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c S pilyay T ymoo Í } New Faces, job assignments in 1984 for BI A In 1984, the Bureau of Indian Affairs a t W arm Springs gained five new employees and one BI A employee here at the agency received a p rom otion to a, new position. The employees are a p art of the BIA staff which w orks fo r the betterm ent of the reservation offering a num ber of services to the tribe and Indian people. W arm Springs in (October, 1984. She moved here when her hus band, Clarence, took a jo b with the BIA. She is the m other of six children. H er special,inter ests evolve around her family and children. At this time she spends a lo t of tim e w atching BMX bicycle races. She is of NaVajo descent’. Lori Logan transferred to that a new jo b and finding new mem position from the Portland Area bers of her family, Aldgne Pevo office. L o ri cam e to W arm transferred.from Ihterm ountain Springs in A ugust, 1984. She Indian S chool at Brigham City, grew up iri the H ood River area Utah. Aldene’s grandmother was of Oregon. She is single. Special rin allotted Indian on the W arm interests for her are volleyball, Springs reservation before she she plays on the Spilyay team; moved to Ft. Hall, Idaho. So in reading and sewing. Lori really arrivingin Warm Springs Aldene likes W arm Springs and enjoys has been able to meet members being out of the P ortland area. of her family that she h adn’t She is of Seneca/ Cayugadescent. m et before. She, did know some of her relatives but since coming here she has met even more. Aldene is single. She cam e.to W arm Springs in June, 19&4. She and her three children are enjoying settling into- the area. Shs is a m em ber of Title 4 P art A Indian Education com mittee and recently joined the Warm Springs Rodeo Association* She is of Cheyenne and Bannock descent. , Clarence Jefferson Gerald Henrikson G erald H enrikson joined the Land O perations departm ent iri Septem ber of 1984 as the N atu ral Resources officer. He traris-. ferred from the Blackfeet Reser vation in Browning, Moritaria. G erald is m arried to 'D ia n n e an d the father of Shahin, age- 10. He enjoys fishing, gardening and running. He and his family live in M adras. He said he enjoys the m oderate w eather here in Central O regon and likes it be cause there are n o t the winds, like in Browning. C laren c e Je ffe rso n b egan Working as the BIA facilities management manager in October in 1984. He had worked for the governm ent in. A laska for the Indian H ealth Service departs ment. He moved to Phoenix, A rizona where he worked for himself. He then came to W arm Springs with his family.* His wife Beverly w orks for the BIA as an adm inistrative clerk. He enjoys fishing, h u n tin g an d general photography. He likes the W arn) Springs area, the good climate and the nice peo ple. He and his family live ins W arm Springs. He is a member of the Yakim a, Sioux tribe. W endy P o itras transferred from the P ortland Area office to work at the Realty office in W arm Springs as a realty clerk. W endy is an A laskan Indian from Sitka, Alaska. She has worked for the BIA for nearly 12 years. Her husband, David P o itra s w orks in the T rib al forestry technician p rogram . They have a 2*4 year old daugh ter, Aimee. She and her family live in the Tenino valley area. H er special interest is bowling on the S n u ff Sm ith team. She likes living in W arm Springs better than P ortland, saying it is much quieter in Warm Springs. Lepha Marie Smith N ot new to the area but re cently receiving a prom otion is enrolled m em ber of the C on federated Tribes, Lepha M arie Sm ith. M arie has worked for the BIA at W arm Springs off and on since 1966. She had worked a num ber of years for Land O perations as a secretary. She has been tranf erred to Admin istra tiv e staff where she is a qelerk. M arie, a tten d e d s c n o o ls in W arm S prings an d M adras. -She is th e m o th er o f five child Beverly Jefferson Lori Logan W orking on the A dm inistra tive staff as a clerk, Beverly Jef Assúrhing responsibilities as ferson started in N ovember at the m ain office. She cam e to the superintendent’s secretary, Moseley assisting research Rosella has accepted a posi tio n with the Institute on Aging at Portland State University. The institute is part of the School of U rban and Public Affairs. Rosella will be scheduling inter views and training throughout the N orthw est related to Aging and C oping with Stress. The stress course is for seniors and will be conducted on some Indian reservations still to be selected. T he course will be centered around coping with stress for those physical illnesses such as heart attacks, A lzheim er’s Dis- ease, artnritis, etc. Dr., Spiro M anson is pres ently the Acting D irector. He has developed an A m erican Indian depression scale to mea sure depression for In d ian s of all ages. Rosella will also be w orking with this project to develop it further, and develop some effective research. Rosella can be contacted at: Portland State University, Insti tute on Aging, School of U rban and Public Affairs, P.O. Box 751, P ortland, Oregon 97207, (503)229-3018. Aldene Pevo Com ing to W arm Springs to Indian News Notes THIS WAS THE YEAR THAT W A S - 1984 FOR AMERICAN INDIANS: In January, the Presidential Côntr^jssion on Indian Reservation Economies announced 12 regional meetings to hear what Indian people would say about improving reservation economies. Novem ber 30, the. com mission, in its report to the President, recom mended the creation of a new Indian trust agency, a perm anent W hite House commission on Indian business development and more reservation programs handled through block grants, increased tribal contracting or private sector organizations. Resignation. Interior A ssistant Secretary Ken Sm ith resigned in December, Smith, who received the United Indian Development A ssociation’s Jay Silverheels aw ard in October, deserved a medal for cònsistency, In his confirm ation statem ent he said he believed in the ability o f Indian people, th at they did riot have to be dependent on the federal governm ent, and th at the key to self- sufficiency was a strong, stable tribal government. He never varied from th at