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Vol. 30, No. 12, December 2002 no. 12
December
2002
A monthly publication of the
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon
The Siletz Feather
Dancers opened the
25th Anniversary
Restoration
Celebration. Please
see more photos on
pages 13-15.
What’s Inside
Letters to the Editor
Chairman’s Report
Tribal Program News
Missing Moccasins
Tribal Member News
Budgets
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Restoration Celebration
Notices
Tribal Council Timesheets
Siletz Clinic
Chinook Winds
Passages
Siletz News
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon
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Delores Pigsley, Tribal Chairman
Brenda Bremner, General Manager
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Siletz Tribe Honors Tradition,
Resurgence at Restoration
Celebration
The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians celebrated the 25th anniversary of
its restoration on Nov. 16 with the Siletz Feather Dancers, guest speakers, special
gifts, food, and its annual Restoration Pow-Wow.
Thirty feather dancers opened the festivities with Bud Lane and Robert Kentta
singing. From adults to young adults to teen-agers to six-year-old Micah
Case-Welch, the dancers showed tribal members and guests the traditional form
of Siletz dancing.
Fifty-five former and current Tribal Council members were honored for their
dedication to the tribe and the roles they played in restoration and the years since.
They or members of their family received a Siletz Pendleton blanket in tribute
(see list on page 14).
If there was a theme for the 25th Anniversary Restoration Celebration, it might
have been “memories.”
Throughout the day, many people remembered what it was like before the
Siletz Tribe was restored on Nov. 18, 1977. Others remembered the hard work
and sacrifices made by those who recognized the possibilities that Restoration
would open up.
Delores Pigsley, tribal chairman, described the event’s first speaker as “a friend
of Indian people not only in the Northwest, but across the nation.” Victor Atiyeh,
former governor of Oregon, spoke of the hardship that came before the celebration
25 years ago.
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