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About Smoke signals. (Grand Ronde, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 2006)
Til ff7 KufcJjcati6rpf theGfan r --f.x ) ,.v r A 7 -r V Mora pictures on pag 8. iPiiin T r Peek Performance Jingle dress dancer Ebony Provost participated in a jingle dress exhibition dance at Willamette University's 4th Annual Social Pow-wow on Saturday, March 1 1 . Ebony is the daughter of Tribal member Jack Provost Many Tribal members turned out for this year's pow wow which was held in the Cone . Field House on campus. Photo by Toby McClary t4M'n r - fc r ft ' Youth Of The Day About 75 Chemawa students attended the 4th Annual Native Youth Wellness Day held in Grand Ronde on Friday, March 24. Approximately 150 students in total participated in this year's event. Here, students from Chemawa learned how to play the traditional stick game. See Smoke Signal's special edition pullout inside. 8 Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon 9615 Grand Ronde Road Grand Ronde, Oregon 97347 PRESORTED FIRST-CLASS MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID SALEM, OR PERMIT NO. 178 OR NEWSPAPER PROJ. UO LIBRARY SVSTEN PRESERU . 1299 UNIUERSITY OF OREGON EUGENE OR 97403-1205 Community Fund Gives Away Nearly Two Million in January Recipients included Ft. Yamhill and the Oregon Coast Museum. By Ron Karten Twenty thousand dollars from the Spirit Mountain Community Fund will enable Jeffry Gottfried "to offer the kids something they wouldn't ordinarily have," he said at the check presentation on March Gottfried has taken youth from the Tribe's Education Division on outdoor adventures to Agency Creek (see Smoke Signals, 9104), and taught Elders from the McMinnville community about watersheds. Up on a screen at the check presenta- "The (Tribal) Council is supporting programs from preschool through university, especially for at-risk kids. We're committed to supporting programs about the outdoors and the environment." Shelley Hanson Tribal member & Spirit Mountain Community Fund Director 15 in McMinnville. Gottfried runs a program called Educational Recreational Adven tures (ERA) and through it, he takes folks of all ages into the world of outdoor recreation, brings in the sciences of the outdoors and has what his wife, Emily, called, "The best job in the world, doing something he loves." tion were photos of trips, one show ing the fun of skiing and another the face of Multnomah Falls. "Educational Recreational Adven tures is a non-profit that inspires and promotes life-long learning through interaction with the out See FUND on page 6
