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n r Pgge10 February 9, 2011 Spilydy Tymoo, Wdrrn Springs, Oregon LongestWalk 3 to pass through W.S. on way to D.C. B y Terri H arber Spilyay Tymoo T h e LongestWalk 3 begins Feb. 14. Participants will travel to Washington D.C. in an effort to spread awareness about diabe tes and its impact on Native Americans. They want to talk about ways to alleviate its effects on those already afflicted and to stop it from spreading through indig enous populations across the United States. Healthy changes in diet and lifestyle will make a difference, they say. The group trav elin g the northern route from Pordand to Washington D.C. will stop in Warm Springs. They will stay on the reservation for at least one evening and plan to attend the Heart Smart Dinner on Feb 16, said local organizer Manny Jim- Calapoo. He also will participate in the walk. The group still needs volun teers, donations and welcomes participants. People who want to join in for a portion of the trip or go all of the way to Washing ton, D.C. are welcome. “We need gas money. And we’ll need help with food, wa ter, etc. We’re relying on dona tions to make it. We all know someone who has diabetes,” Jim-Calapoo said. Chris Francisco, a Navajo from Shiprock, N.M., living in Portland, is organizing the north ern walk. He is a longtime dia betic who didn’t take the ailment seriously for a long time. Now he does— so much so that he wants to convince other Native “ We’re stillfighting fo r our survival, and it seems there *s always something new we have to fight for. ” Chris Francisco Americans to pay attention to the facts. One fact: That they are at least twice as likely as whites to be diagnosed with diabetes. He also wants people to think about whether they are able to make the trip because it’s not going to be easy— especially during the winter through Idaho, Montana and Nebraska. During the last cro ss-co u n try w alk News from Indian C ountiy Spill threatens bayou Indians’ way of life MONTEGUT, La. (AP) - recall barefoot children scam Even before oil began spewing pering into the woods to hide into the G ulf o f Mexico last when the first cars rattled into spring, Louisiana’s American-In- their villages in the 1950s. In dian fishing villages were on the dian children were barred from brink of collapse because of schools until the 1960s and were social change and the dramatic called “sabines,” a derogatory term. loss of coastal wetlands. T here are about 20,000 Now, Indians who’ve known nothing but fishing all their lives A m erican Indians in coastal find their futures tied to the man Louisiana who trace their roots C h itim ach a, handing out checks for damages, to H oum a, paid from a multibillion-dollar Choctaw and Biloxi tribes. Tribal leaders say they’re wor fund started after the April 20 ried many members won’t be Gulf spill. Kenneth Feinberg, the fast- compensated fairly, so they've talking East Coast law yer in brought on a New York City law charge of BP PLC’s $20 billion firm to help the tribes navigate compensation fund, met with the difficult claims process. All the paperwork and docu them for the first time Friday mentation isn’t easy in these night on the back bayous of south Louisiana at a gymnasium marshes, a place where some in Montegut, about an hour and people can ’t read or w rite, a half from New Orleans. Doz where lawyers and taxes often ens of fishermen showed up in are blurry concepts. Take Price Billiot, 63, who shrimp boots and work clothes, speaking a mixture of French runs a seafood dock in Pointe- Aux-Chenes, a dilapidated and and English. They want Feinberg to com water-bound town that stretches pensate them not just for lost along a bayou in the tall marshes wages, but a way of life that re near Montegut. He quit fourth grade to start lied on the bo un ty o f the marshes and now is in jeopardy. working on a boat with his fa “The people have been inde ther, cleaning oysters. His wife pendent for so long, a lot of has to help him with all the BP them w ill go trawling, they’ll claims paperwork, he said - he bring an ice chest (of seafood) can spell and read a bit, but not to maman, grandpa, auntie, the enough to handle it on his own. “The w hite people didn’t uncles and all that,” said Tho mas Dardar, the principal chief want me to go to school,” he of the United Houma Nation, said. “We couldn’t go to the the largest Indian tribe with about school, we couldn't go to the bar up the bayou.” 