Spilyay Tymoo
Warm Springs, Oregon
May 23, 1996 9
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(503) 553-3238
Arlene Boileau Bob Pawelek
4-H & Youth Livestock
Norma Simpson Sue Ryan
Home Economics 4-H Assistant
Clint Jacks
Staff Chair, Madras
The Oregon Stale University Extension Service staff Is devoted to extending research-based Information from OSU to the people of Warm Springs
in agriculture, home economics, 4-H youth, forestry, community development, energy and extension sea grant program with OSU, United States
Department of Agriculture, Jefferson County and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs cooperating. The Exenslon Service offers its programs
and materials equally to all people.
The Clover speaks-
by Sue Ryan
At the end of May, it's not too soon to
think about camping. The 4-H program has
two camp opportunities available to Warm
Springs youth. There is still time to sign up
for the 1 996 Tri-County 4-H camp at Crystal
Springs. This year's theme is "Beam Me Up
Scotti to 4-H Camp". The session is set for
June 17th through the 2 1st. Thanks to the
Johnson O'Mallcy committee, there are schol
arships available for Indian youth to attend
the camp. With the scholarship, the cost is
only $40. But, don't delay ! Registrations for
the Crystal Springs camp are due by May
31st.
The other 4-H camping opportunity for
Warm Springs youth is the 1996 Wilderness
Enrichment camp at Trout Lake. This is set
for August. Session One will be held August
3rd - 6th and will be for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th
graders. Session Two will be August 7th
through the 1 1th for 6th, 7th & 8th graders.
Keep an eye on Cloverspeaks for details on
registration.
One activity we'll cover at the 4-H Trout
Lake camp this year will be the use of a
compass. With warmer weather, more people
will heading out to the woods for hikes and
camping. A compass can be a useful tool on
keeping a sense of direction. Here from "Take
a New Bearing" by Phyllis M. Ford are some
tips on using a compass.
The best way to hold a compass is to hold
your elbows against your sides as though you
were holding up your pants. Then cross your
hands in front of you, palms up, in a straight
line with your arms, and place the compass
on top of your crossed palms. The base plate
should be parallel to your waist, and the
direction-of-travel arrow should point away
from you. Practice this position until you can
put the compass on your palm easily. This
position keeps the compass squarely in front
of you. If you maintain this position every
time you use the compass, you'll consis
tently travel straight ahead, not veering from
the direction you have selected.
A few warnings about using a compass.
Be sure that your belt buckle isn't metal. If it
is, the buckle might affect the magnetic end
of the needle, making it point to you instead
of to north ! A knife in your pocket, metal
snaps on your clothing, a whistle hanging on
a lanyard around your neck, or any other
nearby metal object will also disturb the
magnetic end of the needle. If your com
pass is sitting on a hardwood floor, the nails
holding the floor together may affect the
needle as well.
To practice using a compass, try facing
north first. Turn the compass housing until
north is lined up with the direction-of-travel
arrow. Holding the compass correctly, turn
your body until the floating needle is aligned
with north and the direction-of-travel arrow.
You are now facing magnetic north.
Now try facing east. Turn the compass
housing so that cast (or 90 degrees) is lined
up with the direction-of-travel arrow. Hold
ing the compass correctly, turn your body
until the needle points to the N, for north (
not to the direction-of-travel arrow). You are
now facing east, and you have taken a 90
degree bearing. Do the same for south (a
1 80-degree bearing) and west (a 270-degree
bearing). You are not paying any attention to
declination yet.
You know that you have not been facing
a true direction because of the magnetic field
that forces your compass needle to veer to
the east or the west. Let's get the direction
just right. If you don't, you could be on a
compass trail and be off the route a quarter of
a mile after only one mile of travel !
To use declination, just look at the angle
at the bottom of the topo map. Your compass
needle should point to the angle instead of
true north. If you wish to travel true north, set
the direction-of-travel arrow on N(because
that is the direction in which you want to
travel.) If declination is IS degrees east(to
the right) of true north, turn your body until
the needle comes to rest at IS degrees. You
will then be traveling true north.
If the declination angle is IS degrees west
(to the left) of true north, turn your body until
the needle comes to rest at 345 degrees (360
minus 15). You will then be traveling true
north for that part of the country.
If you put a little piece of masking tape
with a line on it on your compass housing at
the degrees of declination for the part of the
country in which you are traveling, you can
set your compass without adding or subtract
ing. Just set the housing at the direction you
wish to travel and turn your body around
until the needle points to the line on the tape
next to the declination angle. Practice facing
different bearings using the declination angle.
