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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
VOCS recognized at annual conference
B y L e s lie M itts
Spilyay Tymoo
Victims o f Crime Services
received recognition as one of
the top four Tribal Victims As
sistance grantee programs in the
nation at a recent conference.
Warm Springs Victimrs of
Crime Services (VOCS) staff
members also attended the an
nual Tribal Victims Assistance
Training Conference in Albu
querque where they gave a pre
sentation on their successful
program.
Tina Aguilar, a VOCS advo
cate, attended the TVA confer
ence and said tribes from across
the U.S. came together to dis
cuss how to help tribal victims.
One speaker gave a presen
tation about working as an FBI
representative and responding to
a school shooting tragedy in Red
Lake, Minn.
Throughout the conference,
Aguilar said, she learned about
how to blend culture and tradi
tion into world harmony.
“It kind of made me open'
up my eyes again to see how
im portant we are to people,”
Aguilar explained.
According to VOCS director
Mark Matthews, they also gave
Tina Aguilar and Sammy Bruised Head attended the
conference in Albuquerque.
a presentation at the conference
about the uniqueness of Warm
Springs and how they are able
to help local victims.
Sammy Bruised Head also
attended the conference and
said, “I just basically thought it
was very informative.”
She said she was able to learn
about other programs that in
clude aspects o f tribal culture
in order to help victims and said
that is something they are cur
rently striving toward in Warm
Springs.
Wilson Wewa traveled with
VOCS staff to the conference
as a representative for Tribal
Council. “It was important for
our tribal leadership to go,”
Bruised Head added.
A ccording to Aguilar, the
conference will help her as she
continues to work with VOCS.
“I think all in all it was a good
learning experience for me,” she
Health and WeUness hosts
Well Women’s Clinic
said.
The Warm Springs Health we can now send you to Mar
O ut of 37 TVA grant recipi
ents across the United States, and Wellness Center now has a dras Medical Group for a breast
Warm Springs VOCS was hon Well Women’s clinic on Tuesday exam and they will refer you for
a mammogram— all at no cost
ored as one o f the top four and Thursday afternoons.
to you.
This
is
a
nurse-run
clinic
and
grant recipients because it was
Through our Well Women)
identified as a highly function is set up to do cervical cancer
screening (pap smears), sexually program, we can help you acj*
ing and efficient program.
A ccording to M atthew s, tran sm itted disease exams, cess that system.
In addition, the nurses can
“Josephine Johnson’s diligent b rea st exam s, referrals for
and professional work as the mammograms and immuniza help you with family planning
services, but they are currently
grants and contracts accountant tions.
The clinic is held in Pod A in limited to Depo Provera injec
for the TVA grant is one of the
tions.
,
reasons th a t W arm Springs Community Health.
Remember that this clinic is
The clinic has three Regis
VOCS has been recognized as
a ‘top TVA Grantee Program.’ tered Nurses, Jodi Fickett, PHN, for “well women exams,” so if
H e also credits B onnie Denise Swift, RN and Katie you are having problems that are
Langeliers and Michelle Stacona Russell, RN that have had the causing you pain or discomfort,
for their help with grant account special training to perform the you need to see your regular pro
vider at the clinic.
exams.
ing matters.
Spring at the chance to get
This training was provided by
Josephine Johnson serves as
your W omen’s H ealth needs
the grants and contracts account the Mayo Clinic.
If you are not eligible to have taken care- by a woman. The
for the Finance D epartm ent
that works with VOCS. She said' mammograms paid for by the clinic workers hope to see you
VOCS receives an above aver tribe’s Managed Care program, soon in the Well Women’s Clinic.
age amount compared to other
departments.
Everyone in finance is as
signed certain departments, she
said, and she works with 11 de
partments to handle their grants.
VOCS receives about four
grants, Johnson said. “That’s a
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Jolene Walters came to
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Walters, a member of the
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went to college after battling
through a serious illness,
during a time when she was
working as a caller for her
tribes’ Bingo hall.
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Judge likely to award money
in Indian trust case
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)
4 After a 12-year legal fight, a
federal judge said Monday he
likely will award money to Indi
ans whose lands have been mis
managed by the government.
Whether they'll ever see that
money is another matter.
The lawsuit claims the gov
ernm ent has mismanaged bil
lions o f dollars in royalties held
in trust from American Indian
lands dating back to 1887. U.S.
District Judge James Robertson
ruled in January that a full ac
counting at the Interior Depart
ment has become impossible.
Lawyers for the Indians con
tend the government must pay
$58 billion, to be divided among
hundreds o f thousands o f In
dian trust accountholders. The
government opposes that calcu
lation.
Robertson scheduled another
round of hearings in June to
resolve the case.
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“One way or another, the re
sult o f this case is a dollar fig
ure,” Robertson said Monday,
but he said an appeals court may
decide otherwise.
Further complicating m at
ters, the amount o f money is
so large — roughly five times the
size o f Interior Department's
annual budget - Congress would
almost certainly have to vote to
spend the money before it could
be paid out.
Robertson expressed skepti
cism at the figure Monday, say
ing it had “considerably more ze
ros after the dollar sign” than
he thought possible.
Regardless o f the total, he
said he needed to put a final fig
ure on paper “so somebody in
the other branch of government
can figure out what to do about
it”
Robertson said he was also
concerned with the plan to dis-
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