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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon , October 16, 2003
fribal Census has be
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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!
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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?