By The CUJ MISSION – The CTUIR Youth Leadership Council sent a letter to President Joseph R. Biden on June 9 and started an online petition that’s gained more than 10,000 signatures. They asked the president to remove the four lower Snake River dams “and save salmon from extinction!” “America made a deal and promised that we would be able…
MISSION – An open house was held for the K’usiinmi Tawtnukt Horse Medicine Program on June 23 in the Tribal Arena on Patawa Road. During the open house, a demonstration of a horse medicine session took place and spectators were able to see how Tribal culture and history will be incorporated. “We are not a full equine therapy program,” said…
By The CTUIR Board of Trustees The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) has a long history of traditional use of Willamette Falls and the surrounding region, a history spanning from time immemorial to today. Willamette Falls was and is an inter-tribal fishery utilized by tribes throughout the Pacific Northwest, including but not limited to the CTUIR, the…
By The CUJ MISSION – Monica Paradise is one of this year’s Pamáwaluukt Empower Program participants. She was nominated for a business spotlight by the Pamawaluukt Staffing/Recruitment Specialist, Lorene Broncheau. Paradise answered a handful of questions about what she does in the program. CUJ: The Pamáwaluukt Empower Program searches for Discover candidates based on a number of items including displaying…
MISSION – CTUIR descendant Dakota Dave was promoted to the General Manager of the McDonald’s at Arrowhead Travel Plaza. Dave, an eight year veteran at the fast food restaurant, said he had a long road to get the promotion. “I started here in the kitchen flipping burgers,” he said. “I didn’t have a whole lot of work experience.” “The one…
MISSION – Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center (YTHC) granted $1,000 scholarships to three Tribal members for the 2021-2022 college school year. Recipients of the scholarship were Alex Nilo, Brynn Cody, and Larysa Burright, enrolled members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. For the past 11 years, YTHC has granted a total of $15,220 in scholarships to Tribal members…
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…
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…
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.…
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…