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. In other action, Tribal Council: Approved a purchase and sale agreement for the Tribe to buy the 108-acre Takilth property at the confluence of Mill and Gooseneck creeks in Polk County. The land will be purchased as part of the Bonneville Power Administration’s Willamette Wildlife Mitigation Program and bring the total number of conservation property acres the Tribe has obtained since 2012 to 1,993. “This is a really great property for our conservation efforts,” Tribal Lands Manager Jan Michael …

drive. “The Air Force helped straighten me up, helped me become an adult and pay more attention to detail,” he says. “It just made me a better person overall. My battle with leukemia helped me appreciate life a million times more and also helped me to be more willing to try new things. I feel like I have been given extra time and should make the most of it. The experience really humbled me and I enjoy the little things in life more.” He added, “Buy a Zilla. You won’t regret it.” For more …

of Indian Education grant that will help the Tribe aid youths to successfully transition between grade levels. The Tribe’s Education Department plans to use the funds to provide an academic coach, buy supplies to enhance coaching sessions and hold family night activities; Adopted the Early Childhood Education’s triennial Child Care Plan, which identifies infant/toddler care as a priority, as well as Child Care Development Fund health and safety standards and a complementary amendment log. Early …

, “the family interactions, the smiles, the laughter, the smells,” bring back those childhood years of helping out. Two years ago, he said, “my cousin presented their food truck to us, and was like, ‘Hey, do you want to buy it?’” They thought it through, Quenelle said, and “it was something we didn’t have to think long and hard about. It was a direction we knew we wanted.” The Quenelles’ grown children, who range in age from 19 to 26, sometimes work in the truck as well, along with nieces and nephews …

Tribal Government & News Wood Village officials visit Tribe to discuss future of Greyhound Park site 02.29.2016 Brent Merrill Tribal Council The Grand Ronde Tribal Council hosted the Wood Village City Council in Grand Ronde for a meeting in Council Chambers on Friday, Feb. 19. Wood Village is home to the shuttered 31-acre Multnomah Greyhound Park that was purchased by the Tribe last year for $10 million as an economic development venture. Wood Village is one-square mile of land eight miles …

, describing it as a “sacred cultural, fishing and gathering place for people whose descendants became the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.” “We are talking about a place that has an ikanum, a point of origin,” he said. The site was home to the Charcowah village of the Clowewalla (Willamette band of Tumwaters) and the Kosh-huk-shix village of Clackamas people, who were both forcibly removed from Willamette Falls and relocated to the Grand Ronde Reservation in the 1850s. “Those initial values …

until treaties with the U.S. government in the 1850s ended their relationship to the land. The first of those treaties in 1853, which ceded vast expanses of land to the U.S. government, was signed near where the current memorandum of understanding was signed. "What a difference a few feet and 158 years can make," said BLM State Director Edward Shepard. He pointed out that "the amazing variety of plant communities" at the Table Rocks "are found no place else on earth." The 1853 treaty promised …

Miller Teen Club was the selection of Tribal Council member and Community Fund Board of Trustee Steve Bobb Sr. He remembered when Tina Miller sat on her porch, which is now the entrance to Willamina City Hall, with a "herd of cats. She took care of all the strays, so it's very fitting that the teen center is named after her. It's a place where kids know that they're cared about, where they know that they're loved." The $3,500 grant to Bringing Back the Bow will help fund a traditional bow camp …

." "We have song recordings from the 1800s," Mercier added, "but we don't sing them because they belong to others." One needs permission to sing songs written by others, he said. One could buy them, not for money, but by laying gifts at the feet of the families of those who wrote them. Acceptable gifts include traditional foods and crafts. Mercier also talked about smudging, burning sage, as a way of cleansing an atmosphere for "people who have a heavy heart." Some sage, also called mugwort, grows …

how the drone can be used.” Harrelson said he is happy to receive support from Mell, Drake and the GIS program. “The drone being used by GIS is a really good fit because GIS is one of our support programs here at the Tribe that supports numerous departments,” Harrelson said. “You have this shared investment in a drone that can be utilized for survey activity. When we buy these resources that are able to be utilized by multiple programs they have the ability to pay for themselves rather quickly …