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P3ge 8 March 16, 2 006 Spilyay Tymoo, W^rm Springs, Oregon Athletes to play for Team Oregon A total o f 10 athletes and five co ach es fro m W arm Springs signed up to partici pate for Team Oregon in the North American Indigenous Gam es, scheduled for July 2- 9 in Denver, Colo. A group o f 192 athletes in the 13-19 age group, who ’ make the Youth age group, and 57 adults, along with 87 c o a c h e s, are ex p e cte d to make up Team Oregon, par ticipating in eight o f the 16 sp orts com m encing at the Games. Team Oregon would field teams in Mens and Womens Basketball, Athletics (track and field), mens boxing, mens wrestling, rifle-shooting, and golf. In addition, there is one athlete signed up to partici pate in canoe. Athletes from six o f the nine tribes in Oregon are par ticipating in the games. Oth ers are from other tribes at tending schools in Oregon. O ne is a Y outh volleyball player from the Tlingit tribe in Alaska, and the other, the m ale can o er, is fro m the Makah tribe in Washington. Athletes have until March 31 to apply for the team, and the first installment o f fees is due April 2. Susan Guerin, Team O r e g o n ’s re p re se n tativ e in W arm S p rin g s, said T eam O regon’s leadership is looking for sponsorship to help pay the athletes’ fees, as well as for its transportation to, and lodging in, Denver. Athletes from Warm Springs have com peted in two Indig en o u s G a m e s, in 1995, in B lain e, M inn., and 1997, in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Gam es in Denver are only the second they have been on American soil; the other four times they have been in Canada. Guerin got involved with the Indigenous Games when she, on spur o f the moment, went to the 1995 Games in Blaine, and then went to a meeting for the planning o f the 1997 Gam es in Vancouver. She attends meetings on the G am es three tim es a year, and has received sponsor ship for her participation. Tryouts for spots on Team Oregon are expected, particu larly in boxing or wrestling. Mens and womens basketball is by far the m ost popular sport, as each o f the six tribes has a team and will vie for the right to rep resent Team Oregon. Basketball is so popular that athletes who also play softball or volleyball, who may in fact on those teams for Team Oregon, want to try out for the basketball teams first b e fo re playing their other sports. The rifle shooting tryouts are in Warm Springs March 25 at a shooting range on Shitike Creek. The informational meet ing where interested athletes were invited to register in cluded a talk by Billy Mills, the 1964 O lym pic 10,000 meter gold medallist who is a Lakota Sioux. Mills, who resides in Sac ramento, agreed to come to Warm Springs on short no tice when Guerin, who has k n o w n M ills fo r y e a rs, called him. He had originally agreed to grant a telephone to K W SO , bu t, sin ce he would be in Ashland for an other engagement, decided to drive n o rth to W arm S p rin g s fo r the S atu rd ay night meeting. Group traveling to California for parade For the second year in a row, a group from Warm Springs take at trip to San Ju a n Capistrano, Calif., for the Swal lows Day Parade. The group, led by Chris Buller, director o f Faith Trails Association, includes 12 youths and three chaperones besides Buller. They will leave just before the March 25 parade. They will bring along several horses. The youths will ride in the parade, which will include about 750 h o rse s. T h e g ro u p retu rn s which will cut down on expenses. March 26. While in Southern California, Last year, the Warm Springs the group will receive a letter o f gro u p too k hom e two first- com m endation from the San place, and two second-place, Juan Capistrano City Council, plaques. ad d re sse d to W arm Sp rin gs Like last year, the group will Tribal Council Chairman Ron enjoy Southern California, with Suppah. a half-day cruise on the Pacific The group is raffling o ff a Ocean and a stay on a beach at horse and a saddle Saturday, the private Three Arch Bay in March 17. The tickets are avail- South I^aguna. able at the Warm Springs Shell This year, th rgio n p will star Motion, with host families, Buller said, Baseball clinic this Saturday There will be a baseball clinic at 1 p.m. on Saturday, M arch 18 at the W arm Springs Full G ospel Church, Areas o f instruction include proper catching and throwing, proper pitching and catching techniques. Make sure to bring base- b all or so ftb a ll g lo v e , sweatshirt, windbreaker or jacket and athletic shoes. Youth hoops tourney April 14-16 The Second A n n ual S q u iem p h en -Y azz ie C o -E d Youth Basketball Tournament w ill be held A p ril 14-16 at Warm Springs. D ivisions o f the all-Indian tournament are sixth and sev enth grades; eighth and ninth g ra d e s; and tenth th ro u gh twelfth grades. Hospital — (Continued from page 1) Ja y H en ry b ecam e the Mountain View chief execu tive officer about six months ago. GUNS Awards for all age divisions are: first place, w indbreaker jackets; second place, hooded sw eatshirts; and third place, crew sweatshirts. Other awards are MVP, Mr. and Ms. Hustle, and sportsm anship for all age divisions. Entry fee for all divisions is $125. Limit o f eight players per team, all divisions. Players must show p ro o f o f enrollm ent in school. For more information con tact Priscilla Yazzie at (541) 553- 5817, or (451) 980-9060. E - mail: tyyazzie@bendnet .com. Mail address is Priscilla Yazzie, P.O. Box 734, Warm Springs O R 97761. “ One o f the first things I did was sit down the board o f di rectors and asked where we could strengthen the hospital, and where we wanted to grow,” said Henry. “ We decided we were not serving the tribes as well as we could.” Offering the discount to the tribes was the first step, follow ed by the additional health-care services the hos pital plans to extend to the tribes. G O L D -JE W E L R Y M eth ---- (Continued from page 1) “ I just read today where Pres. Bush signed a bill to stop the spread o f m eth,” he said. “ I d o n ’t know how much g oo d that’s going to do, but I think everybody needs to get involved. It’s a big problem and I don’t know if we’re going to win it or not, but we’re sure going to give it a try.” Mitzi Allen, a pharmacist at the In d ian H ealth S e rv ic e s Wellness Clinic in Warm Springs, said there are tests now avail