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Tribal Government & News Tribal member Cohen Haller scores prestigious all-league and tournament honors 04.30.2024 Danielle Harrison Tribal member Tribal member and Willamina High School senior Cohen Haller has received numerous awards for basketball during his high school career. Some of these include selection as an all-league and all-state player every year since he was a freshmen, most valuable player at Willamina for the past 3 years and being named the News-Register Athlete of the Year …

telling me, ‘You’re going to be the drag clown in residence, you’re going to come as Carla and you’re going to host our opening dinner because we’re going to host a big dance party with Honey Dijon.’ I just couldn’t believe it.” Honey Dijon is an American DJ, producer and electronic musician who has most recently toured with Madonna and performed internationally at clubs, festivals, art fairs, galleries and fashion events. Hudson spent the week of April 14-21 immersing himself in all things Italian …

of things: Therapy, clowns, taxes, bills. This show is all of these things,” Hudson said. Like most of Hudson’s work as a performer, there’s both silliness and purpose. “Carla is how I honor who I am as a Two-Spirit person, but also how I have the most fun,” he said. “I hope to create a space where we forget the world for a while, while also pointing out its failings … a safer place to play and have fun. I think students coming into this have some expectations about what happens when a Native scholar …

the Tribe filed with the Corps in February 2023. “Killing salmon to lose money deserves a deeper analysis,” it stated. The article noted the drawdowns “cost next to nothing, would keep the Willamette Valley dams available for their original purpose of flood control and has succeeded on a river system before. This approach is supported by Native American Tribes and other critics.” It continued, “The Corps ruled it out as a long-term solution for most of its 13 Willamette River dams, saying further …

Casino Event Center: Women with red handprints across their faces interspersed with grim statistics. Globally, the screens noted, women and girls comprise 71% of enslaved peoples; men and boys 29%. An estimated 50,000 people are trafficked into the United States every year; most of them from Mexico and the Philippines. Ampkwa Advocacy, a newly created nonprofit founded by Tribal member Amanda Freeman, held a dinner on Friday, Jan. 31, to introduce itself to the Tribe and help bring attention …

steelhead. The webinar is available to view at www.youtube.com/watch?v=udmqqT2b0PQ . Removing hydropower production is not only necessary for chinook and steelhead, George said, “but it will save Oregonians money on their power bill at the same time. Because this very small percentage of power that’s produced at these dams is the most expensive hydropower in the system.” A fact sheet from the Bonneville Power Administration states that power from the dams costs $30.83 per megawatt hour, compared …

finding pieces to study. “Most of the stuff, when we were taken from our villages and brought here to the reservation, most of our villages were destroyed; they were burnt,” Mercier said. “So, most of that wood carving stuff is gone. A lot of times when we were being rounded up before being brought to the reservation, it was grab whatever you can pack and carry with you. A lot of times it wasn’t a lot of things. A lot of things were left behind.” In some villages, he said, Tribes buried the items …

Lampert, who spent much of the last year putting the program together and designing the presentation for the vending machine, said they hope to use data collected about which items are being used most heavily, and by what age groups, to refine the offerings and determine whether additional education is needed about specific services. The service has been a year in the making. Initially, Lampert said, in late 2024, Tribal Health Services Executive Director Kelly Rowe brought in a flyer she had picked …

of Public Safety Standards Academy and he jumped right into the thick of things, getting the department up and running. “When the opportunity came to apply to the National Academy, I had to figure everything out on my own,” he said. “Most of the larger departments have someone who has gone before and can help with the process. But I am used to tackling new things so I figured it out, with the help of my lieutenant and sergeant.” According to FBI.gov, leaders and managers of state, local, county …

to be used for police body cameras in 106 state, city, Tribal and municipal law enforcement agencies in 2016. “We used these grants to build the police department because their goal was 24/7 coverage,” said Rogers. “We have just enough officers now to do that.” Rogers said most of the funding the department has received has hired officers, but that there are provisions for the purchase of necessary equipment for use in law enforcement activities. He said that awards received are open for three years …