S moke S ignals
MARCH 15, 2017
Fund honored
Tribal Council renews
Table Rocks agreement
By Bethany Bea
Smoke Signals Intern
Photo by Michelle Alaimo
Spirit Mountain Community Fund Director Mychal Cherry, right, waves
to the crowd as the Community Fund and the $73.4 million it has
granted to nonprofits over the last 20 years are acknowledged during
halftime of the Portland Trail Blazers vs. Philadelphia 76ers game at the
Moda Center in Portland on Thursday, March 9. Also representing the
Tribe were Community Fund Board of Trustees Chairman Sho Dozono,
left, his grandson, Aki Chambers, and Tribal Council member Kathleen
George, who preceded Cherry as the Community Fund director.
OPB airing ‘Broken Treaties’
documentary on Monday, March 20
Grand Ronde Tribal members David Harrelson and David Lewis will be
two of the interview subjects featured in the Oregon Public Broadcasting
documentary “Broken Treaties” premiering at 9 p.m. Monday, March 20.
Harrelson is the Tribe’s Cultural Resources Department manager and
Lewis is the Tribe’s former historian and owner of Ethohistory Research
LLC.
The one-hour documentary examines the history of Oregon’s Native
people, who went from possessing 100 percent of the state’s land to almost
none of it in the 19th century.
“Broken Treaties” offers Oregonians an introduction to the Indian Tribes
in Oregon, the treaties they signed and the land they lost. It also examines
the injustices endured by the Tribes and illuminates a chapter of Northwest
history that is rarely talked about.
Other interviewees to be featured include Grand Ronde Tribal Appeals
Court Judge Robert Miller, Tamastslikt Cultural Institute Director Bobbie
Connor, Coquille Chief Don Ivy, Coos, Siuslaw and Lower Umpqua Chief
Warren Brainard, Klamath Tribal Council Chair Don Gentry, Warm
Springs Director of Governmental Affairs Louie Pitt Jr., former Burns
Paiute Tribal Council Chair Charlotte Roderique and Siletz Tribal Council
Vice Chair Bud Lane.
The documentary will be available to watch online at the same time at
opb.org/brokentreaties.
The documentary was written and produced by Eric Cain and edited by
Lisa Suinn Kallem.
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curity number, and the initial Password is “00” followed by your
(or your child’s) membership number. Once logged in, you can
customize your User ID and password for security purposes.
If you have any trouble logging in to or using the system,
contact the 401Save Call Center at 1-888-700-0808 between 9
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After several months of review,
the Tribe is continuing its part-
nership with the Bureau of Land
Management and the Nature Con-
servancy regarding the Table Rocks
Management Area in southern
Oregon near Medford.
Tribal Council approved renewal
of the Table Rocks memorandum of
understanding at the Wednesday,
March 8, Tribal Council meeting.
The original memorandum was
signed in 2011 and included a five-
year expiration date and review
period. The renewed document does
away with the expiration date and
calls for an annual review. It also
eliminates language that referred
to establishing a Table Rocks Area
of Critical Environmental Concern
as that goal has already been met.
At the Tuesday, Feb. 28. Legis-
lative Action Committee meeting,
Tribal Council Secretary Jon. A.
George and Tribal Attorney Rob
Greene asked about the Table
Rocks Interpretation Plan, which
will establish culturally informa-
tive signs throughout the Table
Rocks area.
Ceded Lands Program Manager
Michael Karnosh said that he didn’t
have a deadline for the project yet
but he believed it was in develop-
ment.
In other action, Tribal Council:
• Appointed Tribal member Steve
Bobb Sr. as the third peacemaker
for the Tribal Court’s Peacemaker
Program. His application includ-
ed letters of recommendation
from Tribal Council member Jack
Giffen Jr., General Manager Da-
vid Fullerton, Higher Education
Manager Bryan Langley and
Greene;
• Approved expansion of the
Tenant-Based Rental Assistance
Program, which was established
in 2011 to help qualifying Tribal
families in Yamhill County pay
housing costs. Twenty families
are currently benefitting from
the program, and the expansion
will incorporate Polk County with
aid already budgeted to assist five
Tribal families;
• Approved the purchase of a por-
tion of the Johnson Allotment
property, 3.23 acres located on
the east side of Grand Ronde
Road south of the fire station. The
resolution states the purchase is
in keeping with Tribal Council’s
goal to acquire property in and
around Grand Ronde;
• And approved the Tribe’s con-
tinuing participation in Sunshine
Week. According to Sunshine-
week.rcfp.org, the week is an
“annual nationwide celebration
of access to public information
and what it means for you and
your community.” The Tribe first
participated last year and Tribal
Council member Chris Mercier
said at the Tuesday, March 7,
Legislative Action Committee
meeting that he believes Grand
Ronde is still the only Tribe to do
so. “It’s a pledge that the Tribe is
taking to indicate that they will
continue to work on improving
transparency to Tribal members,”
Mercier said.
Also included in the March 8
Tribal Council packet were autho-
rizations to proceed that:
• Directed the Tribal Court to ad-
vertise for the position of Tribal
Court chief judge;
• Authorized the research and de-
velopment of a Green Policy for
the Tribe, starting with procure-
ment and purchasing policies;
• Approved design plans for the
Early Childhood Education and
Youth Education Building expan-
sion project;
• Authorized the demolition of a
manufactured home on the Hall
property. Facilities staff will dis-
pose of what can’t be salvaged
from the structure;
• And approved one proposed
amendment to the Enrollment
Ordinance and denied two.
Tribal Council voted to propose
changing the Enrollment Ordi-
nance to allow Tribal members
and applicants to view their
entire enrollment file and the
enrollment files of their deceased
lineal ancestors, except adoption
records. However, Tribal Council
voted against moving forward
with removal of the provisional
disenrollment status for those
appealing a disenrollment deci-
sion and tied 4-4 on the removal
of reference to “certified records”
regarding enrollment applica-
tions.
Lands Department Manager Jan
Looking Wolf Reibach, Cultural
Education Specialist Brian Kreh-
biel and Cultural Adviser Bobby
Mercier performed the cultural
drumming and singing to open the
meeting.
To view the meeting in its en-
tirety, visit www.grandronde.org
and click the News tab and then
Video.
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