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Howell encourages youth participation in community Enter drawing By Felisha Howell (written during her I think this is a great way to get older I really like the job 1 have. 1 hope to tenure as a TYEE worker) youth involved in some activities. Also, have a job next summer too. I plan to go j for Tribe’s 2013 Hello, my name is Felisha Howell. 1 my co-worker, Micah Grant, and 1 were to be a nurse. elk rifle tags | am 14 and attend Siletz Valley School. I trying to plan a street dance for the com to college I currently play sports - volleyball, am a freshman this year. munity. It would be a really fun way to get I am a TYEE worker with the Siletz the community together and just have fun! Tribe. I work in Behavioral Health and On another subject, we have sweat my supervisor is Rusty Butler. We have lodge here in Siletz and I think it would been working on trying to get youth more be good for more Tribal members to be involved with activities. a part of that. So far, we have taken kids to the mov I am involved with most youth activi Sept. 3 and are due Sept. 27 in the ies and will be taking kids to horseback ties, but I also love to feather dance. 1 have Natural Resources office. Applica riding every Thursday and taking kids to been dancing since 1 was little. I also attend tions can be picked up at the Natural a Nine Tribe’s Suicide Prevention Camp, pow-wows. 1 dance traditional style and I Resources office in Siletz, down a week-long camp. Eight other Tribes dance every year at our Siletz pow-wow. loaded from the Tribe’s website will attend. We will do a lot of activities, I like to be a part of youth and com (Tribal Services/Other Departments/ like lacrosse, archery, swimming, sweat munity activities because they are fun and Natural Resources) or they can be lodge, beading, making food, basketball, 1 like giving back to our community. Also, mailed to you by calling the Natural volleyball, etc. We will take nine of our I like feeling like I'm doing something Resources office. Siletz Tribal youth. good for our community. Each person must fill out, sign and turn in his or her own applica tion. This year, we have 25 tags each for the first and second season bull hunts and only nine tags for the vari ous cow hunts. James Anello, Eastern Oregon University, anthropology/sociology/history major - If you have any questions, call Curatorial assistant at the Bush Museum for the Salem Art Center in Salem, Ore. Natural Resources Manager Mike Ada Ball, University of Oregon, anthropology major —Anthropology research assistant Kennedy at 541-444-8232 or 800- at the UO Anthropology Department in Eugene, Ore. i 922-1399, ext. 1232. X J Justin Brown, Oregon State University, computer science major - Math tutor 11 for the Learning and Tutoring Center at Chemeketa Community College in Salem Makayla Duran, University of Oregon, business major — “Be Campaign” project coordinator for the City of Eugene Equity and Human Rights Office in Eugene Shani Gilila, Eastern Oregon University, business administration major in accounting - Office administrator, Amex Products Inc. in Keizer, Ore. Rosa Hernandez-Chavez, Portland State University, social science major — Education clerk at the Tribal office in Salem Tamora Herrmann, Western Oregon University, psychology major-Activities assistant The Tribal Natural Resources for Avamere Court Resident Care Center in Keizer Committee and Natural Resources ■ Leslie Lundy, University of Oregon, political science major - Intern at Sen. Ron Department will sponsor the last Cut | Wyden’s office in Eugene Wood for the Elders Day of the year Savannah Martin, Dartmouth College, biological anthropology and social psychology on Sept. 14. The woodcut will be major - Lab intern in the Anthropology Department at the University of Oregon held in the clearing off Gwee-Shut in Eugene The annual drawing for the Tribe’s elk rifle tags will be held Oct. 7 at 5 p.m. in the Tribal Council chambers in the Tribal administra tion building in Siletz, Ore. Applications will be available ( Participants in the 2013 Tribal College Internship Program Last chance to ! help cut wood for Elders । Road across from the Siletz Com munity Health Clinic in Siletz, Ore. We need lots of volunteers to help cut, split and deliver firewood to Tribal Elders. Bring your chainsaws, hydraulic wood splitters, splitting mauls, axes and lots of energy. Lunch, drinks and snacks will be provided. We will start at 8 a.m. and go until mid-afternoon. The goal of this