Spilyqy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
September 2, 2004-
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Berries: hope is to improve fields
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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.
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Irene Towe gathers berries at the recent outing at Mount Hood.
Nutrition: students join
in classroom teaching
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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
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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A Hollywood
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"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?
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