S moke S ignals
september 1, 2014
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
eXterNAL OpeNINGs
INterNAL OpeNINGs
n AFC Caregiver
(on-call)
Adult Foster Care
Grade: 5
Open until filled
n Lab Assistant
Lab
Grade: 6
Closing date: sept. 16
n Legal secretary
Legal
Grade: 8
Closing date: sept. 16
OR 130 bridge work continuing
PACIFIC CITY – Work started April 1 on painting three heavily rusted
bridges over the Nestucca River on OR 130 (Little Nestucca Highway),
between state Highway 22 and U.S. 101. Painting is expected to take
approximately two months per bridge.
To get an update on road conditions throughout Oregon, visit www.
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n support Counselor
Behavioral Health
Grade: 9
Open until filled
n early Headstart Home Visitor
(on-call)
Early Childhood Education
Grade: 9
Open until filled
INterNAL/eXterNAL
n budget manager
Finance
Grade: 17
Closing date: sept. 2
Internal applicants are
1. Current Regular Employee, past
their six-month Introductory
period, receiving at least a “meets
expectations” on most recent
performance evaluation and not
under disciplinary action or per-
formance improvement within
the previous six months,
2. Grand Ronde Tribal members
3. Spouse of a Grand Ronde Tribal
member or
4. Parent or legal guardian of
Grand Ronde Tribal member
children
Internal recruitment
For those individuals meeting mini-
mum qualifications an interview will
be given in the following ranking
order:
1. Grand Ronde Tribal members
a) Qualified Grand Ronde Tribal
Drug-Free
Workplace Policy
n Effective January 1, 2004, all
employees are subject to random
drug and/or alcohol testing.
n All pre-employment offers.
n When there is reasonable
suspicion.
n Post accident.
members who show they
meet the minimum qual-
ifications of the position
during the course of the
interview process will be
given first consideration for
hire and the recruitment
process will end
2. Tribal member spouses, par-
ents and/or legal guardians of
Grand Ronde Tribal member
children
3. Current regular employees
For a detailed job description, please contact the
Tribe’s job line at 503-879-2257 or 1-877 TRIBEGR.
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Goodnight Grand Ronde Order Form
Photo by Michelle Alaimo
Judith Fernandes, language teaching specialist for Northwest Indian
Language Institute, talks about a Chinuk Wawa book that was produced
with money from grants that the Tribe has received during a Chinuk Wawa
Projects Celebration at Chachalu Tribal Museum & Cultural Center on
Tuesday, Aug. 26.
Fifteen attended
Wawa presentation
HERITAGE continued
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Name: ____________________________________
Please mail this form to:
Address:___________________________________
CTGR Education Dept.
City:______________ State: _______ Zip:________
9615 Grand Ronde Rd
Number of books x $7.00/ea. $_________
Grand Ronde, OR 97347
Shipping $1.00/ea $_________
Total
*Checks only
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$_________
• A PowerPoint presentation was
another tool in the process.
• A curriculum was developed to
serve as a basis to teach the books
and the craft of basket weaving.
Kathy Cole, manager of the Cul-
tural Outreach Program for the
Tribe, observed the wide variety
of ways these projects can be used,
including teaching traditional
weaving at many levels of learning
and in different formats, including
web presentations.
The book titles are “We Go Gath-
er,” “How to Make a Basket” and
“Grandmother Cedar.”
The help of many – educators,
writers, translators and illustrators
– went into development of all these
tools. One book was illustrated by
a kindergarten class in the Tribe’s
Education Department.
Videos describing the traditional
process of weaving are presented
three different ways: Chinuk narra-
tion with Chinuk subtitles; Chinuk
narration with English subtitles;
and Chinuk subtitles with English
narration.
These presentations allow the
material to meet different class-
room needs, said translator Henry
Zenk, a longtime language consul-
tant for the Tribe and an expert in
Chinuk languages.
Zenk has worked with Grand
Ronde Tribal language and culture
staff for years and contributed to
the Chinuk language dictionary
started in 2001 and published in
a finished version by the Tribe in
2012.
Margaret Mathewson prepared
the original PowerPoint presenta-
tion about traditional weaving prac-
tices. She is a nationally recognized
expert in traditional basketry and
plant materials, and has long been
a consultant for the Tribe on various
questions of Tribal tradition.
Judith Fernandes turned the
PowerPoint into a curriculum for
teaching the material. She is a
curriculum specialist for the North-
west Indian Language Institute,
and also a longtime consultant to
the Tribe.
Fifteen attended the presentation
held at the Chachalu Tribal Mu-
seum & Cultural Center, including
project participants, language and
culture staff, and Tribal Council
member Denise Harvey.
The Grand Ronde drum group,
with drumming and singing by oth-
ers at the presentation, introduced
the event. n