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Meal featuring ceremonial
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Program begins at 1 P.M.
This event is free and
open to the public
Honoring ouir feterans
CTGR West Valley
Veterans Memorial
9615 Grand Ronde Road
Grand Ronde, OR 97347
Tribal Elder appearing in
'Salmon Is Everything7
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
Tribal Elder Marta Lu Clifford is returning to the stage after a bit of
an acting sabbatical.
At Springfield High School, she performed in children's plays, tack
ling the grinning role of the Cheshire Cat in "Alice in Wonderland" and
Rapunzel's mother in the story of the same name.
Her return to the stage will be playing grandmother Rose in "Salmon Is
Everything" at Robinson Theatre at the University of Oregon in Eugene
from May 20 through June 4.
Written and directed by University of Oregon assistant professor The
resa May as part of the Klamath Theatre Project, "Salmon Is Everything"
is a community-based play created in collaboration with members of the
Karuk, Hupa and Yurok Tribal communities in southern Oregon.
Those Tribal members were directly affected by a 2002 fish kill on the
Klamath River, as well as farmers and ranchers in the upper Klamath
Basin. The play was first staged in 2006.
"This timely and lyric play celebrates the important role of the salmon
in Native culture and spirituality and explores the intimate, profound
and ecologically critical relationship between people, land, river and bi
otic communities," states the play's synopsis on the University of Oregon
Department of Theatre Arts' Web site. "In the end, salmon means home
for all of us who live in the Pacific Northwest."
Clifford, who is not attending the University of Oregon, said she was
encouraged to try out for the role when she dropped into the Eugene satel
lite office and talked with Tribal member and Eugene Office Coordinator
Perri McDaniel. The play's director was looking for a female Tribal Elder
who looked like a Tribal Elder, Clifford says.
In the role as grandmother Rose, Clifford talks about many of the Native
traditions lost because of the fish kill.
"At first, I was a little bit frightened," Clifford says about returning to
the stage. "But then I thought, T can do it.' The lines make so much sense
to me because I talk about the river, rocks, the spirit of the salmon."
Clifford is currently rehearsing four days a week in three-hour blocks.
She says the docu-drama, even in rehearsals, is very moving for her as a
Tribal Elder.
"For me, it has been very emotional," she says. "Just to see the reac
tions of the people to what happened and how Native people relied on the
salmon. That has been the main thing for me. It has been a very wonder
ful experience."
To order tickets or for more information about "Salmon Is Everything,"
call 541-346-4363. a
201 1 Veterans' Board
Royalty application
Category:
Name: (Last) .
Veterans' Princes
Veterans' Young Warrior
.(First).
CTGR Roll number.
Address
City
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Age:
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Please list any activities or experience which would make you a good candidate for this
service.
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Why do you want to serve as Veterans' Royalty?
Return application to:
Veterans' Powwow Committee
P.O. Box 38
Grand Ronde, OR 97347
Phone: 503-879-1602
Fax: 503-879-1610
Applications are due no later than June 1, 201 1 .