S moke S ignals
AUGUST 15, 2017
Board seeking younger veterans
The Tribal Veterans Special Event Board is recruiting younger
veterans – Iraqi and Afghanistan veterans – to join.
“Our committee is getting older,” said Veterans SEB Chairman Steve
Bobb Sr., who is a Vietnam War-era Marine Corps veteran.
Members of the Special Event Board attend events as flag carriers
and represent the Tribe and their branch of service. Veterans interest-
ed in volunteering should contact Tribal Council Chief of Staff Stacia
Hernandez at 503-879-2304 or stacia.martin@grandronde.org.
Shakespeare Festival staging
first play by Native writer
ASHLAND – The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is staging “Off the Rails,”
the 82-year-old festival’s first play by a Native American writer, Randy
Reinholz (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma).
The play is billed as an irreverent and subversive adaptation of Shake-
speare’s “Measure for Measure” and will run in the Angus Bowmer Theatre
through the end of the 2017 season through Oct. 28.
Reinholz calls the play “ ‘Blazing Saddles’ meets Shakespeare with Native
Americans taking the reins” as the play examines the painful legacy of Na-
tive American boarding schools with music and a surprising dose of humor.
“We often deal with pain through humor,” Reinholz said. “I think that’s
true for a lot of communities, actually. We’ve heard a lot of victimization
stories, so where’s the power? In ‘Off the Rails,’ we use nostalgia for old
Westerns and turn it on its head to hook the people who should learn this
story, enfranchise and empower the tellers and tell the multi-dimensional
point-of-view Native American story.”
In the play, the arrival of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show coincides with
the sentencing of a Pawnee teenager named Momaday, who is to hang for
his forbidden love affair with an Irish-American girl. The harsh judgment
and strict law-and-order attitude of presiding officer Capt. Angelo are put
to the test by Momaday’s sister, Isabel. The festival’s box office can be
reached at 800-219-8161.
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Lane Community College
offering Chinuk Wawa classes
EUGENE – Lane Community Col-
lege is offering “Chinuk Wawa” (CW
101) from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday and
Thursday at its campus in Eugene
starting the last week of September.
Grand Ronde Tribal members can take the class, which is the
first in a yearlong sequence, as a credit class or as a continuing
education class.
Continuing education students enrolled in the class will determine
their own level of engagement in terms of attendance, test taking,
assignments, etc.
Tuition is approximately $400 to $505 per term for the four-credit
class. However, continuing education students only pay a one-time
fee of about $10.
Students can enroll now for fall classes online at www.lanecc.edu.
The CRN for the class is 22576.
University of Oregon students also can have dual enrollment to
take the class. Contact an academic adviser for more information.
Enrollment as a continuing education student is possible by calling
Candice Johnson at 541-463-5419.
For more information about the Chinuk Wawa language program
at Lane, contact Drew Viles at vilesa@lanecc.edu or calling 541-
463-5480.
New Grand Ronde Health & Wellness
Center Lab/X-ray hours
• 8 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Friday
• 9:15 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Thursday
David Lewis for Tribal Council
Community Investment & Economic Development
Transparency in Tribal Government
Cultural Pride & Vitality
dgl.coyotez@gmail.com
Facebook.com/DavidLewis4TC
I humbly ask for your support for Tribal Council
I am a descendant of the Mercier and Hudson families. I know my experience as the Cultural
Manager at the Tribe for 8 years combined with my educa�on will help me lead the tribe into our
future as we create new policies that empower tribal members in government decisions.
Transparency in our government is a right of every tribal member and I want to work to
strengthen our whole General Council to help lead us all to a more prosperous future.
Tribal members deserve a be�er standard of living and a progressive economic
development to fund services to members. Protec�ng our own sovereignty
and healing rela�onships with other tribes will help to assure our mutual future.
This Land is our Homeland and the source of our tribal culture.
Protecting the land and our community is protecting the Heart of Our Tribe.
Leadership is a sacred responsiblity, granted by the community
David G. Lewis
Santiam, Takelma, Chinook
This Land is Our Heart
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