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SILETZ NEWS Delores Pigsley, Tribal Chairman Brenda Bremner, General Manager and Editor-in-Chief Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Vol. 39, No. 12 Siletz News Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians P.O. Box 549 Siletz, OR 97380-0549 December 2011 T44 P3 KNIGHT LIBRARY SERIALS DEPARTMENT 1299 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EUGENE OR 97403-1205 Presorted First-Class Mail U.S. Postage Paid - Permit No. 178 Salem, OR !’h»4iHUqUWMiWRi‘|Hi|il"m Photos by Diane Rodriquez Sammy Hall Jr. (left photo), former Gov. Victor Atiyeh, Aggie Pilgrim and Keith Taylor (right photo) enjoy the Siletz Tribal Restoration Pow-Wow at Chinook Winds Casino Resort. See more photos on pages 13-18. Restoration events include tribute to Work continues to preserve, enhance Hatfield for help in pursuing cause heritage of Chetco Indian people Atiyeh, Tribal veterans and the Dancing Again film highlight day of remembrance By Diane Rodriquez Several hundred Tribal members, guests and friends gathered at Chinook Winds Casino Resort on Nov. 19 to celebrate the 34,h annual Restoration Celebration. During the event, Tribal Chairman Delores Pigsley paid tribute to Mark Hatfield, the former Oregon senator who passed away in August. “Not only did he talk about restora tion, he did something about Tribal resto ration for all the Oregon Tribes. He also at the same time has done many wonderful things for Oregon and we are a part of all of those things,” said Pigsley, citing the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Ore., and the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore. “But he was our hero for Restoration.” She said Hatfield met with the Tribal members who were working on restoring the Tribe in 1972, right after the Menomi- nees were restored. He encouraged them to pursue it and to come up with a written bill. He initially introduced the bill in the Senate in 1975. That bill died, but then was re-introduced and passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives. “Through Sen. Hatfield’s actions, we did have a restoration act on Nov. 18, 1977. In that act, it called for a reservation plan that the Tribe was given one year to determine how we would identify land See Restoration on page 14. “There is a pressing need to preserve this site with the intent it is not lost to progress,” said Crookes By Natasha Kavanaugh In 2009, a group of Chetco Indian descendants established the Chetco His torical Memorial Committee, which is a 501(c)(3) organization. The group has secured a nearly one- half acre plot of land dedicated in perpetu ity to the memorial. This donated property sits directly atop the remains of a Chetco Indian village site near the mouth of the Chetco River. It’s a property of historic significance to the American Indian com munity. Oregon residents value the places that reflect their community’s history and preserving this site does just that. This memorial will serve as a legacy of cultural, educational, recreational, aesthetic, economic, social and environ mental benefits. It will create a renewed sense of awareness of the history of the Brookings-Harbor area. Lynda Timeus, Adrienne Crookes and Karen Crump, descendants of the Chetco Tribe and Siletz Tribal members, are the driving force behind the Chetco Memorial Committee. “Our goal is to construct an histori cal marker to commemorate the history of the Chetco Indian people. We strive to tell of their journey through time, how they lived as one with nature and how they adapted to the ever-changing world,” See Chetco on page 5.
