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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Community
update
Off rez hunting
The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs has
adopted the off-reservation hunting seasons and
regulations. Current off-reservation seasons are:
Pronghorn antelope: Now through October 31.
Archery, deer and elk: Through October 2.
Off reservation buck and deer, rifle: Through
October 31.
Early elk, cow and spike: Through October 16.
Bull elk: October 17 through November 30.
Late elk, cow and spike: December 1 through
January 31, 2021.
Bighorn sheep hunts: Through November 30.
John Day Canyon mule deer buck: November 1
through November 29.
John Day Middle Fork white-tail hunt: October
3 through November 30. For assistance you can
email: wildlife.tags@ctwsbnr.org
Or call 541-553-2001 during business hours.
Most recent covid-19
coronavirus case
demographics on the
reservation, as
compiled by IHS and
Community Health:
Top graph: Active
cases on the date of
September 2. There
were 16 active cases,
shown in this graph by
ages.
Lower graph:
Cumulative positive
cases: 303 since early
spring, numbers shown
here through
September 2.
(Please see page 5
for further details.)
Warm Springs virtual diabetes classes in October
Warm Springs Health
and Wellness Center diabe-
tes classes—for people with
diabetes and family mem-
bers—are coming up in a
safe and virtual format in
October.
The diabetes education
classes will be online, so you
can participate from the com-
fort of your home. The
classes will be Wednesdays at
noon.
Class one, October 7:
Topics are, What is diabe-
tes? And blood sugar moni-
toring.
Class two will be on Oc-
tober 14, the topics being:
What does diabetes effect?
And keys to control.
Class three, October 21,
will cover: Nutrition and
healthy eating.
Class four, October 28:
Diabetes medicine today;
and Standards of Care to
Stay Healthy.
Please register by calling
541-553-2351. You will be
sent an email to join.
The classes are in collabo-
ration with the Community
Health Nutrition Depart-
ment and the Diabetes Pro-
gram.
Academic coaching for Native higher ed students
The American Indian
Graduate Center is launch-
ing Rising Native Graduates.
The program will offer
academic coaching opportu-
nities specifically designed to
support Native undergradu-
ate students from Oregon
and the Northwest.
Rising Native Graduates
will help students in their pur-
suit of a graduate or profes-
sional school education.
“Indigenous scholars are
not equally represented in the
graduate and professional
school settings,” said
Angelique Albert, of the
Confederated Salish and
Kootenai Tribes, executive
director of American Indian
Graduate Center.
“The opportunity gap be-
tween academic services for
Native students and other
minorities is significant, par-
ticularly regarding cradle-to-
career strategies.
“Our program is unique
from any other program,
because it is designed specifi-
September 9, 2020
Dr. Salena Beaumont Hill
cally to empower these in-
credible students who have
statistically been left out by
large educational data sets.”
The premier academic
coaching program seeks to
increase access to graduate
and professional degrees for
American Indian students
through mentoring with a
culturally appropriate, and
Indigenous centered ap-
proach—a need that was
identified by current Ameri-
can Indian Graduate Cen-
ter students in their annual
student feedback survey.
Current undergraduate
junior and senior Native
students in the region are
encouraged to take advan-
tage of this program.
The American Indian
Graduate Center plans to
scale up the program to a
national level in the com-
ing academic years.
“Rising Native Gradu-
ates will elevate our schol-
ars’ entire educational expe-
rience,” said Dr. Salena
Beaumont Hill, of the
Crow Tribe of Montana,
Blackfeet Tribe, and Ameri-
can Indian Graduate
Center’s R i s i n g N a t i v e
Graduates Program Man-
ager.
“Essentially, we are offer-
ing them Native role models
who can give them real ad-
vice and strategies to excel in
this phase of their education.
Providing this Nativecentered
academic support is pivotal to
ensuring our students’ aca-
demic success.”
Both Academic Coach and
Scholar applications are open
now. Learn more about Ris-
i n g N a t i v e G r a d u a t e s at
AIGCS.org.
Rising Native Graduates is
supported by a $300,000
three-year grant from the
M.J. Murdock Charitable
Trust.
The program is also sup-
ported by generous funding
from Wells Fargo.