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Culture The Final Four: Bridge may receive Chinuk Wawa name 01.30.2014 Dean Rhodes Culture , History PORTLAND -- Construction of the country's longest car-free bridge is going up over the Willamette River and the bridge might be christened with a Chinuk Wawa name. On Wednesday, Jan. 15, Tri-Met and the Oregon Historical Society announced four potential names for the bridge, narrowing possibilities down from about 9,500 submissions. Unusual for the process was public input, a first …

near Pendleton, is arena director. Parking at the pavilion is $3, but admission to the event is free. The powwow is scheduled to conclude at 9 p.m. Share On Facebook Share On Twitter Share Article Link Subscribe Subscribe to our Newspaper for latest updates: Subscribe To Our Newspaper For Latest Updates: …

503-378-2144, ext. 423 Dear Smoke Signals: I do not understand why we at Grand Ronde do not claim the ancestral lands of all the Chinook villages along the Columbia River from the mouth of the great river to Cascade Locks. The area includes the cities of Portland and Vancouver, where the Multnomah Tribes lived as well as other Tribes. Before the territory became a state, Natives lived free from any boundaries. The Columbia River, flowing from Columbia Lake in Canada, was a water road with villages …

this special area, virtually inaccessible, minimally protected and privately held back into the hands of the public to be protected and to provide many public uses not now available. Virtually all of the stakeholders, including the private owner, are fully behind the effort. For Linn County and the city of Sweet Home, a community with 22 percent unemployment where 67 percent of students receive free or reduced cost lunches, the benefits are economic first, but also include the chance for the city …

; The Wallace Medical Concern of Portland for its Rosewood Plaza: Dental, Medical and Housing Resources for Rockwood Families project, $75,000; Volunteers of America Inc. of Portland for its Home Frees Healthy Teens services, $50,000; Children’s Cancer Association of Portland for its Chemo Pal Mentor program, $25,000 (previously awarded at an Oregon State University basketball game); And the Dental Foundation of Oregon in Wilsonville for its Tooth Taxi free mobile dental clinic, $25,000 …

in the Event Center. The day focused on games, including bingo and "Let's Make A Deal," and the drawing for gifts and prizes. Tom's smooth segues from one activity to another played like "The Late Show," with the monologues as much fun as the activities. Rex Haller and granddaughters Breanna Bilbrey and Cheyenne Haller entertained with guitar and song. Brad Leno, Cultural Interpretive specialist at the Land and Culture Department, set up a camera outside of the Event Center and offered Elders free …

, filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and other academic needs for Tribal students. Tribal History Curriculum: After creating a fourth- and eighth-grade Tribal history curriculum, the Tribe’s high school curriculum aimed at sophomores will be completed this year and will be available for distribution to school districts in 2019. “We are also working with public school teachers to ensure that all of the curriculum meet all of the benchmarks and all state standards,” Riggs said …

, and that really appealed to me,” he said. “I’m a social worker, so I like working with people and I like seeing that passion in people.” Even if these types of passion-fueled uprisings ebb, it’s still important to look at these events as a learning tool for future issues, Hawks said. “Similar things happen when people gather like this,” he said. “The same sort of political problems come up. And we need to overcome that if we’re actually going to get free.” Share On Facebook Share On Twitter Share …

to have the same discussion on the subject year after year. “I’m disappointed every time we have to rehash the same arguments,” Riggs said. “I think anybody graduating from any school should be able to decorate their mortar boards or their cap and gown, and we have a first amendment right to free speech.” Riggs said when he graduated from the University of Oregon with honors in Eugene that he loved looking out over the crowd and seeing the diversity of the graduates. “There were ethnicities from all …

an oath to defend America from all threats, both foreign and domestic. “These people took their orders to defend our peace and democracy, that most often is taken for granted,” Bobb said. “But Arlington National Cemetery and the tens of thousands of white crosses that cover the landscape are a testimony to lives cut short so we could live free. These were young people who never got to have full lives.” He described Marine Corps boot camp as “everything I had heard about and more.” “Seven of us …