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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1991)
UN l HI ! P.O. Box 870 Warm Springs, OR 97761 Address Correction Requested U.S. Postage Bulk Rale Permit No. 2 Warm Springs, OR 97761 t M ' 0 0 C ; : : ..iKit.t.i! I l!-,.,;K Spilyay Tymoc " "v,';"",:""'"' Jji News from the Warm Springs Indian Reservatio t VOL. 16 NO. 15 Coyote News In Brief BIA reorganization discussed Tribal leaders met in Portland to discuss the restructuring of the BIA. Page 2 County Fair begins The 79th Annual Jefferson County Fair promises numerous . activities and exhibits. Page 2 Students employed by Tribe Seventy-five students are employed through the Summer Work Program. Page 3 Wright resigns After 34.years In the 509- J School District, superintendent Darrell Wright plans to retire effective September 1, 1991. - PageS Head Start registration begins Parents of students who wish to enter the Head Start Program in the fall must register children before the end of July. Page 5 Obesity runs high In children One child in four is overweight. Ideas for controlling weight are offered. Page 7 P.O. BOX 870 WARM SPRINGS, OR 97761 JULY 26, 1991 Huckleberry Feast activities are scheduled for the weekend of August 3 &4at HeHe Deadline for the next issue of Spilyay Tymoo is August 2, 1991 Weather JULY HI LOW 8 90 58 9 , 92 54 10 94 49 11 86 53 12 92 62 13 82 66 14 80 53 15 76 57 16 68 59 17 74 58 18 80 48 19 84 53 20 87 48 21 87 55 22 92 56 23 94 62 Computer camp designed for junior high students The Johnson O'Malley Commit tee is sponsoring a locally planned summer computer camp for sev enth and eighth grade students and their parents. The camp is sche duled for two weeks and started July 22 and will end August 2. The camp is held daily from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the elementary school and includes computer instruction, cul tural hypercard projects and field trips to tribal enterprises with com puter applications. The purpose of the computer camp is to provide an education ally focused summer activity for students and parents. The high school summer school and summer library are aimed at elementary and secondary students, leaving junior high students with nothing specifially designed with them in mind. A secondary purpose is to en hance the SMILE program at the junior high school by upgrading current equipment, supplying new Apple computers and instructing students in their use. Learning to use the computer provides students with a challenge in thinking and processing information in a way not normally available in the regu lar classroom setting. Students projects will include child and parent research of cultu ral material, oral history and fam ily trees. The information will be programmed with the result being either the students' oral history, legends and or family geneology. Students will learn how to use the computer, specifically the Hyper Card program, and how to work with a database. Field trips are scheduled for Warm Springs Forest Products, Warm Springs Power Enterprise, Forest Management and Office of nformation System. Students will experience computer applications in each site and tour the facility. The Computer Camp was plan ned and organized by the JOM Committee with assistance from Julie Mitchell and John Nelson. John is a third grade teacher at Warm Springs Elementary and Julie the tribal education director. The JOM committee consists of Shirley Sanders, Shirley Heath, Art McConville, Sheryl Courtney, Kirby Heath, Sue Matters and Barbara Yaw. They provided many ' ) . . ) J . y i ,,.y v - ' ----- y Students in Johnson O 'Malley sponsored computer camp learn computer use and computer applications. Madras High School student Russel Graham helps instruct (left) Tricia Stradley and (center) Mavis Kirk, ideas and guidance in planning the purpose and direction taken in the camp. Over a three-month period, the committee, among other activi ties, approved sponsorship of the project, identified the need, deter mined the age group and coordi nated public information with newspapers and radio. John and Julie designed the schedule, con tacted and arranged for instructors and field trips, located enough com puters for the lab and tended to many details. Attendance was limited to 16 to 20 students and was dependent on the number of computers availa ble. It is most desirable for each student to have a computer, but due to cost, accessibility to space, transporting borrowed equipment, lease costs, etc.. .class size was limited to 16. Staffing the computer camp are George Beekman and Michael Johnson, OSU computer science instructors. Both are experienced Apple computer users and knowl edgeable in a variety of applica tions. George and his computer literate family arrived with eight borrowed computers, set up the lab, and will all assist students dur ing instruction. Mike is scheduled to arrive during the second week of the camp and continue instruction and introduce students to database use. Assisting George and Mike are John Nelson and Russell Graham. Russel was an active SMILE stu dent and has attended the OSU summer Math Camp. Russell is currently a freshman at M H S. Both John and Russell are eager to learn more about Apple computers and use their new skills during the upcoming school yean Many individuals and depart ments are involved in planning such a computer camp for kids in Warm Springs. As always, funding to continue the project is neces sary. If you would like to contrib ute to the project or can apply for funding for more computers and or to expand the camp, please call Julie at 553-3241. Ideas for next year's camp are already being dis cussed. If you have any ideas or would like to volunteer to help plan and organize the 1992 camp, please call Julie. Referendum due August 6 