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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Call for Weavers
Dave McMechan/Spilyay
Tsotii'a (Numu-basket hat); Aqap'unitix (Kiksht-berry
basket);Patl’apa (Ichishkin-basket hat).
T he 2015 Northwest
Native American Basket-
weavers Association is pre-
paring for their Twenty-
First Annual gathering.
The gathering will be in
early October at Kah-Nee-
Ta.
The War m Springs
Basketweavers Planning
Committee is looking for
experienced weavers to as-
sist in preparing badges
for each registration packet
for the gathering.
If you are interested
you can contact Rosie
Tom at 541-553-3477
(Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5
p.m.).
You are also more than
welcome to stop by the
Administration building to
sign up.
IHS, Nike
continue
partnership
The Indian Health Service
recently signed an agreement
with Nike USA Inc., to col-
laborate on the promotion of
healthy lifestyle choices for
American Indians. The goal
is to use the strengths and ex-
pertise of both organizations
to improve and enhance the
health and fitness of Ameri-
can Indians and Alaska Na-
tives across the nation.
American Indian and
Alaska Native people suffer
health problems at rates that
are significantly higher than
the general U.S. population.
One focus area for this col-
laboration will be on support-
ing and promoting physical
activity programs among Na-
tive youth before, during, and
after the school day.
The recent agreement con-
tinues a partnership between
the IHS and Nike that started
over 10 years ago, when they
initially began to identify op-
portunities to work together
to inform and educate Na-
tive communities about
healthy lifestyles and choices.
Bill to block federal labor law at tribal businesses
The effort to shield tribal
casinos from federal labor
law is taking another step for-
ward this week.
An appropriations bill due
for a markup this week bars
the National Labor Relations
Board from asserting jurisdic-
tion in Indian Country.
The rider is the work of
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla-
homa), a citizen of the
Chickasaw Nation and one of
only two members of a fed-
erally-recognized tribe in Con-
gress.
Cole’s tribe recently pre-
vailed in an unfair labor prac-
tices complaint in which the
NLRB declined to assert ju-
risdiction over the WinStar
World Casino and Resort in
Thackerville, Okahoma.
He didn’t mention the
development when he re-
leased his funding bill, in-
stead describing his rider as
an attempt to “rein in the
excessive overreach” of that
federal agency.
But the language in Sec-
tion 409 is quite clear. It pro-
hibits the NLRB from using
any federal funds to enforce
the National Labor Relations
Act “against any Indian tribe,
including any enterprise or
institution owned and oper-
ated by an Indian tribe and
located on its Indian lands.”
“This bill reflects the val-
ues and priorities of the
American taxpayer, setting us
June 24, 2015
on a path that will reduce the
deficit while funding pro-
grams that make meaningful
differences in the lives of
Americans,” Cole, who serves
as chairman of the House
Subcommittee on Labor,
Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agen-
cies, said in a press release.
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