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News from IHS Health & Wellness Center.'Folic Acid & Posture Two tribal members complete nursing
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What Every Young Woman
Needs-Folic Acid!
by Miles Rudd, MD
The Confederated Tribes of Warm
. Springs has set a goal to become the
Healthiest Indian Nution. A Healthy
Nation must begin with healthy ba
bies. Folic acid is an important part
of giving all babies a healthy start.
Between the 17th and 30th day
after a woman becomes pregnant,
the neural tube forms in the develop
ing baby and then closes. The neural
tube later becomes the baby's spinal
cord, spine, brain, and skull. A neu
ral tube defect (NTD) occurs when
the neural tube fails to close prop
erly, leaving the developing brain or
spina cord exposed to the outside.
The two most common neural tube
defects are anenccphaly and spina
bifida.
Spina bifida occurs when the lower
end of the neural tube fails to close.
Thus, the spinal cord and back bones
do not develop properly. Paralysis of
the infant's legs, loss of bowel and
bladder control, water on the brain
(hydrocephalus), and learning dis
abilities are among the disabilities
associated with spina bifida. Eighty
to ninety percent of infants born with
spina bifida live. Despite varying
degrees of disability, many lead suc
cessful and productive lives.
Anencephaly is a fatal condition
in which the upper end of the neural
tube fails to closet In these cases,
the brain either never completely
develops or is totally absent. Most
of these pregnancies end in miscar
riages. t Infants who are born alive
die very soonfafter birth, t
Folic acid is a vitamin supplement
(hat, when taken one month before
becoming pregnant and throughout
the first trimester, has been proven to
decrease the chance of babies de
veloping neural tube defects by 50 to
70. Spina bifida and anencephaly
are birth defects that occur in the first
four weeks of pregnancy , before most
women know that they are pregnant.
Because about half of all pregnancies
are unplanned, it is important to in
clude folic acid in the diet of every
woman of child-bearing age (12-50
years old).
The recommended amount to
prevent spina bifida and other neural
tube defects is 400 micrograms (0.4
milligrams) of synthetic folic acid
daily. f Convenient ways to make
sure that you get enough folic acid
are:
Take a multivitamin with 400 meg
of folic acid or take a single pill of
400 meg of folic acid every day (Folic
acid pills are small and easy to
swallow), or
Eat a bowl of a breakfast cereal
containing 100 of the daily value
of folic acid per serving. Total,
Product 19, Cheerios Plus and Smart
Start are some examples.
With either of these approaches,
you should eat a healthy diet that
contains lots of fruits and vegetables
and foods fortified with folic acid.f
"Enriched" cereal grain products such
as pasta, rice, bread, flour, and cere
als have been fortified with certain
amounts of folic acid.f Foods con-
Seeking Choctaws in Portland area
Dear Choctaws,
Once again, Assistant Chief Mike
Bailey and I are looking forward to
traveling to your area to visit with the
Choctaw people. We will be in
Portland, Oregon on July 15, 2000
and Seattle, Washington on July 16,
2000. We feel it is extremely im
portant to keep you personally up
dated on your tribe's activities.
We also fee it is very important to
have an opportunity to listen
first-hand to your views and concerns.
Tribal programs have been initiated
because of concerns and wishes that
have been voiced at previous meet
ings in your area and other cities. The
Housing Loan Program and the
Language Program are two widely
utilized service programs that have
begun in the past few years.
Staff members from the Tribal
Membership Department will be ac
companying us, and will be making
tribal photo identification cards at
each location. This will allow you
and your family members to have
your card made without having to
travel to Oklahoma.
I respectfully invite all Choctaws
and your families in the Portland
area to join us on July 15th at 1 p.m.
at the Holiday Inn Downtown, 102
NE Grand Avenue, Portland, Oregon
(503) 235-2100.
Seattle area Choctaws are cor
dially invited to join us on July 16 at
1 :00 p.m. at the Seattle Hilton located
at Sixth and University (206)
624-0500.
