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8 April 10, 1997
Warm Springs, Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
Supporting Leukemia Society of America....
Shadley preparing for June 21 Anchorage
( j.
Dorothy Shadley was recently
offered an exciting challenge. A re
cent flyer from the Leukemia Soci
ety of America caught her attention
and presented her with an opportu
nity to help find a cure for leukemia.
She couldn't resist. She is now in
volved with Team In Training.
Dorothy is a 33-year-old mother
Memorial for Delores Heath
Seelatsee
at He He Longhouse
May 10, 1997
Stonesetting at 10:00 a.m. at
the Simnasho Cemetary
Dinner at 12:30 p.m.
Giveaway to follow
Everyone Welcome
Fundraising raffle to
be held April 18
A fundraising Raffle Drawing to
be held on Friday, April 18th. Need
not be present to win. Tickets for sale
at the cost of $1 each or 6 for $5.
Help support the American Indian
Business Leaders, Chapter of the
Northwest Indian College.
Funds will be used to attend the
next American Indian Business
Leaders Conference in Phoenix,
Arizona April 26 to 30, 1997.
You support will be greatly
appreciated! Please sent your
contributions to:
Mr. William Moses; 2621
Alderwood Ave.; Bellingham,
Washington 98225 or call (360)714-.
1381 for more information.
Work program accepting applications
The WEDD Youth Development
Program is now accepting
applications for the Youth Summer
Work Program. All applications can
be picked up at the WEDD office in
the Education building from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Youth must be 1 4 years old
before they can fill out an application.
A profile and a service plan must be
completed before the youth is into
the program.
Classes for the Summer of 1997
Indian language and Health
Awareness classes will be mandatory
for the Youth Workers thi s y ear. With
some elective classes being set up,
depending on instructor availability.
Free immunization
National Immunization week is
April 20-26, 1997. The theme of the
campaign "Some Boo-Boos, A Kiss
Can't Fix", reflects the importance
of making sure your child is
adequately immunized. This is the
only way you, as a parent can be sure
your child is protected from nine (9)
diseases: Measles, Mumps, Rubella
(German Measles), Diptheria,
Tetanus, Pertussis (Whooping
Cough), Polio, Haemophilus
Influenzae Type B (HIB) and
Hepatitis B. A vaccine is now
available to protect against
Chickenpox as well.
APRIL IS ALCOHOL
AWARENESS MONTH
Fourth Annual Tribal Member Art Show
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tan is
of a ninth grader, Jesse. She leads a
busy life and was very happy to find
a way to combine her favorite form
of exercise, walking, with the chance
to help find a cure for this most often
fatal disease.
Team In Training is a unique na
tionwide find raising program spon
sored by the Leukemia Society of
America. As a member of this team,
Dorothy has agreed to train for and
wall; a marathon in honor of a leuke
mia patient and, more importantly,
to raise a minimum of i3,(XK) in
donations for programs funded by
the Leukemia Society.
Leukemia is still the number-one
disease killer of children, yet it kills
ten times as many adults each year.
More than 75-pcrccnt of the money
raised by the efforts of Team In
Training members will be used to
help continue programs of research,
patient aid, public and professional
education.
Additionally, the physical chal
lenge presented by the Team In
Training is her way of celebrating
life and the gift of good health.
Early Childhood Education Center news
Health Fair Round-Up
Kindergarten
and
Head Start Registration
April 3, April 17, May 29, 1997
8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Head Start's responsibility is to
provide comprehensive services to
eligible 3 and 4 year old children and
their families one of the areas is
Health and Nutrition. We are
planning and preparing these families
for 1 99798 Head Start participation.
Part of our responsibilities is to
transition the 4 year old children
entering Kindergarten. Through the
Health Fair Round-Up the children
will have the opportunity to receive
their basic physical exam and update
immunizations prior to starting
Kindergarten in the fall.
