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
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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. .
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munity and your insight to education of Native youth.
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mawa Indian School School Supervisor, 3700 Chemawa Road N.E. Salem,
OR 97305, by Friday, July 15.
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