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8 AUGUST 1, 2002 Smoke Signals AUGUST 1, 2002 Smoke Signals Marce Norwest Puts Together Another Great Veterans' Pow-wow I SSWl ;:'lfil 9 S0 if. ' J V f " - ' T; CIS 0. C 3 S3 3 o Newly crowned Veterans' Royalty queens Ashley Tuomi (left) and Leaha Brisbois (far right) stand next to Princess Hope Lafferty (2nd from left) and Princess Stephanie Duran. Tuomi and Brisbois were crowned Friday night at the Veterans' Royalty Pag eant. Contestants gave speeches and were judged on events attended and partici pation throughout the year. Pow-wow continued from front page , walks, according to Scott. Two campsites also were improved. "They've been" working pretty dili gently," Scott said on Friday after noon (July 12). " ' LaBonte mentioned that with all the work, a few mouse holes re mained on the grounds. However, he said, in discussions about get ting rid of the holes, somebody noted, "they were probably here before we were," LaBonte said. Six-year-old Sanpoil Whitehead of the Siletz Tribe came with his family - his dad Craig served as this year's Whip master. White head said he scored some good food. "I got a snow cone, four Indian tacos, four hamburgers, and four of those frybread sandwiches." A man who called himself, Shu, from Eugene, enjoyed the show from the Elders' shelter on Sunday afternoon. Shu said that he comes to the Pow-wows every year for "the unity they bring. People are so together. There's a lot of respect among ev erybody." The Veterans' Color Guard intro duced the event each day. It now participates in some 50 events a year including parades, confer ences, and school and church events, according to Norwest. NrVA includes both Indians and non-Indians, and both partici pated, from the booths to the danc ing and they were well represented among the spectators as well. Over one hundred Veterans were intro duced after the Color Guard on Saturday. This all started for Norwest in 1 Korea. 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Y -4 4 A i h m ft 2001-02 Veterans' Royalty Halona Buter (left) and Ali Holsclaw Renea Garin and grandaughter Ebony Provost enjoying this ; year's Veterans' Pow-wow. !..:.. fc-. ....... ...... v". . I 11 I ' h 1' v K 1ft ir d I j- s (mssff ". t la.TT " ff.-i b 1 ' o l5 ..tr,,i v m R t ' r f ' & Veteran's Memorial Statue 34, f v.. . , f h -.4 7 -7 .-fc (J yf fH Pwif, it- 1" life - 5? W. Friendship Warm Springs' Traditional Dancer Leonard Bunski (left) had money and two beaded bags stolen from his car at the Veterans' Pow-wow. Tribal Elder Marce Norwest led a blanket dance that raised some of the money that was taker) from Bunski. Norwest and his wife Sharon reached into their own pockets to make up the difference. Theft Brings Out The Worst and the Best Of People B The news came as a great disappointment, and then brought out the best in the community. When Leonard Bunski, a Warm Springs Traditional Dancer, went back to his car on Saturday morning (July 13) of the Veterans' Pow-wow, the four doors were open. His wallet, a beaded gift from the Pyramid Lake Tribe, was gone, and with it, $700 inside. Two beaded bags, each of which took his wife six months to make, also were gone. "I didn't think nobody would bother it," said Bunski. "I was going to show the bags." Bunski was invited to the pow-wow when he was in Pendleton last weekend, and for a man who goe3 to pow-wows almost every weekend, it was not an invitation he had to think about twice. And it being a Veter ans' event made it even better. Bunski is a Navy Seal Veteran of battles in Panama, the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. But no matter how fat back he goes, he couldn't remember a single other instance of something like this happening. He remembers one pow-wow, just on thf United States side of the U.S7Canada border where he forgot to close his car door, went to the pow-wow, and when he re turned, all was as he left it. The theft was maybe more heartbreaking for his wife, Glenda, who spent six months making each of the 12" by 12" bags. One was yellow with a red rose in the middle; the other was dark blue and light blue with a big eagle in the center. Glenda's father is Chief of the Oweekeno Tribe in Vancouver, B.C., and her brother is Chief of the Klahoose Tribe of Cortes Island, B.C. Here in Grand Ronde, the Tribe held a donation dance and came up with $490 in contributions. Norwest and his wife, Sharon, came up with the additional $210 and presented Bunski and his wife with the $700 they lost. "They came to the pow-wow to make new friendships and renew old ones," Norwest said, "and I wanted to make sure they left with the same feelings." "I'll still enjoy pow-wows," Bunski said, "and still show our people we celebrate our tradition. This is just something I'll have to live with." Bigger than the theft, he added, "I promised my grandparents that I would always celebrate our tradition and I'll keep that promise." B