Children who turn 3 on or before
September 1, 1997 are eligible to
enter Head Start this fall September
1 997. Early registration is also taking
place at the Health Fair Round-Up
days at the Wellness CenterIHS.
All children must have a
completed physical and updated
immunization record. Registration
packets will be handed out at the
same time. Please remember to bring:
. , 1 ) Income verification which can
bring one of the following: .
Tentative classes are: drum making,
Dip Net making, Drum group,
Cooking, Computer, Circuit training,
Basket making, Pottery, Tribal Laws,
Tribal HistoryStorytelling.
Other activities:
Kickoff Barbecue tentatively
scheduled for June 4, 1997, Youth
Co-Ed Basketball and Volleyball
Tourneys, Camp out at a site to be
determined, Dance to be scheduled
during the summer; parent priority
meetings.
For more information contact Sam
Kentura at the WEDD office or call
553-3324.
clinics scheduled
Please contact your medical
provider if you have questions about
your child's immunization status.
FREE immunization clinics will
be held in Jefferson County and at
the Warm Springs Health & Wellness
Center. NO APPOINTMENT IS
NEEDED!!
The clinics are as follows:
April22, l-4p.m.CulverChristian
Church
April 24, 10 a.m-12 noon Warm
Springs Health & Wellness Ctr;
Public Health Nursing
April 24, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Jefferson
County Health Department.
"WALK FOR SOBRIETY"
APRIL 22ND AT NOON
May 9-June 29, 1997
The last day and time to submit your Art
forjudging for this year's show is
April 18. 1997 at 5 PM
Timberline Chief Executive Officer Richard L Kohnstamm
will offer prize money for:
Judge's Choice Award, Honorable Mention Awards,
& Timberline Purchase Awards
Applications are available at The Museum and for more
information contact The Museum at (541) 553-5331
Madras resident Pat Huntington
wasdiagnosed with leukemia in 1994,
but thanks to successful chemo
therapy, it's been controlled for three
years. "I'm proud to be walking the
marathon in her honor," says Dor
othy. "She's living proof of the
progress being made in the fight
against leukemia."
Although the marathon will be
held in Anchorage, Alaska, Dorothy
will be seeing a lot of the Warm
Springs and Madras areas as she takes
longer and longer walks while in
training to reach marathon distances.
She will be doing some training in
Portland as well because that is where
most of the runners and walkers live.
Dorothy is the only walker from the
MadrasWarm Springs area partici
pating, but there are walkers and run
ners from other places in Central
Oregon.
In the latter part of April, Dorothy
will walk to Madras from Warm
Springs, maybe twice. Passcrsby are
encouraged to honk when they pass.
"It will give me encouragement,"
says Dorothy.
a) 1 0th Pay check stub.
b) Letter from your supervisor.
c) Income tax form.
2) Income from public assistance:
a) Letter of approval to receive
assistance.
3) Child's Birth Certificate (if
child is not enrolled with the
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs.)
Parents can call the Head Start
Office at 553-3241 for your child's
appointment date and time. Letters
were mailed to families (we have on
record) with appointment dates and
times. Families who are new to the
area andor who have not received a
letter call us for an appointment and
to get your child on the list. If your
child missed hisher scheduled
appointment, attend one or the other
scheduled Health Fair Round-Up
days.
Week of the Young Child
April 14 -18, 1997
Head Start's theme: "It's a small,
Multicultural World." music theme:
"It's a small World."
Monday, April 14th: 1) Clean-Up
Day
2)10:00 a.m. Kite Day andor
Streamers North End of parking
lot.
' Tuesday, April 15th: l)Cultural ,
Tribes need consistent federal policy for self
by W. Ron Allen
President, National Congress
of American Indians
Chairman, Jamestown
S'Klallum Tribe
Indian gaming is under increasing
attack in our nation's capital. The
prevailing sentiment seems to go
something like this: "Indians are
getting filthy rich from casino gam
bling. It just isn't fair, they ought to
be regulated or taxed or something."
