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PRESORTED STANDARD MAIL U S. POSTAGE PAID SALEM. OR PERMIT NO. 178 P-2 P53 OR NEWSPAPER PKOJ. UO LI2RAKY SYSTEM PRE 1299 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EUGENE OR 97403-1205 3 moke g Signals . A Publication of the Grand Ronde Tribe ? F JT lv-' fmm$? WWW.grandronde.org TJ2VCPQXJA ca MOLALLA ca ROGUE RIVER ca KALAPUYA ta CHASTA Tribe acquires 338-acre Chahalpam property By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor Using Bonneville Power Administration funding, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde has acquired 338 acres on the North Santiam River southeast of Salem in Marion County and just downstream from Stayton. The Chahalpam property is val ued at more than $3.5 million. "Chahalpam" means "place of the Santiam Kalapuya." "Not only did the Tribe receive outside funding for the entire pur chase, there are several hundred thousands of dollars of BPA fund ing available for our management of the property," said Tribal Land and Culture Department Manager Jan Looking Wolf Reibach. "Equally, if not more significant, is the value of recovering our historic treaty lands for the Tribal membership." Chahalpam is within the tradi tional homelands of the Santiam Kalapuya, one of the ancestral bands that formed the Confeder ated Tribes of Grand Ronde. The property has been farmed for many decades, but still features more than 100 acres of riparian gallery forest and more than a mile of river frontage. The property was acquired through BPA's Willamette Wild life Habitat Agreement, a 15-year agreement that requires BPA to See PROPERTY continued on page 10 ft' n "ivmw-iix . W,?.- V II I . .J. '"4 ir J Sin mm-Vi fcMniTl m - ITllir iii.i. w i ii- mi Photo by Ron Karten Spirit Mountain Casino's Grand Floral Parade float "Dances With Rosas," designed by Tribal Council member Steve Bobb Sr., received the Rose Society Award for most effective use and display of roses on Saturday, June 8. Casino float wins award for best use of roses during Grand Floral Parade By Ron Karten Smoke Signals staff writer Spirit Mountain Casino's Grand Floral Parade float "Dances With Roses" re ceived the Rose Society Award for the most effective use and display of roses on Saturday, June 8. The float was again this year designed by Tribal Council mem ber Steve Bobb Sr., who has cre ated the last five Grand Floral Parade floats for Spirit Moun- Vit f riTrirw' pagetb see more pfioi tain Casino and the Tribe. As the parade went by, he remem bered being in awe of the Portland Rose Festival as a child and said how "awesome" it has been in re cent years to play a part in it. "It has nothing to do with the awards," Bobb said. "It's about community, and having the chance to let others know more about us." In that regard, Bobb present ed newly anointed Rose Festi val Queen Hannah Rice from Madison High School with a Pendleton blanket and said the invocation before floats started rolling on Saturday morning. Kathleen George, director See PARADE continued on page 11 Fund supports Native educational (research Grant will back effort to assess student achievement in Oregon By Ron Karten Smoke Signals staff writer Spirit Mountain Community Fund awarded a $71,614 special grant in late May to the Portland-based think tank Chalkboard Project for a project that will assess the perfor mance of Native American students in Oregon public schools. The new project, called "Condition of Educa tion for Oregon Tribes," comes at a time when the state is moving through the early stages of broad educational reforms and Oregon Tribes are re newing their long-standing request for an Indian education specialist position within the state Department of Education. "This study is long over due," said April Campbell, manager of the Grand Ronde Tribe's Education Depart ment. "The Tribal Education Study will produce valuable student educational statistics including Individual Education Plans, discipline, grades, truancy, graduation rates, etc., for Tribal mem- Kathleen George bers ages 4 to 26 in Oregon. "This snapshot of data will assist Tribes in identifying gaps in student achievement which then can be used for future planning and re source allocation." The project will help eight of Oregon's nine federally recognized Tribes that are participat ing with "qualitative and quantitative" data to show gaps in student achievement and degrees earned by Tribal students as compared to other ethnic groups. "The board (of Directors of Spirit Mountain See COMMUNITY FUND continued on page 12
