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TRIBAL PROGRAM NEWS Join the Journey of Forgiveness Healthy Family Healthy Child Project and the Siletz Tribal A& D Program would like to rem ind all community m embers that on May 16, Don Coyhis o f W hite Bison will begin his “Journey of Forgiveness” at Chem awa Indian School in Salem, Ore. The purpose of this journey is to bring awareness to the issue o f intergenerational trauma and the boarding school experience in hopes that it will guide our comm unities toward healing and forgiveness. The opening ceremony at Chemawa begins at 9 a.m. You can learn more about the journey by visiting the website www.whitebison.org or by going to www.wellbrietyjourney.org for updates on the journey. White Bison and Coyhis will travel to about 23 different boarding schools across the country. He will discuss boarding school issues in our communities and intergenerational trauma in hopes ol promoting healing and forgiveness as he begins his 40-day, 4,800-mile trek. Transportation will be available for all who wish to attend this ceremony. Call the Healthy Family Healthy Child Project at 541-444-8262 or 541-444-8233; or Janet W icklund, Siletz Tribal A&D director, at 541-444-8282 or 800-600-5599. irioai rouin Annual East Egg Hunt April 11 • Siletz, Oregon May Notes from Healthy Family Healthy Child Project This m onth we would like to stray Columbus, Miss.; as well as many com Braxton Kavanaugh (left) and Madison from our norm al subjects and address m unities in Vermont and some two dozen McAfee (above) chase after Easter eggs the historical roots of the two im portant other cities and towns in the eastern half on Government Hill during one Easter holidays that occur in May, M other’s Day of the United States. egg hunt, as do Head Start students and M emorial Day. These observances coalesced around (photos below) during another hunt. Both holidays can comm only trace D ecoration Day, honoring the U nion their genesis to those troubled days lead dead and the several Confederate M em o Head Start ing up to and including the Civil War and rial Days. Easter Egg Hunt those men who served and survived as The first Memorial Day was observed April 9 • Siletz, Oregon well as those who paid the ultimate price in 1865 by liberated slaves at the historic for their patriotism. racetrack in Charleston. The site was a _ The story of the history of M other's former Confederate prison cam p as well Day begins in 1858 when com m unity as a mass grave for Union soldiers who activist Anna Reeves Jarvis organized died in captivity. “ M others' Works Days” in West Virginia. The freed slaves reinterred the dead Her immediate goal was to improve sani Union soldiers from the mass grave to tation in Appalachian communities. individual graves, fenced in the graveyard During the Civil War, Jarvis pried and built an entry arch declaring it a Union women away from their families to care graveyard. This was a daring action for for the wounded on both sides of the war. them to take in the South shortly after the She also began a cam paign to persuade N orth's victory. men to lay aside their hostilities. On May 30, 1868, the freed slaves In 1872, Julia Ward Howe, author of returned to the graveyard with flowers the Battle H ym n o f the Republic, proposed they had picked from the countryside and « an annual "M others' Day for Peace.” decorated the individual gravesites, there Com m itted to abolishing war, Howe by creating the first Decoration Day. w rote. O ur husbands shall not com e M any states in the South refused to us reeking with carnage ... Our sons to celebrate Decoration Day because of shall not be taken from us to unlearn all lingering hostility toward the union Army The Siletz Tribal Charitable Contri that we have been able to teach them of poses: education, health, public safety, and also because relatively few Union bution Fund Board currently is accepting charity, mercy and patience. We women gambling addiction, prevention, drug and Army veterans were buried in the South. applications from Tribal m em bers for a o f one country will be too tender o f those alcohol treatm ent, housing, the arts, the A notable exception was Columbus, which three-year appointm ent beginning June o f another country to allow our sons to be environment and natural resource preser on April 25, 1866, at its Decoration Day 2009 through May 2012. A pplications trained to injure theirs,” and for the next vation, cultural activities, historic preser commemorated both Union and Confeder must be received before June 5, 2009. 30 years, Am ericans celebrated M others’ vation and other charitable purposes. ate casualties buried in its cemetery. The Advisory Board is composed of Day for Peace on June 2. Tribal program s are not eligible to The alternative name of “Memorial seven unpaid volunteers who receive travel In 1913, Congress declared the sec receive c o n trib u tio n s p u rsu an t to the Day” was first used in 1882. It did not reimbursement only for attendance at meet ond Sunday in May to be M other’s Day. Distribution o f Net Revenues O rdinances become more comm on until after WWII ings and distributions. Other public relations By then, the growing consum er culture and M em o ran d u m o f U n d e rstan d in g and was not declared the official name by events also are eligible for reimbursement. had su ccessfully redefined wom en as (MOU) between the State o f Oregon and federal law until 1967. The A dvisory B oard m eets q u a r the Siletz Tribe. consum ers for their families. Politicians On June 28, 1968, the U.S. C o n terly (January, April, July and October) and businessm en eagerly em braced the Applications m ust be subm itted by gress passed the Uniform Holidays Bill, to review approximately 100 applications idea of celebrating the private sacrifices June 5, 2009 to be considered for ap which moved three holidays (President’s received from charitable organizations made by individual mothers. pointm ent at the Regular Tribal Council Day, Veterans Day and Memorial Day) or local governm ents within the Siletz The new advertising industiy quickly meeting in June. If you have any ques from their traditional dates to a specified Tribe s service area and Native Am erican taught A m ericans how to honor their tions, please contact Kelley Ellis at 800- M onday in order to create a convenient entities or activities located anywhere in mothers - by buying flowers. Since that 922-1399, ext. 1227, or 541 -444-8227 or three-day weekend. The change moved the United States for the following pur point. M other’s Day has become a billion- via e-mail at kelleyr@ ctsi.nsn.u s. Memorial Day from its traditional May 30 dollar industry. date to the last M onday in May. Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund Healthy Family Healthy Child Project Advisory Board Member Application Memorial Day would like to wish all mothers the absolute M em orial Day was first known as best on their special day. We also would N a m e :_ Decoration Day and was founded in such Roll No. ask that the com m unity rem em ber those Address: __ places as Sharpsburg, Md., near Antietam who have served and fallen, paying the City/State/ZIP: Battlefield; Charleston, S.C.; Boalsburg, absolute ultim ate price for their service Telephone: (Day) (Evening) Pa.; R ichm ond, Va.; C arbondale, 111.; to our country. E-mail: STCCF Advisory Board Recruitment 4 Siletz News May 2009
