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Show The Ute Bulletin Editor A eUfofid Maxine Nstohccs M School News 8pOBHOr TtlaMax nin1 mumwmmmiw lUdjT tl! Csiieen Ipuclo and Gloria Arrowgarp ctote Editor m uiMMdHU Subscription rates: Mail correspondence to: Dear Editor: In the seven months I have worked for the community Action Program here, I have seen much and learned much. I have discovered, and fallen in love with, a wonderful and fascinating people, the Ute Free to Uto Tribal members 1150 per year to atbers The Uto Bulletin PA). Box 129 Indians. I have never seen such a concentration talent and raw human resource. Not have I ever seen a human resource so wasted. The Ute people have a great future and a great potential if you will spend as much effort developing your Human resources as you have the natural and economic resources of your land. This will take some soul searching decisions by every one of you and a total commitment of the things you try to accomplish. There must be a more positive attitude toward the need for an education. The schools here are quite poor, that is true, but even poor schools can be more valuable when there is a better attitude toward them. Parents must take more interest in what their children do in school They should make a stronger effort to see that their children go to school every day. They should take more pride in what the children do while they are there, and encourage them to try harder to learn all that there is to learn. Families should do more things together. Spare time can be spent much better than drinking and watching television. Children are people, just as much as their parents are people. They need to feel loved, wanted, and a part of the family. They also need to be controlled. A child wants you to control his actions, even though he may fight that controL This is his way of saying I am a person, and the master of my own fate, but I trust you to stop me if I go too far so I won't get hurt. Another problem that I see is racial Fort Duchesne, Utah 84026 of Member of tbe American Indian Press Association EDITORIAL The Problem & Parent Involvement BY JASON CUCH PROJECT HEAD START DIRECTOR Children Learn What They Live. If a child lives with encouragement, be learns confidence; if he lives with praise he learns to appreciate; if he lives with fairness, he learns justice, if he lives with security, he learns faith, from approval be learns to like himself, from acceptance and friendship he learns to find love in the world. These are the words of a poet . .but they express the goals of the Ute Tribe Head Start Program, whether it be half day or full day. I feel the program has real value. Nothing like it has been endeavored on our Reservation before. It has received favorable comment from parents and teachers but it's real value will not be measured for at least 10 years. However, we are seeing Indian students not in the last seat in the classroom hot in the middle and even bant seats. Indian students are speaking out more readily and breaking the image of the quiet, slow student. We in the Head Start program feel we are planting these seeds in the child and we feel we can see the children working and growing in the classroom as he plays and n and Indian children of his own age. works side by side with A mingling of Indian, children is a perfect poverty and middle-clas- s for and of well a as as healthy atmosphere in exchange feelings exposure melting pot which to learn to share. Adding to this potpourri of children are the handicapped children-sixte- en of which are already involved in the total program. We fed the program has unlimited value. However we and the program are in a non-India- non-India- n, great danger. To once again quote the poet, if a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn; if he lives with hostility, he learns to fight, if he lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy, and if he lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty. Teaching is not an easy job. If a teacher begins to shew emotions in the classroom, they will be readily recognized by the children and that inferior feeling will be in them. believe fa and trust their teachers. Children Ieoh to teachers as the authority-the- y If s trsrhrr is nut dmtirstud tshis srhrr Trark if she sr hr sllsirs persons! fnrilings to enter the classroom, the chfld wfll grow up with an undesirable feeling. The Purpose of Head Start is to provide adequate educational concepts and to stimulate and develop curiosity so as to motivate the child to continue to learn in the future. Too often we hear parents saying Why isn't my child learning to write ABCs, math and reading?" Parents should remember that this program is one of developing the child and preparing them for school Research indicatea only 10 are ready to learn to read and only 90 percent of seven percent of are ready. We are preparing them for raiding, not teaching them to read. year-old- s The present Head Start program was not established overnight. It took at least a year of meetings, research and discussion. It took a selling job to the parents. And the interest of parents is what it will take to keep it going. If parents are interested only in dropping their children at a crater and have no interest in to the center, we cannot survive. When we call a meeting, we contributing any want attendance. When you tdl your child you are going to a meeting at his school, he will be pleased, he will feel assured that you care. 1 would farther caution parents should not accept the notion Head Start and Day Care Centers are a substitute for parents and hams. Dr. Edward Zigler, director of Early Childhood Education at Yale University and former director of the Office of Child