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Photos by Michelle Alaimo
Tribal member Nicholas Larsen, above right, dribbles around Leann
Rogers while practicing a pick and roll drill during the Youth Basketball
Camp held at the Tribal gymnasium on Thursday, June 1 8.
Reece Ebensteiner gets a hand slap from Tribal member Matt Zimbrick,
Youth Education middle school lead, after making a basket. Zimbrick
was the instructor of the camp that ran from June 1 6-1 8.
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Tribal descendant Greg Butler, playing on the Grand Ronda 2 team,
passes through two Grand Ronde Eagles defenders during a game
in the Youth Basketball Tournament in the Tribal gymnasium on
Friday, June 26.
Unmarked grave sites
We need your help If anyone knows the location of an unmarked
grave or knows the name of someone who was buried at the Grand
Ronde Cemetery and their grave has not been marked, contact Mike
Larsen, Facilities Manager, at 503-879-2407.
Committee to give out baseball-type caps to all veterans
Photo by Mkhell Alaimo
POWWOW continued
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the teepee" and "Nick (Sixkiller,
alias 'Simon,) says."
"He's pretty good," Tinney says
of Sixkiller's game-leading tal
ents. "He wipes people out pretty
quick."
During Grand Entries, the Veter
ans Committee will give out baseball-type
caps to all veterans. There
will be a choice of legends that say
Native Vet or specify the service
branch or the theater of war.
More vendors have booked more
spaces for the powwow than in the
past, Tinney says. "We've been
working with them since January,"
he says.
On Friday night, Tribal member
and Young Warrior Peter Nelson
will conduct a youth giveaway as he
ends his service to the Grand Konde
Veterans Honor Guard.
Family giveaways also will be a
part of this year's Veterans' Pow
wow. On Saturday night, during the
dinner break, the family of Tribal
Elder Tom Bean will hold a give
, away in his honor. Bean walkedon
Dec. 7, 2007.
Also on Saturday night, as tradi
tion dictates, Tribal member Dietz
Peters and his wife, Hose, who are
Headman and Hcadwoman dancers
for the Veterans Powwow, will hold
a Traditional Men's Special dance
and Women's Special dance. B
Grand Entry at the 2001 Grand
Ronde Veterans' Powwow, which was
the first powwow held at the new
Uyxat Powwow Grounds .