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Congratulations Warm Springs community members for
donating 58 pints of blood April 2.
Relationships should grow in a positive way
To the editor,
Hello from Pastor Rick. It has
come to my attention that there is a
jump in the numbers of teenage and
children pregnancies. That's right,
children having babies. ..Why ? Well,
one man's opinion being my own is
that over time to touch someone has
changed. To shake someone's hand
long ago was considered a higher
level of body contact with someone.
Now people give hugs to each other.
To me this increase of touch is good
for life. I call it good touching. Our
children are taught what is a good
touch and a bad touch. To touch is
very healing if done in the correct
way. The down side is that physical
sex, has dropped fr.om the highest
form of touching' for life to a
handshake. Sex is a major element of
the development of relationships.
But, there is a batting order that causes
a relationship to grow in a positive
way. First is the emotional; she laughs
at my jokes. He opens the door for
me. We like the same movies..
Second is spiritual; We talk about
the future for our life. We wonder
together if there is life on other
planets. We talk about our hopes and
dreams. We speak of the presence of
God in our lives.
Third is the physical. Empowered
by the emotional and spiritual growth
the physical grows from the
handshake to a hug to a time of
commitment of becoming one flesh
given by marriage which allows sex
in all of its beauty to take place. The
KEY is that the physical is given it's
energy by the emotional and the
spiritual side of the relationship. If
the physical is the first in the batting
order then that becomes the power
generator for the relationship.
This power of great sex that drives
arelationship begins tobe interrupted
by little things called work, jobs, the
bills, getting sick, etc. The everyday
things of life need the power of
emotional and spiritual to keep the
relationship growing. Sex alone kills
the heart of a relationship. Next time
how we as teachers can teach sex to
our children.
Thank you Warm Springs for your
time and effort in giving 58 pints of
blood for the Red Cross Blood Drive.
Did you pray today.
See you in Church.
Reverend Rick R. Ribeiro
WS Presbyterian Church on
campus
Sign up to win one year's
free swim pass, plus the
honor to be the first
person down the
waterslide at Kah-Nee-Ta
Village, May 20, 5:00 p.m.
ENTRY RULES:
1. Must be four feet in
height.
2. Must be able to swim.
3. Must be able to attend
May 20, at 5:00 p.m.
4. Must be a tribal member
of the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs.
You may sign up at the
Warm Springs
Community Center.
Drawing is set for May 15
at the Kah-Nee-Ta
Resort.
Absence Makes The
Heart Fonder For Our
Losses
O' Precious Heavenly Father
Each day the sun rises then it sets
again
And then the moon rises up above
Each day saying thanks to the one
most high
Being grateful for my precious two
loves
Redskywalker-Roseytwostarrs they
are my life
As God is my witness, proving it to
be no lie
They are my everything
They're my gifts from up above
They are my everything
My Precious Prince, Princess
Twostarrs and Redsky
Dad's world and special love
Oh yes I love you-oh how I love you
I love you two so Redsky-Twostarrs
Your dad will never ever...
Let you two go Redsky-Twostarrs
For you are my left and right heart
For you are my left and right arm
For without you I'm empty and
nothing
Loving you and caring for you each
day
Watching and praying to protect you
from harm
You're my reason for living, crying,
hoping, dying
Both very unique-my cabooses-true
blessings to me
Love you with all my heart & soul
your dad,
Tony "Big Rat" Suppah
Please complete survey-
Tw o hundred and fifty-eight (258)
community members attended the
Comprehensive Plan Fair on
February 20 at the Agency
Longhouse. One hundred anil
twenty-nine ( 1 29 ) surveys were filled
out. making up a total of sixty pages
of comments by the communi'ty. The
Planning Teams arc currently'in the
process of summarizing the' results
of the surveys. The results will be
run in the Spilyay Tymoo.
Following is the Comprehensive
Plan survey (slightly modified) from
the Comprehensive Plan Fair. The
eight Planning Teams who will be
doing the actual updates of the
Comprehensive Plan arc listed alone
with some of the issues from 1983,
Wc are asking community members
to tell us what you think are the most
important issues for each of the Teams
to focus on. This is the first step in
updating the Comprehensive Plan.
Who will decide the next twenty
(20) years? Your ideas are important
and will help the Planning Teams to
address the areas that community
members think are most important.
The Comprehensive Plan is the
lpeoples plant and is the umbrella
plan to all other plans in the
organization. Get involved, giveyour
ideas and you can help decide the
next twenty years. Fill out the survey
and return tothe Planning Department
by April 30. 1997. If you have any
questions or would like to be a part of
a Comprehensive Plan orientation.
contact the Planning Department.
