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Reservation Rallies Around 'Life Is Sacred' A salute to local veterans / B4-9 Band of Brothers’ WWW.THETRIBALTRIBUNE.COM PRSRT STD US POSTAGE NOVEMBER 2013 PAID McClung dies / B1 CHENEY, WA Volume 39, Number 32 PERMIT NO 20 THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE COLVILLE INDIAN RESERVATION ARTS • BIA Range estimates each wild horse eats 4.5 tons of forage per year Symposium BY JUSTUS CAUDELL honors The Tribune Horses on Quintasket here is a grulla mare in Freidlander Meadows. She birthed a black foal this spring colored like the BY ROGER JACK Tstud of that herd. This herd is one of several ‘wild’ The Tribune — or feral — horses that live within the Hellgate Game Reserve. enatchee Valley Around the reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) The College of Omak Range estimates there are roughly 1,000 horses living on W(WVCO) and the Colville Reservation’s range areas. the Colville Confederated In January, as Colville Tribal Fish and Wildlife Tribes were primary (CTFW) conducts helicopter lights to count game sponsors of the Mourning populations, Range and CTFW will work in cooperation Landscape Dove Symposium and to gather a more precise count of wild horses on the Celebration reservation. at various The BIA Regional Ofice has provided a $10,000 grant locations for the project. in the In a recent press release, Range noted every wild horse Okanogan eats approximately 25 pounds of forage daily, equating Valley nearly 4.5 tons of forage per horse each year. Nov. 7 and A previously published article in the Seattle Times 8. Many noted wild horse populations increase at a rate of 20 historians, Quintasket percent annually, and since the closing of canneries researchers, nationwide seven years ago, Range employees Ralph linguists, scholars and Moses and Roy Leith say they have seen the population community members of wild horses on the reservation double. attended. Especially Range understands the horse chasers who once honored were surviving regularly captured and sold wild horses to stockyards no members of Christine longer make proit, and the program has worked with Quintasket’s extended the Tribe to increase member efforts in managing the family, some reside on the growing population. Colville reservation and A trio of wild horses gathers near some on the Okanagan Buffalo Lake in Nespelem on Nov. 24. Reserve in British see HORSES, A7 JUSTUS CAUDELL/Tribune Columbia. Mourning Dove was her pen name, she was born around 1885 near Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho, THE TRIBAL TRIBUNE’S SERIES ON SUICIDE lived in various parts of the country and passed away in 1936 in Medical Lake. The symposium opened Reservation rallies around ‘Life is Sacred’ day on Nov. 7 with a welcome by David Lindeblad of BY CARY ROSENBAUM anything for them, it’s a very sad WVCO and John Sirois The Tribune situation.” of CBC at the Okanogan The Inchelium Emergency PUD. Dr. Jeanette eservation-wide, the Medical Services department head, moment of silence Armstrong and Margaret Jesse Schumacher, said the area Quintasket’s surviving Roccurred. gets called to a lot of attempted Everyone who partook had a family members from suicides. Penticton, B.C. spoke in person, a family or the whole tribe “There hasn’t been a lot that have in mind. their native tongue and completed it, but there has been a offered up a song of prayer Enthusiasm was rich in each few,” he said. “It’s not something district during the day-long event and words for a good and nice to see, especially in a small productive gathering. “It’s created by the Suicide Coalition community.” and endorsed by the Colville good to see our grandma’s In Omak, Betty Lindeblad-Fry work inally recognized,” Business Council. But with it offered poetry as a form of healing. came the feeling of heartache and, their spokesman urged. “Slow vibrations are what “Our grandma wrote stories eventually — as the goal directed humans are,” she said. “Spirits are — healing. so we could read about much faster vibrations.” ourselves and the lives “Tomorrow is a stronger day,” Pastor Bob Twitchell, who Omak District Councilman Sneena our ancestors lived. Times attended in Nespelem, said he change, but we really don’t. Brooks said. reached out to friends on Facebook The inal message should The tribally-sponsored “Life Courtesy and asked for a prayer for the is Sacred” day on Nov. 1 tried to be to know and love your WiTa Marchand prepares to set his balloon off into the sky during the Colville Reservation. land and all the resources provide answers, but for many, the reservation-wide ‘Life is Sacred’ day on Nov. 1 in O mak. “It is important to share our question was still prevalent: how it has available to you. It prayers,” he said. “We have provides everything we can we stop the suicides on our people all over the country and reservation? need to stay alive so we world praying for the Colville should be thankful to have The Tribes issued a state of Reservation.” emergency in September. The all that.” Terri Wellons, who attended in First panel included Dr. event was just one of the steps to Keller, challenged everyone to ask try to calm the alarming rates of Alanna K. Brown, Montana ive people how they are doing each State University English 2013. day, tell them they love them and to But it seemed clear nobody department professor challenge ive more. truly knows the answer, especially emeritus, and Kenneth “Maybe they will reach back out to tribal elder Joanne Signor, of Favrholdt, director of to you,” she said. Inchelium. the Osoyoos & District Tribal elder Lula Aubertin, of “We don’t know if what we’re Museum and archives. CARY ROSENBAUM/Tribune Keller, noted the importance of doing is working,” she said. “It’s Dr. Brown opened with a prayer. day by day. You hear a siren you A group of participants in the health walk drum down the streets of colorful anecdote. “Our children need to know how think the worst. There’s so much Inchelium. She said that she had to pray,” she said. “They need to unrest.” a dream about working and can’t get back up.” they are.” know about answered prayer. In my Griz Charette, who works for on the Mourning Dove Tribal elder John Smith, of Jason Knapp, an emergency life, when things got tough, there Tribal Health in Inchelium, said persona and that she had was always prayer. there needs to be more people Inchelium, said a lot of the medical technician for the Tribes, already met a houseful “It wasn’t always the answer I trained. problem has to do with a lack of was on hand at the most recent of the Quintasket brood wanted, but there, I always got an “We’re not reaching a lot of parenting. suicide in Inchelium. in Canada. So, when answer of one kind … I have seen people still; I think (suicide) is “Parents aren’t being parents “It’s the ultimate nightmare — this really happened, she what prayer does; it helps so many out of control and needs a lot to their kids,” he said. “We gotta one of the hardest things to go about lost it! She said she people.” of attention,” she said. “I think start healing ourselves because we to,” he said. “You know there’s remembered Jeanette economy has a lot to do with it. gotta address the problems; give a family that’s affected and the Justus Caudell and Sonny Sellars contributed After a while, they get down there people a good feeling about who patient; you know you can’t do to this report. see QUINTASKET, A6 Tribune hires layout editor, journalist; Jack returns from illness By The Tribune old Keller native earned a master’s coordinator of Colville Tribal Energy. degree in writing at the California Back after months away from the NESPELEM – The Tribal Tribune Institute of the Arts. job due to a health scare in early 2013, hired two new employees in November, Hired as the newest journalist was Roger Jack returned to his position of and a long-time journalist returned from Karenia Simpson, 25, a 2012 English journalist. months of illness. Literary studies graduate from Eastern “We’re fully staffed with Roger’s Justus Caudell, the interim managing Washington University. The Keller return, and I’m excited to see what we editor, has been hired as layout editor, a native and tribal member joins the can achieve as a collective unit,” Media Caudell Simpson Jack position created this year. The 26-year- Tribune after a stint as the interim Services Manager Cary Rosenbaum said. 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