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Coyote News
In Brief
Woody to sign books
during reception
Elizabeth Woody will
appear at The Museum
At Warm Springs for
book signing June 23
and 24.
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Girls vying for Pi-Ume-Sha
titles
Four of the six young
girls vying for Pi-Ume-Sha
titles are featured.
Ready for a good ol'
fashioned 4th?
A group of community
members are actively
planning the
rejuvenation of the
"traditional" Warm
Springs 4th.
Local men attend
wellness conference
Albuquerque was the
place to be May 22-25
for the men's wellness
conference."
Win a car!
Indian Head Gaming is
offering gaming patrons
a chance to win a Geo
Metro.
ECE presents news
Upcoming events, raffle
winners and other news
of interest is offered by
ECE staff.
Pi-Ume-Sha is
coming ....
Warm Springs'
population will explode
as visitors take up
temporary residence to
participate in the many
activities planned for
June 23, 24 and 25.
"As We Grow" series
continues
Further advice is offered
concerning the aging
process.
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Students graduate
Warm Springs
Elementary students
participating in the
DARE program received
certificates earlier this
week.
Don't forget
DAD
on HIS day
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Deadline for the next
Spilyay Tymoo is
Friday, June 16, 1995
Spilyay Tymoo
(Coyote News)
LibraiT"-.
Warm Springs youth and elders
Tips to protect
each year, more and more people
settle on the wildlands of the Reser-
vation. As more homes are built in
the area, the risk of wildfire increases.
Urban growth into inaccessible ar
eas means fire departments and wild
land firefighting agencies are often
overwhelmed during wildfires. Resi
dents are rarely prepared for an in
ferno that sweeps through brush,
grass and trees, destroying homes,
property and lives.
Fortunately, you can help protect
your property by creating a defen
sible space around your house. De
fensible space is a vegetation buffer
that surrounds your home to reduce
the chances of a fire reaching it.
Creating defensible space requires
you landscape in zones around your
house. Maintain a 30 foot minimum
defensible space around your home
to act as a fire break. This would
include plants that are non-flammable
and green grass to be used as
landscaping techniques. As you land
scape outward continue this type of
a layout to a transition distance of up
to 100 to 150 feet around your home
for any degree of sloping up or down
ward. Remember to reduce or remove
piles of flammable debris that may
be near you home. These items act as
fuel piles that will create more fire
and my intensify a small, control
lable fire. With sufficient defensible
space, you may save your home in
the critical minutes it takes for a fast
moving fire to pass. When firefighters
are available, the planned space gives
them room to battle the oncoming
fire before flames reach your home.
It also can keep a house fire from
igniting native vegetation and start
ing another wildfire.
Defensible space should be part
of every homeowner's comprehen
sive fire protection plan that includes
an adequate road access for
firefighting vehicles, use of fireproof
building materials, and preparing to
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joined together in the annual walk for
your home
evacuate with sate designated es
cape routes. These ideas are just a
part of the protection plan that could
save your home destruction as well
as save a live.
This is a beautiful reservation that
the people have chosen as their home
and it is a privilege and a pleasure to
live here. And with that comes re
sponsibility not only to protect your
own property and the safety of the
neighbors, but to preserve the re
sources, the wild life, and the natural
beauty that belongs to everyone. For
more information on defensible space
contact the Fire Prevention officer
(fireman Bob) at Fire Management
553-2413 or 553-1634.
The Museum at Warm Springs receives HUD award
By Lori Edmo-Suppah
Museum Media Coordinator
The Museum At Warm Springs
has added another award to its list of
accomplishments the Department
of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) Cultural Design Award for
Tribal Facility.
The award is one of seven that
were recently announced by Housing
Secretary Henry G. Cisneros in the
Indian housing cultural design
competition. The competition was
designed by HUD to recognize
excellence in the design of culturally
relevant homes and other buildings
for Native Americans.
The Museum's cultural design of
resembling a traditional encampment
among the Cottonwood trees along
Shitike Creek was recognized, along
with the brick patterned walls
reminescent of basketry. The
metallic roof peaks symbolize the
three tribes of the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs.
P.O. Box 870
Warm Springs, OR 97761
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fitness May 31 .
IHS meets with ML View
The Indian Health Service is work
ing with Mountain View Hospital to
resolve all Contract Health claims
(CHS) prior to October 1, 1993. On
October 1, 1993 the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs took over
the CHS Program and is now called
the Managed Care Program. The su
pervisor is Mr. Garland Brunoe, un
der the Human Services Department.
The manager of the Managed Care
Program is Marie Moses. The loca
tion is at the Health & Wellness Cen
ter. Since the Indian Health Service
ran the program prior to October 1,
1993, they are responsible for han
dling only the claims prior to that
date.
The Indian Health Service plans
to meet with Mountain View Hospi
tal to discuss who is responsible for
Museum Director Michael
Hammond said, "We are quite
pleased that Housing Secretary
Cisneros will be giving an award to
the Museum At Warm Springs for
our architectural design. It is a distinct
honor to be recognized as being the
outstanding tribal building in the
nation."
"The community effort that was
involved with the concept, design
and the construction of The Museum
continues to win awards and we
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BIA releases project assessment of
Kah-Nee-Ta Lodge road extension
The Bureau of Indian Affairs re
cently released the "Project Assess
ment for Kah-Nee-Ta Lodge Road
Extension". The document is avail
able for public review until Thurs
day, June 15, 1995 at which time the
Superintendent will finalize selection
of the preferred alternative.
The document discusses the con
struction of a BIA system road on the
Warm springs Reservation in Cen
tral Oregon.