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COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SURVEY
Please check one:
Tribal Member Married into the Tribe
Other Indian Non-Indian
The purpose of this survey is to begin to update the issues since 1983. Many
of the issues in the community are the same, some have changed and we
have some new issues. This information will be used to help the Planning
Teams update the issues in their section of the updated Comprehensive Plan
2020. Please list up to five (5) issues you think are most important for each
team to address:
I. Economic Development & Finance Issues-(i.e. enterprises, private
business, job creation, balance culturalecon. development, training oppor
tunities & career development, capital expenditures, reduce financial
dependence on forest industry & develop other sectors, tourism, provide
sites for commerce & industry, designate area to expand commercial
sector)
1. 4.
2. 5.
3.
2. Public Utilities and Housing Issues-(i.e. housing, infrastructure needs;
water lines, sewer, solid waste, littering, neighborhoods, leasing proce
dures, financing of public facilities & other community needs)
1. 4.
2. 5.
3.
3. Natural Resources and B.I.A. Issues -(i.e. fish & wildlife, forestry, timber
resources, logging practices, long term impacts, range & ag. enforcement,
air, water, energy, rocks & minerals, natural hazards, transportation,
recreation, cultural resources)
1. 4.
5.
3.
4. Education and Human Resource Issues -( i.e. early childhood, culture &
heritage, tribal school, dropout rate, career planning, teachers, recognize
achievement, truancy, role of parents, insurance programs, job training)
1. 4.
2. 5.
Across the Wire-
It's Indian rights versus government's obligation to protect bald eagles
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mcxico(AP)
It was seen as a showdown the U.S.
government's need to protect bald eagles
pitted against the right of American Indians
to exercise their religion.
In the end, however, no definitive answers
came out of the court case that began two
years ago when a San Ildefonso Pueblo man
shot a bald eagle for a religious ceremony.
As a result, many Indians contend, they
essentially still have to rely on the federal
government to be able to practice their reli
gion. While federal laws make it illegal to kill
bald eagles because the bird is a threatened
species, the laws carve out exceptions for
Indians to acquire eagle feathers and body
parts for religious purposes.
Most often, Indians get permits to obtain
feathers and body parts from a federal re
pository set up to take in carcasses from
eagles electrocuted by power lines, hit by
automobile- or killed illegally. Under special
circumstances, Indians can get permits to
kill eagles.
"What really bothers me is that we as
Indian people have to have a law to allow us
to practice our religion, yet this country was
founded on religions and religious prin
ciples," said Wallace Coffey, chairman of
the Comanche Tribe based in Lawton,
Oklahoma.
To Indians, the eagle is holy, "the only
bird that flics close to God," he said.
"We still believe the eagle is a very
powerful bird. Even just to see one gives us
a blessing," he said in a telephone interview
from tribal headquarters. "But to be able to
hold a bird in your hand, an eagle feather in
your hand. ..."
Robert P. Gonzales did not have a permit
when he shot an eagle on San Ildefonso land
on Feb. 7, 1995, for an upcoming pueblo
ceremony. Although the Bureau of Indian
Affairs verified the eagle was for religious
purposes, Gonzales was charged with vio
lating the Endangered Species Act, the Eagle
Protection Act and the Migratory Birds
Treaty Act.
U.S. District Judge James Parker dis
missed the charges earlier this year without
the case going to trial. He ruled the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service's permit process vio
lated Gonzales' freedom of religion and or
dered it changed.
Requiring Indians to name the religious
ceremony at which an eagle will be used and
requiring certification by a religious elder
are not the best ways for the government to
protect eagles, the judge ruled Jan. 31.
"Native Americans w ill still need to ap
ply for an eagle permit but they w ill not be
required to provide" that information, he
said.
The Justice Department is deciding
w hether to ask the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in Denver to review Parker's deci
sion. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Gerson
of Albuquerque, one of the prosecutors, said
courts all over the country have ruled "con
servation of these animals within the context
of a permit system is not a violation of
people's free exercise of religion "
The government argued during hearings
on the case tha' the government has a com
pelling interest in protecting the bald eagle
and that a less restrictive process would not
work.
But Suzan Harjo, head of the Morning
Star Institute in Washington, which deals
with native cultural and traditional rights,
applauded Parker's decision.
"Basically it says stop prying, you needn't
delve into the details of this particular man's
religion," said Ms. Harjo, a Cheyenne.
