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Sonia Heath, left, was presented a $500 check by Jennifer Leonard,
gaming marketing assistant, for submitting winning entry in "Name the
Gaming Facility" contest. A logo for the facility is now needed.
Deadline for submitting entries is April 28.
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: " visitors to try their luck. Ten different games amused and frustrated
the sometimes eager players.
Sahme presents testimony to IHS panel
Human Resources Director Sal
Sahme, on behalf of the Confeder
ated Tribes of Warm Springs, pre
sented testimony to members of an
IHS panel March 22. The Panel, con
sisting of Dr. Lee, Dr. Trujillo and
- Julia Davis, was in Clackamas, Or-
- egon to hear issues concerning the
; 1996 IHS budget.
"The Federal commitment to pro
:,vide health care to our people was
purchased with the cessation of 10
million acres of land to the US gov
ernment. This
; commitment
was formal
ized in our
.Treaty of 1855
and has be re
'affirmed in
numerous
statutes and
policies. Over
mm
half of our health care delivery sys
tem is operated by our tribal gov
j ernment, insuring local control.
; "Last week in our testimony to
the House Appropriations subcom
mittee for Interior and related agen
cies, we made an appeal to maintain
' 'our funding ceiling and protect our
, programs. We believe they are under
. attack. Our primary concern is to
' ensure that the IHS honors its staff-
' ino rnmmitmpnt fnr thp Warm
. Springs Joint Venture Demonstra
' tion Project. It would be disastrous
to have across-the-board cuts or a
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ity.
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Publisher: Sid Miller
Editor: Donna Behrend
ReporterPhotographer: Saphronia Katchia
ReporterPhotographer: Selena T. Boise
ReporterPhotographer: Bob Medina
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"We feel our health care program
demonstrates one of Indian Country's
more successful partnerships with
IHS. The Joint Venture Demonstra
tion Project, which was conceived
by the Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs, is a good faith bargain be
tween IHS and the Tribe. The Tribe
financed and constructed a new 'state
of the art' health facility and IHS
provided the necessary equipment,
staffing and operational costs. This
type of arrangement is an optimal
situation for both
parties and we are
disappointed that
more projects of
this nature have not
been supported.
We encourage you
to examine the
costbenefitratioof
this concept and we
believe you will come to the same
conclusion:
"First, IHS cannot and should not
rely exclusively on the appropria
tions process to obtain necessary
health care facilities.
Second, tribes can finance and
construct quality health care facili
ties at less cost and in more timely
fashion than can be done by the fed
eral government.
"Our health program has at its
focus primary prevention and we are
committed to changing unhealthy at
titudes and lifestyles that exist in our
community. We invite you Dr. Lee,
to visit and see first-hand what these
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Stella Hrones, cage manager, Fred Roach, operations manager, Ty
Huff, accounting consultant and Aurolyn Stwyer, gaming general
' manager, were present for Open House April 5.
should eventually be operated by tribal members. Training to be provided to
tribal members will teach management skills and will be of critical impor
tance to the gaming facility. This upper-management training may require
college courses in addition to on-the-job training.
Consultants working with Indian Head Gaming Center have developed
training plans for these upper-management positions. This plan calls for
employees to work specified minimum amounts of time in each of the job
categories prior to advancement to the next level of management. This type
of advancement training plan will benefit the tribal members who have the
most drive and ambition, eventually ascending these members into upper
management positions. These individuals will also have a comprehensive
background, having worked their way up the ranks.
Types of training which will be offered to tribal members include floor
pitshift manager training; security; gaming management; poker; account
ing; surveillance; internal controls; food and beverage and customer cour
tesy. For more information contact the gaming office at 553-6123.
Gaming Hours
The temporary gaming facility will be open from 7 a.m. to 3 a.m. daily
beginning May 1. Among the 150 slot machines will be Video Poker, Wild
Cherry, Red, White and B luc, Double Diamond, Slam Dunk and many more.
Live Keno will be available June 1.
The 25,000 square foot permanent facility will be open 24 hour a day,
seven days a week and will feature 300 video slot machines, live Keno and
five poker tables. It is expected that 1 50 employees will be working once the
permanent facility opens. Opening is expected in August with grand opening
in November.
partnerships can accomplish.
"We are pleased that President
Clinton has proposed a budget to
maintain the
current level
of funding,
despite all
the pressures
to reduce
government
spending.
However,
we feel there
are some serious un-met needs that
have been overlooked:
"A. The proposed budget does not
address 2.6 percent annual growth of
the IHS service population
"B. Virtually no funding is in
cluded to support provisions of the
Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
"c. The budget does not provide
adequate contract support costs to
allow tribal governments that ability
to assume more control of health care.
"D. There is inadequate support
for ambulatory care facilities.
"e. There is insufficient increases
in contract health services to com
pensate for population growth, medi
cal inflation, deferred services and
catastrophic cases.
