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About Smoke signals. (Grand Ronde, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 2002)
121 MiwmramfciwuuyH fe LtliiD mil c E 78 CHASTA -06 UMPQUA Li S66 MOLALLA Vj January KALAPUYA N15P 2002 JANUARY 15, 2002 MOCC ROGUE RIVER 503-879-5211 1-800422-0232 A Publication of the Grand Ronde Tribe www.grandronde.org .SEBf.., , toff We Celebrate Our Youth i $ t " Q. V - c 3 1 :r:..r. r- O -. -)! "' ' . ... .'. s: ' -- Strike -Tribal youth Jade Colton tests her skills at Starlight Lanes in Dallas. This is one of many activities Before & After Care provided during winter break. V i'7 " 1 J o " .,nt J University of Oregon - 1.1pf, 5 K "? ' Received on: 01-16-02 J p " Smoke signals 7 it C v T. r - few Library HI 1 4 -vJ 7 He's Got Hops Tribal member Nick Kimsey takes advantage of a screen set for him by fellow Tribal member HighPine Eastman to score two points for the Willamina Bulldog's junior varsity basketball team during their loss to Amity on Saturday, January 5 in Willamina. Tribal Youth from the Northwest Gather at Leadership Academy Smoke Signals staffers showoff their skills with peanut butter and jelly. mmmm rf 4 h ;j: 1 L?t ; t 0 Welcome Grand Ronde Tribal Chair Cheryle Kennedy welcomes Tribal youth education kids from all over the northwest to a daylong seminar on December 1 1 at Spirit Mountain Casino. The theme for the seminar was to teach young people about leadership and the role they will play as future Tribal leaders. fj. Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde PRESORTED j Community of Oregon FIRST-CLASS MAIL Sw 9615 Grand Ronde Road y POSTAGE PAID M Grand Ronde, Oregon 97347 SALEM, OR ff Address Service Requested PERMIT NO. 178 Serials Dept. - Khi9ht Library 1239 UNrUERSrTY OF OREGON BXBE OR 9?403-1205 By Chris Mercier Q; , uite frankly, I don't know what exactly Peta Tinda and I accomplished December 11 in the Kalapuya room of Spirit Mountain Casino. We were there to talk about our careers in journalism and to share some of our experiences. The Native Youth Leadership Academy, they called it ("they" be ing Lisa Leno, Youth Education Supervisor and Richard Sohappy, Youth Education Specialist), a gathering of Native high school stu dents from throughout the region Makahs, Coeur d'Alene, Black feet and even the occasional Grand Ronde Tribal member. We simply came to understand the whole af fair as an exercise in perspective, and to a degree, a rare opportunity to get up on bur soapboxes. The two of us had spent an hour or so the day before brainstorming. What, we wondered, exemplifies journalism these days? Or better yet, what will give a clear understand ing to young minds of the tribula tions a typical reporter must endure during the span of a single day? Journalism is a profession of spe cifics, an odd talent that draws from an unusual combination of knacks and personality quirks. Like a base ball player, or a golfer, who pos sesses the oddest attribute of being able to take a rod or stick and smack a little ball great distances, all the while not necessarily being an ath lete yet having a true talent none theless. We may not be writers (in my case), exactly, nor photogra phers (in Peta's case), exactly. We are quite simply, journalists. But I do suppose if there is one quality inherent in aspiring and successful writers and journalists it must definitely be an eye for detail. Or at least I explained that to the students. They understood the point vividly when I produced from my bag of tricks one loaf of bread, jars of peanut butter and grape jelly, and handed out pens and pa pers, assigning them the simple task of describing, in writing, how to make a PB & J sandwich. Who says writing is easy now? (The sandwich idea I stole, hon estly, from my college days when one of our professors sprung the exact same exercise on us.) Throughout our three workshops we basically repeated ourselves, introducing the sessions with the sandwich exercise. And Peta would follow that up by handing out cop ies of the Bill of Rights, explaining their significance. And how some of Benjamin Franklin's ideas for purer democracy were inspired and cultivated after a journey to the Iroquois Nation, whose form of gov ernment he evidently deemed su perior to all others. I myself at tempted to explain in recent phe nomenon such as the Pentagon Papers and George W. Bush's at continued on page 6 z c a; CO .
