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OTHER NEWS & NOTES Discrimination Against Tenants: What is Fair Housing? from Linda Gast, Oregon Legal Services NARF Receives Education Grant from WjK, Kellogg Foundation The W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan has awarded a $ 189,000 grant Federal and state laws protect your right to fair to the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) of housing. This means that no one can lawfully Boulder, Colorado in support of its legal work to violate your housing rights because of improve student attendance, academic perfor *race mance, and educational attainment levels of over *religjon 600,000 American Indian and Alaska Native stu *color dents. The grant will enable NARF to continue *sex providing Indian tribes with the necessary tech * national origin nical assistance and leadership to establish and *mental or physical disability enforce their rights to control the education of *family status (this included pregnancy their tribal members. In particular, NARF will or the presence of children under age 18 in the use the funding to promote cooperative agree household. An exception exists for certain ments between tribes, states, federal agencies and housing that qualifies as senior housing.) public schools, and to develop tribal education Discrimination may be very obvious or codes that address curricula development, edu very hidden. The following are examples of ways cation standards, staffing, funding, and parental in which a manager or other type of housing and community involvement. provider might discriminate: For more information, contact Melody - Refuses you the chance to rent or buy McCoy at (303) 447-8760. housing. - Does not allow you to fill out an application or give you a definite answer about your application. - Tells you the housing is not available although it really is. DO IT YOURSELF DIVORCE CLASS - Directs you to housing in a particular area, Newport’s Oregon Legal Services will neighborhood, or section of the complex. be providing a self-help divorce workshop for - Singles you out, denies you services, or treats uncontested divorces. The next one is November you differently than other tenants. 13,1998. The workshop is free. Participants - Harrasses or intimidates you. will be given forms and instructions on how to do - Asks questions that belittle you. their own divorce. The workshop is one three - Gives you an eviction notice and there is no and a hal fhour class with pre-registration required. other likely reason for eviction. Please contact Oregon Legal Services for - Tells you that you cannot, at your own expense, additional information and to register. Our public make physical changes to your unit that you need hours are Monday - Wednesday from 10:00 - because of a disability. 2:00. Our phone number is 265-5305, outside - Refuses your reasonable request for an the Newport area our toll free number is 1 -800- adjustment in housing rules that you need because 222-3884. Phone messages or written messages of your disability. can be left at any time. You can also reach us at Oregon law also prohibits discrimination P.O. Box 1970, Newport, Oregon, 97365 — or- because of a tenant’s source of income, for - stop by our office at 127 S W Nye Street, across example, TANF. It is not legal to refuse to rent from the Newport Post Office. to a blind or deaf person because the person has an animal needed to help this person. Landlords cannot charge additional rent or frees for a hearing or guide dog. To find out more, call Tribal Legal Services at 1-800-222-3884. Other places for information are: Fair Housing Council of Oregon: 1 -800- 424-3247; (Portland: 223-8295). This REDBIRD’S JOURNAL statewide organization enforces fair housing laws. Indian Newspaper HUD - Fair Housing and Equal Articles Needed Opportunity: 1-800-877-0246. This federal The November issue of Redbird’s agency enforces fair housing laws. Journal is underway!!! Please send Oregon Bureau of labor, Civil Rights. us your upcoming events, fund Portland - (503) 229-5900 raisers, meetins, announcements, Eugene-(541)686-7623 etc., to let all of Oregon know Salem - (503) 378-3296 what your tribe has underway this Pendleton-(541)276-7884 winter. The expected distribution Medford-(541) 776-6197 date is the 1st or 2nd week of This state agency enforces laws that prohibit November, please include discrimination in housing, employment and public December to take advantage of this accommodations. Oregon Coast Community College Board Meeting - Monday, November 9,1998 at 7:00 p.m. at the Newport Center 332 SW Coast Hwy., Newport If a person with disability needs assistance in order to attend, call 265-2283 ext. 109 48 hours in advance. -18- free promotion opportunity. Classified advertisements are $14 per column inch. You can call and leave a detailed message or fax your information to Kristy Offineer, Visionary Press, Phone: (541) 552-1744, Fax: 1-541-552- 1432. SHINNECOCK TRIBE FILES FOR eederalrecogmtiqn Native American Rights Fund of Boulder, Colorado announced that the Shinnecock Tribe of New York State has filed a petition with the Buruea of Indian Affairs for federal recognition as a tribe. The State of New York acknowledges the Shinnecock Tribe and interacts with the Tribe as a political entity, but they do not have a government-to-government •elationship with the federal government. Presently, the Tribe is based on the Shinnecock Reservation near Southampton, New York, on the lands that have remained in its possession since 1859. The Shinnecock Tribe has occupied the eastern end of Long Island since time immemorial. CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES TO THE SHINNECOCK TRIBE. New Address: Bureau of Indian Affairs Puget Sound Agency 2707 Colby Avenue, Suite 1101 Everett, WA 98201-3528 FEEATYAQUINA HEAD by Tina Retasket The Bureau of Land Management an nounced that they started charging a fee of $5.00 per vehicle entrance fee to Yaquina Head Oustanding Natural Area to help offset costs of operation and maintenance. Recently, a protest was held at the entrance of Yaquina Head, to protest the implementation of the fee. The BLM implemented the fee after an earlier fee for visiting the interpretive center and lighthouse failed to generate enough revenues. The Yaquina Head site was purchased and developed with taxpayer dollars, and was a historical cultural site for the Siletz Tribe. If you have questions, comments or would like to purchase an annual pass, contact the BLM at (541)574-3100. VETERANS SERVICES Where to go for help.... VA Benefits -1-800-827-1000 Life Insurance -1-800-669-8477 Debt Mgmt. Center - 1 -800-827-0648 TDD - 1-800-829-4833 CHAMPVA- 1-800-73-8387 Headstones & Markers - 1 -800-697-6947 Persian Gulf Hotline -1-800-PGW-VETS Persian Gulf TDD - 1-800-829-4833 Portland VA Medical Center - (503) 273-5069 VA Online: telnet://vaonline.va.eov' http;//www,va.gov/ November 11 th is Veterans Day. Take the time to stop a Veteran and say Thank You — for our freedom, for all they have sacrificed on our behalf.
