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Spilyqy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon September 2, 2004- Page 9 Berries: hope is to improve fields 4". lift Ml (Continued from page 1) They discussed the need for proper forest management practices that will increase the yield and health of huck leberry fields. The berry bushes grow best in warm sunny areas of elevation between 4,000 and 5,000 feet, with reduced competi tion from other foliage on the forest floor. In past times fires would clean the forest floor, but current manage ment practices discourage burning. This has caused huckleberry areas to be come overgrown with other foliage, discouraging berry growth. The group that visited the ski area first went to Hood River Meadows wetland, the largest wetland area on Mount Hood. The small number of berries disappointed tribal members. Resource managers say that controlled burning of the brush in the fall, just before the winter snows, would dra matically improve this huckleberry habitat. The tribal members were happier with the huckleberries in the Umbrella Falls area, where the brush has been better controlled. Baskets were filled with berries in this area. Tribal members who attended the event requested maps of the picking areas, and said they appreciated Mount Hood Meadows for the effort to pro tect the traditional berry gathering ar eas of the tribes. As plans develop to improve the fields, the cooperative planning efforts of the ski area, the tribes and the forest service will be necessary, a commitment that Louie Pitt and the managers of the ski area and forest agreed to. Rachel Tallmtdg lor tht Spilyiy Irene Towe gathers berries at the recent outing at Mount Hood. Nutrition: students join in classroom teaching (Continued from page 1) Visual teaching aids are important for the children to learn in this class. When it came to teaching the kids about the value of nutrients in effi ciently digested food, Breese had a for tunate occurrence at home: her cat killed a gopher and left everything but the head. "We lost the esophagus, but we had the rest of the digestive tract for dem onstrations," she says. "We put that in alcohol so the children could take a magnifying glass and see what we're looking at. It was fun." The connections are important. Breese teaches the kids that every thing is related. The seed is planted, then harvested. After that the food is pre pared, consumed and, with exercise, efficiently digested. Even the waste is utilized. "There are all kinds of waste," Breese teaches the kids. "They got so they just laughed about all the differ ent kinds of waste." Carrot and celery peelings are an important part of the food cycle, says Breese. "I took the peelings home to our compost pile and brought back worms in the soil so the kids could see how the worms were working. I had them in an enclosed jar. The kids dropped a nice fresh piece of celery leaf on top and by the time our three hour class period was over the celery leaf was disappearing. It was just amaz ing to the kids how these kinds of pro cesses work." Breese wrote the curriculum and lesson plan for these classes, but teach ing has always been a team effort. Part of the teaching has been to continually ask questions of the kids about nutri tion to set the information in their minds. According to Breese, Minnie Tulalakus would do the food pyramid portion, and she'd ask, "We've eaten our meal, where do our portions fit into this food pyramid?" At the beginning, last January, she would need to answer all of her own questions. None of the students would Indians sought for roles in miniseries PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A Hollywood casting director will take auditions in South Dakota this week for American Indians to be part of a cable miniseries. Cable network TNT and Dream Works Productions are putting together a series called "Into the West," which will tell of the westward expansion in the United States. Chris Hull, manager of the state film office, said most of the work will be as extras. The directors are looking for Indians in different age groups and those who can speak the native lan guage, Hull said. Interviews with the casting director will be held Tuesday in Rapid City and Thursday in Sioux Falls. "By the end of school we had kids up in front of the class helping us team teach. It was exciting. " Lynne Breese OSU Extension family and community development coordinator volunteer. As the year moved on, the instructor was hard pressed to pick among the youngsters waving their hands with the answer. "By the end of school we had kids up in front of the class helping us team teach. It was exciting," says Breese. This coming school year, this Ex tension program will be picking up a new class of fourth graders. "Our fo cus will always be on nutrition, but a large part of that will be food safety," says Breese. "For example: 'How do you prepare a sack lunch that's a safe sack lunch?' People on the whole don't think a lot about this." And what's going to happen to last ' year's fourth graders who will be roll ing over into the fifth grade? "We're going to be expecting them to do more about teaching this year," says Breese. "We want to start building some lead ership skills into this." She continues, "Some of them, with a little extra work, might be involved in teaching the new students the how to part of the lessons. We'd like to work some of them into a stronger teaching role." But isn't that what you'd expect for the future leaders on the reservation? Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Certified Inter-Industry Conference On Auto Collision Repair (l-CAR) (Across From Post Office) Madras, Or 97741 (541)475-6153 We repair all makes and models! 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