Tribal members will go to the polls Tuesday, August 6 for a ref erendum that deals with the bor rowing terms for the new Early Childhood Education Center. On March 6, 1990, nearly a year after the referendum passed for the new education center, tribal voters approved a constitutional amend ment that permits the tribe to bor row money for projects "in accor dance with terms to be approved by referendum." The language in the education center referendum spoke only to borrowing amount ($3,375,000), not to the terms. The question to appear on the August 6 ballots will be: "Shall the borrowing of up to $3,375,000 for the purpose of designing, equip ping, constructing and financing an Early Childhood Learning Cen ter as approved by the eligible tri bal membership on May 6, 1989, be on the following terms: "Any note, loan or bonds evi dencing such borrowing shall be fully paid in not more than 20 years and the interest rate on any such borrowing shall not exceed an average fixed rate of 9.5 percent or a variable rate not to exceed the prime interest rate or similar index." In order to gain the lowest pos sible interest rate for financing of the learning center, the terms need to be approved by the membership. No construction delays are antici pated due to this referendum vote. According to tribal vital statis tics, 1,647 members are eligible to vote in the upcoming election. Of those, 549, or one-third, must vote to validate the election. Members must be at least 21 years of age or be married in order to vote. Leaders meet in Utah Approximately 60 tribal leaders gathered in Sundance, Utah last week to discuss the future of tribal organizations and their relation ships with the U.S. government. Pierson Mitchell, Delvis Heath, Vernon Henry and Brenda Scott attended the meeting. According to Patricia Zell, chief counsel and staff director for the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, which is chaired by Sena tor Daniel Inouye, said American Indian leaders should act now that the're is a favorable climate in vongress and insist on a national agenda. "The strength and the power lie in your hands, " she said. Zell also commented that sena tors are recognizing that the old way of setting Indian policy react ing to crises must give way to a more thoughtful, purposeful ap proach. However, senators on the 16-member committee want that initiative to come from Indian Continued on page 2 Scholarships available. '... Juvenile Justice Workshop set for Resort Up to 30 scholarships will be awarded to members of the Con federated Tribes of Warm Springs and native Americans living in Warm Springs for the upcoming Juvenile Justice Workshop. The three-day session, coordinated by the Warm Springs Tribal Court and the Cascade Law and Policy Institute, will be held August 21,22 and 23 at Kah-Nee-Ta. Registra tion is $235 per person. The scho larships will cover tuition, mate rials, two lunches and a powwow. The scholarships were made avail able by Tribal Court, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Human Services and the Oregon Childrens Services Division. The theme for this year's Gather ing is "Harmony for Our Child ren." Harmony results when all involved, including children, fami lies, community members and the legal system, work together toward common goals. Harmony does not just happen, it must be gained through the use of skills that can be learned by all. Numerous workshops and panel discussions will focus on topics such as cross-cultural communica tion, advocacy for victims of crime, problem-solving fundamentals and many others. Each of the 15 work shops will be offered twice over the three days. Teaching the workshops will be facilitators from across the United States as well as from Warm Springs. Their expertise in dealing with juveniles and their families will assist participants gain helpful information. If interested in req uesting a scho larship, applicants must submit their name, phone number and reason why they want to attend the workshop and why the scholarship is needed to Judge Don Costello at PO Box 850, Warm Springs, OR 97761 or phone 553-3454. The workshop is open to all interested in creating a safer, more harmonious place for children. Registration fees should be mailed to Costello. Rooms have been set aside for the conference at Kah-Nee-Ta for $55 per night, single or double occupancy. When making reservations, state that you are attending the third annual Juvenile Justice Gathering. Education reform discussed Reading, writing and arithmetic will serve as the building blocks, but college preparatory courses and vocational training classes will be the finishing materials in Ore gon under the major reform mea sure passed by the 1 99 1 legislature. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, i shared information on the new law (HB 3565) with Mid-Columbia educators and school administra tors this week. The Oregon Educational Act for the 2 1 st Century calls for major changes in classroom curricula, lengthening the school year and implementing statewide testing of progress, all by the year 2010. The changes will be phased in over the next two decades. "Few bills drew as much atten tion this session, because few bills will have as great an impact as this one. Teachers, parents, students everyone associated with public education in Oregon-will feel the effect of this new law," Walden said. Walden has mailed a summary of the legislation to teachers and superintendents in District 56. The fact sheet outlines many of the major provisions of the bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Governor Barbara Roberts this August. Coupled with the implementa tion of Ballot Measure 5, which requires the state to replace rev enues lost to local school districts under the property tax limitation, Continued on page 8
