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Annual event is one of the
largest in the Pacific Northwest
By Melissa Biery
Summer Youth employee
The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
is holding its annual Contest Powwow,
which is one of the largest powwows held
in the Pacific Northwest, from Friday, Aug. 19,
through Sunday, Aug. 21, at Uyxat Powwow
Grounds, just off of Highway 22 next to Fort
Yamhill State Park.
Hosts drums will be Blackstone, Seekaskootch
and Cree Confederation. Registration begins
at 5 p.m. Friday and Grand Entry and Royalty
Coronations will be at 7 p.m.
On Saturday, activities will begin with a pa
rade at 1 1 a.m. followed by Grand Entry at 1 p.m.
Dancer registration deadline will be at 2 p.m.
with another Grand Entry will be at 7 p.m.
At 1 p.m. Sunday, the final Grand Entry will
be held.
Prizes will range from $1,000 for first place to
$25 for fifth place depending on the dance cat
egory. Tax forms are required for participants
as well as Social Security numbers and photo
identification. Specials Women's Traditional
and Men's Chicken Dance will feature $800
for first-place finishers.
Master of ceremonies will be Hal Eagletail
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Photo by Michelle AlaimoSmofo Signals file photo
Tribal member Marcus Gibbons dances in a Grand
Entry of tha 201 0 Grand Ronda Contest Powwow
held at Uyxat Powwow Grounds last year.
Senator instrumental in
Grand Ronde's Restoration
efforts dies at 89
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
Mark Hatfield, the U.S.
Senator who played
a pivotal role in ush
ering through Congress the
Restoration of the Grand Ronde
Tribe in 1983 and the Grand
Ronde Reservation Act in 1988,
walked on Sunday, Aug. 7, at
the age of 89.
On Monday, Aug. 8, the Grand
Ronde Tribe flew its flags at
half-mast in honor of Hatfield's
life.
"Words cannot describe what
he did for us," said Tribal El
der Kathryn Harrison, who
worked on the Grand Ronde
Restoration effort in the early
1980s and served many terms
as Tribal chairwoman. "His
kindness, dignity and respect
... He was a genuine friend of
the Tribe. What a loss."
"Senator Mark Hatfield was
a man of valor," said Tribal
Chairwoman Cheryle A. Ken
nedy, "who courageously served
the state of Oregon. He stood for
unpopular decisions, including
Tribal concerns. He served to
make things right so that the
greater good would be achieved
under his watch."
Hatfield, along with then-U.S.
House of Representative Les
AuCoin, introduced the legis
lation that would restore the
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Smoke Signals file photo
Former Oregon Senator Mark O. Hatfield stands with former Oregon
Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse and former Grand Ronde Tribal
Chairwoman Kathryn Harrison in 1998. Hatfield, who was instrumental in
helping the Grand Ronde Tribe get restored in the early 1980s, walked on
Sunday, Aug. 7, at the age of 89.
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Grand Ronde Tribe to federal
recognition in 1983, ending 29
years of Termination.
Five years later, AuCoin
and Hatfield would once again
team up to ensure that the
federal government's promise
of new reservation land would
be kept.
"He was a consistent, unflag
ging friend of Native Ameri
cans," AuCoin said Monday,
Aug. 8, from Bend, where he was
visiting relatives. "He wanted to
correct historical wrongs. That
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Tribe mounts
diabetes effort
Screenings help catch
diagnosis before people
show signs of disease
By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
ABeaverton-based laboratory,
DiabetOmics, is improving
the way diabetics can check
the markers of their disease.
It used to be that drawing a drop
of blood was only good for a momen
tary blood sugar level, but Diabe
tOmics now learns a whole slew of
medical and wellness information
from one little drop of blood.
The screenings read momentary
and long-term blood sugar levels,
but also provide information on
overall kidney, pancreas, heart
and liver functions in a convenient,
easy-to-read report that can be
shared with a primary care physi
cian. The reports also make sugges
tions for helpful lifestyle changes.
A screening at Spirit Mountain
Casino and among Tribal gov
ernment employees sold Mark
Johnston, Tribal Health Services
executive director, on the com
pany. "We were very impressed with
the results," he said during a recent
interview in his Health Clinic office.
"We found, for example, extremely
high cholesterol" among some of
those tested, and for others, the test
let them know for the first time that
they had diabetes.
"They were walking diabetics,"
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