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m w w w w i SpilyayTymoo Warm Springs, Oregon April 24, 1997 9 Warm Springs Elementary news- "Calendar Updates for the Remainder of the School Year April 21,-25'h Terra Nova Testing for grades 1-4. (See related article) April 28,h - 3rd grade field trip to Tortland to see "Charlie and tne Lnocoiate factory . May - 4,h grade tree dedicationplanting. May 1"- Awards assembly. K-2at8:50. 3,d 6t 4lh at 9:30. May 6lh - Teacher appreciation day. May 9,h - SMART readers & students end of vear party. May 14,h 4,h grade "Seeds of Discovery" Fiela Trip to Museum at Warm Springs. May 15,h - 2nd, 3'd. & 4,h crade music program. 1 :30 p.m.. in the WSE gym. May i5,h k 16,h No half-day Kindergarten for Mrs. Graham. Parent conferences. May 16,h No School K-4. Parent conferences. May 22nd k 23"1 Art and Book Fair 8:30 - 3:30 in WSE gym. May 26,h - No School. Memorial Day Holiday. June 4,h - 4,h grade farewell assembly. 9:00 a.m., in the WSE jym. une 5,h - End of year pow-wow. 1:15 p.m. Last day of Kindergarten. June 6 - Last day of school grades 1-4. Early Dismissal. Awards assembly grades 1 & 2 at 8:50. Grades 3 & 4 at 9:30. June 9,h & 10,h - Bunding inservice and planning for teachers. Terra Nova Testing April 21" 25,h Parents: Monday, April 2 1 ", students in grades 1-4 will begin the Terra Nova Achievement test. Please help your children by making sure that they get plenty of rest and eat well during the week. Attendance at school is al ways important; especially so this week. Thank you for your help! Perfect Attendance 1" Semester The following students have perfect attendance for the first semester of the 1996-97 school year. If your child's name doesn't appear and you feel that he or she hasn't been absent or tardy, please contact the school office. Those students whose name has an preceding it still have per fect attendance as of the date of this newsletter: Destry Begay, "Jonathan Culpus, Blaine Begay, Shard Stormbringer, Charlie Ann Hcrkshan, Georgianna Aguilar. Natai.hu Hcrkshan. Nicole Hcrkshan, Shaylu Smith, Monique Johnson, Randolph Boise, Jr., Kara Katchia & Jordun Holliduy. 2"J Quarter Honor Roll 4 Grndc Stu dents With a 3.0 GPA or Higher: Robert Corlez, Robbie Bennett, Raylene Thomas, Myron Norlhrup, Melissa Danzuka, Lia Orozco, Lccann Wolfe, Julia Wallulutum, Heather Johnson, Gunner Bailey, Casey Lillie, Carina Miller, Robert Thomas, Jr., Collcta Macy, Aaron Culdcra, Angclcdith Kalatna, Arnold Aleck, Jr., Shard Stormr ringer, Simon Jim, Devenia Kcnyon, Prom ise Lawrence, Sullic Polk-Adams, Maureen Winishut, Lcland George, Larry Switzler, Mychal VanPclt. WSE Pet Watch ParentsStudents: Please keep an eye on your pets and don't let your child bring them to school. If you have a special pet you would like to share with your child's class, please con tact the teacher ahead of time to ask if it would be okay to bring a pet to the classroom for a short visit. Ani mals on the playground can hurt chil dren, or be hurt themselves. Please help us keep the students and your ts sale. isiting the School for Lunch If you would like to have breakfast or lunch with yourchild at WSE, please check in at the office to purchase a meal before going to the cafeteria. Change is not available in the cafete ria at the computer station. Adult meals are $1.00 for breakfast and $2.10 for lunch. Extra adult milk is $.40. Breakfast is served in the cafeteria from 7:20-8:20 a.m., every regular vi school duy. All-day kindergnrten, 1 " and 21 grade students cut lunch from 1 1 : 10-1 1 :30 a.m. 3'a & A"1 grade students eat lunch from 12:10-12:30 p.m. If you would like to cut in the cafete ria, please observe the times listed above. Crystal Springs 4-H Nature Camp Interested in attending a camp "Big As All Outdoors"? 4 - 6 graders are encouraged to apply now to as sure yourself an opportunity to at tend the 1997 Tri-County 4-H Na ture Camp. Where: Crystal Springs Organiza tional Camp, approx. 