greatwolf.com www.luckyeagle.com www.eagleslandinghotel.net FREE Vol. April 2010 3/4 Get a Glimpse of History on Page 3: CHEHALIS Words of famous Chehalis Tribal Program Historian Silas Heck come alive in this TRIBAL touching story. News Precious photos of Chehalis tribal Join Family Tree Classes NEWSLETTER families archived and offered to others to Discover Your Family by Elaine McCloud. Ancestry “People of the Sands” The Heritage Program is providing free family tree classes on Mondays starting at 4 Chehalis youth group spread PM in classroom 4 at the new Community. If you are attending for the first time, please obtain your family tree from the the message at dinner Enrollment Department so we have a place to start. It’s easiest to enter the building from Youth group perform a skit on perils of the south entrance. Hope to see everyone there. alcohol and drug addiction, page 2 Any question please contact Elaine McCloud, Heritage Coordinator, 360-709- 1748 or email [email protected]. Chehalis Tribal Members Become With a Stroke of the Vosper Homes Available for Purchase by Tribal Members Blessed With New Home Ownership Pen, the BIA Expands The Chehalis Tribal Housing Authority will Chehalis Reservation be accepting applications from Chehalis By Jeff Warnke, Director of Government tribal members interested in purchasing Public Relations a single family residence at the Vosper Subdivision. The CTHA has four, three- On March 9 the Chehalis Reservation got a bedroom homes, approximately 1500 square little bigger. With the stroke of a pen, it was feet, available. Applications will be accepted done. The Director of the Bureau of Indian from April 28 to the close of business on Affairs signed the Reservation Proclamation May 11. If you are interested, stop by the and seven parcels of land totaling 213.73 Housing Office and pick up an application. acres became part of the Chehalis Any questions contact the Housing Office Reservation. staff at 360-273-7723. Sounds like it should be quick and easy, but, this move was only the third time Attention Artists: Coastal that the Obama administration has signed off on a Reservation Proclamation since Salish Art Needed for inauguration. “It is never easy to get the Head Start Sweatshirts Federal Government to do their job,” said Chairman Burnett. “But we have developed The Chehalis Tribal Head Start Graduation relationships with key people in the BIA that Committee is looking for a traditional have helped us to succeed when other tribes Coastal Salish style drawing to be used as struggle to accomplish this task.” a design on sweatshirts to be awarded to The land parcels are not connected and the class of 2010 graduates. were acquired by the tribe and taken into If you are interested in participating, On March 31, home owners received the keys to their new home from Viginia trust over the years since 1998, but were all please submit your drawing by Friday, May Canales, CTHA Tenant Services. Connie Baker was excited to move into made part of the reservation at once. Some 14 to Heather Galloway at the Head Start. A her new home in the Vosper Division. Pictured (L-R) are Skylar Baker, Ryan of the parcels include the electronic casino winner will then be chosen and announced Pitzenberger, Virginia Canales, Shayden Baker, and Connie Baker. sign near I-5, the bed and breakfast property by the Graduation Committee. on Anderson Road, several abandoned We look forward to seeing our tribe’s By Fred Shortman, Editor railroad parcels along the Chehalis River creativity! On March 22, over 50 tribal and community for the new owners. Following the blessing and the Great Wolf Lodge property. The College Fair at members attended the open house and and ribbon cutting ceremony, everyone was addition of the properties brings the total ribbon cutting of the Chehalis Tribal invited to tour a house at 11 Sickman Loop. size of the reservation to 4,438.36 acres. Great Wolf Lodge Housing Authority at the Vosper sub This gathering blessed the houses as the There are several reasons why this division. After years of waiting, tribal community shared a meal and congratulated move was an important step for the tribe. Tuesday, May 25, 1-6 PM members will live the American dream the new home owners families. Each of the properties that were formerly All welcome! Juniors should definitely of owning their own homes. This process The words spoken by the Chairman off reservation was in some way under the attend. Bring your parents and friends to started in 1999. Now the vision of houses precisely articulated the blessing of the jurisdiction of a local county, some being in visit with representatives from colleges being finished and occupied is complete. The houses. “Presently we are looking at these Thurston and some in Grays Harbor County. and