Nəxʷsƛáy’əm Syə́cəm News from The Strong People Volume 33, Issue 11 November 2012 In This Issue: Potlatch and Naming Ceremony 1, 3 Birthdays 2 Election Results and Information 4 Election Thank You Messages 5 Message from Our Tribal Chair 6 Native Films, Native Director Coming 7 Tribal Citizen Randy Lawrence 8 Calendar; Heritage Month; How It Was 9 Warren Featherstone Reid Award 10, 11 New Community Health Nurse; Holiday Craft Fair 11 Library Corner; Culture Corner 12 Report from ATNI; Meetings 13 What is Cultural Resource Fieldwork? 15, 16 Jamestown Tribal Health Care 16, 17 Tribal Resource Fair 17 Children Wish Elders a Happy Birthday 18 Salmon Recovery Funding Board Visit 19 River Festival; Gallery Wall 20 State of Our Watersheds Report 21 Job Openings 22 Announcements 23 Potlatch in Memory of Harriette Adams Includes Naming Ceremony In the S’Klallam tradition, memorial potlatches serve as the time for people to receive their S’Klallam names. So when the Hall-Adams family planned an August potlatch to remember matriarch Harriette Adams (9/27/1924—11/20-2009), many people were named in a day-long ceremony at Jamestown Beach. They hailed from the Hall, Adams and Fitzgerald families. Hall Family: Names were given to my children and granddaughter by my Aunt Mary Jo Butterfield (Hall), daughter of Raymond “Jack” Hall, Mary Jo also acted as Master of Ceremonies with her granddaughter Ticishway Tholt and great grandson Carson Tholt acting as the dancers to accept the names. Tribal Citizen Charles A. “Tony” Hall, proxy stand-in by brother James R. Hall – sxʷa̕ltiməɬ (“Swal-ti-malch”), name of his grandfather Charles A. Hall, name of his great, great grandfather Charley Hall Tribal Citizen Kenneth S. Hall – “Hich- tsah,” name of his 4 th Great Grandmother Cecelia Hall (name was taken while she was in her youth), wife of Thomas “Old” Hall, Tribal Citizen James R. Hall – tawiʔ ̕ a̕səm (“Tah-wee-ah-sum”), name of his father Tribal Citizen Jeffrey S. Hall, name of his 4 th Great Uncle Rev. William “Billy” Hall (Continued on page 3) Jeff Monson (Tribal citizen and witness), Victoria Hall (Kwai-leet-sa), Thomas Hall (Ya-whoost-ton), Cynthia Savini Hall (Aunt and witness), Joseph Hall (Wi-waitc-tin), Kenneth Hall (Hich-tsah), and James Hall (Tah- wee-ah-sum).
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Nəxʷsƛáy’əm Syə́cəm
News from The Strong People
Volume 33, Issue 11 November 2012
In This Issue:
Potlatch and Naming Ceremony 1, 3
Birthdays 2
Election Results and Information 4
Election Thank You Messages 5
Message from Our Tribal Chair 6
Native Films, Native Director Coming 7
Tribal Citizen Randy Lawrence 8
Calendar; Heritage Month; How It Was 9
Warren Featherstone Reid Award 10, 11
New Community Health Nurse; Holiday Craft Fair 11
Library Corner; Culture Corner 12
Report from ATNI; Meetings 13
What is Cultural Resource Fieldwork? 15, 16
Jamestown Tribal Health Care 16, 17
Tribal Resource Fair 17
Children Wish Elders a Happy Birthday 18
Salmon Recovery Funding Board Visit 19
River Festival; Gallery Wall 20
State of Our Watersheds Report 21
Job Openings 22
Announcements 23
Potlatch in Memory of Harriette
Adams Includes Naming Ceremony
In the S’Klallam tradition, memorial potlatches serve as the time for people to receive their S’Klallam
names. So when the Hall-Adams family planned an August potlatch to remember matriarch Harriette Adams
(9/27/1924—11/20-2009), many people were named in a day-long ceremony at Jamestown Beach. They hailed
from the Hall, Adams and Fitzgerald families. Hall Family:
Names were given to my children and
granddaughter by my Aunt Mary Jo Butterfield
(Hall), daughter of Raymond “Jack” Hall, Mary Jo
also acted as Master of Ceremonies with her
granddaughter Ticishway Tholt and great
grandson Carson Tholt acting as the dancers to
accept the names.