Development, warns parents that any experience with the child which essentially attempts to supplant the family is often detrimental to the child's growth and development. Good early childhood education programs will increase the family's effectiveness and thus is highly beneficial to both parents and children. The only Head Start-DaCare meetings which are very well attended are the controversial ones. Personal feeling seems to be mushrooming throughout the Reservation. These feelings could be the down fall of a program which, Im sure no one will argue, has been a great benefit to our children. the existing situation and not be too hasty to condemn one Lets another for the sake of our program and our children. five-year-ol- ds in-p- ut N y discrimination, on both sides. All people must realize that people are people, and one person has as much worth in himself as another, no matter what color his skin is. All people have the same basic needs and wants. Problems that affect one person will affect another, but perhaps not as strongly. After all all people are the same under the skin. I wish that I had more contact with the people while I was here. I spent too much time in the office. I should have started right out by going around and meeting the people. Hopefully other new employees in the future will learn from my mistakes. I am going home, to Salt Lake where I belong. I have gained much more than I have left behind, a common enough story when whites come in contact with Indians. I have learned much about what it means to be a real person. I have learned much about the Ute people, their problems and their beauty. I have written down the things I have learned and given the paper to all agencies serving youth and to the Tribal leadership. I believe strongly in the things I said in this paper, and wish I could stay longer to see them become a reality. I will be glad to help anyone develop these ideas by writing letters or meeting with them in my home in Salt Lake. I also believe I have played a small part in making the Summer Camp a reality for this year. Please give this camp your total commitment and help wherever you can. It is one of the best ways we have of developing the children. If we can all pull together in developing ' our most valuable natural resource, Silver-heelSarah Miles and Jay Reynolds, our children, the future of the people and The movie will be shown in theaters of the world wfil be much brighter. after July. Lynna Marie and her parents Now, I think I have said enough. I must say goodbye. I hope I and my reside in Los Angeles. She is the granddaughter of Bishop and Dorothy Arrowfamily will be welcome visitors at cere chis of Lapoint. . Ute Girl Makes Movie Debute Word was received here last week concerning the movie debute of the daughter of a tribal member. Lynna Marie Murdock, age five, daughter of Mitch and Joyce Arrowchis Murdock, will be seen in the movie The Man Who Loved starring Burt Cat-Danci- monies and pow wows on weekends, as we really enjoy coming to these events. See you then, Barry Inscore Dear Public Relations Department; Mr. Buck Horn and I both want to thank you for your very kind invitation to attend the dedication of the Uintah Basin Community Building. We were honored to participate in the dedication of this achievement which wfil be of great benefit, not only to the Ute people but also to the entire Uintah Basin community. We thought this Ceremony to be most meaningful enjoyed the program very much, and were very pleased to have been invited to attend the luncheon at Bottle Hollow. We also realized that this Dedication Ceremony took place at a time of great sorrow and grief in you community, and we want to express our heartfelt sympathy to the family and friends of those who lost their lives and were injured in Mondays tragic accident. Very truly yours, W.R. Wimbish, Area Landman Hated The members of the Girls Tournament Committee for 1973 would like to take this opportunity to thank the following people for the time and effort they contributed to help in this event. Betty Cuch, Ruby Black, Mary LaRose, Chris Accuttoroop, Nelson Root, Thomas Redfoot, Leon Perank, Edward Pusher, Edith Sireech, Nellie Johnson, Edna Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cuch, Elliot Ridley, Carleen Ignacio, Judy Cole, Ricky Martinez, Ingrid Wopsock, Lorena Sum-m- a Richardina Tom, Kline Myore, Carlos Reed, William B. Myore, Darlene Groves, Etta McCurdy, Winnie Harris, Jolene Mart, Maxine Serawop, Homey Secaku-ku- , Du-Shan- e, Julia Tabbee. We would like to give special thanks to Eunice Sowsonicut for helping with both the Men's and Womens Tournaments. Also, to the trophy carriers, referees, visiting and local teams and the many other people who helped make this event possible. We would also like to congratulate the Ouray Green Rivers for taking the Championship Trophy and the White- rocks Team for taking the 3rd place trophy. Thank you for the support you gave us by attending the games, we hope you enjoyed yourselves. The members of the Ouray Community and the Beardance Chiefs would lil to express their thanks to the people for giving their support to our Beardance this year by attending. We would especially like to thank the people who volunteered their time to help us arrange the feast and helped serve during the feast, for their effort. We hope everyone enjoyed themselves during the Beardance as well as during the night activities that were planned. We would like to let the drumers know, that traveled from White-rockKandlett and Ft. Duchesne, to Ouray for the Pow-wothat we enjoyed having you in our community. s, s. Thank you for all the kind thoughts expressed while I was in the hospital. 1 appreciate your thoughtfulness. Mrs. Norma Jean Grey . |
