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Marching The Grand Ronde Color Guard leads the Annual Red Ribbon Walk on Grand Ronde Road, held on a cold October 31. Tribal Council, parents, teachers and
students from Grand Ronde Elementary School marched from the Grand Ronde Elementary School to the Tribe's Governance Center. (More photos on page 7)
You Just Get That Feeling This image of a brilliant full moon was taken from a
landing on the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation and seems appropriate here with the
passing of the Hallows Eve. Tribal members gathered on the Rez at a unique memorial
being established for loved ones who have walked on.
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Roy Hawthorne Headlines
Veterans9 Memorial Fund Raiser
Code talker tells how the code developed.
By Ron Karten
Roy Hawthorne is a tall, thin
Veteran of one of the military's
most elite corps. He has a strong
voice, a lot of presence and a real
public face. Now a Baptist minis
ter, he said he is "still a soldier, only
wearing a different uniform."
He came to Grand Ronde at the
beginning of November to support
the Veterans' Memorial's fund rais
ing effort, and in that regard, his
presence helped raise an additional
$3,000 for the $360,000 project.
He not only starred in this latest
fund raising effort, but also waived
his usual $4,000 fee for speaking,
and gave back the $400 hono
rarium provided him by the Cul
tural department to help defray his
expenses.
"All of my comrades to be we
were all 13-15. We were in school,
mostly government boarding
schools, and at these schools there
was a (and he grasped for the word)
policy that said, the Navajo lan
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Roy Hawthorne His road to
success, and the nation's in World War
II, was the Navajo language. A few
years earlier, government boarding
schools were trying to eradicate the lan
guage. They punished Hawthorne and
his schoolmates for using it.