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
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Siletz, OR 97380-0549
December 2011
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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.