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Photo by Michelle Alalmo
Kevin Masterson, right, toxics coordinator with tha Oregon
Dapartmant of Environmantal Quality, fills Tribal Council In on DEQ's
toxics reduction strategy during his visit to Grand Ronde on Thursday,
Dec 16. Christina Svetkovlch, liaison to Tribal nations with DEQ,
accompanied Mastarson. Tribal Council members In attendance at the
meeting were, from left, Toby McClary, Jack Giffen Jr., Steve Bobb Sr.,
Wink Soderberg and Chris Mercler. Also present from the Tribe's Natural
Resources Department was department Manager and Tribal member .
Mike Wilson, Environmental Resources Specialist Brandy Humphreys
and Ceded Lands Coordinator Mike Karnosh.
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Photo by Michelle Alaimo
A new Welcome Center is located on tha roadway into tha Tribal Family
Housing development in Grand Ronde. The center will serve to welcome
people to the community, give information, directions, be a presence for
assistance to residents and to monitor suspicious activity to deter criminals
from causing trouble in the community.
Center will have cameras
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ed community," says Joani Dugger,
executive assistant at the Housing
Authority.
The Welcome Center cameras,
Kistler says, "will be high resolu
tion and clearly record drivers and
vehicles."
Two to three staffers can work in
the building, which also includes
a fully accessible Adult With Dis
abilities Act bathroom.
As the Housing Authority con
tinues to work on staffing specifics,
Kistler says that the department
already has patrol coverage of the
housing areas through the Tribe's
contract with ProStar Security.
"We're working on developing a
sticker for cars that will allow easy
pass-through," says Dugger.
The facility was primarily funded
by the U.S. Department of Hous
ing and Urban Development with
about 10 percent of the $50,000
price tag coming from the Tribe for
the information technology connec
tions, Kistler says.
With other HUD funding efforts for
crime prevention, the Tribal Housing
Authority has long been involved in
a variety of activities, including the
annual Family Night Out, movie
nights, the Red Ribbon rallies, all in
tended to reduce crime in and around
the Housing Authority units.
The Housing Authority also has
contributed to the Tribal gymna
sium's need for equipment, like a
recently purchased treadmill, and
supported low-income Tribal youth
with summer jobs funding and
other educational opportunities.
"I don't see it as a guard shack,"
says Tribal Council member Steve
Bobb Sr., who is involved in the
effort to stem gang activity in the
area. "It's just a way to provide for
our people. And maybe it's just one
of a few ways we have to keep our
people safe.
"If we don't do something about
(crime), it accelerates and acceler
ates. People are just trying to live
regular lives here, and they don't
need to be subjected to tire slash
' ings or being afraid to let their kids
go outside. That's nuts. That's not
what we're about.
"We may not be able to change,
people's behaviors, but we can do
these kind of things to make sure
they do what they do elsewhere.
"Anything we can do to improve
safety for our people, we're prob
ably going to do that." D
Cultural Education receives
Cultural Freedom Award
By Kathy Cole
Interim Coordinator of the Cultural Education Department
The Tribe, which began revitalizing the indigenous Chinuk wawa
language beginning in 1977, was cited for its efforts with the Cul
tural Freedom Award presented at the 41st National Indian Educa
tion Association Convention held in October in San Diego.
The award came with presentation of a painted feather and a
Pendleton blanket. Both are on display in the hallway of the Cul
tural Resources Department.
Chinuk wawa language teachers were initially trained by a core
group including Chinuk wawa-speaking Elders, staff and consul
tants. These included linguist Henry Zenk, former Cultural Educa
tion coordinator Tony Johnson (Chinook), Jackie Whisler, an Elder of
the Tribe who walked on in 2007, and Bobby Mercier, also a member
of the Tribe, as well as Tribal Language and Cultural specialist.
Today, the Tribe offers an immersion preschool class that began
in 2001, along with an immersion kindergarten class and a K-5
after-school language maintenance program, both of which started
in 2004.
Some 117 children have gone through these programs, plus more
who have attended the middle school program and adult classes.
Youth enrolled in the program have achieved age-appropriate
Chinuk wawa fluency and are the first to be fluent in the Tribe's
indigenous language in many years.
The Tribe has developed assessments as a means to earn an
American Indian Languages Teaching License and meet existing
high school graduation and college entrance requirements.
Back in the Tribe's education records, a statement that probably
came from local teacher Eula Petite reads: "Khanamakwst ntsayka
munk-skukum chinuk-wawa (Together, we make our chinuk lan
guage strong)." Petite was an Elder of the Tribe who walked on in
1989. D
Reibach tto appear om
radio show Jan. 13
Grand Ronde Tribal member Jan Michael Looking Wolf Reibach will
appear live on KBOO community radio station's Native American music
show "Tillicum Wawa: Voices of the People" from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday,
Jan. 13.
Hosts Redwillow, Eugene Johnson and Shusli Baseler will interview
Reibach about his passion for Native American flute and Reibach and
guitarist Nathan Myers will perform music.
The Native American Music Awards named Reibach Flutist of the Year
in 2008, Artist of the Year in 2009 and honored him with Record of the
Year in 2010.
KBOO can be heard at 100.7 FM in Corvallis, 91.9 FM in Hood River and
90.7 FM in Portland, or can be streamed over the Internet at kboo.fm. D
Tribal -Go mm be ir sa D e
The "Westside Thin Logging Unit", located inN 'a Section 3, and N
2 and SE V Section 7, SE V Section 11, N Yt Section 14, Township
5S, Range 8W, Willamette Meridian, on the Grand Ronde Indian
Reservation in Yamhill County, Oregon' will be open for public bid.
This logging unit contains approximately 130.675 acres to be com
mercially thinned. The timber consists of an estimated volume of
775,000 board feet of Douglas-fir and Other Conifers - Peeler and
Sawmill Grade Logs to be auctioned at a minimum bid rate of $69.63
per thousand board feet net scale. Red Alder and Other Hardwoods
- Peeler and Sawmill Grade Logs may be sold at the predetermined
rate of $210.39 per thousand board feet net scale; All Conifer Species
- Wood Logs and Other Wood Products may be sold at the predeter
mined rate of $27.87 per thousand board feet gross scale or $4.29
per ton, as applicable; All Hardwood Species - Wood Logs and Other
Wood Products may be sold at the predetermined rate of $10.32 per
thousand board feet gross scale or $1.59 per ton, as applicable. The
stated volumes for the above timber sale are estimates and are not
guaranteed. Opening of sealed bids will take place at the Grand
Ronde Natural Resources Office located at 47010 S.W. Hebo Road,
Grand Ronde, Oregon, at 2:00 p.m., Local Time, on Tuesday, Jan.
11, 2011. Full information concerning the timber, sample timber
sale contract, conditions of the sale, and submission of bids should
be obtained from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Natural
Resources Division, 47010 S.W. Hebo Road, P.O. Box 10, Grand
Ronde, Oregon 97347, telephone 503-879-2424. fl