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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 …

way. But pain, Linton said, can be learned from and overcome. If it outlines his story, it is, nonetheless, only one part of it. There are other parts as well: Family. Love. Friendship. Pride in his accomplishments. The desire to help others fight their way out of addiction. Linton, 33, has a seven-fight winning streak, and a pro mixed martial arts record of eight fights won, three lost and one draw. He fights in the featherweight class, most recently on Sept. 7 at Chinook Winds Casino …

of our people. It is something we will do every year.” The Grand Ronde singers and dancers opened the festivities, followed by Grand Ronde and Veterans Royalty members. The Grand Ronde Honor Guard posted the colors, and then royalty members performed “The Lord’s Prayer.” Tribal Council Vice Chair Chris Mercier welcomed the hundreds of attendees. “I was only 8 years old when the Tribe got restored,” Mercier said. “And the way I found out was my mom showing my brother and me one of those old Time …

with more planned for 2025. “Within our department, we provide not only housing but various programs, one of those being the down payment assistance grant,” he said. “We updated it last year to $20,000 with the caveat that if you used if previously, then you are eligible for the remainder of what you haven’t utilized.” Approximately 50 of those grants are awarded per year and some are income based. The home improvement matching grant program continues to be a popular program, Leno said …

, the event included a uterus-shaped piñata, lunch and a table where participants could write down what they’d like to see at future events. There was also a fuzzy toy stuffed uterus offering hugs. But there was an important point underlying the playfulness: Women need not suffer symptoms in silence and they don’t have to regard themselves as in decline – indeed, in many traditional cultures, older women are seen as powerful and important members of society. One display showed a map with write …

the day of removal as beginning in the usual way. Unaware of the advancing military, on that particular morning she packed a horse with food for her relatives. Riding one horse and leading the other, she rode into Oregon City just as the military arrived to take the people away. Stopped by the soldiers, she was forced to leave her horses where they stood and join the people being taken by riverboat." "The book is written in Native voice and from a Native perspective," Olson said. "Scenes …