Smoke Signals 5
JULY 1,2013
Tribal Council makes appointments
to Spirit Mountain Gaming board
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
Tribal Council approved three re
appointments to the Spirit Moun
tain Gaming Board of Directors
during its June 19 meeting.
Tribal Council member Steve
Bobb Sr. was re-appointed to a
three-year term ending on June
30, 2016. In addition, Ron Lampard
and Kevin Schultz were re-appointed
to three-year terms ending
on the same date.
In other action, Tribal Council:
Held a first reading on proposed
amendments to the Tribal Court
ordinance that would establish
a Tribal Bar and make various
technical amendments;
Approved Tribal credit cards for
Natural Resources Department
employees Gabe Clift, Zach Haas
and Andrew Puerini for the pur
pose of wildland fire and other
emergency incident management
needs;
Approved the enrollment of four
infants and eight adults into the
Tribe;
Approved authorized signers on
the Tribe's bank accounts with
Wells Fargo, as well as on the
Employee Health Plan bank ac
counts with Wells Fargo.
Included in the June 19 Tribal
Council packet was an authoriza
tion to proceed giving the Tribe's
lobbying firm, Perseverance Strat
egies, permission to send a letter
supporting HB 2387, which would
direct the Oregon Historical So
ciety to undertake fundraising
and commissioning of a statue of
Mark Hatfield to be placed in the
National Statuary Hall in the U.S.
Capitol.
Hatfield, while a U.S. senator,
was instrumental in helping the
Grand Ronde Tribe gain Restora
tion in the early 1980s. He also
helped the Tribe regain reservation
land in 1988.
Committee sends Reservation
Act bill to House for vote
A proposed amendment to the 1988 Grand Ronde Reservation Act that
would streamline how the Tribe takes former reservation lands into trust
and the way these lands are returned to reservation status was passed
out of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee with unanimous
support on June 12.
House Resolution 841 would end the current two-step process the Tribe
must go through to restore former reservation land to reservation sta
tus. Currently, the Tribe must go to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to take
the land into trust and then ask Congress to make the land part of the
Tribe's reservation.
Under the proposed amendment, when the BIA takes into trust land
within the boundaries of the Tribe's original reservation, the land would
then be considered reservation land, ending the reason to have to go back
to Congress.
Grand Ronde Tribal Chair Reyn Leno testified in support of the legis
lation on May 16 before the House Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska
Native Affairs.
The legislation was introduced by Oregon Rep. Kurt Schrader.
A companion bill in the U.S. Senate has been referred to the Committee
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FISH LAB
47010 SW HEBO ROAD
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MEMBERS
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Friday, Aug. 16, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Saturday, Auq. 17, 9 a.m. - Noon
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below is required!
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Fish will NOT be mailed
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only Elder orders will be filled using this line. Thank you for understanding and
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Photos by Michelle Alaimo
Gag Hernandez, 5, slides out of the mouth of a tiger as he plays on a
giant inflatable slide during the ninth annual Family Night Out held
on the Tribal campus on Thursday, June 20.
Amelia Mooney, 1 0, jumps on an extreme air
jumper during the ninth annual Family Night
Out held on the Tribal campus on Thursday,
June 20.
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