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TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS November Notes from Healthy Family Healthy Child Project Delores Pigsley greets Kurt Schrader, Democratic candidate for Congress from the 5th District, and Jean Cowan, a Democrat who is running unopposed for re-election as a state representative from the /0th District, at the Candidate’s Fair held at Chinook Winds Casino Resort on Oct. 19. More than 20 candidates or their representatives, running in federal, state, county and city races, attended the fair, sponsored by the Siletz Tribe, Chinook Winds, the Lincoln City Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club of Lincoln City. Elders’ Council Meeting Siletz News is free to enrolled Siletz Tribal members. For all others, a $12 annual subscription fee applies. Please make checks payable to CTSI and mail to Siletz News. Nov. 8 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Portland Area Office 12790 SE Stark, Suite 102 Address: _______________________ For more information, please contact Danise Barker at 800-922-1399, ext. 1225; 541-444-8225; or daniseb@ctsi.nsn.us Change of address: Tribal mem bers-call the Enrollment Department at 541-444-8258 or 800-922-1399, ext. 1258; all others - call the news paper office. White Bison is coming! The Healthy Family Healthy Child Project is bringing White Bison to the Siletz area. This important event is scheduled for Dec. 9-11. It will be held at Chinook Winds Casino Resort at no cost to those wishing to attend. All high school-aged oroidermembers of Siletz Tribal families and anyone providing services to Siletz Tribal members in the I I-county service area are encouraged to attend this event. White Bison is an American Indian non-profit organization based in Colo rado Springs, Colo. It was founded and is directed by Don Coyhis of the Mohawk Nation, who authored The Red Road to Wellbriety - In the Native Ameri can Way. White Bison’s focus is wellness or Wellbriety, which means to nurture the whole person, the whole family and the whole community - to move people beyond survival to thriving in a cultural way. The “well” part of Wellbriety means to live the healthy parts of the principles, laws and values of traditional culture. Coyhis was in Siletz on Oct. 4 to provide an overview of the White Bi son trainings; 16 people attended. He described the way cultural values and practices promoted healthy Tribal families Most Often Requested Numbers Name:_________________________ Phone:_________________________ Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians 1-800-922-1399 Salem Area Office 503-390-9494 Salem Finance Office 1-888-870-9051 Portland Area Office 503-238-1512 Eugene Area Office 541-484-4234 Springfield Siletz Tribal Head Start 541-747-0161 Contract Health Services (CHS) 1-800-628-5720 Siletz Community Health Clinic 1 -800-648-0449 Siletz Alcohol and Drug 1 -800-600-5599 Chinook Winds Casino Resort I -888-244-6665 Chemawa Health Clinic 1-800-452-7823 Bureau of Indian Affairs 1-800-323-8517 Website www.ctsi.nsn.us _____________________________________________________j Siletz News Letters Policy Siletz News, a publication of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, is published once a month. Our editorial policy encourages input from readers about stories printed in Siletz News and other tribal issues. All letters must include the author’s signature, address, and phone number in order to be considered for publication. Siletz News reserves the right to edit any letter for clarity and length, and to refuse publication of any letter or any part of a letter that may contain profane language, libelous statements, personal attacks, or unsubstantiated statements. Not all letters are guaranteed publication upon submission. Published let ters do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Siletz News, Tribal employees, or Tribal Council. Please type or write legibly. Letters longer than 450 words may be edited for length as approved by Tribal Council Resolution #96-142. Please note: The general manager of the Siletz Tribe is the editor-in-chief of Siletz News. Editor-in-Chief: Brenda Bremner Editor: Diane Rodriquez Assistant: Natasha Kavanaugh v ■— " ------ --- -J' and communities prior to contact with non-Tribal people. He walked the audience through the history of traumas inflicted by early set tlers and the federal government through their attempts to erase Tribal culture - placing Tribes on reservations, removing children from their families and sending them to boarding schools, relocation pro grams, forbidding the speaking of Native language, religion and ceremony, etc. Coyhis described how the impact of these traumas on generations of Tribal families and communities is similar to the grieving process. He explained that when the healthy cultural foundation is broken down, it results in symptoms of neglect, addiction, violence, abuse and other unhealthy behaviors. The goal of a Wellbriety move ment is to help individuals, families and communities find their path to healing by learning how to coach one another through recovery and by reconnecting culturally to traditional values, practices and ceremonies that strengthen individu als, families and communities and allows them to flourish. White Bison has been a part of the Native sobriety movement, which began to evolve in the late 1960s and early 1970s, since its founding in 1988. In the 1990s. White Bison began to realize that most people wanted to find sobriety and recovery from alcohol and drugs and then go on to live lives of wellness and whole ness, rooted both in their own Tribal cul tures as well as the mainstream world. The Wellbriety movement teaches that “culture is prevention,” prevention of chemical dependency and other dys functional behaviors. The movement uses the Daughters of Tradition prevention program to help girls and young women avoid negative behaviors before they start. The movement also uses the Sons of Tra dition program for boys and young men to bring preventative attitudes and behaviors to young American Indians. The coming of White Bison to our community is a wonderful opportunity for those people in our Tribe and our community who recognize that they need to begin a recovery program, to strengthen their own recovery, to better support someone in recovery and to end hurtful behavior patterns by establishing or re-establishing cultural connections to traditional healing. Anyone needing transportation to this training should contact the Tribal services specialist or outpatient counselor in their area office or the Indian Child Welfare or Healthy Family Healthy Child staff in Siletz. For more information and a better understanding of the philosophy of White Bison, visit its website at www.WhiteBi- son.org and if you have the time, check out the Wellbriety online magazine button on the left of the page. November 2008 • Siletz News • 3
