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Program prepares students for college life
Something new started up this fall
for tribal members who are planning
to go to college. It's a series of work
shops called Student Success Strat
egies to help students make the
transition from reservation life to
college life a little easier.
In the past many students have
had a hard time moving away from
the reservation to go to school. They
often run out of money or they get
over whelmed by the coursework and
the hectic pace of college life.
Student Success Strategies teaches
these students how to manage their
money so they don't run Out in the
middle of the year. It teaches students
how to plan their time wisely so they
can take care of their studies, their
classes, their families and still have a
little time left over for fun. Students
learn how to apply for grants and
scholarships to help meet all of col
lege expenses, and they learn who to
go to for help with their studies and
any problems they may encounter at
Early Childhood notes activities, closure
Friday, October 9 No school for Head Start part-day or Head Start
full-day. Infant Center and Latch Key will be open all day.
Friday, October 25 ECE Pumpkin Fun Run 1 0:30 a.m. on the ECE
grounds
Tuesday, October 27 Head Start Community Resource Day. From
3 to 7 p.m. in the activity room of Building A. This will be an opportunity
for parentsguardians and community members to find out about
available resources in Warm Springs. Information will be offered on
assistance and support programs. All are welcome.
Friday, October 30 Trick or Treating for program children through
out the ECE Center.
prayer.
school.
Fall term classes Student Success
Strategies classes will begin October
28 at the Old Boys Dorm from 7 n m.
to 9:30 p.m. for eight weeks. To sign
up for SSS stop by the Education
GED classes underway at Warm
Springs COCC Education Center
Central Oregon Community Col
lege GED classes began last week.
Enrollment has been light and we
encourage those who are interested
in getting their diplomas to attend
classes.
Night classes at the Warm Springs
COCC Continuing Education Center
are Mondays and Thursdays from
6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Old
Boys Dorm. This is a change from
past years. The instructor is Karen
Hartman.
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Set up a fitness
program for you
Fitness testing is available for any
interested community members that
wish to do so. Any beginner's wishing
to start a walking, running, weights,
or just for your own health purposes,
a program can be set up for you, but
you must take the first step to initiate
a program for yourself.
Austin Greene, Fitness Coordi
nator with the Recrcauon Department
will do an Eight Step process, to set
up a program for you. It takes about
one hour to one and a half, to complete
the testing process.
For more information contact the
Recreation office to set up your appointment.
WSE offers learning ideas
Map your house! Copying useful
Paper your house in maps that's
right, maps! Well, maybe not the
whole house, but you might try an
empty wall or door. Hang a large
map of the world on the family room,
dining room or bedroom wall. As
youngsters explore the world of
learning, use pens or pins to mark the
places mentioned. Follow the trails
of book characters, athletic teams,
news makers, relatives and TV
characters in their travels. Ask ques
tions and encourage youngsters to
find locations on the map. Youngsters
will learn that the world belongs to
them when they understand their
place in it.
Keep an atlas near the dining room
table. When conversation turns to
travel or places other than home,
grab the atlas. Not only does geog
raphy come alive.butreference books
become a comfortable habit.
Department or call 553-1428.
Tuition scholarships are being
provided by the Tribal Education
Department. Attendance is required
in SSS in order to be eligible for
tribal funding, so hurry and come in
to Education and sign up.
Day classes are held Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays form 9
a.m. to 12:30noon. Janice Alexander
is the instructor.
Registration is done at the time
you come to class. So, hurry and
come to class and study for your
GED test and earn your diploma. It's
never too late. So, grab a friend,
relative or partner and come to class.
Any questions or concerns can be
answered by calling the office at 553
1428. Showcase set for
ANative American Showcase will
be held at SeaTac Mall November
13-15, 1992. Heritage College of
Toppenish has arranged with SeaTac
Mall the scheduling of the Showcase
for Native Americans who are inter
ested in participating in the Showcase
to exhibit andor sell their arts and
crafts to the public.
The three days' cost is $ 1 50 which
includes space, tables 8' by 30", table
covers, skirts and two chairs per table.
Proceeds in excess of expenses will
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Title V meet set
The Title V Parent Advisory
Committee will meet at Warm
Springs Elementary Library at 7 p.m.
on Tuesday, October 13, 1992. The
counselors from Buff Elementary and
Warm Springs Elementary will be
giving reports on the counseling
program and their goals for the year.
The agenda will also include the re
sults of the Needs Assessment Sur
vey. Title V meetings are open to all
members of the public. The Commit
tee meets at 7 p.m. on the second
Tuesday of the month at the Warm
Springs Elementary Library.
Copy machines save time and en
ergy and open a world to kids just
learning to learn. Encourage children
to use copy machines when they are
old enough to master the simple
mechanics. By starting early, students
become comfortable using me
chanical aids which can make
learning more fun and efficient. En
courage them to reproduce articles
for research projects, portions of as
signments to distribute as group
projects or favorite quotes, passages
or pictures. This is a good time to
explain the difference between pla
giarism and research. "Copy the
writings and ideas of others only to
learn and combine with your own
ideas, not to use or promote as your
own."
Raffle continues
Don't miss yourchance to win bie
in the Shaker Church raffle. Ticket
sales will continue until November
28. Tickets can be purchased from
Matilda Salas, Cecil Tulee, Eraina
Palmer, Peggy Poitra, Effie Culpus
and Pat Tanewasha for $3 each.
