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The national political scene is rife with certain subjects that rarely go stale. Environmentalism, taxes, abortion, same-sex marriage, handguns, illegal immigration–the More
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Because I don’t normally pay much attention to the number of attendees at conferences, guessing at how impressive the number of people, more than 5000, who attended the More
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Last winter during the National Congress of American Indian’s Tribal Nations Legislative Summit, also held in Washington, D.C., there were so many conference attendees More
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As there was no last-minute vacillating, on Wednesday January 25th the Council submitted language to the Bureau of Indian Affairs that if voted through by our Tribal members More
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Usually this time of year as Council wraps up the budget our email inboxes, phones, and actual mailboxes get a slow trickle of correspondence from Tribal members offering More
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According to W. Ron Allen yesterday, of the Jamestown S’klallam Tribe in Washington State, the conference of the National Congress of American Indians held in Portland at More
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Over the next several months, two topics will be the subject of Tribal conversations verbal and virtual more than anything else: the 2012 budget, and Constitutional More
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As I'm sure many of you already know, the tribe is currently conducting an election to amend the Tribal Constitution with regard to the enrollment requirements. Although I More
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Tribal members everywhere will be getting their registration packets soon for the upcoming Constitutional Amendment on Enrollment. You have to register in order to vote in More
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His face lit up
and he grinned as I uttered the words "shared pain". There were several of us Grand Ronde reps in
the Congressman's room at that time, two staff members, More
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Barring any changes, which the past has demonstrated is always a realistic possibility, the Tribe will be conducting a Constitutional election in the near future, this one More
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As a result of today’s (June 01, 2011) meeting, a “special” Tribal Council meeting was scheduled for Thursday, June 2, 2011 @ 4:00 p.m. This meeting is where Tribal Council More
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On Friday, May 27, 2011, our Legal Department notified Tribal Council as well as our Executive Officer that the Regional Solicitor had no concerns with the proposed language More
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Last month we hosted a group of local government officials from the mid-Willamette Valley. That is not the first time we’ve done this. People might be a little surprised at More
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If anybody is wondering, and at least several have been recently, most everybody on the Tribal Council has a Facebook account. Last I counted, not that it would take very More
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As many of you know and for those of you who do not, a special election conducted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) with regard to the enrollment requirements may be More
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Michael Pollan, in his book “In Defense of Food”, writes about an experiment conducted in Australia in 1982. To test the theory about the how the Western Diet affects More
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This has been written before, but merits mentioning again. Newcomers to Tribal Council work sessions will notice on average two of us, myself and Jack Giffen, Jr. with More
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For years I have heard tribal members express concerns with Tribal Council’s attempts (or lack thereof) to diversify our portfolio. I believe that about 80% of the tribe’s More
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Out of curiosity, I went to the mother of all search engines, Google, and typed in the words “Tribal Council blog”, “Official Tribal Council blog”, and variants of that More