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About Smoke signals. (Grand Ronde, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 2005)
OCTOBER 1, 2005 ' ..'1 v , 7 r uuiibauuii ui nits uiaiiu nvnuc imue -jjov" , era v . 1 , i V;.v uV.- Ml 4? - A 5' V t ,i i tt it O 4s ti f i'i : !! . .-.i rinn .ii.iii.i.i an. ii. i ..J fc II www.grandronde.org t )' "l ii " I j v:.'- . h i:,-LL' Us New Tribal Council Members Sworn In Newly electedTribal Council members (from left) Reyn Leno, Kathleen Tom and Wink Soderberg were sworn in on Wednesday, September 14. After taking the oath of office, the three posed for a photo with Chief Justice of Tribal Court of Appeals Robert Miller. 7 .i;fvnrf7 4 f y' 'Kit t a i rs, . II - , fP t 1 MWi II III ffii. WIWHW'wwj, ,I.MUWLIIWlllllimWUpiUi UMJMWHWipi.U.tf, ' "" i () Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon 961 5 Grand Ronde Road Grand Ronde, Oregon 97347 PRESORTED FIRST-CLASS MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID SALEM, OR PERMIT NO. 178 OR NEWSPAPER PROJ. U0 LIBRARY SYSTEM PRE EUGENE OR 9F4Q3-1205 Parti Tribal Hunmtiinig This issue, Smoke Signals begins a series of articles investigating the Tribe's hunting and fishing rights. v. By Ron Karten "Hunting and fishing is like the air you breathe," said Tribal Elder Marvin Kimsey. The right to hunt and fish in all the usual and customary places have always been assumed to be a part of Indian life, said Kimsey, though the issue had never been legislated until the Tribe signed a Consent Decree with the state of Oregon and the federal govern ment in 1986. The Consent Decree was part of the larger process of Restoration that in turn in cluded a Reservation Plan. The Reservation Plan would return to the Tribe less than 10,000 acres of a land base that in the 1850s had started with some 60,000 acres sur rounding and including Grand Ronde. But when the state insisted on resolving the hunting and fishing issue along with the effort to secure a land base for the Tribe, it was a See HUNTING & FISHING on pages 8-9 "v - T, Jl ST " ,f,M f ,-f f ii 5 We Remember Ray Deceased Tribal Elder Ray McKnight , in the late 1 980's, posing with the head of an elk he killed in the designated Tribal hunting area.