This should not be surprising given
that the federal go vernment has nearly
always taken anything of value away
from Indian tribes. Nevertheless it is
a great discredit to our country that
federal policy makers would ap
proach this issue with such imprecise
information and so little under
standing of how Indian gaming is
planting the seeds of economic re
covery for some of the country's
most impoverished people.
The media hype about Indian
gaming leads the public and Congress
to believe that most tribes are rolling
in money. Nothing is further from
the truth. After years of failed gov
ernment programs, Indian reserva
tions have a 31 percent poverty rate
the highest poverty rate in America.
Indian unemployment is six times
the national average; and Indian
health, education and income statis
tics are the worst in the country. The
popular wisdom would also have it
that Indian gaming is a huge indus
try, and the tribes are using the money
to buy sports cars and yachts. The
reality is that Indian gaming accounts
marathon
Dorothy will participate in the
June 21 Mayor's Midnight Sun
Marathon. "I'm not planning to win,
but I will try my best to finish," she
says.
Individuals can help support
Dorothy's efforts and those of the
Leukemia Society by considering a
contribution of $25, $50, $ 1 00 or any
amount possible. "I've already given
$100 to get things started and to
prove that I am serious about my
commitment."
Checks should be made payable
to Leukemia Society and can be sent
directly to them at 6501 SW Mac
adam Ave., Portland, OR 9720 1 . You
are asked to put your name in the
memo section of your check or mail
the contribution to Dorothy at PO
Box 753, Warm Springs, OR 97761 .
Contributions are 100 percent de
ductible. Contributors can also drop
donations off at the Warm Springs
Tribal Credit Department where
Dorothy works.
If you have any questions call
Dorothy at 553-3201 at work or 553
5906 during the evenings.
Exchange Pow-wow Agency
Longhouse, 10:00 a.m..
Spanish Dancers from Madras
Middle School and Madras High
School's Indian Club.
attending.
2) Visitors attending: Terrebonne
and Madras Head Start programs.
Wednesday, April 16th: 1) Fun
Run Community Center, 10:00
a.m..
Thursday, April 17th: l)ZooDay,
10:00 a.m..
Friday, April 18th: 1) Theme for
Parade: "Leave No Child Behind",
10:00 a.m..
2) Made in Warm Springs Raffle
Drawing, 4:00 p.m., ECE Lobby.
Parents we encourage you
participate with your child and their
classroom during the Week of the
Young Child's activities!
Staff Up-Date
Early Childhood Education would
like to welcome aboard the following
staff:
1. Julie Johnson, Head Start
2. Bill Yeo, Kitchen staff
3. Albert Bryant, Food Service
Aide
4. Lacey Lewis, Head Start Youth
worker, ,M
for only nine-percent of the gam
bling activity in the country and it
occurs on only one-third of the
country's reservations. Only a rela
tively small number of tribes have
been fortunate enough to have very
successful gaming operations, and
for the most part, the revenues are
just beginning to address these tribes'
needs for essential services and in
frastructure needs.
Indian gaming is the most regu
lated in the industry and is without a
doubt the most positive context in
which gaming now occurs. The tribal
government programs and infra
structure funded by gaming bring
hope and opportunity to some of the
most desolate places in America.
Crime rates go down, alcoholism and
drug abuse go down, and individual
initiative goes up. It would be a
tragedy, indeed an atrocity, to reach
the next century with federal policy
moving tribes back into the poverty
out of which they are only now ris
ing, but this seems to be what is
happening. Despite our right to self
determination and self-government,
and despite our desperate economic
situation, federal policy makers are
working hard to set up new stumbling
blocks to Indian gaming.
Congress established the National
Gambling Impact Study Commission
last year to examine the economic
and social effects of gambling and
then make recommendations to
Congress. From the first Congres
sional hearing tribal leaders have
urged that the panel should have at
'The Challenge is On"
Environmental Month is
during the month of April.
