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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
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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.
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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