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AMEN

posted 2 years, 8 months ago
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Families are the nucleus of our communities, when our communities are not healthy, neither are our families, and vice versa. Neighborhoods no longer consist of "neighborly" people. Gone are the days when everyone in the community helped guide kids and keep them out of trouble. Nowadays, if you were to report negative behavior to a parent of a child in your community, you are usually met with defensive parents that justify their child's behavior rather than using the opportunity to build relationships and teach their children. Community building must accompany formal education and programming in order to engage all people, not just parents. Angie Blackwell

posted 2 years, 8 months ago
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Will the audio for this program be posted here?  I was hoping to download it because I missed the original air-date. 

Thanks

posted 3 years, 8 months ago
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As a young Tribal member at the time of restoration, I remember the anticipation as the day grew near. Six years of working with Senator Mark O. Hatfield and Congressman Les AuCoin, along with Elizabeth Furse and many others, had finally come to fruition.

I attended many of the meetings with my mother, Candy Robertson, who served on the Tribe's first Council upon Restoration, and continuted to serve 10 years in all. She instilled in my sisters and I the importance of community, that Grand Ronde was home no matter where we lived. We may not have lived with a lot of Native traditions, but we had Native values. We were taught to hold our elders with the highest regard, to treat them with respect. We were taught to be proud of who we were, but to be humble. We inherited resilience and bravery from her and from all of our ancestors.

Termination was not good by any means, but, we survived the ill-intent of that miserable era and we are stronger for it.

posted 4 years, 6 months ago
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