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Pace 2 May 1, 1992 Warm Springs, Oreaon SimeyayTymoo 4 ! 1 v V jj' .' 'I " fj -AVvVV I Vf Tribal Council hosts appreciation dinner The Tribal Council appreciation dinner held Friday. April 24ih 1 992, at the Kah-Nec-Ta Lodge was well attended. The dinner was to honor the Tribal Council members as their term expires this month. There were several guests present from the Political world as well as those who have had close working relations with the Tribes. Present was the lobbyist from Washington D.C., Mark Phillips, also Beverly Clarno, Tom Throop, Dan Ahcrn, Rick Allen to name a few. There were several others on hand who have worked with the Council on regular basis include Dr. Crcclman and wife, Russ Algcrs and wife, Stan Rcid. All the Committees were on hand also to make it a big night out. One of the leading speakers was the out going chairman, Zane Jack son, as his remarks were on the work related experiences with the Tribal Council members where they faced some lough times as these past three years were pretty trying at times. An there is always the brighter side of things also but they all worked very hard for the Tribes. Dennis Karnopp.Tribal Attorney, had the task of introducing the spe cial guests and he also had some recollections of the past three years working side by side with the Tribal Council. Ken Smith, theC.E.O. of the Con federated Tribes, spoke on the past three years and what difficult times this council faced. Ihere were some lough decisions they tu1 to make and when they made their decisions they stuck with them. Decisions that included the closure of the mill, the big lay-off which were difficult de cisions to make, but everything they did was the best interest 01 the Tribes. Dclvis Heath, chief of the Warm Springs Tribes spoke briefly as he focused his thoughts on the working relations with the non-Indians. We've all got to work together no matter what color or who we a. t, that's what accomplishes things, is where we are able to work well with one another. The evenings program was under Master of Ceremonies Rudy Clements. As the evening wore on there were awards presented to: One of the General Managers for the outstanding service which was done by Doris Miller, Tribal Council Secretary. Achievement Awards were presented to the Tribal Council members and all the Committee members by their working staff. Part of the closing ceremonies were the 4-H girls, led by Tcddi Tancwasha and Orthclia Miller, who did the Lords Prayer in sign language. The closing ceremonies were done by Nettie Shawaway, Matilda urn' Picrson Mitchell. Deschutes River- Continuod from page 1 statement addressing vehicle access above the locked gate should be re leased by June. There will be a 60 day period for written comments. The BLM expects to issue its final record of decision sometime this fall. The cooperating agencies will begin to immanent some plan provisions this summer. However, provisions requiring administrative rulemaking (such as the new jet boat regulations) arc unlikely to be implemented this summer. Questions and requests for mail ing should be directed to Jacque Grccnleaf at Oregon State Parks, 525 Trade Si SE. Salem, Oregon 973 10 or phone (503)373-5020. IHS eye clinic scheduled for May 28 in Warm Springs A big 'un Harvlanne Tohet recently showed off a celery stalk she picked along Kah-Nee-Ta grade. The xatns'i measured 25 inches in length and was a good 111 inch in diameter. New agent joins local Extension staff Norma Simpson is the new Or egon State University Extension agent working with Home Econom ics Programs on the Warm Springs Reservation, reports Clint Jacks, Jefferson County Extension Agent and Staff Chair. Simpson began her duties March 15. The new Extension agent fills the position previously held by Mollie Marsh, who resigned several months ago when she and her family moved to Idaho. Simpson is expected to cm- Shasize family finance, nutrition and calth, and family relationships in hcrprogram while she works with an advisory committee to identify other programs needed by families on the Reservation, Jacks said. '"Simpson, a native of Idaho, brings extensive overseas experience with her, he notes. Before coming to Jefferson County, she was a senior lecturer in the Advanced Diploma Unit of Goroka Teachers College at trc'Univcrsity of Papua New Guinea. She "began work there in 1987 to develop an advanced diploma in Home Economics Teaching. 