TRIBAL MEMBER NEWS
Restoration
Reborn
New Babies!
Taylor Alyssa Baber
Gayle Williams-York and Steven
Baber would like to announce the birth
of their second daughter, Taylor Alyssa
Baber. She was bom Sept. 8, 2004, at
7:55 a.m. She came in weighing 6 pounds,
14 ounces, and measuring 20 inches.
She is pictured above with her proud
older sister, Nakoa Grace Williams-York.
Grandparents are Steve and Tina York
of Morehead, Ky., and Ab Williams.
Tristen David Shadow Holt
Bailey Lynn Kahler
Love you bunches, Mom and Dad
Tristen, we hope to fill your life
with happiness and love.
Parents are Tristen John and Jes
sica Wieboldt. Grandparents are Sherri
Tollett and Chris Wieboldt, Phil Jr. and
Sherry Rilatos, and Trish and Ken
Willson. Great-grandparents are Dave
and Gladys Tollett and Phil and Sharon
Rilatos. Big sister is Trinity Lynn.
Bailey Lynn Kahler was born
June 23 at 4:45 p.m. in Arlington,
Wash., to Andy and Holly Kahler.
Proud grandparents are Susie
Leppert, and Ray and Janet Kahler;
great-grandmas are Illa Hoiness and
Arlene Kahler.
Bailey brings so much joy in our
life. We all love you so much. Happy 3
months old, baby girl!
Kareena Irene-Rose Case
Kareena Irene-Rose Case was bom
at 11:55 p.m. July 12 at Samaritan Pa
cific Communities Hospital in Newport,
Ore. She weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces.
She is the daughter of Sheena
Maldonado and Kevin Case of Wald
port, Ore., and joins a sister, Cheyenne
Jo Maldonado, 8, and two brothers,
Dakota Case, 15, and Devin Case, 14.
Her grandparents are Terri Jordan
and Wayne Case of Siletz, Ore., and the
late Rose Irene Smith of North Dakota.
Her great-grandparent is Betty
Simmons of Siletz.
Welcome to the world, baby girl!
We love you!
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Siletz News
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November 2004.
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Respectfully, Eva E. Clayton
There has been a passing of gentle
spirits among many of our tribal fami
lies. Life is sensitively fragile.
But an end is also a new beginning.
New youthful babes are beginning
to strengthen the circle around the cycle
of life. Families are beginning new
generations.
It’s with this thought I rolled my in
terest back to the time before reservation.
I strolled through some pages of fam
ily tribal history. At first it was meant
to be a separation of information, facts.
I went from sensitive researcher to
an amazed survivor descendant. I looked
at the span of time in which the foot
print history was being laid out. It was bit
overwhelming. It was only yesteryear.
It was like a Rubic’s cube. Puzzle
parts trying to fit. But eventually the time
line of events, people began to fit together.
On our journey to where we have
arrived at this point in time has been an
informational nightmare of intended
masterminding. But light is sinking into
our archival crevices. A rebirth of true
survival history is formulating.
The triumph of ancestors who en
dured a hardship most of us think we
understand is the blueprint of what we
are today.
In retrospect:
We have come a long way from the
weary trek to the reservation.
We have come a long way in surviving
all odds of a browbeaten community.
We have come a long way in re-estab
lishing our identities as a people.
We have come a long way in finding each
other. Family spirit that intertwines.
We have come a long way being the
wiser. We will continue to survive
and prosper only as a community
that shares.
We have come a long way. We are fam
ily descendants who should be
humbled by the past. Use enlight
ened participation in our present
and is challenged by a future that
encourages vision.
We have come a long way from accep
tance to controlling our destiny.
We have come a long way from
restoration.