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A Publication of the Grand Ronde Tribe
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A Long Way From Home Tribal member Bobby Mercier traveled with a
delegation of Tribal members to New York City in June for an annual ceremony
at the Museum of Natural History that reunites members with "Tomanowos."
Tribal Members Reunited With
Tomanowos In New York City
By Brent Merrill
New York, N.Y. People from the Ronde to live. With them came their
sky live in our Native legends . stories.
Sky people were an important part Tomanowos or the Willamette
of the lives of the Clackamas Tribal Meteorite as those in the dominant cul-
people who, like many Tribes in the ture refer it to - is one of the largest
Northwest, were brought to Grand Tomanowos continued on page 4