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RESTORATION POW-WOW .... “BIA people are not responsible for your well being. You have done it yourself. We could have been better and we could have done more for the tribes. But we’re changing; we’re getting better. But I think the reason for that is that you’re getting better. You’re getting stronger and you’re making things happen that we cannot...” Stan Speaks, Northwest Regional Director, BIA Scenes from the Day Siletz Royalty (above), Frank Petersen (above right), Color Guard (below), Lisa Mason (I) and Danelle Smith (below left). ______ ’__ ______________________ ir* “Today I see flourishing a great effort to restore their cultural ways, to restore their spiritual understanding of what we are ... I want to tell the Siletz people that I’m very proud of them.” Chief Nelson Wa II u latum, Confed erated Tribes of Warm Springs (above) _____________________
