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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (April 7, 2010)
Spilygy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon A pril 7, 2010 Page 7 Chairman states BIA Forestry, other funding concerns at hearing A Congressional subcommit tee on Interior Appropriations conducted a hearing in Washing ton, D.C., recendy on proposed 2011 federal appropriations af fecting Indian Country. Tribal leaders from several tribes including Warm Springs attended in order to give testi mony on the appropriations is sues o f importance to the tribes. O n behalf o f the Confeder ated Tribes o f Warm Springs, Tribal Council Chairman Ron Suppah testified before the sub committee, stressing the impor tance o f adequate funding for forestry management. “Warm Springs is a forestry tribe,” Chairman Suppah said. “Timber is a principal source of our revenue and jobs, and the health and good management of our forest is very important for us.” Unfortunately, he said, “BIA has been starving its forestry Courtesy photo. Tribal Council Chairman Ron Suppah and other tribal officials met recently with BPA Administrator Steve Wright. The meeting was a chance for the tribes and BPA to assess additional ways to collaborate for the benefit of salmon. Tribal Council and the BPA officials met at the Round Butte dam, where the tribes and PGE have developed a new fish collection and passage facility. program for years. It gets only about one-third o f the per-acre funding of the Forest Service.” Since 2003, in flatio n has gone up 17 percent, “while BIA Forestry has only gone up 5.3 percent,” Suppah said. “At Warm Springs, this unfair trea tm e n t o f BIA F o restry funding has seriously eroded our forestry staff. Eleven o f our 27 full time positions are perma nently unfunded. Our ability to plan and manage our forest has been crippled.” To co rrec t the situation, Suppah recommended to the subcommittee that the BIA For estry budget see a substantial increase. “T h e In te rtrib a l T im b er Council suggests increasing For estry to $31.2 million just to keep up with increases given other agencies in recent years. That, we believe, would be a start, and we support that.” Suppah recommended resto ration of $1 million to the Tim ber Harvest Initiative program. “And add $5 million to For est Development,” he said, “to reduce the national thinning and replanting backlog o f 900,000 acres.” O n the Warm Springs Reservation, Suppah said, the thinning and replanting backlog is 60,000 acres. He spoke to other issues as well, including the need for ad equate funding of law enforce ment on the reservation, health care, and education. Regarding education funding, Suppah said, “For BIA Johnson- O ’Malley, Warm Springs urges it be funded at $25 million, That is the only BIA elementary and secondary support for the great majority o f tribes whose children are in public schools, and its decline must be reversed.” — by Dave Me Meehan Indian health improvement act made permanent W A SH IN G TO N , D.C. — The Indian H ealth Care Im provem ent Act— the corner stone legal authority for the pro vision o f health care to Native Americans—was made perma nent w hen President Obama signed the bill on March 23. The authorization of appro priations for the Indian Health Care Improvement Act had ex pired in 2000, and while vari ous versions o f the bill were considered by Congress since then, the act now has no expira tion date. “We are grateful to President Obama for his unwavering and long-standing support for the en actm en t o f the In dian Healthcare Improvement Act,” said H ealth and Hum an Ser vices Secretary K athleen Sebelius. “This is critical to moderniz ing and improving the health care we provide to American In dians and Alaska Natives. “This administration is intent on honoring the obligations of our government-to-government relationship with American In dian tribes, including the prom ise of adequate health care.” Since 2000, tribes and tribal organization have been strongly advocating for the updating and reenacting o f the IHCIA, said Dr. Yvette Roubideaux, director o f the Indian Health Service. “T he provision o f health ganizations to purchase health care services to American Indi benefits coverage for IHS ben ans and Alaska Natives is a key eficiaries. • Authorizes IHS to enter c o m p o n en t o f the federal government’s trust responsibil into arrangements with the De ity, and the updating and per partments o f Veterans Affairs m anent authorization o f the and Defense to share medical IHCIA helps to fulfill this re facilities and services. • Allows a tribe or tribal or sponsibility,” said Roubideaux. The version o f the IHCIA ganization carrying out a pro signed into law on March 23 gram under the Indian Self-De differs in several respects from termination and Education As the original version passed by sistance Act and an urban In dian organization carrying out a Congress in 1976. The new law includes many pro g ram u n d er T itle V o f major changes and im prove IHCIA to purchase coverage ments to facilitate the delivery for its employées from the Fed of health care services, such as: eral Employees Health Benefits • Enhancem ent o f the au Program. • Authorizes the establish thorities o f the IHS director, in cluding the responsibility to fa ment o f a Community Health cilitate advocacy and promote Representative program for ur consultation on matters relating ban Indian organizations to train to Indian health within the D e and employ Indians to provide partment of Health and Human health care services. • Directs the IHS to estab Services. • Provides authorization for lish comprehensive behavioral hospice, assisted living, long health, prevention, and treat term, and home- and commu ment programs for Indians. nity-based care. 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