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Alexandria Thorsgard receives help from Micah
Rogers, left, Tessa Simmons, right, and Cheyenne
Simmons getting into her packaging as she
prepares for the costume contest during Youth
Education's annual K-12 costume bowling party
at Walnut City Lanes in McMinnville on Friday,
Oct. 25. Her zombie Barbie costume took first
place for the middle and high school youth.
Tribal Elder Betty Lambert decorates
cakes for the cake walk during the Elders'
Halloween Party at
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Tribe prepares
to celebrate
30 years of
Restoration
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
The Confederated Tribes of
Grand Ronde will celebrate
its 30th anniversary of Res
toration, which occurred on Nov.
22, 1983, with two day's worth of
events on Friday and Saturday,
Nov. 22-23.
Restoration events will kick off
at 10 a.m. Friday with a healing
ceremony for Tribal members and
their families at the new Atudship
rock mound, which is designed to
be a sacred memorial for healing.
The sacred site is located on the
Lash property immediately north
of the Tribal Cemetery off Grand
Ronde Road.
The Atudship rock mound is a
monument honoring the plight
and Restoration of the more than
27 Tribes and Bands that make up
the Confederated Tribes of Grand
Ronde.
"The Atudship serves as a place
for your healing as our ancestors
before us sought healing," says
Tribal Land & Culture Depart
ment Manager Jan Looking Wolf
Reibach. "It is a practice that has
been in place since time immemo
rial. Individuals assign their own
meaning for their healing."
Atudship is a Tualatin-Kalapuya
term meaning to heap up earth and
rocks, usually associated with the
practice of obtaining spirit power.
See RESTORATION
continued on page 7
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By Ron Karten
Smoke Signals staff writer
The Confederated Tribes of Grand
Ronde was honored last month with
a prestigious conservation award
by one of the state's premier conservation
groups.
The Portland-based Lower Columbia Riv
er Estuary Partnership addresses environ
mental challenges in the lower 146 miles of
the Columbia River, according to the group's
executive director, Debrah Marriott.
The partnership was created by the
governors of Oregon and Washington in
1995.
At its annual gala, the group presented
the Tribe, which sponsored the event, with
its annual Stewardship Award. The event
was held Saturday, Oct. 12, at the Portland
See AWARD
continued on page 6
Tribal Council member Denise Harvey accepts the Stewardship Award from the
Portland-based Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership during its annual gala at
the Portland Yacht Club on Saturday, Oct. 12.
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