'From 1981 to 1984, she was Com munications Advisor for a small farm technology project in Paraguay. She also worked with the American Home Economics Association in evaluat ing an income generation for rural women workshop for Latin Ameri can Home Economists. I Her other overseas experience in cludes work as a Home Economics Communications Advisor in Nigeria. Before starting her international work, Simpson was Home Econom ics Extension Radio Editor at the University of Wisconsin, and Ex tension Home Economist in Idaho's Teton and Clark Counties and a Home Service Advisor for Idaho Power Company in Pocatcllo. The certified home economist is active in numerous professional or ganizations. She earned her undcr graduatcdcgrcc in Home Economics in Business from Idaho State Uni versity. She then obtained her master's degree in Home Economics Journalism at Wisconsin and her doctorate in Home Economics Edu cation from Oklahoma State Univer se ft. m OSU powwow set The 16th Annual Oregon State University Spring Powwow has been rescheduled for May 30, 1992,duc to a conflict with another rather large powwow in the area on the same day. The powwow will be held at Gill Coliseum at OSU in Corvallis. The schedule for the days events is as follows: 3-4 p.m., storytelling at Gill Coliseum; 4-6 p.m., dinner (free) at Gill; 2-11:30 p.m., Native Craft Vendors; and 7:00 p.m., Grand Entry-drumming and dancing until 11:30. Set up for vendors is at 12:00 noon. The cost per table, (not per scale) is S20 plus a donation for our drawing. Drawing tickets will be sold that day for SI each. If interested in reserving craft tables for native crafts and supplies, please phone NASA at the Native American Longhousc, OSU, (503) 737-2738. HOT students prepare for special event Mini-classes on a variety of sub- A complete schedule of activities jeets will replace regular classes at will be available before the HOT Madras High School on May 13. The sponsored school day. day s program, sponsored by the An eye clinic for patients with diabetes will be held at the II IS Clinic on Thursday, May 28 from 8:00 a.m. to 1 1 :00 a.m. It is very important for patients with diabetes to sec an eye doctor every year. Diabetes can damage the smaller blood vessels (capillaries); this in turn affects the eyes. Why docs this happen to small vessels? No one knows exactly why this happens. It is believed that high blood sugar levels can damage these blood vessels over a period of lime. How can diabetes affect the eyes? Retinopathy is a disease of the retina in the eye. The retina sends the pic tures of what we see to the brain. When the blood sugar levels arc too high, the blood vessels in the retina may become weak over time. The weak spots in the blood vessels bal loon out into small pouches. These pouches are fragile and can break easily. Blood leaks into the retina. A scar forms at the broken spot. This is called background retinopathy. In this type of retinopathy, there is usually no change in sight, unless the central part of the retina is affected. Is there another type of retinopathy? The second type is cal led proliferative retinopathy. In this type, new blood vessels grow over the retina and out into the clear jelly that fills the eyeball. The new vessels can break and leak blood. You may be able to see signs that this has hap- cncd. Your vision may be like ooking through blood or a spider web, or you may see black floating spots. As the broken vessels heal, bands of scar tissue lorm. Prolifera tive retinopathy is very serious. It can lead to blindness unless it is treated. Sometimes the bands of scar tis sue pull the retina away from where it is attached. This is called retinal detachment, which is also very seri ous. You may lose sight suddenly in one or both of your eyes, or it may seem as if a curtain has been pulled over part of your eye. It's important to call your doctor if this happens. I low is retinopathy treated' There are new ways to treat retinopathy. If it is caught early and treated in the right way, most blindness can be prevented. How will I know if I have retinopathy? There usually arcn'tany early signs of this problem. Only a specially trained doctor can tell if you have retinopathy. It is very im portant that patients with diabetes sec an eye doctor every year. How else docs diabetes affect my eyes? Vision may become blurred when blood sugar is too high. The blurred vision will usually go awsy when blood sugar levels come down. People with diabetes have cata racts and glaucoma more often than people who don't have diabetes. A cataract happens when the lens of the