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Photo by Michelle Alaimo
Darien Leno does a fancy danca during an Intertribal danca as her sister, Bayleigh Leno, follows her during the
Marcellus Norwest Memorial Veterans Powwow at Uyxat Powwow Grounds in Grand Ronde on Saturday, July 7.
20 12 Veterans Powwow honors those who served
By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
Y v he circle of veterans ex
1 tended halfway around
JL the tent at this year's
annual Marcellus Norwest Me
morial Veterans Powwow, held
Friday, July 6, through Sun
day, July 8, at Uyxat Powwow
Grounds.
Master of ceremony Nick
Sixkiller noted that his father,
Earl, and brother, Bob, were
both Navy veterans with his
father serving in World War II
and his brother in Vietnam.
"And I served on the USS
Sperry and the Proteus from
1969-73," Sixkiller said.
Tribal Elder Herman Hud
son Jr. said that his three
uncles Johnnie, Gene and
Ken, all passed on served in
World War II, as did he; John
nie in the Army and Gene, Ken
and himself in the Navy.
Tribal Elder Alton Butler
served in the Marines from
1969-80 and served in Vietnam.
Tribal Elder and Tribal Council
Vice Chair Reyn Leno served in
the Marines in Vietnam from
1969-71. "One turn," he said.
See POWWOW
continued on pages 10-11
Portland City Council
formally establishes
Tribal relationships
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
PORTLAND More than
nine months after the Con
federated Tribes of Grand
Ronde held its first-ever Tribal
Government Day with Portland
elected officials and staff, the City
Council in Oregon's largest city
voted unanimously on Wednesday,
July 11, to formalize coordination
and consultation with Tribal gov
ernments. During the morning meeting, the
Portland City Council approved a
resolution that establishes government-to-government
relationships
with Tribal governments and rec
ognizes Tribal sovereignty.
"This is an exciting and his-.,
toric day," said City Commissioner
See RESOLUTION
continued on page 12
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Photo by Michelle Alaimo
Tribal Chairwoman Cheryle A.
Kennedy testifies before the
Portland City Council about a
resolution to formalize consultation
with Tribal governments during
the council meeting at City Hall in
Portland on Wednesday, July 1 1 .
The council unanimously passed the
resolution during the meeting.
Heyaza Brien
works on a
bow during
the Bringing
Back the
Bow event
at the Uyxat
Powwow
Grounds on
Friday,
July 27.
Youth learn traditional ways to make weapon
m
Photo by Grayson Winters
By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
"ailiyah Krehbiel gave the thumbs up
about her father's help on Saturday,
lune 29, at the Tribe's Uyxat Powwow
Grounds.
She was attending a family affair that week
end for as many as 40 youth from across the
state who learned to make bows from scratch
and practiced shooting arrows at targets.
Brian Krehbiel, Cultural Education spe
cialist and point man for the Tribe in
organizing the event, was tightening his
daughter's emerging bow stave in a vise,
that in turn was clamped to one of the pic
nic tables under a tent, where the action
was non-stop with youth filing, sanding
and painting the blanks, knotting and wax
ing bow strings and finding ways to carry
See BOW
continued on page 8