SILETZ NEWS
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Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians
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Siletz, OR 97380-0549
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Vol. 40, No. 10
October 2012
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Delores Pigsley,
Tribal Chairman
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Participants gather at the end of Run to the Rogue near the Illinois River in southwest Oregon. See more photos from the event on pages 9-20.
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Ground cloarod, base installed for Chetco Memorial during busy summer
‘One of the goals of
this memorial is to tell
the story of the Chetco
people and celebrate
the survival of their
customs and cultures’
By Diane Rodriquez
Efforts to preserve the heritage of the
Chetco Indian people through the Chetco
Historical Memorial Project are progress
ing with the clearing of the site this sum
mer and the installation of the concrete
base 40 feet in diameter that includes a
depiction of the Chetco River.
The memorial sits directly atop
the remains of a Chetco Indian village
site on a half-acre of land at the Port of
Brookings-Harbor, Ore., near the spot
where the Chetco River enters the Pacific
Ocean. This land was contributed by the
port for this project.
The center of the memorial will
include a six-foot bronze likeness of Lucy
Dick, the last full-blooded Chetco Indian
to live in the Brookings-Harbor area. The
Chetco Indian people are the earliest known
inhabitants of the Chetco River Valley.
Dick saw many changes in her lifetime,
from being bom into a relatively isolated
culture to seeing the first white settler, being
removed to the Coast Reservation and
living long enough to return to her home
land, where she was laid to rest in 1940.
“One of the goals of this memorial is
to tell the story of the Chetco people and
”
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Photo by Natasha Kavanaugh
The Chetco Indian Memorial starts to take shape at the Port of Brookings-Harbor on the southwest Oregon coast.
celebrate the survival of their customs
and cultures. The history of the Chetco
people holds great meaning for the
descendants of the original inhabitants of
the Brookings-Harbor area. This memo
rial is being erected in memory of those
ancestors," said Lynda Timeus, president
of the memorial project. “The Chetco
Historical Memorial Committee and loyal
supporters want to help the community
understand who lived here so they can
provide good stewardship and treat this
area with respect.”
A. Vincen “Rusty" Talbot is creating
the bronze statue of Lucy Dick and she
and Valley Bronze will collaborate to
enlarge, bronze and install the completed
statue on the site. Talbot already has cre
ated a macquette, a preliminary statue
made from clay, from which the final
piece will be developed.
The memorial also will include a large
boulder from the Mt. Emily area, where
the Chetco people held their vision quest
ceremonies, and indigenous plants. Visi-
See Chetco, con’t on page 5.