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Spilydy Tymoo August 24 2011
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Letters to the Editor
Culture
Camp
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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
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A rlene is now
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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
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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.
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