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Spilyay Tymoo
December 14
Art Show at the museum
‘Large enough to
serve you... Small
enough to care’
866-299-0644
The 2022 Tribal Member Art Show
features 45 paintings, like Sorayama
(above) by Travis Bobb; beadwork, like
Good Medicine and the Rose by Terry
Lynn Stradley (right); plus drawings,
mixed-media, weavings, video and more!
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Around Indian Country
Cowlitz campaign to push out rival casinos
Since 2016, the Cowlitz
Indian Tribe has paid mil-
lions to a Portland consult-
ing firm and its owners to
protect its highly successful
ilani Casino Resort from un-
wanted competition—
namely other tribes looking
to expand their gaming op-
erations in Oregon.
Cowlitz leaders turned to
the consultants Matthew
Rossman and Bruce Studer
and their company—best
known for a nearly two-de-
cade quest to build the state’s
first private, non-tribal ca-
sino over the objections of
tribes in Oregon.
At the urging of an in-
fluential tribal leader, the
late David Barnett, the
tribe entered into a contract
paying from $30,000 to
$50,000 a month to R&S
Strategy Group or to its
owners, Rossman and
Studer.
According to a copy of
the agreement and records
of tribal meetings, as well
as
inter views
with
Rossman, the tribe aimed
to stave off competitors,
particularly the Confeder-
ated Tribes of Grand
Ronde and the Confeder-
ated Tribes of Siletz Indi-
ans in Oregon.