SILETZ NEWS
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Vol. 39, No. 3
March 2011
Siletz News
Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians
P.O. Box 549
Siletz, OR 97380-0549
Delores Pigsley,
Tribal Chairman
Brenda Bremner,
General Manager
and Editor-in-Chief
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Incumbents are
re-elected to
Tribal Council
Officers also selected
By Diane Rodriquez
Robert Kentta, Loraine Butler and
Tina Retasket were re-elected to the Tribal
Council of the Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians in elections held Feb. 5.
Kentta, from Logsden, Ore., was
re-elected with 422 votes; Butler, from
Siletz, Ore., was re-elected with 365
votes; and Retasket. also from Siletz, was
re-elected with 365 votes.
Six candidates ran for the three open
positions and the three who received the
most votes were elected.
These individuals will serve with
Reggie Butler Sr. and Sharon Edenfield,
both of Siletz, and Jessie Davis of Keizer,
Ore., whose terms expire in 2012; and
with Alfred “Bud” Lane III and Lillie
Butler, both of Siletz, and Delores Pigsley,
also of Keizer, whose terms expire in 2013.
Term of office is three years for each posi
tion on the nine-member council.
Seven hundred four ballots were
returned and accepted. Enrolled members of
the Siletz Tribe who are age 18 or older are
eligible to vote in Tribal elections. The Tribe
has more than 4,700 enrolled members.
The swearing-in ceremony for the
re-elected council members took place
Feb. 6. Officers are elected on an annual
basis and those selected for 2011 include:
Saul Jurado dances during a men’s exhibition dance at the Third Annual Gathering of Oregon’s First Nations Pow-Wow in
Salem, Ore., on Jan. 29. The five federally recognized Tribes of Western Oregon hosted the event, which included Tribal
informational and cultural booths, Native craft demonstrations and Tribal vendors along with the dancing, drumming and sing
ing of the pow-wow. See more photos on pages 12-13.
Delores Pigsley, chairman
Alfred “Bud” Lane III, vice chairman
Tina Retasket, secretary
Jessie Davis, treasurer
Pigsley currently has served 25.5
years as Tribal chairman out of 32 years
on the council, while Davis has served 22
years on the Tribal Council; Lillie Butler
has served 19; Reggie Butler, 14; Lane,
13; Kentta and Loraine Butler, six each;
Retasket, three; and Edenfield less than
two years.
The Siletz Tribe has spent the last
33 years rebuilding its government and
economic structure. The signing of
Public Law 95-195 in 1977, which
restored govern men t-to-go ver n me nt
relations between the Siletz Tribe and
the federal government, started this
process. The Siletz Tribe was the second
in the nation - and the first in Oregon - to
achieve restoration.
The Siletz Tribe was among the first
to become a self-governance Tribe, giving
Tribal government more control over ser
vices provided to Tribal members. Under
self-governance, the U.S. government
provides general funding to the Tribe
(rather than to specific programs), then
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The 2011 Siletz Tribal Council includes (1 to r) Reggie Butler Sr., Alfred “Bud” Lane III, Loraine Butler, Robert Kentta, Jessie
Davis, Delores Pigsley, Sharon Edenfield and Tina Retasket. Not pictured: Lillie Butler
See Tribal Council on page 6.