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About Smoke signals. (Grand Ronde, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1997)
4 July 18, 1997 SMOKE SIGNALS 9" A- Autumn Highdesertwolf would like to wish her father John a Happy Belated Father's Day. , ' ' ' ' : w I i I '"A . Autumn speaks for Jesse, Brandy, Kyle, Josiah and mom too! "Happy Birthday, Sweet 16 Kandee" Happy Birthday Kandee! We are so proud of you! Kandee Little is a junior at South Salem High School. This summer she is work ing part time at the Smoke Signals office, and playing softball for the Saxon Slyders. This is Kandee's 9th year catching for fast pitch soft ball. Kandee lives for softball and hopes her skill and enthusiasm help her to get a scholarship into col lege to play professional womens' softball and to get a degree in ei- L ther physical therapy or education. She would also like to coach softball. Kandee has played on many different teams. Last year she played lead catcher for JV and backup catcher for Varsity. Now she is on a 16 and under ASA team. She was picked at the Bend Summer Showdown tournament as Most Valuable Player on her team. She has been Team Captain of most of her teams, and has as high as a 500 batting average. She is the voice of her team. Her coach, Scott McCormick is forever asking, "Is there a way to turn her off?" She loves the sport and we are very proud to be her parents! We support you all the way Kandee, so GO FOR IT! Love Mom, Dad, Michael and Brandi i If ""-X i - Thanks to Vets Coastal Indians recover lost history Thank you Buddy Haskins and Marce Norwest for the "New United States Flag" flying at the Community Center. The old one was getting a little shabby. We appre ciate the good deed by the Vets! & if - 4 i ji y? ft '7:. ULXf i I Elders from six Indian tribes came together at the University of Oregon (UO) in Eugene this spring in a historic gift-giving ceremony that has already begun to renew old alliances. The documents were unearthed at the Smithsonian Institution and in the National Archives through a cooperative venture between the Coquille Indian Tribe, the UO, and the Smithsonian Institution. The Coquille Indian Tribe hosted the first potlatch and the largest representative gath ering of the coastal tribes held in more than 150 years on the University of Oregon cam pus. They used the traditional gift-giving ceremony to share copies of more than 60,000 forgotten government papers that document the first encounters between West Coast Indians and Whites. Coquille Tribal Chairman Ed Metcalf presented leaders of the six tribes attending the potlatch with copies of the Southwest ern Oregon Research Project collection, which documents their shared history. Council members, elders and family repre sentatives from the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw; the Cow Creek Band of Umpquas; the Confed erated Tribes of Siletz; the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde; and the Tolowa Tribe also attended the potlatch. "This program gave the UO a tremendous opportunity to add to Oregon history. The invitation to examine materials at the Smith sonian was as unparalleled opportunity for UO graduate students to get first-hand ex perience in the nations archives," says Steadman Upham, UO vice provost for re search and dean of the UO Graduate School. The Southwestern Oregon Research Project gave Wasson, his niece Denni Mitchell, Jason Younker, and Shirod Younker all UO students and members of the Coquille Tribe broad access to the Smithsonian and the National Archives to search for their past. "The history books have not told the true story of the devastating impacts of white settlement on the Oregon coast tribes," says Jon Erlandson, a UO professor of anthro pology who worked with the students. Wasson wants to use the documents to correct the very different accounts that ap pear in history books and no historic mark ers in Oregon. The first step was to donate the material to the UO's Knight Library where the information will be available to scholars and historians. Besides correcting the historical record, Wasson and his colleagues also expect the recent potlatch at which the lost records were shared will encourage better coopera tion among the tribes in the future. The potlatch, Wasson hopes, also will serve as a first step in smoothing old tribal animosities. He views the gathering in may on the UO campus as a beginning step in the development of a coastal tribe coalition that will collaborate on a wide variety of issues. The recovered records show, for example, that Oregon history is misstated on many state park signs. Wasson says tribal coop eration is already producing some changes: A sign at Port Orford, a city which has long been known for a skirmish at Battle Rock, is being changed from a narrative of heroic white setters withstanding a vicious Indian attack to a more accurate, historically docu mented version. The Southwestern Oregon Research Project uncovered more material than any one expected, but participants agree that it only scratched the surface of what still lies hidden in the boxes and microfilm at the National Archives and the Smithsonian In stitution. Researchers believe there is much more material about what happened after the federal forced the tribes onto a reserva tion at Yachats in the mid 1 880's. weaaing ueievration The happiness of a smile; The embrace of a friend or loved one; The gathering of friends and family; The union of two people in marriage; Love in itself. Please join us as we celebrate the union of our lives; In the Spirit of our Great Grandfather; In the Traditional Indian way; Joined on this day are Aleta R. Roy and Deitrich D. Peters By Don Moccasin The ceremony will take place in Grand Ronde Oregon, on the Reservation. Friday the 8th day of August 1997 at 8:00 P.M. There will be a reception following the wedding ceremonies, at the community center. Please R.S.VP. as we would like to accommodate as many as possible. Home address 1520 Jackson S.E. Albany, Oregon 97321 Day time phone 926-5387 (Drug and alcohol FREE) J