Tribal Citizen Charles A. “Tony” Hall, proxy
stand-in by brother James R. Hall –
sxʷa̕ltiməɬ (“Swal-ti-malch”), name of his
grandfather Charles A. Hall, name of his
great, great grandfather Charley Hall
Tribal Citizen Kenneth S. Hall – “Hich-
tsah,” name of his 4th Great Grandmother
Cecelia Hall (name was taken while she was
in her youth), wife of Thomas “Old” Hall,
Tribal Citizen James R. Hall – tawiʔa̕̕səm
(“Tah-wee-ah-sum”), name of his father
Tribal Citizen Jeffrey S. Hall, name of his 4th
Great Uncle Rev. William “Billy” Hall (Continued on page 3)
Jeff Monson (Tribal citizen and witness), Victoria Hall (Kwai-leet-sa),
Thomas Hall (Ya-whoost-ton), Cynthia Savini Hall (Aunt and witness),
Joseph Hall (Wi-waitc-tin), Kenneth Hall (Hich-tsah), and James Hall (Tah-
Community Network Fourth Wednesday of January, April, July and October,
5:30 p.m., Social and Community Services Elders’ Lounge
Candy Burkhardt
360-681-4625
Culture Call for information. Vickie Carroll
360-681-4659
Elders December 17
10:00 a.m., Social and Community Services Elders’ Lounge
Margaret Adams
360-681-4637
Enrollment Call for information.
Gideon Cauffman
360-681-4638
Health Second Tuesday in January, April, July, October, 6:00 PM
Jamestown Family Health Center
Community Health Conference Room
Cindy Lowe
360- 582-4876
Higher Education January 22, 2013, 4:30 p.m. Social and Community Services Fish Bowl Kim Kettel
360-681-4626
Housing Improvement First Monday of January, April, July and October at 6:00 p.m. in the
Elders’ Lounge. If the first Monday falls on a holiday it is moved to the
second Monday of the month.
Casey Thrush
360-681-3411
Natural Resources Second Monday of each month, 4 p.m. Community Center Alderwood
Room
Anika Kessler
360-681-4624
Report from the 2012 ATNI Conference This year’s 59th Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI) Fall Conference was hosted by the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indians at Wildhorse Resort and Casino in Pendleton, Oregon. Roughly 30-
35 Tribes were in attendance with 600-700 delegates attending. The Umatilla people were very gracious hosts of
many events besides the conference, including a Healthy Fun Run/Walk, welcome Reception at the Tamástslikt
Cultural Institute and Cultural Night.
Our days start very early and go into the evenings. Many times we have working lunches. Representatives
from the State of Oregon were there to show respect and honor. After lunch each day we broke into concurrent
committee meetings. Committees included Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Human Resources,
Education, Housing, Health, Transportation, Telecommunications/Energy, Trust Reform, Gaming and Veterans,
to name a few. I attended many committee meetings on Education, Health, Transportation and Indian Child
Welfare.
The subjects were very familiar at this conference -- taxation and the budget. Many resolutions were passed
to request the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Treasury to cease implementation of the new
taxation policies regarding per capita payments, General Assistance, Health and Education benefits. (Ron has
also covered this issue in a recent newsletter article.)
Regarding the budget, sequestration (the automatic cuts that will be implemented if Congress does not act)
was discussed at General Assembly and during our breakout sessions. Tax cuts are expected to expire January
2013 and the full impact could be a reduction of 8.2% in the federal budget. This cut will be nationwide, to all
Indian Country, impacting Indian Health Service (IHS), Education, Law and Justice, Natural Resources,
Housing and other federally funded programs. The impact of these cuts could be devastating to many Tribes
who are dependent on the Federal Government and IHS. Fortunately, our Tribe only depends on federal funding
for 38% of our program costs. We have been fortunate enough to have the support of many Tribal businesses.
At each meeting I attend I look back and review the progress we have achieved and I am proud that our
Council and Directors work hard developing our businesses to create a revenue stream for all of the programs
we have in place, to assist Tribal citizens. ~Theresa R. Lehman
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe November 2012 Page 14
Cultural Resources Field Work: What Is It? Part of Cultural Resources Specialist Gideon Cauffman’s
(Kardonsky family) job is fieldwork. The law states that
whenever the ground will be disturbed, the permitting agency
must contact the appropriate authorities to conduct an
archaeological survey before the permit can be issued. What
is he looking for?
