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Culture Walking On -- Karel Ann Ling 11.20.2017 Dean Rhodes Walking On Karel Ann Ling March 23, 1940 – Nov. 3, 2017 Tribal Elder Karel Ann (Gregg) Ling, 77, was called to our Heavenly Father on the morning of Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Kailua, Hawai’i surrounded by family, neighbors and church friends. Karel was born in Bend, Ore., on March 23, 1940, to Kenneth and Naomi Gregg. She met her husband, Kenneth K.M. Ling (deceased), while attending Linfield College in McMinnville where she graduated …

degree and then moved to Klamath Falls to attend OIT. After graduating from college, Drake moved to Idaho to work as a land surveyor and lived in the small town of St. Maries on the south end of Lake Coeur d’Alene. “I was running section lines for the timber company,” said Drake of his work for Renaldo Land Surveying Inc. “I was running a line through the trees and brush and mountains. It was a lot of work.” From St. Maries, Drake moved back to Oregon and worked for AKS Engineering and Forestry …

with student art projects created in his classes. “I like to joke that if we ever have the big earthquake and Oregon falls into the ocean, the amount of ceramics in the Willamina, Grand Ronde and Sheridan communities might just be the tipping point,” said Boyson. His student’ artwork is currently on display at the Tribal museum and cultural center, Chachalu, in Grand Ronde through June 30. The exhibit is titled “chxi-tilixam” and it features photography, wood working and ceramics by local youth …

was 18. She went hunting for elk with her nephew, Jesse “Pee Wee” Robertson, when she finally got her shot and made the most of it. Gilbert is the daughter of Juanita John and the granddaughter of Leo Norwest. She got a chance to hunt for elk because of the additional opportunity provided to Tribal members through the Tribe’s Hunting Tags Program. “I’ve been hunting for 56 years, going on 57,” said Gilbert, who began hunting when she married Russell “Pete” Gilbert. “We were in Coos Bay and Creswell …

Tribal Government & News Letters to the Editor -- Dec. 1, 2019 11.27.2019 Dean Rhodes Letters From left, Veronica Gaston and attorney Lance Clark. (Submiitted photo) Dear Smoke Signals : I am writing to thank Lake Oswego attorney Lance R. Clark, who was presented a Tribal Pendleton blanket on Wednesday, Nov. 13, for his long hard fight for seven years in getting back my Social Security benefits. Along with the blanket, he was also presented with gift cards to Dutch Brothers and Starbucks …

to be somebody, to be successful as a Native person,” she says. The documentary follows George Attla teaching his grandnephew how to dogsled after 20 years out of the competitive racing game. “This is grandpa George I have known all my life,” his grandnephew Joe Bifelt says watching a video of Attla race. “I knew he was a dog musher, but I didn’t know he was a world champion. That was the first time I felt that rich history of where I come from.” You can watch the entire trailer for yourself at https …

a place in our homelands and further our own recognition and persistence,” Harrelson said. “Indigenous Place Keeping work can be a unifier as it informs the very identity of places and practices no matter a person’s connection. “I have immense gratitude to the Grand Ronde Tribal Council, our funding partners, Meyer Memorial Trust and Oregon Community Foundation, as well as our artist residency partners: Sitka Center for Arts and Ecology and Oregon State University’s Patricia Valian Reser Center …

Tribal Government & News First Tribal members get keys to new homes 05.31.2024 Danielle Harrison Housing Tribal member Bryanna Rue and her husband Zach Rue receive the key to their home, located in the Tribe’s homeownership project Tipsu-ili’i, from Tribal Housing Department Homeownership Coordinator Michele Plummer, right, on Thursday, May 9. (Photo by Michelle Alaimo) By Danielle Harrison Smoke Signals editor Getting the keys to your first home is typically a memorable event, but it was even …

. The proposed amendment: Will allow Indian blood not currently defined as Grand Ronde blood to become Grand Ronde blood for enrollment; Will create new split families; Will not create equality. There will be those born before 1999 who can count all Indian blood and those born after 1999 who cannot count all Indian blood; Will not fix all split families. I will be voting “no” on the proposed constitutional enrollment amendment. Ed Pearsall Tribal Council Roll #589 Dear Smoke Signals : I would like to take …

asked for any money because we didn’t have any. We all worked.” Harrison said she could not explain what it meant to her to be elected to Tribal Council and then to be asked to serve as chair as a woman in the early 1980s. “It was a new day when we got restored,” said Harrison. “So I look back on it now and to be elected to as high an office as that is an honor that you can’t describe.” “It feels like a very natural progression to me,” Blackwell said. “My mother (Candy Robertson) was on Tribal …