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
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Siletz News
May 2009