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Students Learn A s Well A s Earn
In the middle of its second
year in Warm Springs, the work
release program is successful
and very beneficial says Bob
Nelson, coordinator of the pro
gram.
The work program is a
program between the school and
the student’s employer. It is for
students who have enough cred
its and don’t need a full day of
classes, or a last resort for
students to pick up extra credits
to graduate. The students work
for four hours a day but are only
paid for three. The extra hour
goes toward credit.
There are two types of pro
grams: Cooperative Work Ex
perience and Work Experience.
Cooperative work experience is
when you’re taking a class that’s
related to your job. Work ex
perience is when th ere’s no
available class related to your
job.
“It’s impossible to create a
work environment in a class
room,” stated Nelson. Winona
Spino discovered this in her
business experience class. Prior
to her job with the BIA, Winona
had to take a business class for
one sem ester. Winona’s job is
mainly clerical work.
Dorothy Burgess, Winona’s
supervisor said Winona is pretty
dependable and is learning dif
ferent skills by doing different
things from day to day. Dorothy
praises Winona because of her
improvement in her job. “ The
longer you work in an office
situation, the better your skills
get,” said Burgess.
Larry Squiemphen and Os
wald Tias both work for Utilities
Maintenance. Osward plans to
use his experience to work in
that field and said he would go to
a school if the need arises.
Other students enrolled in
the program and where they
are:
Allen Langley (Micro-film
ing); Arlene Wewa (Alcohol
Drug P rogram ); Mina Shike
(Community Center); Jackie
Estimo (Warm Springs Grade
School); ValerieSwitzler (BIA);
Mona Jim (Tribal Court); Roger
Stwyer (Newspaper); and Nisa
Sohappy (Health, Education,
and Welfare).
Oswald Tias is learning such skills as plumbing and carpentry
in his work experience with the Tribal Utilities Department.
CDS Photo
Juvenile Judge Hamilton Greeley has Mona Jim schedule hearings.
Natural Resource Staff
Students To Tour Reservation
from Humboldt sionals by the Bureau of Indian
Attends Training Session State Students
University’s natural re Affairs, only 17 are Indian; and
For the purpose of learning
new techniques and advancing
and upgrading staff positions,
four members of the Warm
Springs Natural Resource De
partm ent recently attended a
five-day training session at Top
penish, Washington.
Termed very worthwhile,
the week-long Fish and Game
Enforcement Training Seminar
was attended by Terry Luther,
Earl Miller, Roscoe Smith and
Oliver Kirk. Warm Springs was
one of nine reservations repre
sented there.
The training seminar helped
familiarize newer employees
with current practices being
used as well as providing the
opportunity to learn how other
reservations operate their natur
al resource programs. For those
who had already had such train
ing it was considered “ a good
review — like a refresher
course.”
Of the topics covered, the
men were most enthusiastic
about the segment on public re
lations. “ Basically, we were
shown how to treat the public in
a respectful yet efficient man
ner,” said Luther. Stressed was
the idea that people coming onto
the reservation are “ guests” ,
and as “ guests” they are re
quired to follow the laws or
regulations of the reservation.
It’s similar to being on private
property.
Smith said that their train
ing included the importance of
being polite when off-reservation
people ask questions when visit
ing. “Our conduct and integrity
is most important because if we
make a good impression, they
will be more inclined to obey the
law,” he said. If someone does
do something illegal, bitterness
can often be avoided through
courteous explanation when
writing up a citation.
Luther observed that there
is a very obvious difference
between Warm Springs’ Natural
Resource Departm ent and the
departments of other tribes rep
resented at the session. He feels
that this reservation has a policy
of maintaining a pretty low pro
file of enforcement while most
other trib es’ natural resource
personnel wear full uniforms
and badges. He also noted that
at Warm Springs they are called
conservation officers rather than
game wardens.
Apparently other reserva
tions have greater enforcement
problems than Warm Springs
does, perhaps because here
there is a definite boundary
while many reservations are
checker-boarded. It could also
be that Warm Springs is more
aware of PR values, according
to Luther.
The training program cover
ed detection and reporting of
environmental and wildlife dis
eases, game m anagement and
patrol procedures, and the im
portance of fish and game data
statistics.
Also discussed was the im
pact of tree thinning practices
on wildlife. It was emphasized
that any thinning program must
take into consideration the need
for buffer zones for a number of
reasons. Basically, animals
must have shelter and thermal
cover or their survival will be
threatened.
Buffer zones along the banks
of streams and rivers also pro
vide cover for wildlife, as many
wild animals prefer not to drink
in open areas. In addition, since
birds such as grouse nest near
streams and insects near those
stream s provide feed for the
young, buffer zones serve as
protection for birds.
Courses in practical subjects
such as report writing, map
reading, statistics, and inter
viewing were also offered during
the five-day session. Also cover
ed were techniques of search
and seizure, obtaining evidence
and federal prosecution.
A segment of the training
was devoted to why a natural
resource officer has the author
ity and power to cite or arrest.
Under the Tribes’ treaties with
the federal government, and as
a governing body, the tribes
have the authority to adopt rules
and regulations for the protec
tion of their natural resources,
primarily fish and game.
Although the men felt that
the five-day training session had
been a good overall program,
they expressed a desire for a
more concentrated course in
actual fish and game oriented
information. They did report
that there was talk of continuing
the program and going indepth
into such specific areas.
source program will be visiting
the Warm Springs Reservation
March 21 as p art of a four-day
field trip to Oregon.
The group will spend an
aftern o o n with the Warm
Springs N atural Resource De
partment and so far the itiner
ary includes a trip to the hat;
chery and to the 4-H feedlot.
Director Gene Greene and
Terry Luther, Tribal Wildlife
Biologist, will give about a two-
hour talk on the tribal programs
in the natural resources field.
“Four years ago the Native
American Career Education in
Natural Resources (NACENR)
Program at Humboldt State
University was founded in an
effort to correct the long stand
ing critical problem of Non-
Indian management of Indian
resources, on both reservation
or other Indian-owned lands,
and of water, fishing, mineral
and other resource rights on
Non-Indian owned lands. Native
American professionals are des
perately needed to make those
higher level management de
cisions concerning utilization
and conservation of Indian re
sources currently being made by
Non-Indians, whose interest may
not necessarily be those of the
Indian owners.
It has long been evident that
until such time as Indians own
and manage their own resources
and properties, economic de
pendence on Non-Indians will be
necessary. Of the 319 persons
employed as resource profes
there are no Native American
professionals at the Doctoral
level in the United States at all.
Located in Arcata, Califor
nia (275 miles north of San
Francisco), the NACENR Pro
gram , a p art of the School of
Natural Resources at H.S.U., is
seeking applications from In
dian people who have been
working in the field of Natural
Resoutces as technicians and
who would now like to earn
professional degrees in their
fields, and from Junior College
Indian transfer students who
hopefully have been following
science curricula.
The School of Natural Re
sources offers degree programs
in Forestry, Resource Planning
and Interpretation (Park Man
agem ent), Wildlife Manage
ment, Fisheries, Range Manage
ment, Watershed Management,
and Oceanography. NACENR
students choose and follow one
of these programs with the addi
tion of a group of courses in
Native American natural re
sources management problems.
NACENR provides seasonal
and permanent job placement,
the usual fin an c ial aids
(B.E.O.G., S.E.O.G., B.I.A.,
Work-Study, loans, etc.) and
some special aid possibilities
associated with the program
such as O.I.E. and various
N.atural Resources fellowships
including the Muskie-Winnie
Fellowship, for women only, and
the International Paper Scholar-
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