Search

additional support and with Barbara’s skill set of administration and having worked in the Tribe’s previous Small Business Development Department, it was a good fit,” Langley said. “It has also made the move easier on me having the support from Chelsea and Shannon.” Reibach can be reached at 503-879-2394 or Jan.Reibach@grandronde.org . Share On Facebook Share On Twitter Share Article Link Subscribe Subscribe to our Newspaper for latest updates: Subscribe To Our Newspaper For Latest Updates: …

Clackamas treaty signers. “I know our ancestors are here watching,” Kennedy said. “Their hearts are full as they encourage us to move forward. It was our grandpas that stood here and who did this work, and they would have been welcoming you. Now it’s passed on to me to welcome you in the same spirit.” In addition to Kennedy, Tribal Council Vice Chair Chris Mercier, Secretary Jon A. George and council members Matthew Haller, Lisa Leno and Pete Wakeland also attended. George gave the invocation …

beat you," Christian said. "We did a lot of beading and leatherwork, too. She helped me make my first regalia when I was 12." Christian's mother, Tribal member Paula Wilkinson, 41, recalled for the gathering that her mother had traveled to the World's Fair in Canada, to Mexico and that she had lived in North Carolina. "She's done so many wonderful things for the people she's touched," Wilkinson said. "I love you, Mom, with all my heart." As others wished Child well, a changing cast of her children …

of experience as a police officer, only going on seven years, so I am trying to get as much training as possible,” McKnight said. “I did all the trainings in Oregon, and this was the best opportunity I could find elsewhere that would help me with the educational part of it.” McKnight, 40, was tapped as Grand Ronde’s second police chief in December 2015. He succeeded Al LaChance, who retired in February 2016. McKnight was the Tribe’s first police officer after graduating from the Oregon Department …

Community Fund administrative assistant. “I’m proud to be running again for Tribal Council this year,” she said. “I’m open to any conversations, comments or questions. Email me, text me…Feel free to reach out to me if I answer a question today or if I don’t get a question that you wanted me to answer…That goes for anything else that happens here. If you want more information, I’m available for anyone to contact.” McClary served on council from 2009 to 2015, then worked outside of the Tribe …

grandma would have French fries for me. "When she got done with washing, she'd take the clothes outside and hold them up on the line. I was little. Her arms finally got tired, and she put the clothes down. She went to the clothes pins and picked one up and said, 'These are the clothes pins.' I learned what clothes pins were then. "I have so much in here for her," Linda says with her hand over her heart. "I remember how I always used to make grandma laugh when I'd dress up for Halloween. "She …

Tribal Government & News Letters to the Editor -- Oct. 15, 2011 10.13.2011 Ron Karten Letters Dear Tribal Council: I do not like to choose between the good of my Tribe and the good of my family. Please break the enrollment bundle down into four separate questions so I can vote on each of them on their own merit. Rosemary Jameson Roll #883 Dear Smoke Signals : I am a Tribal Elder. I greatly appreciate the benefits that the Tribe affords me and my family. I have four grandchildren who …

a growing Tribe, so do we really need an enrollment change? In my opinion as a Tribal member, no. So join me in voting “no” on both of the choices put before you on the constitutional amendments. Reyn Leno Tribal Council Chair Roll #453 Dear Smoke Signals : I just wanted to put a special thank you into Smoke Signals for our meat donation for Coffee Creek’s spring celebration. Without the help of our Tribal volunteers and our people, the people in prison would not get anything. The women here …

. “A lot of times, women who are in prison, it is due to circumstances which led them to the choices that they made,” she says. “That is what happened to me. After I split up with my ex, I couldn’t afford to take care of the kids, pay for rent and groceries and make the car payment. I worked and sold drugs, but you can’t do that for long without getting caught.” Research from the Prison Policy Initiative backs this up. In addition to policy changes that increased the arrest and incarceration …

all of his life. The family wanted to share one of his passions for writing with this poem that expressed his lifelong battle. "The Trail" "I feel a need to write my thoughts and experiences, the urge to write, as if it were an unstoppable wind blowing through the forest. I stand on a mountaintop looking down the trail these 50 years have brought me. I see a trail with many twists and curves, a trail with very little sunshine and much sadness, but when the sun shined, it was so bright and soul …