“Anything older than 50 years,” said Cauffman, “and in
our case, evidence of an historic Native presence, including
not only small artifacts, but larger features like shell middens,
fire hearths, and housepits.”
This year, Cauffman applied for and received a National
Parks Service grant for $23,628, which enabled him to
purchase the equipment to do the fieldwork at Tamanowas
Rock. He purchased a Trimble XH GPS (Global Positioning
System) unit, for sub-meter accurate mapping of geographic
locations; a bucket auger for digging 10 cm diameter holes up
to two meters deep; a screen for sifting through the soil, and
various other tools.
The application for his National Parks grant discussed the
work Cauffman is doing at Tamanowas Rock, a sacred
S’Klallam site in Chimacum (Jefferson County). In fact, the
funding for the equipment was approved in large part in order
to enable Cauffman to determine the property’s eligibility to
be placed on the National Register of Historic Places. One of
the criteria for acceptance is whether there are artifacts on the
property “that can contribute to a better understanding of our
prehistory.” So Cauffman has been digging holes.
“Unfortunately, the site is glacial till and boulders, which makes shovel probes very difficult. And its
history is ancient, which reduces my chances of finding anything. I am going to continue my work there, but
even if we don’t qualify based on the artifact criteria, we will most likely be eligible based on either Criteria A,
which requires that the place be associated with an event, including a legendary event (there are many legends
associated with Tamanowas Rock), or Criteria B, which requires that the site be important to a people. It
certainly has been an important sacred place to the S’Klallam people for millennia.”
The Tamanowas Rock work will continue for several years.
He is also working on three other projects.
He spent several days at the Jamestown Cemetery, and mapped out every gravesite. In order to track the
information, he first created a data dictionary that allows him to input information he wanted to use for this
particular project, including first and last name, birth date and death date. Then, after his fieldwork was done,
he was able to return to his desk and use Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including software in his
computer and the local base station data to increase the accuracy of each coordinate to create a map of the
Tribe’s cemetery.
“The Tribe had a spreadsheet of the names of those buried in the cemetery, but no accurate map,” he said.
“While I was out there, I also mapped the unmarked graves which were visible as depressions in the ground,”
(Continued on page 15)
Cultural Resources Specialist Gideon Cauffman
measures the depth of a test hole he dug at the Craft
property along the Dungeness River.
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe November 2012 Page 15
he said, adding that Tribal Elders have offered to go out to the site
with him and walk through their memories of where wooden markers,
now long gone, used to be located, to add to his database and map.
Another project was at Beckett Point in Jefferson County – a piece
of land jutting into Discovery Bay, now dotted with beach cabins. A
land owner there had applied for a permit to build a new house, and
the Tribe was contacted because of the area’s history as a S’Klallam
village site.
“Although I didn’t find anything of significance at the depth of the
proposed foundation, this was an important project because over the
past several decades, 32 reports have been written by two contract
firms – all stating that they had found nothing. Yet in 2007, when a
new septic system was being dug for the community, human remains
were found there.” Cauffman explained that in looking at the “big
picture,” he can see that along the north side of the point, there is a
long shell midden that remains intact. But along the south side, the
ground has been disturbed, increasing the chances that in the future he
may find artifacts. “I am glad that the Tribe can finally be involved in
the fieldwork, instead of relying on outside firms to protect our
cultural resources,” he said.
The next project Cauffman has been working on is at the Craft
Property along the Dungeness River in Sequim. The Tribe has owned
this property for some time, and is now engaged in site evaluation
work to gauge the
feasibility of building
housing there. Because the project would utilize federal funds, a
cultural resource survey is required. Cauffman is in the process of
doing a “systematic” survey. It begins with a pedestrian survey –
that is, walking the property to look for evidence of artifacts or land
features that might indicate the history of the land. Then, he uses his
auger to dig holes every 5-20 meters across the property.
“I’m about 25% done,” he said. “So far, I’ve found some historic
farm equipment that might make nice decorative elements for a
housing development entryway, but no Native artifacts.”
