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high school hijinks to service in Vietnam, to raising families and serving on Tribal Council. Bobb jokes that while the two attended St. Michael’s Grade School, Leno was the altar boy while he “was most definitely not.” “He’s right about that one,” Leno says, chuckling. Bobb describes the discipline at St. Michael’s as harsh, so he did his best to still have fun. However, his class clowning became so prolific that at one point nuns stopped by his grandparents’ home to express “concern for his soul …

,” Ham says. “And I was mad at myself for not wanting to believe that story growing up, like a part of me only put stock into it after I read it in a book. I think that must be part of the decolonization process.” He put his thoughts into song and performed it in 2020 to accompany a photography exhibit called “The Land Remembers” by Rich Bergeman. The exhibit was a series of black-and-white photographs depicting the Rogue River War battle sites. Ham wrote the song after representatives from …

that were found later to be incorrect, but still persist in society today. Lewis ended his 80-minute presentation by taking several questions from the online and in-person audience. For more information on Lewis’s anthropology research, visit ndnhistoryresearch.com. Share On Facebook Share On Twitter Share Article Link Subscribe Subscribe to our Newspaper for latest updates: Subscribe To Our Newspaper For Latest Updates: …

continue to do so,” he said. “There can be no doubt that the Willamette Falls area is one of our treaty-reserved, usual and accustomed areas where our members fish at sites, which have been passed down through generations for subsistence and ceremonial harvest purposes.” Greene said that with respect to harvesting of salmon below Bonneville Dam, Melcher wrote in a 2014 letter that there is no treaty fishing rights for the harvest of fish by the four Columbia River Treaty Tribes, of which Warm Springs …

Kathleen George to visit Tumwata Village to see the clean-up and restoration work the Grand Ronde Tribe has been performing since buying the former Blue Heron Paper Mill property in 2019. George is also chair of the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission. “This is particularly powerful work for us since this is the site of one of our traditional villages before our people were removed to Grand Ronde,” George said in her invitation to Sixkiller. The site was home to the Charcowah village …

Council Vice Chair Chris Mercier hiking near obsidian cliffs. “In those stories of place, they do a number of things,” Thompson said. “They ground us to our ikanum (traditional stories), they teach us how these places were created and what they were created for. Place tells us who we are and where we are from, and about a landscape that has always supported us.” The first day of the summit included several breakout sessions, such as a visit to the former Grand Ronde governance and cannery sites …

later on in life,” she said. McKenzie loved the idea of being able to travel, visit other cultures and learn about them. When Cultural Resources Department Manager David Harrelson and Historic Preservation Office Manager Briece Edwards learned there was a Tribal member at PSU studying archeology, they invited her to join a field school the Tribe was conducting in 2015, which involved studying a Grand Ronde Tribal school from the early 1900s. “It was really great, because it really solidified my …

Author Visit by Connie Fairfield Ganz Events Event Author Visit by Connie Fairfield Ganz May 4, 2023 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Location: Tribal gym, 9615 Grand Ronde Road Hosted by the Grand Ronde Tribal Library. Food and raffle prizes. Upcoming Events Tribal Council Tribal Council meeting (66) April 19, 2023 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Events Social Security Presentation & Luncheon April 20, 2023 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Events Grand Ronde Education Summit (2) August 25, 2023 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM View All Events …

Steph Littlebird presents her soon to be released book called "Coyote and Meadowlark Make Willamette Falls."

Tribal employee ever to achieve the three-decade mark in employment with the Tribe. Other employees who have reached or surpassed two decades of Tribal service included Housing Department Maintenance Coordinator Lonnie Leno, 28 years; Adult Education Coordinator Tracy Biery and General Manager’s Office Administrative Assistant Barbara Branson, 27 years; Member Services Benefits Administrator Liz Leno, 26 years; Dental Director Eric Webster, 23 years; Human Resources Specialist Cindy Mitchell and Fish …