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Annual trip includes ceremony, museum tour
Photo by Siohban Taylor
By Siobhan Taylor
Tribal Public Affairs director
Record high heat and humidity
did not deter Grand Ronde Tribal
members on their annual pilgrim
age to the American Museum of
Natural History in New York City,
which houses Tomanowos, the 15.5
ton meteorite also known as the
Willamette meteorite.
Tribal Council members Val Shek
er and Kathy Tom led a delegation
of seven Elders, family members,
student interns and representatives
from Cultural Resources and Educa
tion on the trip.
Tribal Elder and former Tribal
Chairwoman Kathryn Harrison
Tribal Elder Floriene Hoff, center,
touches Tomanowos while Tribal
Elders Kathryn Harrison, left, and
Betty Bly, right, wash the meteorite
during the Tribe's annual visit to
the American Museum of Natural
History in New York on June 9. Hoff
made the trip to New York City on
her own and joined fellow Tribal
members for the ceremony held in
the museum's Planetarium.
also made the annual trip, which
took place June 8-11. This year's
delegation included Tribal Elders
Betty Bly, June Bolden, Leroy
Good, Arlene Kautz, David Lomboy
and Dolores Parmenter.
As temperatures soared into the
100s, the Grand Ronde delegation
remained cool as they gathered on
Monday evening for a ceremony in
the museum's Planetarium where
the Tribe's meteorite, Tomanowos,
is housed.
After a brief reception and greet
ing, museum staff withdrew for the
Tribal ceremony. The museum is
closed to the public each year for
one day as Grand Ronde holds its
ceremony.
Tribal member and Cultural
Resources' Cultural Protection
Coordinator Eirik Thorsgard led
the ceremony. Before beginning,
he burned sweet grass for smudg
ing and invited Tribal members
to clean the meteorite with water
brought from Grand Ronde and
made into rose water.
In accordance with Tribal tradi
tion, photography and recording of
See TOMANOWOS
on page 8
Recovery gooyp manrCis second! amumDveo-sairy
Social Services program never gives up on helping Tribal members combat addiction
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By Ron Karten
Smoke Signal staff writer
"My name's Jot?. I'm an alcoholic
and an addict."
Welcome to the Tribal recovery
program's second anniversary.
Joe Mart i non u and Chris I lolliday
count every day.
Martincau (Minnesota Chippewas,
Fond du Lac Reservation) is Tribal
Post Treatment Services coordinator
and I lolliday is a support counselor.
Both are in long-term recovery
efforts. Kach has been sober for 18
years, but as anybody in the recovery
business will tell you, it's always one
day at a time.
It's the same for Martineau and
I lolliday even though they are run
ning the Tribal recovery program, as
patients call it.
"There's always been a need (for a
recovery program) here," said Tribal
Council Vice Chair Ueyn Leno. "It
gives us an opportunity to give some
body a chance."
On Thursday, June 26, the Tribal
recovery group marked its second an
niversary with a candlelight dinner,
cooked and served and cleaned up by
Photo by Michelle Alaimo
volunteers at the Tribal Community
Center. They kept setting up new
tables to accommodate more rMKple.
"We ended up with 78 people,"
Martineau said.
The Confederated Tribes of Grand
Ronde's Post Treatment Services
Coordinator Joe Martineau, kneeling,
and Post Treatment Services Support
Counselor Chris Holliday, left, have
helped Tribal member William, back,
and other Tribal members with
substance abuse recovery. William
currently lives at the Recovery House
In Grand Ronde. The sweat lodge at
the house is part of the Tribal history
and culture that is incorporated Into
the program.
Kristy Dcljoe, Tribal member and
cook for the group, calls it "a great
program promoting sobriety."
The program includes meetings
See RECOVERY
on page 4