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opportunity ever. It’s just very exciting. It feels like everything is coming together now. “I’m really optimistic about being able to rebuild the team. It’s important for the community. It’s important to have a healthy community and to offer those services in the community. I want to be able to provide the best services possible to the people I see and that’s always been very important. We can heal. We can help the younger generation move forward.” General Manager David Fullerton said the fact …

established Dec. 11 as the per capita and timber revenue distribution date. During the Nov. 17 Legislative Action Committee meeting, Tribal Council Chairman Reyn Leno said that the amount of the distributions probably will not be known until after Dec. 1. In other action, Tribal Council: Approved an intergovernmental agreement with Tillamook County regarding the sale and transfer of surplus forest land from the county to the Tribe; Approved a funding agreement with the Department of the Interior’s …

2014 following a battle with severe acute pancreatitis. She helped establish the First Citizens Award for American Indian and Alaskan Native students and now donations are being made to the fund honoring her memory. Jay Kenton, interim Eastern Oregon president, contributed $5,000 as part of a matching gift drive the university administration and Foundation Board of Trustees participated in last fall. “The First Citizens Award is a very special program in memory of a very special person,” Kenton …

in the mountains. He was a great hunter. He also loved to bowl and was in a bowling league for more than 10 years. Most of all he loved spending time with his children and grandchildren. Family meant everything to Pat; it was very important to him to have the whole family together for holidays. He was a loving and caring man with a heart of gold. He will be deeply missed by all that knew him. He was preceded in death by his parents, Merle and Dottie Henry of Grand Ronde; sister, Nancy Gruchow …

(Umatilla), have created a mural honoring missing and murdered Indigenous women on the Yakama Reservation. Titled “No More Stolen Sisters,” the four murals are wrapped around an outbuilding located at the Yakamart gas station and convenience store in Toppenish, Wash. “Garrett and I were honored to take on this project,” Braden says. “We know it is a very important movement to our Native and Indigenous people. … We were very happy with the outcome and received a lot of good feedback from the community …

empty-handed as the young participants are very egg-er about scrambling about for the treats quickly. In past years, the time for all the candy to be spoken for is about one minute after the hunt begins. Attendees are also asked to bring their own basket or bag to carry their treasures home. This is one Tribal event that requires promptness on the part of parents and prospective Easter egg hunters, lest they miss out on the various treats. “We are very excited to be able to have the Easter egg hunt …

of the Tribal gym. These included pre-Reservation, early Reservation and community images depicting everyday scenes of work, home, school and social gatherings, as well as solemn portraits of chiefs and other Tribal leaders. “We have lots of strengths and are a very resilient people,” Tribal Social Services Manager Dana Ainam said. “We will spend our time here remembering our history and learning how to take care of ourselves and our community.” Ainam spearheaded the effort behind the event, along …

to have this and I am very grateful for the Tribe as a whole. I wouldn’t be where I am without them. It would have been hard to go to school if hadn’t had that support.” She says the most rewarding part about completing her education and having a career is being a role model for her children, nieces, nephews and grandchildren. “They see where education has taken me and what it takes to get a good job,” Childers says. “I would tell anyone who is struggling not to give up. It’s OK to take a little time …

the Tribal community, Harrison was joined by her daughter, Tribal Elder Patsy Pullin, of Carson City, Nev., who said, "Each time I attend one of these awards, and there have been many, it just makes me very, very proud of her and all that she has accomplished in her life." "All Tribes should take pride in Kathryn receiving this award," said Kulongoski. "I'm 88 years old," Harrison told the audience of more than 250, "and I'm still trying to make my life pleasing to my parents, my God and my Tribe. I'm so …

, a lot of times I just tell them I’m an adult educator because that is what I spend a lot of my time doing, is teaching,” he said. “I know what the human brain can and can’t absorb when it comes to learning these games.” Nuttman is a 1996 graduate of the program, a year after the casino opened, and has been working there ever since. Back then, the only training was for blackjack. Now, the dealer school includes training for three-card poker, Let it Ride, Jackpot Texas Hold’em, blackjack …