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Culture Yesteryears - Oct. 1, 2023 09.28.2023 Danielle Harrison Yesteryears 2018 2018 – The seventh annual Coffee & Conversation was held in southern Oregon to commemorate the 1853 treaty signing at Table Rocks and the September 2011 signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Bureau of Land Management and The Nature Conservancy to manage the Table Rocks area north of Medford. “I hope our joint efforts are helping turn the dial to a better place,” Tribal Council Chairwoman Cheryle …

it to add a turn lane to U.S. Highway 26, even while admitting it could have added the turn lane without harming the site,” the release stated. Logan said that Native American sacred places deserve respect. “Our sacred places may not look like the buildings where most Americans worship, but they deserve the same protection, dignity, and respect,” Logan said. “It is heartbreaking that even today the federal government continues to threaten and destroy Native American sacred sites, but I’m …

of body parts with the aim of eventually repatriating as much as it can and respectfully holding what it can’t. The museum holds about 12,000 sets of remains, including the bones of Indigenous people that were amassed in the 19 th and 20th centuries by researchers looking to prove theories about racial superiority and inferiority through physical attributes. Museum President Sean Decatur said the remains were acquired without clear consent of the dead or their descendants. “I think it’s fair …

in the public and it really shows that people truly care about our missing Indigenous people,” he said. “I want to take a little time and talk about her situation that we know of now. At this time, we have no reason to believe she is in danger but we just really want to talk to her. We’ve been looking for her just to have any sort of contact…We don’t care if she has warrants or any outstanding issues, we just want to know she’s safe and possibly get her services through the Tribe if she needs …

had already gone through the process and had been approved… I hope that the Warm Springs Tribe would have bigger priorities than continually attacking the Grand Ronde Tribe and trying to pull us back from the important gains we have made in restoring and expanding our Tribal rights on our ancestral homelands.” As per the Administrative Procedures Act, the ODFW Commission has 90 days from when it received the petition to either accept or deny it, according to Dennehy. If they accept the petition …

Special Event Board Secretary Molly Leno is organizing the event, as she has done for the past few years. “I feel like the Veterans Powwow is more family-oriented and it’s very near and dear to my heart,” Leno said. “Everyone is there to have fun and a lot of people are first-time dancers. Organizing this is a huge honor and we have a great board that works well together.” This year’s host drum will be Bad Soul, a group that has been featured at several Pacific Northwest powwows. The master …

of the non-Native farming communities. In 2002, when water was limited again, the farmers received water against the warning of downriver Tribes. This is known as the 2002 fish kill. “I knew in my heart that the temperatures were going to be high and with extremely low flows that were going to have a fish kill,” Former Yurok Tribe Chair Susan Masten said tearfully. “It was very horrific because there were thousands of fish that were coming down river.” Video footage shows the bodies of thousands of adult …

Nelson’s checkermallow plants growing on the site where it intended to build its new Spirit Mountain Casino and transplanted 299 of them to a different location on Tribal property. 1990 – Willamina High School freshman and Tribal Youth Shonn Leno qualified for the Oregon National Team that was headed to Idaho to wrestle in the biggest free style tournament in the world. 1985 – The Interim Tribal Council presented its final report to Tribal members, noting that, “We have completed Phase I and have …

salmon. So that is viewed by our team, and I think by salmon advocates everywhere, as a real failure, and folks will be doing what they can to raise awareness about that.” George said the Tribe and other advocates believe that working with partners in Oregon is the “best hope of making improvements,” and getting the Corps to, “move more quickly to help our salmon while we still have a few left.” George said the Tribe’s Salmon Strength Team has an upcoming meeting with the Corps and that Tribal …

,” she said. “People can bead, make paddles, do gardening and other projects.” On a recent Tuesday morning, Tribal Community Transition Housing Program Peer Support Specialist Sissy Foster-Runningbird worked on a paddle while Krehbiel assisted. “This is a great resource to have in the community, where you can work on whatever you want,” he said. Added Henry, “It’s very organic. I’ve had people who say they can’t weave and they turn out to be great at it. This is good medicine for our people …