OCTOBER 1, 2004
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New Council Newly elected Grand Ronde Tribal Council members (from left) Wesley "Buddy" West, Angie Blackwell and Chris Mercier took their oaths of office
on Wednesday, September 15 at the Tribal Governance center. Of3,713votes cast 45 percent went to West, Blackwell and Mercier. This year, 63 percent of Tribal
voters cast ballots. The number of registered voters was up to 2, 128 from 2020 at last year's elections.
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National Museum Of The American
Indian Opens In Washington, D.C.
The Smithsonian's newest site is located on the Capital Mall.
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Timeline The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
officially opened on Tuesday, September 2 1 .The Kosota limestone clad exterior of
the newest national museum evokes the windswept mesas of the desert south
west. Thousands of Natives, including a delegation from Grand Ronde, marched
in a grand procession down the Capitol Mall during opening ceremony held at the
east-facing entrance of the building, shown here.
By Peta Tinda
Thousands of Native Americans
converged on the National Mall in
Washington, D.C. to celebrate the
opening of the National Museum
of tlie American Indian, the new
est of the Smithsonian buildings.
It occupies the last spot on the
Capitol Mall.
Members of nearly 500 Native
Nations, including a delegation
from the Grand Ronde Tribe,
walked, danced and marched down
the Capitol Mall as part of an im
mense procession.
Estimates for crowd turnout ran
as high as 80,000 people.
Thousands of other people, in
cluding tourists, office workers and
spectators, watched as the proces-
See MUSEUM
on page 6