able to d eterm in e i f a new mother is using methamphet- amine. ” In the past, if we had a mom who was pregnant and we sus pected that she was on meth- amphetamine, it was very diffi cult for the doctor to test the mom and also to test the baby. O f course, that would lead to problem s because if the baby was positive and we weren’t able to test, we weren’t able to give the baby the necessary treat ment,” she said. “We also weren’t sure that when the baby left the hospital that it would be in an environment that would be con ducive to good care.” She said that beginning two weeks ago, any expecting mother admitted to a hospital would be asked three questions: I f she has drank alcohol or used drugs such as methamphetamine, how often she has drank in the past six months, and when did she last abuse. I f any o f these qu estion s elicits a positive response, the mother is informed a sample o f her urine would be taken. The mother can refuse, but a sample o f the baby’s first stool, called m ercu riu m , w ou ld then be taken. The sample would pro vid e a re ad in g o f w hat the mother, had ingested the previ ous five m onths o f the preg nancy, Allen said. “This is not done as punish ment,” she said. “ This is done to insure that the baby gets proper care, and also to ensure that when the babies leave the hospital they go to an environ ment where they’ll be taken care of.” She said the Jefferson County Health Department is providing instant urine tests, for parents to administer to their children they suspect are using metham phetamine or alcohol. She said the tests are $5 each. She said there are now three new drugs that could be used to treat methamphetamine addic tion. The drugs are still in the research stage. One o f them, she said, is used to control sei zures but has, in studies, shown that it should prevent people from using meth even if they Your go back to an environ m en t where meth is being used. Each o f the three m edica tions are available at the Warm S p rin g s clinic, b u t n on e o f them, Allen said, is federally approved to treat methamphet amine abuse yet. Allen showed a movie called “ G,” a documentary showing a sobering picture o f the devas tation created by methamphet amine abuse on the Navajo res ervation in Arizona. Allen said “ little wars” are won by coming together in m eetings such as Friday’s, “ but I guess I ’m not that optim istic. Every time I open the paper, it just seems to be getting worse and worse.” She also revealed she is now taking care o f a baby w hose m o th er u se d m e th am p h e t amine. “ Every day that I look at him, I wonder if he’ll reach his full potential because someone did something that he had no control over,” she said. She said the baby is develop- mentally delayed in that he can not walk as other children his age can. “ I just want to let everyone know this is not something that I want to do, this is something that I need to do,” she said. “ I want to educate people. I need to let people know that this is a very bad drug, and we need to let people know that they should not start.” John Webb, a detective with the Warm Springs Police Depart ment, echoed this when he said that meth’s rush is so powerful, users become hooked the first time they use it. “That’s why it’s so important to be educating our children and everyone else,” he said. “People try it one time and that’s all it takes. It’s about 99 percent (ef fective). It’s evil and I hate it. The people involved in it really don’t like it. They don’t want to be around it, but they’re stuck in it.” H e an d co lle ag u e G re g Stinson addressed what they’ve seen “ on the street” in Warm Springs. Stinson said a common dose o f meth on the street is a fourth o f a gram, sold for about $20. H e said that w as about half the size o f one o f the small candies served in the Kah-Nee- Ta banquet room. What’s com mon practice, he said, is for a dealer to buy a 3.5 gram rock, called an eight-ball, for $120, break it down and sell the pieces for what could be a $200 profit. “ I learned all this while talk ing to people who actually sell this drug,” he said. “What I see, mostly around here, is people sell it because o f the hard eco nomic times we’re having here. “ I don’t think I ’ve met a drug dealer yet who’s profited to buy Fav Furnishings t l • DESKS m . \ / / at CASH AND RELEASE a new car or buy a new house or something like that. It’s al ways mixed into their regular funds to pay their bills.” But m ost who sell, he said, also use, with only a couple ex ceptions. M ost search warrants on the reservation, he said, turn up m etham phetam ine, although som e turn up m arijuana and cocaine. Stinson said the for merly popular party drug ecstasy has been spotted on the reser vation. Stin son said e cstasy is in som e ways w orse even than m eth b ecau se ecstasy dehy drates users, sometimes to the point o f death. He said that even as perva sive as meth is on the reserva tion, “ there’s about just a dozen people here who are really the big-name people who put fear in this community because o f w hat they can do and w ho they’re associated with,” he said. H e said m o st o f th ese people are in their 30s. H e said he d o e s realize people’s fear o f retaliation and hesitance to report what they know. W ebb p ro v id e d he and Stinson’s direct line at the p o lice department, which bypasses dispatch and receptionists and is password protected. Stinson said that the police department can protect people who inform by keeping their identities confidential. “ It’s important for me to let you know that if it was not for you guys telling us this inform a tion, we w ouldn’t be having these cases,” he said. ‘W e’re not going to be able to combat this situation until people tell.” Caroline Cruz, the state pre vention coordinator and tribal and minority liaison for the O r egon O ffice o f Mental Health and Addiction Services, said the key to mobilizing Native Ameri can communities in confronting m e th am p h etam in e ab u se is through readiness as a comm u nity, in law enforcement, treat ment and prevention. A nd in prevention, she said, there is no “ magic answer.” As the only Native American member o f the state meth task force, she said the task force fought to get m edicines with pseudofed, a known ingredient in m aking m etham phetam ine, o ff drug store shelves. 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