Alcohol affects everyone
Teens need support and respect
by Norma L. Simpson
You may have seen on television that two
parents were found guilty of the crimes of
their son - 3 robberies, possession of a stolen
gun and controlled substances, and booze.
Two statements from the parents really stuck
in my mind.
Here is a teenage boy. While all the stuff
was in his room, his father had not entered his
room. He only stuck his head in the boy's
room to tell him to come to dinner or to
answer a phone call. How can a boy or girl
grow up in this turmoil of modern life, when
there is so little contact or effort to get close
to a teen or even younger children.
And here was the same boy whose mother
did not know the grade point average of her
son, not just this year, but last year, and the
year before. Three years that mom did not
even care whether her son was making good
enough grades in school to finish high school.
That is neglect of one of the most important
steps a child makes in this modern culture,
when getting more advanced education is
connected to the grades you make in high
school or in getting you GED. If you don't
know how to get the grade point averge,
come to the OSU Office and I will teach you
how I learned to do it when I went to college
and did not know how to do my own average.
At a minimum, this type of parenting,
PAYING ATTENTION TO THE GROW
ING TEEN, is essential. Support you child in
sports and the arts, but be sure to know how
they are learning the subjects in school, even
if they don't like the subject. Finds someone
to help them learn and enjoy what they are
learning.
Now in defense of the boy's mom and
dad. Involvement is a two-way street. Teens
can make small steps toward parents and
grandparents to share their schooling, their
interests, and their concerns for the problems
of the parents and grandparents. The boy's
sisters defended their parents as good par
ents. When you think you are grown up to be
on your own, you are grown up enough to
make small steps toward your parents. The
boy said he would not have been in as much
trouble if he had known that his parents were
going to get in as much trouble. His state
ment of remorse is $2400 late. That is the fine
and court costs that the parents have to pay
besides the lawyer's fee.
In the Madras Pioneer article, p. IB on
May 8, "Tribal Teens Give Their Views"
talked about getting help from home and
from organizations such as the Oregon Na
tive Youth Council. One member said, "There
is a difference between the things we need
and the things we want. Youth want money
and materials things, but what we need is
love, respect, understanding, good teachers,
to breath clean air and not to hear sirens." It
takes all of us to make sure these things
happen.
Clay recipe made easy
Play Clay
Mix 1 cup flour and 12 cup salt. Add 14
cup water, 12 teaspoon vinegar, tint with
food coloring and knead to blend. Store clay
in tightly sealed containers in a refrigerator
and let the clay warm slightly before using.
As long as the clay is returned to the refrig
erator within a couple of hours, you can use
it over and over again. Or you can let the
finished sculptures air-dry and they will
harden into keepable sculptures.
by Norma L. Simpson and the unnamed
author of "A Father's Decision"
Every week when it's time to write for
Spilyay Tymoo, I sit at the computer won
dering what topic it will be this week. While
cleaning a shelf, a copy of Honoring the
Children 1993 fell to the floor. The North
west Indian Child Welfare Association maga
zine had a beautiful cover of a smiling mother,
a bright-eyed baby in a cradle board held by
a smiling father. It really touched me so I
looked inside to see what else had fallen at
my feet. Again I was touched by the sub-title
of "A Father's Decision," which said "My
daughter woke up in the middle of the night
calling 'Daddy' and I was too drunk to re
spond." So I read on,
"A Father's Decision"
My first real drink was also my first drunk.
It seems that that is the way it starts for many
of us who have had problems with alcohol.
Until I was seventeen, I had always avoided
alcohol. But on graduation night I celebrated.
By the time I was nineteen, I was married,
attending college, and getting drunk nearly
every weekend. "I can handle it," I told
myself.
Everyone does it. If it does not interfere
with school or my family, why not play a
little." By the age of twenty-one, I was drink
ing every day, finding excuses to drink, and
like many others in alcohol's grip, I felt an
open bottle must be consumed.
At twenty-three, two very important events
occurred in my life. My daughter was born
Summer Days begin
June 24
Summer Days at O.S.U. will be held June
24-27 on campus in Corvallis. This program
is for youth who have completed grades 7-9.
They do not have to be enrolled in a 4-H
program to be eligible. Summer Days teaches
leadership skills and involvement in com
munity service projects. Call 553-3238 for
more information.
Tri-County camp
begins June 15
Tri-County 4-H Camp at Crystal Springs
will be held June 15th to June 22nd, 1996.
Contact the Warm Springs O.S.U. Extension
office for more details.
4-H camp at Trout Lake
It's not too early to think about camp !
