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are wards of different states, though the majority are wards of Oregon. One of the most important jobs for Tribal CASA volunteers, said Angela Fasana, Tribal Court administrator, is to make sure that Tribal wards are able to maintain a connection with Tribal culture. "The role for CASA here," Fasana said, "will be largely to connect kids with the Tribe's culture and history, and really enhance that connection." Most of the children who have been made wards of the Tribe and state are represented …

it became a state. "And that we are still here," noted Grand Ronde Tribal Chairwoman Cheryle A. Kennedy at the time. Former Cow Creek Chairwoman Sue Shaffer, one of the driving forces behind the event, said, "The Tribes have done exceptionally well in sharing the work for this event." The effort to help the general public better understand the culture and traditions of Oregon Tribes has been helped, she said, by the success of gaming as much as by the ongoing powwows. "Let's face it: more …

Health & Education Grand Ronde hosts two-day Indian education conference 04.16.2012 Dean Rhodes Education "Classroom management is a must," said Tribal member Shelby Olson Rogers, who is Indian Education Program assistant at the Salem-Keizer School District. "With good class management, you can get a lot more done." Rogers was leading a session on teaching families literacy strategies. Showing a group of about 15 people how to teach family literacy, Rogers was one of about a dozen Grand Ronde …

students from second through eighth grades, with one wheel under each of them, with basketballs and plastic hoops on the side to fiddle with, cycled back and forth across the court, up and over ramps, with small unicycles and five-foot "giraffes," miraculous not just that they got up on the unicycles and stayed up, but that nobody ran into anybody else, coming and going as they did. One fellow, seemingly stopped by traffic, jumped his unicycle up and down like a pogo stick while others circled …

years old," Edwards says. "And, to me, that is one of things about archaeology because it is just not the 'oh my' factor that this shell has survived, but we know what it was … we know that most likely this was being eaten because the drain came out of the kitchen. We know that peacocks are not indigenous to Italy, so this was something that had to be imported, so we're talking about status and economy. So from this one artifact, for me, I just loved how we could go different places …

, claimed Australia. "The aboriginals were throwing spears at him and he claimed it as empty land." The story everywhere was similar. As morally flawed as the doctrine is, it was "one of the first principles of international law," Miller said, Tribal Attorney Rob Greene told a story from his recent vacation. He had climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa and planted the Grand Ronde Tribal flag at the top. "Are you telling me," he asked Miller, "that that was not valid?" Greene described a federal …

Chevrolet pickup along the route with the ground crew. Her pickup doesn't just get her from one stop to another, it also serves as her bed during the trip. The Canoe Family camps the entire time and regardless of the offers to set up a tent and air mattress for her, Parmenter declines and sleeps on the bench seat of her truck at the campsite. Along with Parmenter, Tribal Elders Linda Brandon, Beryle Contreras, Julie Duncan, Laura Gleason, Kathryn Harrison, Floriene Hoff and Claudia Leno attended …

from career development to construction training. Since then, the 477 Program, Vocational Rehabilitation Program, and the Human Resources departments from both Spirit Mountain Casino and the Tribe have moved into the building and have set up shop to provide employment services to Tribal members, other Natives, veterans and job-seekers within our community. The new building is a “one-stop shop” for Tribal members and community members seeking employment, employment training services and career …

of western red cedar. One of the masks Stewart created was specifically for this exhibit and is based on a local legend and is titled “Winter is Coming.” “I wanted to bring out something that no one had really seen before,” said Stewart. Stewart said he has become part of a collective of artists over the years and that he felt that when the opportunity to display Tribal member art in Chehalem Cultural Center’s current art exhibit that he wanted to include other artists from beyond Grand Ronde. “We …

decided she wasn’t finished helping people. Poage received an honorable discharge from the Army in 2008, leaving at the rank of captain. “I was home retired for several months and driving my husband nuts,” Poage says with a laugh. “I’m used to having one or two jobs and going all the time, and all of a sudden I was just in the house.” Poage, 66, has bachelor’s degrees is nursing and business administration from Southern Oregon University in Ashland. She says it wasn’t long before she started …