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Tribal Council member Steve Bobb Sr., left, and Ed Gray (Northern
Cheyenne) stand at the West Valley Veterans' Memorial on the Tribal
campus in Grand Ronde on Friday, June 20. Gray, 33, is a former
Marine who's walking the border of the United States for service
members and his fellow veterans, and to promote awareness for
organizations that provide veterans' services, such as the American
Legion. He currently lives in Ashland, Mont., and started his walk in
Billings, Mont., on April 13. Gray had to rest his feet from walking for a
couple of days, so the Tribe helped him with food and shelter at Spirit
Mountain Casino.
Colleges offering
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Lane Community College and Chemeketa Community College have
joined with the language program of the Confederated Tribes of Grand
Ronde to offer first- and second-year Chinuk Wawa beginning this fall.
The courses offer a unique language learning opportunity not only in
modality- instruction is through the medium of IP video and small groups
onsite - but also in terms of language structure and the unique status of
Chinuk Wawa as a language that connects Northwest Tribes.
Each site will have a qualified language mentorspeaker of Chinuk Wawa.
Tony Johnson, the head of the Grand Ronde Language Program, and Janne
Underriner, director of the Northwest Indian Language Institute at the
University of Oregon, will be instructors using IP video through the sites
at Grand Ronde and Lane Community College.
All credit students must register through Lane Community College at
www.lanecc.edu. New students should contact www.lanecc.eduesadmis
sions.html to register.
There are a limited number of noncredit registrations available to those
with Tribal affiliations or instructor approval.
For more information about the Chinuk Wawa classes, visit www.gran
dronde.org or call I,nne Community College at 5-11-103-5-119.
Basket class scheduled
A Spruce Root Basket class will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday,
Aug. 10, in the Eugene satellite office.
The class has no limit on the number of participants.
For more information or to register, contact Cultural Education Spe
cialist Misty Thorsgard nt 800-122-0232, ext. 2320, or by c-mail at misty,
thorsgard " grandroncle.org.
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From left, Tribal members Michael Reyes, Logan Bobb and Jordan
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The group will meet once a week for two hours each session from 6 to
8 p.m. at the Tribal Health and Wellness Center in Grand Ronde.
Snacks and coffee will be provided.
Participants must be eligible and registered for services through the Tribal
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