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8th Annual Northwest Indian
Storytelling Festival
7:30-10 p.m., Oct. 18-19; 1:30 p.m., Oct. 20
Most events at NAYA, 5135 NE Columbia Blvd., Portland, Ore.
Tickets: $5 to $20
FMI: Daniel Dixon, daniel@wisdomoftheelders.org, 503-775-4014
This year s Northwest Indian Storytelling Festival celebrates its eighth season
of Tribal storytelling in the Pacific Northwest.
Among Native people throughout North America, winter is storytelling time.
Wisdom and knowledge, traditional cultural values and spiritual qualities, oral
history and prophecy have been passed down from treasured Elders, generation
to generation, during the long nights.
This year s festival features some of the Northwest’s wisest tellers, includ­
ing Roger Fernandes (Lower Elwah S'Klallam), who captivates with vivid and
colorful tales, Elaine Grinnell (Jamestown S’Klallam), whose sense of humor is
a crowd-pleaser, Darlene Foster (Warm Springs/Wasco), who shares stories with
cultural artifacts and traditional first foods; and Toby Joseph ( Apache/Ute), whose
stories touch the heart.
Tribal drumming and singing, with opening prayer and commentary by trea­
sured Native Elders, are integral to the events. A silent auction will benefit the
Northwest Indian Storytellers Association (NISA).
A two-day Emerging Tribal Storytellers Workshop will be held Oct. 19-20,
culminating in the Emerging Storytellers matinee at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 20. Both
enrolled members and self-identified American Indians and Alaska Natives are
welcome to join NISA and register for this workshop.
NISA was formed in 2005 by Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. (WISDOM) to
encourage, preserve and strengthen traditional storytelling among Tribes in
Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and to share Tribal oral tradition and cultural arts
with our entire regional community.
This organization and its festival events help fulfill WISDOM’S mission of
American Indian cultural sustainability, education and race reconciliation.
Sponsors include Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA), Native
American Art Council (a council of the Portland Art Museum), Northwest Indian
Storytellers Association and Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. Funding is provided by the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition.
For more information about NISA, visit wisdomoftheelders.org.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Colby M. Ransier
From Poppa and Grammy (Ron and Connie James)
Tribal member Colby Ransier and Megan McLaughlin were united in marriage on
July 25 in Abigail’s Garden at the Abernethy Center in Oregon City, Ore.
It was a beautiful outdoor wedding attended by close family and friends. After the
ceremony, there was dinner, dancing, toasting the newlyweds and a fun photo booth.
The newlyweds reside in Portland, Ore.
Colby is the son of (Tribal member) Kenya and Mark Ransier of Molalla, Ore.
Megan is the daughter of the late Michelle Osbourne of Hubbard, Ore., and Rick
McLaughlin.
Colby and Megan - May God bless your marriage and may he always remain the
head of your home.
Babies! -
October 19
2013 1:00pm Grand Ronde Plankhouse
The Grand Ronde Canoe Family welcomes all of us coastal relatives to bring
the sacred featherdance to their plankhouse birthday ceremonies. Our canoe family
(SHWA'LA NI'ILLI DENE') encourages all whom has regalia to please join in on
our dance line. Also welcomed are all family members and or friends to come and
be of support. Support for all ceremonies during this beautiful gathering of many
tribes and nations coming together united in ceremony and
honoring our ancestors of these ways.
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Dexter Biondi
Dexter Keyden Biondi was born
Aug. 26, 2013, to Holly (Adams) Beugli
and Allio Biondi. He weighed 10 pounds,
2 ounces.
His grandparents are Gerald and
Stephanie Adams. Grandma loves you,
Dexter.
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