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Life line unit proven beneficial
certain it is working correctly.
She should like to see the units
she is always in danger.
A lthough the unit does p ro 1 She also mentions she would activated when an abrupt move
A lready activated twice, the
lifeline unit worn by Ellen Heath vide a sense of security when like a modified Version of the m ent is made such as falling.
has proved beneficial. The sig Ellen is alone, she says the unit neck unit allow ing a m ore com Now, the unit iS activated only
nal unit w orn around her neck around her neck makes her feel fortable necklace. Ellen adds when the button is pushed.
enabled Ellen to notify M oun
tain View H ospital of her need
for assistance.
Recently introduced in this
area the Lifeline system pro
vides a way for elders who often
choose to live by themselves to
have a sense of security. •
A receiver located at Mt/View
H ospital in M adras receives the
signal activated by the neck sig
nal unit through a private tele
phone line. The subscriber’s ser
vice unit num ber is flashed on
the hospital m onitor, his card
pulled and a hospital attendant
calls a listed responder to check
on the client.
W hen the responder reaches
the subscriber’s hom e he Will
push a reset butto n on the tele
phone unit inform ing the hospi
tal th a t h e has arrived . The hos
pital im m ediately calls the sub
scriber’s residence. A dditional
assistance is dispatched if there
is no answer indicating the re
sponder is busy with the client.
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The Lifeline hom e unit is
Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shtw ctyk
checked once a m onth to make
A lifeline signal unit worn around Ellen H eath ’s neck can activate an electronic receiver which in turn
alerts M ountain View H ospital attendants in case o f an emergency.
U.S./Canada treaty ratified —
If not looked at as a package the
tribes involved would not sup
port it:
The im portance of protecting
and rebuilding the salm on re
source and the need for this
treaty was summ ed in testim
ony submitted by Delbert Frank,
Continued from page 1
Sr. on behalf of the Confeder
ated Tribes of W arm Springs.
P rior to th e bills ratific ato n in
the Senate, “To this day, our
culture an d religion rev o lv e.
around salm on, especially th e .
Chinook salmon. F or our 1855
T reaty and our way of life to
have meaning, we m ust have
salm on.”
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The treaty, which was first
introduced to Congress Ja n u
ary 16, 1985 will be signed w
Canadian Prim e M inister Brian
M ulroney and President Rea
gan in Quebec City M arch 17.
Culture to be added to curriculum
A co m m ittee m ade up of
Teachers and com m unity repre
sentatives nave begun meeting
toP ev elop a p r o g ra m o fa c tiv i-
ties to teach Indian Cultural
Awareness to students a t W arm
Springs Elementary School. The
first meeting was a productive
one. The end result of the work
o f this com m ittee will be to
develop a package of activities
to be used by the classroom
teacher with assistance from com
munity resource people. Each
grade level’s activities will be
planned to build oh the activi
ties which, will be presented a t;
the previous grade levels.
This buildingproject will com
plim ent the work that is pres
ently being done at the district
leveldevloping a M ulti-Cultural
Awareness Guide fo r teachers.
The activitiesdeveloped will later
be incorporated into the outline
of activity topics developed for
th e
D is tr ic t
M u lti- C u ltu r a l
A w a re n e s s C u rric u lu m .
The next step will be to develop
the list of activities th a t might
be included in the program .
Y our assistance in this would be
greatly appreciated. If vou have
On March 19, 19/b, Spilyay
newspaper.
After everything was all set,
the staff was hired, with the first
office located in a very small
room on thè northeast corner of
the building of th è old girl’s
dorm . The first thing to do was
to narne the paper, so an an-
The solicitor’s office advised
W arm Springs superintenderit
Bernie T opash recently th a t thé
recent land cîàiiris judgm ent
monies can not arid will not be
released from m inor’s accounts
until they turn 18 years of agè.
Topash stated that he has had
nouncement Was put in the week
ly newsletter o f a name contesr
for the newspaper. We d id n ’t
get any response, perhaps, be-
cause the first prize was not a
trip to Ha w aiter Something like
that. Well, anyway, there had
to be a name o f som e kind, the
staff thought it should be some
thing unique, with an Indian
name and all.
