Siletz news /, October 01, 2002, Page 6, Image 6

TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS
Run to the
Rogue
Right: Sonya
Moody-Jùrado,
Reggie Butler Sr.,
and Eddie Collins
head down
Government Hill.
Far right: Trish
Daniel starts the
second mile.
Additional Run to
the Rogue photos
in the next issu
of Siletz News.
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John, Laura, and Leeann Rose Duarte, and Anita Knott
await the start. Leeann was the youngest to join in on
this year’s Run to the Rogue.
Calvin Gantenbein
(I), swears in new
Siletz Tribal
Police Officer
Sean Bishop (c),
while Norm
Counts observes.
Tribe Takes Part in Opening of Fort Hoskins Park
More than 150 people gathered on
Sept. 14 as tribal members and others
participated in grand opening
ceremonies for the Fort Hoskins
Historic Park in the old town of
Hoskins, Ore., in Kings Valley.
Honor Guards from the Siletz and
Grand Ronde tribes opened the
ceremony, followed by several
speeches, including one from Siletz
Tribal Chairman Delores Pigsley.
She spoke of the fact that Indians
learn history from their parents and
grandparents. From the Indian point of
view, Fort Hoskins was built to keep
the Indians on the Siletz Reservation,
not to keep others off.
“People have worked hard to
recognize this area and make sure
history is told the way it was -
accurately,’’ she said. “This is a place
for us to be proud of. People will really
know what happened here.”
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An interpretive sign at Fort Hoskins Historic Park
Delores’ comments were followed
by those of several others, including
Cheryle Kennedy, chair of the Grande
Ronde Tribal Council, and several
Benton County commissioners who
have been involved with this project.
The day’s ceremonies ended with tribal
October 2002
member Ed Ben and a member of the
Grand Ronde Honor Guard raising an
American flag up a flagpole at one end
of the park.
Robert Kentta, cultural resources
director, authored three of the six
interpretive signs in the park. They
highlight the lives of the Luckiamute
and share, from a Native point of
view, what happened to the Indians in
this area.
The Hoskins/Kings Valley area
originally belonged to the Luckiamute
band of the Kalapuya Indians,
who ceded it to the United States
under the Willamette Valley Treaty
of 1855. Fort Hoskins was established
in 1856. Today, the fort is part of
the Siletz Tribe’s hunting and gathering
areas recognized under agreement
with the state.
Fort Hoskins was one of three forts
(including Fort Yamhill and Fort
Umpqua) built to monitor the newly
established Coast (Siletz) Reservation.
It also was closely associated with the
military post at the Siletz Agency
known as the Siletz blockhouse. Fort
Hoskins is the first of the three to be
developed into a park site.