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). Additionally, credit card limit increases were approved for Health & Wellness Department Operations Director Tresa Mercier from $1,000 to $5,000 and the Procurement Department from $5,000 to $10,000. “We have 64 cards currently within the organization with more than 800 employees,” Finance Officer Chris Leno said at a Tuesday, Feb. 4, Legislative Action Committee meeting. “Tribal Council has cards, most at the manager level have cards and there’s several in education, health and procurement. We …

Inuk woman,” Siaja narrates in the show’s two-minute trailer. “I got married out of high school, started a family and now he’s the town golden boy and I’m… his wife.” She realizes without her husband she has no car, home or money and decides to reset her life and find herself with the help of her community. The show follows her around her small artic town filled with Indigenous characters and traditions. One of Siaja’s relatives has the traditional face tattoos of Inuit culture. Most …

advocates for foster children, clean drinking water projects, an emergency coordination center and more. “The continuing resolution breaks promises to Oregonians by stripping them of $30 million in community project funding already allocated to projects across the district, including $12 million to create more jobs, $8.5 million to make our communities safer and another $2 million to make sure we have safe water to drink,” Bynum said in a press release. Bynum joined most other House Democrats …

in Sheridan is cutting back on its food distributions, effective immediately. The organization will be doing distributions on the first and third Tuesday of the month instead of their weekly distributions. Rick Gaupo, president of Marion-Polk Food Share, said that the funding cuts equal half of what the food share received from the federal government last year. Most of the cuts were to frozen meat, eggs and dairy products. The recent congressional bill, approved by both the House and the Senate …

pricing to prevent unintended rate inflation in the event of increased demand. A total of 197 rooms were occupied that evening, most of which were reserved prior to the tsunami advisory. Guest Safety/Security set up 23 cots in the casino’s Events Center, along with coffee and water service, for any guests needing emergency accommodations. Signs were placed to direct guests to this location, although no guests ultimately used the space. Guest Safety reported several families with children arriving from …

with the climate. … But with Tribal gaming, the real threat is sports betting.” Bean gave a talk on the issue at the 2026 Winter Convention of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians in early February. He told the assembled Tribal members that “For most of Indian Country, Indian gaming remains the most successful economic development tool employed by Tribal governments, providing them a consistent and stable source of revenue that Tribes could use to rebuild their economies. To reclaim our language …

project had been placed on the backburner in each of the last two budget cycles. “There was a lot of careful consideration that went into this to even see if it was going to be funded,” said Harrelson. Harrelson said the Phase II construction was part of the initial concept planning that went into the project in 2012 and that although the expansion project will be the program’s “most visual” project, the Cultural Resources Department will continue to be involved in a multitude of efforts. Harrelson …

, former Congressman AuCoin is among the most revered and respected Oregon politicians by the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. His role in the Restoration has become legend. AuCoin’s press secretary, John Atkins, remembers working on the Grand Ronde Restoration Bill while working for AuCoin, who is retired and lives in Bozeman, Mont. “I was there at the House of Representatives and so was Kathryn when Congressman AuCoin dropped the bill in the hopper,” remembers Atkins. “The bill was approved …

(to be baby-sat) and my dad didn’t come back for me. I entered the foster care system that way. I was in 13 different placements.” The couple who had baby-sat her, the Bradshaws, had four boys and wanted to adopt a little girl, Plummer says. When she was 4 years old, that adoption was official. Although Plummer doesn’t have a conscious recollection of the early part of her life, the trauma of abandonment would play a huge role in her addiction story. “When I was 14 years old, I stumbled across some …

and images are threaded throughout to demonstrate the deep e­motional impact Native people endured as their culture was shattered by government policies." Olson said indexing families was a challenge. "Many, if not most, of the first- and second-generation people were known by several English names in addition to their Native names," she said. "Further confusing the situation was the fact that the spelling of some English names changed over time." She quotes Eustace Howard, "one of our long ago …