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Spilygy T ym oo, Wgi-m Springs, O regon Pgge 12 K-8 Academy February 19, 2014- Telecom expands service T h e W arm S prings T e le c o m m u n ic a tio n s C om pany no w o ffers phone and internet ser vices in the Seekseequa, Simnasho and Sidwalter areas o f the. reservation. T hat is in addition to the existing service in the Agency, Sunnyside and Wolfe Point areas. To learn m ore about costs and services you can stop by their office in the Warm Springs industrial park. O r call 541-615- 0555. Help available for home energy The energy assistance pro g ra m — Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program — helps low income households with home energy bills. F o r m o re in fo rm a tio n ab o u t assistance in ,W arm Springs, contact Cheryl Tom at the Social Services/V oc Rehab office in the Industrial Park. H er phone number is 541-553-4952. T he T hird Annual O regon Weavers T eaching Workshop will be held at the Tamastslikt Cultural In stitute in Pendleton March 20-21. To learn more, contact Ethel Greene at 208-843- 7409. | Dave McMechan/Spilyay Construction continued through the recent snowy weather. From Indian C o u n try Federal panel meets on issue of violence against reservation children M A R IC O P A IN D IA N C O M M U NITY - D aniel Cauffman, 21, can speak can didly about the physical abuse he suffered at the hands o f his stepmother when he was a child. H e know s his sto ry o f .closed-fist punches coupled w ith other acts o f physical violence speaks for hundreds — if not thousands — o f chil dren on N ative A m erican lands across the country. “I hope it does help,” said Cauffman, a member o f the P o k ag o n B and of Potawatomi, Mich. AHe w as one o f several young people to give testi mony Tuesday alongside re gional experts at a public hearing for the advisory com m itte e to th e A tto rn e y G e n e ra l’s T ask F o rce o n American Indian and Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence. “I ’m glad they do stuff like this ’cause it does raise aware ness,” Cauffman said. “As far as hopes goes, hopefully we can pull kids out o f the situ ation.” A bout 75 people attended the all-day hearing at Talking Stick Resort near Scottsdale. It was the second o f four across the country to secure testimony and information so the task force cab generate policy recommendations for A tto rn e y G en eral E ric Holder. In D ecem ber, the com mittee was in Bismarck, N.D. The final two hearings will be in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and Anchorage, Alaska. The committee is one arm o f the Justice D epartm ent’s renewed efforts to com bat violence and crime on reser vations. The department also has a federal working group w ith m u ltip le agencies to m ake im m ed iate o n -th e - ground improvements. The 13-member commit tee, chaired by form er N orth D akota Sen. Byron Dorgan and Joanne Shenandoah, an Iroquois, will issue policy and legislative recommendations this fall based on its findings. Associate Attorney G en eral Tony West said the com m ittee was established last year to specifically address the difficulties native commu nities faced because o f their exposure to violence. “Let’s be clear: Exposure to violence by children in this country is a problem all over this country. We know that more than 60 percent o f kids regardless o f race, regardless o f ethnicity, they are exposed to some' sort o f violence, ei ther as witnesses or as victims and that can have significant traumatic effects,” West said. “B ut w hat we also know is that when we look at Indian Country, what we see are chal lenges that are exacerbated.” West cited higher rates o f assault, crim e and traum a among this population. “When you look at Indian youth and you look at the fact that second leading cause o f death for native children aged 15-34 is suicide ... when you couple that with the unique historical trauma native chil dren have faced . . . those are unique challetlges that native communities and generations o f the first A m ericans, in particular children, face,” he said. Another speaker, Temetria Young, 18, a mem ber o f the San Carlos Apache Tribe, dis cussed her time in and out o f juvenile facilities, a time pe riod she measures as cover ing three birthdays. 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