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Photo by Michelle Alaimo
2009-10 Senior Miss Grand Ronde
Halona Butler, front, and 2009-1 0
Junior Miss Grand Ronda Nakoosa
Moraland participate in a jingla
drass danca during 201 0's second
annual Gathering of Oregon's First
Nations Powwow.
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
A powwow originally organized
to remind Oregonians that
Native peoples inhabited
the Pacific Northwest long before
statehood will be held for the third
time later this month.
The Gathering of Oregon's First
Nations Powwow is scheduled from
noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29,
at the Oregon State Fair & Expo
Center's Salem Pavilion, 2330 17th
St. N.E., Salem. Admission is free.
Grand entry will be held at 1
p.m.
The 2009 Gathering of Oregon's
First Nations Powwow, organized
cooperatively by the five federally
recognized Tribes in western Or
egon, sought to remind Oregonians
that Native peoples have lived in
what became the state on Feb. 14,
1859, since time immemorial.
The late January date was picked
to symbolically occur before Or
egon's official 150th birthday in
2009, commemorating the Tribal
history that occurred before admit
tance to the Union.
Based on the success of the two
previous powwows, organizers rep
resenting the five western Tribes
the Confederated Tribes of
Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw
Indians, Coquille Indian Tribe,
Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe
"of Indians, Confederated Tribes of
Grand Ronde and Confederated
Tribes of Siletz decided to hold
a third event.
"As the five western Tribes
worked together in the observance
of the sesquicentennial, it was very
clear that we all wanted the same
thing," said Sue Shaffer, former
chairwoman of the Cow Creek
Tribe. She was appointed to lead
the original western Tribes' effort
by former Gov. Ted Kulongoski.
"We wanted to honor our home
land and be recognized as the sover
eign governments that we are. I am
honored to have chaired the effort
and I am grateful for the input from
all five Tribes working together
and their constructive approach
to getting the public education ac
complished." Master of ceremonies at the third
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Tribal member Jake
McKnight to take
state public safety
training in Salem
By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
As Tribal Forest Patrol
officer, Tribal member
Jake McKnight has been
a lone ranger with a lot of terri
tory the Tribe's almost 10,000
acres of forested reservation
lands to cover.
He is out there by himself
daily and, in the words of his
boss, Director of Development
Pete Wakeland, also a member
of the Tribe, "There are some
bad people up there."
McKnight, a mixed martial
arts professional who is now 5-0
on the circuit, is certainly tough
enough for the job, but both en
deavors are all about training, .
he said.
He is at the physical training
part three to four hours every
day, he said, and now the Tribe
has reclassified him as a Tribal
Police Officer to make it possible
for McKnight to go through the
state's 16-week public safety
training course held at the De
partment of Public Safety Stan
dards and Training Academy in
Salem.
The academy trains police,
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Photo by Michelle Alaimo
Tribal member Jake McKnight is taking on the new position of Tribal Police Officer. In addition to his duties in
forest patrol, his former title was forest patrol officer, he will be patrolling areas such as Tribal housing.
firefighters, emergency medical
personnel and virtually all of
the state's public safety profes
sionals. By reclassifying McKnight
and adding police supervisory
responsibilities to Wakeland's
job, the Tribe is taking the first
steps toward creating a Tribal
Law Enforcement program. It
has been a long time in coming.
The 1985 Grand Ronde Tribal
Restoration Plan included a law
enforcement officer, but because
the Forest Patrol officer posi
tion comes without the power
of arrest in criminal cases, the
Tribe has had a contract with
Polk and Yamhill counties to
provide enhanced law enforce
ment services in Grand Ronde
and on the forest reservation
lands, respectively.
If McKnight sees criminal
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