By The CUJ MISSION – A flurry of COVID-19 cases were linked to each other this month, according to Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center. The Health Center logged 31 cases in June, with approximately 75 percent linked to each other, Yellowhawk Interim CEO Aaron Hines said. Since then, five more cases emerged in July. Variant testing is being done collaboratively with…
Year: 2021
Potential distribution delayed
By the CUJ MISSION – Talks about a potential financial assistance distribution allocating up to $3,000,000 from the American Rescue Plan funds to all Tribal members in the amount of $750 were pushed to Friday, July 9 by the Board of Trustees. A motion from BOT Member Jill-Marie Gavin-Harvey on June 28 would have released money “in response to…
Golden Eagles end dominant season with State 1A Basketball Title
By Cary Rosenbaum of the CUJ BAKER CITY – It was a season for firsts and seconds for Nixyaawii Community School. For the first time ever, the Golden Eagles received the No. 1 seed to the State 1A Basketball Tournament and — as the odds would have it — they took first place, winning their second title in three years.…
Tribes Open First Commercial Fishery of 2021
PORTLAND — Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Yakama tribal fishers are making their way to the Columbia River after the tribes announced that the first commercial gillnet fishery of 2021 will open on Wednesday, June 16. They will harvest summer chinook, sockeye, and a small number of steelhead that will be available for purchase by the general public from…
Umatilla River basin spring Chinook fishing reopened on May 25
PENDLETON – On May 26, the CTUIR’s Fish & Wildlife Commission (FWC) released Emergency Tributary Regulations for Spring/Summer Chinook fisheries. The notice came a day after the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife re-opened the Chinook salmon fishery on the Umatilla River. The Tribe has a treaty harvest of 75 fish on the Umatilla River, where ODFW managers have seen…
Goodbye and goodluck, salmon relatives
MORE THAN 134,000 spring Chinook salmon smolt were trucked from the Lookingglass Hatchery in Elgin to four raceways on Catherine Creek (Saxsaaxinma) in March. The setting includes fresh creek water pumped by an Isuzu diesel generator into the east end of each pond. It drains continually out the west side through standpipes covered with wire mesh. We acclimate the fish…
Burns selected to All-Star game
PENDLETON – The accolades keep coming in for CTUIR member Tyasin Burns, a football player for Pendleton High School. Burns was selected to the 5A/6A All-Star game called the Les Schwab Bowl July 3rd in Hillsboro. The CTUIR member was unanimously named to the 5A-Special District 1 First Team as a safety. He also earned Second Team honors as a…
Foot race to honor Spino
WARM SPRINGS – A CTUIR member’s efforts on another reservation are being celebrated this year. Azar Spino started the annual Super Man – Wonder Woman Endurance Foot Race in Warm Springs, which will occur June 27. Austin Green, the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs’ Recreation Director, said the event will honor Spino this year, who started it in 2018.…
Soaring Eagle signs with Haskell
WHITE SWAN, Wash. – Teal Soaring Eagle, a 6-foot-2 guard from White Swan High School, signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kans. this fall. The CTUIR member earned his scholarship after performing well in a basketball tournament in Oklahoma City in early May. Instead of celebrating his birthday weekend, he decided…
CTUIR signs MOU with City of Kennewick
By Cary Rosenbaum of the CUJ, KENNEWICK – In referencing the aspirations to work together with the City of Kennewick, Board of Trustees member Armand Minthorn recalled the discovery of Kennewick Man, a 9,000-year-old ancestor of the Columbia Plateau Tribes who gained world interest for more than 20 years. “Not too far from here, Kennewick Man was discovered,” he said…