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16 Smoke Signals JULY 1,2011 Free pas-king will be at Spirit Mountain Casino STAMPEDE continued from front page sociation-sanctioned event, Spirit Mountain Stampede now has the financial and personnel backing of Spirit Mountain Casino to help make it financially successful. There are billboards promoting the event along Interstate 5 in the Portland metro area, as well as along state Highway 18 just east of the casino in Grand Ronde. There is a Facebook page and there will be radio spots, said Tribal member and casino Marketing Sponsorship Coordinator Jocelyn Huffman. In addition, the casino is helping the Tribal Rodeo Special Event Board sell tickets online through its usual vendor. And the casino will be holding a complementary event during the Stampede, helping make Grand Ronde and the Stampede a destina tion event. At 8 p.m. Saturday, the casino will host "Gone Country," a variety show of country music star imper sonators, including Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw and Brooks & Dunn. "The rodeo is in conjunction with Spirit Mountain Casino," says Tribal Elder and Rodeo Special Event Board Chairman Harold Lyon. "We're very, very happy to have it back." The rodeo will feature the usual competitions on Saturday and Sunday afternoons - bull riding, barrel racing, saddle and bareback bronc riding, breakaway roping, tie-down roping, team roping and steer wrestling. On Friday evening, the "slack events," held for contestants who If you go Spirit Mountain Stampede When: 5 p.m. Friday, July 15 (stack events), and 2 p.m. Sat urday and Sunday, July 16-17 Where: Spirit Mountain Rodeo Grounds on Tribal campus, 9615 Grand Ronde Road Admission: $10 for adults, $5 for children 5 to 12 years of age Parking: Free at Spirit Moun tain Casino, which will operate a shuttle, and on the Tribal campus Tickets: www.spiritmountain. com or at the gate did not qualify for the Saturday and Sunday competitions, will be held. Winners of the bull riding and bronc events will win a portion of the entry fees and $2,000 in added money. Winners of the timed events will receive a portion of the entry fees and $1,500 in added money. Free parking will be at Spirit Mountain Casino, which will run a shuttle to the rodeo grounds, and on 2.5 acres west of the Rodeo Grounds on the Tribal campus. Lyon said the rodeo also might use the old powwow grounds immediately south of the Governance Center for parking. "We're shooting for 1,500 people," Lyon said, adding that the casino also will bring in temporary bleach ers to seat that many rodeo fans. Howell Rodeo of Veneta, Ore., is the stock provider. To buy tickets online, visit www. spiritmountain.com and click on the Events & Entertainment tab. B r,3W UK"' ' Vendors & Edac ' anrJBocih Fon jiom Xiivoiuijitioi ajuboomtact: Uu Ori(g at S03.416i2e . lpr40cw0niMi:ht.os( This event i free and open to the public A Drug, Alcohol, Commoncal Tobacco and Violence FREE event. Sale of sacred items are forbidden. The committee is not responsible for lost or ttolen items or any travel or parking cost. For more Information about the Northwest Portland Area Indian Heiath Board or the 43 Federally recognized Tribes of Idaho, jf..v Oregon and Vtfuhington please visit www. npaihtLQTfl. 5ssc jjjJjP ' 2121 SWeroadwuy, Suite 300, Portland, Or 07201 SOS 228,4185 I0J Adult Foster Program "A Place To Call Home" Xf r ' ; The Tribe's Adult Foster Care lodges are committed to offering quality care to our Elders and helping them remain as independent as possible, while providing the personalized assistance they need. At our lodges, a wide range of services is available in a comfortable setting where privacy is respected and maximum independence is supported. For information, contact the Adult Foster Program director at 503-879-1694. B nMMI (DHS V -U-w. -...V- at Human mwvmm American Indian Nations from Termination to Restoration, 1953-2006 Roberta Ulrich When the VS. government ended its relationship with dozens of Native American tribes and band! between 1953 nd 19(6, It was engaging in a massive social experiment. Congress enacted the program, known as termination, In the name of "freeing the Indians from government restrictions and Improving their quality of life. However, removing the federal status of more than nine dozen tribes across the country plunged many of their nearly 13,000 members into deeper levels of poverty and eroded the tribal people's sense of Native identity. Beginning in 1073 and extending over a twenty-year period, the terminated tribes, one by one, persuaded Congress to restore their ties to the federal government Nonetheless, so much damage had been done that even today the restored tribes struggle to overcome the problems created by those terminations a half century ago. Roberta Ulrich provides a concise overview of all the terminations and restorations of Native American tribes from 1953 to 1006 and explores the enduring policy Implications for Native peoples. This is the first book to consider all the terminations and restorations in the twentieth century as part of continuing policy while detailing some of the Individual tribal differences. Drawing from Congressional records, interviews with tribal members, and other primary sources, Ulrich delves Into ihe causes and effects of termination and restoration from both sides. Roberta Ulrich Is a retired newspaper reporter. 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