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Page 14- Tymoo, Spilyay W arm Springs, O regon A p ril 27, 2 0 0 6 Man sentenced for murder Je sse Shawn Wewa, who pleaded guilty to a charge o f second-degree murder, has been sentenced to 10 years and eight months in prison. He will be on supervised pro- bation for five years following release. He was also ordered to pay $10,000 to the Oregon De- partment o f Crime Victims Ser- vices. Wewa was charged in the stab- bing death last year o f Charles Frances LesareUey, who was 46. The incident happened last April at a residence on Seekseequa Road. Meth takes toll on reservation housing (AP) — Leah Fyten believes that every family on her South Dakota reservation has been affected by methamphetamine use. The drug has torn apart these families, led to increases in crime and bumped mortality rates. And now, the director o f the Flandreau Santee Sioux Hous ing Authority says, it’s affecting the reservation’s already desper ate housing situation. Housing is not only ruined by meth labs, which are highly poi sonous and often difficult to spot, but also by the destructive habits that often accompany drug use. The housing author ity on the Flandreau reservation has spent countless dollars fix ing up holes in the walls, bro ken windows, ruined appliances and other damage wrought by bad hygiene and the violent hab its o f drug users, Fyten said. “We have a small budget that decreases every year and fami lies are grow ing,” she said. “Housing gets worse every year. And to try to repair houses that are damaged by alcohol and drug abuse puts a strain on your budget.” Last year, Fyten and others recruited Jay Barton to help al leviate the problem. Barton, an Oklahoma police officer who also works for the N ational American Indian Housing Coun cil, is traveling around the coun try teaching tribal housing offi cials what the drug does and how to spot it. Fyten and others say the council’s seminars are break ing through in communities that have so far ignored and denied the problem, helping reserva tions lessen m eth’s collateral damage. B arton likes to say he is shocking his students out o f complacency. “The response has been tre mendous,” he said. “Especially with the funding cuts that tribes have received, this is really im portant.” Barton teaches his students all about the drug — its effects, origins, market and chemistry. He shows them photos o f us ers with their teeth rotting out and tells them about the drug’s poisonous effect on children who come anywhere near it. Statistics on Indian meth use are scarce, but a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Ser vices Adm inistration survey found in 2004 that almost 2 percent o f the American Indian population was using meth. Rob ert McSwain, deputy director o f the Indian Health Service, told a congressional panel earlier this month that the rate o f meth use among Indians appears to have dramatically increased in the past five years. This poses a major problem for states and Indian reserva tions, Barton said, as some states have passed laws that essentially punish property owners for meth contamination. Some land lords - including Indian hous ing authorities - could be forced to pay for cleanup o f meth labs, which can cost thousands o f dollars. In addition, few states have published standards for cleanup. Congress is pushing the Envi ronmental Protection Agency to develop federal guidelines, as there is still some confusion about the effects o f chemicals involved in producing the drug. Because it is often up to the reservations to pick up the work and also the tab, and because most o f these reservations have dramatic housing shortages, Barton said there is a critical need for education about meth. “I f we can make them aware o f the costs and also the people that are abusing meth, then hopefully we can cut down on the costs,” he said. His seminars have led to at least one drug bust in Juneau, Alaska, where a maintenance worker who had attended a seminar identified a meth lab in his hotel. Ron Peltier, director o f the Turtle Mountain Housing Au thority in North Dakota, said he hopes Barton, who is giving a seminar there in early May, will be able to similarly help his res ervation. “We have a lot o f workers who are unaware o f how meth labs look, and we have a feeling that some o f our units are be ing used,” Peltier said. “We hear a lot o f rumors. 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