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About Smoke signals. (Grand Ronde, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (June 15, 2016)
4 S moke S ignals JUNE 15, 2016 Tribal Council OKs purchase of 217.5 acres of forestland By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor 2011 – Tribal Council voted 5-4 to send a bundle of four proposed enrollment changes to the membership for a vote. The four proposals would reduce the relinquishment period from ive years to two years, eliminate the parent on the Tribal roll at time of birth requirement, redeine Grand Ronde blood and establish an annual quota of no more than 5 percent of currently enrolled members may be accepted as new members in a year. 2006 – About 100 people attended the annual Memori- al Day event at the West Valley Veter- ans Memorial and Tribal Council Chair Cheryle A. Kennedy gave the welcoming speech, acknowledg- ing all veterans who have sacrificed their File photo lives, as well as the veterans serving on the Grand Ronde Tribal Council. 2001 – Gene LaBonte joined Tribal Elder Russ Leno at the Tribal Cemetery. LaBonte worked through the Tribe’s Cultural Resources program and with Leno to map the cemetery and ind lost loved ones. 1996 – Spirit Mountain Casino’s irst loat in the Grand Floral Pa- rade won the top prize. “Nature’s Spirit” won the Sweepstakes Award for best loat. It featured a watchful mother coyote and two pups in a setting of plants and lowers native to the Grand Ronde area. 1991 – Brent Merrill resigned as editor of Smoke Signals to take a job with the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission in Washington state. “I feel that I am a better person for the experience and the things that I have learned,” he wrote. 1986 – Tribal Council authorized the start of a Social Services pro- gram under a Bureau of Indian Affairs contract to provide counseling and family assistance to Tribal members. The program will not provide inancial payments, but will coordinate with state and federal pro- grams, as well as have responsibility for the Indian Child Welfare Act. Yesteryears is a look back at Tribal history in ive-year incre- ments through the pages of Smoke Signals. Tribal Council approved the pur- chase and sale agreements for two adjacent parcels of land near the Reservation that will increase the Tribe’s property holdings by 217.5 acres during its Wednesday, June 1, meeting. The two properties – one at 177.5 acres and the other at 40 acres – are located in Yamhill County up Coast Creek Road and separated from the current Reservation by a Bureau of Land Management parcel. On May 24, Tribal Council ap- proved a staff directive to proceed with closing on the two parcels and to proceed with a timber har- vest plan as presented by Natural Resources Department Manager Michael Wilson. In other action, Tribal Council: • Re-appointed Ralph Baker and Steve Nuttall to the Grand Ronde Gaming Commission for three- year terms expiring in June 2019; • Approved applying for a $500,000 Indian Community Development Block Grant from the U.S. De- partment of Housing and Urban Development for the design and construction of a 2,700-square- foot kindergarten through ifth- grade immersion education building; • Approved applying to the Oregon Youth Development Council for a $60,000 Youth and Innovation Entrepreneur and Career Readi- ness Grant to help young people disconnected from the education- al system and labor market; • Approved applying for a $105,600 Transportation and Growth Man- agement grant from the Oregon Department of Transportation; • Approved the enrollment of one infant into the Tribe because the child meets the provisions outlined in the Enrollment Ordi- nance and Tribal Constitution; • Approved a blood quantum cor- rection, adding 5/32nds to one Tribal member’s quantum be- cause the person’s ancestor par- ent was never added when the member was enrolled; • And approved a Restoration Roll correction for one Tribal member who should have been listed. Also included in the June 1 Tribal Council packet was a summary of directives that, among other things, authorized Finance Oficer Chris Leno to transfer $20,000 from contingency to fund the annual amount the Tribe provides to the Willamina School District, directed staff to process a request for the National Park Service to convey Molalla Kate items to the Tribe to be held and preserved, and outlined rules for this year’s Willamette Falls ceremonial ishing, including the allocation of $5,000 for nets, harnesses, ropes, food, fuel, travel and other necessary safety gear and ishing equipment. Tribal Council member Jon A. George joined Ceded Lands Man- ager Michael Karnosh and Cul- ture Department Manager Kathy Cole in performing the cultural drumming and singing to open the meeting. The meeting, in its entirety, can be viewed on the Tribal website, www.grandronde.org, by clicking on the News tab and then Video. Ad created by George Valdez