33 miles east of Prineville. When: Camp I June I6lh-20,h Camp 2 August 6-10 What: New friends, campfires, scavenger hunt, crafts, games, singing, skits, fun, great counselors, delicious food, laughing, classes, and much, much more!!! For more information contact the Warm Springs 4-H office at 553-3238. Thank you SMART Program vol unteers! Without your help we couldn't do as good a job to help WSE students learn to read! WSE will be having a 2 3", & A grade music program on May 15, at 1 :30 p.m., in the WSE gym. Kinder garten and 1 " grade students will not be having a music program this year. School Improvement Up date..... A school improvement survey was handed out to students in the 3rd and A grade during the week of March 31". Many were returned and all con tained valuable information ami ideas for school improvement. By parent request, we have decided to mail newsletters to parents once again. Several parents slated that communication, specifically the newsletter not being mailed, was a weakness of WSE. Another new feuiurc of the newslet ter will be a hulf-sheet at the end of each newsletter that will be a ques tion and answer section or a place lor parents to submit ideas for school improvement. Watch for it in the next newsletter. Thank you for your input. Every body in the community can help make this the best school ever! Warm Springs Elementary P.O. Box 1269 Warm Springs, OR 9776 WSE Roots to the Past Wings to the Future Arts in Education week begins May 5 Arts in Education week will begin May 5 through 9, 1997. Local com munity artists u ill visit Warm Springs Elementary to uoik with the third and fourth graders. Classes will in clude Dreamcalchers. Shawl fring ing. I )i uinming, Loom work and vari ous heading projects, dene Harvey will conduct a special class which kids will learn how to care for leath ers ami learn how to assemble a bustle. II any conunumiy member is inter ested in participating, please contact Helena Jackson at Warm Springs Elementary 553-1 I2K. Attention Drumming Groups fourth Grade f arewell Assembly is scheduled lor June 4, 1997 at 9 a.m. This is the time that WSIi hon ors those 4ih graders who will he attending Jefferson County Middle School next year. We would like lo include an "Honor Song" in our cer emony. We would like to encourage any drumming group to participate. If your drumming group is inter ested, please call WSIi at 553-1 128. June 5th is the "End of the School Vear Powwow" with Grand Entry scheduled lo begin at 1:15 p.m. All drumming groups are invited and welcome lo attend. Anv questions, please call WSIi at 553- II 2. r t Tribal member shares opinion on issues To the editor, Subject "Gaming Rights" by Ro nald A. Meyer, November 8, 1996. You assume to know the cost of everything and the price nothing. Happy Thanksgiving. As an Indigenous Native Ameri can I value my birth rights and treaty rights. Being 44 full blooded Indian duly enrolled as a member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon, "duly" means recognized by the fed eral and state governments. recognizes us a tribal people. No. No. No. It steams me that yes another uneducated white Anglo European expects the Indian to give up without a fight. America, love it or leave it! Fishing Rights vs. Gaming are two totally different issues. Native American rights have been stomped on through the centuries. We have been ignored by the Federal Government, the State and by the people. My people will no longer sit silent or tolerate your indifference to I am half Warm Springs and half our r;ehts Nez Perce. I would not trade my Qn the subject of gaming, as a rights for anything. And, to add in- . jba member, I would like to see the suit to expect the Indians to give up Confederated Tribes of Warm their tribal rights given to us in the Springs fignt for our gaming rights signing of the 1855 Treaty which If a millionaire such a Donald Vandalism affects everyone Trump can go to Washington DC. and lobby for stringent legislation concerning our rights to have Indian gaming we had better fight in the highest courts. Mr. Trump is very wealthy and he can buy his way through Washington. He's so smart he even has been able to buy air space so he can receive revenue when a plane flies over his property. This stuns me. While living in the community of Warm Springs, I have witnessed the Oregon National Guard practicing refueling in mid-air directly over head of our Headstart Center on weekdays. Maybe we should charge for air space as Donald Trump does. He makes millions. Concerning our fishing rights, you're misinformed that Indians take 50 of all harvest fish and some times more. Warm Springs along with many