event is to deliver firewood to as many Elders as possible. The Elders Program maintains a list of Elders who bum wood for their winter heat. People willing to haul firewood to Elders outside of the Siletz area should contact the Elders Program clerk at 800-922-1399, ext. 1261, or 541-444-8261 to be paired up with an Elder in need. We especially need folks who can haul wood to the Eugene, Salem and Portland areas, Elders in need of firewood also should contact the Elders Program clerk to get their name on the deliv- ery list. If you have parents or grandpar- ents who bum wood in the winter to stay warm, you need to help out at this event. Come help replenish those wood piles for the coming winter. Remember, this is the last woodcut of the year. 4 • Siletz News • | « Jacob Reid, Oregon State University, political science major - Programs I special projects coordinator 2 at the Tribal office in Siletz, Ore. Kathleen Richardson, Brigham Young University, health science major - Physical therapy aide at Core Physical Therapy in Roseburg, Ore. Felicia Taylor, Portland State University, English major — Community agent with Portland Public Schools Title VII Indian Education Act Project in Portland, Ore. Racheal Wilson, Oregon State University, master’s program in human development, family studies and healthy aging - Programs I special projects coordinator at the Tribal office in Siletz I ’ I i ’ j * | i ’ । basketball and softball - all sports that I have been playing since 1 was little. I am looking forward to being in high school this year. I’m going to keep my grades up and try to get a job. We also have been helping out with planning Hands Across the Bridge (see page 10), honoring the wellbriety of our community and building relationships with Tribal and county coalitions. Also, we have attended a teen camp called Camp inTENTSity. We also plan to take a group of kids to Seven Feathers on Aug. 20 to listen to Tom Thelen, a youth motivational speaker. Native Pride By Felisha Howell What does it mean to have Native pride? Does it mean you go to all pow-wows? Or that you dance and do spiritual and cultural stuff? To me, having Native pride is to believe in your Tribe, to believe that your ancestors have done good for your Tribe and to be proud that you’re Native and not be ashamed of it. You should be proud to be Native. It wasn’t easy to be restored as a Tribe for all our ancestors. It took very hard work and dedication and for some people to not respect that is very disrespectful. Our ancestors worked very hard every single day, hour by hour, for us Siletz Indians to be a Tribe again and to think some of our people today disrespect that, which in my opinion is very rude. You should be grateful for what our ancestors have done for us. So again, Native pride to me is being proud to be a Siletz Indian! STBC, con’t from page 1 providing strategic planning, financial controls, marketing, operational assess ments, management audits, corporate turn-around, real estate development, business valuation, and merger and acqui sition analysis. He received his B.S. in economics from George Mason Univer sity and did his post-graduate business management studies at the University of San Francisco. “STBC has a long history of making strategic investments in businesses and real estate. Embracing these investments, STBC will extend our portfolio of projects and enterprises to create jobs within Port land, Salem, Eugene, Siletz, Toledo and Lincoln County,” said Karwaki. “STBC will partner with other Tribes, local and state governments and private firms to foster sustainable economic development and job creation in a manner consistent with the values of the Siletz Tribe.” September 2013 The Siletz Tribal Business Corpo ration (STBC) serves as the economic development arm of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. Its goal is to secure the future of the Siletz Tribe by investing Tribal assets into fully researched, diverse, economically viable and financially sustainable business enter prises and properties. The Siletz Tribe has a long tradition of serving as a central player in the eco nomic vitality of Central Oregon Coast communities. Organizations and govern ments doing business with STBC enjoy a wide range of unique benefits. STBC offers highly competitive prevailing wage rates, creative financing and tax alterna tives, unique access to markets, various Tribal property locations around western Oregon and the advantages of minority contracting options. Courtesy photo Thomas Karwaki
