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. 40, No. 7
July 2012
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Peace and Dignity Journey will travel through Siletz
The 2012 Peace and Dignity Journey
is under way in North and South America
and will pass through Oregon during
July 16-23, with Native communities
statewide preparing to host runners.
Spiritual runners will pass through
Siletz on July 19.
Peace and Dignity Journeys have held
Native American spiritual runs across the
continent every four years since 1992.
This year’s journey started May 1 in
Chickaloon, Alaska, with another group
running from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina,
at the tip of South America. They will carry
their sacred staffs through both continents
and meet Nov. 28 in Tikal, Guatemala.
The run is scheduled to arrive in
Portland, Ore., on July 16. It is dedicated
to bringing awareness of the importance
of water to all of Mother Earth and our
Native communities. The journey has
grown over the years and now includes
at least five routes across North America.
Peace and Dignity Journeys were
inspired by an ancient prophecy of the
eagle and the condor coming together.
This joining represents the unification
of indigenous people from the north and
south after centuries of colonization.
Elders meeting in 1990 in Ecuador
called for a spiritual run to realize the
prophecy. They said, “We are like a body
that was broken up into pieces and this body
will come back together to be whole again.”
The run in Oregon will divide in
Portland, with one group going down the
Willamette Valley to Salem, Philomath
and Eugene, then camping two nights in
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the Cascades and running around Crater
Lake, Chiloquin and Medicine Lake, Calif.
The second group will travel down the
coast, visiting Grand Ronde, Reedsport,
Coos Bay, Gold Beach and Smith River
Rancheria in California.
Many Native communities are not on
this route but are encouraged to travel to
greet runners and run with them. Com
munities also might organize a tributary
run and have their local participants run to
the communities hosting the main run. At
present, an effort is being made to have a
tributary run from Celilo Falls to Portland.
Run organizers invite communities
along the route to greet runners and share
in ceremony with their sacred staffs. Run-
See Journey, con’t on page 6.
Memorial Day Highlights
Photos by Natasha Kavanaugh
The Siletz Honor Guard, accompanied
by the West Coast Boyz (top), leads the
procession to the Veterans Memorial at
the Paul Washington Cemetery in Siletz
to start the Memorial Day Ceremony.
Stacey Hudson speaks to the crowd as
the Honor Guard - Clint Muschamp,
Sar Richards, Ed Ben, Tony Molina,
Stan Werth and Alan Fish - and Delores
Pigsley, Shirley Walker, Lillie Butler
and Reggie Butler Sr. look on.
Courtesy photo by Chinook Winds staff'
Chewescla DePoe (bottom left) speaks
during the Fleet of Flowers ceremony in
Depoe Bay, Ore., on Memorial Day.