17,000 members. With hurricane damage still “With the oil, how long will it last? Oil isn’t tike a hurricane,” to fix and business slow from he said. “You can’t just pick up the spill, he was gloomy about after it’s over. The Indians in the future. “Every year it gets worse. Alaska after Exxon-Valdez tell us they’ve been dealing with the oil You can’t make a living,” he said as a ro o ster and peacock for 20 years.” Many tribes moved into the crowed in the grasses across the swamps to escape enslavement road. A fishing boat abandoned or forced banishment after Con long ago sat rotting into the mud gress passed the 1830 Indian across the bayou. “When I was young you could make a good Removal Act. Until the 1950s, most Indi living.” For now, he’s surviving, in ans lived in isolation, rarely in teracting with whites. Old-timers part thanks to $65,000 in emer- Ì gency payments BP gave him in June for his business losses. But Billiot said his company was worth $1 million a year and that he needed much more from BP to keep it going. Feinberg is now calculating long-term damage claims tike one Billiot might file for potential future losses. Feinberg told those at his first meeting with Indian tribes Fri day that he wanted to pay them claims for the value seafood and hunting plays in their everyday lives - so-called “subsistence claims.” “It’s a claim that my lifestyle has been adversely impacted by my inability to any longer live off the resources that I hunt or catch,” he said. “... What I could go hunt or fish I now have to go buy. “T hose claim s should be paid.” Even if they’re paid the spill has created even more uncer tainty for people on the bayous, where life is a struggle. Families have been driven inland from their ancestral villages, battered by hurricanes and low seafood prices. And their coastal land is disap p earin g: A bout 2,300 square m iles o f m arsh have converted to open water since the 1930s largely because of the Army Corps of Engineers’ con struction of levees in the Mis sissippi River delta and thou sands of miles of canals dug by oil companies. Now it’s nearly impossible to turn a profit for any seafood caught by people tike Anthony Dardar, a 28-year-old fisherman in Pointe-Aux-Chenes who’s try ing to get back to fishing. He’d just brought in a few sacks of oysters. “We can’t hardly move the oysters, we could hardly move the shrimp, it's hard to move the crabs,” he said. “Now, they’re finding all kind of freakin’ dis persant in the water. Who knows about the future.” 2 face charges in alleged fraud scheme P IE R R E , S.D. (AP) - A M aryland man and a Nevada woman are accused of an invest ment fraud scheme involving an American Indian tribe in South Dakota. A tto rn ey G eneral M arty Jackley says 59-year-old Greg Long of Hanover, Md., and 54- year-old Alcinda Miller of Las Vegas allegedly misled investors about the legitimacy of a tribal charter to operate a credit union on the Yankton Sioux Reserva tion. He says the two collected $370,000 from several investors. Long and Miller each face grand / -------------------- theft and forgery charges. L ong was arrested in Hanover and Miller in North Dakota. Telephone listings for the two could not immediately be found. It was not immedi ately clear if either had obtained an attorney. Monday of the month at the Family Resources Center in Warm Springs. Or call 385-6944 Monday through Thursday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. (at lunch from noon-1 p.m.) Legal Aid Services of Oregon provides free assistance to low-income Oregonians in many civil cases. Speak with an attorney during drop-in hours 1 to 4 p.m. on the first _______________________________________ someone had a heart attack, Francisco said. They’ll still need drivers to accompany the walkers. They’ll need places to stay along the long route. There are plenty of ways to help spread the message, he emphasized. Another group o f partici pants will begin walking Feb. 14 from San Diego, Calif., toward Washington D.C. Both groups expect to reach the U.S. capital in July. They’ll hold community talks about reversing diabetes along the way. The original LongestWalk in 1978 was to bring attention to Native American sovereignty and stop anti-Native American legislation being crafted by Con gress. The proposals could have threatened tribal lands and wa ter, limited fishing and hunting rights, restricted tribal govern ments, and closed down their schools and hospitals. Focus of the LongestWalk 2 was to bring attention to scared sites and to cleanup the earth. It was held in 2008 and also served as a 30th anniversary com m em oration o f the first walk. “We’re still fighting for our survival,” Francisco said. “And it seems there’s always something new we have to fight for.” The issues targeted during each o f the walks have been different each time. More than how Native Americans are af fected connects the them es, however, Francisco said. People live in ways healthful to themselves or to the land. They’ve moved far away from their roots— literally and figura tively. Pollution continues across the globe. There is little respect for the earth and what it does for all o f its in h ab itan ts— people, animals and plants. N atives aren ’t eating the healthy foods of their ances tors. And they (like most other groups) aren’t getting enough physical movement because of m o d ern , W estern c o n v e niences. Not very many people even grow food