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Tribal Government & News Letters to the Editor -- March 1, 2015 02.26.2015 Dean Rhodes Letters Dear Smoke Signals : At the powwow at the State Fairgrounds in Salem on Saturday, Jan. 24, (in the evening) an item of jewelry was lost. One of our teenagers found it and sought out the owner. The owner had not realized it was lost … it fell off. It all happened very quickly and names were not exchanged. The owner is very thankful and would love to let this teenage woman know how much she appreciated …

by one basket. The Real GR team consisted of Logan, who will be a senior point guard at Chemawa Indian High School in Salem, Anthony Simmons, Nick Larsen and Elijah Flowers. Simmons, who will be a sophomore at Willamina High School, played on the high school division championship team last year with Logan. Flowers, who will be a senior at Willamina, was asked by Logan and Simmons to play with them on this year’s team. “I felt like we had some big shoes to fill from last year,” said Logan. “I mean …

Tribal Government & News Legislative Day helps build Tribal-state relationships 02.27.2014 Dean Rhodes Tribal Council , State government Two Grand Ronde culture photographs sat on easels in the state Capitol Galleria on Thursday, Feb. 13. The easels sat in front of two photos and one painted representation of Oregon's three state Capitols dating back to 1854. The scene set the stage for Tribal Governments Legislative Day, an annual forum during which Oregon Tribal representatives can interact …

Bell Diner both years, and will again next year. He likes the work, he says. "It's cool doing this," he said. "I really like it." "Within a few days they get comfortable with their job and their co-workers and become a valued part of our team," said Opal Hale, manager of Grand Ronde Station. "Our goal is to train our summer youth to complete job-related tasks, but more importantly to teach them exemplary guest service. "An example that happened this summer was I had suggested to one of our summer …

recalled. “We had robberies, we had a fire and we had accidents. Anytime you do these responses, I think you think that you are prepared, but, realistically, you aren’t prepared until it really happens. When it really happens, you have to learn from it. “I think a lot of people have done a great job through our fire deal. You guys got out there, handled that forest fire. … That is not just timber to us; it was part of our Restoration. One of the most sovereign things we’ve got.” Leno said that he …

, high-sugar foods, known contributors to a variety of health conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Rather than wait years for a grocery store to be built, many communities have taken matters into their own hands, creating small farms, learning food preservation and teaching people how to garden, a movement known as “food resiliency.” On Wednesday, Sept. 5, the Grand Ronde Food Bank– iskam mfkHmfk haws– joined in as one of several live-stream sites for the “Communities, Food, Resilience …

worn by the Grand Ronde Honor Guard. He also created a new Eagle staff when the one made by the late Marcellus Norwest was retired from use in 2017. He moved to Grand Ronde in 1997 from Lebanon, Ore. Now, the 57-year-old father of four is off on a new adventure: cultural instructor on the island of Kauai. Moving there will help fulfill a promise Peters made to his late wife, Rose, who passed away in 2017. “We really loved Hawaii and were supposed to go last year, so I promised that I still would …

lived in the area struggled to make ends meet in a rural economy with scant opportunity. Many Tribal members moved away after Termination in 1954 to survive, leaving their roots so they could feed their families. The seeds of Restoration were just beginning as George became a young adult, but he always knew his Tribal family was important. “To see how far we have come in that time is incredible,” he says. “Growing up here, we had nothing, but we still had family. No one locked their doors …

for the depressed town of Cascade Locks. Grand Ronde Tribal representatives also expressed concerns about encroachment by another Tribe into Grand Ronde ancestral and historic homelands and abrogation of a long-standing state policy of one casino per Tribe on Reservation land. In the end, the Warm Springs Tribe never built a casino in Cascade Locks and the Grand Ronde Tribe weathered criticism for not supporting another Tribe’s economic development efforts. Even some Grand Ronde Tribal members debated …

Tribal Government & News Tribal Council approves loan agreement with British Museum 05.02.2018 Dean Rhodes Tribal Council , Culture One of the final pieces of the puzzle to bring items from the Summers Collection home to Grand Ronde was put in place by Tribal Council during its Wednesday, May 2, meeting. Tribal Council signed off on a loan agreement with the British Museum that will bring 16 items from the Summers Collection to the Tribal museum Chachalu for an exhibit called “Rise …