Trains, aquariums, libraries and parks on horizon for Head Start students
By Lori Jay-Linstrom, Parent Involve
ment Coordinator
April is a busy month for Head Start.
Families who live in the Portland and
Salem areas and have children who will be
going to kindergarten have attended what is
called a Kindergarten Roundup. This is the
perfect opportunity for families to visit the
school their child will attend, register them
for the upcoming school year and meet the
principals and kindergarten teachers.
In April and May, all of our Head
Start centers will participate in seed
planting activities with Sharia Robinson
with the Tribal Healthy Traditions project.
Sharia will show students how to take care
of the plants. They will plant snap peas,
sunflowers and edible flowers. They will
be able to watch them grow when they
take the plantings home.
Siletz and Tenas Head Start class
rooms will go to the train station in
Toledo. The classes have been studying
Courtesy photo by Alissa Lane
grains and transportation - what a great
Children from the Head Start morning class in Siletz and the Tenas Illahee class visit the Newport Airport on March 3.
way to tie everything together.
Lincoln City will go to the Oregon
Coast Aquarium in April and during the
guest artist Ken Walker will come to the
students have really learned so many new
If you would like to purchase tickets,
last two weeks will have their swim les classroom and help students make paper.
things this year.
please contact any Head Start staff. Par
sons on Monday-Thursday. April 22 will
On April 28, the class will go on a field
ents can stop in at your local Head Start
be an added class day, which also will be
trip to the Mt. Hood Community College
Raffle tickets available
classroom or the Tribal administration
an Easter egg hunt for them. Lincoln City
fish hatcheries for a tour and picnic lunch.
We are now selling tickets for our building. Drawing will be held in May by
staff and students are looking forward to
Salem will study space, weather, ecol
annual Head Start raffle; we will sell tick
the Siletz Tribal Head Start Policy Council.
a new student joining their classroom.
ogy and plants for the next several weeks.
ets through April and up until the drawing.
Head Start always accepts applica
Portland will go on a special field trip The classes will take a field trip to a local
One of our two grand prizes is a dinner
to the local city library for a picnic lunch
tions; our new applications for the 2011-
park and McDonald’s. Salem staff encour
for two, show tickets for two and a night’s
during story time with Librarian Joan,
ages families to attend the field trips or
stay at Chinook Winds Casino Resort. Our 2012 school year now are available. We
whom staff and students just love as she just come and have fun in the classroom.
have Head Start locations in Siletz, Salem,
other grand prize is a Pendleton blanket
is very good to our program. On April 13,
Teacher Jayne and Debbie say that their donated by the Siletz Tribal Council.
Portland and Lincoln City.
NCAI honors Indian Country Leadership Award recipients at winter session
WASHINGTON - The National
Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
recently announced the recipients of the
organization’s prestigious Indian Country
Leadership Awards.
Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI), chair
man of the Senate Committee on Indian
Affairs, Associate Attorney General Tom
Perrelli, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and
longtime Tribal leader and advocate Billy
Frank Jr. were honored Feb. 28 for their
outstanding contributions to Indian Country.
Wilma Mankiller, the first female
chief of the Cherokee Nation who passed
away in 2010, was recognized posthu
mously among the 2011 recipients. NCAI
will honor her by naming the organiza
tion’s fellowship program in her honor.
“Unwavering leadership is an impor
tant quality of a hero in Indian Country;
each of the awardees have proven their
commitment through actions, chang
ing Indian Country for generations to
come,” said Jefferson Keel, president
of NCAI and lieutenant governor of the
bilities to Indian Tribes. Chairman Akaka
Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma. “It is a
personal honor to be able to posthumously
recognize the lasting legacy of Wilma
Mankiller. Her example as a Tribal citizen
and Tribal leader is a standard that will
live forever.”
NCAI, the nation’s oldest, largest and
most representative American Indian and
Alaska Native organization, presented the
awards during an award reception held in
conjunction with its Executive Council
Winter Session.
has been the lead sponsor of the Native
Hawaiian Reorganization Act, which
would restore self-government to the
indigenous people of Hawaii. This year
he became chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Indian Affairs by virtue of his
seniority and long-standing commitment
to Indian issues.
Congressional Leadership Award
Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii
Sen. Akaka is the only indigenous
member of the Senate and has served
as a member of the Senate Committee
on Indian Affairs since 1991. He has a
demonstrated long-standing interest in
supporting Tribal self-determination and
honoring federal trust and treaty responsi-
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How to order your refills after hours and on weekends: Please call 7-10
days before you need your refills. This allows us time to contact your provider,
if necessary, and for mailing.
Call 800-648-0449
Enter 1624 as soon as the clinic’s message begins - you’ll be transferred to
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Native American Leadership Award
Billy Frank Jr.
Billy Frank Jr. is a peerless advo
cate of Tribal treaty rights and natural
resources. In the 1960s and ’70s, Frank
was arrested more than 50 times defend
ing the Tribes’ established treaty rights
to fish, hunt and gather shellfish. His
courage resulted in “the Boldt Deci
sion,” a federal case re-affirming Tribal
rights and establishing Tribes in Western
Washington as co-managers of salmon
resources. As the long-time chairman of
the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commis
sion, he continues to advocate tirelessly
for the protection of American Indian and
Alaska Native natural resources for the
benefit of all peoples.
Governmental Leadership Award
Tom Perrelli
Associate Attorney General Tom
Perrelli has made public safety in Indian
Country a priority since day one. His
commitment has resulted in concrete
improvements in law and policy, includ
ing enactment of the Tribal Law & Order
Act, institution of a streamlined DOJ
Tribal grant solicitation, creation of a new
federal/Tribal domestic violence pros
ecution task force, creation of the Tribal
Nations Advisory Council and the hiring
of additional assistant U.S. attorneys to
prosecute crime in Indian Country across
the nation.
Public Sector Leadership Award
Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
has worked over many years to support
American Indian and Alaska Native
families through grant-making and direct
services. The foundation has been a
leader in the philanthropic community,
providing critical resources to support
programs and initiatives for Native chil
dren. The foundation’s investments have
filled an important gap in providing criti
cal data on Native children and supporting
Native institutions that inform effective
policy making at the national, state and
Tribal level.
Special Recognition Award
Wilma Mankiller
In honor of the outstanding contribu
tion of Wilma Pearl Mankiller to Indian
Country and Tribal relations with other
sovereign nations, the National Congress
of American Indians will name its fellow
ship program in honor of her legacy. It
will henceforth be known as the “Wilma
Mankiller Fellowship Program for Tribal
Policy and Governance.”