I sincerely hope you can attend
one of these meetings. I look forward
to seeing you there. ' ;.; :.
Sincerely,
Gregory E. Pyle, Chief
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
taining folate include fruits; green,
leafy vegetables; and dried beans.
Even though there are several
ways to get the recommended
amounts of folic acid every day, two
thirds of women in the United States
do not consume adequate amounts of
folic acid. So to give your baby a'
healthy start make sure to get your
folic acid.
Posturing for
good health
Correct posture is the position in
which the least amount of stress will
be applied to each joint in the body,
particularly the joints of the spine.
Any position that increases the joint
stress is considered faulty posture. If
a person has strong and flexible
muscles the body can more easily
adapt to poor posture. But if the joints
are stiff and muscles weak, the per
son may not be able correct poor
spinal alignment and it can result in
what we recognize as back or neck
pain.
When we use correct posture our
ear lobe is in line with the tip of our
shoulder which is over our hips.
Assuming this posture allows our
vertebrae to stack neatly on top on
one another, reducing the stress on
our muscles. To get an idea try
stacking blocks so that hey are leaning
over but not falling. Without some
sort of external support it is almost
impossible. The straighter and more
aligned the blocks are placed on top
of one another the higher they may
be stacked without falling.
It's unrealistic, of course, to hold
perfect posture all day long but by
being more aware of how we are
sitting, standing or doing work is the
Stay strong in your schooling
everyone is cheering for you.
, from Louisa T.
From everyone
well you know where
July 1 1th Happy 18th Birthday
to my Dear Son Man,
Reggie Gleason-who I love ,
very much on your special day.
I hope you the Best, send all my
love to you. XOXOXO
From your mom Valena S.
first step. Just by slouching when
you sit, the pressure on your discs
may increase by about three times. If
you occupation requires you to sit for
long periods, your chair should en
courage proper posture and support
the low back in a slight arch position.
You should sit close to your work
and computer screens should be at
eye level. When driving, your feet
should reach the pedals comfortably
without forcing you into
slump-sitting. Take a few minutes
every hour to slowly stretch your
neck, your back and shoulder blades
in all direction.
Remember that itfs what we do
. now which will largely determine
the health of our backs and necks in
the future. The cumulative effect of
poor posture may eventually lead to
injury andor determine how quickly
we can recover from other setbacks
we have in this life. If you have more
questions about how to maintain good
posture and exercise to encourage
strength and flexibility of the spine,
contact you doctor or physical
therapist.
The Warm Springs Physical
Therapy clinic is currently located at
the community wellness center and
offers evaluation and treatment of
conditions such as neck and back
pain, shoulder, knee and ankle strains
and various other pre or post surgical
rehabilitation. To be seen at the clinic
requires a referral from your primary
care provider and authorization from
Managed Care. The Warm Springs
Physical Therapy clinic is currently
open on Monday and Wenesdays
from 8:30 to 4:30 as needed. For
more information call 553-3381 on
Mondays and Wednesday s or
553-3225 on other days.
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Lucy Gadberry and Stacy FastHorse have completed a 90 day
course at Mountain View Hospital for CNA (Certified Nurse
Assistant). The course involved classroom work as well as direct
patient care. They will take a state exam for nursing assistant's
certification. Both are employed at the Warm Springs Health and
Wellness Center in the Medical Department. Congratulations to
both from your co-workers and the ACNMedical department.
Voc Rehab holds orientations
July 1 1th
Wishing my bro
Reggie Gleason
a Happy 18th Birthday
with lots of Kisses & hugs
from your sis Clara G.
To my big brother
Who I miss very much
God bless you on
your 18th Birthday
note: lil sisters love
you very much
Adeline G, Roberta G.
& Olivia G.
