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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 Delores Pigsley, Tribal Chairman Brenda Bremner, General Manager and Editor-in-Chief Vol. 39, No. 10 October 2011 Î49 P3 KNIGHT LIBRARY SERIALS PEPARTNENT 1299 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EUGENE OR 97403-1205 Presorted First-Class Mail U.S. Postage Paid - Permit No. 178 Salem, OR Photo by Natasha Kavanaugh Participants complete the 17th annual Run to the Rogue, a 234-mile journey that commemorates the removal of Siletz Tribal ancestors from their homeland in the Rogue River area. The route follows the same one used by the ancestors who were forced to march north to the Coast Reservation in the mid- 1800s. Photo by Diane Rodriquez Siletz Royalty (from left) Jr. Miss Siletz Clarinda Black, Little Miss Siletz Jocelyn Hernandez and Miss Siletz Jennifer Easter join Ed Ben and Alan Fish in front of the AVTT Traveling Wall and Cost of Freedom Tribute display on Sept. 23. This display at Chinook Winds Casino Resort was one of a number of citywide activities that took place during Celebration of Honor weekend Lincoln City, Ore. Courtesy photo by Debbie Williams Elouise Case is one of several people who addressed the crowd of participants and volunteers at the end of the run. Tribe receives grant to address issues of sexual and domestic violence Culturally appropriate services will help with historical trauma The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalk ing committed against American Indian women and girls. The three-year, $419,325 grant will allow for two program specialists to pro vide culturally appropriate services for Tribal members in Lincoln County who are victims of these types of violence and help them with access to crisis inter vention, access to counseling by trained advocates and/or staff and access to peer support groups. The program also will: • • Develop policies to create an effec tive response to crimes of violence against Indian women and create a coordinated domestic violence com munity response team and a sexual assault response team Forge partnerships with local com munity programs with established • expertise in dealing with victims of sexual and domestic violence Provide information to the Tribal community to promote greater aware ness of domestic violence and to end the silence around issues of this type of violence “This program will allow us to develop an environment in which the Tribal community, the larger community and the existing resources in the surround ing area can all be brought together in a mutually supportive way to help reduce, if not eradicate, these problems and the terrible effects they have on victims and family members where they occur,” said Bonnie Petersen, assistant general man ager of the Siletz Tribe, Petersen points out that a number of published reports indicate that Ameri can Indian women are twice as likely to experience a rape/sexual assault (5 per 1,000 persons age 12 or older) compared to all races (2 per 1,000). This is caused, at least in part, by more than 200 years of historical and generational trauma that has resulted in disproportionately high rates of dysfunction for Tribal individuals, families and communities.
