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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Clinic welcomes new director
The Warm Springs Indian
Health Service clinic wel-
comes new director Hyllis
Dauphinais. Mr. Dauphinais
joins the clinic following the
retirement this year of long-
time clinic director Carol
Prevost.
Mr. Dauphinais is a mem-
ber of the Turtle Mountain
Band of Chippewa, from
North Dakota.
His wife is Nancy, a mem-
ber of the Spirit Lake Tribe
of North Dakota. They have
been married for 27 years,
and have three boys, all
grown and on their own now.
“ Our oldest son has two
daughters, so we are very
happy grandparents to a 2-
year-old and a 4-week-old,”
Hyllis said.
Our oldest and middle
boys live and work in
Dickenson, North Dakota,
Clinic director Hyllis Dauphinais
and the youngest lives in
Phoenix, Arizona.
Mr. Dauphinais worked
Summary of Tribal Council
December 2, 2019
The meeting was called
to order at 9:50 a.m. by
Chair man Raymond
Tsumpti.
Roll call:
Raymond
(Captain)
Moody, Lincoln Jay
Suppah, Chief Joseph
Moses, Glendon Smith,
Chief Alfred Smith Jr.
Minnie Yahtin, Recorder.
Bureau of Indian Af-
fairs Update with Floy
Anderson, Superinten-
dent.
Office of Special
Trustee conference call
Update with Kevin
Moore.
Indian Health Service
update with Hyllis
Dauphinais, clinic director.
Motion by Captain to
adjourn at 10:44 a.m.
House Bill 2059
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A reusable plastic check-
out bag is one with handles,
designed and manufac-
tured to be used multiple
times, and made of durable
plastic. The re-usable bag
may also be made of ma-
chine-washable fabric; or a
paper bag made of at least
Resolution of Tribal Council
Tribes join study
of elders needs
assessment
Whereas the Confeder-
ated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Or-
egon believes that long-term
care, a category that in-
cludes health promotion,
home health services, per-
sonal care, housekeeping
assistance, meals-on-wheels,
skilled nursing care, assisted
living, and other in-home
ser vices, is an emerging
unmet need in Indian coun-
try; and,
Whereas the North Da-
kota, Alaska, and Hawaii
National Resource Centers
on Native Again have been
awarded grants through the
Administration for Commu-
nity Living (ACL) Depart-
ment of Health and Human
Services, to provide techni-
cal assistance on the health
and social needs of Ameri-
can Indian, Alaska Native
25 years for a tribal manu-
facturing company, Sioux
Manufacturing Corp., be-
fore joining the Spirit Lake
Health Center, located in
Fort Totten, North Dakota.
He served as the admin-
istrative officer for five
years, before moving to
Phoenix to become their
first practice manager at the
adult Primary Care Clinic.
His goal was to lead the
clinic’s effort to achieve Pa-
tient Centered Medical
Home (PCMH) recogni-
tion.
The clinic successfully
completed its PCMH sur-
vey. and recognition in July
of this year.
Mr. Dauphinais joined
the Warm Springs IHS clinic
in November. He met with
Tribal Council this week,
briefing Council the goals
and objectives of the clinic,
and the Joint Health Com-
mission.
Winter shelter hours
The Warm Springs warming shelter will
be open on the following days from 6 p.m.
to 8 a.m.:
Wednesday, December 4.
Thursday, December 5.
Friday, December 6.
Saturday December 7.
Sunday, December 8.
Monday, December 9.
The shelter is located at the former el-
ementary school.
40 percent post-consumer
recycled material. House Bill
2509 passed the Oregon
legislative this year.
By encouraging the
switch to reusable or re-
cycled paper bags, Oregon
can reduce the amounts of
single-use bags that are
used and thrown out, while
addressing a significant
problem for Oregon’s recy-
cling programs: plastic bags.
and Native Hawaiian elderly,
and assist these groups in
conducting a needs assess-
ment which is a requirement
of their ACL grant; and,
Whereas the needs as-
sessment is designed to yield
information on the follow-
ing Native elder health care
needs, as follows:
General health status. Ac-
tivities for daily living.
Screening. Visual, hearing
and dental. Memory and dis-
ability. Health care access.
Tobacco and alcohol use.
Nutrition, exercise and ex-
cess weight. Social support/
housing. Social functioning.
Demographics.
Whereas that specific in-
formation collected within
the boundaries of the Con-
federated Tribes of Warm
Springs Reservation belongs
solely to the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs, and
may not be released in any
form to individuals, agencies
or organizations without ex-
press authorization from the
Twenty-Eighth Tribal Coun-
cil of the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs;
and,
Whereas in addition to
December 4, 2019
On the Council agenda
The following are some
of the items coming up on
the Tribal Council agenda
for December (subject to
change at Council discre-
tion):
Thursday, December 5
9 a.m.: Human Ser-
vices Branch update with
Caroline Cruz.
