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PRESORTED STO S12 P4 U S POSTAGE PAID OR NEWSPAPER PROJ. UO LIBRARY SVSTEM PRE ptRMfT no. 17B 1299 UNJUERSrrV OF OREGON Saiem, on EUGENE OR 97403-1209 MAY 15,2011 A Publication of the Grand Ronde Tribe IMF Vs L-2 www.grandronde.org TJJUCPQTJA. MOIiATiTiA BOQTJE BIVEB KALAPUYA CHASTA Turnlbe IhiosDimg fiViemnxoirDaD Day ceGremoimy Grand Ronde Honor Guard will visit local cemeteries to honor veterans By Ron Karten Smoke Signals staff writer On Monday, May 30, the Tribal Memorial Day observance will begin again at the Grand Ronde cemetery at 8 a.m., accord ing to Tribal Elder Gene LaBonte, a Navy vet eran and former chair of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Veterans Affairs. As in previous years, the Grand Ronde Honor Guard will begin its rounds at 8:30 a.m. honoring veterans at local cemeteries, including those in Willamina, Buck Hollow and Sheridan. Last year, the National Guard in McMinnville brought out its cannon and fired blank shells at each stop. LaBonte anticipates they'll be back again this year. Also last year, the Honor Guard was invited to stop at Tribal foster homes to honor veterans living there. The group anticipates stopping at them again this year. "People tend to not think about the pressure that's put on our military," said Tribal Council member and Marine veteran Steve Bobb Sr., "but it's always a good day to recognize our vets. "We make heroes of athletes and entertain- See MEMORIAL DAY continued on page 13 Smoke Signals file photo Tribal Elder Marc Norwest speaks during tha Memorial Day observance at the West Valley Veterans' Memorial on the Tribal campus in 2010. T Written (&2.&r4 Original allotment, pass books uncovered at Oregon Historical Society By Ron Karten Smoke Signals staff writer David Lewis, manager of the Tribe's Cultural Resources Department and a member of the Tribe, has been busy researching Grand Ronde history. One day each week for the last month, Lewis has buried himself in files at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland to glean what information he could. "There's not one central in ventory," said Oregon Histori cal Society Reference Librarian Scott Daniels, "but a lot of bits and pieces. A box could be 95 percent something else and 5 percent on the Tribe you're researching. "There could be four to five places to look for one piece of information. That's part of the joy and part of the problem." In a box with most of the material relating to Chemawa Indian School and other Or egon Tribes, Lewis found two old books relating to the Grand Ronde Tribe. He immediately grasped the significance of the find, though he wasn't sure See BOOKS continued on page 10 mi' i in , . j,,, in Photos by Michelle AlaimoGraphic created by George Valdez Cultural Resources Department staffers and Tribal members Julie Brown, left, Cultural Collections assistant, and Khani Schultz, Cultural Collections coordinator, work together to get hundreds of pages from a Grand Ronde Agency allotment and pass books photographed at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland on Tuesday, May 1 0. Cultural Resources Department Manager and Tribal member David Lewis came across the books while researching Grand Ronde history at the society. The photographs of the pages will be the Tribe's documentation of the books. This page of a Grand Ronde Agency book of allotments from 1889 contains information on Tribal member Martha Jane Sands' choice for her allotment of land. j, Mr -' !"" wltal-tt.'''" - - ta i niiiinim. T -"'""t- " ""- Center gifts Tribe ancient Kalapuya canoe By Ron Karten Smoke Signals staff writer The Grand Ronde's Canoe Journey exhibit currently showing at the Willamette Heritage Center at The Mill in Salem includes a Kalapuya shovel nose river canoe, arguably one of the oldest Native canoes ever found in Oregon. Today, thanks to a unanimous vote of the board of the Heritage Center, the canoe has been repatri ated to the Grand Ronde Tribe. "Our institution is the combina tion of Mission Mill Museum and the Marion County Historical So ciety," said Peter Booth, executive director of the Heritage Center. "Our new mission is to assist the Willamette Valley community in preserving its heritage and history. We've done several projects with other cultural institutions in tell ing aspects of their stories. In that spirit, we have desired to reach out to the Grand Ronde community and assist their Cultural Resources De partment and the Tribe in general in preserving their heritage, which is very important in the overall his tory of our valley. "One asset that the museum has had has been the historic Kalapuya shovel-nose river canoe. The board realized that the Grand Ronde com munity could better tell the story that the canoe represents than the Willamette Heritage Center could. "We very much value all our part nerships with all our community See CANOE continued on page 11
