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is something bigger than ourselves," says one character. "Salmon is the will to go home and the wisdom to know the way," says another. Some 70,000 fish carcasses lined 30 miles of the Klamath River by the time the kill ended. "It gave me a huge awareness of the amount of people who do not understand that salmon are not just a fish," said Clifford, who acted in one of the two full performances the play has had since 2006. "It took me to another world." Today, May is turning the play …
/articles/2012/04/16/grand-ronde-hosts-two-day-indian-education-conference/there." And yet, it still doesn't tell the whole story. "Halfway through, I realized I can't do justice to my family," Brown said. "It would take more months and more space, but I want to capture the stories and the lives, not just of the women, but the men also before they are gone." "For me," said Millie Harmon of Salem, "the main thing is there is so much information here that we don't know and hasn't been gathered before. I'm really pleased that someone has captured this before the people have died …
/articles/2012/04/16/exhibit-focuses-on-the-leadership-skills-of-grand-ronde-women/at the Rose Garden, he said. "I have a TV broadcast person at my side at all times giving me the time I have left," he said. "There's a three-minute warning, then a two-minute warning. At the end, we ride them right out of the corner (of the court). We have put the routine together in such a way that everybody is following each other on out the door and into the sunset." As halftime ended, Derowitsch said, "Everybody was smiling and happy that we finished the entire routine and it was good." The team …
/articles/2012/02/14/tribal-member-olivia-hughes-wheelie-good-on-a-unicycle/Karnosh made a presentation to general conference attendees describing Tribal consultation needs from the Grand Ronde perspective. "This enabled federal agency staff in attendance to learn of Grand Ronde's consultation rights on its ceded lands and in all of its usual and accustomed areas," Karnosh said, "and also the Tribe's preferred consultation methods. I made a lot of good consultation contacts immediately after that presentation when several agency folks approached me. "Post-conference …
/articles/2012/05/14/epa-summit-brings-tribal-leaders-to-grand-ronde/who died in 1943 during World War II. "There was no flag on that grave and that really bothered me," Leno said. "So, today when I was down there I took a flag and put it there and I'll always watch that grave to make sure that flag is there because that is what this day is about … remembering and acknowledging our veterans for what we do and what we did and what we trained for. "… Like I've always said, veterans don't want a lot. All they ever want is a little respect for what they did." Bobb, who …
/articles/2012/05/31/memorial-day-event-honors-vietnam-war-era-veterans/years old," Edwards says. "And, to me, that is one of things about archaeology because it is just not the 'oh my' factor that this shell has survived, but we know what it was … we know that most likely this was being eaten because the drain came out of the kitchen. We know that peacocks are not indigenous to Italy, so this was something that had to be imported, so we're talking about status and economy. So from this one artifact, for me, I just loved how we could go different places …
/articles/2012/01/13/edwards-hired-as-first-tribal-archaeologist/to alcohol. “For me, getting sober was a lot of slow steps over time,” Dickie says. “I tried for six years, but there was a lot of hard-headedness and I wasn’t willing to take suggestions all of the way yet.” When Dickie first sought help, he utilized the Tribe’s Behavioral Health program. “I have a lot of gratitude for that program,” he says. “It got me started in the right direction. I made lots of progress, but I wasn’t ready yet to take those suggestions all of the way.” However, the road …
/articles/2018/08/14/dickie-opens-arkansas-clinic-to-fight-substance-abuse/of having the BIA to ensure that our elections are being held properly and in the event of a problem we have no third party to act as a mediator or conduct investigations. Third, "Sovereignty." Let me just say I plan on exercising my sovereign right by voting "No." 2) Term Limits: The only thing I have to say regarding this issue is vote! I personally am not happy with the fact that the General Council took a survey a few years back regarding term limits. We were given the option of two or three …
/articles/2014/05/01/letters-to-the-editor-may-1-2014/with the club four years ago at the urging of friend and past club executive director and Portland Mayor Sam Adams. Watson, who had been a member years earlier, joined its board of directors in July 2016 and began as president-elect last March. “When Sam was executive director, he urged me to re-engage here,” Watson says. “I was really interested in the strong voice the club has in Portland. The opinion of the club really matters to people. I became really intrigued by that model of how the club became …
/articles/2018/01/12/tribal-member-lisa-watson-becomes-portland-city-clubs-first-native-american-female-leader/of former Tribal Council member Candy Robertson, who was a key figure in the Tribe’s Restoration efforts in the early 1980s. “I was fortunate enough to have someone in the family who has been in this position,” Cherry said. “I was able to sit down with her and pick her brain a little bit. That was really awesome and she gave me some insight. Same thing with Kathleen.” “I’m happy that the Tribe has filled this role with yet another strong woman,” said Blackwell, who is now the Tribe’s Early Childhood …
/articles/2017/02/14/cherry-named-new-spirit-mountain-community-fund-director/