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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.
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