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PUYALLUP RESERVATION, Tacoma, Wash.—The Puyallup Tribe has broken ground on a brand new Tribal Administration building. About 100 people turned out on a cold Friday morning for a ceremony held for Tribal community members and employees on March 24. Heritage Manager Connie McCloud gave a blessing, and the Culture Department sang before Tribal Councilmembers shared their thoughts about the site’s history, the new building’s importance and symbolism of how much the Tribe has grown in the decades since administrative functions took place out of trailer space. Chairman Bill Sterud and other councilmembers noted that the old Cascadia center, once Cushman…
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By Ernest A. Jasmin, Puyallup Tribal News Editor The Puyallup Tribe commemorated a pivotal moment in Tribal history with a ceremonial tree planting on March 11 at Chief Leschi Schools. A few dozen attendees turned out on a chilly afternoon to witness the placement of a special sapling. It was grown from a seed from the Treaty Tree, a famous Douglas fir that once stood in Thurston County at the site of the Medicine Creek Treaty signing of 1854. Puyallup Tribal Council members Fred Dillon and James Rideout were among 10 Tribal members that carried the sapling to its new…
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By Ernest A. Jasmin, Puyallup Tribal News Editor In February, Electron Hydro LLC and Chief Operating Officer Thom Fischer pleaded guilty to a single criminal count in connection with polluting the Puyallup River in 2020. The plea concluded a case brought by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson that relied on evidence gathered by the Puyallup Tribe in its efforts to document the impact of illegally dumped artificial turf at the site of Electron Hydro’s 120-year-old dam near Mount Rainier National Park. The company placed old turf into a temporary flow bypass channel during the summer of 2020, topping it with…
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By Katie Manzanares Oregon Trail videogame 2022 receives Indigenous audit Recently, a new version of the Oregon Trail video game has been released not so coincidently during Native American Heritage Month. The game essentially promoted the westward movement, which wasn’t good for Native people who were forced to be relocated and lost traditional lands. Many Americans traveled the route that was sure to provide work and a better way of life. I had to see if the game had changed from the first time I played it as a third grader on a computer version that was a pixelated green-screen…