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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.
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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