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PRESORTED STANDARD MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID PORTLAND, OR PERMIT NO. 700 Employees honored for 1,037 years of service — pg. 10 OCTOBER 1, 2019 Grand Ronde sending group to Alcatraz By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor T he Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde is sending ap- proximately 10 Tribal mem- bers to help commemorate the 50th anniversary of Native American activists taking over the island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay for 19 months. Cultural Resources Cultural Ad- visor Bobby Mercier will lead the delegation, which will take part in festivities at Aquatic Park, which is near Pier 40 that was used a half-century ago to shuttle supplies and visitors over to the occupied is- land. The Tribe is not taking a canoe because of the strong currents and crowded sailing conditions in San Francisco Bay. Mercier said a fl otilla of Native American canoes from up and down the West Coast will be paddling around Alcatraz on Oct. 14 – In- digenous Peoples’ Day – and more events will be held in the nearby Indigenous Peoples’ Day Music and Arts Festival being held at Yerba See TRIP continued on page 11 Photo by Timothy J. Gonzalez Then-Tribal Court Administrator Angela Fasana interacts with a child in the chak chak classroom on Tuesday, Sept. 17. Fasana left the Tribal Court to begin leading the Education Department starting on Sept. 30. ‘Lifelong learner’ Tribal Court Administrator Angela Fasana takes the reins at Education ALCATRAZ ISLAND By Danielle Frost Smoke Signals staff writer T here’s only one other job at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde that could pull Angela Fasana away from her role as Tribal Court administrator. “I love education and everything about it,” she says. “I’m a lifelong learner and love academia.” Fasana, who has worked as the Tribe’s fi rst Tribal Court administrator for 19 years, took the helm as Education Department manager on Monday, Sept. 30. The position has been vacant for about a year with Higher Education Manager Bryan Langley fi lling in in an acting capacity. “When I came to the court, I was the fi rst person See EDUCATION continued on page 7 Map created by Samuel Briggs III Tribe continues southern Oregon outreach Eighth annual Medford event attracts 11 attendees for coff ee, conversation By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor M EDFORD – The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde continued its almost decade-long outreach in southern Oregon on Friday, Sept. 20, by hosting its eighth annual Coffee & Conversation at the Courtyard Marriott adjacent to the Medford Airport. This year’s event attracted Jackson County Commissioner Bob Strosser and employees of the Bureau of Land Management, Nature Conservancy, nonprofi t Friends of the Cas- cade-Siskiyou Monument and Lomakatsi, a nonprofi t organization that develops and implements forest and watershed restoration projects in Oregon and northern California. The event has a dual purpose, commem- orating the Sept. 10, 1853, treaty with the See OUTREACH continued on page 9 Photo by Timothy J. Gonzalez Tribal Council Chairwoman Cheryle A. Kennedy shares a word with Jackson County Commissioner Bob Strosser as he leaves the eighth annual Coff ee & Conversation in Medford on Friday, Sept. 20.
