Grand Ronde Indian Reservation

The board ends with the tribe's programs; the one that reaches furthest back is its language. The twenty-seven tribes and bands moved onto this reservation spoke more than two dozen languages and dialects, and they talked to one another in Chinuk Wawa, the intertribal language of the lower Columbia, which became the first language of many Grand Ronde homes. Termination nearly ended it. In 1997 the tribe hired a language specialist, a preschool immersion class opened in 2000 and kindergarten in 2004, and in 2012 the tribe published a 496-page Chinuk Wawa dictionary. The preschool is called lilu.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Depoe Bay — 28 mi
  A six-acre harbor reached through a crack in the basalt, on land allotted in 1894 to a Tututni man the agency knew as Depot Charley.

More markers nearby

• Glacial Erratics — 16 mi
• James W. Nesmith — 21 mi
• Great Tsunami of 1700 — 22 mi
• Camp Adair — 32 mi