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More than $35,000 in prize money up for grabs during annual event
Smoke Signals file photo
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
More than $35,000 in prize money will be
up for grabs during the Confederated
Tribes of Grand Ronde's annual Con
test Powwow set for Friday, Aug. 16, through
Sunday, Aug. 18, at Uyxat Powwow Grounds,
9390 Highway 22.
Leah Brisbois, right, participates in an Intertribal
dance during tha 2012 Grand Ronda Contest
Powwow at Uyxat Powwow Grounds in Grand
Ronda last August.
The annual powwow one of the largest in
the Pacific Northwest - drew about 250 Native
dancers last year. Dancers competed for prize
money in 20 dance categories.
Registration begins at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16,
followed by the first Grand Entry at 7 p.m. Roy
alty coronation also will be held Friday evening.
On Saturday, Aug. 17, a parade will be held at
10 a.m. and include cash prizes. Grand entries
will be held at 1 and 7 p.m. with the deadline
See POWWOW
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State recruiting
for an Indian
education
specialist
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
After a decade-long effort by
Oregon Tribes, the state
Department of Education is
advertising for an Indian education
specialist.
"This was one of our priorities
for this session, getting positions
of equity for all Oregon students,"
said Cindy Hunt, Government and
Legal Affairs manager for the De
partment of Education. She helped
shepherd the new position through
the Legislature.
The proposal to return an Indian
education specialist position has
been around since 2003 as part of
the Indian Education Plan, which
was developed by Oregon's nine
federally recognized Tribes as a
way to work with their respective
school districts to improve Native
American student achievement.
Oregon had a full-time Indian ed
ucation specialist in the 1980s, but
the position's hours were reduced
to quarter-time because of budget
cuts and then it was eliminated in
the early 1990s. Tribes have been
aggressively pushing for it to be
resurrected ever since.
But returning the position to
the Department of Education's
budget ran into a major roadblock
after the recession hit in 2008 and
getting new employees approved
in a stressed state budget proved
impossible.
With state revenues rebounding
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The Grand Ronde Canoe Family travels in Stanldya as they paddle on the Willamette River through downtown
Portland on the third day of tha Paddle to Quinault 201 3 on Monday, July 22. Fourth from the front of the
canoe is Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown, who joined them for part of their paddle to Cathedral Park in
north Portland. Second from the front is Tai Mamaku, from the Maori of New Zealand, who is joining the Canoe
Family on the journey.
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20 13 Canoe Journey follows NW Shells and Cedar summer event
By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
NEWBERG This year's
Canoe Journey started
on Saturday, July 20,
at Rogers Landing in Newberg.
Two Grand Ronde canoes landed
12 days later, on Thursday, Aug.
1, with as many as 100 other
Tribal canoes at Point Grenville
on Quinault Indian Nation lands
on the Washington coast.
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The 225-mile voyage, travel
ing on two rivers and the Pacific
Ocean, attracted about 350 Trib
al Elders, members, staffers and
students. There were those who
paddled in the canoes and those
who provided support services
both by the canoes in the water
and at each stop.
At the first stop, Champoeg State
Heritage Park in St. Paul, the
Western Tribes Coalition, including
Grand Ronde, Coos, Coquille and
Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe
See JOURNEY
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