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On Thursday, June 21, the Social Services Department hosted a Meth
Awareness BBQ held in the Tribe's pow-wow arena. About 350 community
members attended the festivities which included a number of carnival
games, a bouncy castle, and barbecued food at the Community Center. At
left, Tribal Council member Reyn Leno poses for a photo with some of his
grandchildren. Pictured with Leno are Justin Fasana, Cheyanne Fasana,
Bryson Leno, Koana Leno, and Maleah Leno.
Camp Cooper Secrets Revealed
Environmentalist Jeffrey Gottfried and Tribal member Travis
Mercier take Youth Education into the heart of the forest.
By Ron Karten
"Ok kids, look here," said Jef
frey Gottfried, the.Tribe's own
science guy, who each summer
leads the Native Plants Project
for Tribal youth. "This," he
said, pointing to the broad
leafed skunk cabbage plant, "is
an Indian paper plate."
The salmon berries, the
first of the season, had most
ly come and gone by June 27,
the rainy Wednesday when
Gottfried brought a group
from Youth Education, to
Camp Cooper, the Boy Scout
camp built in the aboriginal
forest north of Willamina.
"This is a real forest," he
said, "not a tree farm. The
snags make habitat for wild
life. You can see that there
was a fire here at one point."
Then, he saw a salmon
berry that had survived on the for
est floor. He tried to show the group
how good the salmon berry is.
"That's foul, dude, if you eat that,"
said Tribal youth Levi Linton.
Gottfriend popped it into his mouth
and went back to talking about the
to the forest for 100 years after the
tree dies."
He talked about native blackber
ries and the intrusive Himalayan
variety that many Oregonians end
up fighting. He noted that the 14-
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Tribal youth Levi Linton (I), Amanda Grijalva (blue sweatshirt) and Jordan George (far right)
at Camp Cooper with Environmental Specialist Jeff Gottfried (second from right) and Tribal
member and Youth Education Cultural Specialist Travis Mercier (second from left).
snags. "You see the holes where big
branches used to be? All kinds of
animals now make use of them."
He knocked at the base of the
snag. Nothing. "Last time I did
that, a flying squirrel came out of
the top. These snags will contribute
inch long Pacific Giant salamander
is so big it eats mice, but is poison to
almost anything that tries to eat it.
"There'd be a camp here this
time of year where Natives would
harvest berries as they ripen. Hey,
look here: a nurse log," he said,
turning to a log now on the ground,
but still growing sprouts. "They
can influence a forest for 500 years
after they're dead," he said. "When
you see trees growing in a line,
they're growing out of the same
nurse log."
Then, Tribal member and
Youth Education Culture Spe
cialist Travis Stewart, began to
peel a 6-inch wide strip of bark
up a cedar tree. Getting some
15 feet's worth, he said that the
bark is used for many things, in
cluding hats, baskets, rain gear,
rope and sleeping mats.
"Hey, look here," said Gott
fried. He was holding the top of
a bunch of fiddler heads. "Try
one. They're good raw like this,
but wow, are they good fried in
olive oil," he said.
The kids admitted that they
were getting hungry.
"Look at the huckleberries
growing right out of this stump,"
said Gottfried, further whetting
the many young appetites discov
ering this new world of eats.
"I am hungry," said Tribal
youth Jordan George. But she
wasn't going for the berries or the
fiddler heads. "I want a hamburg
er, fries and a milkshake." B
Photo by Summer Youth
Employee Joel Selwyn
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Youth Education Takes on Lacrosse
D Lumberjax Goalie Dallas Eliuk puts them through their paces.
By Ron Karten
Dallas Eliuk, seasoned goalie for the Portland Lumberjax profes
sional lacrosse team, first showed Education Youth a short video
about the game.
Lacrosse, has "all the good elements of other sports," and "it won't be
long," he said, "until more people are playing lacrosse than football."
The game is played with a stick with a net in it. Eliuk, originally
from Vancouver, B.C., brought out softer stand-ins for the game's
hard rubber balls, and easy to use sticks, and in the gym, he got the
youth throwing and catching.
Tribal youth Gary Westley threw a ball and hit Recreation Coor
dinator and Tribal member Melvin Brisbois in the chest.
"That was so on purpose," said Tribal youth Levi Linton.
"Did that hurt?" said Tribal youth Shawn Scott.
"Bring out the goal," said Eliuk. "Let's have a little showdown."
A Tribal youth Robbie Foster demonstrates his ability to fire
a shot at the goalie.
Portland Lumberjax Goalie Dallas Eliuk