First Quarter Incentive
Awards
Employee of the Quarter
Cherity Bloom-Miller
Employee Suggestion/Invention
Alissa Lane
Jeff Sweet
Performance Bonus
Midge Gilbert
Andrew Johanson
Danelle Smith
Wylie Stokes
Rose Stone
Special Acts or Services
DeAnn Brown
Dawn Cornejo
Cecelia DeAnda
Jeffrey Fuller
Gregg Gubuan
Karli Jay
Alicia Keene
Jenifer Metcalf
Will Metcalf
Marci Muschamp
Darin Rilatos
Selina Rilatos
Kimberlee Thomas
Photos by Diane Rodriquez
First quarter award winners include (front row) Kathy Kentta, Beverly Rector, Selina Rilatos, Dawn Cornejo, Cecelia DeAnda,
Verdene McGuire, Kimberlee Thomas, Midge Gilbert, Rose Stone (kneeling), Shyla Simmons and Sammy Bayya; (back row) Nick
Sixkiller, Trudy Rector, Will Metcalf, Misty Reed, Cecilia Tolentino, Karli Jay, Elke Johnson, Laura Bremner, Jeff Sweet, Alicia
Keene, Wylie Stokes, Danelle Smith, Andrew Johanson, Adrienne Crookes, Jeffrey Fuller, William Fisher and Darin Rilatos.
Lunch Certificate
Sara Bell-Tellez
Cherity Bloom-Miller
Laura Bremner
Dawn Cornejo
Joyce Dukes
William Fisher
Extra Effort
Sammy Bayya
Adrienne Crookes
Andrew Johanson
Kathy Kentta
Maggie McAfee
Verdene McGuire
Marci Muschamp
Misty Reed
Shyla Simmons
Nick Sixkiller
Cecilia Tolentino
Jeffrey Fuller
Karli Jay
Elke Johnson
Beverly Rector
Trudy Rector
Selina Rilatos
Lisa Taylor
Stewart Tufts
Incentive Awards Committee
Dana Burden-Rodriguez
Isaac DeAnda
Cheryl Duprau
Sharon Edenfield
Denise Garrett
Second Quarter
Incentive Awards
Employee of the Quarter
Laura Bremner
Special Acts or Services
Sherry Addis
Kevin Barker
Charlie Butler
Randy Christensen
Max Hoover
Jeremy Mason
Marcos Muniz-Strong
Marci Simmons
Robert Smith
Lisa Taylor
Alfred Warren
James Williams
Nora Williams-Wood
Tracey Worman
Second quarter award winners include (front row) Sherry Addis, Tamra Russell, Patti McKinney, Verdene McGuire, Nora
Williams-Wood, Rose Stone, Michael Gallagher, Lisa Taylor and Marcos Muniz-Strong; (back row) Anna Renville, Charlie
Butler, Andrew Johanson, Laura Bremner, Max Hoover, Stuart Whitehead, James Williams, Tracey Worman, Robert Smith,
Randy Christensen, Kevin Barker and Jeremy Mason.
Invitation from Oregon Chapter of Northwest Indian Storytellers Association
The Northwest Indian Storytellers
Association (NISA) and Wisdom of the
Elders Inc. welcome all American Indians
throughout Oregon to become members
of the Northwest Indian Storytellers Asso-
ciation (NISA) and learn the art and craft
of Tribal storytelling.
Extra Effort
Michael Gallagher
Rose Stone
Stuart Whitehead
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Lunch Certificate
During 2016 and 2017, registration
and membership is free.
Portland Area Office – Sherry Addis,
Katy Holland, Andrew Johanson,
Verdene McGuire, Patti McKinney,
Anna Renville, Tamra Russell and
Andulia WhiteElk
Whether you are a polished storyteller
or just beginning your journey of keeping
our stories alive, you are invited to join
NISA. Emerging Tribal storytellers will
have opportunities to tell stories from your
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Tribal heritage with the encouragement
and support of region’s finest elder story-
tellers who also serve as NISA advisory
council members.
For the past 11 years, they have passed
down the wisdom of their many years
through their stories, many of which
are threatened and endangered. In the
process, emerging storytellers have been
able to learn from them and then are able
to help to save and share threatened and
endangered traditional stories from their
own Tribal heritage.
As a member of NISA, you will be
invited to join us at this year’s 12 th annual
American Indian storytelling events and
workshops held in the winter in Port-
land. You also will be invited to attend
our annual NISA storytelling retreat and
gathering in Seattle the spring of 2017.
To become a NISA member, visit
wisdomoftheelders.org/nisa-membership-
form/.
Photos from October 2015 are at wisdo-
moftheelders.org/nisa-photos-2015-10/.
For more information or if you have
questions, e-mail NISA’s Oregon Coordi-
nator Janessa Colina (Cherokee) at nisa@
wisdomoftheelders.org.
