S moke S ignals
OCTOBER 15, 2014
IN THE TRIBAL COURT OF THE
CONFEDERATED TRIBES
OF THE GRAND RONDE COMMUNITY OF OREGON
In the Matter of:
GOESERICH-PALANUK, Rebecca
Petitioner,
CASE NO. C-14-090
ORDER GRANTING REQUEST
TO CHANGE NAME
[ADULT]
Based on the allegations set forth in the Petition for Name Change
filed by Petitioner on September 5, 2014.
THE COURT FINDS AS FOLLOWS:
1. This Court has jurisdiction over the Petitioner and the subject
matter of the Petition herein;
2. The Petitioner is over 18 years of age;
3. The Petitioner is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes
of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon OR a resident of the Grand
Ronde Reservation;
4. The Petitioner has not petitioned and been granted a change of
name by the Tribal Court within the past twelve (12) months;
5. The Petitioner has served a Notice of Name Change to all Cred-
itors Former Spouses to whom an obligation is owed under a divorce
decree.
NOW THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED:
1. The name of the Petitioner is changed from Rebecca Suzanne
Goeserich-Palanuk to Rebecca Jane Goeserich;
2. The Clerk of the Tribal Court shall cause a copy of this Order to
be published in the Tribal Newsletter;
3. The Clerk of the Tribal Court shall submit a certified copy of this
Order to the Grand Ronde Tribal Enrollment office;
4. The Clerk of the Court shall provide a certified copy of the Order
to the Oregon State Department of Vital Statistics.
DATED THIS 1ST DAY OF OCTOBER, 2014
David D. Shaw
Chief Judge
9
ATTENTION TRIBAL MEMBERS
WITH CONTRACT HEALTH SERVICES
As most of you are aware, Contract Health Services (CHS) is feder-
ally funded program and a payor of last resort. With all of the health
care changes recently, we would like to take a minute to remind you
that ANY alternate resource you have needs to be utilized correctly.
That means in order for CHS to cover a “patient responsibility,” you
must use providers who are in network with whatever health care
coverage you have primary, including the Tribal Health Assistance
Program: Skookum.
If you choose not to use providers that are in-network or receive
services that are not covered, you will be responsible for any patient
balance. Services include: Medical, Dental and Behavioral Health.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, but in order
to keep serving our Tribal community, we must exhaust all other
resources available to our membership.
CHS also wants to remind you that there are some services that
are not covered by CHS, but are covered by Skookum.
If you choose to receive these services, you will be responsible
for paying the co-payments. They are as follows: Chiropractic care,
Naturopathic care, Massage, Acupuncture, as well as outpatient
drug and alcohol treatment.
This does not mean that you cannot use those services; it simply
means that CHS will not be responsible for any patient balances.
You can still keep those appointments; you just need to pay
whatever your co-pay is. We understand that this can all be a little
confusing, so please feel free to give us a call if you have ANY ques-
tions and we’ll be happy to help.
Tauni McCammon, 503-879-1406
Erica Mercier, 503-879-2080
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Tribe’s history is still out there
LEWIS continued
from front page
a long while before younger archi-
vists, like Lewis, have accumulated
the expertise for navigating these
sources.
Lewis has tracked down material at
the National Archives in Seattle and
in Washington, D.C., and environs
— Archives 2 at Suitland, Md., the
National Anthropological Archives
at College Park, Md., The Library of
Congress and now the Smithsonian
Museum of Natural History.
“I’m learning more about how
these collections work,” Lewis says.
“Next time, I’ll have a better idea of
how to do this faster. It’s a process
of understanding what’s in the
guides and what’s not.”
In Oregon, Lewis has pursued
Tribal history at the Oregon His-
torical Society’s library, University
of Oregon Special Collections and
University Archives, and other
heritage collections throughout
western Oregon.
Other trips in search of new
historical acquisitions or further
information about documents al-
ready in the Chachalu collection
will include visits to repositories at
the University of Washington, the
University of California at Berke-
ley, University of Chicago and Yale
University in New Haven, Conn.
At the Oregon Historical Society
in Portland a few years ago, Lew-
is uncovered a passbook naming
long deceased Tribal members.
