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Tribe Celebrates Restoration
Members unite to give thanks,
recognize effort and achievements.
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Celebration Tribal members Melissa Biery (left) and Shasta Wilson fancy
shawl dance for an admiring crowd at the Annual Grand Ronde Restoration Day
Pow-Wow, held in the new gymnasium at the Tribe's Education campus.
By Peta Tinda
The 19th Annual Tribal Restoration Day Celebration was a time to give
thanks for all the good things that come with Tribal recognition and sov
ereignty. It was also a time to look back and recognize the hard work and
effort it took to get the Tribe where it is today.
The yearly ceremony commemorates the Grand Ronde Restoration Act
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Native American Film Festival
Movie Star
Native actor Saginaw
Grant was honored
as the Best Support
ing Actor at the 27th
Annual Native
American Film
Festival in San
Francisco, California
on Saturday, Novem
ber 9. Grant was
honored for his work
as a medicine man in
the major motion ,
picture "Skinwalkers."
Grant received his
award from Grand
Ronde Tribal Elder
and former Tribal
Chair Kathryn
Harrison. The movie
also starred Native
actors Wes Studi and
Adam Beach.
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Friends Harrison also
spent time with friends and
well-known actor Gary Farmer.
Farmer starred in movies like
"Pow-wow Highway" and
"Smoke Signals."
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Lummi Nation Thanks Grand
Ronde For Tribe's Support
NCAI gathering is the setting for the meeting.
By Ron Karten
Lummi Nation Chairman Darrell
Hillaire said the gifts were given in
thanks to those who "helped us go
from the Lummi Nation to Ground
Zero."
He was referring to the Healing
Pole carved under the direction of
Lummi Master Carver Jewell
James, which traveled across the
country in late August and early
September. It was planted in the
Sterling Forest in New York, an 80
acre site an hour north of Ground
Zero and dedicated to victims of the
World Trade Center terrorist at
tacks. From the Confederated Tribes of
Grand Ronde, Tribal Council Sec
retary June Sell-Sherer and Tribal
Council member Valorie Sheker
Robertson received a framed collec
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