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session directly on their device. The app allows Tribal members to select what topics they are interested in and allows them to enable push notifications to make sure they’re receiving timely updates about important events, news, announcements, and reminders.” Mercier added that staff is working with developer Sembit to expand the app’s capabilities and is looking forward to launching future phases. For more information on the app, visit www.grandronde.org/alta/ . In other action, Tribal Council …

Culture Rose Festival Court makes annual visit to Grand Ronde 06.14.2016 Brent Merrill Culture , Events , Spirit Mountain Casino The 15 high school students who make up the 2016 Rose Festival Court came to Grand Ronde again on Tuesday, May 31, for their now annual visit to the Tribe. The Rose Festival Court and chaperones toured Chachalu Museum & Cultural Center and then visited the Tribal plankhouse – achaf-hammi. Spirit Mountain Casino Sponsorship Administrator Jocelyn Huffman worked …

Culture Rose Festival Court makes annual visit to Tribe 05.29.2015 Brent Merrill Culture , People , Spirit Mountain Casino This year’s Portland Rose Festival Court toured Grand Ronde on Wednesday, May 13, and ate lunch with Tribal Elders and visited the Tribal plankhouse and Chachalu Museum & Cultural Center during their visit. The 15 members of the Rose Festival Court and five chaperones traveled from their Portland-area high schools to the Reservation. The tour was arranged through Spirit …

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response," Leno said. The software program is called nLine, from Australia-based Aristocrat Technologies, and has an international casino following, according to the company. Programs are tailored to individual gaming operations, like Spirit Mountain, to allow marketing on a local or larger scale. Aristocrat also supplies many of Spirit Mountain's onsite machines. In the last month, some 4,000 have registered to play the iGaming offerings at Spirit Mountain. On average, some 6,500 customers visit …

University, where he received his bachelor’s degree, Hostler worked with other Native American students to raise the issue of the university’s role in its Native American Studies program and faculty selection. Hostler also studied and advised about agency politics and procedures affecting 170 Tribes on the West Coast while an intern for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. 1999 – The Forest Service invited the Tribal Cultural Resources Department and several Grand Ronde Elders to visit parts …

Tribal Government & News Tribal response to coronavirus leaving spring, summer events in limbo 04.14.2020 Dean Rhodes Events The Tribe's annual pilgrimage to visit Tomanowos at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City has been postponed during to the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on the Big Apple. (Photo by Timothy J. Gonzalez/Smoke Signals) By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor As the Grand Ronde Tribe’s response to the coronavirus pandemic continues, spring and summer …

after Marys Peak Alliance member Dave Eckert contacted the Grand Ronde Tribe’s Cultural Resources Department and asked if the Tribe would be interested in renaming the creeks. The process took approximately two years and involved input from several different groups. “We had the opportunity this summer to visit all of the creeks, walk through them and see what they were like,” Archuleta said. “Since time immemorial, it has been culturally significant to the Grand Ronde and Siletz peoples. It’s …

Cheryle A. Kennedy said. “But it’s not a good situation because there has been so much cutting on the meteorite. To me, it’s like carving up a body.” 2001 – Several representatives from New York’s American Museum of Natural History visited Grand Ronde. Tribal Council met with the representatives to confirm details for the Tribe’s first visit with the meteorite Tomanowos. They agreed the museum would be closed for all other visitors during the visit and blessings from Tribal members. Tribal Education …

– The Bureau of Indian Affairs will hold a virtual public meeting regarding an environmental assessment prepared in response to the Siletz Tribe’s proposal to build a casino in north Salem at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26. The meeting will be held via Zoom and participants will be limited to comments of three minutes or less. To register to attend, visit https://siletzsalemcasinonepa.com on the Internet. In response, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, which opposes the Siletz proposal, has …