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First annual fundraiser
concert 'Between Friends'
Date: Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008
Time: Doors open at 7 p.m.
Place: Spirit Mountain Casino Events Center
Cost: General admission: $30. The first 550 people will receive
a signed Between Friends CD from all eight artists and a gift from
Spirit Mountain Casino.
Tickets: www.ticketsoregon.com
All proceeds will benefit Share's Children's Hunger initiative.
Featuring: Linda Hornbuckle, Ellen Whyte, Lady Kat, Duffy Bishop,
LaRhonda Steele, Janice Scroggins, Karen Therese and Myrtle Brown.
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Cultural Resources
sDates October classes
The Tribe's Cultural Resources Department has scheduled several
classes in October in Grand Ronde, Portland and Eugene.
The classes are:
Grand Ronde:
Traditional Paint and Pigments: 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, in Educa
tion Room 207.
Carved Paint Brush: 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays, Oct. 28 and Nov. 4, 11, 18
and 25 in Education Room 207.
Chinuk Wawa is every Monday and Wednesday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
in Education Room 207.
Eugene
Traditional Paint and Pigments: 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays, Oct. 15 and 22.
Carved Paint Brush: 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays, Oct. 29 and Nov. 5, 12
and 19 and Dec. 3.
To sign up for any of the classes or for more information, contact Cultural
Education Specialist Misty Thorsgard at 800-422-0232, ext. 2320, or by
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for five states of Tribes to ask you
questions and place you into almost
a personality contest, and weigh
your experience and work ethic, it's
even a scarier thing."
Sheker says she will continue at
tending ATNI's quarterly meetings
and three to four executive board
meetings held at ATNI's headquar
ters in Portland.
"Maybe a little more. It depends
on what issues on the ATNI table,
as an organization, that we have to
look at," Sheker says.
According to its Web site, ATNI
promotes Tribal self-determination
and sovereignty. The organi
zation formed in 1953 and today
represents 54 Northwest Tribal
governments in Oregon, Idaho,
Washington, Alaska, northern Cali
fornia and western Montana.
A seven-member executive board
supervises ATNI and representa
tives from member Tribes set the
policy and direction through com
mittees by way of resolutions dur
ing annual meetings.
Resolutions passed by ATNI
are sent to the National Congress
of American Indians and then, if
OK'd, sent on to the U.S. Congress
for presentation.
Sheker says she has a "fondness"
for ATNI's Culture and Elders
subcommittee, which deals with in
advertent remains and cemeteries,
such as the one at Fort Vancouver.
"Tribes can come with individual
concerns as long as they don't dis
rupt the interests of another Tribe
or another Tribe does not protest
it," she says. "Then, as an orga
nization, we support it. There is
strength in numbers. If a Tribe op
poses, then we have to be unbiased
in our political views."
Sheker said she will check some
of Grand Ronde's special political
interests, such as opposing off-reservation
gaming, at the ATNI door.
"It's not really going to be a tough
time taking the ATNI one-for-all,
all-for-one and taking Grand Ronde
special interests out of my position.
My job is to work for all Tribes the
same.
"Grand Ronde has taken some
tough stances on some issues, and
not the popular stances, but that
Grand Ronde stance is not going
to factor into my office as an ATNI
third vice president."
Sheker becomes only the second
Grand Ronde Tribal member to
serve on the ATNI Executive Board.
Tribal Elder and former longtime
Tribal Chairwoman Kathryn Har
rison, who nominated Sheker for
ATNI third vice president, was
first.
"I want to thank Kathryn for
the touching nomination she gave
me," Sheker says. "It meant a lot
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