TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS
Pow-Wow Jobs Available
The Siletz Pow-Wow Committee is now accepting applications for temporary
jobs during the 2001 Nesika Illahee Pow-Wow. Available jobs include:
Security/Maintenance
Camping Registration
Kitchen
Sales
Bus Drivers (CDL required)
Wages are $8/hr for shift supervisors and $6.50/hr for shift workers. Pick up
an application at the administration building in Siletz, Ore., or call Craig
Whitehead at 1-800-922-1399, ext. 230, or 541-444-8230.
: Pow-Wow Needs Dance Sponsors:
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The Pow-Wow Committee is looking for dance sponsors for the 2001 Nesika.
J Illahee Pow-Wow. By sponsoring a category, you make it more personal. Your name*
• will appear on the winner’s envelope and will be read when we award prize money to»
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Categories include both male/female traditional, male/female fancy, grass,*
»and jingle. You can sponsor, or co-sponsor with the committee, a category in«
J your name, your family’s name, or in memory of a loved one. Call Craig*
• Whitehead at 1 -800-922-1399, ext. 230, or 541 -444-8230.
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Above: Perry Johnson (I) and Frank.
Simmons help Elouise Case bag a
whole salmon during one of two fish
distributions this summer.
Left: Frank Simmons helps unload
fish for the distribution. Forty-eight
fish from the summer steelhead run
on the Siletz River were given away
to tribal members.
Below: Perry Johnson (I) and
Bristo Bayya help Caroline Easter
with a salmon.
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Categories and their costs are as follows:
• Adult
Teen
Youth
• 1« place $500
• 2nd place $300
J 3rd place $200
1st place $300
2nd place $200
3rd place $100
1st place $75
2nd place $50
3rd place $25
• Golden Age
Basketcap Special
; 1st place $500
• 2nd place $300
13rd place $200
1“ place $500
2nd place $300
3rd place $200
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Alcohol/Drug Use Affects Families
by Joyce Retherford, TLC Coordinator
I don’t know what the statistics
are, but from living in the Siletz area
most of my life, I’m sure they are
staggering. I think I can safely say
that alcohol and other drug abuse has
affected every tribal family in some
dramatic way.
I have been taking classes to
become an alcohol and drug
counselor for the past year and if there
is one thing that sticks in my mind,
it’s that alcohol is one of the most
damaging of all drugs. It has
destroyed more families and killed
more people by alcohol-related car
accidents or by the sickening effect
that it has on the body and soul than
any other drug.
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Yes! Alcohol is a drug.
The cost of treating the damaging
effects of drug abuse is enormous. There
are physical health problems, mental
health problems, the affect it has on the
children of alcoholics, the loss of
employment, and on and on.
The most horrendous thing is the
damage alcohol does to the children and
families. The cost to children of
alcohol and drug abuse by parents is
their childhood. Children are the ones
who pay the price in the long run. They
either grow up in abusive families or
grow up thinking that it is OK to use
drugs and end up continuing the cycle
of abuse with their own children.
August 2001
I know this to be true because of
my own cycle of abuse. I am very
thankful for my sobriety and the
support of my family. I just hope and
pray that the addiction cycle has ended
with me and that my own children can
know a better way of life.
Anyway, this is what I have
learned in working with the
wonderful group of women that we
now have at the TLC. The three Siletz
Tribal women and one non-Native
woman living in our house are very
thankful for what they have today.
Ask any one of them and they will
tell you what a wonderful home the
tribe has provided for them and how
fortunate they feel to be there.