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Smoke Signals NOTICE Monthly Tribal Council Wednesday Meetings DATE TIME Wednesday, March 10 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 24 4 p.m. Plea not that the timet and date or aubject to change if needed. Call Dakota mtiletloud. Tribal Council Helation Coordinator, at S03-S79-I309 to confirm. General Council meeting Sunday, March 7 10 a.m. Grand Ronde Tribal Gym 2 MARCH 1,2010 Dear Grand Ronde Community: As most of you know, I lost a battle with my addiction in 2008. The last time I saw my family and frienda was during my short performance at the Restoration concert with Looking Wolf and Rita Coolidge. I was honored to be asked to play one of my songs at such an occasion. I'll be coming home from prison in June with over a year of sobriety, which has been an accomplishment even in here. But this letter is not about me, but about the great man, father and best friend who has become my goal to try to one day be like. I can never fill his shoes, but I'd like to learn to be counted on as he is to so many of us. The way he never stopped believing in me has become a great strength for me. I le came to see me nearly every week to include when he was using a cane just to walk. This poem is my thank you, Dad. You've given me a new heart to help me fight addiction; the heart of a warrior. My Father Indian Man When I was a young boy, and afraid in the night, I knew that he would be there, to always make things right. He'd tell me, "Son, be strong, and dream all that you can." Then he'd say he loved me, my father Indian man. I tried so hard to be just like the other kids in school, But I never was the same as them, and followed different rules. They said "theirs" was the real world, and from their world I ran. I lost myself along the way, the son of an Indian man. Then came many troubled years, still trying to find my way, A better low, a better high, a better night and day. But then I found that troubles had really just began, But still he always loved me, my father Indian man. I tried to find a woman, and the happiness of love, The one 'just like' my mother, who watches from above. 'Cause my mother was the only one who could really understand, The son she'd made together, with my father Indian man. Now I'm older and my father has become my closest friend, I know his pride and love for me will be there to the end: r" Just like God has loved us, since this whole thing first began. I love my God, and my father, Indian Man. Steven L. Hudson Roll 1314 Dear Smoke Signals: To my family, friends my Tribal people. This is Michele Chrestensen, sister to Marty George, daughter of Tony George. I am currently incarcer ated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility'in Wilsonville. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers. I want to heal the pain of my past so I can end the cycle of addiction and domestic violence so I can have my children back and move on. I think I understand what I have been missing. There is no amount of drugs or alcohol that will take away the abandonment from when I was little, nor will it bring back my brother or my dad. It's OK that Tonia Yvonne George (me) was adopted and it doesn't mean I was loved any less. Please support my recovery and the return of my children to me. Feel free to write and thank you. This, from "A Course in Miracles," has brought some things to light: "Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn, presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before, you can now make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought you. In every difficulty, all distress and each perplexity, Christ (the Creator) calls to you and gently says, 'My brother (sister), choose again.' " ( Michele Chrestensen Roll 890 No. 11910792 24499 S.W. Grahams Ferry Road Wilsonville, OR 97070 Attention all artisans The Grand Ronde Royalty Committee is seeking bids for beaded crowns for the 2010-11 Royalty Court. Three crowns are needed and must be completed and delivered by Thursday, July 1. Please submit your bid to: Public Affairs, 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347. 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