If he were to find anything of significance, the process requires
him to delve deeper, moving to holes in a 5-meter radius around the
positive find, and then to a larger square test units, similar to what
we see on television shows about historic archaeological digs.
Cauffman hopes to find youth or teens who are interested in the
field of cultural resources to accompany him on some of his
fieldwork, which will be funded by the grant. After all, that’s how
he began his career – as a student at Sequim High School helping
with the “Sequim Bypass Dig” before Highway 101 was routed
around downtown Sequim in 1999.
(Cultural Resources Fieldwork, continued from page 14)
Cauffman shows Chief Operations Officer
Annette Nesse his compass. Nesse is the
project manager for the potential housing
development at the Craft Property.
Cauffman empties dirt from the bucket
auger into the sifting screen.
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe November 2012 Page 16
Health Care at Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe: How Did We Get Here?
Jamestown’s Health Services History
Indian Health Services (IHS) was created by the federal government to meet the treaty/trust obligation to provide
access to health care to American Indians. There are two types of funding through IHS. Direct care funding goes to
pay for a clinic and the providers and other staff to run it. Contract Health Services (CHS) funds are used to pay for
services that can’t be provided at a direct care clinic. This includes but is not limited to lab, radiology, specialty care,
and hospital inpatient. The federal fiscal year starts October 1st, which is when the funding cycle begins. Most
Tribes run out of CHS funds by summer and are in “priority one” until the next October 1st. Priority one means you
can’t access CHS funding for medical care unless you have emergent or acutely urgent needs.
Before 1996, Jamestown S’Klallams received access to direct care by going to the clinics at Elwha and Neah
Bay. Contract health services were received by calling an 800 number in Neah Bay and requesting coverage for
services. This funding was for all American Indians in the services area. Tribal people had to show blood quantum.
In the early years, a blue card issued from the B.I.A. was used to identify eligible people. In the later years,
Certificates of Indian Blood were used.
In the 80s and 90s, the Community Health program at the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe with a nurse and a
Community Health Reps (CHR) spent most of their time trying to ensure Tribal people had proper documentation to
receive direct care at the IHS facilities at Elwha and Neah Bay and helping them get CHS referrals for specialty care
or treatment through the hospital.
In 1985 the Tribe’s Community Health Nurse conducted the Jamestown Klallam Tribe Health Needs
Assessment. Enrolled Tribal members were questioned about barriers to health care through IHS; if there were
difficulties accessing services, what kind of insurance coverage they had available to them and any suggestions they
had for improving access to care. The results were submitted to the Neah Bay Service Unit in 1986. Many requested
having access to health care locally.
In 1993 Jamestown compacted IHS funding for the following health services: Community Health
Representative; Mental Health; Outpatient Alcohol Treatment; Community Public Health and Prevention; and
Health Education.
In 1994, the local Tribes (Makah, Quileute, Elwha and Jamestown) began discussing what would happen if they
each compacted their share of IHS funds for all health services. If Makah did this, the clinic there would no longer
be a service unit and eligibility for S’Klallams to receive services there was in jeopardy. Later that year, Makah
decided to continue being a service unit, but this discussion had created enough concern for the leaders at Jamestown
to decide to take over their own health care dollars from IHS. Without an existing clinic, Jamestown approached
IHS about compacting funds and doing a demonstration project to purchase insurance coverage.
Based on the Managed Care Feasibility Study done after Tribal households in the service area were surveyed,
Jamestown decided they could afford to effectively run an insurance based program for enrolled Tribal citizens and
those with 1/8 or more Jamestown blood quantum in the service area. Funding for this group of people was carved
out of the IHS system and Jamestown began running a program by screening eligible Tribal people for coverage and
signing people up for and/or purchasing coverage where there was none. This was a very progressive program that
completely moved away from the IHS way of providing healthcare. Since May of 1996, the program has never
experienced “priority one” status.
In January of 1995, Jamestown took over its funds for dental services and contracted with some local dentists to
provide services to Tribal people. Since this funding included both direct and contract health funds, a $500 annual
benefit was provided to descendants who had been utilizing dental services through IHS. In 2005, the Tribe opened
its own dental clinic and the funding for the descendants went into the cost of running the clinic. It now provides a
20% discount to descendants. The profits the dental clinic makes from billing non-Natives pay for the care of the
eligible Tribal citizens.
