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to secure a spot to compete in the state tournament in Pendleton. “We were really focused on winning, not any high-point games, just get in every game and get a win,” he said. Even on days when Cohen isn’t playing basketball, it’s still top of mind. “Whenever I come home and want to watch something, it’s YouTube basketball, two hours a day,” he said. “Playing basketball can range from an hour to five hours, however long I can stay in the gym. I’m always trying to learn and get better.” Added Rich …

to Hudson, poet Layli Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota) and musician Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) were selected to activate the artwork during the opening reception dance party. “It was just incredible,” Hudson said. “On top of that, Jeffrey and his team brought out 30 jingle dress dancers and drummers to perform in the pavilion, and it was just an entire Indigenous takeover in Italy, the land of Columbus. I was thinking of all of those times in Europe when they shipped Natives there to show …

orientation in late August, in which the students were invited to a version of Hudson’s show “Ask Dr. Carla.” In the press release, Hudson said, “Every new college student has anxieties about fitting in. If only they all had an over-the-top Indigiqueer drag clown to advise them.” In an interview, he described the show as “Like a talk show meets bad therapy by an unqualified clown,” and jokingly said it might be considered a form of immersion therapy. “Because first, people are scared of a couple …

prevents keeping the reservoirs full. Instead, young fish must go through the powerhouse turbines, which injure and kill many of them, “and that’s assuming the fish even find their way to the intake. Because these are species that tend to travel as juveniles in the very top of the water column, in like the first 15 to 20 feet,” Fairbrother said. There are also regulating outlets, which lack the dangerous spinning turbines but are too deep underwater for fish passage, Fairbrother said. Advocates want …

… necessary or appropriate for the construction maintenance and operation of the project.” Yet, D’Aquila said, for years, PGE made no effort to acquire the property. Instead, it leased a third of an acre where the dam structure is located at the top of the falls. Nor did the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission tell PGE to acquire it, including after an inspection last year that found PGE was in “full compliance with all license issues,” D’Aquila said. PGE officials testified that, until 2018, when …

. Ceremonial fishers, wearing helmets and safety gear, were undeterred by the fast current and cold water, although several chose to dip their nets from the top of a massive ice-age boulder rather than standing in mid-stream. “I needed this,” Tribal Council member Kathleen George said, lifting her face to the warm sun. In addition to Kathleen George, Tribal Council Secretary Jon A. George and council members Denise Harvey and Brenda Tuomi attended the celebration. Jon A. George delivered the invocation …

for consumption,” Archuleta said. He noted that there are numerous other plants the Tribes relied on. “This is just kind of a quick few top ones used for food and basketry,” he said. Share On Facebook Share On Twitter Share Article Link Subscribe Subscribe to our Newspaper for latest updates: Subscribe To Our Newspaper For Latest Updates: …

tree and sends it toppling. It lifts it, cuts off the top, strips away the branches and sets it on the ground to be collected later. It crawls a few feet forward, selects another tree and topples it. Branches and fir needles are strewn across the tract between the remaining trees. A second machine collects the logs and stacks them onto a waiting truck. The debris will be left to decompose, returning nutrients to the soil. Tribal Timber Resource Program Manager Travis Trammell stands in the muddy …

Culture Community Fund seeks Ye? lan Lima award nominations 10.31.2011 Ron Karten Spirit Mountain Community Fund Spirit Mountain Community Fund (SMCF) frequently celebrates the success and remarkable achievements of nonprofits located within our 11 county service area. However, not often enough do individuals within these inspiring organizations receive the recognition they deserve. So, in 2010 SMCF introduced our first Ye? lan Lima Award initiative and announced the first two award winners …

, Cassie, Genevieve and Olivia Hughes, and Cole and Isabelle Youso; and a sister, Karen Tish. He was preceded in death by his parents, Alfred and Wilma Gilliam, and brothers, Gary and Norman. A funeral service was held Saturday, Nov. 5, in the Grand Ronde Tribal gymnasium at Grand Ronde. Interment followed in the Grand Ronde Tribal Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Salem Cancer Institute or Willamina High School Booster Club in care of Dallas Mortuary Tribute Center 287 S.W. Washington St. Dallas …