Yesteryears -- April 1, 2013

2008 - The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde received national TV exposure when "Little People, Big World" featured Tribal members building a miniature plankhouse and blessing it afterward at Roloff Farms near Hillsboro.
2003 - The first Agency Creek Round Dance was scheduled for April 4-5 in the Tribal gym.
1998 - The Tribe received a $75,785 Welfare-to-Work grant from the federal Department of Labor. The grant was one of the first in $15 million in grants to help Native American Tribal governments transform the lives of long-term welfare recipients.
1993 - Shonn and Dustin Leno won state wrestling titles for Willamina High School, becoming the only brothers to ever win back-to-back state titles in Oregon Class 2A wrestling. Shonn won his third title and Dustin his second.
1988 - Congressman Les AuCoin introduced a new Grand Ronde Reservation bill that calls for 9,811 acres being returned to the Tribe. The bill follows two bills introduced in 1987 that called for creating reservations with 15,700 acres and 5,100 acres, respectively. The new bill restricts exports and the purchase of timber for 20 years and requires that a minimum of 30 percent of timber revenues goes to Tribal economic development.

Yesteryears is a look back at Tribal history in five-year increments through the pages of Smoke Signals.