"Therefore we recommend the
following:
"A. Provide funds that allow IHS
to address the 2.6 percent population
growth.
Early Childhood Education
April is National Environmental
Month as well as Child Abuse Pre
vention Month.
April 23-29 is the "Week of the
Young Child" and National Volun
teer Week, locally chosen as Envi
ronmental week.
PARENTS OF THE MONTH
Congratulations "Parents of the
Month" for March 1995:
Patsy Lenbek
Lois Smith
Nadine Scott
Annette LeClaire
Gene Sampson
Trudy Thompson
Esther Culpus
Lila Martinez
DavidBecky Lucei
Andrea Smith
Loretta Danzuka
Serina Wolfe
Neda Wesley
Becky Hunt-Lucei
Sheilah Wahneta
Lillian Brunoe
Bill Yeo
Cheryl Smith
"B. Provide some nominal pro
gram increases to respond to the In
dian Health Care Improvement Act.
"C. Increase the
catastrophic reserve
fund to cover all
qualifying cases.
"C. Increase the
IHS scholarship and
loan repayment pro
gram and assure
more geographic eq
uity in student selec
tion.
"E. Support creative financing of
five ambulatory care facilities
through joint ventures, loan guaran
tees and grants.
. "F. Fund contract support costs
shortfall of $5.5 million in recurring
obligations for FY 1995 and an ad
ditional $6 to $8 million to meet
commitments for FY 1995 contract
support for tribal shares.
"All of which should be condi
tional to a requirement of national
regional IHS financial plans.
"We support the concept of bud
get principles developed by the
Northwest Portland Area Indian
Health B oard. We see these principles
as the means for this administration
and the Congress to meet its health
care obligations to our people. I en
courage you to review the analysis
and recommendations contained in
this document."
You guys are all terrific! Thank
you for the time and energy you put
into supporting our Head Start pro
grams, as well as your own child.
ECE PARENT CLUB RAFFLE
Tickets are now on sale for the
Warm Springs Early Childhood Edu
cation Parent Club "MADE IN
WARM SPRINGS" Raffle. All
items to be raffled are made or do
nated by ECE program parentsguard
ians and staff. For those parents who
would still like to donate an item,
they are due to ECE by May 23, 1995
by 5:00p.m. The drawing will be
i held May 25, 1995 at the ECE Cen
ter. You need not be present to win.
Proceeds go towards the ECE Parent
Club general fund. Tickets are $1
each or 6$5 available from some
program parentsguardians and staff
and Parent Club Officers. If you are
interested in selling tickets for this
fundraiser stop in and ask Becky Van
Pelt at ECE. Buy your chances now
to win one of these terrific Warm
Springs hand made items!
Remember to donate your
Erickson's Sentry Saver Shields!!
509-J teacher awarded scholarship
A fourth grade Madras Elemen
tary teacher has recently been
awarded a scholarship to the 1995
Summer Program for Teachers of
Spanish and King Juan Carlos Fel
lowship. Lisa Jones McLean (wife of Scott
McLean, Director of The Robert
Wood Johnson Healthy Nations) will
be attending classes and practicing
her Spanish for a month this summer
in Madrid, Spain, with a scholarship
from the King of Spain and the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
The $1300 scholarship provides
one third of the total cost of the
program. Consequently, Ms. McLean
and her husband Scott McLean will
be having an early yard sale.
Deschutes fishery
Deschutes River and Shcrars Falls
during the spring chinook run time
period.
"1. Beginning the first Saturday
in April 1995 after the Root Feast
and ending Saturday, April 29, 1 995,
fishing will be conducted from one
half hour before sun-up to one-half
hour after sunset Thursday through
Saturday.
"2. The use of hoopnets and
setnets will be permitted.
"3. Hook and line fishing allow,
one pole per person, single hook (no
treble hooks).
a. ) Harvest limit of two fish
in aggregate per day for chinook and
steelhead. Unmarked steelhead must
be released and returned to the river.
b. ) No fishing for another
person (hook and line only). Each
person must harvest for themselves.
Head Start kids allowed to dig roots
The Head Start children and their
teachers have been going root digging
at Webster Flat throughout April.
Root digging is part of the cultural
curriculum at Head Start, the children
learn about Warm Springs cultures
in their classrooms and during field
trips, in addition to their regular
curriculum.
This year, there was question of
whether or not the non-tribal member
children and staff could actually dig
roots. The tribal laws and traditions
as set by Tribal Council and the
Cultural and Heritage Committee
stated that there would be no root
digging before the Root Feast, and
that only tribal members would be
allowed to dig roots. Council also
required that the tribal Natural
Resources and Public Safety Branch
would enforce these rules. The
children and staff observed the patrol
personnel in the root digging fields
this year.
JOIN WARM SPRINGS
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCA
TION AND COMMUNITIES
ACROSS THE NATION IN REC
OGNIZING APRIL AS CHILD
ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH.
