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is constructed; Appointed Tribal Council member Michael Cherry to succeed Tribal Council member Kathleen George on the Spirit Mountain Community Fund Board of Trustees. Both Cherry and George are former directors of the Community Fund; Approved a service line agreement with Portland General Electric to provide electricity to the new men’s transitional housing site on the west side of Grand Ronde Road; Approved an opioid settlement agreement with Johnson & Johnson and three drug distribution companies …

failing stream crossings and modify a berm on the Tribe’s Chahalpam conservation property located in Marion County, as well as a maximum $100,000 Bureau of Land Management grant that would help maintain 62 acres at the site; And approved a construction contract with Perlo Construction of Tualatin to expand the Tribe’s medication-assisted treatment center, Great Circle Recovery, at 1011 N. Commercial St. in Salem. Engineering and Planning Manager Ryan Webb said the work will remodel more …

the state granted the Tribe a permit to erect a fishing platform on the contested property. The Tribe was then forced to ferry materials to construct the platform across the Willamette River from the Oregon City side. The platform was completed on Oct. 23, 2018. PGE then filed an appeal with the state Land Use Board regarding the Tribe’s fishing platform site because the city of West Linn did not regulate the structure, but the Land Use Board dismissed the appeal in April 2019. On July 28, 2021 …

Manager David Fullerton was held Wednesday, Nov. 30, in Tribal Council Chambers, with 41 additional participants joining via Zoom. Health Services Executive Director Kelly Rowe began the meeting with a short presentation describing the village and its Chinook Wawa name, which translates to “together we grow.” A mock-up of the site showed a privacy fence will enclose 10 shelter units, a hygiene facility, a kitchen and an office. Each 64-square-foot shelter unit will be prefabricated for quick assembly …

filled up quickly and there is currently a waiting list. A second tiny shelter site will be located near the old community garden in Grand Ronde. To qualify for the tiny shelters, a person must be a Grand Ronde Tribal member, spouse or parent of a Tribal member. “We’ve had a lot of feedback from the guests who are very thankful for being able to find this shelter and not be living in their vehicles or in tents,” Rowe said. The three representatives fielded about seven questions from the Facebook …

Grand Ronde,” “It’s All About Context: How Culturally Informed Landscape Understandings Expand Knowledge of Archaeological Site Interpretation,” “Does That Belong in a Museum? Conceptualizing Western Oregon Stone Bowls as Potential Funerary Objects,” “Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice,” “Community Outreach in Cultural Preservation” and “Fires Everywhere: Reviewing the Cultural Resource Response to the 2020 Oregon …

to leapfrog over Spirit Mountain Casino and build a second casino closer to Salem. In 2017, the Siletz Tribe proposed building a second casino at the 20-acre site off Interstate 5 and splitting the proceeds with the state of Oregon and eight other federally recognized Tribes in Oregon. The Grand Ronde Tribe objected to that proposal as well. The Salem market has become more important to Grand Ronde’s Spirit Mountain Casino following the Cowlitz Tribe opening Ilani Casino approximately 17 miles north …

by staff at Chachalu Museum & Cultural Center, Historic Preservation, Youth Enrichment, Youth Education and Youth Prevention. Youths spent the week excavating a site in what once was downtown Grand Ronde, now home to Chachalu. Cultural Protection Specialist Chris Bailey said the camp was designed to spark an interest in young Tribal members to become more engaged with their culture and perhaps consider archaeology as a future career. “There aren’t enough Indigenous people involved in this career …

off a list of threatened species in the near future. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Monday, Oct. 16, that the Nelson’s checker-mallow will be coming off the Endangered Species Act list 30 days after an upcoming notice appears in the Federal Register. In April 1995, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde signed an agreement with the Fish and Wildlife Service to continue upkeep of the plant that was found growing in the path of the planned Spirit Mountain Casino site. Although …

historical connections to Willamette Falls. Beckham called it “intellectually dishonest,” and in a 205-page analysis, said the Umatilla had not previously identified any traditional Tribal fishing sites west of Celilo Falls, some 100 miles to the east. A historically vital fishing site for the Tribes of the Columbia Plateau, which include the Warm Springs, Umatilla and Yakima peoples, Celilo Falls was submerged by the Dalles Dam in 1957. Brown is now the Executive Director of the Willamette Falls …