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cards. The Tribe has been demanding that the Army Corps follow congressional directives to study removing hydropower from its dams, and court and federal orders to implement more deep drawdowns to enable juvenile spring Chinook and winter steelhead to pass through the dams so they can migrate to the ocean. The measures are considered critical for the survival of both species. To read more about this topic, visit www.smokesignals.org and type “The salmon situation,” into the search bar. Send …

through personal connections or happenstance. They share a reverence for wood – not just as a material, but as an enchanting remnant of life, place and histories.” Chinook carving traditions were nearly lost, but Mercier is among a handful of artists who have painstakingly taught themselves the style by studying the few surviving pieces. The exhibit is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday at the Arts Council, 380 A Avenue, Suite A, in Lake Oswego. For more information, visit …

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to preserve food so they have it available in leaner times," DeCicco said. There are other benefits to the local group's work as well. "It's so much healthier to eat home-canned items than to buy them in the store," said Schultz-McCallister. "The oral stuff, the conversation that you capture when you have multiple generations together (is another benefit). For the younger kids to see and learn from us, hopefully, they will carry on (the practice)." For the first effort, finished jars of produce …

, Chinuk Immersion teacher, "we always pick a book (already published), read it aloud and every family goes home with a copy. "We would buy books easy to translate," she added, and before Literacy Night language teachers translated the books into Chinuk Wawa. They then pasted the Chinuk Wawa words over the English ones. For words that are not among the ones that have come down from the Chinuk Wawa language, teachers have to either use the English word, like they have in the case of spoon or pizza …

is to cut them in half, Exeter said. There are slime molds that also are called Deer Puke. "They have patches of yellow, and I guess they look like deer puke," said Exeter. Some have the odor of fish or shrimp; some ooze a substance called "latex" when cut, though not the kind of latex found in paint. Red or orange latex mushrooms are edible, but other latex mushrooms may be inedible. Asked whether he is now ready to hunt mushrooms himself, Tribal Elder Duane Wheeler deferred. "No. I think I'll buy …

was given away. It does mean the government made promises to the Tribes by treaties for taking the land and has not kept those promises. This is what has led to the trail of broken promises of treaties complaints by Tribes in the United States. It has not been that long ago that we had the freedom to fish and hunt as our subsistence. Now we must wait for our per capita to buy the necessary subsistence and pay taxes for it. Claudette Parazoo Roll #2923 Dear Smoke Signals: Enclosed please find …

of Grand Ronde and Tyee roads. Suspicious activity reported in the day-use area on Blacktail Drive. Monday, Nov. 12 Drug complaint received at 27100 Salmon River Highway. Assist outside agency with reported suspicious activity in the 23000 block of Yamhill River Road. Illegal dumping reported in the area of Grand Ronde and Tyee roads. Assist outside agency with an attempt to locate a vehicle traveling westbound on Highway 22 after a reported theft from Best Buy in Salem. Reported trespass …

to build a platform. The Tribe regained rights to ceremonially fish at Willamette Falls in 2016 from the Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commission with a 15-fish catch limit per year. Dirksen estimated that a fishing platform could be constructed as early as the summer of 2019. In other action, Tribal Council: Approved a crushed rock purchasing plan that will allow the Natural Resources Department to buy the material from a preferred vendor list that includes seven companies. The resolution states …