Have you heard that the Voca
tional Rehabilitation program helps
people with Disabilities? The
disability must result in a substantial
handicap to employment. A sub
stantial handicap is defined as
"physical orpsychological challenge
which impedes or will impede an
individual's occupational perfor
mance by preventing or making very
difficult his or her obtaining, retain
ing, or preparing for employment
consistent with his or her capacities
and abilities".
If you are an enrolled Native
American and you have a physical or
psychological challenge that prevents
you from obtaining, maintaining, or
being promoted in employment, you
are invited to attend an Orientation at
thej Vocational Rehabilitation pro
gram. Orientations are held every
Monday at 3 p.m. up in the Industrial
Park, Food Commodities Warehouse,
in the Social Services side of the
building. Orientations are open to
anyone interested in learning more
about the program.
It is important to note that you
must be physically or psychologi
cally able to work before seeking
Vocational Rehabilitation services.
Tribal & WSFPI Board member shares his ideas
Auction is for good cause
Dear Potential Buyer,
The 4-H and FFA programs are a
valuable learning experience for
many of the youth in our community
and they provide a means for these
youth to earn money towards their
higher education.
On Saturday evening, July 29,
2000 at 6:00 p.m. the Jefferson
County Livestock Association will
be sponsoring the Annual 4-HFFA
Livestock Auction Sale at the
Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Your
support for the auction and the youth
who have worked hard over the past
year on their individual projects is
much encouraged.
We would like to see you and your
support at the auction to bid on the
animals. However, if you are unable
to attend we have an order buyer
program through which you can place
an order for an animal and the order
buyer will bid up to the dollar amount
you specify. Upon being the suc
cessful buyer, you andor your busi
ness will be recognized during the
auction as the purchaser. An average
animal will cost between $250 and
$500 above the market floor price. If
you would like to join forces with
another business or individual and
co-purchase an animal, we can ac
commodate yourrequests. In the case
of a co-purchased animal, all par
ticipate buyers will be recognized
during the auction.
Please fill out the enclosed,
self-addressed, stamped card indi
cated how you wish to support the
4-HFFA Program. If you check the
second or third boxes you will be
contacted before the auction to assist
you in your requests. By returning
the card, we will send you two day
passes for Saturday and two barbecue
tickets for the 4-HKiwanis Barbe
cue Saturday evening.
If you have any questions please
call the Extension Office at 475-3808.
We look forward to seeing you at
the 2000 4-HFAA Livestock Auc
tion Sale on Saturday, July 29th.
Your support is appreciated.
Sincerely,
Candy Gomes, President
Jefferson Co. Livestock Assoc.
AUCTION STARTS AT 6 P.M.
JULY 29TH.
Milton & Phillip
Oh my goodness
our babies are already "two"
Hope it's not too terrible
Love you guys anyways.
Dad & Mom
Happy Birthday
Lil'Bro'sJuly 7th
I could still take ya!
Love, Isaiah
Video Closeout Sale
Indian Trail Restaurant
All movies must go!!!
To the editor,
, . :.Tq the enrolled, membership of
; Warrft Springs, I .would like to share
with you some of my ideas as a
member of the Warm Springs Forest
Products Industries Board, This be
ing my first appointment, it has been
an enjoyable and educational learn
ing experience.
I bring fifteen years of forestry
experience to the Board. I started out
as the Timber Stand Improvement
Supervisor at the mill, when the de
partment was moved to the Tribal
ForestryBIA Forestry compound I
took advantage of every opportunity
to expand upon my knowledge of
Forestry. I was fortunate in being
able to attend a multitude of Forestry
related training seminars. I was in
volved in a number of special Forestry
Projects such as collecting continu
ous Forest Inventory Data, Stand
Exams, Timber Sale Lay-Out etc.
This expertise was gained from
people openly shared their formal
education with me and projected to
me a real concern for the best man
agement of our resources. I now pos
sess a solid background in Forestry
to base all of my opinions on.
