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will occur at 1 p.m. In addition to dancing, the fourth annual youth 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament will be held Friday through Sunday. The tourney is open to middle and high school youth and teams consist of four players regardless of gender. Prizes will be awarded to first- and second-place teams and for winners in the three-point shooting contest. For more information, contact Recreation Coordinator Kendra Steele at 503-879-1921. Deadline to register is Aug. 7. Honorary host drum will be Bad Soul …

dancers won a total of $850 in prizes, led by Leah Villa who took second place in the Junior Adult Womens Traditional and Nacoma Liebelt who took second place in the Junior Boys Traditional categories. Matisse Sohappy was awarded fourth place in the Junior Girls Jingle. Overall, more than $52,000 was awarded in the dance categories. Royalty Pageant Contest Powwow activities began at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 16, with the Royalty Pageant held at the Governance Center Atrium. Tribal Council Secretary Jon …

of the Bonneville Power Administration's Willamette Wildlife Mitigation Program and with the cooperation of the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife. "They can buy 200 or so acres, but that doesn't mean that they buy the history and the culture of it," Leno said about the Warm Springs effort. "They could dig up artifacts; they could dig up human remains. They're Grand Ronde, not Warm Springs. They're our people." Leno said the Grand Ronde Tribe also is concerned the Warm Springs Tribe will attempt …

genuinely be curious to know what percentage of our new 21s actually ‘blow’ the money, spend it wisely or somewhere in between,” he said. “I am not sure if I buy into this absolute mentality of ‘it’s their money to do as they please,’ because, as mentioned in my blog, do we not have a responsibility to our Tribal members who are ill-equipped to handle this? What if some 21 year old is transferring his money to one of those African bankers, and is open about it? I think it is a far more complicated …

work will be done using traditional ecological knowledge best practices, and we want this to become part of a longer-term project.” Oregon State said that in addition to the Grand Ronde Tribe, it will seek to partner with the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians, the Coquille Indian Tribe and the Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Indians. “We will engage each of these Tribal nations individually, co-creating partnerships …

, inequality, and in-sustainability with not only national but also a global economic down turn. It becomes a day-to-day battle to stay on track so that the changing climate does not cast a shadow over our children and grandchildren's futures. I just want to continue to contribute what I can to our tribe and our people. I love my tribe for all that they have given me. All the best and much love Steve Bobb Sr. #38 Hello my name is Kalene Larose Contreras. My great grandparents were Jack Langley …

Tribal Government & News Positive Discipline class set for April 24 03.28.2012 Ron Karten Events A "Parenting With Positive Discipline" class will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in the Tribal Community Center. The class, which includes lunch, will provide an overview of parenting that will help prevent power struggles and invite cooperation, reduce peer and sibling conflict, foster respect and responsibility and bring out the best in yourself and your children. For more …

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Health & Education Elders Activity Center designated as smoke shelter site 08.22.2015 Dean Rhodes Health & Wellness , Public Safety The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde has designated the Elders Activity Center, 48940 Blacktail Drive, as its emergency shelter for Tribal members needing a place to stay because of the smoke from eastern Oregon fires that has inundated the West Valley. The Elders Activity Center opened at 1 p.m. Saturday and will remain open through Monday morning. Tribal …

high school hijinks to service in Vietnam, to raising families and serving on Tribal Council. Bobb jokes that while the two attended St. Michael’s Grade School, Leno was the altar boy while he “was most definitely not.” “He’s right about that one,” Leno says, chuckling. Bobb describes the discipline at St. Michael’s as harsh, so he did his best to still have fun. However, his class clowning became so prolific that at one point nuns stopped by his grandparents’ home to express “concern for his soul …