eye becomes cloudy. This causes your vision to become cloudy, too. Glau coma is when there is too much fluid inside the eye. This causes high pressure in the eye. Glaucoma can cause vision loss if it is not treated. Both cataracts and glaucoma can be treated if they arc found early enough. Ccn eye problems be prevented? Good blood sugar control can prevent or delay eye problems. Most blind ness in people with diabetes can be prevented if treated early enough. One of the best things you can do for yourself is to sec the eye doctor. If you have diabetes and have not seen the eye doctor in a year or more, please plan to attend the Diabetic Eye Clinic on Thursday, May 28 at the IHS Clinic from 8:00 a.m. to 1 1 :00 a.m. If you have any questions about the eye clinic or about the Warm Springs Diabetes Program.call Candacc Reich at the Clinic at 553 1196. Powwow on tap The Chcmekcta Community Col lege Native American Club will sponsor "In honor of all", a powwow with drumming, singing and contest dancing, Saturday, May 9, 1992 at the Chcmckcta Community College Gym (building 7), 4000 Lancaster Drive N5, Salem, Orcgcn. Sessions will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to midnight and will include drumming, singing and contest dancincandaratnc. U of O plans spring powwow . Norma Simpson Healthy Options for Teens (HOT) board, will focus on careers, problem solving, and providing information. Students will have the opportunity to learn about aviation, ham radio and model railroads. S tudents, teachers and community members will be conduct ing the classes on a wide range of subjects. In one session class participants will lcam how to apply for state jobs, and in another they will learn self-awareness through art. Discussion groups will review problems of peer pressure and other difficulties students face. Two assemblies will entertain stu dents. The Black Lodge Singers from White Swan Washington EOSC plans spring powwow May 9 Eastern Oregon State College will hold its Spccl-Ya Indian Club spon sored powwow May 9, 1992. The 22nd annual powwow will be held at Quinn Coliseum from 7:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight. The University of Oregon's, Na tive American Student Union spon sored, 24th Annual Sprint? Powwow is scheduled for May 16 & 17, 1992, at Mac Arthur Court, University of Oregon, Eugene. The host drum will be Northern Winds, of Whitcfish Bay, Ontario, Canada and Mockingbird, San Fran cisco Bay Area. Masterof ceremonies will be Allan C. Ncskahi, Cortez, Colorado. And the arena director is Vaughn Baker of Poplar, Montana. All drums arc welcome. For further information call or write: NASU, Rm 15-AJEMU, Uni versity of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403,(503)346-3723. NASU is not responsible for theft, , accidents, divorces andor stranded guests. Alcoholic beverages and illegal drugs are prohibited. Diabetes series to be held in May, June Remember your mother on Mother's Day, May 10 Vancouver, BC Indian child welfare conference to focus on strength of extended families The theme of the conference, the conference challenges each ot "Spirit of Caring: Sharing the us to look at how we often bring our Strengths of First Nation Families," own cultural values and biases to the centers on the most enduring quality work that we do. Besides offering A major conference focusing on the welfare of Native children in Canada and the United States will take place on May 19-22, 1992 at the Coast Plaza at Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. The event is the sixth annual conference of the Northwest Indian Child Wel fare Association located in Portland, Oregon. The three and a half day meeting, for Native and non-Native social workers, band and tribal lead ers, court workers, state and provin cial social service administrators and policymakers, natural helpers, spiri tual leaders and others, is being co sponsored by British Columbia's Ministry of Social Services with help from their Aboriginal Family & Child Services Unit and many other Vancouver First Nation agencies and bands. of Native people: the inherent strength of the extended family. "The idea was to have a conference that shares information based on those things which Indian people value most. The extended family is the single most important entity of Na tive people. Without it, there would have been no survival for us," says Terry Cross, a Seneca Indian and Executive Director for the North west Indian Child Welfare Associa tion. "We believe the participants can use