Pacific Northwest tribes on the Wy-East Indian FishingCommission Board got up two weeks of fishing this past season. I know for a fact that our tribes invest millions annually in fish hatcheries, re-tagging and work ing with Fish and Game to replenish our runs. How much do you pay Mr. Meyer? I refuse to sit and listen to ignorant people like you. Wake up! I've paid for my rights Wanda Christine Maria Holum Sai-Yai-Yut-She who walks and runs with wind ,i ! H f V !U. t Jolene Atencio was among those to present Comprehensive Plan update information to Madras High School students. Nearly 300 students participated in the two-day event. Results of their input will appear in Spilyayat a later date. ' Survey results put Comprehensive Plan Update in motion To the editor, I'm writing to seek some answers about the vandalism recently at ECE and why they chose to keep it hush hush? The public has a right to know what happened, do we not? Why hide it? My grandson attends ECE, in the pod that was damaged and he had to miss the whole week of school be cause of it. I saw some of the workers walking around at ECE with swollen eyes, a blank, shocked expression on their face. It was like a shock wave where everyone was effected in some degree. Were crisis counselors called in to help them through this trauma? Probably not! Just as no counselors were called a year ago when one of our precious Indian children died suddenly. The school children reeled with the shock. Hanging onto one another for com fort. Someone should have gone over to talk it out and help them under stand it all. , We Indian people aren't made of rock or animals without feelings, we're effected deeply and it will come out somewhere in our daily life if not dealt with. These types of events traumatize everyone directly or indi rectly. It has to be dealt with and not shoved under the rug or told to not talk about it or leave on vacation and hope it'll go away before you get back. It's a violation of space and security to a person. It can't be ig nored. To ignore it or blame the staff is to further victimize the victim. They need support and validation (also) above all respect. Why can't we be more sensitive to the needs of oth ers? If something happened in our family wouldn't we expect sympa thy, empathy and support? Just be cause we're Indian doesn't mean we're numb to trauma. Your training or education should tell you that! My goodness! To the staff, children and parents of "A" Pod and who were effected by this cruel, heartless act upon the school, I deeply empathize with you and I hope you will recover swiftly from all this. I pray for you and yours. May God bless you all. As for those who did this terrible act-"What goes around comes around". God Bless you and your parents too. Wouldn't hiring a weekend secu rity staff be worth the cost? The thou sands of dollars it'll cost to repair and replace all that was destroyed should tell you that. What is the tribes cost in all this? Another reason why tribal members should demand an swers. Time to take heads out of the sand and prevent another occurrence from happening. This is the 2-4 time ECE has been vandalized, is it not? The family and the children should have to go clean up the mess they made or give up their per capita to pay back some of the cost. Too often the kids walk from the responsibility just as they do when homes are van dalized in West Hills. The one who does it should be the one to fix it. Thank you, Myrna J. Frank Talk to children, urges Reverend and family projects. Begin to let them share an opinion on issues of life. Let them see that a relationship is a liv- To the editor, Hello from Pastor Rick. This is part two of talking about sex. Let's go back; remember I was sharing about the emotional, spiritual, and sexual side of relationship. And that to have a good foundation for a rela tionship there must be the right bat ting order of these three parts to make a relationship grow in a positive di rection. In my last article I ended the talk with the statement how to talk sex to your children. This is what you do. Talk to your children. No, I am not saying talk to your kids about the act of physical sex. Most kids with one or more movie channels or video machine know more than most adults. Talk to your children about the re spect and love that you