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Smoke Signals
Tribe receives $60,305 grant
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
The Grand Ronde Tribe received
a $60,305 grant from the U.S. De
partment of Interior on Wednesday,
March 7, to support Tribal Historic
Preservation efforts.
Tribal member and Tribal Histor
ic Preservation Officer Eirik Thors
gard said the Grand Ronde Tribe's
federal allocation will be used to
purchase archaeology equipment
and pay for contracts to record
Tribal historic buildings.
The Grand Ronde Tribe hired its
first archaeologist, Briece Edwards,
in late 2011.
Secretary of the Interior Ken
Salazar announced the Tribe's
grant as part of $8.4 million be
ing given to 131 American Indian
Tribes to support their Tribal His
toric Preservation Offices under
the National Historic Preservation
Act.
The National Park Service awards
the grants to Tribes to assist in car
rying out national historic preser
vation program responsibilities on
Tribal lands.
"The participation of American
Indians in the national historic
preservation program is a major
step forward in how we tell the
story of our land and its people,"
Salazar said.
"These grants will help Tribes
recount their histories that date
back centuries before Europeans
set foot on this continent. As they
tell the story, all Americans can
gain a greater appreciation of their
rich traditions and cultures."
Tribes can use the grants to fund
projects, such as nominations to the
National Register of Historic Plac-
Eirik Thorsgard
es, pres
ervation education,
plan
n i n g ,
historic
structure
reports,
community
preserva
tion plans
and brick-
and-mortar repair to buildings.
The grants come from revenues
earned from federal oil leases on
the Outer Continental Shelf.
"Increased attention to the pres
ervation of significant Tribal places,
as well as Tribal culture and tradi
tion, is important to all Americans,"
said National Park Service Director
Jonathan Jarvis. "This grant pro
gram provides important funding
to protect the cultures of the first
Americans."
Thorsgard became the Tribe's
Tribal Historic Preservation Of
ficer in early 2011 after the Tribe
received a $27,000 grant from the
National Park Service.
The position allows the Tribe
to have increased sovereignty in
controlling its architectural and
historic sites on Reservation and
trust lands.
As the Tribal Historic Preserva
tion Officer, Thorsgard has the
authority on the Tribe's trust lands
to assess potential archaeologi
cal materials and devise plans to
avoid affecting the site or move the
materials out of the way of planned
development without obtaining
a ruling from the State Historic
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Photos by Michelle Alaimo
A group of middle school girls play a game called marshmallow swamp
during a Girls Inc. of Northwest Oregon dass at Youth Education on
Thursday, March 1 . The girls were divided into two groups and needed to
work as a team to cross the "swamp" by stepping on marsh mallows, which
were represented by a piece of colored paper. The Tribe's Youth Prevention
Program collaborated with Girls Inc. for an "Allies in Action" training
for middle school-aged girls. The training was offered last year to high
school-aged girls and the girls who participated in that training worked
with the middle school girls in this particular dass. Girls Inc. is a nonprofit
organization that guides high school and middle school-aged girls"to be
strong, smart and bold." It is an eight-week course running Feb. 2-March 22.
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Tribal member and high schooler Amanda Grijalva, middle, looks on as
middle school girls look through magazines for photos that illustrate
emotions brought up by hurtful behavior to use in a collage. The girls
looking through magazines include Tribal member Jillian Thomas,
left, Tribal descendant Jordan LaChance, second from left, and Tribal
members Andrea Grijalva, second from right, and Kyoni Mercier, right.
Grand Ronde, OR.
Friday II Saturday
7 P.M. U 7 P.M.
The Confederated Tribes of Grand
Ronde would like to invite you to
attend our 10th Annual Round Dance. It
will be held at the Tribal Gymnasium.
Thank you for respecting Grand Ronde's Tribal
community and culture by not displaying gang
affiliation or by bringing drugs,alcohol or
weapons to this event.
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