SEPTEMBER 1, 2005
2005 Grand Ronde Contest Pow-Wow Insert
Above Jessica Broncheau - Umatilla
won $100 for taking first place in the
Junior Girls' Traditional competition.
Right Sky Miller - Puyallup competed
in the Junior Boy's Grass competition.
Below Left Mitchell Lee Hawk - Yaka
ma. Below Center Logan Butler-Siletz.
Below Right Girls from the Junior Girls
Jingle category wait for the results of their
competition.
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The last time, there was no tent
and it was so hot. I'm going to tell
her for next year."
With the covering, daylight was
muted and at night, too little light
made photography and even enjoy
able viewing difficult, according to
some in attendance, but it didn't
seem to limit the number of com
petitive dancers (200) who showed
up, or the 18 visiting drum groups
that complemented the three host
drums - Blacklodge from the state
of Washington, Perfect Storm and
Blackstone, both from Canada
- signed for the event.
Grand Ronde dance winners
included Leland Butler, Jr., 11,
who won 2nd in the Junior Boys'
Traditional; Marcel Allen, 6, who
took 4th in the Junior Boys' Grass;
and Marcel Orrin John Allen, 15,
who placed 2nd in the Teen Boys'
Grass. Nineteen from Grand
Ronde participated in 12 different
events.
"It is very nice," Tribal Elder
Charlotte Gray, "but too com
mercialized. Let's get back to the
olden days when we sang songs
and danced ourselves. We don't
need to pay for the dancers."
Speaking of commercials, 45
merchandise vendors seven
of them Grand Ronde Tribal
members - sold photo buttons,
drums, t-shirts, dried and smoked
salmon, beadwork, artwork, a dra
matic poster showing how Indian
reservations have shrunk from
pre-Columbus days, and count
less other items. An unofficial
survey found many happy with
the weekend's commerce.
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feet Tribal member Kenny
ScabbyRobe (right) em
ceed the 2005 Annual Grand
Ronde Pow-wow. Scabby
Robe was asked to emcee
after the passing of respect
ed Grand Ronde Tribal Elder Roy Track (above left) who emceed the pow-wow in previous years
Dean Smith (Oneida), whose
nickname also is, Oneida, said
sales have been "pretty good all
weekend. I'm happy with the
conduct of the pow-wow." He was
back for his sixth pow-wow.
Fifteen vendors - seven Grand
Ronde Tribal members - sold a
range of foods, said Tribal member
Jackie Provost, the Pow-wow Board
Member in charge of vendors. "We
select for a variety," she said. "And
they're all friendly. They all help
each other. And they're pretty
independent."
When the new pow-wow grounds
are established, Provost said,
"Hopefully, we'll be able to put
all the vendors in a circle so that
everyone has a good spot."
The Tribe hosted 1,200 for
a salmon dinner on Saturday
night and fed breakfast to 600 on
Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Down the road, St. Michael
Church held a "family and friends"
barbeque on Saturday afternoon
that drew nearly 100 for a picnic
delight of salmon, fresh corn and,
of course, the hotdogs and ham
burgers that are a must on sunny
summer afternoons.
Following the passing this year
of Tribal member Roy Track,
long time Master of Ceremonies
for Grand Ronde pow-wows, the
Tribe enlisted Kenny ScabbyRobe
(Blackfeet) from White Swan,
Washington who has hosted pow
wows in the U.S. and Canada.
"You can't meet any better people
than at Grand Ronde," he said.
And no truer
words were ever
said for Tammy
Cook's adopted
son, Anthony,
nine this month.
Cook was married
to Tribal member
Mark Cook, who
passed away in
1999.
Anthony was
less than a year
old when the fos
ter care system
took him away
from his family,
but Cook put his
birthday picture
in the Smoke
Signals, and the
boy's grandmother,
Marsha Dyer, said
they were ready to try to arrange
a reunion this year, anyway, and
it all worked out so that Anthony
met his brother, Tribal member
Robby, 16, and sisters Amanda,
14, and Brianna, 12, also Tribal
members, who live in Eugene, for
the first time at pow-wow.
"They were expecting to see a
baby," said Cook, "as they remem
bered him."
Missing from the reunion was
Tribal member Samantha, 11,
who was visiting her grandfather
in South America at the time.
"It was great," said Dyer. "It was
really fun."
"Our children are our future,"
said Tribal Chairwoman Cheryl
Kennedy as the pow-wow started
on Saturday. H
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