have for your mate. Tell them that making love with your mate is when you walk together holding hands. Or sit close to each other on a big couch. As the children get older let them sit in on the parent discussions about the bills. ing, Dreaming, creation oi uoa. as the Bible says, "Becoming one flesh". What you must NOTdo is say, "I will let the school teach him, I will let her learn on her own. The Church will teach them." You are the primary teacher of life to your children. Talk to your children. New from the Presbyterian Church May 1 0, 1 997 there will be a Chess tournament at the church. Three age groups. Bring your own lunch. See Pastor Rick for an entry form. Every Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. we have a youth group at the church. All Junior and Senior High youth are invited. Bring your Bible, if you don't have one come and I'll get you one. Sunday School at 10 a.m.; Wor ship at si I a.m. See you in church. Rev. Rick R. Ribeiro (WS Presbyterian Church, on the campus) For many, it was a two-three hour ordeal filling out the Comprehen sive Plan Fair Survey. These indi viduals are serious about affecting the Tribe's future. On February 20, 1997 the Comprehensive Plan Fair was held. Following is a summary of the 129 surveys that were filled out. Each of the eight Planning Teams summarized their own areas for the survey. Some of the teams include administrative and policy issues and other teams focused on service areas. The summary includes the top issues and five Community member quotes that reflect some of the issues. "The Planning Teams are working hard to keep the community updated on their progress," stated Jolene Atencio, Comprehensive Planner. Thank you to everyone who took the time to attend the Fair and to fill out a survey. Your comments are being used by the Planning Teams to identify the issues for the updated Comprehensive Plan 2020. If you have not filled out a survey, it's not too late. A copy of the survey was printed in the last (April 10) issue of the Spilyay Tymoo. This is the first step in updating the Comp. Plan. After community issues are identi fied and compared to the 1983 is sues, the next step will be to draft visions, goals and benchmarks for each area. If you would like to host a Comprehensive Plan Orientation meeting or would like to review the individual survey comments, please contact the Planning Dept., 553 3270. Public Safety Top Issues: 1 . Attitudes: Law enforcement not sensitive or respectful lo community 2. Disaster Planning: Fire, Flood, other Major Disasteror, Disruptions to Community 3. Substance Abuse: Reduce Al cohol and Drug Problems in Com munity 4. Fire Hall: Request that the Community Build an Adequate Fire Department as well as Additional Sub-stations in Simnasho, Mctolius and Sccksccqua 5. Personnel: More Police Offic ers and FircfightcrMcdic Needed to Serve Growing Population 6. Community Programs: Neigh borhood Watch Programs 7. Need More Fire Protection 8. Law Enforcement Personnel Behavior: Increase their values and conduct in current personnel to re flect higher standards in police be havior on and off duty 9. Tribal Member Affirmative Action: Hire more Tribal members 10. Increase familiarity With Res ervation Addresses and Building Lo cations. Community Quotes: "Hire more firefighterMedics and police Offic ers. Be community friendly. Disas ter plan needs to be a priority. Cul tural sensitivity classes for non-Indian employees. Drug and alcohol abuse issues." Tribal Courts Top Issues: 1. Equal Enforcement of Laws 2. Family Court Needed 3. Tougher on Juvenile Offender, Make Parents Responsible Also 4. Develop a Law And Order Committee 5. Number of Inmates In Jail 6. Strict Enforcement Of Child Support Laws 7. Encourage Marriage 8. Need More Parking Spaces 9. Tougher on Drug Offenders 10. Too Many Jury Trials Can celed or Postponed. Waste of Time and Money Community Quotes: "Help our younger people more. Need equality on our justice system not one-sided. Be consistent. Put the Igangsi away. Keep up the good work. Bring in more elders to help with sentencing." Governmental Affairs, BIA, ASC Top Issues 1. CommunicationsParticipation 2. BudgetsFinance 3. Sovereignty 4. Education Youth Involvement 5. Operational (customer service, team work, policies) 6. Committees 7. Tribal Council