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with Tribes at each stopover along the way as well as sharing languages, songs, dances and traditional foods. The canoe gatherings are acknowledged throughout the nation as one of the largest gatherings of indigenous people in the world. Host Tribes along the route plan for years to feed and house as many as 10,000 people on their beaches throughout the event’s duration. The Canoe Journey movement was established again as part of the Paddle to Seattle event that occurred in 1989. Beginning in 1993 …

Tribal Government & News Tribe creates in-house Security Department 04.29.2016 Brent Merrill Tribal Employees , Public Safety The Tribe now has its own Security Department and will no longer contract out security services on Tribal grounds. Beginning Saturday, April 23, Tribal Security took over from Advance Security, which had been contracting to provide security officers for the last several years. Before Advance, the Tribe contracted with Pro Star Security. The one constant in security …

,” said Leno. “It took us four or five years to raise the money; we wanted it to really mean something so we did a lot of fundraising to build this beautiful monument. I believe it’s one of the best around. This monument means a lot to me. All these people up here mean a lot to me. I want to thank each and every one of you. I want to thank your families and thank you for coming.” This year’s keynote speaker was Purple Heart recipient Sgt. Joel Dulashanti. Dulashanti, 28, was an Army sniper with the 82 …

to 1,800 pounds. “It’s a tough sport,” said Austin. “The riders are matched with the bulls based on their ability and the bulls are rated on a one- to 25-point system.” Austin said the bulls in the nationals will be rated in the 17- to 20-point range. “I’ve been doing really good this year,” said Allen, who clearly does not lack confidence in his ability to get on a bull and give it his best effort. “The fact that I’m going (to nationals) is pretty cool.” Allen said when he is in the shoot …

team is always keeping an eye on possible new competition and that they want to be proactive and not reactive. He said one of the ways they are doing that is to focus on guest loyalty programs that reward the most frequent players. Dillon said marketing efforts are paying off, especially with players from the Vancouver, Wash., area. He said those visits are up. Dillon said that he is happy to report that revenue is up in the first seven months of 2015 over the estimated budget and that revenues …

then turned the meeting over to Sherwood, who said that he and his staff will be gathering information to include in the study on the type of pool the Grand Ronde community might want to see established on the Reservation. Haller said he walked around the Tribal community and gathered as many as 200 signatures on a petition in support of establishing a community pool in Grand Ronde. “We take the health and well-being of our youth and our Elders as being our number one priority,” said Haller …

knowledge into restoration sites: one at the Tribe, another at Champoeg State Park and a third at Herbert Farm in Corvallis. “We are looking at introducing traditionally cultural significant plant species into these restoration efforts,” said Moore. “As part of this, Grand Ronde Elders have come out to Champoeg and Herbert Farm where they spoke about culturally significant plants and those they would like to see planted at these sites.” The institute also is collaborating with the Tribe to create …

.” Currently, the Clothes Closet is open two days a week – Monday and Friday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Walker-Hernandez has Fridays and Daniele Powley, a volunteer since last September, has Mondays. For a long time, the Clothes Closet was open only one day a week. “It’s a nice place to work,” says Walker-Hernandez. “It is not like you’re stressed. If you’re sick, you trade days." Volunteers keep up with what the community needs, and not just in clothes. Powley was “kind of shy,” she says, the first …

dollar asset and as stewards of our Tribal resources, Tribal Council made the protection of our timber lands our number one priority as the Willamina Creek Fire grew from a few acres to more than 200. Our staff did an outstanding job responding to the emergency and they need to be commended for going above and beyond the call of duty. Many of them worked well into night, through the weekends and were available around the clock while we worked to address the situation. Without their hard work …

opinion, to turn our backs on some families without even trying to help them would have only made a divisive issue more so. It would have created a lot of resentment among those split families as some would get to experience the joy of seeing their 16-year wait ended, while others would be left out in the cold, wondering why Tribal Council chose to leave them behind. Mrs. Jameson mentions the Restoration Roll correction as being an avenue for correcting one of the problems created by the 1999 …