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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 …

Culture Indigiqueer artists examine transcending modern barriers in ‘Transgressors’ exhibit 12.30.2024 Nicole Montesano Chachalu Tribal Museum & Cultural Center Kate Barton, left, and Sydney May look at “Fabanaki Flint Corn” by Geo Neptune (Passamaquoddy) during the opening reception for “Transgressors” at Chachalu Tribal Museum & Cultural Center on Friday, Dec. 13. The exhibit runs through April 26. (Photo by Michelle Alaimo) By Nicole Montesano Smoke Signals staff writer A medicine woman …

federal support by obtaining the $800,000 EPA grant in May 2021 and $2 million in federal funding included in the appropriations bill signed into law in March 2022, and started a third round of demolition work in March of this year. The Tribe also renamed the site Tumwata Village after the Native word for Willamette Falls. “For people who aren't familiar, that waterfall is the second largest waterfall in North America by width and volume, so it's really truly amazing that we've got something so …

Health & Education Pharmacy institutes mail-order prescription protocol 03.17.2020 Dean Rhodes Health & Wellness By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor The Grand Ronde Health & Wellness Center instituted a new prescription pick-up protocol in an effort to protect everyone’s health and safety and ensure the Tribal drug supply during the coronavirus pandemic. After Health Services Executive Director Kelly Rowe said the Pharmacy would no longer be opening its window for patients, the Pharmacy went …

. "We recently completed and installed a sign for Scio," said Brown, "and as a result of that event, we will be planning to co-sponsor a day of sharing and identification with the Scio Historical Society. "There are so many farmers who have items (rock, points, baskets, etc.) that the idea came together that an opportunity to identify these items was not only necessary, it would also help build our relationship and the ties that we share with the Scio community." The project has led to other things …

Grand Ronde to be involved. There were initially only three students signed up for the project because August seemed so far off. “The future just doesn’t exist to an eighth-grader,” Reeves said. She said she encouraged the students she knew that they would enjoy it and to get the permission slips signed by their parents in time. Now 13 middle and high school students are participating. Reeves said this will be an opportunity for students to see with their own eyes things that may seem abstract …

, and, at Chachalu Tribal Museum, viewed a map showing what the Willamette Valley would have looked like as a massive 400-foot-deep lake during the Missoula Floods. The Eola Hills, Red Hills in Dundee and West Hills in Portland were submerged, their tops becoming islands of refuge. “We have stories about the great floods,” which occurred some 13,000 to 18,000 years ago, Harrelson told the group, as well as about the last massive subduction zone earthquake that struck off the Oregon coast in 1700 …

Tribal Government & News Letters to the Editor -- June 15, 2015 06.12.2015 Dean Rhodes Letters Dear Smoke Signals : This is in regard to the $25,000 the Willamina High School wants to hang our flag. They have already reaped the financial rewards from our Tribe. We’ve already paid a big enough price with what’s happened in our past without this insult. This is a slap in our face (again); ours and our ancestors. It is an honor and a privilege to have our flag. They should be paying us. Patty …

to be a variety of challenging shots that include distance as well as elevation and tight lines,” Withers says. “Here, you have to weave the disc in and out of the trees. There is also elevation, which is a good thing because so many of the courses in the Willamette Valley are flat.” In addition to Spirit Mountain Disc Golf, a second, nine-basket course will be installed at the Tribal campus. The course will start at the old powwow grounds in front of the Governance Center and wind behind …

Tribal Government & News Tribal Council statement on live streaming 12.04.2013 Ron Karten Tribal Council Tribal Council decided to begin live streaming in order to provide timely access to the Tribal membership about Tribal Council business. Concerns about broadcasts going to an audience beyond the membership have prompted Tribal Council to halt live streaming at this time. The Council has a fiduciary obligation to protect Tribal assets. With our current technology, we cannot limit …