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November 28, 2012 Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Page 6 MHS Football awards banquet at high school this Thursday The Madras varsity foot ball team awards banquet is at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 29 in the Madras High School commons. Light refreshments will be provided. Parents are being asked to provide any pictures they have taken throughout the year fo r a recognition video. You are asked to e-mail them to: RWells@509j.net. Notah Begay Foundation releases obesity report (AP) — A fo u n d a tio n backed by professional golfer N otah Begay III has identi fied N ew Mexico as “ground zero” for finding better ways to address obesity and diabe tes in Native American chil dren. In a report released M on day, B egay’s fo u n d a tio n p o in te d to N ew M exico’s large Native American popu lation and w hat it describes as dramatic health and edu cational disparities. The foundation has spent the past year discussing with A new walking path with exercise stations has been constructed at the Warm Springs Health and Wellness Center. The path was dedicated to veterans at the Annual Veterans Appreciation Luncheon, organized each Veterans Day by the Commissioned Corps Officers of the U.S. Public Health Service who work at the clinic. The paved path starts in the parking lot of the Health and Wellness Center and continues around the building just inside the fenced area. Along the path are multiple exercise stations with instructions on how to use them. “The path is open for the whole community to use,” said Commissioned Corps Officer Juanita Simpson. tribal leaders, health experts and others the challenges o f dealing with obesity and dia betes. More than 250 stake holders participated in the discussions. The result is a set o f rec om m endations that call for everything from awareness campaigns and more research to the strengthening o f pro grams that prom ote language and traditional cultural values. The foundation’s work was funded by the Robert Wood J o h n s o n F o u n d a tio n an d PN M Resources Inc. H i c^ri ( M 541- * * 553-1182 L o o ke e News from Inchon Country A s s i s t e d L iv in g f a c i l i t y Ancient rock carvings Tribal college program teaching Lakota language stolen in Sierra Nevada B IS H O P , Calif. (AP) - Rock carvings that graced a ¿acred American Indian site" in California’s Sierra Nevada for thousands o f years have fallen prey to m odern thieves arm ed with power saws. At le a s t fo u r p etroglyphs— som e 2 feet w ide and lo c a te d 15 feet ab o v e th e g ro u n d ——w ere hacked from lava cliffs in the Eastern Sierra, the Los A n geles Times reports Sunday. Visitors to the area, known as Volcanic Tableland, dis co vered th e th e ft and re ported it to the federal Bu reau o f Land Management. “This was the w orst act o f vandalism ever seen” on the 750,000 acres o f public land adm inistered by th e BLM field office in Bishop, BLM archaeologist G reg H aver- stock said. T h e thieves m u st have used ladders, electric g en erators and pow er saws. In addition to the fo u r carv ings th at w ere stolen, one was defaced w ith deep saw cuts on three sides, and an other was rem oved b u t ap paren tly bro k e during th e th eft and was left propped a g a in st a b o u ld e r n e a r a visitor parking lot. M ore th a n 3,500 years ago, N a tiv e A m erican s carved pictures o f hunters, deer and other animals, and geometric and other designs into a half-mile-long volcanic e sc a rp m e n t. T h e im ages adorn hundreds o f lava boul ders. The petroglyphs are prob ably w orth only about $500 to $1,500 on the illegal art m arket but are priceless to American Indians, authorities said. “We still use this sacred place as a kind o f church to educate tribal mem bers and children about our historical and spiritual connections,” Paiute tribal historic preser v a tio n o ffic e r R ay m o n d Andrews said. VSo, bur tribal elderS are appalled by w hat happened here.” V olunteers have stepped up surveillance at the site, w hich is listed on the N â- tional Register o f H istoric Places. T h e BLM is o ffer ing a $1,000 rew ard for in form ation leading to arrests. A first-tim e felony convic tion for damaging or rem ov ing petroglyphs can carry a o n e-y ear p riso n se n ten ce and a $20,000 fine. BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Red Bird, 61, is one o f the remaining people in the world w ho can speak L akota, an indigenous language spoken .by H u n k p ap a Sioux since time unknown. H e spends his days in a large airy ro o m w ith green plants in the windows among 10 boys and girls, speaking to them only in the ancient lan guage o f their ancestors. O u tsid e th e classro o m door is a sign with the word “English” stamped out in a red circle. O th e r th an the E nglish th ey jab b er am o n g th e m selves, these little ones hear and speak Lakota with Red Bird and the three instruc tional aides in the room. Red Bird speaks it fast and fluently since his own child hood on the Cheyenne Indian Reservation in South Dakota. T h e aides speak it slowly. They, too, are learning as they g°- The children speak it en thusiastically, aided with flash cards o r art projects m ade with glue and cotton balls to learn words for rain and light ning. Their success wrapping their tongues around these new words is applauded and h ap p in ess show s on th eir faces w hen they get it right I t is an experimental pro gram at Sitting Bull Comm u n ity C ollege in th e K ids K am p u s b u ild in g o n th e Standing Rock Sioux Reser vation, w hich straddles the N orth Dakota-South Dakota border. It is an interesting hybrid o f specialized day care and a language im mersion project. Lunch, playtime and a nap are part o f the deal. “The reason I came here is I w ant to save my language. It's precious to me. W hen there came a chance to teach, I jum ped at this,” Red Bird said. H e estimates maybe one- third o f the reservation is flu ent in Lakota. The death o f each elder dim inishes th at number; 10 years ago 80 per cent were fluent, he said. T he L akota language is well docum ented from the early w ork o f m issionaries and later revisions by linguis tic experts and tribal m em bers. Red Bird participated in a Lakota dictionary, project, a m assive tom e w ith entries both in Lakota to English and English to Lakota. H e said he and other. Lakota speakers regularly gather to add new words to make it a living, con temporary language. HELPFUL HINTS FOR YOUR REFILLS 1. Requests received on the automated refill system are filled ahead of requests called in to the pharmacy staff. AudioCARE Sysisms 2. If you don’t pick-up your medication within 7 days it will be returned to pharmacy stock and you will need to call it in again. 3. Call in your refill ¿before you run out of medicine. For most medications, you can request refills up to 7 days early. 4. Narcotics or controlled substances can only be issued when your prescription is due. They will not be able to be picked up early. 5. The refill hotline is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. m is new system will provide yon with Information about your medication status Immediately upon entering the prescription NEW number. Give it a try!!!! A u to m a te d P r e s c r ip tio n R e tiil S y s te m 6. We still ask for 24 hours to process your refill request. 7. Your prescription is only valid for 1 year from the time your doctor orders it. Controlled substance prescriptions are only valid for 6 months. Warm Springs Health and Wellness Center Pharmacy Automated Refill System; 541-553-2475 P.O. Box 1209 Warm Springs, OR 97661 541-553-2475