Child abuse prevention focus
of awareness campaign
Nationwide, the number of chil
dren who are reported abused and
neglected each year has risen to ap
proximately three million. Sadly, as
many as three children died each day
during one calendar year.
Because there is a great deal of
concern for abused children and their
families, the entire month of April is
being celebrated as National Child
Abuse Prevention Month. This ob
servance, which was begun in 1983,
has become an annual event through
out the country. In all 50 states, in
communities both large and small,
there are a wide variety of activities
which involve thousands of people.
Child abuse is a community prob
lem, therefore it is there that the
responsibility for preventing child
abuse lays. The goals of National
Child Abuse Prevention Month are:
News -
ECE EASTER EGG HUNT
Easter Sunday, April 16th, at
1:00pm it's the annual ECE Easter
Egg Hunt at the Warm Springs Com
munity Center. Anyone interested in
helping hide the eggs can meet at
12:00pm that day. The hunt is de
signed mostly for children under 8
years old. The hunt will be divided
into three parts: for ages 4 and under,
5-8, and 9 and older. They'll be
hunting for colored Easter eggs and
for plastic eggs that can be turned in
for prizes. The community's young
children and parents are invited to
come on down for some fun at the
community center, Easter Sunday
morning for the annual ECE Easter
Egg Hunt!
ECE EVENTS
All of our Head Start programs
were closed on Wednesday March
29 because our staff went out of town
to visit Head Start programs on the
Yakama Reservation. Staff plan to
use their new found information to
improve the quality of the work in
their classrooms. When they re
The purpose of the Fellowship is
to provide an opportunity for bilin
gual teachers to be in an environment
where they can quickly raise their
level of speaking and reading ability.
This enhanced ability will be a
resource in the Jefferson County 509
J School District where the need for
Spanish-speakers is growing each
year.
The program is administered
through the Global Campus at the
University of Minnesota.
Ms. McLean with undergraduate
degrees in Chicano studies, Bilin
gual Education and Spanish from
Washington State University, previ
ously studied at the University of de
Seville, Spain.
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"4. The Natural Resources De
partment and Police Department shall
closely monitor the fishery and
strictly enforce the regulation re
quiring the release of unmarked
steelhead as well as the provisions of
WSCT 340.310 (8) requiring that
setnets and hoopnets are attended
continuously.
"5. Monitoring of the fishery will
determine if in-season closures are
appropriate due to harvest rate.
"6. Beginning May 1, 1995, the
Treaty fishery for anadromous fish
on the Deschutes River will be com
pletely closed.
"7. This closure is subject to re
consideration if new biological in
formation becomes available show
ing that harvestable fish are avail
able during the spring chinook salmon
run time period."
Initially, non-tribal member Head
Start children and staff were barred
from participating in root digging.
However, Tribal Council on Friday,
April 7, informed the Early
Childhood Education that all Early
Children Education children and staff
were allowed to dig roots.
The roots the children dig are used
in their classrooms to make cookies
or prepared to take home to their
families, and some classrooms take
theirs to give to the senior citizens.
Title V Parent
meeting scheduled
The Title V Parent Advisory
Committee will meet at the Warm
Springs Elementary Library on
Tuesday, April, 18 beginning at 7
p.m. A report on the Oregon Indian
Education Association conference
will be given. The liaison job de
scription will be discussed.
Title V meetings are open to all
members of the public. If you have a
disability, please advise the District
509-J Support Services office about
special arrangements that may al
low you to fully participate in the
meeting. Please call Linda DuPont
at 475-6192.
1) to raise the public's awareness of
child abuse; 2) to encourage involve
ment by local community organiza
tions and businesses, and, 3) to cre
ate a climate that supports families
and provides alternatives to abusive
behavior.
Although the public has become
outraged in recent years about the
escalating numbers of children who
are abused and neglected, many
people are unclear as to the role they
might play in being part of the solu
tion. Local child abuse prevention
organizations offer programs and
opportunities for many types of in
volvement. The many events which are spon
sored during April by community
organizations are a testimony to
community partnerships and a grow
ing determination to put an end to
child abuse.
turned, they had many questions and
comments about the differences be
tween our progam and their programs.
The trip proved to be very insightful
and informative and we thank you
for your understanding and support
in sending our staff to further their
training.
April is root digging month for
our Head Start Children. Each Head
Start classroom will pick a day that
they will go into the root fields and
dig after the Root Feasts are held.
Parents are welcome to join their
children on these excursions. Ask
your child's teacher for more infor
mation. HEAD START REGISTRA
TION!
Do vou have a child who will be 3
years old on or before September 1,
1995? Then heshe is eligible to
enter Head Start for the '95-'96
school year.
Thursday April 20th is pre-3
Physical and Immunization Day at
the Health and Wellness Center. This
is to allow parentsguardians of eli
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