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X I Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon , October 16, 2003 fribal Census has be Please participate gun Statement of Willy Fuentes, A tribally directed census is critical to Con federated Tribes of Warm Springs, its people, and others who live on the reservation and depend on governmental services in some form or fashion. While it is important to quantify popula tions, it is of more importance to be able to identify what we look like as a group. This knowledge will lend itself to enhanced plan ning, resource appropriations and appropriate response to the critical needs of the reserva tion by the tribal government. A tribal census will provide a solid founda tion to build from, in terms of adding other types of surveys specific to cultural, health, safety or general consumer preferences, just to name a few, which will add to the available Chief Operations Officer: data, so that we may be able to serve the people more effectively. The census will allow the tribe to establish baseline data for our community. This data will assist us in measuring program progress to wards benchmark target goals. The knowledge supplied by the census would position and enhance the tribe's capacity to challenge federal funding formulas or even the next national census scheduled to be com pleted in 2010. It is imperative that the reservation commu nity support and fully participate in this under taking for the benefit of the tribe as a whole. This in a sense would be a legacy from the membership today to those yet to come. It can't get much better than that! c Warm Springs Tribal inisy c l s. TTW, (If V,Z: I--, Arlene Wewa (left) and Veronica Baez are among the tribal census enumerators who will be asking local residents for census information. Below is a list of all the enumerators who are collecting the census data: Carla Dean Caldera Marena Florez Marissa Wolfe Lonnie Jack James Moran Hamilton Greeley James Greeley Jeannie Brisbois Juanita Villa Allen Mitchell Mayanne Switzler Aguilar Arlene Wewa Veronica Baez The Tribal Census officially started on Octo ber 10, 200). Every community member 18 and orer (tribal members on and o ff reservation, non-tribal mem bers who reside on the reservation) should be in terviewed. Interviews take 30-45 minutes. Once your bouse, and all of the residents 18 and over have been interviewed an Enumerator will put a "Census 200) Sticker" on jour front door mantel. Please leave these in place until January 1, 2004. This will assist the Enumerators and help avoid double counting. Drop In Center If you would prefer, you may call the 'ilal Stats Office to schedule a time to fill out your questionnaire in their office. If you have any concerns about the Question naire or Enumerators, please contact Madaline Spino, 55)-)252 Ninety-five percent of the Questionnaires are expected to be completed by November 17, 200). We will publish a list of those members we halt not been able to contact in the Spilyay Tymoo, starting October )0, 200). Please conact I rital Statistics to assist with contact information. All Questionnaires will be completed by De cember 21, 200) Census Results will be tabulated and published for the community by spring, 2004 Thankyou Warm Springs for your assistance in locating all of our members! Thankyou for support Thank you to the following for supporting the 2003 Tribal Census kick-off: The volunteers: Fred, Olivia ;,fand Taya Wallulatum, Donna from KWSO, Ginger and Lawrence Crawler, Stan Nowakowski with the Warm Springs Community Develop ment Corporation, Willy Fuentes and Jeff Saunders, barbeque chefs, Addie Estimo. Thank you to the following for the door prizes at the Cen sus kick-off: Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Re sort and Casino, Warm Springs Market, DMJ Automotive, Parr Lumber, Madras Veterinary Clinic, Museum at Warm Springs, Chilkat Construction, Safeway Stores, Erickson's Mar ket, Madras Builders, Miller Lumber, Sharon Katchia, Indian Trail Restaurant, Redmond Texaco. Thank you to the sponsors: Warm Springs Tribal Council, Forest Products Industries, Community Health Promotions, Warm Springs Ventures, Warm Springs Power Enterprise, Warm Springs Composite Products and Indian Health Ser " vices, Department of Health and Human Services, the Admin istration for Native Americans. Census Team members: Vio Vath, Sue Matters, Yvonne Ivarson, Nancy Collins, Lucille Schuster, Dave McMechan, Trisha Ann Stradley-Phifer, Lavonne Rotz, Madaline Spino, Julie Quaid, Lonny Macy, Land Services Office, Ray Rangila. Also: Duncan from KWSO, the Museum at Warm Springs staff, Colleen Roba, Marella Sam, Tracy Sam, Dale Tufti, Sharon Katchia, Sharon Miller, Dr. Tom Creelman from I.H.S., Kelly Leggit, Verleen Tom, Small Business Center, A.J. Atencio, Shamona Charley and Cliff Kaiser from O.I.S., Miss Warm Springs Tilda Walsey, the Presbyterian Church, Lisa Watt, Kayeri Akweks at ONABEN, and the community members who attend the kick off event. Census questions and answers To all of those who played the 2000 US. Census Games at die kick off, the answers to the questions are as follows: The percent of our population who are high school graduates or higher 73.8. Total number of housing units: 884. The poverty rate: 28.4 percent. Unemployment rate: 12.8 percent. Total reservation population: 3,314. In 2004, there will be prizes for those who accurately predict the fol lowing numbers for the 2003 Warm Springs Tribal Census, when it is completed. Watch for more information in the Spilyay Tymoo, on KWSO and on the tribes' website at www.warmsprings.com. Can you predict: What is the total number of housing units? What is the poverty rate? The unemployment rate? And the total reservation population? What is the percentage of our population who are high school graduates or higher?