anymore, he said. For d etails about the LongestWalk, visit: earthbornproductions.com For information about the local stop and how you to help the walking group be comfort able during th eir area pass through, email Jim-Calapoo at cowbhoysl2@yahoo.com. Spino sentenced to 35 years Jerome Phillip Spino, 32, was sentenced to 35 years in prison this week after plead ing guilty on in November to two counts of murder in the second degree and arson. The federal case began on M ay 28, 2008 w hen fire fighters responded to a resi dential fire on Shepard Lane in Warm Springs. After the fire was extin guished, the bodies of two adults were discovered. A 43 year old male had died of as phyxiation caused by the in halation o f smoke carbon monoxide, and a 49 year old fem ale had died from as phyxiation as well as severe thermal injuries covering her entire body. Witnesses observed Spino tive for gasoline used as an accelerant to spread the fire. A search and analysis of Spino’s person, after the fire, produced a butane tighter and gaso lin e resid ue on his sweatshirt and pants. This case was investigated by the FBI and the Warm Springs Police Department. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U. S. Attorney Kemp L. S tricklan d , and heard before U.S. D istrict Judge Garr M. King. In addition to the 35-year prison sentence, Spino was ordered to pay restitution to the victims’ estate, and will have to serve five years of supervised release following his prison term. entering the residence with a gas can and later saw him running from the scene. He was arrested shortly af ter the fire. At the time he had a .34 percent blood alcohol level, according to authorities. Spino initially denied any in volvement in the arson. Later, he gave varying statements, but adm itted spreading gasoline about the residence and setting the fire with his tighter, accord ing to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. According to Spino, he in tended to kill himself, but lost his nerve and escaped through a window just before the fire blazed out of control. Spino was not injured or burned in any way. Laboratory analysis o f the floor of the residence was posi W.S. teleco: helps economic development (Continued from page 1) Broadband has been called the critical infrastructure of the future. Why is it critical? Not only will this allow everyone to have faster personal email, or fast downloads for watching movies or playing games, but having broadband on the Res ervation will benefit the Tribes for economic development, edu cational opportunities and even new health care services. How does a broadband net work enable such im portant things? As we build out the new net work, using fiber optic cable as a major portion of the network, the fiber allows information to flow through the network with greater speed and capacity. New fiber optics enables more “bandwidth” than the copper cables that Qwest currently uses. Instead o f sending electronic signals down copper wire, the critical parts of the network will be sending pulses of tight down fiber optic cable. What do we mean by “band width?” Think of a big pipe. Copper wire is a narrow pipe that allows only a small amount of data or communications to slowly flow through that narrow pipe. In this modern “information age” we are now using our telephone netw orks to tran sm it huge amounts of information, much more than the basic telephone call that was the basis of tele communications when the cop per network was built. With copper, it is a very slow process to pass the modern types of information that are now being sent over our tele phone networks, such as data this new company will provide, new businesses will not be pos sible. This includes both tribal enterprises and other companies potentially interested in locating on the reservation. In addition, we will provide the kind of services that indi vidual tribal members could use to start new home-based busi nesses. Whether you are an art ist that wants the ability to. sell your beautiful beadwork to the world, or offer accounting ser vices on-line, you need broad band to make these businesses happen. This is the goal of our new company. In future articles, I will dis cuss some of the issues and possibilities for using telecom m u n icatio n s for im p ro vin g healthcare and your children’s education. Without the capa bilities that this new company will provide, new businesses will not be possible. This includes both tribal enterprises and other companies and video. Fiber, on the other hand, is a great big pipe, that will allow lots of information to flow through at a much faster speed. I started out saying that this new company will enable eco nomic development. In this modern age, new businesses will only be possible with advanced telecommunications. Without the capabilities that RENT 3 NEW RELEASES ONLY S9.99 SUBWAY SAMPLES SATURDAY m OCMUSW MADRAS . friday » Saturday Sunday February 11-13,2011 J Ì 1 f I I \ I
