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JULY 15, 2016
Tribal Council OKs
2016 hunting seasons
By Dean Rhodes
2011 – The first Mar-
cellus Norwest Memorial
Veterans Powwow was
held. The Veterans Pow-
wow was renamed to hon-
or Tribal Elder and Army
veteran Marce Norwest,
who walked on on May 22.
2006 – Tribal Elder
Foster Care homes were
ready for occupancy.
During a ceremony for the
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three lodges, three ribbons
were cut simultaneously
by Cheryle A. Kennedy, Leon Tom and Pete Wakeland.
2001 – Fred Grinnell joined the Tribe as the new Human Resources
manager, coming to work in Grand Ronde after 6.5 years in Anchor-
age, Alaska. “The winters were long and cold up there,” he said.
1996 – Tribal Council appointed Annabelle Hamm, Marie Schmidt,
Kathryn Harrison, June Olson, Claudette Parazoo, Pam Warren and
Dale Archibald to the Kwelth Tahlkie Cultural Heritage Society.
1991 – A congressional resolution recognizing the contributions of
American Indian veterans was passed. In the resolution, Congress
acknowledged that American Indians have historically served in
the armed forces in numbers which far exceed their representation
in the population of the United States. “The Congress expresses its
appreciation to all American Indian veterans for their long, proud
and distinguished tradition of service,” the resolution stated.
1986 – A Powwow Fundraiser Day was set for July 12. Scheduled
were a rummage sale, fish fry and bingo from “6 p.m. until dark.”
Events were being held at the Depot Tribal office behind the Bonanza
Restaurant.
Yesteryears is a look back at Tribal history in five-year in-
crements through the pages of Smoke Signals.
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Tribal Council approved the 2016
Tribal hunting seasons and tags
during its Wednesday, July 13,
meeting.
Made possible by the Oregon De-
partment of Fish and Wildlife Com-
mission’s approval of the Tribe’s
Wildlife Management Plan in Sep-
tember 2014, this marks the second
year that the Tribe is managing its
own hunting seasons on Reservation
and trust lands.
In 2015, 203 Tribal members ap-
plied for 46 available hunting tags
across four hunting seasons – two for
deer and two for Roosevelt elk. Four
animals were harvested – two deer
and two elk.
Tribal Wildlife Biologist Lindsay Be-
longa said during the Tuesday, July 12,
Legislative Action Committee meeting
that Natural Resources is remaining
conservative in its harvest approach
for 2016, but is offering Tribal hunters
more seasons, days and tags.
There will be three hunts for black-
tailed deer and 40 tags split between
bow, firearm and muzzleloader hunt-
ers. There also will be three hunts
for elk with 30 tags split evenly
between bow and two firearm hunts.
The hunts will be held later than
state-regulated hunts.
“Overall from 2015 to 2016, we
offered 26 days of hunting. We’re
bumping that up to 52 total days
of hunting, and again last year we
offered 46 tags and we’re bumping
that up to 70 tags,” Belonga said.
“We’re interested in seeing what is
the best opportunity for the Tribal
membership to harvest animals. Last
year we offered an early hunt and
hopefully we’ll offer a late hunt this
year to see how that shakes out and
see what the best opportunities are.”
Belonga added that the Reserva-
tion is a difficult area in which to
hunt and Natural Resources is only
expecting a 9 percent to 12 percent
success rate in 2016.
Hunts will occur between Sept. 26
through Dec. 10 and hunters will have
to take a tutorial class before hunting.
If they took the course in 2015, they
will be exempt from taking it again.
In other action, Tribal Council:
• Approved a $59,228 systems of care
agreement with the Oregon De-
partment of Human Services that
allows Children & Family Services
to provide additional support ser-
vices to Tribal children and parents
involved in the welfare system, as
well as a $8,600 Title IVB agree-
ment with the same state agency
for child welfare services and pro-
moting safe and stable families;
• Approved two supplemental budget
appropriations to purchase timber
land near the Reservation and in
Tillamook County for economic
development purposes. The sup-
plemental budget appropriations
totaled $5.4 million.
Also included in the July 13 Tribal
Council packet was a list of approved
staff directives and authorizations
to proceed that directed the Tribal
Attorney’s Office to move forward
with drafting revisions to Tribal or-
dinances to permit the mailing of au-
dited financial statements to Tribal
members, split a $7,500 Boyd’s Coffee
sponsorship evenly between the Vet-
erans Powwow and Contest Powwow,
approved Tribal Mascot Cultural
Appropriateness Guidelines to be
shared with school districts seeking
a memorandum of understanding
with the Tribe, moved $1,800 from
contingency to the Election Board to
cover additional costs and signed off
on the design of the Early Childhood
Education and Youth Education
building expansion projects.
Tribal Council member Jon A. George
joined a contingent of Canoe Family
members to perform the cultural drum-
ming and singing to open the meeting.
The meeting, in its entirety, can
be viewed on the Tribal website at
www.grandronde.org by clicking on
the News tab and then Video.