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'4 P.O. Box 870 Warm Springs OR 97761 Address Correction Requested U.S. PtwUg Bulk Rut Permit No. 2 Warm Springs, OR 97741 Spilyay Tymco News from (he Warm Springs Indian Reservation 000645 SERIALS SECTION U OF 0 LIBRARY EUGENE, OR 97403 VOL. 17 NO. 20 Coyote News In Brief Open house scheduled D.E. Manufacturing Enterprises will hold an open house October 8 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the old plywood plant building. Page 2 Smoke detector testing Important Checking batteries in smoke detectors is important for home safety. Page 2 Students learn success strategies Planning time and budgets are strategies students can learn to help them succeed in college. Page 3 Tribal member comments needed A provided questionnaire asks tribal members for responses on forest operation. Page 5 USOA office provides agricultural services Technical information for producers is available through the USDA office in Warm springs. Representatives are available from 9:00 to 1230 pp.m. each Thursday. Page 6 Activity bus available for students Activity bus allows students to partake in school activities. Page 6 Improve children's ability to concentrate Use positive talk, ask questions and set goals to help children learn skill of paying attention. Page 7 Deadline for the next Issue of Spilyay Tymoo is October 9, 1992 P.O. BOX 870, WARM SPRINGS, OREGON 97761 OCTOBER 2, 1992 Warm Springs reports 27 confirmed cases of hepatiitis A There arc currently 27 confirmed rcctly linked through family contact as of hepatitis A in the Warm with the first cases believed to have ellow? Does your skin have a ycl- Springs community. The first cases come from Yakima. Warm Springs Feeling unusually tired? Do the es of yellowy m lowish cast? Answer yes to any of were reported in June and July and has seen more cases in the last three these questions and you should see a arc believed to have come from the weeks than were reported in ail of doctor immediately to be tested for Yakima area. The most recent cases 1991. So far, approximately 500 hepatitis. reported in Warm Springs are di- Warm Springs residents, including ( t it 1 A ; ' ( i " Zl ' jl'"' ' 'i V1 ' X it ; mix f . ' PW- L - Un-nuh-nuh i4i children at the Early Childhood Education Center have received gamma globulin injections to help prevent spread of the hepatitis A virus. all children at the Early Childhood Education Center, have received gamma globulin injections. Discounting a rumor that the ECE Center was the source of the hepatitis A outbreak, IMS Public Health Nurse Linda Knight stressed that the first hepatitis A cases occurred before ECE programs started earlier this fall. Spread of the virus has been through family contact; the gamma globulin vaccinations given at the ECE Center arc a preventive mea sure. Knight explained that the gamma globulin is a "generic vaccine" to hclpa person's immune system fight off all viral infections, not just hepa titis. The injections, acting as a booster to an individual's immune system, must be given within two weeks of exposure to the hepatitis A virus. The vaccine is a temporary measure that remains effective in a person's system four to six weeks. Because of the overload of pa tients, two public health nurses from Chemawa and Yakima have come to Warm Springs to help with injec tions. Hepatitis A is an inflammation of the liver. The viral infection is car ried in the bowel movements. Symp toms may include fever, loss of appe tite, nausea, tiredness and discom fort in the upper right side of the abdomen. Impairment of liver func tion may cause jaundice. There is no specific treatment for hepatitis. Rest and proper diet probably help reduce the duration of the disease. Diet should not include protein or fatty foods. Once a person is exposed to the virus, there is an incubation pe riod of two to six weeks before any symptoms appear. The majority of cases are mild and unrecognized especially in children. The hepatitis A virus is present in the stool and blood of an infected person. Hepatitis A is easily spread from person to person. It may be spread by transfer of virus-carrying stool from one person to the mouth ol another as a result of improper hy giene in direct contact or in food handling. It can also be spread through contamination of drinking water and food products that have come in contact with a person s stool Rarely, hepatitis A is spread by in jeetion of an infected person's blood into another person cither through blood transfusion or needle prick, Hepatitis A can be prevented through good sanitation, proper care of the patient with the disease and through immunization. Good handwashing before handling food and after using the toilet are essen tial. And, if you have babies in dia pers, wash your hands after changing and instruct other family members to do trie same. Hepatitis A is not spread by saliva or mouth kissing and you cannot get the disease just by being in the room with an infected person. The Jefferson County Health De partment has requested that "home prepared tood not dc allowed in 509-J classrooms until further notice. The Warm Springs ECE Center is voluntarily following this recom mendation. Cookies, cupcakes and other "finger-foods" often sent to school for parties are good ways to pass the hepatitis virus among class mates. Only