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TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS Thanks, Siletz Tribal Membership The Election Board would like to take this opportunity to thank all the Siletz Tribal members who took the time to fill out and mail back their updated signa ture cards. Keep up the good work. It’s never too late to mail yours to us. Thank you again. Kurtis Barker, Felicia Carmona and Tracey Worman Siletz Election Board Election Board Applications Due Deadline for Consideration for the 2008/09 Election Board is Oct. 6, 2008 Any Tribal member interested in serving on the Election Board must till out the following form and return it to the address below prior to Oct. 6, 2008. Please mail or fax your application to Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, Attn: Executive Secretary to Tribal Council, P.O. Box 549, Siletz, OR 97380-0549; Fax: 541-444-8325. Name:Roll No:--------------------------- Address:__________________________________________________________ City:State:ZIP: Telephone: Day ( ) Evening ( )------------------- Tribal Council will review applications and approve appointments at the Regular Tribal Council meeting in October 2(X)8. If you have any questions, please call Tracey Worman at 800-922-1399, ext. 1284, or 541-444-8284. Siletz Tribal Research Department Activities by Claire Wood, Data Coordinator The Siletz Tribal Research Depart ment is continuing the Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH) project by administering our internally developed cultural knowledge survey, which will help us determine Siletz Tribal members' cultural knowledge and level of cultural competency. This survey was developed in 2006 specifically by us and for the Siletz Tribe in the original NARCH project. Everyone's participation is important and will help us identify needs in our Tribe, enhance services and programs to improve the health of the Siletz Tribe and assist in how those services should be provided to our diverse membership. The survey and consent form will be mailed in August to 1,000 adult Siletz Tribal members over age 18, ran domly selected from the enrollment databases, who were not invited to par ticipate in the 2006 survey. We would appreciate everyone’s careful consid eration of their participation. Although the individual benefit is small, the benefit to the Tribe as a whole may be large. Everyone should feel assured that the information provided on the sur veys will be kept confidential and will be combined with others' responses and used for statistical purposes only. Individual data never will be reported. I will have the sole responsibility for data collection and entry, and will be the only staff member with access to any individual’s data. All paper copies of the surveys will be destroyed upon completion of the research project. As a thank you and an incentive for participation, everyone who com pletes and returns their survey by the deadline will receive a T-shirt specifi cally created for this project. All par ticipants also will be entered in a draw ing for a medicine bag or tote bag made from the Siletz Tribal blanket. The Siletz Tribal Research Depart ment consists of Tribal member Kelley Ellis and me, a Tribal employee. If you have any questions regarding the NARCH research project or survey, you can call me at 800-922-1399, ext. 1276. or 541-444-8276; or e-mail claire w@ctsi.nsn. us. New Steelhead Availability Notification Process 2008 Standing Committee Applications Due Deadline for Consideration for 2008 Committees is Aug. 5, 2008 Any Tribal member interested in serving on a committee for a two-year term must fill out the following form and return it to the address below prior to Aug. 5, 2008. Please mail or fax your application to Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, Attn: Executive Secretary to Tribal Council, P.O. Box 549, Siletz, OR 97380-0549; Fax; 541-444-8325. Name:________________________________ R°^ ^o,:--------------------------- Address:_________________________________________________________ City:State:--------------- ZIP:------------------- Telephone: Day ( ) _____------------------ Evening ( ) _-------------------------- Choose the first, second and third choice of committees you are re questing by numbering your preference 1, 2, 3 in the space provided. If you only want to request one committee, please indicate this by inserting the Every year, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODF&W) donates steelhead captured in its Siletz River trap to the Siletz Tribe. These are whole bodied fish fresh from the trap. The Natural Resources Department usually is notified just before ODF&W personnel head out to the trap that fish may become available later that day. 1 he number of fish, their size and condition, and the time they will be available is not known until ODF&W returns from the trap and arrives at the Tribe's admin istration building in Siletz, usually sometime in the middle of the afternoon. In past years, the number of fish available on any particular day has ranged from only 10 up to more than 50. The Natural Resources Department does not have a way to process or store these fish, so they must be distributed the aftcmtxm they arrive. We have struggled with a way to notify just the right number of people that fish will be available and to distribute them to those who want them without having extra left over or not enough to give to those who show up. We currently are creating a list of those Tribal members who would like to be notified when fish become available. We will then do our best to make contact with each person, either by phone, e-mail or any other method people might suggest. We cannot guarantee that each person will receive notification each and every time fish are available or that once someone shows up any fish will be left. It all depends on how much notice the Natural Resources Department receives and how many fish ODF&W brings each time. Your patience and understanding are requested. If you are interested in being notified that fish are available and are willing to pick up a whole-bodied fish in Siletz on the afternoon that they show up. please return the notification form below to the Natural Resources office at the address listed on the form. If you have any questions, please call Natural Resources Manager Mike Kennedy at 541-444-8232 or 800-922-1399. ext. 1232; or Natural Resources Technician Frank Simmons at 541-444-8288 or 800-922-1399, ext. 1288. Roll Number:____________ Name- number 1. Phone Number:_____________________ E-mail:------------------ Education Committee (1 vacancy) Other Method of Notification: -------- ------------------------------------------------------ Tribal Council will review applications and approve appointments at the Regular Tribal Council meeting in August 2008. If you have any questions, please call Tribal Council’s Executive Secretary, Tami Miner, at 1-800-922- 1399, ext. 1203, or 541-444-8203. Please circle your preferred method of notification and return to Frank Simmons, Natural Resources Department. Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. P.O. Box 549, Siletz, OR 97380-0549. July 2008 • Siletz News • 5
