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E Coosh EEW A: The way it is Pgge 4 Spilydy Tymoo August 24 2011 , Letters to the Editor Culture Camp ----------------------- — This may be the last year of the 4-H Culture Camp. Arlene Boileau has been the organizer of the camp for over 20 years, and as many parents and their children know, Arlene has done a very great job. She no longer has time to serve as camp or ganizer: It is a big ( \ p ro ject, and Spilyoy A rlene is now Speaks v___________ 2 read y to take some tim e off. She said last week at Peters Pas ture that this year’s camp may be the last one, unless someone else wants to take on the work. The camp—-teaching tradi tion in areas o f food, sweat lodge, crafts, fisheries, etc.— happens at the end of August. Arlene begins preparing for the camp in February, seeking fund ing from various sources. The work becomes full-time as Au gust approaches. She and her husband Mickey and staff set up the up the camp, including 30 tents, teepees, the cooking and crafts areas, and sweat lodges. They spend the week there helping with the ac tivities. Many people help with the camp, and Arlene wishes to thank them: Lana Leonard and her sum mer youth workers, Workforce Development, Tiger VanPelt, Jason Smith and Natural Re sources staff, Don Courtney and Utilities staff, Nancy Collins, Liz Johnson and Indian Health Services, Diabetes Prevention, Les Schwab Tire Center, the Warm Springs Police Depart ment, Fire M anagement, and Warm Springs Fire and Safety, Terry Macy, the Vehicle Pool, Clifton Brunoe, OSU Extension staff, Val Switzler and Culture and Heritage, Caroline Cruz and the Department of Human Ser vices, the Community Health E d ucatio n Team (CH E T), Clifton and Christine and fam ily, Tukushman and Two Bears, Larson Kalama, Delson Suppah, Gladys Grant, Merle Kirk, and Roseanna Sanders, Composite Products, and Power and Water Enterprises, and DMJ Automo tive. If anyone’s name is not mentioned, it is unintentional: Thank you to everyone! TOE NESS... A man went to apply for a job. After filling out his appli cation, he waited anxiously for the outcom e. The em ployer read through his application and said, “We have an open ing for people like you.” “Oh, great,” the man said, “W hat is it?” “Its called the door!” Eel survival Regarding a recent article on lamprey: Besides being a food staple, eels have some medicinal prop erties. I firmly believe that the real greatest threat is how the salmon hatcheries are operated. Only native salmon are allowed above the hatcheries. That calculates to about 16-20 percent of the re turning spawning salmon. Because of this practice, all the salmon streams are nutrient- poor. There is now way for lam prey or salm on to recover. Hatcheries are just huge concen tration camps. Before the coming of non- tribal people, there used to be between 9-16 million salmonid species in the Columbia River basin. Because of the high num bers of returning salmon, all the salmon streams had millions of dead carcasses that made the Northwest a very healthy region. It’s simple. Put more salmon above hatcheries. The salmon know what to do. After all, the salmon have been around for at least 10,000 years. My ancestors survived because of the salmon for about 10,000 years also. The salmon is our most sacred food and is still central to our ways of life. Unfortunately, people under stand only what they want to un derstand. Terry Courtney Jr., tribal el der fisherman Sen. Hatfield In all the well-deserved plau dits and praise for our late states man Mark O. Hatfield, his stel lar record in Indian Affairs has been overlooked. Senator Hatfield led the way in restoring Oregon’s many con- gressionally terminated Indian tribes, introducing the Siletz Tribe Restoration Act in 1976. He was instrumental in restor ing the federal status o f the tribes in Western Oregon, as well as the Klamath Tribes in the south. For Indians—and justice to First Oregonians—much of Oregon would be a wasteland were it not for Senator Hatfield’s dedication to their rights. On the national front, the Senator led a sweeping Senate investigation of continuing in ju stices to Indians in the 1970’s, revived the Senate Com mittee on Indian Affairs, and supported major legislation to strengthen Indian families and governments throughout the Spilyay Tymoo CCoyote News, Est. 1976) Publisher Emeritus: Sid Miller Editor: Dave McMechan Reporter: Duran Bobb Advertising Director: Yvonne Iverson Media Advisor: Bill Rhoades Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confeder ated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located at 4174 Highway 3 in Warm Springs. Any written materials submitted to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761. Phone: 541-553-2210 Advertising: 541-553-2307 or 541-325-1089 E-Mail: spilyay@ wstribes.org. Annual Subscription rates: Within U.S.: $15.00. United States. He was one of A m erica’s greatest champions of the rights of her native peoples, a beacon o f com passion, personifying our great principle: “Justice For AIL” Michael D. Mason Congratulations, First Place Team Veteran’s view “Oh, not this guy, not me” — but I realized something dif ferent after finding out about post traumatic stress disorder. Being in the war from De cem ber 1967 to D ecem ber 1968 in Vietnam, I found I was affected, and also my family was affected, my wife and my chil dren, more than I knew. So now I know more about it, attending a weekly support group at High Lookie every Thursday with fellow military personnel also with post trau matic stress disorder (PTSD). With this, besides the Sweat Lodge, and the Bible, I keep my sanity; and I’m always in prayer constantly, and why? Because it didn’t end when I was released from the U.S. Army in May of 1970, with seven medals, the Silver Star with two clusters, Vietnam Service Medal, Repub lic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, with other U.S. service medals. And what experiences in the war. The first three minutes af ter we landed in Vietnam we were being bombed at the air port. About 23 men were killed leaving the plane to the first bunker in