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EUGENE -- Health Services Executive Director Kelly Rowe briefed Tribal members on the dangers of fentanyl and efforts the Tribe is undertaking to combat the deadly drug during a Sunday, April 2, General Council hybrid meeting held via the Zoom video conferencing application and in the Lane Community College Longhouse. “The fentanyl crisis that is going on is truly in every community, it isn’t just in Grand Ronde,” Rowe said. “It is only one of the opioids out there that is impacting families …

Station upgrade, child development center, Tumwata Village, resident recreation center and electric vehicle charging stations. “I think everyone would agree it’s been a busy year with a lot of construction work happening and some great buildings being constructed to house different services of the Tribe,” Webb said. Projects Creekside Elder Housing: The 24-unit project located at Hebo and Grand Ronde roads includes 12 two-bedroom, one-bath duplexes. Each unit is 1,120 square feet, with 18 market …

discussed. The listening session was led by the NABS Digital Archives team in collaboration with the Grand Ronde Tribal Library. (Photo by Michelle Alaimo) By Nicole Montesano Smoke Signals staff writer The work is mundane and grueling; hours of combing through an endless succession of boxes of old records and digitally scanning each one, handling the fragile, aging paper with care to keep it from disintegrating. But those documents, buried for decades in government archives, are vital …

trust him. And he can because I wouldn't do anything in the world to hurt him. "I feel like I'm very fortunate that I'm the one he chose. "Sometimes I'm feeling sad about things, and he can get me to laughing." Like the one about the frog legs. "He's really good to be around." It wasn't always that way for Dottie. "My dad was very strict," she says. Former Tribal Elder Alexander Gus LaBonte - an Army veteran and lifelong logger; a longtime tree topper, who moved his family time and again to stay …

said. “Whether it’s banking or investments or consulting, to go out every three to five years to make sure that you are re-examining your relationship with your business partners and you make sure your (deal) is still competitive in the market. That’s what we’re doing.” One of the most visible reasons, and one of the reasons why Meyer asked Tribal Council about Wells Fargo, is the bank’s support through investment funding of Energy Transfer Partners’ controversial Dakota Access Pipeline project …

who had been through good and bad experiences with their own funds and were willing to share what they had experienced. One father of a young Tribal member shared their discussion about his son receiving quarterly per capita payments and how he taught his son the reality of what it is like to pay bills with your money instead of having it put away for the future. He told his son that if he took the money out then he would have to make his own car payments, insurance payments, cell phone payments …

-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 …

Tribal Government & News Letters to the Editor -- Nov. 1, 2016 10.31.2016 Dean Rhodes Letters Dear Smoke Signals : This is one of the most difficult letters I have ever tried to write and I almost feel I must apologize for doing so. So forgive me, I am far from perfect and unwell. I am writing to ask for only a little help, nothing more than we do in our daily lives to lend each other a hand; help each other when needed. Where I am there is none I can call to except Creator, and while I know I …

a career helping people. She said now that she’s the program director, it will be the best of both worlds. Kaschmitter holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Eastern Washington University and is a licensed master’s level clinician in Washington and Oregon. She said she can run the program and have the oversight she needs to be effective, but also maintain the one-on-one moments she gets with patients. “I love it and I have a passion for it,” said Kaschmitter. “This is the best …

,' that will premiere May 2 at Portland Artist Repertory Theatre. (Photo by Timothy J. Gonzalez/Smoke Signals) ‘Looking for Tiger Lily’ “Looking for Tiger Lily,” which will premiere on May 2, is Artists Repertory’s second commissioned work by an Indigenous playwright. The play began as a solo show in 2016 that Hudson performed at Hollywood Theater with support from the Regional Arts & Culture Council. At one of those performances he caught the attention of Artists Repertory’s Luan Schooler, director of new …