universities, trade and technical patience and diligence by everyone involved new houses,” said Chairman Burnett. “When This will clear up those jurisdictional issues schools. in the completion of this worthwhile project the new owners move in, they will become including policing, issuing land use and 200 high school students w/ASB cards is finally a reality. Excited families moving their homes to raise their families.” building permits, water quality, and fishery and completed surveys will receive a into their new homes were given the keys John Vosper, who sold the property to management. Great Wolf Lodge day pass the last week of March. the tribe, was present to see the ceremony Several of the parcels along the Chehalis Dan Gleason and Marie Bird led a and said, “I’ve had a recurring dream River are on the opposite bank creating a All Chehalis tribal members who have heartfelt prayer, blessing the new houses about seeing homes on the back half of the new southern boarder for the reservation. completed a higher education degree or trade through the higher education See Homes, page 4 See Expansion, page 4 department are encouraged to attend. All Chehalis tribal members, community members and employees come and help A Dozen Truckloads of Trash Gone, Thanks to Volunteers us show our youth how successful our By Fred Shortman, Editor community has been. If you have completed a higher education degree and/or trade, It was a cool and breezy please submit a copy of your degree, photo Wednesday morning for of yourself and small quote of your success the Chehalis Tribe’s Spring by May 15. Clean Up Day. There were Any questions, please contact Racheal 40 people who came to the Mendez at 360-709-1698 or email Rmendez@ Tribal Center participating in chehalistribe.org cleaning up the reservation, * Return Service Requested Service * Return WA 98568 Oakville, 536 PO Box Newsletter Chehalis Tribal including tribal members and City, ST Zip ST City, Address Street FirstName LastName employees, Boys & Girls Club volunteers, Lucky Eagle Casino staff, and United Way of Lewis County staff and volunteers. Elaine McCloud set the tone for the day, blessing this event , thanking and praying for the people and Mother Earth. Joyce Thomas did Volunteers from the United Way of Lewis County, Boys & Girls Club of America and many a great job organizing employees from the Lucky Eagle and Chehalis Tribe gathered at the tribal center before work crews and dispersing PERMIT No. 2 PERMIT WA OAKVILLE PAID US POSTAGE STD PRSRT heading out along designated areas during the 2010 Spring Clean Up. them to various areas of the reservation. Everyone rain shower as they worked. needed assistance in hauling the trash. With grabbed work gloves and garbage bags, Work crews were seen picking up this many volunteers helping, it made short intent on picking up trash along Howanut, trash that had been discarded by passing work of the areas to be cleaned up. Niederman, Anderson, Secena and Moon motorists. Groundskeepers were drove Raffle prizes and buffet tickets were Roads and the surrounding areas of the fish around in their truck to pick up the garbage distributed to the volunteers who worked www.chehalistribe.org pit and ball fields. bags and haul them to our tribal dumpsters. that day. Everyone got something to eat, ©Copyright 2009 CHEHALIS TRIBAL Many came prepared with warm clothing, NEWSLETTER is a publication of the They estimated they hauled 12 truckloads and got warmed up after the clean up was Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis expecting rain. Mother Nature smiled down of garbage. The Lucky Eagle Casino and Reservation. upon the volunteers by not giving them a the Youth Center truck also provided much See Spring Clean-up, Page 4 2 Youth Speak Up at Underage Join These Exciting Prevention Activities Soaring Eagles Above the Influence Lorrie Bonifer, 360-709-1717 or Lbonifer@ Drinking Prevention Dinner (SEATI) is the brand-new youth prevention chehalistribe.org ASAP. We can get you team! We are looking for additional youth registered. to participate in the program. We have activities throughout the year and also attend Youth Artists: Get Your Prevention youth conferences across the state. We will Design on T-Shirts be going to the Youth Spring Forum in May The Prevention Department’s youth at the Great Wolf Lodge, as well as Standing team, Soaring Eagles Above the Influence, Tall the following week at the Great Wolf is holding a contest for all youth artists. We Lodge. Both conferences are youth-oriented will be making t-shirts that need a design. with hundreds of youth from across the state To enter the contest, simply draw or sketch attending. up a design for the t-shirts and bring it into Check us out on MySpace and Facebook the Prevention Department in the Clinic.