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About Smoke signals. (Grand Ronde, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 2006)
4 OCTOBER 15, 2006 Smoke Signals QflltioMe's Mew Mamiageir Tribal member David Lewis brings solid educational credentials totne job. . i v By Ron Karten University of Oregon Ph.D. can didate and Tribal member David Lewis has been named to lead the Cultural Resources Department. "It's very surprising to me that I'm in this situation," he said from his new office at the back claimed and collected material has There's a "natural cross been gifted to the Grand Rondes over," he said, between jointly by the Cojuelles ndUQ the Cultural Resources (6106 issue)."" Some now resides" arid the Natural Resources of the second floor, of the Tribal Education Building, although "a lot of the work coincides with the archival work I've been doing." He cited the efforts of Cultural Collections Coordinator Lindy Trolan to "return and reclaim information for the Tribes, not just artifacts." j f Thanks to these efforts, the de partment already h;as much infor mation from museums including the Smithsonian J the University of Washington and the Hudson Bay Archive, saii ewis. Lewis also has benefited Tribal collections with hitparticipation iL n ii L.l t in me Douinwesregon ne search Project C University of Oi has now complei trips to the nation's capital, re claiming some 150,000 pages of Northwest Indian history As readers of Smoke Signals project has been by the" Coquelle in "Our Story" in the Cultural Re sources section of the Tribal website found at www.grandronde.orgcul tureikanum, (9106 issue). The most recent effort, the third for SWORP, completed last sum mer, will bring some 50,000 new pages of information to the Co quelles, UO and much ultimately to the Grand Rondes. The information, principally letters, contains reports about the reserva tions, projects, proposals, genealogy, history, investigations, court cases, allotment records and maps (one such map is reproduced in yellow as the. background for this story). , Lewis is Director of SWORP this year, and was joined in August on the document search by Tribal member .and Tribal Cultural Edu cation Specialist Leslie Riggs, Den- WOKP) -at-lhe' nis Worden (Coeur D'Alene) and- gon (UU) that three research I 4 Cultural Resources ; SrhcRmRiddl (Klamath) all students, or formecstudents .at departments, but therq is still no liaison between the departments, he noted as one possible assignment for the future. He mentioned camas and huckleberries among dozens of "cultural use" items that fall under the assignments of both departments. I "I'd like to see mote intensive work in thf direction," he said. Complimenting thei job that Culture's Languag Specialist, Tony Johnson, Lj , w . .5 J 1 """" " has been doing with tne j j Chinook Wawa immersion program, Territory ' ' . x he added, "I'd like to BpcpiojDCt.WfltKougl today, most Tribal y -down the line thatrdealfe Wt other members u sing the Chinook lan- Indian languages." He Referred tothJ guage are s till learning it, Lewis 3 languages of the UmpquljKalapooia, p-koks forwa rd to the time when Rogue River and Mollal'Tribes. Likids take t lat further, when we jS r,'Jtjis my understanding that find a gover iment use for it, when .there is no one. aliye that speaks it is used forfcommon conversation Tribal member and Department Manager David Lewis i lecent issues of recall, the UO. Worden recently was named these languageghe" said, "but we HmaaJ'g a point of pride." the Spirit Mountain Community do have the (written) resources to "Lsee mjfaelf as just a link in Fund's 2006-07 Hatfield Fellow. rieaqh; these other languagelE3 DQhei hain, (going back to those Lewis sees his role in the depart- "There areJo"ts&cultnraJ thinf s whWigned She treaties," he said, jment "to come up with new. idmsUxat,weLxan-dqthat we'vedv.elr -HefllHyTmy link will take us to 'UfcdiftJ direction, like the triDtkaJia , - ji-tnjheijiciio me. It's mst my time, - ana appropriate purajw.xncTe'j.v en BeiALrvv'J-n. a. - - tnat everyDoayuHeaBftlwuregon -. nowU- "-r- ?z.r. uww?n may mm Recent Additions In Cultural Resources it i Tribal member Daniel Haug now serves as the Site Monitor for the Cultural Resources Department. Here, Haug takes photos of Cascadia Cave near Sweet Home in an attempt to protect and record the cultural aspects of the cave. - - . II IIMIllWil Villi H.IiiMi'll'"'. , ' ak.flfliiiaUE-.; ii llimP" 1 ..?'IW.(W'',.. M-y' M 'J-,'. :;'"D'. I Cultural Protection Specialist Eirik Thorsgard works closely with Tribal members Khani Schultz and Daniel Haug to help preserve cultural sites related to Grand Ronde s history. S 6. r ,..-f 1. - ... J-.w-...-..T.ti-lf.ia J. f . . -- ..V.v -:-- ,v '! 'Vvv.TnrWWwiMW -. ....... .. 6, 00 An example of the documents brought back to the Grand Rondes.
