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S p ily a y T ym o o , W arm Springs, O regon Page 12 H ow lak Tichum H ead Start conducting community assessment survey W arm Springs H ead S tart/ Early H ead Start is asking com munity members to complete an assessment survey. “In order to plan for the fu ture, we must know where our community is now,” thc j lead Start information states. A main goal o f the assessment is to iden tify potential gaps in programs and services on the, reservations, in order to address them .' 1 The results will be shared B ern ice T ohet — M itchell A p ril 4, 2012 with the community. Residents will receive the assessment ques tionnaire in the mail in the near future. C opies can also be picked up at the Early Child hood Education Center. H ead Start/Early H ead Start is asking people to return the com pleted survey as soon as possible, such as within the next couple o f weeks. The surveys are to be filled out anonymously. . The assessm ent survey be gins with questions about the responder’s household, such as number o f children, marital sta tus, etc. T here are questions a b o u t the H ead S ta rt/E a rly Head Start program in particu lar, such as the num ber o f chil dren enrolled, and hours o f use. There are questions regard ing the responder’s level o f edu cation, employment status, pro grams and services that are be ing used, and neighborhood crime levels. T h e survey asks th e re sponder to rate various subjects in importance, on a level o f one to five. Subjects include Native language, crafts, respect for oth ers, family, h u n tin g /fish in g / gathering, animals, the sweat lodge, to name some examples. Head Start/Early Head Start greatly appreciates/your help with this community assessment. More News from Indian Country Criticism leads to Seattle police reforms Courtesy photo. Atwai Bernice (Tohet) Mitchell, tribal elderwho served many terms on Tribal Council, has passed away. Judge delays decision on Catawba gambling COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A judge has delayed a deci sion o n w h e th e r S o u th Carolina’s only federally rec ognized tribe can open a gam bling hall on its reservation in York County. C ircu it Ju d g e E rn e s t Kinard said Monday at a heaf- ing in Richland County that he needs more time to review the h u n d red s o f pages o f documents filed in the case before deciding w hether to grant a temporary injunction to the Catawba Indian N a tion that would allow gam bling immediately. S E A T T L E (AP) - P re empting a meeting with D epart m ent o f Justice officials, Seattie Mayor Mike McGinn last week proposed a series o f police re forms in response to a damn ing federal report that came af ter several high-profile incidents involving minorities. M cG inn and police C hief John Diaz outlined 20 initiatives to be im p lem en ted o v er 20 months that range from hiring more minority officers, training all officers on standards for use o f force, developing protocol to make sure encounters don’t es calate, and Steps to address bi ased policing. “As mayor, I will be holding police leadership accountable to achieve these changes,” McGinn said at a City Hall news confer ence, adding that the initiatives outlined are meant to go beyond the federal concerns. In December, the U.S. Jus tice D epartm ent said inadequate supervision and training had led officers to grab weapons such tions from towns in Washing ton and N orth ern California. Sm aller-scale w ater b o ttlin g plants are already established in the gorge, including Water from the H ood in H ood River and H 2Oregon in The Dalles. The plant would use 225 gal lons per minute o f the spring water. The state says the spring flows with at least 600 gallons a minute. City officials whose interest was piqued by the prospects o f jobs, a doubled property-tax base and filling 25 acres o f underused industrial land along the C olum bia R iver say the pro ject should get approval. Kitzhaber hasn’t taken a posi tion yet. L an ce M asters, C ascade Locks’ mayor, criticized the in volvement o f “special interest groups, some from as far away as Washington, D.C., trying to influence what happens in our little town.” “In th eir attem p t to stop N estle, they could be dealing a death blow to a town that’s re as batons and flashlights too quickly, intensifying confronta tio n s— even w hen arrestin g people for minor offenses. The department launched an investigation following the fatal shooting o f a homeless Native American woodcarver and other reported uses o f force against minorities. Federal investigators deter mined Seatde police engaged in excessive force that violated fed eral law and the Constitution, but did not find discriminatory policing, but the report acknowl edged that many com m unity m em bers believe the depart m ent does show bias.’ N ez Perce tribe still pursuing horse registry LAPWAI, Idaho (AP) - More than a decade after its inception and in the recent wake o f a not- so-glowing documentary film, the N ez Perce H orse Registry has gone from a galloping start to a tentative trot. But tribal officials said they rem ain dedicated to ensuring both the registry and a young horseman’s program as a means o f em bracing the N ez Perce Tribe’s equestrian past. R u m o rs o f th e h o rse registry’s demise are false, said Allen Sllckpoo Jr., a N ez Perce T ribal E xecutive C om m ittee member. “It’s best to hear it from the horse’s mouth, to find truth and Bottled water foes oppose plant C ascade L ocks (AP) — Bottled water foes have asked Gov. John Kitzhaber to stop a deal that would allow Nestle to build a bottling plant at Cascade Locks in the Colum bia River Gorge, 45 miles east o f Port land. Nestle wants to botde spring water, some o f which is now used at a state salmon hatchery. Environm ental activists are asking the governor to tell the Fish and Wildlife D epartm ent not to swap its water rights with the city. T h e swap w ould give the hatchery access to city well wa ter and the botder access to the spring water. The $50 .milhon plant would bring about 50 jobs. “T he ultim ate solution to keeping Nestle out o f the gorge lies with Governor Kitzhaber,” said Julia DeGraw, N orthw est organizer for the Washington, D -C.-ba^ed advocacy group, Food & Water Watch. I t w ould be N e stle ’s first plant in the region after rejec Community groups called fo r the inquiry after a Seattle officer shot and killed Native American woodcarver, John T. Williams. ally struggling fo r survival,” Masters said. State Sen. Jackie Dingfelder, D-Portland, said she and about a dozen other legislators will ask Kitzhaber to tell the Fish and Wildlife Department not to swap water rights with the city. “It allows a private m ulti national corporation to use a public resource for the eco nomically and environmentally u n s u s ta in a b le p ra c tic e o f b o ttle d w a te r,” said D in g fe ld e r, ch airw o m an o f the Senate’s natural resources and environm ent committee. U n d er state law, she said, th ere’s no requirem ent for a thorough review o f the plant’s potential environmental conse quences, from water drawdowns to increased truck traffic. O p p o n e n ts say N estle 's checkered history in other com munities _ and a likely 50-year operating agreement with Cas cade Locks _ indicate the city and the hatchery w ould have little reco u rse if w ater ru n s short. fact,” Slickpoo said. “Gossip can go around and around. But if you don’t really know, go to the individuals who do know and ask. That’s how it’s going to get clarified.” A bout 200 horses have been registered and the tribe still owns about 40 horses, according to tribal records. Called the N ez P erce H o rse, the breed is a cross between spotted Appaloo- sas and a central Asian breed called akhal-teke. The original Nez Perce horses are thought to be'iextinct. Initially, officials hoped the creation o f a hew tribal breed would generate enough enthu siasm and dollars to become a self-sustaining proposition. But, after three horse auctions to pare down the herd and other attempts to cover costs, about $150,000 in casino profits are needed annually to keep the dream alive. $500 REWARD Lost item (patl’pa at right) from Agency Longhouse Root Feast on April 1, 2012. Call James at 541-420-6248 or Warm Springs Police, 541-553-1171. $500 cash reward, no questions asked. Just want it back. 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