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By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
Tribal member Clint Folden is starting a
local Saddle Club that will turn his horses
into service animals for the community.
"I'm trying to develop a program to address
problems in the community," Folden said at a
recent Elders luncheon as he enlisted the sup
port of Tribal Elders in his plan. "I want to get
kids plugged into a sober activity where they feel
like they're doing something."
Folden currently boards seven horses, some
donated, some his own for many years, across
the bridge to the right of the Thompson house
where the Grand Ronde Community Resource
Center had, until last month, been located.
His plan is to offer several tiers of opportunity
See SADDLE CLUB
continued on page 4
Tribal member Clint Folden helps Tribal member
Kaylene Barry, 10, onto Mo, a Mustang, so she
can ride him on Saturday, April 1 0.
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Under the cover of her umbrella, Tribal member lyana Holmes puts away
eggs that she collected in a bag during the 201 0 Easter Egg Hunt at Tribal
family housing on Saturday, April 3, in Grand Ronde.
Photos by Michelle Alaimo
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Tribal member
Sydney West
helps her .
daughter,
Tribal member
McKenzieWest,
5, spell Easter
as she writes
"Happy Easter"
with chalk.
Tribal
descendant
Emily Anderson,
2, helps herself
to the Easter
Bunny's basket
of candy. Tribal
Council member
Steve Bobb
Sr. played the
Easter Bunny.
Passing ofWilma
Mankillor stirs
memories among
Tribal members
By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
Tribal Elder Beryle Contreras
and her five children stood
with Wilma Mankiller (Chero
kee) and her family, and with hun
dreds, ultimately thousands, in 1969
during the American Indian takeover
of the island housing the abandoned
federal prison known as Alcatraz in
San Francisco Bay.
The 19 months that followed were
among the great moments of Ameri
can Indian resistance, ultimately
leading to the repeal of the 1954
federal Termination policy.
It also was the time and place
where Contreras began what is now
more the memory of a friend than of
the Cherokee icon of national Indian
independent thought and action that
Mankiller has become to her people,
to Indian Country and beyond.
Mankiller, the first woman to serve
as chief of the Cherokee Nation,
succumbed to pancreatic cancer on
Tuesday, April 6, at her home near
Tahlequah, Okla. She was 64.
Here in Grand Ronde, as at In
dian Nations across the country, the
memories of Mankiller, and thanks
for the contributions she made, are in
the thoughts and prayers of many.
Tribal Elder and former Tribal
Chairwoman Kathryn Harrison re
members inviting Mankiller to speak
to an Indian Health Conference when
Harrison was still on Tribal Council.
"She had just had a kidney trans
plant," Harrison said. "She spoke
about the importance of Indian
women taking care of themselves."
"I admired her strength," said Har
rison. "Even though she was always
in ill-health, she still had strength to
See MANKILLER
continued on page 3