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 (
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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
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