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very difficult to make this milestone as a new business,” he says. “We are humbled and honored to still be serving this population.” Natural State Recovery Centers includes a three-step system – unique to the area – to treat substance abuse ranging from opioids to alcohol. When Dickie was in the depths of his alcohol dependency, he never dreamed of running treatment centers someday. He thought sobriety was boring and literally felt like crawling out of his own skin when not drinking. When he …

since time immemorial. … Tribal partners worked with our staff so we could understand the history and stories of our Tribal partners … and honor Indigenous history, connection and relation to place.” Harrelson said that the process of meeting with Metro staff about the park project began 11 years ago. “It’s an exciting process and from the beginning Metro was really reaching out and talking with the Tribe and seeing how to make this place come alive and be the type of place Tribal people want …

people who bear the brunt of those decisions. We need to be there for those who served their country.” This year’s host drum will be Indian Hill with master of ceremonies Nick Sixkiller and Grand Ronde Tribal member Anthony Quenelle serving as arena director. His wife, Ramona Quenelle (Pit River), who serves as the Tribe’s first Veterans Service Officer, will have a booth at the powwow dedicated to veterans. The Navy veteran usually dances at the powwow, but she will be dedicating her time …

in the mid-1800s and until the 1970s, Tribal children were removed from their communities in an effort to assimilate them into dominant society through a variety of measures including boarding schools far away from their communities and through the foster care system. “This resulted in historical trauma and distrust of governmental agencies,” he says. “Today revolves around recognizing and upholding Tribal sovereignty. With that said, the United States has a very poor track record of upholding …

in 2022, are clear on this point. The limits and areas of ceremonial and subsistence harvest will be set annually between the Tribe and ODFW. And, as we hope to discuss today, the number of animals Grand Ronde members would harvest under this MOU is very small. “Umatilla is concerned about the impact of Grand Ronde’s MOU on salmon fishing at Willamette Falls. I’m not aware of any Tribe other than Grand Ronde taking salmon at Willamette Falls. Grand Ronde takes 15 salmon each year at the falls …

coverage for everyone,” he said. “I’m very proud of my staff being able to come in and work.” Finance department staff also came in despite offices being closed. With payday looming on Friday, Jan. 19, Payroll Administrator Michelle Peterson, Assistant Controller Trish Squires, and Staff Accountants Casey Case and Shereena Bates made the trek into the office. “We really do care that everyone gets paid on time to be able to buy groceries and pay bills,” Peterson said, who navigated her Ford Bronco over …

they had to leave behind, but there wasn’t always the time even for that. “There’s some at the Portland Art Museum and the Oregon Museum, but it’s just a few pieces that were dug up at a site,” Mercier said. “Other places you see like bone carving pendants, carved horn spoons, maple burl bowls, that’s about it. I guess there’s a handful of stone carvings, not very many, but a good handful of those, where just looking at those and the bone carvings and stuff like that, we learned those unwritten …

would take an act of the British Parliament to accomplish. “Summers had great interest in Native American peoples, but he was also very nosy and would push himself into peoples’ homes,” Beckham said. Summers also took advantage of the Grand Ronde peoples’ poverty by convincing them to sell or trade the artifacts and heirlooms in order to feed their families. The Chachalu exhibition is the first time any of the collection has been displayed publicly. “These artifacts have never been exhibited …

project will be the new exhibit area that will remain in its current location at the front of the building. “We are going to have a large, 5,000-square-foot exhibit hall,” said Harrelson. “The exhibit hall is going to allow us to do different programming that changes over time. There is going to be different exhibits going on. Our intent behind that is we want Tribal members to keep coming back so we want to add content and exhibits that are relevant at the time.” Harrelson said he knew …

of the Department of Education internally by increasing staffing that will support the schools in implementing such an ambitious plan. “So the idea is to make progress on all those objectives in the next two years,” said Campbell. “It’s a live, breathing plan so it’s a strategic plan. We will be re-visiting it annually to see the progress we made and every two years to update it and add new objectives and new goals. “It’s a very ambitious plan, but I think it needs to be ambitious because I don’t think …