Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
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Sen. Smith, tribes discuss Indian Affairs
From the Office of Tribal
Governmental Affairs.
Tribal leaders met recently at
the Celilo Longhouse with U.§.
Sen. Gordon Smith and BIA
regional director Stan Speaks.
Sen. Smith presented an up
date on Native American-re
lated legislative work pending in
the Senate.
Smith is the ranking minor
ity member o f the Senate In
dian Affairs Committee. High
lights o f his report include:
Bringing IHS construction
funds to Oregon
, .Sen. Smith is leadirtg'the ef*1*
fort to secure more funding fo r,
«construction of Indian health
facilities in Oregon.
Currently, the facilities bud
get for the Indian Health Ser
vice (IHS)'is locked into projects
mostly in the Southwestern U.S.,
and Oregon is not in line to reL
ceive any funds for 20 to 30
yeari.
Sen. Smith is working t£.
amend the Indian Health Care
Improvement Act to allow the
IHS to fund projects more eq
uitably across the country. Both
the Indian Affairs and Finance
committees have passed the bill,
and the full Senate is expected
to Vote on the proposal this year.
Photo courtesy of Michelle J. Singer, One Sky Center
- tenante or adoption assistance
; payments, and tribes do not
[ have adequate funding to pro
vide for fee needs of children
in care.
Seri. Smith and Seri. Max
j Baugu.s (D-Mont.) ! introduced
the /T ribal Foster- Care and
Adoption Access Act; which will
j ensure feat tribes receive direct
reimbursement for costs related
i to foster care services, includ«-
; ing adoptiori assistance services,
employee training and edpta-
( tion, administrative costs related
Ito case planning and case man-
agemeat, and developing and
maintaining data collection sys-
: terns. El
Tribal Council Chairman Ron Suppah meets with Sen. Gordon
Smith at Celilo Village.
of Veterans Affairs (the VA).
The legislation would result
in greater access to health care
seryices for American Indian
veterans of federally recognized
tribes. The legislation also would
ensure that Native American
veterans eligible for VA health
care benefits will not be liable
for individual co-pays for VÀ
health services delivered by the
Indian Health Service, an Indian
tribe or tribal organization.
Columbia River treaty fish
ing access and in-lieu sites
Helping tribal veterans with
Sen. Smith is working with
health care costs
the Senate Indian Affairs Com
, Seri. Smith recently intro mittee and the Columbia River
duced the American Indian Vet Inter-Tribal Fish Commission to
eran Health Care Improvement maximize operation and main
Act, which would encourage tenance funding for, Columbia
coUabQrati© 4 |s betiveen the De River treaty fishing access arid
partment of Health and Human in-lieu sites.
Services, and the D epartm ent, | The proposed change in law;
would allow already appropri
ated fending for fee sites to be
iriyested providing higher-yields
and .additional years, of opera
tional f&ding.
It is expected feat this provi
sion will be included in a techni
cal am endm ents bill being
drafted by the Indian Affairs
Committee.
Tribal adoption
tinder current law, tribal na
tions do not have/direct access
to- federal Sociai Se,entity Ad
ministration Title IV-E foster
cate arid adoption funds. -Inj-
stead, fee tribes must develop
n eg o tiated , agreements w ith
states to acces# these funds.
As a result, m ost N ative
American children placed in
out-of-home care through tribal
courts are not eligible for fefe
ieral funds for foster care main-
M useum at W arm Springs
to host Star Light D inner
i, The Museum at Warm
'Springs will host thé ’Star
Light Diftner on Friday* De
cember 7.
The dinner is held in fee
rimseum lobby, ' ¿S/ a
fUndraisirig event for the
Museum at-Warm Springs. •
Dinnerwill includè turkey
and ham and all the trim
mings, arid devine desserts.
Tickets are available from
fee museum staff. -
Ticket prices are $15 for
adults (13 and older), $10 for
’senior citizens, and $5 for
children.
The evening schedule in
cludes a visit to fee mUsdum
by Santa' (from 3 to 4:30
p.m.), silent auction (from 3
to 5* p.m.), and dinner frorii
5-6:30 p.m. >t
For more information call
fee museum ^^§53-3331.
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Workshop on Native women’s personal finances
, T he TJ.S. D ep artm en t y5F information to Native American
Lab op’s W omen’s Bureau is women through a series o f pub-
sponsoring a workshop, “Mov ’ lie service radio announcements
ing Beyond Survival to Finan and classes designed to increase
cial Stability,” to-be held from %! financial literacy.
“The ^Women’s Bureau is
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday,
Oët. "30, at the Warm Springs proud to be a catalyst for this
Community Center.
unique collaboration wife Native
Topics to be covered include: public media and Native com
credit in a money world, identi munities,” said Shinae Chun,
fication theft prevention, sound Women’s Bureau director.
savings, and home ownership as $ “By funding this project, we
hope that more rural Native
a tool for financial, success.
The free financial skül-buikU women ;.will learnt about the
ing workshop is part of an ef Wife Up financial literacy pro
fort to provide financial educa gram, which can provide them
tion to Native American women. wife fee tools they need to gain
T h e W om en’s Bureau is control over their finances and
working wife Native public me save for fee future,” said’Chun.
Since fee Women’s Bureau
dia, community groups and lo
cal employment offices to bring launched Wi$e Up in 2004, more
than p,500 women have partici
pated and the program’s Web
site lias received more than one
million hits, kinder Chun’s lead
ership, outreach has been ex
panded to target the Native
American community and oth
ers.
■ Toward feat end, fee bureau
has joined forces wife local part
ners including One-Stop Career
Centers, community groups and
Native public media’s network
of radio stations.
To sign up for the Warm
Springs workshop, contact Julie
Q uaid . a t , 553-3438 or
jqUaid@wstribes.org; or Alicia
Diefenbach at (206) 295-2189
or ach@aliciahaus.com.
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Christmas
Stocking
Raffle
1 Giant Christmas Stocking
3 Smaller Christmas Stockings
Tickets are $1 each or six for $5.
Need not be present to win.
Drawing on Dec. 24.
See the following for tickets:
Rita Squiemphen, Val Squiemphen,
Ina Schuster, CR Begay, Sammi O’Reilly.
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