AUGUST 15, 2007
MCC
A Publication of the Grand Ronde Tribe
www.grandronde.org
Hunting-Fishing Proclamation A Step Toward
Increasing Tribe's Ability To Take Ceremonial Game
Tour takes Gov.
Kulongoski and state Fish
and Wildlife Commission
members to see Tribal
forest stewardship.
By Ron Karten
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski moved
the Grand Ronde Tribe closer to full
sovereignty on Thursday, Aug. 2,
when he signed his first state-Tribal
Proclamation in the Tribal Gover
nance building atrium.
The Proclamation is the first step
toward giving Tribal members in
creased access to game for ceremonial
purposes outside of state-mandated
hunting and fishing seasons, as well
as permitting the Tribe increased
management of its own lands.
"Today is far from being an or
dinary day," said Tribal Council
Chair Chris Mercier, speaking in
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HISTORIC MOMENT - Signing the Proclamation initiating a process that will lead to greater sovereignty for the Grand
Ronde Tribe is, from left, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, Grand Ronde Tribal Chair Chris Mercier and Oregon Fish and
Wildlife Commission Chair Maria Rae. Standing behind at left are Tribal Council members and at right are State Fish
and Wildlife Commission members. The ceremony took place Aug. 2 in the atrium of the Tribal Governance Center.
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PeacDnie Petite Maimm
Elder lived a 'beautiful life' steeped in Native culture.
By Ron Karten
Annabelle Peachie Petite
Hamm was born and raised
in a house at the foot of Spirit
Mountain. Of 11 children,
seven survived and she was
the youngest of those.
Her mother, the former Trib
al Elder Ethel Petite Coun
tryman, from the Umpqua,
Kalapooia and Clackamas
Tribes, was canning peaches
when she was born.
"Mom was the cutest little
baby, everyone thought," says
her daughter, Tribal member
Khani Schultz, today a cul
tural protection specialist
with the Tribe.
And so Tribal Elders of
the time gave her the Indian
name, Peachie. She was a Rez
baby, says Schultz, explain
ing the name as Indian.
Peachie's relatives go back
to Peter Petite Sr., one of the
signers of the Tribe's 1855
treaty. And the family was one of
12 families here before the Trail
of Tears, Peachie says. Her great-great-grandmother
was Tribal
Elder Clementine LaChance.
When the 26 Tribes that made
up the Trail of Tears arrived, she
says, "a lot went to Siletz and a lot
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Annabelle Peachie Petite Hamm
stayed and married here."
Growing up in Grand Ronde "was
real quiet and peaceful," Peachie,
now 68, recalls. "But if you weren't
a logger, you may as well move.
See PEACHIE
on page 6