Alfonso Ortiz, a University of New
Mexico anthropologist and San Juan Pueblo
native, testified in a Dec. 4 hearing for
Gonzales that the whole application process
for eagle parts was unnecessary, invasive and
intimidating to traditional pueblo leaders.
Ortiz, who died in late January, told the
court he was especially concerned by the
requirement that the BIA approve the re
quest. "To have their spiritual practices be vali
dated by federal government officials on a
case-by-case basis is, I think, quite disagree
able, to choose a very mild term, to them, to
the free exercise of their religious preroga
tives. "It's a substantial burden because, as is
most often the case, you have to explain
yourself and account for yourself and your
need for the eagle feathers, eagle parts, to
someone whois not in a position lounderstand
your spiritual life at all," Ortiz said.
The National Eagle Repository near
Denver, established in the 1970s to supply
tribes with eagle parts, has been criticized for
lengthy waits now running about two years
between the time feathers are sought and are
sent as well as the condition of birds when
they arrive and complicated paperwork.
Coffey, as chairman of the Comanche
tribe, is responsible for signing applications
formembers of his tribe. He said it is becoming
a more common request as people turn back
to native culture.
"Culture has no life expectancy," Coffey
said. "It's not like a home or an automobile or
a VCR. Culture goes on and on. We want to
ensure our children are raised in that envi
ronment so future generations can be ben
eficiaries of what our ancestors handed down
to us."
The eagle now is listed as a threatened
species, a step above the endangered listing it
once had.
But U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist John
Lewis testified in the Gonzales case that "it is
likely that the current bald eagle population
would plummet if Native Americans were
given unrestricted access to kill bald eagles
for ceremonial use of eagle feathers."
Ms. Harjo disagreed. She said Indians are
a small populationless than 2 million people
and about two-thirds do not practice tradi
tional religions.
"The federal government, in trying to
increase the population of eagles, doesn't go
fortheNo. 1 cause of eagle deaths in America,
which is lead shot poisoning, because that
would be too politically difficult," she said.
"They don't go for the second-greatest
cause, which is electrocution perching on
power lines and getting zapped or the third
greatest cause, which would be getting hit by
trains, planes and automobiles.
"Nowhere on their list of the greatest
causes of eagle deaths do you find Indians,"
she said.
Western Oregon horses exposed to rare disease
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) About 45 per
cent of Oregon horses west of the Cascade
Range may have been exposed to a once rare
neurological disease, state veterinary re
searchers have warned.
Cases of equine protozoal
myelocncephalitis, or EPM, have increased
dramatically in Oregon in the past decade.
The disease can cause loss of appetite,
seizures, muscle atrophy, lameness, partial
paralysis, "wobbling" and even blindness.
"We don't know for sure how bad this
may get," said Dr. Linda Blythe, assistant
dean of the Oregon Slate University College
of Veterinary Medicine. "But as a neurologist
for 1 S years, I'm amazed at the rapid increase
in cases.
"Just in the past few years, this has become
the No. 1 neurological disease of horses in
the Western Hemisphere. And Oregon is one
of the hot spots."
Thecollcgerandomly sampled 334 horses
in 1995, finding an immune response to the
F.P.M parasite in 149, or 45 percent, of the
animals tested. The findings were reported in
February in the Journal of the American
Veterinary Medical Association.
Oregon caes confirmed at Oregon State
have jumped from two or three a year when
the disease first was diagnosed in 1986 to 38
confirmed or suspected cases in 1996. So far
this year, the college is seeing a case a week.
Barbara De Noma of Scio said her 23-year-old
appafoosa gelding. Hindi Smote,
was quickly affected by EPM last August and
still hasn't recovered.
"He was fine and all of a sudden, boom!
He walked like a drunk," she said. "We took
him to OSU for a spinal tap, and even when
we got there it was worse. He couldn't stand
and used the wall to stay upright."
Treatment with drugs still hasn't cured
the horse, although the gelding now can stand
and walk.
"But he isn't stable enough to handle a
rider," Dc Noma said.
The rate of horses that become ill or die
remains low nationw ide, less than 1 percent,
as shown by studies in Ohio. Still, veteri
narians are worried about the potential spread
of the disease, w hich is expensive to treat.
EPM is caused by a single-cell parasite
passed through opossum feces into pasture
grass, hay, grain and water. The disease is
thought to be more prevalent in Western
Oregon because the parasite thrives in damp,
mild climates and the opossum population is
growing.
