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bounced off each other to do this. Same with Travis (Mercier), Bobby (Mercier) and Richard (Bubba) Sohappy, who took a lot of pictures and helped us mark this event." The Tribe already had ocean-going canoes, but carving the river-style canoe "brought us a little closer (to who the Grand Ronde people are)," Krehbiel said. "The maps were a great success, and received very well," said David Harrelson, Culture Protection specialist, who researched the maps and produced them in collaboration with Tribal …

, no match was found for me in the national/international stem cell bank of 17 million donors. The problem is I am one-eighth Chinook and American Indians are very underrepresented in the stem cell bank, and I am going to change that. The doctor told me a part-Indian donor was needed, a person whose blood was a good match for mine. A person donating must be between 18 and 60. Anyone could determine if they are a match by having the inside of their mouth swabbed, simple as that. Then when a match …

to be televised, the picking of the princesses, all the pageantry, and now to be able to play some small role, I never thought that would happen to me. This is very exciting." He is downplaying the size of his role although he has championed Tribal support for the Rose Festival for many years and has designed the casino's float for the last four parades. "We're using it as a vehicle to expose our ties to the area," he said, "and to be able to tell the Grand Ronde story. This is one more vehicle we have …

from Willamette Falls where, from time immemorial, Tribal peoples have harvested lamprey. The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde have made growing use of heritage- and community-centered celebrations to tell the Grand Ronde story, through the Chinuk Wawa trade language of Northwest Indians, through the many crafts that Natives have developed over millennia in the area, through stories of the Native peoples who lived here and the foods they ate. The Tribe also has been a member of the coalition …

and were recommended by the Enrollment Board, will be forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior for approval. Tribal Attorney Rob Greene said during the Legislative Action Committee meeting that the process of adding names to the Restoration Roll started in 2012. At the time, Department of the Interior staff members were not sure they could add names. The department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs then developed a process for its approval of corrections and additions to the Restoration Roll, which …

. Reibach said the Lands Department works closely with the Legal and Finance departments as well before showing a map of the Tribe’s ceded lands and current land ownership. “What makes us different (than others) is primacy,” Reibach said. “We are the first Tribal people here and have been here since time immemorial.” Reibach discussed the six responsibilities of the Lands Department, which include the Portland Harbor cleanup, self-governance, Tribal realty, land acquisition, special projects …

Chairman Reyn Leno says he agrees with Harrelson on the issue of properly caring for an ancestor’s remains. “From my perspective, it is a matter of respect,” says Leno. “I think it is just another piece of us recovering our culture. This project fits into the fabric of the Tribal family. Whether they died a 100 years ago or whether they died today, they have a right to be in the sacred grounds of our cemetery.” “Now we have a place to bring those items home to,” says Harrelson. “It’s a very simple …

a memorial song. Tribal youth JC Rogers sang the national anthem as she did in 2016 and ’17 and Grand Ronde Royalty and Veterans Royalty performed “The Lord’s Prayer.” Tribal Council Chairwoman Cheryle A. Kennedy, Vice Chair Chris Mercier and Tribal Council member Brenda Tuomi, who is an Army veteran, attended and spoke briefly. “This is truly a time of remembrance,” Kennedy said. “The Tribe has had many different men and women who have entered the armed forces, some did not come back home …

structure, which includes 3,300-square-feet of space to store produce, canned goods and frozen foods, at 9675 Grand Ronde Road. Construction was funded by a $500,000 Housing & Urban Development block grant and a $204,179 Indian Housing block grant. Marion-Polk Food Share, which before only supported its partner agencies by distributing food to 48 sites in the two counties, agreed for the first time to operate a food pantry and hired Tribal member Francene Ambrose to coordinate activities …

meeting, Kennedy said Chemawa does not receive enough funding to be a 24/7 residential boarding school. “None of the programs have sufficient funds … to do it in a quality way,” Kennedy said. The list of Tribal concerns will be sent to lawmakers and the Bureau of Indian Education, which operates the school, within a month. “I believe that most of the Tribes there expressed that the method for selecting faculty seemed to be not very open, because Tribes had talked about they had Tribal members who were …