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HISTORIC CAMPAIGN
JosephShangarettawasaKalapuya
Chief, a soldier in the Cayuse Wars, and
he signed the Treaty of 1855. He was
president of the first Indian Council and
held many of his elected offices in the
Grand Ronde community over the course
of his lifetime.
This prominent tribal leader is
buried in the Holmes family cemetery in
an unmarked grave.
Recently, his descendants
organized a campaign to gather funds for
a headstone to mark this site for future
generations. The goal is to raise
approximately $3,000 by Memorial Day.
Special thanks to the initial contributors:
Cheryl Brooks, Daniel Haller, Linda
Murphy, and Bud Davidson, husband of
Marion Haller Davidson.
Ifyouwouldlike to make a financial
pledge or to obtain further information
contact June Olson at 1 -800-422-0232 or
897-2279.
UNITY Earth Ambassador Program
Successful Elders1 Brunch
Enjoyed By Many
By Jim Holmes
The Wellness Component hosted and Elders'
Appreciation Brunch on Sunday, January 24, 1993, at the
Community Center to honor our elders and give them an
opportunity to express their ideas and concerns to Tribal
Executive Officer Jim Willis.
Some of the ideas the elders provided included a
handicap equipped bus or van, first-aid and CPR training,
and a plan to move the Senior Mealsite to the Community
Center.
After the discussion, the elders enjoyed an exciting
afternoon of Bingo, hosted by Merle Leno, Duke Olson, and
Marty Attcberry. Prizes for Bingo were graciously donated
by Scott Stoyles at Anderson's Sporting Goods, The Red
Apple Store, McKnight's Flowers and Deli, Little Feather
Tees, Myrna Brandon, Cindy and Lee Butler, Gary and Nona
Jackson, Cecile Kneeland, Leonctte Galligher, Sharon Dizick,
Gunny's Gym, Claudia Leno, Chips Tom, and Bonnie Martin.
The staff needed for this event worked on a volunteer
basis and helped to provide a delicious brunch and relaxed
atmosphere forthe elders to enjoy. Thosevolunteers included
Kitchen Boss Mark Cook, Tammy Galligher, Tracy Hubbell,
Leonette and Courtney Galligher, Sharon and Tina Dizick,
Cindy Butler, Rochelle Andrews, Linda Smith, Tom Bean,
SimorQ)pley,MikeReibach,ButchLaBonte,LisaHayward,
Faith Jacob, Merle Leno, Marty Atteberry, Duke Olson, Lee
Butler, Vernon Kennedy, Buddy Haskins, Bonnie Martin,
and James Holmes.
A flyer will be sent out announcing the day and time
for the brunch to be held in March.
United National
Indian Tribal Youth
(UNITY) has begun a new
program directed at the
environment and preserving
Mother Earth. The Earth
Ambassador Program has a
group of 48 American Indian
and Alaska Native youth who
range from ages 16 to 24.
They come from 23 states
and represent 40 tribes and
Alaska Native villages.
In their National
Youth Agenda, the "Healing
Generation's Journey to the
Year 2000", Native youth
linked a great sacred circle,
the values of spirituality,
unity, Native heritage,
sovereignty, families,
individuals, education,
health, local economies,
sobriety, and service-
beginning with the environment which links all the family
of humanityand pledged to seek to heal themselves in
order to heal Mother Earth.
For the sake of future generations, Native youth
have accepted the responsibility of protecting and renewing
the environmentto ensure that there will be clean air, pure
water, and land in this great nation, free of toxic pollutants.
As a means To prepare and assist our youth in addressing
these critical environmental concerns, the Earth Ambassador
Program was createdin October 1990 through the cooperative
efforts of UNITY and the Administration for Native
Americans.
ConsistentwithitsphilosophyofencouragingNative
youth to speak and act on their own behalf, UNITY'S Earth
Ambassador Program focuses on ideas and environmental
concerns and issues considered by Native youth to be
important.
Key program objective are to :
Focus the Earth Ambassadors' intellectual talents on the
tasks of devising ways in which the ENVIRONMENT goal
Be Aware.,.
Commit and Care!
Protect Mother Earth!
A public service announcement provided by this
newspaper, United National Indian Tribal Youth, Inc. and
the UNITY Earth Ambassadors as part ol the "Youth Can
Change the World' environmental awareness campaign.
For more Information, contact UNITY P.O. Box 25042
Oklahoma City, OK 73125 (405) 424-30)0.
and strategies set forth in the
National Youth Agenda can
be implemented at all levels,
from local to global.
Broaden the Earth
Ambassadors' knowledge
and understanding of key
environmental issues from
both a traditional and
contemporary point of view.
Furnish the Earth
Ambassadors with a forum
to provide their input
regarding current and
emerging environmental
issues to those who make
decisions affecting their lives.
Provide American Indian
and Alaska Native youth with
a mechanism which fosters
their efforts to communicate
and enlist others in their
vision of the future.
Through efforts within their local communities, the
Earth Ambassadors will learn by doing. The knowledge
gained through their experiences what works and what
does not will help them refine strategies contained within
the National Youth Agenda. By sharing their knowledge,
expertise, and visions with others into the future, they will
make valuable contributions to the future of native America.
Plans are being made for the Earth Ambassador
Circle of 1993 training to be held in New Mexico in June.
The training will take place the week preceding the National
Unity Conference June 25-29. The Earth Ambassador
Program is among the nation's premier youth environmental
group. It trains American Indian and Alaska Native youth
to become spokespersons in promoting a healthy environment
on local, state, and national levels.
The primary purpose of the Earth Ambassador
Program is to increase people's awareness about the
importance of taking care of the environment.
Said Earth Ambassador Hunter Genia of the
Chippewa Tribe, "Being in this program has lifted my hope."
DID YOU KNOW?
The energy saved by recycling one aluminum can could
operate a TV for three hours.
Shade trees can reduce the cost of air conditioning by
50 percent
Each of us throws away an average of one pound of
aluminum per year.
An average person uses 100 pounds of glass each yean
Glass is 100 recyclable.
Using a low-flow shower head can cut water use in the
shower by 50 percent
It takes 17 trees to make one ton of newspaper.
For every three-foot stack of newspapers recycled, one
tree is saved. A three-foot stack weighs 100 pounds.
Every ton of recycled offictpaper saves approximately
380 gallons of oil
The energy saved by recycling one glass bottle could
light a 60 watt bulb for four hours.
Glass produced from recycled glass reduces related
pollution by 20 percent
Half of all the paper used in the United States is used
for packaging.
: Packaging from consumer goods makes up about one-
third of the nation's trash.
The average American family produces about 100
: pounds of trash each week.
Of the garbage Americans throw away, half could be
recycled. That's enough to fill a football stadium from
top to bottom each day.
Americans use more than 65 billion soda cans each
year.
Every minute, 55,000 cans nationwide are recycled.
Americans toss out enough glass bottles and jars per
; month to fill up a giant skyscraper.
If each commuting care carried one more person, it
would save 18 million gallons of gas a day.
Recycling half of the paper used in the world today
would free 20 million acres of forest land from paper
production.