Strategic Planning is required of
any intelligence operated business, it
is a guide that ensures the survival of
a business in this day and age of
global economics. This plan must
allow for a certain amount of flex
ibility, as priorities will change as
they inevitably do. Strategic plan
ning is a very important process, that
will enable our enterprise to develop
realistic long-range plans and provide
feedback that indicates if and when
revisions must take place. A smart
business most certainly bases all of
its business, economic and financial
decisions upon a solid foundation of
factual data.
The Continuous Forest Inventory
Data, (CFI) that is gathered every ten
years must be an integral part of any
planning. This pantry of timber must
identify all of the remaining old
growth quality timber, by species,
net volume and density so that we
can estimate long range revenue po
tential and harvest to take advantage
of any favorable market conditions.
Computer modeling programs can
estimate the revenue potentials of
this old growth tree(s). S ince we don ' t
have the luxury of waiting 400 years
for our timber to attain these highly
preferred traits, its makes the most
sense to make these projections be
fore hand. Since we are only a har
vester of timber we rely upon our
trustee agency BIA Forestry to pro
vide us with this vital information.
Up to this point all that we as a Board
know is that our enterprise will be
harvesting 55 MMBET of timber
annually.
This leads me into the next area of
concern that I see our enterprise
facing, the co-operation that once
existed between WSFPI and the BIA
Forestry is nearly non-existent We
must re-establish this so that we are
, not at odds and ensure the tribe that
j we: are working towards common
goals. At this point in time it seems
, very hard to get this communication
even started. This is one area that
the Tribal Council can support the
Board, by reminding the Superin
tendent of it's Treaty obligations.
One of the most important semi
nars that I attended was Data Col
lection methods and Analysis. It in
stilled in me the importance of un
derstanding and verifying the data
that is generated and provided to
you. Since it is prudent for any busi
ness to develop realistic plans the
accuracy of the data must be con
firmed. This is where we have to
understand the importance of the
formal education that our competi
tors utilize to manage a successful
operation. The importance of an edu
cation cannot be overlooked because
it will definitely improve our plan
ning processes and revenue poten
tial. Perhaps the greatest impact that
we have had to adjust to, is the In
tegrated Resource Management Plan,
which has reduced the Annual Al
lowable Cut to half of its historical
level, our Commercial Forest acres
to one-third its historic level, two
very major impacts! Now that IRMP
is being revised, lets do so in a fashion
that won't hinder WSFPI. One hin
drance pertains to logging sale ap
proval process, which takes nearly
three times as long as other entities.
The mill must have a continuous
supply of timber in order to operate
efficiently, there were a few times
where this just wasn't happening!
Now that we have to comply with
the Endangered species Act and
National Marine Fisheries provisions
also, a time table must be established
so that these two Federal Agencies
understand the importance f their
timely recommendations. It must be
given a top priority. If they cannot
guarantee cooperativeness then we
must take a stand based upon the
fiduciary and plenary duties of these
federal agencies to comply with treaty
language or take a similar stand as
the states of Washington and Oregon
have. If you don't set a realistic
time line for your input or don't
send along the additional funding
to ensure complicance than we
cannot implement the guidelines
period. Another arguing point in our
favor states that any regulation that
creates such a economic hardship on
a treaty tribe, there's a good chance
that they will not have to meet certain
stipulations.
Once we receive a logging sale
we must be able to interpret specific
data to generate a recovery and mar
keting analysis, then we must see
how well we came to these estima
tions, (FEEDBACK). This may re
quire some changes so that we are
better able to track material coming
into the mill yard and throughout the
manufacturing process. In short it
should provide and overall picture of
our manufacturing process, identify
any changes.that must occur and in
form us if we can pay for these re
quirements without having to borrow
money. This revenue is what we base
capital expenditures on and provides
us an estimation of the net profitloss
for a particular year, logging sale or
block. In order to maintain the prof
itability standard addressed in the
five-year plan of operations we must
have the education and expertise to
understand and utilize this informa
tion to meet our goals for that time
period.
