Image provided by: Oregon Historical Society; Portland, OR
About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 2009)
r Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Page 10 IHS prepares for growth in Indian population ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - A reorganization o f the senior staff is among the changes since Charlene Red T hunder took over as area director o f the Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service. • Red Thunder has created a senior staff she believes will let the Aberdeen Area IHS move forward in a four-state cover age area w here m ore than 118,000 Indians who are eligible for services. By 2015, IHS of ficials expect the Indian popula tion to increase to 145,628. The Aberdeen Area IHS is responsible for seven hospitals and 10 health centers in South Dakota, N orth Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. Red Thunder said she and her staff have spent a lot of time meeting with the area's 17 Indian tribes. “We wanted to listen to their concerns,” said Red Thunder, an enrolled member of the Chey enne River Sioux Tribe. “We wanted to give them a chance to advocate for their constitu ents.” The Aberdeen area office employs more than 1,900 work ers and has an annual operating budget of more than $302 mil lion. “We wanted to offer trans parency for the tribes,” said Allen Davis, the executive of- ficer who is now also serving as deputy director of management operations. “We wanted to pro vide better access to what we're doing. A way to open up the books really. Internally, we'll re organize to see if there's a more efficient way of doing things.” Ray Grandbois, an IHS as sociate area director, said a lack o f good communication be tween the top management and the tribes sometimes produced misunderstandings. Challenges for quality health care for the tribes are abundant, Grandbois said. Financially, the IHS struggles to stretch dollars, specialists are hard to come by and recruitment of doctors and health care providers is hard in m ore rural places and the money isn't usually as good as it is in the private sector. Still, Red Thunder said, the Aberdeen Area IHS is trying to bridge some of those gaps, start ing with the financial issues. Red Thunder said she hopes to partner with other groups, such as Veterans Health Admin istration, to see what kind of services can be combined or even shared. “We need to partner with as many entities as possible to stretch the, dollars,” she said. “We don't want to be duplicat ing services.” January 1, 20 0 9 Fitness Challenge winners announced The Community Center staff would like to thank all 23 teams that entered into this year’s N o vember Fitness Challenge. The Community Center this week announced the winner of Powwow seeks court candidates The Lincoln’s Birth day Powwow Comittee is seeking girls from age 7 to 15 years old to run for the powwow Juneau will be sworn in this week. She is an enrolled mem ber o f the Blackfeet Tribe and a m em ber o f the M andan- Hidatsa tribes of N orth D a kota. Juneau says it's important to be true to who you are and where you came from, but it's also important to understand other perspectives. Juneau w ent to M ontana State and then to H arvard, where she earned a master's court. If you are in te r ested, please contact Jodi at 553-9230 or Anna at 553-1245. Bare Foot Sage Salon & Spa Heather, Hodges has joined the sta ff at Purple Sage Spa & S a lo n .H e a th e r grad u a ted Phagans beauty college and can do hair and nails. She special izes in color, haircuts and acrylic nails, and m ore H er hours are Monday-Friday 10 a m -S p m , S a tu rd a y IO am - 4pm . Call 475 -5 7 2 1 fo r ap pointment. M ontana elects Native American as schools superintendent H ELEN A , M ont. (AP) - Montana's first American Indian state schools superintendent, Denise Juneau, says she's an American Indian first but didn't want to be seen as a single-issue candidate. the Fitness Challenge. The Natural Resources team won first place by accumulating the most overall minutes. The Geo Visions team is the team average winner. degree in education. She taught on the F ort Berthold Indian Reservation in N orth D akota and later re ceived a law degree from the University of Montana. 123 SW J St. in Madras 2 00 0 S W H w y2 6 Madras, OR 97741 — 2001 Ford Expedition 2007 Dodge Charger RT 2002 Toyota Rav-4 #64?7B #1860A #3955A #P8137 $4,888 $8,458 $23,100 $12,615 2005 C adillac STS 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 #P8119 #P8128 . #9522A $10,585 $19,890 $14,999 ■ 2003 Buick C entu ry 1995 Ford F-350 .. 7 ‘ i 'qy j 2006 C h evro let Aveo ....... ............................. ..... -- 2007 H onda Civic #230 $18,960 2007 Dodge C a lib er 2003 B uick Rendezvous 2002 Isuzu Axiom #P8139 #4397A #7188A $17,220 $9,305 $9,840 was $7,960 now $5,495 Si —J L__ 2006 Nissan Frontier 2008 Chevrolet U plander #P8099B #P814O $22,075 $18,190 PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE ANY FINANCE CHARGES OR DMV FEES -PRICES ARE GOOD UNTIL 12-31-08
