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About Smoke signals. (Grand Ronde, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 2006)
AUGUST 15,2006 MCC A Publication of the Grand Ronde Tribe www.grandronde.org " - i ' : 1 'Paddle; Un" Grand Rondp's Canoe Family aboard "Stankiya," Grand Ronde's new canoe, on the morning of Monday, July 31 as they launch from Suquamish headed for Sand Point on Lake Washington. For Grand Ronde, the 2006 Canoe Journey began on Monday, July 24 in Neah Bay and continued on to Sand Point with many resting points in between. This was Grand Ronde's second year of participation in the Inter-Tribal Canoe Journey which is held annually in northern Washington. SEE CANOE JOURNEY PULLOUT INSIDE. New Paint For The Parking Lot TT7T 1ft. I . r a -J ill f r, fl White StrlpBlthe Tribe's parking lots got a fresh coat of paint on Wednesday, July 1 9. Here, Darryl Spaniol of Spaniol's Striping & Signs adds "visitor" to the front row of the Governance Building's parking spaces. A Life le The Old Ways Tribal Elder Dale Langley passes on the tradition. Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon . . 9615 Grand Ronae oaa Grand Ronde, Oregon 97347 WW PRESORTED FIRST-CLASS MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID SALEM, OR PERMIT NO. 178 Of? NENSF&PER PROJ. UO LIBRARY SYSTEM PRESERU iS99 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EUGENE OR 97403-1205 By Ron Karten It could have been over early. He remembers the slide that took him down some 200 feet. He lost his chain saw and remembers being covered over with dirt two or three times on the way. He remembers stop ping four feet from the river that he's always believed would have taken him away if he'd slid into it. "Scary," he said, sitting safely in the Tribal Cemetery of fice where he was visiting his longtime pal, Tribal Elder Ken Haller. It was one episode from 75-year-old Tribal Elder Dale Langley's life in the woods. "I run the yarder and the cat, mostly," he said. And most of his I i 2 l-y 1 1 Tribal Elder Dale Langley life he handled the big machines for the local firm, Zimbrick Logging. When Tribal member LonnieLeno was young, he used to work with him in the woods. "I le was a pretty good operator," said Lonnie. "Reyn (Leno) and Dale fought fires to gether. He ran the cat cutting fire lines." Langley grew up five or six miles from where he sat, in one of the cabins behind Midway's Old Mill. He and his older brother, Tribal Elder Ivan Langley Jr., who now lives in Sheridan, went See LANGLEY on page 6
