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have been thrown on the trash heap by our justice system become leaders in their communities. "Why can't our system give these children a second chance? This (canoe journey) is their second chance." Elder Dolores Parmenter "started going on journeys to honor my grandmother, Mary Esther Jones LaBonte. When I was a child, she helped raise me in a log house 20 miles up Little River on Thunder Mountain, near the town of Glide. "A lot of our culture is lost, so I'd go to other territories to learn …
/articles/2012/08/14/canoe-family-completes-paddle-to-squaxin-2012/in pretty good." Back at the driver's side window, Hanes reached in. "I told her I was going to cut her seat belt," he said, and used his tool to do that. "She fell back into the car, crying, 'Ahhhh.' "I'm telling her (Baumann), 'You've got to use your feet to climb out.' " said Hanes. "She may have fallen on her mother," who was in the passenger seat, said Wheeler. "(Pruhsmeier) was calling, 'Help me,' " said Wheeler. "It crossed my mind for about 10 seconds that the car could explode," said Heffner …
/articles/2012/06/14/casino-employees-save-occupants-in-single-vehicle-accident/, Phillips says, but in Emma's time local bars couldn't keep them in stock. Following the tradition, when Pearl's family owned a store in Lafayette, Pearl ran the soda fountain, recalls Phillips. "Her milkshakes were so good that a friend who was running a truck stopped every day for mother to make him a milkshake. And in the meantime, she was taking care of me." "(Her father) taught the children the ways of the Indians and to always respect Mother Earth," says Phillips. Father and daughter "were very …
/articles/2012/02/28/lyon-hearted-tribes-eldest-elder-reaches-100-years-of-age/can get the job done when asked.” “It’s a great program that provides a lot of jobs,” said Wilson. “We’ve been able to get a fair amount of Tribal members into it. Not everybody can do it. It’s hard physically – packing up and down the hills, digging, being close to the heat and the fire.” Wilson said he measures the success of the fire season by every firefighter coming back whole and healthy. “So far it’s been an excellent season,” said Wilson. “There are different ways of measuring it – for me …
/articles/2015/10/14/dry-conditions-kept-tribal-fire-crews-busy/with cancer. Whisler was a key figure in both the Tribe’s Restoration efforts and in the early immersion preschool. “I remember she only spoke Chinuk to me growing up,” Flynn said. “She was passionate about the language and I want to continue the legacy that she started. When the opportunity for this job came up, I jumped at it.” To improve her writing skills, Flynn took two years of Chinuk Wawa while at the University of Oregon earning her degree in ethnic and Native American studies. “Being …
/articles/2018/02/28/language-program-may-expand-to-include-fifth-graders/. “The reality of a cultural center for the community is more visible than it has ever been for me.” Brown said her late mother, Annabelle “Peachie” Hamm, was born and raised in Grand Ronde and was a proponent of the Tribe having a cultural center when she was alive. “She always praised our Tribal leaders for all they have accomplished, but the one thing that meant the most to her, other than health care, was the museum and cultural center,” said Brown. “She wanted there to be a place where people …
/articles/2017/02/14/second-phase-expansion-construction-set-to-begin-at-chachalu/in this history and I have an hour to tell it. I think we’ve done a pretty good job with what we have. It’s a little bit of everything.” Harrelson said he feels the project is ambitious in its approach of including information about all nine Oregon Tribes. “It’s clear that Eric is making an aggressive push to try to get as much information and give it a voice, which is very admirable,” Harrelson said. “What he shared with me was this is not about telling the whole story; this is about getting Oregonians …
/articles/2017/02/28/opb-to-air-broken-treaties-on-monday-march-20/and continues through the winter. “Every spring, we hold a Round Dance to honor those who have passed in the last year,” Mercier said. Tribal member and Cultural Education Coordinator Jordan Mercier talked about the plankhouse and what its construction has meant to the community, He said that for years, plankhouses were discouraged or even outlawed. “The fact that we have one today is a huge blessing,” he said. “It is something we have to house our own spiritual practices and beliefs. Most valuable to me …
/articles/2017/11/14/fifth-history-culture-event-attracts-more-than-250/and former Tribal Council member Steve Bobb Sr. sat in on one of the group discussions. Afterward he shared what his group had discussed. “This is a very passionate subject for me,” Bobb said. “I think what a lot of us have talked about at these tables is the exact same thing. What we talked about was information and also education for the parents. We need to educate the parents on what they need to be telling their kids and grandkids what to do.” Bobb used his own family as an example. “That’s what …
/articles/2017/03/17/21-money-meeting-draws-large-crowd-to-discuss-trust-funds/Restoration efforts occurring regionally and across the country. She, Kimsey and Holmes attended a meeting held by the Association of Urban Indians in Lebanon and were inspired by other Tribal restoration efforts, such as the Menominees in Wisconsin, who became the first restored Tribe in the nation in 1973. “As time went on, people kept bugging me to do something,” Provost said with a smile. Although Provost had no experience with Restoration, government or politics, she acted on faith and hard …
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