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Tribal Government & News Smoke Signals receives Target Audience award from ONPA 07.29.2015 Dean Rhodes Tribal Employees The Grand Ronde Tribe’s bimonthly newspaper, Smoke Signals , won a second-place award in the Target Audience category in the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association’s 2015 Associate Member publications contest. The Target Audience category required submissions of editions from March, August and November 2014, and judging was based on level of interest, relevance, creativity …

relatively calm. “It seems like folks in these parts have enough respect for these weather events that we are able to stay available for the larger incidents that may arise,” he said. Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Brandy Bishop said a plan was in place to open the Tribal gym as a warming center, but that the need did not arise. “We (also) had the Elders Activity Center available for a day-use warming center if the need was there,” she said. “Temporary employees were on standby to be called upon …

participating to make this as real as possible,” Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Brandy Bishop said. Time commitments are for approximately an hour or two the day of the exercise, Bishop added. “This exercise will benefit the community as a whole in that it will provide a great way to see if the plans we have in place are accurate and will efficiently and effectively meet the goals and objectives,” she said. “If we can figure out what works with our plans and what does not, we will be better equipped …

Culture Canoe Family forgoes paddling to Landing Day due to rough waters 07.31.2025 Canoe Journey Canoe Journey 2024 file photo. PORT ANGELES -- With rough waters posing a challenge, the Grand Ronde Canoe Family decided not to participate in the final leg of paddling to the Landing Day ceremony Thursday, July 31. Landing Day was scheduled to take place at the mouth of the Elwha River near Port Angeles, Wash. It was moved mid-morning due to the dangerous conditions. This year’s Canoe Journey …

Department name that honors the indigenous people of the area. It comes on the heels of the naming of a Willamette River bridge "Tilikum Crossing," also suggested by the Grand Ronde Tribe and also honoring the area's Native American roots. "It is a name that honors our ancestors," said Tribal Council member Jon A. George at the unveiling, "the original people of this place, the Clackamas and Multnomah people. " K ʰ unamokwst Park is a name that honors us as the Willamette Valley Treaty Tribe, and our …

of building a charnel house on the cemetery grounds. “A charnel house is a vault or a building where human remains are stored,” says Tribal Historic Preservation Program Manager David Harrelson. “The term can also be used more generally as a description of a place filled with death and destruction. The term was used by Lewis and Clark and other early Europeans in the region as they navigated the Columbia River referring to structures built by our ancestors on burial islands in the Columbia River …

approximately a third of the students are Tribal members. And now it is posted in a sixth-floor conference room of the federal courthouse in downtown Portland between the Cow Creek and Klamath flags. Odd place? Not according to Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for Oregon, who said during a recognition ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 5, that posting the nine flags of Oregon Tribes in a room where many large meetings are held will remind federal employees of the importance of government-to-government …

, Kennedy gave opening remarks and welcomed attendees to the Tribe’s homelands. “I am the great-great-great granddaughter of (Dan) Wacheno, who this facility is named for,” she said. “We lived here since time immemorial and fished the waters, dug the roots and gathered the materials. … This is a sacred place to us. Thank you for the work you’ve done here in a good and respectful way.” Tribal Council member Jon A. George led the invocation. “Thank you for this honor and I also have the honor to work …

discoveries. He said that Willamette Falls had been a sacred cultural, fishing and gathering place for the Grand Ronde people since time immemorial, and that the Tribe still honors its obligation as keepers of the falls. “It is a very unique place within the Grand Ronde’s homelands,” he said. “It is very important to the Tribe and has been so for a long time. For the Grand Ronde, their engagement with this place began with its establishment ... to take the responsibility of stewardship and carry …

within a community, a place where Elders would be safe, comfortable and close to each other. “During Restoration, Elders would call and a lot of them wanted to come back, but we didn’t have a place for them to live,” Tribal Chair Kathryn Harrison said. “Now, today when they call and want to come home, we say, ‘Yeah, come on, we got a place.’ ” 1995 – Spirit Mountain Casino’s Job Fair attracted more than 1,000 applicants who had the opportunity to fill out job applications and have on-the-spot …