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About Smoke signals. (Grand Ronde, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1996)
American Indian Stamps The U.S. Postal Service has issued five 32 cent American Indian Dance commemorative stamps for sale nationwide. The five dances represented on the stamps are the Hoop, Fancy, and Traditional dances - performed at pow wows and considered Pan Indian; the Raven dance performed by a number of Northwest Coast tribes; and the Butterfly dance - per formed by Southwest Pueblo groups. STAMP ITEMS AVAILABLE: OPEN EDITION: $29.95 Item 8852. This pane of 20 commemorative stamps is hand-signed by the stamp artist, Keith Birdsong, and includes a certifi cate of authenticity. FIRST DAY SOUVENIR: $14.95 Item 8850. The First Day Souvenir is a beautifully designed sou venir folder packed full of historical information. It holds a pane of 20 stamps with an official first day cancellation. POSTER: $12.95 Item 8862. The 18" x 28" poster showcases the five Indian dances and includes a strip of the five stamps. STAMPFOLIO: $9.95 Item 9875. This color ful folio includes a strip of five stamps and a full length CD of Indian dance recordings by Cedartree Singers and Smithsonian Folkways. COMMEMORATIVE PANEL: $7.95 This prod uct is an 8-1 12" x 1 1" panel with historical informa tion, engravings, and a strip of the five stamps. MAIL ORDER ONLY: Include item , quantity, and $3.20 for shipping and handling. Send check, money order or credit card information to PHILATELIC FULFILLMENT CENTER, U.S. Postal Service, P.O. Box 419636, Kansas City, MO 64179-0996 or call 1-800-STAMP-24 for more information. You may purchase a 20 stamp sheet of 32 cent stamps for $6.40 from your local post of fice. These you may actually use on envelopes, even though they are pretty enough to frame and keep forever. (MssSXftSSSZKi September 7, 1996 at the Tribal Community Center. Absentee Ballots have been mailed. You may register to vote through the Tribal Enrollment Office. CI.' -If : i' Tribal heritage showcased at new Legends By Chris Mcrcier Spirit Mountain Casino's new restaurant, Legends, has not failed to live up to its name. While strongly recommended among the appetizers is the roasted gar lic and foccacia bread, one should not fail to take a gander at the surroundings. Suddenly, the name Legends becomes entirely appropriate. Through the aid of tribal Elders, outsiders, and on one occasion the Smithso nian Institution, Legends has been able to provide visitors with a glimpse of Grand Ronde's surprisingly illustrious past. Most of the regional artifacts are in the form of enlarged reproductions of older photos, ranging from the first decade of the century to the 1940's. Oddly, a good por tion of the pictures are not as "Indian" as one would be inclined to think, i.e., no bow and arrows, moccasins, buffalo skulls, etc. Rather, the photos mainly depict the clean cut, idealistic-prone inhabitants of the early 20th century, when women wore only dresses (with futures as housewives being their expectations), and men were too seri ous to even smile for the camera. But make no mistake, the people in the pictures are Indian. With one or two exceptions, the photos are primarily portraits. Some arc family portraits; some school, of Chemawa's class of 1910 (only half a dozen students) and Cloverdale; and there is even one of a little known all-Indian baseball team which rep resented Grand Ronde some seventy to eighty years ago. Among the more notable are photos of Molalla Kate, who served as a housekeeper to Dr. John McLoughlin, and her husband Louis Chantelle, a horseback mailman. Just about every local family of prominence is featured in some of the pictures; the Mcrcicrs, the Lenos, the Labontcs, th'i? Vivcttcs, and the Norwests seem to be the most evident. And on numerous occasions, a handful of Elders still alive today can be glimpsed among he young faces. The Smithsonian Institution remains respon sible for the depiction of a tirncless moment in Grand Ronde's history, the signing of the Dec laration of Allegiance to the United States fol lowing World War I. This photo had been col lecting dust in the Smithsonian's archives, and was donated via the National Museum of the American Indian. Bernadine and Melvin Hatfield were kind enough to supply two of the display's relics: a pair of baskets nearly a century old each, hav- MARTHA JANE'S BASKETS DONATED. Left: Tammy Cook, ing been hand-crafted by Martha Jane, whose Casino Guest Services Manager. In front: Kathryn Harrison! likeness rests in the form of a bronze statue Tribal Council Vice-Chair, and Bernadine and Melvin Hatfield, decorating the lobby of the Casino. who generously donated the handmade baskets. W H if H . . V VI EM :., o n - - it I . i i i , ........ . 5. , , ... - , . ' " " "' '- " 1 1 1 mi lull
