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said. She is the daughter of Leonard and Carol Logan and will reside in Sheridan. “I am really looking forward to the opportunity,” Doar said. “I hope I can add value to the membership and the Tribe in serving the people.” Share On Facebook Share On Twitter Share Article Link Subscribe Subscribe to our Newspaper for latest updates: Subscribe To Our Newspaper For Latest Updates: …

Greene, General Manager David Fullerton, Finance Officer Chris Leno and Tribal Council Chief of Staff Stacia Hernandez. Kennedy welcomed convention attendees to the Grand Ronde Tribe’s homelands, and thanked the color guard and drummers. “Today we will have a fruitful day of discussion,” she said. “Today I am grateful the shutdown is over. I welcome you all to the city of Roses … When you think of the Willamette River, say a prayer for it. It is in distress.” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler thanked ATNI …

. The more I put myself out there, the more comes from it.” Douglass started a clothing line while he was a student at the University of Hawaii in Hilo. Since then, he has taken the business from selling out of boxes at the school cafeteria and farmer’s markets to a brick-and-mortar location in the Lloyd Center Mall with five part-time employees. Douglass says he saw a need for the business after witnessing different ways Hawaiian youth and young adults showed their culture. With his own mixed …

. “My future plans are to become a pediatric intensive care unit nurse,” Grout said in her bio posted at www.npaihb.org . “This is one of the biggest reasons I applied to become a NPAIHB youth delegate. Some issues that are close to my heart are helping teens like myself to cope with anxiety and depression. Helping others love and accept each other whether they are LGBTQ+, in recovery, struggling with mental illness or just need a friend is one of my main focuses in life. I hope that serving …

’s journey was hosted by the Lummi Nation and the theme was "Honoring Our Way of Life.” Tribal youth Sedona Williams, 17, has been on Canoe Journey three times. “I really enjoyed having the chance to be lead pull on the canoe,” she said. “There were a couple of rough days, but I knew I had that responsibility to keep going. I really felt like our ancestors were with me and so I kept pulling hard.” Landing Day occurred at Lummi Nation in Bellingham, Wash., on Wednesday, July 24. There, hundreds …

for millions of customers. I was honored to work alongside of her for the last 10 years.” McKnight said that Mercier’s calming demeanor helped her successfully deal with stressful situations. “She was able to keep all parties calm during these tough times and made us talk through our issues,” he said. “Joann has always had this calming effect on people for as long as I have known her. This is why I believed she deserved the first Public Safety Award from the Tribal Police Department.” Share On Facebook …

nostalgia, but was waiting for the right opportunity. Oddly enough, the COVID-19 pandemic helped provide that. “The mall was closed for three months and that was really tough. I really had to hustle to sell merchandise and thought how it would be better if I had a store located in an area with a lot of foot traffic,” Douglass said. The owners of a Native American tattoo shop down the street from the site Douglass had been eyeing contacted him with information that the current tenant was closing …

suit one week later. Her marriage, however, ended after four years, but her Islamic faith endured, eventually leading to a family in the United Arab Emirates that helped her and her sons relocate. “They paid our tickets and gave us a place to live for six months until we could get on our feet,” Farlow says in response to a list of questions posed by Smoke Signals . “We were very thankful. All I said to her was I would like to live in a Muslim country. I wanted to see how it was. So she told her …

Tribal Government & News Letters to the Editor - May 1, 2021 04.29.2021 Dean Rhodes Letters Dear Smoke Signals : Back in 2019, Smoke Signals asked for input on “How big can Grand Ronde be?” All I know about limits to growth would be resources available. There are, however, two things I would like to see included in Grand Ronde growth. Number one is “bees” and number two is “energy efficiency.” Honeybees and bumblebees pollinate billions of dollars of food crops annually in the United States …

military family and also to share more about Grand Ronde Tribal culture. Peters left on Sunday, Nov. 13. West Point was established in 1802 and is the oldest of the five American military service academies. Its purpose is to educate future officers for commission into the Army . Peters was asked to speak by his cousin and fellow Grand Ronde Tribal member Patrick Sorensen, who is an Army network operations chief with West Point connections. “I thought it was pretty cool that he asked me to do …