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Culture Walking On: Nichelle Frances Perman, Shirley Fletcher Walkhoff 07.12.2024 Walking On Shirley Fletcher Walkhoff Nichelle Frances Perman March 19, 1972 – June 13, 2024 Tribal member Nichelle Frances Perman passed away on June 13, 2024. Oregon Cremation Company is assisting the family. Funeral service information was unavailable before press time. Shirley Fletcher Walkhoff Aug. 1, 1955 – Jan. 24, 2024 Tribal Elder Shirley Fletcher Walkhoff, 68, passed away on January 24, 2024, in Las …

” Rojas says. “We carry our drum with us, we keep it warm.” As a Tribal member and reporter for Smoke Signals, I have often seen powwow drums at Grand Ronde events wrapped in a blanket when not being used. I have also seen drummers set their hand drums on a chair in the sun while singing at the achaf-hammi plankhouse. I remember them informing me the drum needed to warm up. At the time I assumed this to mean the hide would sound better when it was warmed, now I understand it was a sign of respect …

. “We had a heck of a time finding a replacement and as soon as this agreement is approved, we want to start as soon as we can,” Mercier said. “I’ve gotten calls from people desperately wanting this route reestablished. …Cherriots (Salem’s mass transit program) was going to do it, but they backed out. Reestablishing this route is desperately needed in the community.” In other action, Tribal Council: Approved an application to the Seeding Justice Columbia River Restoration Fund grant for $200,000 …

for the documentary explains the Tribes’ traditional practices became illegal under state law. “Sixty years ago, my father was still getting his head bashed in on the riverbanks,” a man said pointing across the water. “He was getting his head bashed in in Olympia.” The trailer for the documentary shares recent interviews with Tribal people who protested for fishing rights during the 1960s, paired with footage of Native people getting arrested and attacked for fishing along the river during that time …

Resources Youth Crew was named the Frank Roberts Oregon Youth Conservation Corps Project of the Year, for the fourth time in seven years. 2005 – The Tribe provided a $10,000 donation to the American Red Cross Willamette Chapter’s International Relief Fund, to aid victims of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, which occurred on Dec. 26, 2004. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. More than 220,000 people died in 14 countries. 2000 – As the Tribal campus continued …

family, as her father and stepmother, Irene Cunningham, picked crops such as hops and berries, particularly around Independence, like many Grand Ronde families at the time. “That was a part of my life I liked, working out in the field,” she said. She recalled that, “You’d get out there about 6 a.m., be there working and at 10 a.m. they’d send the ice cream truck around to the people, so we all looked forward to that as kids,” she said. Her favorite flavor was strawberry, she said, before amending …

25, Legislative Action Committee meeting. “She took this, ran with it and got it done. It was a lot of work and a lot of meetings and I just wanted to thank her because this has been a project that we’ve talked about for a long time and just never could get through (before).” In other action, Tribal Council: Approved accepting a $25,000 grant from the Oregon Department of Agriculture for the Tribe’s Native Plant Nursery; Approved a memorandum of understanding between the Grand Ronde Tribe …

Constitution to remove the federal agency from the constitutional amendment process. Tribal Council Vice Chair Chris Mercier and Tribal Council member Denise Harvey cast the opposing votes. Mercier said in response to an audience question, “I feel like the timing isn’t good. We’ve got a lot going on.” The last time the question of removing the federal government from the amendment process was put before Tribal voters was March 2015. The proposal was defeated by a vote of 381 to 230. During a Tuesday …

of Grand Ronde gifted two basalt carvings and a large bronze medallion to TriMet for its new bridge across the Willamette River. Along with the bridge’s Chinuk Wawa name, Tilikum Crossing, meaning “Bridge of the People,” the gifts were meant to remind Portland and its residents that Native Americans have lived and continue to live along the shores of the river since time immemorial. 2010 — The Tribe’s new $1 million fire station was scheduled to open May 5. It was to be operated and managed …

retired from the Natural Resources Department, after serving the Tribe for nearly half his life, to spend more time with his family. 2010 — The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians held its mid-year conference at Spirit Mountain Casino, giving Tribal members a first-hand look at the process of determining which ideas would be pitched to Congress to potentially become law. Successful ideas would move forward to the National Congress of American Indians a few weeks later. 2005 — Native American …