What About Out-of-Area Tribal citizens?
The Indian Health Service system is a geographic system that funds and provides healthcare services to
American Indians/Alaska Natives regardless of where they live in the United States. As a Self-Governance Tribe,
(Continued on page 17)
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe November 2012 Page 17
Dear Tribal Citizen: You and your family are invited to the:
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Resource Fair 2012 Saturday, November 17
th 10 am-2 pm
Red Cedar Hall 1033 Old Blyn Highway Sequim, WA 98382 Food & snacks will available throughout the event
There will drawings for: A Tulalip trip, gaming consoles, a cedar bark visor, a cedar bark basket, gift cards and much,
much more! There will be many information booths covering:
Come and see all that your Tribe has to offer its citizens! Transportation to and from this event can be provided from as far as Port Angeles & Port Townsend
Please contact Jeremy Monson to make arrangements at 360-681-4617 or [email protected]
Mileage/overnight lodging for Out of Area Citizens can be paid for through the Learning Enrichment Program
Please Contact Kim Kettel for more information at 360-681-4626 or [email protected]
Community Health Programs
Home Services
Wellness (formerly Managed Care) Program
Dental Clinic
Medical Clinic
Great S’Klallam Smoke-Out
Chemical Dependency Support
WWIETP (Job Training)
Higher Education Scholarships
Department of Vocational Rehabilitation
Economic Services (Energy, Food and Financial)
Children, Youth and Teen Programs
Indian Child Welfare (including Child Care
Assistance, Me and My Baby, Family Law issues)
Elders Programs (including Meals, Fruit, Trips,
Soup Day and Elders’ Luncheons)
Cultural Programs (including Canoe Journey,
Traditional Foods, Singing and Drumming and more
Tribal Housing Program
Natural Resource Treaty Rights
Tribal Library
Tribal Fitness Program
Carlsborg Self-Storage
Help with Human Resources online job application
Jamestown has compacted its share of IHS Funds to provide services in an area designated and agreed upon between
the IHS and Jamestown; Clallam and East Jefferson County. The Tribe cannot serve Out-of-Area (OOA) folks with
those funds nor are OOA citizens counted in the User Population numbers that are part of the funding formula for
that program. Out-of-Area Citizens are eligible to receive healthcare services through the Indian Health Services at
IHS or Tribal clinics in the area where they live. JST Health Department staff and others before us have always
worked to help the Out-of-Area citizens access those services.
In more recent years, Tribal staff have seen a change in the ability of OOA citizens to access services through the
IHS. Although many are receiving full benefits through IHS where they live, others are not.
In response to this, the Tribal Chairman requested that the Health Department staff create a program to provide
assistance to Out-of-Area Citizens to help meet their healthcare needs. The Council funded the program in 2007 at
$500 per person per year and has increased the benefit amount to the current $750 per person per year. In FY2013
the amount will again be increased to $1,000.
There are only a few Tribes other than Jamestown that have health benefits programs for Out-of-Area
citizens. Those that have a program have one similar to the Jamestown program and they are funded at around the
same level. It is important to remember that OOA folks are still now and have always been eligible for IHS/Tribal
Healthcare where they live. The JST OOA program does not replace services that can be provided through the IHS.
It is designed to help defray health care costs to individuals. There is no logic in comparing the two programs as they
have separate funding sources, eligibility requirements and goals.
Questions about eligibility for health programs? Please contact Vicki Lowe at 360-582-4871 or
with two large salmon, Jesse Chavez (Shoshone), Quin Adams (Adams
family), Desiree Freeman (Adams family).
Photo by Lilly Croft.
Excavating
Septic Installation
Demolition
Trucking
Hauling
Logging
Roads Building
Rock Walls
Marine Restoration
Utilities
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe November 2012 Page 19
Salmon Recovery Funding Board Visits Dungeness
On September 20, members of the Salmon Recovery Funding (SRF) Board visited the Elwha River, and the
Dungeness River. Restoration and protection actions on both rivers are critical in recovering salmon of the
North Olympic Peninsula and have received funding for multiple projects from SRF as well as other sources. In
a continuing effort to see the various sites where their funding has made an impact, the board meeting had been
held in Port Angeles on Wednesday, with tours scheduled on Thursday with members of the Lower Elwha
Klallam and Jamestown S’Klallam Natural Resources staffs. Representing Jamestown were Environmental
Planning Program Manager Hansi Hals, Habitat Restoration Program Manager Randy Johnson and Tribal
Council Member/Natural Resources Tribal Policy Liaison Kurt Grinnell.
