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in their honor for their commitment and hard work while on the committee. “The years working there were good,” Dowd, 92, said. “With my age now, I wouldn’t like to take on any more responsibility. With the early times, I knew a lot of the ancestors and I felt really necessary. I enjoyed the time I have spent with the committee very much. I appreciate all the attention my friends gave me during the time of our party.” 1996 – Tribal member Bryan Mercier was studying abroad during his fall and spring …

after her earlier this year, of which Harrison said she was “humbled and very flattered.” “We are profoundly humbled to have our school named for Kathryn Jones Harrison and we are hoping to engage our students, staff and community in the change,” Principal Beth Martin said. “For us, there is such immense opportunity and learning that can take place. At the same time, we want to ensure we move through this change in a way that honors who she is as well as the collective culture she represents …

intensely challenging circumstances are two very different scenarios. On Monday, May 20, at 5:15 a.m., Grand Ronde Tribal Police Officer James “JJ” Flynn was monitoring police radio traffic and heard an emergency call for Yamhill County deputies to respond to a probable hostage situation in Sheridan. He offered to join the three officers who had already been dispatched. When Flynn arrived at the scene, the deputies were engaged in an armed standoff with a subject who was allegedly using …

loan, Douglass decided to try an investment campaign using web-based Honeycomb Credit instead, with the goal of raising at least $25,000. By the time the campaign ended on July 14, he had raised $37,537. Douglass, who founded the business in 2020, plans to use the money to purchase more items that tend to sell faster. “For example, because it’s summer time, people are buying slides, jerseys and T-shirts more than any other time of the year,” he said. “The added capital from the Honeycomb …

a knock on the door and more than enough food was delivered in a box. By the time they left, they had so much that they divided the remaining food among the people of the village. Nora believed in concrete examples of learning. When she was very young, they had a horse that exhibited stubborn tendencies and refused to allow them to saddle him. He would lie down, so they pulled him into the house and made him look at himself in the mirror to see how stubborn he was. The example of a life well lived …

missed the flight,” she says. “He told me, ‘Don’t worry, Creator will take care of you.’ Within an hour, I was able to get on a different flight.” When Linda arrived in Oklahoma, she was both nervous and excited. Cecil was waiting with sons Red and Eagle, excited to meet his love in person for the first time. The feeling was mutual. “My stomach would not calm down and I had butterflies,” Linda says. “I knew already that he was the one, but I was very shy about meeting in person. I certainly never …

Celebration held at Spirit Mountain Casino in November. “Cheryle (Kennedy) and I talked about it on several occasions,” Bobb said. “At the time I kind of filed it away as a ‘future project,’ but now that they have all walked on I thought, ‘Why don’t we do a sculpture of them?’ I thought it would be nice to have their kids stand in for their parents.” Provost and Kimsey walked on in 2018 and Holmes walked on in 2004. The life-sized bronze statue of the three Restoration leaders will take …

was one of the good friends to the Tribe and worked very hard on our behalf in the beginning,” Bobb said. “We want to recognize and send prayers to her family for that loss.” Tribal Council Chairwoman Cheryle A. Kennedy said Furse will be greatly missed. "Elizabeth Furse was a friend and ally of the Grand Ronde Tribe and Indian Country," Kennedy said. "Her work on Tribal Restoration efforts and the Grand Ronde Reservation Act leaves a legacy that will endure the test of time." A moment of silence …

discoveries. He said that Willamette Falls had been a sacred cultural, fishing and gathering place for the Grand Ronde people since time immemorial, and that the Tribe still honors its obligation as keepers of the falls. “It is a very unique place within the Grand Ronde’s homelands,” he said. “It is very important to the Tribe and has been so for a long time. For the Grand Ronde, their engagement with this place began with its establishment ... to take the responsibility of stewardship and carry …

age and would get out and open the gates and put the chains up, setting chokers by the time he was a sophomore in high school. Larsen graduated from Willamina High School in 1960 and became a logger and log truck driver, like most young men in Grand Ronde during that time. During a 2017 interview with Smoke Signals, Larsen said he had always taken great pride in his Native heritage, which is something he learned from his father, who was Chinook. Larsen also learned the value of hard work …