store-bought items should be brought to school for such events. State closes winter fishing season on Deschutes River bordering reservation It may have taken five years for the wheels of justice to finally turn full circle, but now the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs can rest as sured that the State's Deschutes River winter fishery, remaining open de spite tribal efforts for closure, will be closed once and for all beginning November 1, 1992. The Tribe first registered a com plaint to the State Fish and Wildlife Commission about the winter fishing season in 1987. Despite that objec tion, the State decided to extend the season to year-round. Sports fishing regulations and seasons are reviewed every two years. During the review in 1989, the Tribe once again ex pressed their desire to have the winter season closed. Instead of closing the season, a memorandum of under standing was developed between the State and the Tribe. The season re mained open In the spring of 1991, the Tribe submitted proposals to the State that would eliminate the winter season. In a letter to commissioners, the Tribe stated that if the State did not close the winter season, the Tribe would close all public use areas on the res ervation, including Dry Creek, Indian Island in Lake Billy Chinook, the High Lakes area and Indian Park and eliminate public use of tribally owned, off-reservation lands such as Sandy Beach and Sherar's Bridge and lower-Deschutes land in the vi cinity of the mouth of the White River. "The year-round fishing sea son on the Deschutes River, where it forms the boundary of the Warm Springs Reservation must not be ex tended," stated the letter. In their September 23 and 24, 1991 biennial meeting, the State closed the winter fishing season on the Deschutes from "Warm Springs to the lower end of White Horse Rap ids." Confusion arose when Fish and Wildlife staff members began pre paring regulations. They were un sure of what "Warm Springs" meant from the Re-Regulating Dam or Highway 26 Bridge. Com missioners, at an October meeting, all agreed the closure was intended to be in effect from the Bridge down to White Horse. According to tribal attorney Howie Amett, this meant there would be two stretches of the river-eight or nine miles bordering the reservation below White Horse and between the Re-Regulating Dam and Highway 26 Bridge, that would be open year round to the public. The Tribe was unhappy with the commission's de cision and "reluctantly" accepted it. Following this action, the Tribe, in late fall 1991, decided to pursue a court case against the State, but not without the support of the U.S. Gov ernment. The Tribe presented a liti gation request to the BIA. Following many months of consideration, the U.S. Department of Justice, in June of this year, agreed to sue the State with the tribe. However, the United States has in effect a policy that they must make every attempt to settle the case out of court. The Department of Justice was required to notify the State and give them a chance to change the policy. The State of Or egon had until mid-July to respond. At a September 23, 1992 meeting with the Tribe, ODFW commission ers unanimously decided to close the fishing season and return to regula tions that existed in 1987. Trout fishing will close October 31, 1992 and steclhcad fishing will continue until December 3 1 , 1992. The season will remain closed until April 1993. Three tribal members lose their lives in tragic trailer fire Only a pile of charred and twisted metal remains at 2356 Oitz Loop, the site of a tragic fire that took the lives of three tribal members Saturday, September 19. Gcraldine Suppah, age 32, her daughter Jerelyn Suppah, age 1 1 and Sharold Thomas, age 20, all died of smoke inhalation, according to au topsy results. The fire apparently broke out be tween 5:30 a.m. and 6 a.m. A neighbor, after being alerted to the fire by friends who saw sparks shooting from the roof of the trailer, reported the blaze to fire and safety at 6:08 a.m. According to police logs, the first police officer arrived at the scene at 6: 1 1 a.m., says Warm Springs Police Department Captain Don Courtney. He added that the first fire unit arrived immediately behind the officer at 6: 15 a.m., with other units responding shortly thereafter. By the time crews arrived, the trailer was fully involved in flames, said crew members. Courtney said there were between eight and 10 people, ranging between the ages of 1 1 and 43, in the trailer near the time the fire started. Point of origin of the fire was in the front room area of the small trailer. The state fire marshall's report was not released as of presstime. Courtney added there was evidence that there had been a party at the residence some time during the evening before the fire. A next door neighbor was awak- officials of the blaze. He noted that though they had difficulty removing ened by breaking glass when one of fire fighters had a difficult time re- the caps, progress in extinguishing the visitors broke a window to escape moving the caps from a nearby fire the blaze was not hampered in any the fire. He, too, called to notify hydrant. Firefighters stated that even way. H? 'iSr4 ' 1 ft ';' 1 A twisted mass of metal is all that remains as an ugly reminder of the tragic September 19 fire that took the lives of three tribal members.