The group went to Railroad Bridge Park and walked up the Dungeness River to the gravel bar where they
could view one of several engineered log jams that have created deep pools and spawning riffle. There they
were able to see cruising Chinook salmon and spawning redds (nests). They also walked up on to the railroad
trestle where they were able to view property of especially high habitat quality.
In the past, the SRF Board (called the “surfboard”) has funded a variety of Jamestown restoration efforts,
including purchase of property along the Dungeness River, log jam building, irrigation efficiency projects,
design support for the Dungeness dike removal, and monitoring the effectiveness of installing logjams for
salmon recovery. They have recently granted funding to the Tribe for the purchase of 27 acres north of the park.
Tribal acquisition of property along the Dungeness River insures that the riparian corridor along the river will
be protected in perpetuity so that Treaty resources in the Dungeness will remain healthy.
Left, Habitat Program Manager Randy Johnson talks with SRF Board members and Kurt Grinnell. At right Environmental
Planning Manager Hansi Hals presents to the SRF Board.
360-681-3536 or 360-775-5077 Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at 292 Business Park Loop, Sequim
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe November 2012 Page 20
Dungeness River Festival: Educating the Next Generation
The fry bread booth at the River Festival is a
fundraiser for the Tribe’s Elders Programs. The
booth was staffed by Margaret Adams, Florence
Monson, Janet Duncan, Sheila Strong and Betty
Brooks.
Northwest Native
Expressions Gallery and
Gift Shop is a great place to
do your holiday shopping.
Featured this month is a
new line of wooden
ornaments and votive
candle holders made by a company in Wisconsin that
specializes in sustainably harvested materials. Art Buyer
Wendy Humphries explained that using the Tribe’s artwork
designed by Dale Faulstich, the products are made especially
for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe and are not available
anywhere else. This is also true of many of the garment and
jewelry designs available at the gallery – they are
“exclusively Jamestown.”
“Over time, we will be adding to this line, which we call the House of Myths products,” she said.
Christmas Gift wrapping is free with any purchase at the gallery, and
You can always shop online at www.NorthwestNativeExpressions.com Northwest Native Expressions Gallery and Gift Shop
1033 Old Blyn Highway, Sequim on the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Campus
Open 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily.
Ornaments include wolf, salmon, salmon circle, frog
and hummingbird. Votive holders are available in
either hummingbird or salmon design.
At left, students
look through a
microscope at
tiny marine
animals:
zooplankton
and
phytoplankton.
At right,
students
spray water
into an
enviroscape
to learn
about storm
water runoff
which
includes rain
and various
animal and
human-
generated
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe November 2012 Page 21
Treaty Tribes Release State of Our Watersheds Report
Ongoing damage and destruction of salmon habitat is resulting in the steady decline of salmon populations
across western Washington, leading to the failure of salmon recovery and threatening tribal treaty rights,
according to a report released today by the treaty Indian tribes.
The tribes created the State of Our Watersheds report to gauge progress toward salmon recovery and guide
future habitat restoration and protection efforts. It tracks key indicators of salmon habitat quality and quantity
over time from the upper reaches to the marine shorelines of 20 watersheds in western Washington. The report
confirms that we are losing salmon habitat faster than it can be restored, and that this trend shows no sign of
improvement.
“Indian people have always lived throughout the watersheds of western Washington. We know these places
better than anyone else because they are our homes,” said Billy Frank Jr., a Nisqually tribal member and
chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. “This State of Our Watersheds report clearly shows
that we must reverse the loss and damage of habitat if the salmon, our cultures and our treaty-reserved rights are
going to survive.”
The report includes data gathered over decades of tribal, state and federal efforts to provide a view of
watersheds across western Washington, as well as recommendations for protecting those watersheds and the
salmon they produce.
