a place of gathering," said Larrabee in her welcoming speech. "Our ancestors welcomed others to come together here: to fish, to hunt, to gather berries, to share stories and wisdom by the river, a gathering place, a resting place."
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Quileute-Tulalip: School bus driver who died was ‘respected' Tulalip elder - A Tulalip tribal elder died at the wheel of the Quileute Tribal School bus he drove as he was on his way to pick up students early Monday morning. Lloyd Hatch of LaPush was 63. Trooper Russ Winger, spokesman for the State Patrol, said the investigating officers believe that Hatch experienced a "medical event" while driving the bus. There were no students in the bus at the time, he said. The cause of death was not immediately known, Winger said.
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Stillaguamish: Tribe announces more than $500K gifts to city of Arlington, school district, agencies - The Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians announced Monday the donation of more than a half-million dollars to benefit those who live in the Arlington area. The contributions made this week are above and beyond what is required of tribes with casinos in the state, said Stillaguamish tribal Chairman Shawn Yanity. "We are not a private business, but a government eager to cooperate with and help other jurisdictions," Yanity said. "We need to work together as partners. It means so much for the tribe to have those relationships."
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Tulalip: Seattle Premium Outlets adding parking garage - Last summer, the the Simon Property Group announced their plans to expand the Seattle Premium Outlets’ retail space. "The Tribes are very excited about this," Tulalip Tribal Chair Mel Sheldon Jr. said. Sheldon credited his predecessors and peers on the Tribal Board with laying the groundwork for the Tribes’ ongoing economic expansion, which he hopes will benefit the Tribes’ neighbors and Snohomish County as a whole.
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Warms Springs: Tribe To Open US 26 Casino - Warm Springs tribal officials in Central Oregon plan to open a new casino in a few weeks. It's not in the Columbia Gorge, as the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs long hoped. But it is on U.S. Highway 26 linking the Portland area with Central Oregon cities.
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Yakama: Dancers will perform in Chile - Yakama powwow dancers will head to northern Chile this week for a cultural exchange at the area's large carnaval. "We are the first Native American tribe to be invited and featured at this large event," said Stephanie G. Wendt, Yakama Nation tourism coordinator. Dancers from the Colville, Paiute and Navajo tribes as well as from Canada -- 21 in all -- will travel with the Yakamas to Arica, Chile, for the carnaval, which runs Friday through Sunday.
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