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25 Jul

Puyallup Pride attendees: “You are loved, you are accepted”

By Ernest A. Jasmin, Puyallup Tribal News Sequined drag performers, rainbow-colored bouncy houses and a fan favorite from NBC-TV’s “The Voice” took over the football field at Chief Leschi Schools on Saturday. The occasion: The Puyallup Tribe’s fourth annual Pride celebration, a day for emphasizing love, acceptance and advances made by the LGBTQIA2 community in recent years. Puyallup Tribal Councilwoman Annette Bryan reminded attendees that Washington had just introduced civil unions for same-sex couples in 2012, just three years before the Supreme Court’s ruling on Obergefell v. Hodges made gay marriage legal nationwide. “It wasn't until recently that we were…

18 Jul

Paddle to Muckleshoot Preview

By Molly Bryant, Puyallup Tribal News The Puyallup Canoe Family will celebrate the Tribe’s traditional mode of transportation by paddling on ancestral waterways for the 2023 Paddle to Muckleshoot Canoe Journey. From July 27 to July 30, the family will travel from the Puyallup Canoe landing site on Marine View Drive to Manchester State Park near Port Orchard. From there, they will travel to the Suquamish reservation and, finally, to the Alki Beach landing site. The journey will be followed by a potlatch that starts on July 31 at the newly built Muckleshoot Community Center and will continue for 24…

11 Jul

Tribal member immortalized in new coffee table book

By Molly Bryant, Puyallup Tribal News Denise Reed, a cultural coordinator for the Culture Department, was recently featured in a new book, titled Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America. The coffee table photo book is a project created by Matika Wilbur, who is from the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes in Washington. Wilbur set out with an ambitious goal to travel across the United States to document every federally recognized Native American Tribe. At the time that she began the project, there were 562 federally recognized Tribes. Now there are 574. She spent 10 years on the road,…

15 Jun

New Revelations in Homicide of Puyallup Tribal Member Jackie Salyers

Relevant calendar date: June 20 – trial in Pierce County Superior Court Dept. 5, Hon. Shelly K. Speir-Moss (motions to extend the trial date to reopen discovery and amend the complaint are pending but have not been scheduled for hearing by the court). Summary: Puyallup Tribal member Jackie Salyers was shot to death by the Tacoma Police while they were executing an arrest warrant for her boyfriend in 2016. The autopsy proved that Jackie was pregnant. There was no bystander cell phone video or security video, and the Tacoma Police were not using body cams. They had been searching for…

13 Jun

MMIWP Task Force celebrates legislative progress

By Molly Bryant, Puyallup Tribal News A community celebration was held at the Emerald Queen Casino on June 7 to acknowledge the legislative progress that has been made with the help of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman and People (MMIWP) Task Force. The MMIWP Task Force comprises 23 Washington representatives with various backgrounds, such as legislators, Tribal Council and community members. It was created under the facilitation of the Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Its members have been collaborating together to address the MMIWP crisis in Washington state. Two Puyallup Tribal members are on the Task Force: Councilwoman Anna…

09 Jun

Miller and Rideout sworn in after being re-elected to Puyallup Tribal Council

By Ernest A. Jasmin, Puyallup Tribal News Puyallup Tribal Councilmembers Monica Miller and James Rideout were sworn in to start new three-year terms on Thursday, June 8, in front of the Bone Games mural at Emerald Queen Casino. Both won re-election on Saturday, June 3. Tribal Council Chairman Bill Sterud reminded attendees that the tradition they were participating in dated back to 1933. “Once a year, the Puyallup people gathered and elected leaders, and this is one of those days,” he said. The ceremony included a prayer and blessing from Heritage Division Manager Connie McCloud and a song led by…

07 Jun

Drums not Guns march spreads awareness about gun violence in the community

By Molly Bryant, Puyallup Tribal News In recognition of National Gun Violence Awareness Month in June, Puyallup Tribal Member Danny Leonard and Heritage Division Manager Connie McCloud collaborated to organize a march called Drums not Guns. The march’s route stretched from 40th Street and Portland Avenue to the Tribal Administration building, creating a strong sense of community as Tribal members and other community members united to raise awareness about the alarming surge in gun violence rates in the Tacoma area. The city broke its record for homicides last year with 45, 43 of which were shootings. Attendees at the Drums…