TRIBAL MEMBER NEWS
Butler Named to All-State Team
Moceikis Graduates from
College of Beauty
Victoria (Tori) Lynn Moceikis
PERFECT LOOK
Congratulations! Victoria (Tori)
Lynn Moceikis graduated from
A’Arts/Springfield College of Beauty
on July 9, 2002. Victoria received
her Oregon State Certificate of
Cosmetology in hairdressing, nail, and
facial technology.
Victoria currently is working at
the Valley River Center’s Perfect
Look. If you need a haircut or are just
in the mood for a new look, please
stop by Perfect Look and ask for
Victoria. No appointment is needed.
Please help us congratulate
Victoria (Tori).
For a limited time, the Eugene
office has some coupons for $10
haircuts. Please drop by the office
and pick one up.
Brett Butler
Congratulations to Brett Butler for
an outstanding football season. Brett is
the son of Ella Fisher and the grandson
of Delmer and Priscilla Butler.
Brett is a junior at Reedsport High
School. The Reedsport Braves took
home the championship of the
2-A Big Fir League. Reedsport went
on to the playoffs, but was eliminated
by Warrenton.
Brett was named all-state first-team
wide receiver. He accumulated more
than 1,000 yards for the season. He also
made the second team for defense. We
look forward to a great basketball
season. Keep up the good work, Brett.
You make us very proud!
Butler Family Sets Giveaway
We would like to invite friends and family to a giveaway/potluck in
honor of Nat Butler on Feb. 8,2003, at 2 p.m. at the Grand Ronde Community
Correction: In the December issue of Siletz News, an announcement of
the birth of Cintah Lynne Butler was published. Loraine Butler was
inadvertently omitted from the list of Cintah’s grandparents.
Center in Grand Ronde, Ore.
Dinner will be provided, but please feel free to bring your favorite desert,
salad, or side dish. Questions? Call Randy Butler, Sr., at 503-375-6209.
Our Children’s Children Forever
by Eva Clayton
W? had been a sustained yield society forever.
Timber companies their genera (wood)
have found that re-forestation gives them sustained yield products (trees).
The removal, divide and conquer tactics was a technique used against our
families. The total disruption caused tremendous hardship, not to mention the
loss of family, direction, and continuity among the people.
Loss of leaders, teachers, medicine people was devastating. It was like
entering a room, (reservation) fumbling around in the dark, searching until
one found the switch of enlightenment. We became a foster child of our
government, looked upon as a liability.
To lessen an ongoing felt liability, numbers and quantum was brought to focus.
A. method used to regulate control over assets and liability statistics.
Is not quantum and numbers used favorably in the animal world?
The honoring of agreements, treaties with the people in a timely manner,
was not an option. The assembly line procedure was geared to run
numbers, lessen obligation and liability.
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January 2003
We need to focus on our windows of enlightenment. To coin a phrase, “How
can you keep them down on the farm after they've seen Paree,"
is where our generation is at. Stepping into the future should not
mean forfeiting the past.
Our past binds the present and jump-starts our future.
Our children, they should not be penalized.
It is up to us as the gatekeepers to see that it swings both ways.
Challenge the future, nurture the present, and honor the past.
This we know, the loss of so much only strengthened the determination
of our ancestors to sacrifice whatever means necessary to assure their
children’s children (forever) would inherit knowledge and acceptance
of their direct descendancy.
Sustained yield, it is the child who represents
continued life for our family ancestry.