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Tribal Government & News Letters to the Editor -- March 15, 2017 03.13.2017 Dean Rhodes Letters Dear Smoke Signals : My name is Angela Schlappie. I am a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and a volunteer for the Tribal Member Review Board. I always see the recruitment efforts of the court in Smoke Signals and thought I would take the opportunity to share with you the reason why I have been volunteering for this wonderful board since the program began 12 years ago. Initially, I …

Tribal Government & News Letters to the Editor -- Nov. 1, 2017 10.30.2017 Dean Rhodes Letters Dear Smoke Signals : As Thanksgiving 2017 approaches, I wanted to tell the Tribe how grateful I am and how fortunate I feel for being a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. I am thankful for all our ancestors who endured hardship upon hardship to survive. There was a picture in Smoke Signals around 2003 of a Native woman with a huge bundle of sticks walking down a street …

help.) By Danielle Harrison Smoke Signals staff writer Tribal member Tannith McNeel never imagined she would ever be a recovering drug user, let alone one who battled a heroin addiction. “I started off with (prescription) pills, then switched to black tar heroin and smoked it,” she says. “I never had an issue with substance use before that.” McNeel, 41, immigrated to the United States from England in 2002 to get to know the Tribal side of her family better, settling in Tillamook. Her father …

Tribal Government & News Letters to the Editor -- July 1, 2020 06.30.2020 Dean Rhodes Letters Dear Smoke Signals : I was saddened to see the news that our fellow Tribal member and former Councilwoman Dorothy Greene has walked on. We served on the council together for about a year in 1986-87. I lived in Dallas and her in Sheridan. On the nights of our council meetings, I would drive to Sheridan and pick Dorothy up. Her husband did not drive at that time. We attended many meetings …

consecutive term? Leno: Number one, 21 years on a Tribal Council is pretty grueling. You usually don’t have council people who run that long. I think it is just a good time in my life to step out for at least a year. I’m only 66 years old. Time to take a look, you know, do I want to do this some more or do I want to go into retirement and do some more of my personal stuff? So that was kind of why I decided this was a good year. Smoke Signals: In your first four runs for Tribal Council in the 1990s …

Tribal Government & News Tribal Council candidate statements 08.23.2013 Ron Karten Tribal Council , Elections Hello my fellow Tribal members, It is with deep humility that I want to thank you so very much for giving me the opportunity and honor of serving our tribe for the past six years as your council member for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Although I do not feel the need to go into my ancestry, I do however want you to never forget how very blessed I was to have been adopted …

Culture Tribal member Monty Herron seeking doctorate degree 12.30.2015 Brent Merrill People , Education For most people, having graduated with a bachelor’s degree and a double minor is plenty, but not for 43-year-old Tribal member Monty Herron. Herron said he is set on accomplishing much more than his degree and he’s hoping the main beneficiaries of his hard work will be the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. “I want to have a positive legacy,” said Herron. “I want to make a difference …

by Oregon’s governor to provide counsel to state Department of Veterans’ Affairs Director Cameron Smith on all veterans’ issues and concerns in the state. Leno said he heard about the opening on the Advisory Committee from Steve Bobb Sr., chair of the Tribe’s Veterans Special Event Board and a fellow Vietnam War-era Marine Corps veteran. “I looked into it to see if there was an opportunity to put in for it,” Leno said. “I gathered up information to see if it was something I could do along …

Tribal Government & News Letters to the Editor - Feb. 15, 2016 02.12.2016 Dean Rhodes Letters Dear Smoke Signals : Most important is I want to thank the Tribe for weathering the economic downturn and the wonderful per capita in December. That takes leadership! The greyhound park purchase sounds like a good investment. Again I would say that takes leadership. MicroGREEN didn’t turn out so well, but we are moving forward. Next, I want to say because the Tribe is doing well with the Constitution …

test is a work-capacity test to evaluate the physical competency of the firefighters before they are deployed to wildfires. (Smoke Signals file photo) By Danielle Harrison Smoke Signals editor In June 2024, I was walking through the Tribal Governance Center when an interesting sight at the old powwow grounds outside caught my eye. There were approximately 20 people, wearing what appeared to be heavy weighted packs, briskly walking and “wogging” around the perimeter, over and over. Several Tribal …