The Community Health
Education Team and Healthy
Nation are challenging you to
a trash pick-up day on April
14.
We are cleaning up
Hollywood Blvd. from Hwy.
26 Jet. to the Full Gospel
Church.
We challenge any department
or community group to
match or beat the amount of
trash bags we collect.
C.H.E.T.Healthy Nations
Credit counseling services
helpful in debt problems
Throughout the country, Ameri
cans are busy sifting through receipts
and canceled checks. These endeav
ors arc part of the annual rite of
spring: filing a federal income tax
return.
This process is particularly diffi
cult for those Americans who owe
taxes and arc not sure how they are
going to pay them. However, through
Consumer Credit Counseling Service
of Central Oregon, help is available.
In cooperation with the IRS, CCCS
counselors develop customized re
payment plans for delinquent federal
income taxes. This program enables
consumers to pay taxes with a num
ber of installments, instead of in one
lump sum.
"Tax time makes many consum
ers feel hopeless if they owe money
they do not have," says Terri
Rahmsdorff, executive director of
CCCS. "But the situation is never
hopeless. Instead, consumers should
realistically review their situation
and, if necessary, get help."
CCCS offers these tips for con
sumers who think they may owe
taxes:
Do taxes early. Calculate how
much you will owe as soon as you
can so that you know how much you
will have to pay. This gives you time
to save or make other arrangements.
Decide how to pay. Depending
on the amount you owe and your
financial situation, decide whether
you should use savings or take out a
loan. If you decide to borrow, shop
Native American students wanted
The American Indian Science and position, are asked to encourage class
Engineering Society (AISES) an
nounces a new program planned for
1997 for an American Indian high
school student, grades 7-1 2, who best
describes, in 200 to 500 words, the
values that will guide their adult lives.
The student whose essay most clearly
expresses the moral, ethical and spiri
tual responsibilities by which a per
son lives will be awarded a $1,500
scholarshipplusa$500 personal cash
award. The chosen essayist and a
family member escort will be invited
to the 1997 AISES National Confer
ence in Salt Lake City to receive the
award. The essay, along with a short
biography on the essayist will be
published in the AISES Winds of
Change magazine and other AISES
media. Additional essays chosen for
publication will receive an individual
$250 award.
All high school teachers, espe
cially those teaching English corn-
least one American Indian member
who possesses firm knowledge of
federal Indian policy and is familiar
with the immensely positive impacts
that tribal gaming has on Indian
communities and our economies. In
response to our requests, the White
House has promised to appoint such
a person, but that promise is now in
jeopardy. The President delayed un
til all the other seats were filled ex
cept the one intended for an Ameri
can Indian. As the seats filled, the
Washington Post printed three edi
torials questioning the propriety of
appointing a Commission with a
majority of members connected to
gambling, and the last seat on the
Commission became the pivot. The
pressure is on to appoint a person
who is anti-gambling, so the White
House wants to renege on its prom
ise. On April 29, 1994, President
Clinton held a historic meeting with
tribal leaders where he promised that
decisions regarding tribal govern
ments would be made in full and fair
consultation with the tribes. That
commitment must mean representa
tion by an Indian person in any politi
cal forum that impacts the future and
well-being of Indian people. We
strongly urge the President to fulfill
his promises and appoint an Ameri
can Indian to the Commission who
will ensure that the beneficial effect
of Indian gaming are fairly consid
ered. The second stumbling block is a
proposal in Congress to put an un-
Students receive Perfect
Attendance recognition
The following students have
perfect attendance, so far, for this
school year. This means that they
have not been absent, tardy or
checked out early for the whole year.
If you do not see your child's name
on this list and fell that they should
be included, please contact Chele or
Judy at Warm Springs Elementary
School 553-1128.