One of the best tools we have
today we have today is the computer
modeling programs that are in exist
ence today. They can generate a
multitude of information and sce
narios before one tree is even har
vested. This is a great expense sav
ing tool if used wisely. It can gener
ate specific information too, such as
identifying all of the old growth
quality timber on each and every
logging sale or block. We can then
estimate the best marketing possi
bilities of this limited resource, which
ideally should generate more revenue
to our tribe. We want the best prices
for this wood fiber wouldn't you
agree. We must also realize that this
second growth timber will only gen
erate twenty percent of the stumpage
rates that we are seeing today. This
presents a problem in itself.
Probably the hardest question that
must be addressed is the one pertain
ing to our tribal loggers that have
been drastically affected by the re
duced cut. The harvest level that has
been quoted to WSFPI is half its
historical level, which is reflected in
the reduced quotas. One option that
will lessen this impact is that our
loggers must show a concerted effort
to target the timber that is contracted
to outside loggers to lessen this fi
nancial impact. The obvious impact
pertained to the financing contracts
that our loggers already had in place
before the adoption of IRMP. Their
contract payment expectations re
mained the same, the quotas didn't.
Consider also that in some instances
the rules and regulations that have
been put in place with the onset of
IRMP, The National Marine Fisher
ies and the Endangered Species Act
all have had financial impacts. Com
bine that with encountering times
when loggers were forced to sit idle
waiting for logging sale approval, or
having to move equipment from one
area to another, having to also deal
with possible timber volumes that
were miscalculated, of having to
comply with IRMP policy. All of
which cumulatively could very eas
ily have nullified the ten per cent
stumpage differential that people
have been so concerned about.
What our loggers must realize is
that if they all choose to remain in
business they must adjust to the quo
tas that are delegated to them. The
other alternative is that they target
the limber volume that is comractcd
to outside logging contractors to off
set quota reductions or work outside
of the reservation. They must face
the fact that the harvest level will not
carry the historic level of local log
gers that it once did. They must make
every effort to decide among them
selves who will be committed to a
small log operation and who will be
a larger log operation. Another im
portant reason to have the CFI data
shared with WSFPI. They could then
decide if its actually appropriate to
continue logging, continue to replace
equipment or to acquire the needed
machinery to adjust to the second
growth harvesting needs.
The last area that must be ad
dressed is the idea of trading our
large wood for material that we can
profitable run through WSFPI. At
one time as much as 1 1 MMBFT of
logs was owed to WSFPI by other
mills, our competitors. No interests
was being charged for accounts that
went beyond thirty days, no one pro
duced the contract that we entered
into with these companies. It has so
far just been past along to the board
by word of mouth that every thing is
kosher . I know that I have personally
asked for this information twice. This
trading material is the most valuable
timber of the Annual Allowable Cut
and should be administered to ensure
that we are indeed benefiting from
this action. I don't know of any other
company that would allow this to
continue without some very close
monitoring.
What I have presented hare are
my personal ideas of what it will take
for our enterprise to remain truly
competitive in this global economy.
We produce a very small amount of
the worlds demand for lumber
products, the timber that we own
consist of some very high valued
timber that we must market to gener
ate the best money possible. This
cannot happen with out some sort of
long-range ylajajt must be inclusive
of all the business and economic tools
that are available to us. We cannot
overlook the importance of the mul
titude of information that is there for
our use, but its imperative that we
use it wisely. We must face the re
duced harvest with diligence just
because of its significant impacts to
WSFI and the tribal organization.
Current demands of our operation
indicate that the future will require
that we buy forty to fifty per cent of
our timber from outside the reserva
tion in the near future. The next
millennium looks to be quite inter
esting, our survival is dependent of
how well we as a tribal entity adapt to
the changes that must occur to
guarantee our stability far into the
future, for ourselves and for future
generations. But it cannot happen
w ithout co-operation and support of
our trustees, the tribal organization
and Warm Springs Forest Products.
Respectfully Yours,
Randy Smith