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MAY 15, 2011
Preschool Literacy Night set for May 18
There will be a Preschool Literacy Night held beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 18, in the Tribal gym.
Dinner will be provided.
For more information, contact Preschool Immersion Teacher's Aide Kim
berly Contreras at 503-879-1631 or kim.contrerasgrandronde.org. B
Chinuk Wawa classes offered
The Tribal Cultural Education Department offers adult Chinuk
Wawa language classes from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday
in Room 207 of the Tribal Education Building.
Language classes can be taken for college credit or for fun.
For more information, contact Chinuk Wawa teacher Kathy Cole
at 503-879-2249 or 503-437-4599. fl
Elder's bingo changes days
Bingo at the Elders' Activity Center has been moved to the second and
fourth Fridays of the month. A potluck dinner starts at 6 p.m. and bingo
starts at 6:30 p.m. For more information, contact Elder Activity Assistant
Daniel Ham at 503-879-2233. D
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Photo by Michelle Alaimo
This undated shovelnose canoe in the "Grand Rondo's Canoe Journey" exhibit
at the Willamette Heritage Center at The Mill in Salem has been owned by the
center since it was donated in 1980. According to the donor, it was found on
the riverbank of the Santiam River near Tangent. It was announced during
the 1 9th annual Heritage Awards at the center on Thursday, April 28, that the
center is permanently returning the priceless canoe to the Grand Ronde Tribe.
Canoe owned by the Willamette
Heritage Center since 1 980
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friends and leading among those
relationships is the growing rela
tionship between the Willamette
Heritage Center and the Confed
erated Tribes of Grand Ronde.
We hope that this gift assists the
Tribe in developing their museum
plan."
The canoe, undated but probably
pre-European contact, has been
owned by the Willamette Heritage
Center since it was donated in
1980. The donor said it was found
when the riverbank washed away
in a flood on the Santiam River
near Tangent, according to the
museum's description.
Last year, Kathleen Tom, with
Tribal Council blessing, joined the
new entity's board of directors and
expressed the Tribe's interest in
the canoe.
At the opening of the current
Grand Ronde canoe exhibit, the
Willamette Heritage Center repa
triated the priceless canoe to the
Grand Ronde Tribe.
"It's a privilege to do it," Booth
said at the time.
"We, as indigenous people, look at
time in a different way," said Tribal
Chairwoman Cheryle A. Kennedy
to the group at the exhibit's open
ing. "We incorporate the past, the
present and the future in every
thing we do."
The Tribe "forged a partnership"
with the Willamette Heritage Cen
ter, Kennedy said, "to bring back
a culture that many thought was
gone."
She thanked many, but "especial
ly the children, because they're the
ones who will carry this forward."
The canoe exhibit runs at the
Willamette Heritage Center at The
Mill through May 30, when the Ka
lapuya shovel-nose canoe will come
to Grand Ronde and be maintained
by the Cultural Resources Depart
ment. "Future plans," said Tribal mem
ber David Lewis, manager of the
Cultural Resources Department,
"are to create an interpretive dis
play around the canoe located at
the Governance Building." B
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Photo by Ron Karten
"Leaders know that their life is a story," said GeneTagaban (Tlinget
CherokeeFilipino), above, a trainer at the Gresham-based Native
Wellness Institute. He spoke to a group of 25, more than half Tribal
members, at the Youth Leadership Conference held in the Tribal
gymnasium on April 29. "Positive leaders," he said, "are the ones who
want to go on and teach others."
RecycDe Cenfteir moved
The Recycle Center has been moved temporarily to 9675 Grand Ronde
Road. For more information, contact Tribal Facilities Manager Michael J.
Larsen at 503-879-2407. B
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