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enforcement personnel and water protectors. Herron, who is preparing to make a return trip to Standing Rock in mid-December, said he felt he needed to go again when he saw news reports of what was happening. Herron has already made one trip to North Dakota to the area of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline project and is now planning a second trip to the contested site. Dallas, Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners owns the pipeline project that, if completed, would transport up to 570,000 barrels …

” on the Tribal homelands for students. The course, ARCHY 270 Field Methods in Indigenous Archaeology, is teaching students how to document and preserve Tribal cultural resources by working with Tribal staff and Tribal students. The course is focused on the history and development of the 19 th century reservation landscape and spotlights two historic period sites. Students are learning about a mid-1800s Indian agency camp and one of the Grand Ronde Tribal schools that was established in the early …

as they could and dug through archives and stuff,” he said. But looking back, Kowing believes his aunts and uncles must have known about their Tribal heritage. One of his uncles, Riley Porter, worked as a drug and alcohol counselor for the Tribe. Tribal Elder Bradley Kowing learned his grandmother, Cecil Rose Russell Porter, spent time at Chemawa Indian School while tracing family history for enrollment after the Tribe was restored in 1983. In 1908, she was taken from her home in Tiller, Ore …

. The award was for work done before joining the Community Fund when she worked with the Umatilla Indian Reservation. This quarter's Community Fund awards went predominantly to education projects. Public safety and health projects received the second and third highest funding in this round of grants. Twelve education projects received $162,000 while $104,000 went to five public safety projects and $90,000 went to eight health projects. Also, $20,000 went to one Arts and Culture project and the last …

, and altogether one goes through three or four more auditions before landing on the small screen with the largest audience in television. Undaunted, Schultz already is looking around for his next shot, maybe on another reality show. "I know there's options. I'm going to deal with rejection many more times in my life. This wasn't the first and it won't be the last. "You can't take it personally. I don't. It was as simple as it wasn't what they were looking for on that particular day. You can't think …

started tracking progress on the issues raised in previous consultations. Tribal representatives also called on the department to ease expensive and time-consuming bureaucratic requirements. The effort to move clinics to electronic health reporting is a case in point. Many Tribes face technical hurdles, like incompatible software, in collecting and maintaining this data. "All the administrative costs are killing our people," said one Tribal representative. Many said that Tribes ought to be exempted …

California," he said. They were integral parts of the life ways of all Tribes that were removed to the Grand Ronde Reservation. Dr. Jonathan King, Keeper of the Department of Africa, Indian Ocean and Americas at the British Museum, will be in Salem during the opening. He will speak about American Northwest coast collections in the British Museum, one of his specialties, at Willamette University's College of Law at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 6. King also will be visiting the Grand Ronde Tribe …

. Lewis also has played guitar with Tribal member and Native American Music Award winner Jan Michael Looking Wolf Reibach. "I've done a lot of work at the Tribe, playing music, during Restoration celebrations and at private shows at the Tribal gym," Lewis said. "He's played a lot with me," said Reibach. "Kenny won the Native American Music Award Record of the Year with me last year for 'Breakin' Free.' "He's performed with my band at Native American casinos. One of the highlight performances for Kenny …

2010, was elected to a new three-year term, unseating incumbent Wink Soderberg. Of the top eight vote-getters in the 2011 election, seven were either incumbent Tribal Council members or former Tribal Council members. In the last four Tribal Council elections, only one political newcomer without previous Tribal Council experience has managed to win election and that was Toby McClary in 2009. Leno, who captured his sixth straight three-year term in office, led the tally with 431 votes …

. Her possibilities have expanded since leaving the Cultural Resources Department last summer to attend graduate school at the University of Oregon. She is now one year completed and 1.5 years to go for her master's degree. She also was just hired as an archival assistant for the University of Oregon's Tribal Legacies of Oregon project, running from September 2011 to June 2012. Funded by the National Park Service, the project will require Wood to work with Tribal colleges and other educational …