The 1 996 4-H Wilderness Enrichment camp
at Trout Lake will be held August 4th-1 1th.
Call 553-3238 for more information.
and I entered an Indian education program
working toward a masters degree in social
work. These two events came together to
save my life, though I did not know it at the
time. This new baby girl stole my heart and
I loved being her parent. I worried over her
like a hen, except when I was drinking.
"Mom is there," I told myself.
One of my first social work classes was on
alcoholism. Ten weeks of course work and
attending AA meetings as an assignment
opened my eyes to the problem in others, but
not to my own.
Almost a year later I came home drunk
and went to bed. My daughter woke up in the
middle of the night calling "Daddy" and I
was too drunk to respond. In the morning she
wanted to play and I was too hungover. Six
months later, I experienced a blackout and I
was so sick that I vomited blood. As I sat on
the bathroom floor too ill to move, my daugh
ter came to the door. I looked at her and
looked at the blood in the toilet. I made a
decision a decision to live and to parent the
child I loved.
Now that little girl is seventeen years old.
The age I was when the drinking began.
Graduation is right around the corner. I can
only hope that my years as a sober role model
will help her avoid the decision I had to
make.
If you are a new parent and if your need
for alcohol become more important than the
needs of your child, get help. It's a decision
you will not regret."
New law for food
handlers
A new Oregon State law applies to 4-H
kitchens, food booths, bake sales, barbecues or
other events where a license is required. If your
club sells food as a fund-raiser then this law
applies to you. As each of you now, the 4-H
kitchen at fair is the major fund-raiser to support
the youth during the year, so you are needed to
help out!
Food Handler's Training will be required
for all food service employees who prepare or
serve foods in food service facilities in Oregon.
This includes temporary and benevolent food
booths, requiring at least one person with a
valid food handler certificate in the booth at all
times. Food booth licenses will only be issued
to a certificate person. (Ors 624.510, OAR 33-175-000).
Because of this new law, we need as many
leaders and parents as possible to obtain certifi
cation. To obtain more information, contact the
local Health Department or the OSU Extension
Office 553-3238.
Suggestions welcomed for special publication on Native foods
by Norma L. Simpson
As many of you know, Tribal elders
worked closely with Ivy Hilty when she was
the Extension Home Economics Agent in
Warm Springs and with researchers at Or
egon State University. One of the outcomes
was a special publications about the Nutri
tive Value of Native American Foods of
Warm Springs in 1973. The publication
was Revised in 1980.
In the near future, we will run out of that
publication, so we have been planning to
revise the publication by adding information
that is not in the publication. Two examples
are the nutritive value of nuts, grains and
seeds, and perhaps mushrooms and combi
nations of foods that made up things like
pemmican, or powdered salmon. Some of
the nutritive values are in rare nutrition books,
and others are just being tested and will be
included as they become available.
Also we may include ways that foods
were or still are stored at home in baskets,
pouches, jars or bottles.
Some foods were eaten during times of
survival, others were eaten as foods or drunk
as teas for medicinal cures.
We might add a section about small ani
mals, grubs, snakes, insects, wild bird eggs,
barks or leaves not already included, but
there are some taboos to these things so
maybe you would prefer to leave them alone.
We are also thinking of preparing a com
panion booklet of personal stories about the
activities in the homes to prepare and pre
serve foods and hides for later use. One story
was about her mother stuffing the fish cavity
with skunk cabbage. Another was her role as
a 3-4-year-old child turning the choke cher
ries in the drying frame and covering the fruit
frame with cheese cloth to let the air through
but keeping the flies out. Then later grinding
the choke cherries to mix with pounded dry
salmon.
In September, we will begin to hold meet
ings about the additions to Extension Circu
lar 809. Everyone will be welcome to share
their experiences.
Cut this section and take to OSU Exten
sion office Education Center Main Floor or
mail to the OSU Extension Office - P.O. Box
430, Warm Springs, OR 97761
This coupon will be printed several times
during the summer, but it is better to clip it
now so you can get involved from the start.
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yes I want to be included in this project about traditional foods and their nutritive
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STOCKMAN'S ROUNDUP: Media spooks public on "Mad Cow" disease
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by Bob Pawelek
OSU Livestock Agent
A few weeks ago, I undertook the task of
entertaining my visiting parents for an entire
week.
It was great to see them again after nearly
four years, although modestly stressful. Es
pecially our trip out to Depoe Bay and driv
ing through the Coast Range during one of
their typical windstorms. Before we left. Dad
kept asking me why I'd want to pack a chain
saw in the trunk of their rented car.