The passbook noted and dated the
comings and goings of Tribal mem-
bers living under the command of
the U.S. Army at what is now Fort
Yamhill State Park, for a time
represented in Grand Ronde by
then-Lt. Phil Sheridan.
The August trip was the fourth
time Lewis has been researching
in Washington, D.C. His objec-
tives now go beyond the search for
Tribal documents like maps, corre-
spondence, illustrations, land and
water surveys, and anthropological
studies.
“Another part of the job is figur-
ing out what we have and what we
don’t have,” he says. “We have been
working on collecting documents of
the Tribe since the 1990s. Finding
the Executive Order establishing
the Grand Ronde Reservation is
primary on our list. I’ve been asking
archivists and historians working
the field if they know where it is
and nobody yet has found it.”
The Confederated Tribes of Siletz
Indians found the Executive Order
establishing its coastal Indian
reservation in transfer documents
being sent to Congress.
After many previous visits to
repositories in the Washington,
D.C., area, Lewis now has a base
of professionals to share with and
learn from.
The thrill of the process for Lewis
is learning from archival experts
in many fields. Advisers include Jo
Allyn Archambault, curator at the
Smithsonian’s Museum of Natu-
ral History, and Gina Rappaport,
director of the National Anthropo-
logical Archives.
The Executive Order hasn’t
turned up yet; not at the Smith-
sonian, not among Buchanan’s pa-
pers and not from any professional
sources that he has asked about it
along the way.
“It’s just a matter of time,” Lewis
says.
He spent much time in Washing-
ton, D.C., going through microfilm.
He says he hopes to still find letters
related to the Grand Ronde Tribe
discussing the Reservation.
“I pulled a reel from 1872 with cor-
respondence and reports about the
Grand Ronde Reservation,” he says.
He went through the national
anthropology records. He looked
at surveys from the 1940s. “They
were doing river surveys, some on
the Columbia, some on the Willa-
mette. I marked a good number for
copying, which will come later on.”
Paper materials are scanned to
pdf files that are then delivered to
Lewis or sent to the Tribe. Many
three-dimensional objects, such as
baskets and stone works, also come
from Grand Ronde Tribal members
and neighbors, and the Tribe occa-
sionally buys items from Margaret
Mathewson, a nationally known
expert in Native baskets.
When documents arrive at the
museum, says Veronica Montano,
Cultural Collections coordinator,
the process of cleaning and pre-
serving the items made of natural
compositions begins. Whether
three-dimensional or paper-based,
“All materials will be cleaned,
scanned and put into computer pro-
grams where metadata is attached;
we make sure it’s filed right and
then box it for archival storage.”
The pieces come in packages
large and small. “We’ve been pretty
steady at one a week,” Montano
says. “There have been times when
they come in five times a week. And
sometimes 20 boxes of stuff.”
To date, Montano says, the mu-
seum has about 5,500 items, 550
baskets and more than 2,500 stone
pieces. The rest is paper-based, all
filed away on laser-fiche. The collec-
tion is measured in lineal feet, but
calculating those feet is an ongoing
project, she says.
Lewis had other objectives for the
visit, too.
He went as a Smithsonian Fellow
and gave a talk at the Smithsonian
Museum of Natural History and
another at the annual meeting of
the Society of American Archivists,
where he is a member.
He went with a mission to also
find old maps of the Grand Ronde
area, including its ceded lands.
The repository in College Park, for
example, holds cartographic maps.
“I went there looking for the
maps of Oregon drawn up by the
military and explorers,” Lewis says.
“I wanted to find if there were any
maps we don’t have here. I got four
maps: a military map of the Oregon
territory, two of the reservation
that showed allotments, and one
more, a map of the ratified treaty
areas with ceded lands.”
Other benefits accrue along the
way.
“A lot of times I’ll go to a muse-
um,” Lewis says. “This last trip, I
went to the National Museum of
American Indians. We look at how
work is presented, the titles and
the materials used, to see how they
do it and bring it home. They’re
professionals and we’re new at it.
“It’s part of a learning process.
It’s an intuitive process; a learned
experience. A lot of time it’s a look,
a font that combines new and old
history, writing styles, how much
text to put on a panel.”
Much of the story of the Tribe’s
history is still out there, and Lewis
and his staff are in search of it …
especially one document signed by
President James Buchanan. n