So they form ed a com mittee
to look into the possibility of
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MANAGING EDITOR ............................................ Sid Miller
ASSISTANT EDITOR .................................Donna Behrend
Darkroom/Writer
Reporter
Typesetter
C o n tin u e d fro m page 1
usually ha ve Ho generate twice
as much as your salary.” Sm ith
said th at if you take two weeks
off, you lose two week’s salary.
“ W hen y o u ’re n o t w orking,
you’re not making anything.”
tion, and say, contract with the
trib e” to m anage the project for
10 years or so “until we can
train someone to take it over.”
Sm ith also m entioned gaming,
something th at has really caught
on on various reservations. “These
Qne thing th at will hopefully are the types of things I ’m going
alleviate working 365 days a to be taking a look at. But in the
year is for Sm tih to become mean time, I probably will con
involved in another business. tinue to consult and do th at for
“N ot w orking for someone, but a long time, because I think
maybe get into business on my there are a lot of things to do
o y n .... J. wojuldn’tm m d.pptt.ing A o u t , there. There’s still ri. big
project together on a resBrva- need.”
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Scott takes clarinet title
Funds to be held
S p ily a y T ym oo
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grams exclude custodial care."
Public Health observes the same
H ealth care costs are rising policy. “This is by regulation. It
and there appears to be no end is not a local ruling.”
If an eligible person requires
in sight. A five-day stint in tlie
hospital
care and has insurance
hospital in a semi-private ward
costs ab o u t $2,700 plus the phy coverage, IH S pays the deduct
ible and the insurance pays the
sician’s fees and operating costs,
if any. If a person has no insu remainder. In the same m anner,
rance and is not eligible for wel-, if the person has no insurance
fare or M edicare, w hat’s the and is not eligible for any other
assistance, IH S will cover the
answer?
F o r IH S eligible Indians, the ex p en ses.. .there is no limit.
IH S also has a deferred servi
solution is simple—IHS will pick
ces roster. This roster names people
up the ta b as long as the services
who are identified who are in
rendered are either emergent
need of procedures such as cat
and preauthorized.
But, for health care th a t is aract surgery, hip replacem ent
and crow n and bridge work.
n o t considered priority I, IH S
can not pay. f o r instance, if an These procedures are not con-
1 sidered priority I. “IH S has a
elderly person needs to be con
fined to a nursing hom e for an priority system ,” said Loomis.
“We deal with the m ost medi
indefinite period o f time, IH S is
cally critical things first.”
not'C onsidered the source of
Loomis explained th a t the
funding. All o th e r a lte rn a te
overall operating budgeting of
funding resources, such as the
IH S is ab o u t the same as last
Vets, M edicare, M edicaid, wel
year
b u t th a t priority I items, so
fare and in som einstances, car
far have, been higher. Deferred
insurance arid W orkmen’s Comp,
services come only after priority
by law, m ust be investigated
I needs are’ met. Some deferrals
and utilized.
are delayed an indefinite period
“We will not purchase custo
of time and some* people volun
dial care,” said W arm Springs
tarily w ithdraw from the roster
S e rv ic e U n it D ir e c to r Lee
Loomis. “ However, we will p ur for personal reasons. “We p ro
vided every deferrable service
chase care related to recovery
applied for last year. So far, this
and recuperation.’’T hroughout
r, i t ’s a d iffe re n t sto ry .
th e country, health care pro- y M ea
oney’s tighter.”
by Donna Behrend
some feelings ab o u t the kinds of
a c t i v i t i ri S y o u w o'u 1 d
like to have co n sid ered in the get jn g h Z y o u m ^ e a, decen t
planting; please Kstyourtri Oughts salary if y o u ’re busy. B ut you
and drop them by the School
We will review all suggestions
a t our next com m ittee meeting,
M arch 18, 7 p.m . a t the W arm,
W arm Springs and the grand
Bridgette Scott, 16, was se tral Oregon.
Springs Elementary library.
Bridgett will com pete in the daughter of Nick and Viola
lected as the winner; in the dis
trict solo instrum ental contest
state finals held in Ashland, Kalama and Elmer Scott.
Greg Hastings also of M ad-
held in Bend M arch 2. The high, O regon, April 27i She will com
schoolsophom ore Won the bass pete against students from var ras High school took second
/place in the bass clarinet solo
claririet/solo goippetition.* She ious districts in the state.?
