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Photos by Michelle AlaimoGraphic by George Valdez
Spirit Mountain Casino's float "Run Free in the Homelands" rolls through Memorial Coliseum at
the beginning of the Spirit Mountain Casino Grand Floral Parade in Portland on Saturday, June
1 1 . The float, designed by Tribal Council member Steve Bobb Sr., won the President's Award for 1
the "most effective overall floral presentation."
Festival sponsorship benefits Tribe in many ways
By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
Spirit Mountain Casino's
three-year commitment
as Title Sponsor for the
Rose Festival started with
this year's events. Approved
by Tribal Council last fall,
the sponsorship is about two
things, according to Tribal
members involved.
The effort has always been
See ROSE FESTIVAL
continued on pages 10-11
I
Tribal Elder Kathryn Harrison adds coconut flakes to the
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde logo that will be part
of Spirit Mountain Casino's float while helping to decorate
at Studio Concepts in Portland on Wednesday, June 8.
Council sending
'bundled' enrollment
proposal to voters
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
Tribal Council voted 5-4 on Thursday, June
2, to send a bundle of four proposed enroll
ment changes to the General Membership
for a vote.
The all-or-nothing proposal would change the
following requirements for Tribal enrollment:
It would reduce the relinquishment time from
five years to two years that a person must wait
to become a member of the Grand Ronde Tribe
after officially leaving another Tribe;
It would eliminate the requirement that new
members have a parent on a Tribal member
ship roll at the time of their birth;
It would rede-
The meeting
can be viewed
on the Tribal
Web site www.
grandronde.
org under the
Videos tab
fine Grand Ronde
blood as "all Indian
blood derived from
a direct ancestor
whose name val
idly appears on
any roll or record
of Grand Ronde
members prepared
by the Department
of Interior or the
Tribe prior to or
since the effective date of this Constitution."
And it would establish an annual quota of
no more than 5 percent of currently enrolled
members may be accepted as new members.
The "bundled" proposal was supported by
Tribal Chairwoman Cheryle A. Kennedy, who
broke a 4-4 tie. Also in favor of sending the
proposal to Tribal voters were Tribal Council
Secretary Kathleen Tom and Tribal Council
members Valorie Sheker, Chris Mercier and
Wink Soderberg.
Voting no were Tribal Council Vice Chair Reyn
Leno and Tribal Council members Jack Giffen
Jr., Toby McClary and Steve Bobb Sr.
Much of the 100-minute meeting, which can be
viewed on the Tribal Web site www.grandronde.
See ENROLLMENT
continued on page 3
Tribe publishing Chinuk Wawa dictionary update
Larger edition should be
available this summer
By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
Tribal Council is capping off
more than 10 years of work
at the Cultural Resources
Department with an allocation of
$16,500 for 300 hard-cover and
5,000 soft-cover copies of the de
partment's Chinuk Wawa dictionary.
The publication, running almost
500 pages, includes about 1,000 core
words and about 3,000 compound
words documenting the language as
it was spoken by past generations
of Grand Ronde Indians.
The new edition is about one
third larger than the working
dictionary the department had cre
ated by 2001, said Henry Zenk, an
anthropologist with a University of
See DICTIONARY
continued on page 7
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The Tribe's new,
expanded Chinuk
Wawa dictionary
is going through
final edits
and should be
published this
summer.
Cover designed
by George Valdez