EPM is treatable with antibiotics and
immune boosters, but costs range from S600
to S2.000 for treatments that last three to six
months.
"Tt'sa frustrating, extremely hard disease
to diagnose," Dr. Tun Phillips said. "It's a
tntle like Russian roulette. You have to keep
a close eye on your horse and know every
little nuance and habil, watch every change
It can he very subtle."
IU students uncover
remains of ancient city
of Tainos Indians
BLOOMINGTON , Ind. (AP) An an
cient city founded by the people who may
have met Christopher Columbus as he came
ashore in the New World has been uncovered
by Indiana University researchers.
The IU team working in the Dominican
Republicdiscovered at least threeceremonial
plazas known to have been used by the Tainos
Indians.
The Tainos vanished shortly after Co
lumbus led a group of Spanish explorers
ashore in 1492.
The finds indicate the city was inhabited
by thousands of Tainos between the 13th and
16th centuries, said Geoffrey Conrad, director
of IU's Mathers Museum and an expedition
participant.
"Nobody is going to discover a whole
new world again," Conrad said of the find's
significance. "That will not repeat itself. So
we are looking at a historically important and
extremely dramatic moment."
The plazas excavated from the jungle
floor appear to have been ceremonial areas
the Tainos used for religious purposes,
meetings and a game that was the forerunner
of soccer, said Charles Beeker, director of
IU's underwater science program.
Conrad and Beeker accompanied eight
IU students, Cal State University researcher
John Foster and several noted Dominican
experts on the expedition.
The trip was a follow-up to a survey by
Beeker and a team of divers in December. At
that lime, the group found 26 artifacts in a
well that was believed to have been a water
source for the Tainos. The site was abandoned
about 1500 after a battle with the Spanish left
most of the Indians dead.
Little is known about the Tainos, believed
to be the first indigenous group to make
contact with the Spanish in the Americas.
An estimated 1 million Tainos were liv
ing on the island of Hispaniola now divided
between Haiti and the Dominican Republic
when Columbus arrived in 1492. Within 20
years, fewer than 50,000 Indians remained,
victims of diseases the Spanish brought with
them and the colonizers' brutal treatment
Conrad said the Tainos appear to have
developed a highly complex culture that was
just beginning to flower.
"It looks to me like they are right on the
verge of making the next transition that will
put them up there with the Incas when Co
lumbus comes in and cuts the whole thing
off," he said.
Beeker said the IU team is scheduled to
return to the site, located 160 miles east of
Santo Domingo, the Dominican capital, in
May and July for further study.
"I think we are jusl scratching the sur
face," he said.
3.
5. Governmental Affairs, B.I. A. and Administrative Service Center (A.S.C.)
Issues -( i.e. planning, budgets, policies, tribal committees, community
participation, treaty, off reservation jurisdiction, residency requirements
for tribal enrollment)
1. 4.
3.
6, Public Safety Issues-( i.e. law enforcement standards, fire protection,
disaster planning, code of ethics, citizens grievance procedure, cultural
training for police force, law enforcement training program, livestock and
dog control)
1. 4.
2.
5.
7. Tribal Courts Issues (i.e. probate, juvenile courts, appellate, jurisdiction,
hunting & fishing enforcement, coordinate tribal codes & laws with state
and county agencies, non-Indian enforcement, improve record keeping
personnel management of court, establish lfull faith credit! agreement,
illegal aliens)
1. 4.
2. 5.
3.
8. Human Services and I.H.S. Issues - (i.e. health services, promotional
programs, nutrition, health resource guide, cultural awareness for social
services staff, alcoholdrug programs, confidentiality, dog control)
1. 4.
2.
3.
Comments for Sections 1-8
5.
9. Comprehensive Plan Process - Suggestions for the Process Team. (i.e.
types of community meetings, process and comp. plan orientation presen
tations, reporting back to community)
Comments:
I am interested in receiving a quarterly update on the comprehensive plan
meetings, planning team progress and other detailed information about the
update process. (Optional) Please send to:
Name
Address .
10. Comprehensive Plan Fair. Would you like to attend a Comprehensive
Plan Fair in Spring of 1997? Dyes (no
Suggestions:
Thank you for taking time to complete this survey. The information on this
survey will help the Process Team in updating the e83 Plan. If you have any
further suggestions you can contact any of the Process Team Leaders or
Jolcne Estimo-Atcncio in the Planning Department, 553-3270.
Please Return by April 30 to:
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Planning Dept., P.O. Box C, Warm
Springs, OR 97761
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