Bridgette is the daughter of competition.
competed against students from
several requests from the parents high schools throughout Cen G ordon and Brenda Scott of
or guardians of minors. .
The funds are being held In a
separate account and they will
draw interest. If a Child dies
At w hat tem perature does ing gold, silver and honorable
before the age of 18, the inonies
Warm Springs students receiv
will go to the heirs (parérits of m old grow best, how does colof m ention medals to. them, but ing silver medals were S aphro-
brothers or sisters) as determined influence taste,'w hât difference the medals’wefen’t as im portant nia Coochise and Nicole Yaw.
by the adm inistrative law judge. 'does insulation, fnake heating a . as other aspects of the science O ther W arm Springs students
hoirie were questions M adras- fair projects.
who participated in the fair and
J r . High students.,answered as
The purpose of the science received ho n o rab le m entions
they worked ori tlieir various ; fair, according to M JH science aw ards were M ary H enderson,
science projects for the 1985 instructor Jill Rain is to encour Scheldon M innick, K endrick
startirig one. W ith the help of Science F air held M arch 5 at age independent thinking. The A rthur, N ikki Courtney, Irwina
the public relations office, W. W. •M adras Ju n io r High schriol.* .students come up with their Mitchell, Tyrone Sm ith, Del
M arsh, the tribal management Using the scientific process stu own ideas for a project and fig-/ bert Lawson, M att Clements,'
and the journalism teachers from dents made observations and pre qut a m ethod to arrive; at an Rachel Macy, Daniel Smith,
M adras High School and other ^experimented to arrive at a con answer. The students who p ar Ryàn Eagleheart, Lois Tewee,
key personnel, it was agreed clusion making a graphic pres- ticipate, says Rain, have a good J o n a th a n S m ith , D o ro th y
th at jt was feasible to have a entation of their work.
feeling ab o u t it. They feel a K a la m a , N o rm a S w itz le r ,
.Qpmmunify members judged great satisfaction after comple Rhonda McKinlely, Demus M ar
n e w s p a p e r h e re in W a rm
Springs, which would be pub- the work of the students aw ard- tion ,o ff he science project.
tinez and Thurm an Squiemphen.
lished once a m outh, in tab size.
Becoming pressed fo r timej
we came up with the name “Spi
lyay Tym oo.” It was an arbi
trary orie by the staff. One rea
son was th at years and years
ago, legends were that Spilyay
(Coyote) had a lot to do with
the creation of the lifestyle for
the Indian people. Spilyay was
an educatori an inform er to the
people, he taught them how, to
su rv iv e/h e tau g h t.th em right
from wrong; He warned, them
of harm ful things, always keep
ing them up on the latest hap
penings. 3
;?",
A nd so, W ith the S p ily ay
(Coyote), the m ountains and,
the desert scenery are symbolic
o f/th e reservation landscape?
thus the title “Spilyay T ym oo,”
(Coyote News).
This Was the Tribal C ouncil’s .
attem pt to keep the,tribal mem?
bers inform ed of reservation
activities as well as state and
national news that is pertinent
to the tribe. ;
As time passed, there have
been a lot of dissappointm ents
an d some slpw times, but on the
brighter side of things there
have been a lot of accom plish
ments since its origination. And
Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk
hopefully in the future, better
and brighter things will happen. Learning about disinfectants D elton Switzler examines experiment log k ept by science student.
Happy birthday Spilyay Tymoo
Tym oo m ade its debut with its
first issue. Earlier that year, the
Tribal Council decided i f was
ab o u t-tim e wé had our own,
N ot th a t consulting work is
going to be any easier. Sm ith
stated th at the “consulting field
is a to ugh busiriess. You d o n ’t
Marsha Shewczyk
* Pat L&ip-Baker
PriscillaSqüiëmphen
FOUNDED IN MARCH OF 1976
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IHS there to help
with health costs
Smith returns with new career-
old very fast. I think th at four
yearsSat th at type of a jo b and
going a t th a t pace, it’s better to
get out when you can. ” i An
average day for Sm ith was 11
hours long. “I felt th at there was
just so m uch to do. I h a d lo put
in the extra w ork.” •
S pilyay T ymoo
Projects encourage thinking