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Photos by Michelle Alalmo
Tribal member Penny DeLoe, left, holds her grandson, Tribal member
Nolan DeLoe, so he can try out a wooden rocking horse that his great
grandmother. Tribal Elder Val Grout, right bought for him at the
annual Elders Christmas Bazaar In the Tribal gymnasium on Friday,
Nov. 18. The bazaar also took place on Saturday, Nov. 19.
Tribal Elder Evelyn Seidel crochets a dish rag at her booth at the
annual Elders Christmas Bazaar in the Tribal gymnasium on Friday,
Nov. 18.
Canoe Family meets Friday, Dec. 2
The Grand Ronde Canoe Family will meet at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2,
in the Tribal gym for a potluck dinner.
Ham and turkey will be provided and attendees are asked to bring their
favorite side dish or drink.
Members also are asked to bring pictures or videos from this year's
journey, and from other events the Canoe Family has participated in in
2011.
For more information, call Shannon Stanton at 503-879-1489 or Cristina
Lara at 503-879-2040. O
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Photo by Michelle Alalmo
Chris Freeman, a groundskeepermaintenance technician for the Tribe
and a Tribal member, bowls his way to first place in the men's category
In the eighth annual Turkey Bowling event in front of the Governance
Center on Thursday, Nov. 1 7. He bowled two strikes to take the win and
a $25 gas card prize. Also in the men's category, second went to Jeremy
Galloway, maintenance technician for the Tribe, and third to Rich
Curtin, help desk technician for the Tribe. For the women's category, in
first place was Linda Meyer, Tribal budget specialist, second place was
Dalette Nash-Remington, Tribal records clerk, and Teresa Clay, a legal
secretary for the Tribe, took third.
Tribe has high praise for Transportation Department
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be a good idea to "evaluate the
model used by ODOT and look at
expanding this to other agencies."
ODOT, she said, "meets with
Tribal staff at least twice yearly
(outside the cluster meetings), they
send an overview of projects well in
advance of this meeting so Tribal
staff aren't overwhelmed, they take
good notes at the meetings and
make sure they understand Tribal
concerns, and most importantly,
they follow up on these concerns
to make sure they are addressed
in the actual projects."
And, in fact, there were many ar
eas where Tribes in general and the
Grand Ronde Tribe in particular
had high praise for the government-to-government
relationships.
In the area of Vocational Reha
bilitation, Kennedy reported, "We
have established and maintained
a great working relationship with
our state counterparts."
In the Natural Resources area,
"The Youth Conservation Corps
remains a great partnership," she
reported. "The cluster meetings
have been beneficial."
The tables at the conference were
set up so that people in related ar
eas sat together. Like many at the
conference, Grand Ronde Tribal
member and Tribal Natural Re
sources Manager Mike Wilson has
been impressed with government-to-government
opportunities to
network.
"We talked about lamprey work,
water quality and climate change
how the Tribes and state can
work together on issues of impor
tance such as these," Wilson said.
In Culture, Kennedy reported
that the state Medical Examiner
"worked well with Tribes to cre
ate the training video for human
remains."
Tribal school curriculum has been
updated to reflect the Native expe
rience, she reported, but "there are
almost no school districts offering
that as a part of their fourth-grade
units. As such the state is not fulfill
ing this need."
With the Oregon Youth Author
ity, she reported, "For the past 10
years we have maintained open
dialogue regarding the care and
custody of our Tribal youth and all
incarcerated Native youth in Or
egon. We have developed a tracking
system and notification system for
Native incarcerated youth. We have
developed transitional services for
Tribal youth coming out of incar
ceration."
For adult inmates, however,
Department of Corrections' Reli
gious Services Administrator Gary
Sims said that the picture is not
so pretty. His perception is that
"once you've fallen in many Native
communities, you've disgraced the
community and should not be re
installed. The biggest challenge
is to get the Native community to
volunteer with inmates andor with
their own particular incarcerated
Native people."
And for unaffiliated Natives, the
situation is worse.
"The drugs, the pornography or
what have you, they are the symp
toms, not the problem. The problem
is acceptance, respect, accountabil
ity, honor and being of value," he
said. "They look out and all they
see is darkness and a lack of hope
for their future."
"We want to define winning not
as just beating another guy," said
Senate Republican Leader Ted Fer
rioli (R-John Day), "but achieving
an objective that respects the other
side."
Citing some of the most conten
tious areas, Kitzhaber said, "I hope
we can crystallize those and make
some measurable progress. We're
reshaping our relationship as we
go forward."
The summit was attended by a
host of Grand Ronde Tribal mem
bers and employees, including
(beyond those mentioned) Tribal
Council members June Sherer,
Chris Mercier and Toby McClary,
as well as Tribal Attorney Rob
Greene, Tribal member and Direc
tor of Program Operations John
Mercier, Health Services Executive
Director Mark Johnston, Assistant
Executive Health Services Director
Allyson Lecatsas, Public Affairs
Director Siobhan Taylor, Tribal
member and Cultural Resources
Manager David Lewis, Tribal mem
ber and Tribal Council Executive
Coordinator Brent Merrill, and
Tribal member and Self-Determi-nation
Coordinator Janell Haller.
The summit also was attended
by a host of statewide elected of
ficials, including State Treasurer
Ted Wheeler; co-Speaker of the
Oregon House of Representatives
Arnie Roblan, Coos Bay; Sen. Alan
Olsen, Canby; Representative Julie
Parrish, TualatinWest Linn; Lin
coln County Commissioner Terry
Thompson; and Cottage Grove
Mayor Gary Williams, who is also
head of Oregon League of Cities.
Cylvia Hayes, the state's first lady,
also was in attendance. B