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Culture Yesteryears: Jan. 1, 2026 12.29.2025 Yesteryears 2021 2021 — After enduring a year of the deadly COVID-19 virus, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde received its first shipment of 200 doses of the highly-anticipated vaccine just before Christmas. The first doses to arrive were reserved for health care workers, first responders, adult foster care workers and vulnerable Elders. 2016 — The Tribe purchased the 31-acre Multnomah Greyhound Park Site in Wood Village, intending to use …

Culture Jenness takes over at Tribe's Eugene satellite office 10.12.2012 Dean Rhodes People , Tribal employees Named as temporary Eugene area satellite office coordinator on Sept. 17., former Tribal Council member Andy Jenness has started the effort to create community among the more than 200 area members of the Grand Ronde Tribe. Before the year is out, Tribal Council is likely to wrestle again with the future of the office. At the end of June, Tribal Council split 4-4 over how to continue …

subject was arrested for DUII and transported to the Yamhill County Jail in McMinnville. Saturday, Sept. 14 Suspicious activity reported in the area of Agency Creek and Service Road 200. Assist outside agency with citizen contact in the 48000 block of Dragonfly Drive. Suspicious activity reported in the 27100 block of Salmon River Highway. Sunday, Sept. 15 Assist outside agency with a reported domestic disturbance in the 200 block of Elm Street in Sheridan. Assist outside agency with a driving …

if the Tribe has developed a "stop sale point," which would be a point at which the Tribe would get out of the stock market if another drastic decline occurred. Barnum, like he has at other General Council meetings, warned against trying to time the stock market. "There are two decisions that need to be made: when to sell and when to buy back," he said. "Those two decisions are usually made at the wrong times." However, Barnum cited changes that have occurred that will give the Tribe more flexibility …

production to buy clothes and other necessities. While the country in general spent some 13 years living with alcohol prohibition (1920-33), David Lewis, Tribal Museum Curator and Cultural Liaison, used the stories that Elders have told to describe almost 100 years of Prohibition for the Grand Ronde people. He also pulled information from the National Archives in Seattle, he said. Lewis told the stories to a group of 30 on Thursday, July 26, at the Willamette Heritage Center Dye House. "One …

to preserve food so they have it available in leaner times," DeCicco said. There are other benefits to the local group's work as well. "It's so much healthier to eat home-canned items than to buy them in the store," said Schultz-McCallister. "The oral stuff, the conversation that you capture when you have multiple generations together (is another benefit). For the younger kids to see and learn from us, hopefully, they will carry on (the practice)." For the first effort, finished jars of produce …

, Chinuk Immersion teacher, "we always pick a book (already published), read it aloud and every family goes home with a copy. "We would buy books easy to translate," she added, and before Literacy Night language teachers translated the books into Chinuk Wawa. They then pasted the Chinuk Wawa words over the English ones. For words that are not among the ones that have come down from the Chinuk Wawa language, teachers have to either use the English word, like they have in the case of spoon or pizza …

is to cut them in half, Exeter said. There are slime molds that also are called Deer Puke. "They have patches of yellow, and I guess they look like deer puke," said Exeter. Some have the odor of fish or shrimp; some ooze a substance called "latex" when cut, though not the kind of latex found in paint. Red or orange latex mushrooms are edible, but other latex mushrooms may be inedible. Asked whether he is now ready to hunt mushrooms himself, Tribal Elder Duane Wheeler deferred. "No. I think I'll buy …

was given away. It does mean the government made promises to the Tribes by treaties for taking the land and has not kept those promises. This is what has led to the trail of broken promises of treaties complaints by Tribes in the United States. It has not been that long ago that we had the freedom to fish and hunt as our subsistence. Now we must wait for our per capita to buy the necessary subsistence and pay taxes for it. Claudette Parazoo Roll #2923 Dear Smoke Signals: Enclosed please find …

of Grand Ronde and Tyee roads. Suspicious activity reported in the day-use area on Blacktail Drive. Monday, Nov. 12 Drug complaint received at 27100 Salmon River Highway. Assist outside agency with reported suspicious activity in the 23000 block of Yamhill River Road. Illegal dumping reported in the area of Grand Ronde and Tyee roads. Assist outside agency with an attempt to locate a vehicle traveling westbound on Highway 22 after a reported theft from Best Buy in Salem. Reported trespass …