basic position in his three-and-a-half years in office. Bingo. A new wrinkle in the Indian bingo boom was introduced in 1984. The city o f D uluth, M innesota invited the Chippewa Indians of the nearby F ond D u Lac reservation tó bring their high stakes bingo game into town. The city proposed a joint venture that.w ould bring econoniic benefits to both tribe and city. Acting A ssistant Secretary Jo h n . Fritz, in December, gave tentative approval to the plan. He said the D epartm ent would be willing to take in tru st certain land in the city to be used for the bingo games if details Of the agreement between the city and the tribe were satisfactory resolved. Legislation. A new Ak-Chin wqter settlement act was developed and passed. Secretary of the Interior W illiam Clark said the act enabled the United States to fulfill a long-standing obligation to the tribe, save the taxpayers tens of millions of dollars and foster water conservation. O ther legislation reauthorized and broadened thè Indian Financing A ct; restored 25,000 acres of land to the Cochiti Pueblo; m ade perm anent the provisions of the Indian Tribal G overnm ent Tax Status Act; increased th e interest paid on Indian trust fupds; and m ade the Senate Select Com mittee on Indian Affairs a perm anent committee. A bill extending and am ending the Iridian H ealth Care limprovement Act, however, was vetoed by Presiderit Reagan. The President noted that the program s were already funded for 1985, said he supported the interit of the bill, but was vetoing it because of “serious flaws.” Indian Press. A meeting of some thirty Indian journalists at Penn A ssociation, T he N avajo Times in M arch becam e the.fjrst Indiari daily newspaper. A new publication, focusing on Indian business and financial m atters, Iridian Finance Digest, was initiated by the American Indian N ational Bank. The Lakota Times, one o f the few non-subsidized Indian papers? expanded coverage* and circulation from the Pine. Ridge Reservation ih South D akota to the eight other reservations in the state. Treaty Rights. The iriagazine “O utdoor Life” wrote a series of vicious editorials th at helped trigger a revival of organizations opposed to special status or rights for Indians. Interior Deputy U nder Secretary William H orn appeared before Sortie 1,000 members of Equal Rights for Everyone, Inc., in Wisconsin and asserted, flat out, th at the ttèàties would not be abbrogated. He said tr eaty rights supersede strife-rights as w ell agi 14th A m en dm ent guarantees’'of equal treatm en t u n d er thé la w tickets which will be selling from $4 each to $400 for a special package. The purchase price is tax deductible. E ntertainm ent for the show will be provided by the C ountry DrumriierS, juggler Tom Arthur, ventriloquist Rod Jam es, singer Bill Younger as well as special d e m o n stra tio n s by academ y members. For more inform ation call 389-8995.V TWO MEMBERS OF CROW TRIBE SERVE IN MONTANA STATE LEGISLATURE: Ram ona Howe and William Yellowtail, members of the Crow tribe, are elected members of the M ontana legislature. Mrs. H ow e is serving her second term , representing House District 99 which includes p art of the Crow reservation. Yellowtail was elected in N ovember to the state Senate, representing a district th at includes both the Crow and N orthern Cheyenne reservations. Both reside in Lodge Grass. Financial aid forms available Even though its only mid- January, young adults consid- ering college or vocational train ing during spring term or next fall, should pick up applications fo r f in a n c ia l a s s is ta n c e soon. Deadline for spring term is Friday, February 8. Fall term, deadline is M ay 15. Parking solution only effective if applied , Spilyay Tymoo photo by L(no-Baker Finding a solution to a prob lem is only effective when the solution is applied and prac ticed. T h at appears to be w hat is happening with the parking problem in the Old A dm inistra tion building. W ith the construc tion of the jail underway, the parking area near th e building has dim inished. To correct the problem a parking lot was con structed just north of M acy’s store. Employees are still balking at parking their cars in the lot. They are parking in the parking area north of the building. T ak ing the parking spaces near the building doesn’t relieve the park-? ing problem s for people who are coming to the building foir business. D elford Johnson, enterprise manager, stated the police will issue parking violation tickets once the parking is posted. The only way parking prob lems can be alleviated will be for Employees to use the p ark in g lot. J Page 3 Media Coverage. Bingo probably attracted as much coverage in ren. She works with the 4-H the non-Indian press as all other Indian topics combined. There C ultural club. M arie said she was sortie m oralizing and editorializing, but, for the most part, the plans to work with the BIA bingo stories stuck with the who, what, why, when and where, until she can retire. approach. The W ashington Post an d Newsday published series on The BIA employees approx how bad reservation life was. These were countered by upbeat imately 68 people in the W arm stories in th eR ead ers Digest about the economic progress'of the Springs office in departm ents Mississippi Choctaws arid the Down East magazine^ telling about ranging from social services to the achievements of the M aine tribéè. The New York Times quoted roads. The largest departm ent L aD onna Harris of Arriericans for Indian Opportunity com m ent is forestry which employs 38 ing on the riew level of sòphiscation, education and political Smarts ift the Indian Com munity today. N ational Public Broadcasting people. featured the Odyssy film, “The New Capitalists;” showing eco nomic successes on a- num ber of reservations, * Benefit planned The N ational Academy o f Gymnastics in Bend will be spon soring a C ountry Music and Variety Show February 24 at Bend High School. Proceeds from the show will go tow ards local gymnastic scholarships and eq u ip m en t fo r the academ y. There will be two shows; one at 4 p.m. and another 7 p.m. Phone solicitors will be cal ling W arm Springs residents within the next few weeks to sell January 18,1985
