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Tribal Council adds 20 more names to Restoration Roll
By Dean Rhodes
Smoke Signals editor
Tribal Council continued adding
Tribal members to the Restoration
Roll by approving 20 new names
during its Wednesday, May 19,
meeting.
The 20 names brings the number
of Tribal members who have been
added to the historically important
roll since 2019 to 421. Tribal Coun-
cil added 204 names in 2019, 127
names in 2020 and has now added
90 names this year.
The Restoration Roll was the first
roll compiled of Grand Ronde Tribal
members after Nov. 22, 1983, and
included 1,101 names. However, be-
cause the membership had become
so dispersed during the 29 years
after 1954’s Termination, all those
who should have been included
could not be identified at the time
or were unaware that they should
have had their names on the roll.
The current process, which re-
quires Tribal members apply to
Member Services for addition to the
Restoration Roll, allows a Tribal
member who was living on Aug.
13, 1954 – date of congressional
approval of the Western Oregon
Indian Termination Act – and born
to a member of the Confederated
Tribes of Grand Ronde to be added.
In November 2018, Tribal Coun-
cil approved a resolution that es-
tablished criteria for consistently
applying the phrase “entitled to be
on the membership roll of the Tribe
on Aug. 13, 1954” as meaning that
the person was entitled to be on the
roll if that person was alive on that
date and born to a Tribal member.
The 20 new names now move
forward to the Department of the
Interior for approval.
In other action, Tribal Council:
• Approved two agreements with
Photo by Timothy J. Gonzalez
Tribal Council approved a purchase and sale agreement for the Tribe to buy
the 25.62-acre Risseeuw 3 property that is immediately south of the Tribe’s
Risseeuw 2 property at the end of McPherson Road in Grand Ronde during its
Wednesday, May 19, meeting.
the Oregon Watershed Enhance-
ment Board that will support
watershed health on two of the
Tribe’s Marion County conserva-
tion properties. One agreement
will bring the Tribe a maximum
of $276,125 to replace undersized
culverts with a bridge over Dieck-
man Creek on the Chahalpam
property. The second agreement
will bring the Tribe a maximum
$31,850 to develop a habitat res-
toration alternatives analysis at
Chankawan.
• Approved extending the contract
of Tribal Court Chief Judge Cyn-
thia Kaufman Noble for two years
through June 2023. Noble has
been chief judge since July 2019
and her contract was set to expire
at the end of June.
• Set June 11 as the next per capita
payment date.
• Approved a maximum $188,745
conceptual design contract with
GBD Architects Inc. of Portland.
The firm was hired by the Tribe
in June 2020 to begin master
planning the 23-acre Blue Her-
on Paper Mill site in Oregon
City that the Tribe purchased
in August 2019. GBD was hired
to work with Tribal Council and
staff to prepare options for the
property’s use. The new contract
will continue that work.
• Approved an application to the
Oregon Community Fund that
would help fund the K-12 Summer
Learning Project. The current
project budget is $125,575 and
the maximum grant is $200,000.
• Approved an application the De-
partment of Homeland Security
for a Tribal Homeland Security
Grant that would help pay the
salaries of two emergency pre-
paredness staff members for
three years, as well as fund train-
ing, exercises and equipment
expenses.
• Approved a purchase and sale
agreement for the Tribe to pur-
chase the 25.62-acre Risseeuw
3 property that is immediately
south of the Tribe’s Risseeuw 2
property at the end of McPherson
Road in Grand Ronde.
• Approved agreements with Port-
land General Electric and North-
west Natural Gas to provide
utility service to the new Procure-
ment and Technology building
currently under construction on
the west side of Grand Ronde
Road. The agreements are re-
quired by the Bureau of Indian
Affairs since the building is being
constructed on Reservation land.
• Approved accepting a grant not to
exceed $21,000 from the Oregon
Youth Corps to help fund the
Natural Resources Department’s
annual summer youth crew pro-
gram. The Tribe has received the
grant for more than 20 years. The
youth crew will hire 18 youth and
three crew leaders this year.
• Approved a memorandum of
agreement with the Indian
Health Service that will help
fund construction of water and
wastewater infrastructure for the
proposed Tribal home ownership
construction site. The agreement
would bring the Tribe $607,000 in
federal funding.
• Approved the enrollment of one
infant into the Tribe because he
or she meets the requirements
outlined in the Tribal Constitu-
tion and Enrollment Ordinance.
To watch the entire meeting, visit
the Tribal government’s website
at www.grandronde.org and click
on the Government tab and then
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Lamprey harvesting begins
Featuring our guest speaker, Frankie Williams.
Frankie is a United States Navy Veteran and the Tribal Veterans
Service Officer from Warm Springs. Frankie has an extensive
background as a Director / Drug and Alcohol Counselor and is
involved in all of his tribal cultural activities.
We are looking forward to presenting information about Blue
Water Navy and hope you will join us.
The Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife has established the
Pacific lamprey harvesting season as June 1 through July 31 of this
year. Harvesting is allowed Fridays through Mondays from 7 a.m.
to 6 p.m. and is not allowed Tuesday through Thursday.
Harvesting is confined to the east side of Willamette Falls and does
not include the horseshoe area at the peak of the falls. Harvesters
should avoid these areas.
Gear is restricted to hand or hand-powered tools only. A permit is
required, but Tribal members are allowed to use their Tribal enroll-
ment card in lieu of a state-issued permit.
In addition, Tribal members may harvest for distribution to other
Tribal members as long as it is done free of charge. Commercial sale
of lamprey and the use of lamprey as bait in fisheries is prohibited.
A catch must be recorded on a harvest card available from the
Tribe’s Natural Resources Department or by contacting the Clack-
amas ODFW office at 17330 S.E. Evelyn St. All harvest cards must
be returned by Aug. 31.
Tribal members planning to harvest lamprey should contact
Natural Resources to arrange for a packet at 503-879-2424. Due to
COVID-19 protocols, an appointment is required to obtain onsite
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Police Department has non-emergency text line
The Grand Ronde Tribal Police Department has a nonemergency text
line at 541-921-2927.
“If you have a nonemergency situation or question, feel free to contact
my officer via text through this line,” said Grand Ronde Tribal Police
Chief Jake McKnight. “When one of my officers receives the text, they
will call you back when they have time.”
McKnight said that emergency situations still require calling 911.
For more information, contact McKnight at 503-879-1474. n