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SILETZ NEWS Siletz News Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians P.O. Box 549 Siletz, OR 97380-0549 Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Vol. 37, No. 7 July 2009 Ind»»’'4 Presorted First-Class Mail U.S. Postage Paid-Permit No.178 Delores Pigsley, Tribal Chairman Brenda Bremner, General Manager and Editor-in-Chief Salem, OR Governor Pays Visit to Siletz Tribal Council member Tina Retasket and Gov. Ted Kulongoski discuss the issues of the day during the governor's visit to the Siletz Reservation on June 19. Please see page 5 for details. Tribal Council Holds Meeting in Brookings CONGRATULATIONS - Graduating students at Siletz Valley Early College Academy toss their caps in celebration at the end of their gradu ation ceremony June 6. Tribal member graduates included Jennifer Easter, Sage Hatch, Jacob Ueland and Natasha Williams. Tribal Chairman Delores Pigsley delivered the key note address and the West Coast Boys played honor songs during the ceremo ny. Please see additional information in our gradu ates insert in this edition of Siletz News. Sharon Edenfield is sworn in as the newest Tribal Council member in a special meeting June 19. Edenfield was appointed to the position by Tribal Chairman Delores Pigsley and r voted into office by the Tribal Council. * a •S o o -c Q, What’s Inside Chairman’s Report 2 Tribal Program News 3 Tribal Member News 10 Tribal Council Timesheets 16 Notices 17 Siletz Clinic 19 Chinook Winds 20 Letters to the Editor 22 Passages 23 By Brent Merrill The history of the Indian people who today comprise the membership of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians runs deep into the southwest region of what now makes up the State of Oregon. The Tribal membership traces their ancestry to some 30 bands of Indians that were forcibly relocated by the United States from Native villages throughout their 20 million acres of ancestral land that stretched from the upper Klamath River and Crescent City areas of Northern California to the lower Columbia River and from the Pacific Ocean to the crest of the Cascade Mountain Range. Today’s Tribal membership is made up of descendants of Indian people from many throughout Oregon, but specifically from the Rogue River (Takelma, Shasta and Applegate), Umpqua and Calapooia from Umpqua Valley, Cow Creek Umpqua Band (a Takelma band), Chasta, Scoton, Grave Creek, Galice Creek, Chasta-Costa, Coquelle, Sixes, Port Orford, Euchre Creek, Tututni, Macanotunne, Pistol River, Chetco and southern Molalla Tribes throughout the Southern Oregon area. For this reason, Tribal Council holds periodic meetings in the Southern Oregon area as a way to reach out to members who reside in the area. See Council on page 6.
