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or food at the Veterans Powwow should contact Molly Leno at 503-879-6790 or via e-mail at charleslenojr75@gmail.com . Tribal Veterans Special Event Board Chairman Steve Bobb Sr., a Marine Corps veteran from the Vietnam War era, said the Veterans Powwow is an opportunity to visit with old friends and swap military service stories. “It’s always nice to see everybody again,” Bobb said. “Rekindle the old friendships and the ongoing things with veterans. We like to visit and talk old stories. That’s …

all over again during that visit,” Linda says. The two acknowledge that dating and finding lasting love as Elders is challenging, but not impossible. “It’s harder dating when you’re older,” Linda says. “I was so nervous about everything. I had been in relationships with abusers, so it was very important to me to find someone who didn’t use alcohol. Cecil didn’t drink so that made me happy. I did not want to deal with that and it seems like a lot of people just drink and don’t do anything else …

Tribal Government & News Grand Ronde Police Log -- May 9-22, 2019 05.30.2019 Dean Rhodes Public safety Thursday, May 9 Assist outside agency with a Department of Health Services home visit in the 9600 block of Tilixam Circle. Assist outside agency with a Department of Health Services home visit in the 9600 block of Tilixam Circle. Citizen contact occurred in the 9600 block of Grand Ronde Road. Found property in the 9600 block of Grand Ronde Road. Friday, May 10 Assist outside agency …

governance and Klamath feminism, and American Indian law. She said she would like to work as a professor or policy analyst, with hopes to someday move back to her Tribal community and serve the Klamath people directly. For more information, visit www.thecommunityfund.com . Grand Ronde visit On Tuesday, Sept. 10, Wright and 2018-19 fellow Traven Joseph, 24, visited Grand Ronde, where they spent time with Community Fund staff, ate lunch at Spirit Mountain Casino and met with Tribal Council …

at the 15.5-ton meteorite. “It’s beautiful and amazing that something like this can exist this way and we can claim it as a part of our history. I wish more youth could learn about this.” Galligher was one of two Tribal Elders selected to make the journey to visit Tomanowos at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and participate in a private ceremony on Wednesday, June 20, with other Tribal members and family. Rick Grout was the other Elder. Galligher, who grew up …

Culture Greene card 03.15.2011 Dean Rhodes People , Elder Profile These days, Tribal Elder Dorothy "Dottie" Greene, 92, has the color of spring about her. She talks about her "Honeybun," an admirer from McMinnville. "He's the best thing to come into my life," Dottie says in her living room in the Tribal Elder Housing development. They were on the phone the night before, and Dottie said, "I told him everything I did (during the day) and he told me everything that he did. He trusts me and I …

be doing. This is what community emergency response should look like.” Phelps said he is happy to work with the Tribes on this type of event. “Being able to work with the Tribes and augment the structure that they have in place I think is part of an overall strategy ensuring help gets where it needs to go in a timely manner regardless of what the disaster is,” said Phelps. “Our goal for this exercise is twofold. One is to stress and evaluate the systems that we have in place to coordinate life …

-absorbed medicine man. “One of the stories we always like to tell our children that goes along with this place is how Table Rock was actually formed,” said Mercier to a gathering of Grand Ronde Tribal members, Tribal Council members, Tribal staff and local representatives billed as a “Coffee & Conversation” meeting in Medford on Friday, Sept. 16. “One of our stories that goes back to our creation stories about this place talks about how one of the medicine men that was down here became very …

, conference attendees gathered into smaller groups for the afternoon breakout sessions. Afternoon breakout sessions included information provided by Tribal member and Cultural Collections Supervisor Veronica Montano on the Tribe’s handling of culturally significant items and artifacts and Harrelson presented on the topic of place and the importance of place to Tribal peoples. Tribal Elder and Tribal Librarian Marion Mercier presented information on how to better research Grand Ronde Tribal …

agency staff from organizations like the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon Department of Transportation, Bonneville Power Administration and Army Corps of Engineers. “It is such an honor to be able to stand before you to talk to people who care for this land,” said George. “We’re here today to talk about culture and to talk about history. What is culture? We say it is the beliefs, the customs and the arts of a particular society, group, place or time. And we look at history as a study …