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. “For me, it was just amazing to see our people up there on the rocks, dip netting. It was almost like you could see our ancestors doing it,” he said. “And then to have the success that we had. We were allowed 15 fish, and they had 15 fish in about 3.5 hours. I was thinking we might not even get one fish. It was quite awesome.” Leno said witnessing Tribal members fishing at Willamette Falls ranks high on the Tribe’s list of accomplishments during his 20-year tenure on Tribal Council. “It’s right up …

that business went under, he started his own trucking company called Richard Ray Trucking. At one point, his company had five trucks after starting with just two. “When Zimbrick’s actually went out of business, Mushy went on his own in his mobile home towing business,” says Tribal Elder Bob Mercier. “We were both truck drivers and so we had a lot in common, and we used to in our business complement each other by he would help me and when I could I would help him and it just went that way. He …

and provide a good time filled with food, laughter, culture and positive camaraderie." Tail Feathers, who worked for almost 20 years with the Warm Springs Tribe in eastern Oregon, is a Navy veteran with 35 years of experience in providing Native wellness and healing training in Indian Country. Grand Ronde Tribal Chair Reyn Leno, a Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran, attended one of the first planning meetings for the summit in San Diego in late November. After returning and talking with the rest …

of the work the Cultural Resources staff has done, not only for us, but so the world could see these,” Kennedy said. “My hope is that this is the beginning of a regular rotation and one day we can have them returned home or have a replication of the artifacts here.” Edwards said that museum-to-museum relationships are becoming more common, but that not all cultural institutions are on the same level, so the fact that the British Museum trusted Chachalu staff to house and properly care for the items …

attend, but one common theme is that of connection between Tribal members, fish, the river and community. On Saturday, May 18, the Tribe held the annual event in a new location, Willamette Park along the banks of the Willamette River in West Linn. In previous years, it had been held at the historic McLean House nearby, but that location proved to be problematic for the number of attendees to find adequate parking. Turnout was one of biggest of any of the Tribe’s fish ceremonies, with approximately 75 …

Grand Ronde in Sharjah, one of the seven United Arab Emirates, a Persian Gulf country of 9.78 million people. Her sons, Christopher Muhammad and Patrick Yousuf Doty, live nearby in another Persian Gulf country, Qatar, home to 2.8 million. Farlow, 64, and her sons live almost halfway around the world from their Tribe. When it’s noon in Grand Ronde, it is 11 p.m. in the United Arab Emirates. The Farlow-Doty family are the second most distant Tribal members. Two members of the Pichette family …

Health & Education Roads to Recovery: For McNeel, using heroin once was one time too many 08.31.2021 Danielle Harrison Health & Wellness , People Tribal member Tannith McNeel tells her story of heroin addiction and how it devastated her life. (Photo by Timothy J. Gonzalez/Smoke Signals) (Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of Smoke Signals stories in 2021 that examines addiction and recovery. The final article will detail the various recovery services offered to Tribal members seeking …

government and pediatrics associations who have not bought into the idea of supporting cradleboard use. We decided we needed to write this. There is a need of more awareness and advocacy for best practices and more policies that support Tribes teaching this.” Added Binh T. Ho, "The process of getting it published in major outlets was frustrating. One editor told me that she's looking for articles on families rather than political articles. But I knew Linda Shockley from Early Learning Lab from …

grandma and at Lane,” she said. “We have great staff furthering education and infusing culture and language. Part of the goal is offering parents classes, then expanding to community classes at all different levels of proficiency.” Education Department Manager Angela Fasana, a Grand Ronde Tribal member, is excited about having all of the language learners in one building. Her granddaughter, Palmer Heidt, is in the preschool class. Fasana was the interim manager of the program following Tribal member …

in 2024,” she said. “I can’t believe it’s been eight years since I started here. Time really flies, it certainly does when you’re having fun, and it’s great that we’re able to make a difference to the membership and bring services and programs that are needed.” Rowe said that Health & Wellness continues to grow, and has recently added a nurse practitioner, psychiatric nurse practitioner and a dentist, with a second one coming in April. The department’s tush lamatsin (good medicine) events have …