the conference information in their work with Native children or in making policies and procedures that effect these children dn their families." Mr. Cross also stated that Spilyay Tymoo Staff Members MANAGING EDITOR SID MILLER ASSISTANT EDITOR DONNA BEHREND PHOTO SPECIALIST MARSHA SHEWCZYK REPORTERPHOTOGRAPHER...SAPHRONIA KATCHIA TYPESETTERRECEPTIONIST SELENA THOMPSON FOUNDED IN MARCH, 1976 Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of Warm springs. Our offices are located in the basement of the Old Girls Dorm at 1115 Wasco Street. Any written materials to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761 PHONE: (503) 553-1 644 or (503) 553-3274 FAX No. 553-3539 Annual Subscription Rates: Within U.S. - $9.00 Outside U.S. -$15.00 good information, the conference will provide a forum for dialogue be tween the United States and Canada on important issues regarding Native children which must be addressed. Keynote and workshop present ers will include Dr. John Red Horse, Dean of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Ms. Joan Glode, Executive Director; Micmac Family & Children Services of Nova Scotia; Mr. Ernie Crey, President, United Native Nations; Honorable Joan Smallwood, Minister, Ministry of Social Services; Mr. Terry Cross, Executive Director, Northwest In dian Child Welfare Association; Ms. Susan Veit, Director, M.S.S. Children & Family Services; Ms. Leanne Miller, Assistant Attorney General, State of Washington; Ms. Yvonne Peterson, assistant Secretary, De partment of Social and Health Ser vices, State of Washington; Mr. Bertram Hirsch, Attorney for the Association on American Indian Af fairs; and many others. Special guests will include chiefs and elders from the three bands of the Vancouver area and representatives from vari ous Vancouver Native agencies. Workshops will be presented on three tracks: individualself, child, and family. Topics will include re covery from the residential school experience, adoption, strengths of women, cross-cultural practice skills, sexual abuse treatment, art therapy, parenting skills and other pertinent topics. Participants will be able to utilize an art therapy room and a traditional medicine healing room provided for their own healing throughout the conference. "It is very important for us to nurture and take care of ourselves in this line of work. We are offering Uiat opportunity at the conference." said Aneie Todd- Dennis, Coordinator for the First Na tions Health Professions Program UBC and Co-Moderator of Ceremo nies for the conference. Also, tradi tional native talking circles will fo cus on recovery from alcoholism, men's and women's issues, and adult children of alcoholics. For more information, please contact Jay LaPlante, Conference Coordinator, Northwest Indian Child Welfare Association, co R.R.O., P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207; Telephone (503) 725-3038 or FAX (503) 725-4180. Or contact Ken Clement, M.S.S. Aboriginal Family & Child Services Unit, 330 E. Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. V6A 1P3; Telephone (604) 660-0515 or FAX (604) 660-9328. J5 TV"" 7 iVT The Warm Springs Diabetes Pro gram is sponsoring a six-week scries of classes on diabetes. The classes will be held every Tuesday, from 10:00 a.m. to ll:00a.m.,in the Warm Springs Community Center. Anyone is welcome to attend. Registration is not required; however, if you know that you will be attending, please call Susan Mathew, Diabetes Nurse Educator, at the Clinic at 553-1196 so that she can plan for handouts, chairs, etc. Each class will cover a separate topic so if you are unable to attend the entire series you will still benefit from coming when you are able. The topics to be discussed are: May 5 High blood sugar - low blood sugar May 12 Treatment of diabetes May 19 Self-blood glucose monitoring May 26 Preventing complica tions of diabetes June 2 Learning to accept that you have diabetes If you have any questions re garding the classes, or about the Diabetes Program in general, please call Susan or Candace at the Clinic. Happy Mother's Day From Spilyay Tymoo i: .1 Heifer mutilated Delford Johnson holds the back leg of a heifer that was found mutilated near Set kseequa Corral April 15. Only the uterus had been removed from the two-year-old cow which belonged to Johnson. Chris Greene, left, of the natural resources department and Anson Begay, of Fish and Wildlife, examine the carcass and investigate the crime. According to police statistics, numerous cattle have been butchered in recent weeks.