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Senior Veterans Queen Kallie Provost gives a baseball hat to Tribal
Elder Raymond Petite Jr. during the Marcellus Norwest Memorial
Veterans Powwow at Uyxat Powwow Grounds in Grand Ronde on
Saturday, July 7. Petite is a veteran and hats embroidered with "CTGR
Veterans Powwow" were given to all veterans in attendance.
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Kiana Leno does a
fancy dance In an
Intertribal dance
during the Marcellus
Norwest Memorial
Veterans Powwow.
In the background is
Kailiyah Krehbiel.
Tribal Vice Chair Reyn
Leno, right, Tribal
Council member Steve
Bobb Sr., second from
right, Tribal Council
Secretary Jack Gift en
Jr., third from right, and
Tribal Council member
June Sherer, behind the
three, participate in
grand entry. Leno, Bobb
and Sherer are veterans.
Photos by
Michelle Alaimo
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POWWOW continued
from front page
Bob Duncan served active duty in
the Navy from 1964-68 and two more
years inactive. He served in Morocco
on the USS Sandoval ABA 194.
Pee Wee (Jesse Jr.) Robertson
served in the Navy in Yokosuka,
Japan, from 1981-85, and again
this year enjoyed the powwow with
fellow veterans Jerry Puderburgh,
who went through boot camp with
Pee Wee and served on the same
ship, the USS Kirk FF 1087. They
sat with fellow Navy veteran Mark
Schweizer, also from the USS Kirk,
who served from 1981-95.
The Veterans Powwow is often
the place where Robertson and his
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former shipmates get together each
year, sometimes as many as five or
more of them from the USS Kirk.
Tribal Elder and Tribal Council
member June Sherer served in the
Army from 1966-69 in Germany.
At 64, Sherer also was honored as
the powwow's senior woman. The
senior man was 91-year-old Walt
Grophy, a World War II Army vet
eran who served in Europe. This
was also Grophy's third visit to the
Tribe's Veterans Powwow.
The junior woman honored at the
powwow was 47-year-old Beth Ran
dolph, who served in the Army's
Berlin Brigade from 1988-91. The
junior man was 30-year-old Blair
Hess, who served two tours with
the Army in Iraq.
Blair is also son-in-law to Tribal
Elder Lewis Younger, himself an
Air Force veteran who served from
1971-74.
On Saturday, the Veterans' Spe
cial Event Board, which hosts the
powwow each year, sponsored an
Honor Dance for Tribal Elder Gene
LaBonte, who turned 71 that day.
In addition, Sixkiller's grandson,
Silus Sixkiller, 4, hosted a Tiny
Tots Special for attendees 6 and
under in regalia, to honor Silus'
birthday.
Tribal Elder Deitrich Peters and his wife, Rose, dance an owl dance during
the Marcellus Norwest Memorial Veterans Powwow at Uyxat Powwow
Grounds in Grand Ronde on Saturday, July 7. The couple was the head man
and woman for the powwow.
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Kailiyah Krehbiel dances a fancy dance in an Intertribal dance during the
Marcellus Norwest Memorial Veterans Powwow at Uyxat Powwow Grounds in
Grand Ronde on Saturday, July 7.
Tony White
head was whip
man. The hus-band-and-wife
team of Deitrich
and Rose Peters were head man
and woman.
Wayne Chulik, Patty Coffey and
Tom Smith carried Eagle staffs dur
ing grand entries this year. Honor
Guard included Chulik, Gene La
Bonte and Wink Soderberg.
An Owl dance, a Team dance,
Hoop dances and Grass dances
were supported throughout the
weekend by drums from far and
near, including Iron Lung, Jo
honaaii, Little River, Eagle War
rior, Turquoise Price, Signal Butte
and Autumn Creek. Navajo Gourd
dancers from southern Oregon also
gave an exhibition.
The Aztec Dancers, mostly from
the Salem area, stepped in at the
last minute with an exhibition
"and did a great job,"
according to Dakota
Whitecloud, chair of the
Veterans' Special Event
Board.
Royalty, both pres
ent and future, were
on hand in force and
included Elizabeth
Watson-Croy, Amelia
Mooney, Iyana Holmes,
Sasheen Baker, Ama
ryssa Mooney, Nikia
Mooney, Kaleigha Simi,
Madison Ross, Kiana
Leno, Makenzie Aaron,
From left, Grand
Ronde Princess
Elizabeth Watson
Croy, Little Miss
Grand Ronde Amelia
Mooney and Junior
Miss Grand Ronde
Iyana Holmes
use fans to cool
themselves as they
wait for grand entry.
Visitthelrihp's .
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Kialiyah Krehbiel, Nakoosa More
land and Kallie Provost.
The Culture Committee, under
the watchful eye of Tribal Elder
Betty Bly, hosted a crafts booth
with beading, coloring and paint
ing for children. Chalino Randall,
9, made a bead necklace "for my
mom," he said, and also had been
painting and coloring on Saturday
afternoon.
His sister, Hanna Randall, also 9,
was making necklaces for her two
sisters and her mother. May Conrad,
8, beaded a necklace for herself.
Booths also included the Roofers
Apprenticeship Preparation Train
ing and Occupational Readiness
(RAPTOR) program and the Vet
erans Benefits Administration. The
Veterans' Special Event Board held
raffles of items donated by vendors
to support the board's annual pow
wow work.
Vendors sold Navajo "horse hair"
pottery made with red and white
clay, so-called because it is deco
rated with horse hair impressions.
Artisans sold yew and hazelnut
bows and arrows, with buffalo hide
quivers. Steel, stone and bone knives
and hatchets were available, as were
gourd vessels made with leather dye
and sandstone and granite paint.
The powwow, held under the big
tent, saw hot days and cool evenings,
sometimes with an intimate, family
atmosphere, and sometimes busy and
bustling. It competed with two other
powwows here in the Northwest.
"I think it went very well," said
Whitecloud. "Never heard a com
plaint all weekend. We fed dinner
to almost 400 people on Saturday,
and we served breakfast on Sun
day morning to a couple hundred
people, if not more."
Whitecloud said a whole host of
folks helped put the event together,
including Public Affairs Director
Siobhan Taylor and Graphic Design
Specialist George Valdez; all the
veterans and the Honor Guard. "The
crew of 13, hired through the Tribe's
Human Resources Department,
did a great job," Whitecloud said.
"Everybody just seemed to work
together this year. Everything just
worked. And it went real well."
She also thanked Royalty and
Veterans' Special Event Board
members Gene LaBonte, Wink So
derberg, Reina Nelson, Bob Duncan
and Wayne Chulik.
The T-shirt legend most repre
sentative of the veteran spirit?
"Impossible is nothing."
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