"Might could use it, Pop," was all I was
willing to volunteer. Had he known Cannon
Beach w as experiencing 1 1 6 mph winds that
day, the folks would have insisted we stay
around the house and we'd have wound up
playing dominoes for two days.
As it turns out, they had a wonderful time,
and I didn't have to cut any downed trees in
the road after all.
Catching up on the news (gossip really)
was a little disheartening, however. Hearing
about cattle prices and the drought back
home made me homesick not one bit. Burn
ing thorns from prickly pear cactus in 95
degree weather for cow feed was hardly my
favorite sport.
Mom told me that my Uncle Stanley sold
four cull cows the other day and got a bill
from the sale yard for seventy-five cents.
I also heard that one of the biggest and
best steak houses in San Antonio recently
closed its doors. The Little Red Barn had
been an institution there since Teddy
Roosevelt recruited his Rough Riders in the
Buckhorn Saloon. Seems a disgruntled em
ployee caused an E.Coli bacteria scare and
the restaurant never recovered from the local
media's allegations.
In reality, all the recent E.Coli scares were
corrected years ago. It was never even proven
that beef in general, and American beef in
particular, was the cause.
Now I hear that Oprah Winfrey says she'll
never eat another piece of meat again be
cause of the mad cow thing. The problem is,
number one, that BSE (Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy) does not exist in the United
States and even the dozen cases of brain
disorders in Britain haven't been scientifi
cally proved that the mad cow disease can be
transferred from animals to humans, or is
even directly related.
It's media hype, plain and simple. (Present
company excepted.)
But the harm has been done and Britain is
needlessly slaughtering thousands of cattle
as a "precaution."
Number two, Oprah is a well respected
talk show hostess and is admired by millions
of people. This time, however, she is ill
informed and is wrong to make such a state
ment. False information such as this will not
only hurt cattlemen even more, it teaches our
kids that they can get real news from talk
shows.
Dr. C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General,
says there is no evidence that beef can trans
mit Crentzfeldt Jacob disease to humans.
There have been no difference of evidences
found comparable between people that eat
meat and vegetarians.
Oprah's diet is her own business, but
wouldn't you like to sneak a peek in her
refrigerator anyway?
Where does that dollar bill go?
Each time a beef animal is sold at auction,
a $1 charge is added for the purpose of
research and promotion of the beef industry.
Almost $19 million will be spent by the
US beef industry in fiscal 1996 promoting
beef through electronic and print ads. The
campaign is designed to win back market
share and help sell more beef during periods
of high supplies. The target audience is
women between the ages of 25 and 54. So
who do you guess might replace Robert
Mitchum in those "Beef, It's What's For
Dinner" ads?
Cattlemen choose Dowse
The Oregon Cattlemen's Association has
selected Rod Dowse of Redmond as its new
excecutive vice president. He "was selected
because of his knowledge, people skills, and
enthusiasm for the future of the cattle indus
try. He's young, bright and will bring a high
level of excitement to the Oregon Cattlemen ' s
Association," said Sharon Beck, chairman of
the search committee.
The Search Committee included Beck, of
Cove; Don Gomes, Sr., of Antelope, Mike
Hanley of Jordan Valley, Ed Trindle of Baker
City and Dave Umbarger of Pendleton.
Dowse is a native Oregonian and has an
Agribusiness Management degree from Or
egon State University. His background in the
cattle industry includes, most recently, man
aging a progressive purebred cattle ranch in
Sequim, Wash., where he focused on mar
keting and customer service. He has judged
cattle shows throughout the Northwest and
Canada.
The OSU Extension
Office wishes you a
very safe Memorial
Day Weekend!!
Advisory Board
meets
The Warm Springs Ag Extension Advi
sory Board (AEAB) met for lunch on Thurs
day, May 9.
The purpose of the meeting was to give
direction to the agricultural agent for the next
several months. It was pointed out by the
Board that more attention be given to mar
keting options for ranchers.
Other issues discussed were the Visiting
Professors Program, animal health program
ming, and the upcoming Intertribal Agricul
ture Council meeting in June.
The AEAB meets each quarter. Present
members of the Board include Ruth (and
Kelly) Beymer, Jacob Frank, Evans Spino,
Irene (and Jack) Towe, Jason Smith, Bobby
Brunoe, Earl and Rita Squiemphen, Ron
Suppah, and Priscilla Yazzie.
OSU Extension wishes to invite partici
pation from the Dry Creek and Seekseequa
areas. Any and all agricultural education
programming ideas are welcome.
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