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APRIL 15, 2002
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Native Students Now Have A Home In The Big City
A grant from the Grand Ronde Tribe's Spirit Mountain Community Fund helps build Port
land State University a new Native American Student and Community center.
By Peta Tinda
A traditional feast and art exhibit marked the
opening of the Portland area's first Native
American Student and Community Center.
Ground was broken at Portland State Univer
sity for the new Native Center on April 5, thanks
in part to a grant for $250,000 from the Spirit
Mountain Community Fund. Tribal Elder and
former Tribal Council Chair Kathryn Harrison
was there to do the invocation ceremony. Sev
eral hundred Natives from around the area were
there as well as many Tribal leaders, elected of
ficials, student officers and community leaders
and dignitaries.
"Our Tribe knows the importance of a good
education," said Harrison. "I think this is a good
place. I just want people to know how proud
the Grand Ronde people are to be a part of this
- to be able to donate the money. It's good to
give back to the community."
"This project represents an important cultural
and educational asset for the community," said
Portland State President Daniel Bernstine. "It
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Steven Paul, 10, and sister Harmony Paul, 12, of Portland, wait for the festivities to begin at the
PSU Native American Student Center groundbreaking, held on April 5. Both danced in the opening
ceremony.
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Culture program hosts five-day archaeology course in Grand Ronde.
Students listen as Jeff Van Pelt points out a simulated burial site he and
other cultural resource specialists placed to give culture class students
experience with surveying similar sites. From left to right are Aushwol
Westley, Jeff Van Pelt, Amber Schulz, Julie Longenecker, Perri McDaniel
and Josh Levy.
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By Peta Tinda
Tribal members, archeologists
and anthropologists came to
gether in Grand Ronde recently, all
with the same purpose to save
and preserve the Native culture
that lies buried in the past.
About 30 aspiring archeologists
took the five-day, 40 hour course
that familiarized them with cul
tural site preservation. Jeff Van
Pelt, Program Manager of the Cul
tural Resources department of the
Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla, brought a team of spe
cialists in Native cultural preser
vation to teach the course.
Umatilla has one of the oldest and
most respected cultural preserva
tion programs in the nation, thanks
in great part to Van Pelt's work
over the past 16 years.
"It's really important to preserve
these sites because these sites can
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Construction on the Tribe's new Education Complex continues on
schedule despite recent heavy rains that covered the Gymnasium
floor.