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MAY 15, 2022
FISH AND WILDLIFE ORDINANCE
OPEN FOR COMMENT
Red dress memorial
Tribal Council is considering amendments to the Fish and Wildlife Ordi-
nance. The proposed amendments were given a First Reading at the April
6, 2022, Tribal Council meeting.
The Fish and Wildlife Ordinance has not been updated since 2015. The
proposed amendments reflect updates to the ceremonial hunting and
fishing program, set limits on the number of transfer tags that are available
to Tribal members in order to prevent abuse of the transfer system, provide
for a mentored youth hunting program, impose civil penalties to be as-
sessed in Tribal Court for violations of the ordinance, make other program-
matic changes, and may include other minor and technical changes.
Tribal Council invites comments on the proposed amendments to the
Fish and Wildlife Ordinance. For a copy of the proposed amendments,
please contact the Tribal Attorney’s Office at 503-879-4664. Please send
your comments to the Tribal Attorney’s Office, 9615 Grand Ronde Road,
Grand Ronde, OR, 97347, or by e-mail to legal@grandronde.org.
Comments must be received by May 31, 2022. 
Meeting to discuss
ordinance revisions
Amendments to the Tribe’s Fish and Wildlife Ordinance will be the topic
of a meeting to be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, following the
Tribal Council meeting in Tribal Council Chambers.
The hybrid meeting will be for Tribal members and staff only. Virtual
attendees can participate via the Zoom teleconference application.
Natural Resources Department staff will make a presentation on the
proposed ordinance changes and there will be discussion afterward.
Tribal Council sent proposed amendments to the Fish and Wildlife Or-
dinance out for a first reading on April 6 and Tribal members have until
May 31 to comment on them. Among the amendments is setting a limit
on the number of transfer tags that are available to Tribal members. 
Photos by Timothy J. Gonzalez
Fourteen red dresses were on display outside of the Tribal Community
Center on Wednesday, May 4, in honor of May 5, which was the
National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous
People. The movement advocates for an end of violence against
Native women and seeks to draw attention to the high rate of
disappearances and murders of Native people, particularly women
and girls. The dresses were hung up by staff with the Tribe’s Warriors
of Hope Domestic & Sexual Violence Program.
Drop box installed
The Grand Ronde Tribal Police Department, 9655 Grand Ronde
Road, now has a medication drop box located in the front lobby.
Lobby hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The drop box is for any prescribed or over-the-counter medication.
If the containers are too large to fit in the drop box, please repackage
them in a zip-lock plastic bag. Tribal Police employees cannot handle
the medications so the person dropping them off must repackage
them.
Needles and liquids are not allowed in the drop box.
Tribal Police suggest mixing liquid medications with cat litter or cof-
fee grounds and then throwing them away with the household trash.
For more information, call 503-879-1821. 
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A red dress honoring Tribal member Heather Cameron Haller, who has
been missing since 2012, was one of 14 red dresses on display outside
of the Tribal Community Center on Wednesday, May 4.
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