sight. A year later, leaving my year tour in Nam, we were again be ing bombed at the airport, and a bomb blew against my window port. So all I saw through the window was black powder for 22 hours going back to the U.S. A little at a time; so some other time I’ll write again and relate more stories about what happened during my tour be tween the first day and the last day a year later. Demus Martinez, retired construction carpenter worker, son o f E. H enrietta Kalam a Johnson Congratulations to Team Rialto, Central Oregon Pool & Billiards Mixed Doubles Champions: Pearl VanPelt, Laneda Thompson, Seegray Littleleaf, Janet Bagley (back row from left); Levi VanPelt, A.J. Strong, Tony Littleleaf, and Jerry Bagley (front from left). Indian Business Talk Where do children learn finance skills? I’m going to do two things with this article. I’ll talk a bit about helping children learn ev ery-day and essential financial skills. Then, I’ll announce a se ries of classes for adults about various financial activities. Children learn their first les sons at home — from watching their parents. We are their first examples for bringing home a paycheck and spending it. As they learn to walk from watching us, they learn a work ethic from seeing us get up and go to work. They also quickly learn that payday or the day af ter is a good shopping day. As they watch us do finan cial things, they understand or think they understand what we are doing. At that point, they are “learnable”. If they are learnable, they are teachable. That’s when par ents can help them learn not only the “w hat to d o s” but the “hows” and “whys” of doing financial things. Parents, you can teach the financial skills and the habits that will set your children on a path of life-long personal and family financial success. You can be the best examples of how to spend wisely, how to set goals, how to budget, how to save, and how realize a sense of accomplish m ent w hen goals have been achieved. For example, you can teach your children how to compari son shop at the grocery store. I have seen a mother do the math and carry on a conversa tion with a child about making the buying decisions. It worked. The kid is forty-four now and doing well. Happy 2”d birthday to our lil Arius George Arthur. Hove you, from Mom (Rachel), Dad (Ben), brothers Heonard, Elvis, Anthony, Aaron and Austin. H appy 13th birthday son E lv is. M alco lm . A tk in s. Frank. Love you, from Mom (R a c h e l), B en , b ro th ers Leonard and Arius. B y Bruce Engle W.S. Credit Enterprise If there are some financial skills you want to know more about or if you are having some financial problems and are look ing for solutions, we are plan ning something for you. NEW ADULT CLASS SE RIES Warm Springs Credit Enter prise and Mid Oregon Credit Union will be offering five fi nancial skills classes starting in late September. The first class will be about how to “Get the Best Car Deal”. The second class w ill be “Building a Strong Credit His tory”. The next three classes will be Women and Money, Senior Scams, and Understanding Car and Home Insurance. Posters and radio announce ments will be out in a couple weeks with information about the schedule and how to regis ter for the classes. Wishes... H ap p y (b e la te d ) 1 9 th birthday son Leonard Lloyd American Horse. Love you from Mom (Rachel), Ben, brothers Elvis and Arius. IHS director says lack of funding harms Indian health Native Americans are not get ting the health care they need because services for them are vastly underfunded. T h at in fo rm atio n com es from the director of the Indian Health Service (IHS), Yvette Roubideaux. She told a gathering of Ameri can Indian doctors that her agency is still underfunded de spite significant gains made in recent years. “It’s really clear that the health disparities, the lack of health care providers, the lack of updated facilities, the delays in providing care— all of those seem to fundamentally result from the lack of resources that we have,” Roubideaux said at the annual conference o f the Association of American Indian Physicians. The fed eral go vern m en t spends m ore p er-cap ita on The federal government spends more per-capita on health care fo r prison ers than fo r Native Americans who get their care from the Indian Health Service... health care for prisoners than for Native Americans who get th eir care from the Indian Health Service, she said. W hen com pared w ith the population as a whole, Indians are twice as likely to die from suicide, three times more likely to die from diabetes-related com plications and six times more likely to die from alcohol abuse, according to IHS statis tics. Roubideaux said her agency has been fortunate to avoid bud get cuts so far and actually saw its budget increase significantly in 2010. But deficit-reduction negotiations could erode some of those gains, she said. Noting that the federal health care overhaul will increase health options for Indians, Roubideaux said she’s focused on improv ing customer service and qual ity of care in the IHS so pa tients won't look elsewhere for care. Im proving the agency’s management can increase the outcom es even w itho ut full funding, she said. “If we wait for the funding to come and magically make ev erything better, we’re going to be w aitin g a lo n g tim e,” Roubideaux said. Jerem y Lazarus, president elect of the American Medical Association, told the conference that more should be done to help Native Americans become doctors, including scholarship programs to help them afford medical school and improve ac commodations to allow Indian doctors to incorporate tradi tional healing in their practices. The new federal health care overhaul, known officially as the Affordable Care Act but dubbed “O bam acare” by opponents, isn’t perfect, Lazarus said, but it goes a long way toward im proving access to health care and decreasing disparities be tween care for white and minor ity patients. “Despite all that you might hear and all the fury around refo rm ... there is a lo t for Am erica’s patients to like from all walks o f life about the A f fordable Care A ct,” Lazarus said. j l i .0 < ,