The report documents:
· Increasing armoring of freshwater and marine shorelines by levees, dikes, bulkheads, docks and
other structures that harm natural functions and reduce or eliminate salmon habitat.
· Disappearing forest cover in our watersheds – especially along rivers and streams – that is not
being replaced. Forest cover helps keep stream temperatures low and reduces bank erosion.
· A huge network of unpaved forest roads, especially those crossing streams, which contribute to
sedimentation that can smother and kill incubating salmon eggs.
· Ongoing salmon habitat degradation on agricultural lands because of tree removal, diking and
polluted runoff.
Despite massive harvest reductions, strategic use of hatcheries and a huge financial investment in habitat
restoration efforts over the past 40 years, the State of Our Watersheds report shows that we are failing to turn
the tide on salmon recovery. This fact is borne out by an assessment of the Puget Sound Chinook Recovery Plan
developed by the state and tribal salmon co-managers and adopted by the National Marine Fisheries Service.
The 2010 assessment declared that while protecting existing habitat is the most important action needed in
the short term, salmon habitat continues to be degraded and better habitat protection efforts are needed. The
assessment acknowledges that responsible harvest management is doing its share to support salmon recovery,
and that salmon populations in many watersheds would not improve even if harvest was completely eliminated.
Yet while harvest is held accountable for salmon recovery, habitat loss and degradation continue every day
throughout every watershed in western Washington, destroying the salmon resource and along with it, the
cultures, communities and treaty-reserved fishing rights of the tribes in western Washington.
The State of our Watersheds report can be viewed online or is available on CD through the Northwest
Indian Fisheries Commission Web site at www.nwifc.org/sow. The report is a living document that will be
updated as new data become available.
The State of Our Watersheds report is part of the Treaty Rights at Risk initiative created by the treaty tribes
in 2011 to address the erosion of tribal treaty-reserved fishing rights from the ongoing loss of salmon and their
habitat. The initiative is a call to action for the federal government to fulfill its trust responsibility to the tribes
and its duty to recover salmon by leading a more coordinated salmon recovery effort. More information is
available at www.treatyrightsatrisk.org.
~Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe November 2012 Page 22
Job Openings: Apply Online!
Library Assistant 1 Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe seeks a Library Assistant to provide a high level of customer service,
organize and maintain library holdings and automated cataloging & circulation system, assist with
implementing programs & activities related to literacy and community engagement, and perform
moderately complex, routine clerical operations. Duties include community outreach at events, deliveries,
orders and purchases, shelving & checking books in/out, repair and maintenance of books, patron
registration, maintain computer database, assist patrons with research for special projects and provide
them computer and internet instruction. Requires high school diploma/GED, WA state driver’s license
with insurance, willingness to complete library administrative training, knowledge of modern office
practices, procedures & equipment, high level of comfort with internet searches and apps such as MS
Word, Excel & Outlook, considerable cultural competence and skill handling a diverse public with tact &
courtesy, high level of customer service, work well with others, above average written & verbal
communication skills, attention to detail, able to follow complex oral & written instructions, to make
decisions using good judgment, to pass a criminal background check, to regularly lift 25 pounds, have
manual dexterity & visual acuity. Familiarity with a variety of book genres is desirable. American Indian/
Alaska Native preference for qualified candidates. Full-time, M-F, 8-5, full benefits. Apply: http://
jamestowntribe.iapplicants.com; call: 360-582-5783. Open until filled.
This position is covered by the provisions of the Crime Control Act of 1990, Child Care Worker Employee Background Checks
and the Indian Child Protection & Family Violence Prevention Act of 1990. Applicants will be required to submit to a 5-year
criminal history background check, including fingerprinting. For more information, refer to the complete job description
available at http://jamestowntribe.iapplicants.com/.
Seeking Applicants for the Tribal Gaming Commission The Commission meets monthly to ensure compliance with the Tribe’s compact, state and federal regulations
as well as with 7 Cedars Casino’s Internal Controls. Reports to Tribal Council. Appointee will serve a 3-year
term starting January 2013. This seat on the Commission may be held by a Tribal citizen or a member of the
community at large, though Tribal citizens will be given first consideration.
Wednesday Mornings at 10:30 a.m. in the upstairs exercise room at the Jamestown Family Health Center, 808 North Fifth Avenue, Questions and RSVP: Tanya Pankowski