Smoke Signals September 1991 Page 4
1991 TRIBAL HUNTING
INFORMATION
The Fish and Wildlife Committee will be issuing 345
deer tags to eligible tribal members for the 1991 hunting
season. The following guidelines have been adopted by
the Fish and Wildlife Committee to give as many as
possible the opportunity to use their hunting privileges.
Tribal members please remember that you still must
follow State hunting laws, seasons and bag limits. Tags
issued by the Tribe are only valid in the Trask Manage
ment Unit (consult your Hunting, Fishing, and Gather
ing Handbook for description. If you haven't picked up
the revised 1991 copy, contact Karen or Tracy at the
tribal office).
To Exercise Your Tribal Hunting Privileges,
You Must Have:
1) A tribal Identification card;
2) A valid annual hunting sticker attached to
the back of the I.D. card and;
3) The appropriate deer, elk or bear tag issued
by the Tribe.
Deer Tags Shall Be Issued As Follows:
1) Bow, general and muzzleloader deer tags will be
issued on a first come first serve basis as long as the
supply lasts.
, 2) Tribal members shall be issued one deer tag at a
time. For instance: If you have a bow deer tag you will
be ineligible to receive a general deer tag until the bow
deer tag is returned or a tag receipt returned with the
kill information section complete.
3) Deer tags must be returned by the established
deadlines or a kill reported in order to receive any
additional tags.
4) With a written request to the Confederated Tribes of
Grand Ronde, HFN Dept., 961S Grand Ronde Rd.,
Grand Ronde, Or. 97347, you may receive your tag by
certified mail.
5) You may have another person pick up your tag for
you provided that person brings in a written request
from you and your I.D. card with the current annual
hunting sticker attached.
Reporting:
1) When reporting a kill or returning a tag not filled,
members must also return the hunting tag receipt with
the kill information section completed.
2) The holder of a bow, general or muzzleloader deer
tag shall report any kill or return an unused tag & tag
receipt within two weeks of the respective hunt. Elk and
bear tags must be returned by the established deadlines.
3) Lost tags must be reported immediately. Lost tags
reported after the designated deadline may result in
tribal penalties.
Transferability:
1) A tag may be transferred by the tribal member to
whom it was issued only to another licensed tribal
member.
2) The tribal member to whom the tag was issued is
still responsible for returning the tag or reporting any
kills within the time limits set.
3) Tribal members who transfer a hunting tag to a tribal
.member who has lost their hunting privileges will be
subject to penalties. (Make sure the person your
transferring your tag to has the appropriate annual
sticker on the back of their I.D. card).
Return Of Tags And Forms
According to the agreement between the Tribe and
State, the Tribe is required to submit an annual fish and
wildlife report to the Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife.
Therefore, tribal tags and receipts for non-kills, tag
receipts with the kill information section completed for
those who successfully fill their tags and all reports of
lost tags must reach the Tribal Fish and Wildlife
Program no later than the established deadlines.
Deadlines will vary due to hunt schedules. To insure
the maximum utilization of the tribal tags remember
that failing to return your tag report kills or lost tags
could result in other tribal members not being able to
hunt.
Also, failure to return tags, report kills or lost tags, or
any other state or tribal violations may result in penal
ties. Tribal penalties may include at least one year loss
of tribal hunting privileges.
Eligibility:
No hunting tag shall be issued to any young person
between 12 and 18 years of age unless that person
possesses a safety certificate approved by the committee.
A Hunter Education Certificate issued by any state is
deemed to be an approved safety certificate. The
person must have the certificate in his or her possession
while hunting. No hunting tag shall be issued to any
person under the age of 12 under any circumstances.
"Please call in all unfilled bow deer tags at the end of
the season, they will then be converted automatically to
a general season deer tag. You do not have to return
them for re-Issuance.
See page 7 for more information on special tag
distribution dates and times during opening weekend
When Mothers Take Literacy Classes,
Children Reap Benefits, Study Finds
By Peter Schmidt
WASHINGTON. - Literacy and job-training programs
for low-income mothers appear to have a secondary
benefit of improving the educability of their children, a
study by a women's employment group asserts.
The 18-month study of the families of 463 low-income
mothers in adult-education and job programs found that
65 percent of their children demonstrated improvement
in at least one of several education-related areas
following the women's participation in such schooling.
After taking part in the programs, the study found, the
mothers were more likely than before to read to their
children, to take them to the library, to help them with
. homework, and to take an active interest in their
schools-activities presumed to have contributed to the
youngsters' educational improvement.
The study, released here last month, was conducted by
Wider Opportunities for Women Inc., or WOW, a
Washington-based, nonprofit training organization.
Applied Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Inc., a non
profit research group in El Cajon, California, assisted in
the project.
'Double Duty
"What this research tells us is that even very modest
investments in the training of mothers can have a
positive impact on the educability of their children," said
Cynthia Marano, the executive director of WOW.
"Such investments can contribute to ending the cycle of
illiteracy," she argued. "Dollars spent on such programs
perform 'double duty.' "
The study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, gathered data on low-income
mothers participating in nine literacy and job-training
programs across the nation. More than 900 children of
these women were also studied.
All of the children were under age 16, with those ages 6
to 11 constituting the largest group.
Of the 463 mothers surveyed, more than 45 percent
reported that their children had improved their grades
after the mothers participated in literacy or job-training
programs.
"Even though the programs had no intention in their
design to influence the educability of children, that
effect showed up," said the project's principal re
searcher, Thomas G. Sticht of Applied Behavioral and
Cognitive Sciences.
The children of mothers who participate in such
programs, he suggested, "may be in the long run the
greater beneficiaries."
Other improvements in the performance of the
children studied included:
Better test scores, reported by 42 percent of
mothers;
Improved reading ability, reported by 42 percent;
Improved school attendance, reported by 37 percent;
and
More positive attitudes toward school, reported by
54 percent.
In addition to the survey, the researchers conducted 48
in-depth case studies of mothers, children, and the
children's teachers. The teachers reported educational
improvement in at least one area for almost 69 percent y
of the children in the case studies.
Issue of Working Mothers
Irene Nativadad, the chairman of WOWs national
commission on working women, noted that the study has
been released at a time when "it has been somewhat
trendy in some quarters to blame the ills of American
society on mothers who go back to work." .
"We now have documentation to show the
intergenerational impact" of literacy and job-training
programs," she said, adding that, "as these mothers
build their own skills, they are investing in their
children's education as well."
Ms. Natividad said the study's findings do not reduce
the importance of investing directly in the education of
children, but "should be used to argue for additional
support for programs targeting adults-especially
mothers."
Ms. Marano suggested that existing literacy and
training programs for low-income mothers should
incorporate instruction in such areas as how to read to
children and how to be an advocate for children in
school. . s .-
Officials of WOW said they intend this fall to launch a
project designed to teach the administrators of women's
programs ways to increase the intergenerational benefits
of their efforts.
Copies of the report, "Teach the Mother and Reach
the Child," are available for $15 each, postpaid, from
Wider Opportunities for Woman, 1325 G St., N.W.,
Lower Level, Washington, D.C. 20005.
courtesy of Education Week