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Smoke Signals 9 JULY 1,2011 By Ron Karten Smoke Signals staff writer "Tools of Survival" is the new show at the Willamette Heritage Center at the Mill and includes artifact contributions from the Con federated Tribes of Grand Ronde. The show opened on Friday, June 24, in Salem. Co-curators Peter Booth, execu tive director of the museum, and board member Michael Carrick, a weapons historian, say that weap ons from the dawn of time tell a compelling story. Weapons, of course, tell stories of defense and offense, but they also have always been used to put food on the table. For Booth and Carrick, they tell the story of time. "It's about the part that weapons play in history," said Carrick, at the "members only" opening held on Thursday, June 23. "A museum," said Booth, "is all about having the items that tell the story. Weapons are a constant in history. This is Oregon's past as told by the weapons that witnessed its history." Of some 65 guns and almost 100 artifacts in all, Booth added, "We have some wonderful stories up Li Photo by Michelle Alalmo A buckskin quiver, contributed by the Tribe's Cultural Resources Department, is part of the Tools of Survival" exhibit at the Willamette Heritage Center at the Mill in Salem. there to tell." He pointed to the first repeating firearm that took 20 minutes to reload. He pointed to the 1917 Enfield "tree" rifle. It was found in the 1990s where it had been left lean ing against a tree at the Biak Training area near Redmond, Ore. According to Tracy Thoennes, cura tor of the Oregon Military Museum, which owns the artifact, a soldier likely out of Camp Adair's 96th Division left it by that tree during a 1943 training before shipping out overseas. Notably, over the years, the tree grew around the rifle and ate away at the wood stock butt. Stressing the longstanding re quirement that soldiers hold on to their weapons, Thoennes said, "How the contingent could leave without that weapon is still a mys tery." The Tribal contribution to the show includes many artifacts from the Cultural Resources Department, including a cannon ball from Fort Yamhill and a few items a trade ax, powder horn and bag traced back to the Hudson Bay Company of the early 1800s. The Tribe also contributed a bow and arrow from the 1830s, Kalapuya points, a fish club, a stone ax head, and a buck skin quiver to the exhibit. Representing the Tribe were three Tribal members from the Schultz family: Khani Schultz, Julie Brown and Kevin Schultz, Op erations commander for the Marion County Sheriffs Office. Khani, who is Cultural Collec tions coordinator for the Tribe, put the artifacts together for the show, and Kevin pulled double duty, also representing the Oregon State Sheriffs' Association, another group that contributed artifacts to the exhibit. The design of the show is chrono logical, starting with Grand Ronde artifacts that go back untold years and moving forward to World War II artifacts. Grand Ronde artifacts start the show with the Native Or egon section, and also are included in the Trappers and Indian Wars sections, said Booth. All of the Grand Ronde contribu tions but one comes from the Cul tural Resources collection. A little dagger came from the Schultz's great-grandmother, former Tribal Elder Mary Susie LaBonte, who "tucked it in her belt," Khani said. As a single mother, she used it for protection. The exhibit runs through Satur day, Aug. 20. a Chemawa seeking volunteers Chemawa Indian School in Salem is accepting five nominations for its Parent Committee and one will be chosen from each of the following states Arizona, Oregon, Montana and South Dakota and one will be an at-large position. Applicants need to be Indian parents or legal guardians of students en rolled at Chemawa. Committee members visit the school four times over the course of a school year and costs are paid by Chemawa Indian School for travel to attend meetings. . To apply, submit a letter indicating your desire to serve on the Parent Committee and address in the letter your connection to your local com munity and your insight to education of Native youth. Submit materials, including a Tribal Council letter of support, to Che mawa Indian School School Supervisor, 3700 Chemawa Road N.E. Salem, OR 97305, by Friday, July 15. For more information, call 503-399-5721, ext. 231. B ? Is tftk . v I. a 1 liiiinif 1111(1 OdUUAMUflJ uiauuuuuui laannoiiHMe , ' UltiU IT.I.J- Social Scruflcco es.ci ran X- Social Scrulcco 1 lldlMIIIHI kAjAg-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM & " - Smoke Signals photo reprint policy See a photo you like in Smoke Signals? Want a copy, or several copies? Want to see if a photo that was taken but not printed in Smoke Signals because of space limitations might be something you'd like hanging on your living j-uaall? Tribal members can her 8-by-10 or 5-by-7 inch copies of photos taken by SmofceSwrstafI members regardless of if they were published in the newspaper. Charge is $1 for each print ordered. Reprint orders must be pre-paid with a check made out to Smoke Signals. A photo reprint order form is available in the Publications Office of the Tribe's Governance Building in Grand Ronde, or can be mailed upon request. All photos contained in Smoke Signals' current archive are available for purchase, but people interested in going through the archive must make an appointment to review photos for possible purchase. No rush orders will be permitted and requestors must allow 30 days for delivery. Requestors must be Tribal members. In addition, reprint requestors must agree that the reprint is for personal use only, and not for use in an ad, or for commercial, political or promotional purposes. Smoke Signals reserves the right to decline a reprint request. To request a reprint order form, write to Smoke Signals at 9615 Grand Ronde Road, Grand Ronde, OR 97347, or call the Publica tions Secretary at 503-879-1453 or 800-422-0232. B Ad created by George Valdez Saddle Gulb peon The Grand Ronde Saddle Club is now on summer hours and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily near the former Granu blonde Food Bank site west of Grand Ronde Road. Everyone is invited to visit the horses and go for a ride. In addition, the Saddle Club has scheduled a weeklong Pony Day Camp from July 11-15. The camp costs $125 and will help raise funds for the club's operation and care of the horses. For more information, contact Clint Folden at 503-559-1977, LeLani Folden at 503-438-5414 or Barbara Clark at 503-507-9107.