Raffle items are as fol lows; Heifer,
7mm Rifle, Stone War Dishes, Mel
Mac Dishes, 12 Glasses, 2 Shawls,
Small pair beaded moccasins, Beaded
Earrings, Church Cookie Jar.Painted
Canvas Bag, Small Basket w dish
towel set, 9 pc. Tumbler set, Portable
grill, Ceramic Mary and other items
as well.
Most requested
items now available
Canned Salmon and Baking mix
have arrived at the Commodity Pro
gram. These are two of our most
requested items, and will be available
for all Commodity customers Octo
ber 1.
For more information call Patty at
Commodities, 553-3422.
SeaTac Mall
go toward the scholarship fund at
Heritage College.
The Showcase will provide a set
ting for Native American cultural
enhancement, and provide greater
visibility and marketability of Native
American arts and crafts. The Show
case will be advertised in local
newspapers and on the radio.
All inquiries must be directed to
Heritage College, attention Dr.
Mchrdad Karimi, 3240 Fort Road,
Toppenish, WA 98948 or call (509)
865-2244.
I haw the honor to submit the following as my report for the
month ending April JO' 1832.
So of Indians etc
The enumeration of the Indians just completed glws me over 800
persons, or about 300 more than I hat been reporting for serral
years past. Tfiis is accounted for by the thoroughness with which the
wvrk has been done, and the coming on to the reserwtlon since the
preious census was taken In 1879 of a number of families or lodges
of Indians thai were then unsettled. Scarirly an Indian family can
now be found but what has selected a parcel of ground and are
cultivating, or preparing to cultivate the same. The weather during
nearly the entire month was wry disagreeable, with cold west or
northwest gales, with snow fall on the higher lands. Yet for all this
the Indians ha been wry busy, in plowing & sowing grain, breaking
new ground, hauling cut rails, building fences etc. A number of the
men were hired by white settlers to assist in gathering up cattle and
horses, tending sheep etc. Tfie population is scattered out over the
resennuion as never before, as not only new comers but those who
already had small farms, near the Agency have taken up larger ones,
in anticipation of the hoped for time when 160 acres will be alloted
(sicj to each head of a family or individual Indian, in sewralty, some
time in the near future.
The Physicians Report
shows 81 cases to haw been treated with 63 who recowred and 6 who
died. The mortality during the month was greater than perhaps ewr
before or at least for many years since my residence here, within the
same space of time. It is to be regretted as it has caused many of the
Indians to lose confidence In our remedies. I hope howewr that future
success will reinsplre them, and regain their confidence. The
physician did all that could be done, but the cases were most of them
of long standing, and the changing seasons no doubt hastened the day
of death.
The Teachers Reports
The Day and Boarding School, according to the teachers report, has
44 scholars enrolled with an awrage attendance of 32 J 1 15. School
was kept but 15 days, as a weeks vacation was given the first of the
month.
The Industrial Teachers report
attendance of 12 320. The teacher
the Indians farming near the school, how to plow etc. He also
enclosed a piece of ground with rails for a garden, and otherwise fitted
up the grounds around the buildings. As soon as material can be
placed upon the ground, workmen
house building erected as authorized by you.
The Policemen
haw not been called upon to render any very ???? service outside of
their regular duties, hence were allowed to do necessary work for
themselws putting in crops etc.
The
The Grist mill has hardly missed
run more or less by either the miller or the apprentices. In addition
to this some repairing has been done by them in the wagon shop. The
saw mill has been idle, as the ground was too soft to get in saw logs,
but the sawyers time was fully occupied in completing the work of the
enumeration of the Indians. As soon as the schedules are all filled out
the whole will be forwarded.
Employes etc
Of those not already mentioned,
sic the quarterly returns etc, and
The Supt of Farming was engaged
Department crops. Aside from this
and other farming interests. The
putting in full time, by the illness
My Leave
Commences with today and I forward with my monthly papers, the
authority given to Mr. C. H.
absence. I hope ere the first of
States, perhaps in Washington.
General Assembly of the United
Monmouth III. on the 1 7" inst. After that ajourns sic I shall visit
elsewhere and hope to meet you in the near future; 1 hope also while
east to secure a missionary for this reservation, and thus advance the
religious and moral work among
religious work will devolve upon
To
The Hon Commissioner of
Indian Affairs
Washington
D.C.
Donations needed for care packages
Community help is needed to begin an Incentive Award Project for
college students who earn 3.0 gpas or better. Care packages will be
assembled for students who attain this goal and the Education
Services Program is currently accepting donations in the form of
money andor items that students can use while in school. The
donation box is located on the second floor of the old boys dorm.
Children don't care how much you know until
they know how much you care.
giws 18 enrolled with an awrage
spent considerable time in showing
will be engaged, and the boarding
Mills etc
a working day that it has not been
the clerk has been busy in preparting
doing other necessary office work.
the most of his time in putting in the
he looked after the Agency stock
Blacksmith was prevented from
of two of his children.
of Absence
Walker to act as Agent during my
another month, to be in the Eastern
My first duly is to meet with the
Presbyterian church which meets at
the Indians. During my absence the
my employes.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
John Smith
US Indian Agent