Destry Begay, Jonathan Culpus,
Jr., Natasha Hericshan, Blaine Begay,
Shard Stormbringer, and Charlie Ann
Herkshan.
Happy Birthday
Irene!
With love,
Azar, Angie, Shelly,
Larry & Bryson
around for the lowest interest rate.
Investigate payment installment
plans. CCCS can help you work out
a repayment play with the IRS. Our
counselors will review your income
and living expense and develop an
installment agreement with the IRS.
You may still own interest, but you
may avoid additional penalties.
For those who will receive a re
fund, CCCS offers these tips:
Use the tax refund to your ad
vantage. Use your refund t pay off
high-interest credit card debt, con
tribute to a retirement fund, or start
an emergency savings fund.
Adjust your withholding, your
goal for next year should be toreccive
a small refund or owe a small amount.
If you receive a large refund, you've
made an interest-free loan to the IRS.
That money could have been put to
work for you in an interest-earning
certificate of deposit or an IRA or
investment account.
For more information on install
ment plans or for help with debt
problems, contact CCCS of Central
Oregon. CCCS is a nonprofit, com
munity service organization that
provides confidential counseling,
debt repayment and education pro
grams to financially troubled con
sumers. It is a member of the National
Foundation for Consumer Credit
(NFCC).
To schedule an appointment with
a CCCS counselor, please contact
CCCS at (541) 389-6181 or toll free
at 1-800-284-4605.
participation in this essay program.
No application is necessary. The re
sponse to this announcement is suffi
cient. The essay will need to state the
student's name, address, telephone
number, name of the high school
attended and the current grade level.
The student's signature and date on
the essay will confirm that this is the
student's original work. If the
student's essay is chosen, the student
will further need to supply a copy of
their tribal enrollment or certificate
of Indian blood. The postmark dead
line for submittal of the essay, in
duplicate (two copies), will be Mon
day, April 15, 1997. The winner will
be notified and their essay published
in the Fall 1997 issue of Winds of
Change. Starting February 1, 1997,
essays and the supporting informa
tion should be sent to: Circle of Life
Essay Program; PO Box 1992;
Scottsdale, AZ 85252-1992
- government
related business tax on tribal govern
ment gaming revenues. This effort
seems to stem from the notion that an
Indian tribe is a sort of charitable
organization and that revenues from
an unrelated business should be
subject to federal tax. This is a funda
mental misconception. Indian tribes
are governments, and, like state and
local governments, the revenues ac
cruing to tribal governments have
never been taxed. Tribal governments
are required by law to use gaming
revenues as a tax base to fund essen
tial tribal services, such as educa
tion, law enforcement, economic
development and infrastructure im
provement. Much like the revenues
from state lotteries, tribal govern
ments also are using gaming profits
to fund social service programs,
scholarships, health care clinics, new
roads, new sewer and water systems,
adequate housing and chemical de
pendency treatment programs, among
others. State lotteries bring in over
$15.5 billion annually, more than
five times as much as tribal gaming.
If governments are going to be treated
equally by the federal government,
why is it that no one is suggesting a
federal tax on state lottery revenues?
Isn't this gambling as well? Our point
is that governments should be treated
the same by Congress.
In the current political environ
ment, I am not surprised by the recent
news stories of tribes giving political
donations in order to have their issues
heard. Federal lawmakers have
enormous power over Indian affairs,
and yet most have little understand
ing and great indifference. Tribes
must invest an inordinate amount of
their limited resources to ensure that
their interests are not carelessly dis
regarded. What tribes really need is a
consistent federal policy that respects
their rights, including the right to
engage in the business of gaming,
and is not subject to every political
breeze that blows in Washington.
When this policy is in place, tribes
will be able to get back to the busi
ness of rebuilding their broken
economies, without fear that the
federal government will continually
thwart their efforts.
Happy Birthday
Gubba!
We love you
very much!!
Shey, Donut &
Treyvon