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Tribal Government & News Educational meetings set for June 6 constitutional amendment election 04.07.2014 Ron Karten Elections , Events Tribal Council Chairman Reyn Leno announced that educational meetings regarding the June 6 constitutional election will be held Saturday, April 12, in Portland and Eugene The Portland meeting will be held at 11 a.m. in Room ST107 on the Sylvania campus of Portland Community College, 12000 S.W. 49th Place. The Eugene meeting will be held at 5 p.m. in the Lane …

, but preferably 8 inches by 11 inches. Contestants need to put their name, parents' name, phone number, age, grade and school on the back of the art. Entries should be submitted to the Governance Center front desk in the Veterans Powwow Flier Contest folder. Deadline for entries is Sunday, March 10. Prizes will be awarded for the top three submissions. First-place winner will have their design used on the 2013 Marce Norwest Veterans Powwow flier. For more information, contact Reina Nelson …

Thompson; siblings, Tonya Rich and Kyler Thompson; father, David Thompson Sr.; grandmother, Kathryn Harrison; grandchildren, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins. He was preceded by his mother, Jeannette Thompson, in 2015. Viewing was held Saturday, June 13, at Full Gospel Lighthouse Church, 24697 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde. A Celebration of Life will be held noon to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20, also at Full Gospel Lighthouse Church. His final resting place will be next to his mother …

Culture Community Fund seeking extras for filming of commercials 06.29.2022 Dean Rhodes Spirit Mountain Community Fund Spirit Mountain Community Fund is filming new commercials to highlight the good that the Grand Ronde Tribe does with casino dollars, as well as help to make a stronger connection between the Tribe, Spirit Mountain Casino and Community Fund. Filming will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, July 12-13, and the fund is looking for community members to help by filling in as extras …

mother walked on two years ago. “She would be very proud of her son, but it makes me feel good being up on the wall.” Kleffner served 10 years in the Navy from 1980 to 1990 as an interior communications technician. For Tribal descendant Steven Rife Jr., who served in the Navy from 2000 to 2006 as a gas turbine systems technician and was stationed at Bremerton, Wash., and Pearl Harbor, seeing his name added to the Navy pillar was “exciting.” “It’s kind of exciting that I will always have a place …

Executive Director Jack McGowan in November 2001. “Kathryn Harrison manifests the best we can be as people and as Oregonians.” She was the first Native American recipient of the Oregon History Maker honor in 2012 given out by the Oregon Historical Society. She also received the Betty Roberts Women in Leadership Award from Emerge Oregon, a Portland-based training program for Democratic women that same year. Harrison received honorary degrees from Portland State University in 2003, the University …

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. The program will be funded by earnings off our Tribal Housing Endowment and will have no impact on gaming revenues. For 2016, the Tribe has set aside $120,000 for the new program and staff is working hard to have it in place by June 2016 if not sooner. The draft program and policies will be presented to Tribal Council in the coming months. Once Tribal Council has approved the proposals, the Housing Department will launch the program and will work with staff to notify Tribal members through Smoke Signals …

forward to the day that I'll be allowed to join the rest of my family as a Grand Ronde Tribal member. Thank you for supporting the constitutional amendment. Jessie Jones Roll #TBD Dear Smoke Signals : I am urging everyone to vote "yes" on the amendment issue before us. I believe that voting "yes" is in the best interest of our Tribe and encourage you to vote in the affirmative. A vote of "yes" will affirm the rights of denied Grand Ronde who possess at least 1/16 th blood to exercise their rights …

of service, as well as time and place from Hawaii in 1941 to 21 st century Iraq and Afghanistan. Albany resident David Russell, 96, survived the Day of Infamy sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii that saw his ship, the USS Oklahoma, sunk by Japanese torpedoes. He survived, but 429 of his fellow shipmates were killed or missing in action. Russell’s presence was a highlight of the Saturday afternoon session of the powwow, which saw 64 veterans line up and state their branch of service and years …