10: Natural Resources
Branch update with Rob-
ert Brunoe.
11: Presentation of re-
lief check with Coca Cola.
1:30 p.m.: Public
Safety Branch update with
Carmen Smith.
2:30: Public Utilities
update with Travis Wells.
3:30:
Education
Branch update with
Valerie Switzler.
4:30: Meet and greet
with group regarding Kah-
Nee-Ta.
Monday, December 9
9 a.m.: Secretary-Trea-
surer update with Michele
Stacona.
10: January 2020
Agenda and review min-
utes.
11: Draft resolutions.
1:30 p.m.: Legislative
update calls.
2:30: Enrollments with
Lucille Suppach-Samson
of Vital Statistics.
3: Indian Health Ser-
vice modernization up-
date
with
Hyllis
Dauphinais, clinic chief
executive officer.
4: Chuush Fund
amendment with Michele.
Tuesday, December 10
9 a.m.: Ventures up-
date and hemp plan with
Ventures board and staff.
10: Tribal Employ-
ment Rights Office
(TERO) update with the
TERO Commission and
office staff.
Thur sday-Friday,
December 12-13: Co-
lumbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission meet-
ing.
Timber Committee
Public Notice: The
next meeting of the
Timber Commitee—
and the last scheduled
Timber Committee
meeting for 2019—will
be on Thursday, De-
cember 12.
This is a public notice
to any community mem-
bers who have permits
you may need renewed
or reissued; or if you
have any concerns that
you would like to present
to the Timber Commit-
tee.
The meeting will be at
providing technical assis-
tance, the grant to the North
Dakota, Alaska and Hawaii
resource centers on native
aging is required by the
Older Americans Act to per-
form research and dissemi-
nate the results of the re-
search; and,
Whereas the North Da-
kota, Alaska and Hawaii Na-
tional Resource Centers on
Native Ageing are asking
tribes throughout the nation
to volunteer to participate in
a partnership arrangement to
identify the needs of Ameri-
can Indian and Alaska Na-
tive elders nationwide, in
which the resource centers
and the tribe/consortium
will each assume responsi-
bilities:
What the Resource
Center will provide:
Needs assessment instru-
ment. Assistance in sampling.
Training of interviewers.
Consultation with interview-
ers via email or telephone.
Data entry and analysis.
Data storage on a secure
server. Production of tables
and comparisons with na-
tional statistics.
What the tribe/consor-
tium will provide: A tribal
resolution documenting par-
ticipation in the Native elder
social and health needs as-
sessment as applicable. A list
of elders to interview. In-
terviewers or volunteers to
conduct the survey. Inter-
pretation of the results with
local input. Development
of recommendations for
actions. Dissemination of
the results to tribal leaders
and health officials.
And:
Whereas the summary
of information from the
the Forestry building
conference room from
9 a.m. to 12 noon.
Chairman is Luther
Clements; vice chair,
Anthony Holliday; Levi
VanPelt, committee
member.
If you have any
questions you can con-
tact any of the commit-
tee members, or the
Tribal Council office at
541-553-3257 for any
additional information.
Thank you,
Angela Sampson,
committee secretary.
Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs’ assessment,
along with a national com-
parison report from all the
needs assessments, will be
returned to the governing
Tribal Council and to the lo-
cal contact person; and,
Whereas the confidenti-
ality of enrolled members
and tribal consortium infor-
mation is of the utmost im-
portant; therefore the infor-
mation in this needs assess-
ment will be collected anony-
mously by tribal members
with a digital copy of the
data stored on a secure
server at the UND School
of Medicine and Health Sci-
ences for a period of at least
10 years or longer. Paper
copies will be retained for six
months after the cycle ends
to ensure accurate data en-
try, then destroyed; now
therefore,
Be it resolved by the
Twenty-Eighth Tribal Coun-
cil of the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs,
pursuant to Article V, Section
l(a) and (d) of the Tribal
Constitution and By-Laws
that Tribal Council hereby
authorizes participation in
the “Identifying Our Needs:
A Survey of Elders” Native
elder social and health needs
assessment; and,
Be it further resolved by
the Twenty-Eighth Tribal
Council grants permission to
the North Dakota, Alaska
and Hawaii National Re-
source Centers on Native
Ageing to use all collected
needs assessment informa-
tion in aggregate format for
the purpose of disseminat-
ing state, regional and national
results from analyses of the
data.