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By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
The Confederated Tribes of
Grand Ronde has regained
ownership of more than 139
acres of the original reservation by
purchasing eight tax lots owned by
the Rink family.
"This is a big one," said Tribal
member and Tribal Lands Manager
Jan Michael Reibach. "The Rink
family purchased this property
after the Termination of the Tribe
and now the Tribe has purchased
it back."
The purchase, which closed Feb.
28, was the culmination of a dozen
years of discussions between the
Tribe and Rink family, Reibach
said.
"The Tribe tries to maintain a
focus of acquiring land at a good,
fair market value price," Reibach
said. "In the end, the Rink family
was very gracious and fair to the
Tribe."
The properties are just south of
the Tribal Cemetery on the west
side of Grand Ronde Road and im
mediately east and northeast of
the Grand Meadows development
on the east side of Grand Ronde
Road.
Reibach said the Tribe has al
ready executed a 2011 hay license
agreement on more than 80 acres
of the property to the east of Grand
Ronde Road and is receiving rent
from the existing tenant of a house
located on the property immedi
ately south of the Tribal Cemetery
See RESERVATION
continued on page 3
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Tribal Elder recalls life full
of taking care of people
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By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
Ihese days, Tribal Elder Dorothy "Dot-
tie" Greene, 92, has the color of spring
about her. She talks about her "Honey-
bun," an admirer from McMinnville.
"He's the best thing to come into my life,"
Dottie says in her living room in the Tribal
Elder Housing development.
They were on the phone the night before,
and Dottie said, "I told him everything I did
(during the day)
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P jg&ASL he did. He trusts
i f . --imm.' ia.gtgaj me and I trust
him. And he ca.n
because I wouldn't do anything in the world
to hurt him.
"I feel like I'm very fortunate that I'm the
one he chose.
"Sometimes I'm feeling sad about things,
and he can get me to laughing." Like the one
about the frog legs. "He's really good to be
around."
It wasn't always that way for Dottie.
See ELDER FEATURE
continued on pages 8-9
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Photo by Michelle Alaimo
Tribal Elder Dorothy "Dottie" Greene, 92, is seen in her home in Tribal Elder Housing in Grand
Ronde on Monday, March 14.