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First Snow, Then Ice, Then More Snow The New Year's Day storm gave Tribal employees three-and-a-half days of administrative leave, keeping many homebound
for a week or more, but as Smoke Signal's photographer Toby McClary discovered in his shot of Agency Creek, it also gave us one more memory of how beautiful nature can be.
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THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES
OF THE GRAND RONDE
COMMUNITY OF OREGON
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Sign Of The Times Snow covers the Tribal Health & Wellness Center follow
ing Oregon's worst winter storm in 10 years. A mixture of snow and freezing rain
made road conditions dangerous in the Grand Ronde Valley. Experts say the storm
cost the state economy over 10 million dollars.
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde
Community of Oregon
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Grand Ronde, Oregon 97347
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Institute For Tribal Government
Serving Across The Country
Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse extends
her record of leadership.
By Ron Karten
One of the great champions
of the Confederated Tribes
of Grand Ronde also serves
Indians across the country with a
vital teaching program the In
stitute for Tribal Government.
Former Oregon Congresswoman
Elizabeth
Furse, who
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Council Administrative Assistant
Lauri Smith, who also attended.
"We were very much the first kids
on the block," she said.
"It was really informative," said
Tribal Council member Jan D.
Reibach. "To this day, there are still
things that come to mind from those
days on legal issues and water is-
was instru
mental 20
years ago in
the local effort that regained fed
eral recognition for the Tribe, has
in recent years devoted her energy
to building better Indian govern
ments across the nation.
Nearly a dozen Grand Ronde
Tribal leaders attended the pilot
session in 2001, according to Tribal
sues.
The loose leaf book of information
provided for that first outing for the
Institute is a library in itself of
Tribal treaties, executive orders,
U.S. Constitution issues important
to Indians, a history of federal In
dian policy and that's not even half
of it.
Government continued on page 5