To Chart Improvements At Chemawa, Oregon Congressional Reps Call For Map
Four members of Oregon's congressional delegation are giving top officials at the Bureau of Indian Affairs a month and a half to provide what might seem simple: a map of federal land at the north end of Salem.
With Google maps and satellite images a keystroke away for anyone with a computer, how hard can it be to provide a map of the Chemawa Indian School?
Hard enough that Oregon's U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden and Reps. Suzanne Bonamici and Kurt Schrader wrote a letter to demand it.
The map Merkley and his Democratic colleagues want would lay out "which agency manages each part of the Chemawa campus, including establishing ownership and trust status of the underlying property as well as all individual facilities on the property." The trust status may be of particular importance to the Grand Ronde and Siletz — nearby Oregon tribes that Merkley said also want this information.