Community Quotes: "Better cus tomer service and need to enforce policies and laws. More planning when Tribal Council and Commit tees plan to travel. The treaty needs to be explained in the school system. Absolutely not enough community participation, budget should be well planned with TMfs input at the fore front and not after the fact" Natural Resources, BIA Top Is sues: 1. Range, Livestock and Irriga tion Management 2. Timer Resource Management 3. Water and Fish Resource Man agement 4. Resource Protection Enforce ment 5. Wildlife Resource Management 6. Education and Communication 7. Forest Employment and Eco nomic Development 8. Road Systems 9. Archaeological Sites and Cul tural Resources Management 10. Fuelwood and Small Wood Products Community Quotes - "We need our range looked after, so our horse and cattle have good range. Our timber industry is gradually going under, we need to find other source of revenue, Continue to protect what we have. Make good use of what we have - not over cut, over fish. Im prove what we have with good plan ning, Make sure the future is pre served in all natural resources, start classes in middle school and high school. More tribal members need to strive to educate themselves." Public Utilities & Housing Top Is sues: 1. Housing Quantity and Affordability 2. Housing Maintenance and Up keep 3. Housing Quality 4. Housing Finances 5. Sewer 6. Water 7. Solid WasteRecycle 8. Dog Issue 9. Service Level 10. Landscaping Community Quotes - "We need to crate housing for tribal members and start making use of houses that are no longer occupied. More adequate housing. A lot of housing develop ments look identical and homes look like fire traps. Need a more variety of home per dc velopmc n t. Gotta start replacing old sewers around the old houses, charge for water, mainte nance of lines, update equipment. Teach classes on fence building, landscaping, gardening." Human Services & IHS Top Is sues: 1. Branch and I.H.S. services, fo cusing on user friendly and linking such services to community values and community needs. 2. Management of all fiscal ap propriations, ensuring majorily of dollars arc spent on client services. 3. Branch and I.H.S. reporting out capabilities, to the community and Tribal Council 4. Branch health, social and rec reation planning efforts by socking input for the community, through a variety of surveying techniques. Communitv Quotes - "I like the programs being promoted for health also for family involvement. Spe cialty clinics definitely a plus! Teaching more nutrition information to young and old. Health & Wellness Center needs more doc tors, takes too long waiting. Need a nursing home now." Business & Economic and Finance Development 1. Start-up, Expansion & En hancement of Existing Businesses 2. Other (not business economic 3. Policies, Planning, Business Procedures, Codes, etc. 4. Jobs and Employment 5. Training, Education, and Ap prenticeships 6. Business Assistance - funding and technical assistance 7. Off Reservation developments Community Quotes - none se lected Education and Human Resources 1. Job training and preparation 2. ECE as foundation of educa tion 3. W.S. Elementary School Facil ity 4. Basic High School Education Completion 5. Language and Culture Preser vation and Restoration 6. Higher Education Completion 7. Culturally Relevant Services 8. Availability of Computer Technology and Skills 9. Parent Involvement 10. Coordinating Related Service Across Tribal Organization Community Quotes - none se lected Suggestions for Comprehensive Plan Process Team 1. Comprehensive Plan aware ness (never knew we had a compre hensive plan) 2. Suggestions for next fair 3. Involve youth and elders 4. Reporting back to community on results 5. Public meetings 6. More management and leader ship involvement 7. Communications suggestions 8. Organizational Department Involvement and Coordination Community Quotes - "Once you have a Draft Product; may need to hold another fair. Need follow upon fair, set priorities, goals, community meetings, each district. Commit ment to the Comprehensive Plan from the various departments. Home meetings, small meetings, family meetings. First year I realized the Comprehensive Plan existed." Would you Attend Another Com prehensive Plan Fair? Responses: Yes - 101; No - 16: No Answer -11; Mavbe -1 T