SILETZ NEWS
Siletz News
Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians
P.O. Box 549
Siletz, OR 97380-0549
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Delores Pigsley,
Tribal Chairman
Brenda Bremner,
General Manager
and Editor-in-Chief
Vol. 39, No. 8
August 2011
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Courtesy photo by Leonda Levchuk, NMAI
Siletz Tribal members stand on the balcony of the National Museum of the American
Indian in Washington, D.C., during the Siletz Festival on July 8-10. L to r: Cheryl
Lane, Bud Lane, Halli Skauge, Tiffany Stokes, Clarinda Black, Delores Pigsley,
Robert Kentta, Rose Pigsley, Loraine Butler, Morgan Crawford, Kathy Robinson,
Hunter Noble, Bonnie Crawford and Alissa Lane. See more information about the
Siletz Festival on pages 2 and 14-15.
Bring your family to Siletz pow-wow
Community invited to
family-friendly event
on Government Hill
By Diane Rodriquez
The Confederated Tribes of Siletz
Indians invites the community to join
it on Aug. 12-14 for the Nesika Illahee
Pow-Wow in Siletz, Ore., a free family
friendly event that’s a tradition for the
Siletz people and other American Indians.
All events, except the parade, take
place at the Pauline Ricks Memorial
Pow-Wow Grounds on Government Hill
in Siletz.
“We encourage everyone with inter
est in American Indian culture to attend
our annual pow-wow, visit our beautiful
reservation and see how we are celebrat
ing our culture in this modem era,” said
Nick Sixkiller, interim pow-wow coor
dinator and education specialist for the
Siletz Tribe. “The coming together of
our many cultures is awesome and worth
witnessing.”
The celebration will start with the
crowning of the 2011 -2012 Siletz Royalty
on Aug. 12 at 6 p.m. All dance styles will
enter the arena at 7 p.m. during the first
Grand Entry. Dances in which the public
can participate that are non-competitive
will follow the Grand Entry.
A parade winds through downtown
Siletz at 10 a.m. on Aug. 13. This home
town event includes Tribal royalty, drum
mers, dancers, equestrian units, vintage
cars and floats.
Pre-registration is available by access
ing a registration form on the Tribe’s web
site - ctsi.nsn.us; picking one up at the
Siletz Tribal administration building, 201
SE Swan Ave. in Siletz; or by contacting
See Pow-Wow on page 8.
Photo by Natasha Kavanaugh
This photo from the 2010 Nesika Illahee Pow-Wow entitled ‘‘Fancy Dancer
Demonstrates How It’s Done” claimed a first place award for Natasha Kavanaugh
in the Native American Journalists Association’s Media Awards competition. Siletz
News also received five other awards; see story on page 2.