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.
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September 7, 1996 at the Tribal
Community Center.
Absentee Ballots have been mailed.
You may register to vote through
the Tribal Enrollment Office.
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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.
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