The road development is part of a
recent amendment to the Confeder
ated Tribes of Warm Springs and the
BIA joint Ten-Year Road Plan, the
purpose of which is to develop an
alternative access to Kah-Nee-Ta
Lodge. The road improves access,
provides for increased traffic flow,
improving turning radii for shuttle
and tour buses and access to parking
areas of the Gaming Facility being
developed as an Annex to Kah-Nee-Ta
Lodge.
The Lodge is located in the lower
Warm Springs River valley in Town
ship 8 South, Range 13 East, Section
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Introduction to Disaster course offered
The American Red Cross and
Warm Springs Fire & Safety will be
sponsoring the four hour course: IN
TRODUCTION TO DISASTER
SERVICES on June 12, 1995 at the
Warm Springs Senior Building. The
instructor will be William Apgar of
Jefferson County American Red
Cross. Registration will begin at 6:30
"Livewires"
The first stage presentation of the
"Livewires," a group of community
members that evolved from the
Writer's Workshop held at The
Museum At Warm Springs is set for
Thursday, June 22, 1995 at 6 p.m. at
the Museum's Amphitheatre in
Warm Springs.
The production is lead by award
winning play wright Silvia Gonzalez,
who was the instructor for thr Writer' s
Workshop held in April and May of
this year at The Museum.
payment of these old claims. Be
cause it is the responsibility of the
hospital to bill alternate resources
prior to billing Indian Health Ser
vices, we feel the majority of out
standing claims fall into this cat
egory and are the hospital's respon
sibility. We realize some patients
have been turned over to Collections
without our knowledge. Therefore,
we are asking the community mem
bers to bring in any old (prior to
October 1, 1993) collections notice
regarding a hospital bill from the Mt.
View. Our staff will research the bill
and identify who is responsible for
payment and why. If you feel you
have an old hospital bill and you
would like assistance from us, call
Connie Johnson at 503-553-2461 fro
assistance. The Indian Health Ser
vice is trying to get this issue re
solved by July 1, 1995.
appreciate the funds HUD provided
for the construction," Hammond said.
HUD funded $200,000 of
construction funds for The Museum
that was completed in 1993 and has
won numerous awards for both its
architecture and exhibits.
The Museum's Board of Directors
has delegated board secretary
treasurer Beulah Calica to accept the
award that will be presented at the
National Indian Housing Quality
Conference June 15 and 16, 1995 in
Arlington, Virginia.
Others receiving awards include:
Cultural Design Award: Aquinnah
Wampanoag Tribal Family Housing
Project for the first housing
development by the Wampanoag
Tribe of Gay Head on Martha's
Vineyard; the Cultural Design
Modernization Award went to the
Navajo Housing Authority for the
modernization office building located
in Fort Defiance, Ariz.; the Cultural
Design Prototype Award went to the
U.S. Postage
Bulk Rate Permit No. 2
Warm Springs, OR 97761
This document does not purport
to discuss the impacts of gaming on
the Reservation. The decisions re
lated to the approval of gaming on
the Reservation are under the sepa
rate authorities of the National In
dian Gaming Commission and the
Tribal council of the Confederated
Tribes of warm springs.
An interdisciplinary Team has
identified the following issues
through a scoping process: !) Soil
Slope Stability, B) Scenic Values, C)
Cultural Resources Protection, D)
Water Quality, and E) Threatened
and Endangered Species.
The following alternatives were
developed and their effects were
analyzed in response to the issues: 1 )
No Action and 2) Western Route
(Village to Lodge). A third alterna
tive was eliminated from consider
ation. For more information contact:
Gerald Hcnrikson, Natural Resources
Officer, USDI BIA Warm Springs
Agency, PO Box 1239, Warm
Springs, OR 97761 or phone (503)
553-2421 or FAX (503) 553-2434.
p.m., with the class beginning at
7:00 p.m. This course is a pre-requi-site
to other American Red Cross
courses, which will be offered later
in the year.
Please pre-register with
HollyAnna or RaNeva at 553-1634
if you wish to attend. There is no fee,
and refreshments will be provided.
to perform
Gonzalez, a resident of Powell
Butte, is a writer of 16 stage plays,
two musical plays and has a poetry
manusript in the works. She is also a
published poet and former writer for
Performink, the Chicago theater
newspaper.
She won the 1994Reader'sDigest
New Play Award, the 1994 Lee Korf
Play writing Award in California, the
1994 HBO New Writer's Project
Honorable Mention and the 1993
Kenndy Center New Visions New
Voices Award.
Participants in the Writer's
Workshop learned techniques to write
more, faster, along with being more
creative. Selected student works are
being combined into a stage
Presentation for the "Livewires" first
production.
Participants included: Carol
Wewa, Rosalind Sampson, Harry
Hintsala, Lorraine Hintsala, Lori
Edmo-Suppah, Leroy Bobb, Evelyn
Nequatewa Uyeji, Mike Villalobos
and Jeanne Thomas.
Gonzalez said she is excited about
the June 22 production and praised
the workshop students' abilities and
topics.
The public is invited to the
production. For more information
contact Jeanne Thomas at The
Musuem at 553-3331.
Cocopah Indian Tribe of Arizona for
plans for the Cocopah Cultural Center
Complex.
The Cultural Design Consultation
Award went to the Southern Ute
Housing Authority for the design and
construction of homes that included
a passive solar design. The Cultural
Design Performance Award went to
the office of Native American
programs for the publication of a
guidebook, "Our Home, Giving Form
to Traditional Values."
The Port Gamble S'Klallam
Housing Authority, Washington won
the Cultural Design for Energy
Conservation for the "Salmon Berries
house," that features Native
American murals on the home
exterior and a hearth at its center.
The heat from the hearth rises up
through an atrium and is distributed
to each of the rooms by a circulating
fan that provides even wood heat,
which is traditional to the S'Klallam
culture.
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