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
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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:
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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
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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.