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
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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.
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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.