Siletz News
Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians
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Siletz, OR 97380-0549
SILETZ NewS
Delores Pigsley,
Tribal Chairman
Brenda Bremner,
General Manager
and Editor-in-Chief
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Vol. 42, No. 6
June 2014
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Indian Fair
May10,2014•Newport,Oregon
Photos by Diane Rodriquez
A mix of the old and the new was
visible at the Indian Fair sponsored by
the Siletz Tribal Arts & Heritage
Society, in cooperation with the Siletz
Tribal Cultural Department and other
Tribal programs.
The old included a basketcap from the
Shellhead/Collins family (left).
A mix of older and newer items was
on display in Bud Lane’s basket and
basketcap collection (right).
The new included Marlene Owen
beading the stem of a vase (above) and
Charlie Jeeter (above left), who is new
to just about everything.
NCAI congratulates Humetewa on ONABeN’s eeO program gets NAFOA
confirmation to US District Court education Program of the Year award
WASHINGTON – The National
Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
congratulates Diane J. Humetewa of the
Hopi Indian Tribe on her confirmation in
May as federal judge in the U.S. District
Court of Arizona.
As the newest member of the federal
bench, she is the first American Indian
woman appointed to serve in that position.
Humetewa has practiced law in fed-
eral courts for more than a decade – as
special assistant U.S. attorney, as assistant
U.S. attorney and as the U.S. attorney for
Arizona – and is experienced in a wide
array of complex proceedings, hearings
and cases.
As the U.S. attorney for the District
of Arizona from 2006-2009, Humetewa
was the first American Indian female to
be presidentially appointed to that posi-
tion, where she presided over one of the
largest U.S. attorney offices with one of
the highest caseloads in the nation.
As an assistant U.S. attorney, she
prosecuted a wide variety of federal
crimes, including violent crimes in Indian
Country, American Indian cultural crimes
and archeological resource crimes.
In 2001, Humetewa was promoted to
senior litigation counsel/Tribal liaison,
where she fostered relationships between
the office and Arizona’s Indian Tribes
while managing a caseload.
She also supervised the U.S. Attorney’s
Victim Witness Program. In the 1980s, she
helped establish one of the first federal
victim services programs in the nation.
Further, Humetewa has dedicated
time to serving the interests of Native
people. She has been the Appellate
Court judge for the Hopi Tribe, counsel
to the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian
Affairs and special advisor to the presi-
dent on American Indian affairs at Ari-
zona State University.
Humetewa also has served as counsel
to the deputy attorney general for the U.S.
Justice Department and as a member of the
U.S. Sentencing Guideline Commission,
Native American Advisory Committee.
See Humetewa on page 16.
NEW ORLEANS – ONABEN-Our
Native American Business Network was
named this year’s recipient of the NAFOA
(Native American Finance Officers Asso-
ciation) Education Program of the Year
award during the association’s annual
conference in April.
NAFOA presented the award to
Veronica Hix, ONABEN’s executive direc-
tor, at its Leadership Awards Luncheon,
which saw more than 600 in attendance.
The award was presented for the orga-
nization’s outstanding Entrepreneurial
Empowerment Outreach (EEO) program.
EEO utilizes ONABEN’s “Indianpreneur-
ship” curriculum as a platform to promote
business development initiatives through-
out Indian Country.
In 2013 alone, the EEO program pro-
vided financial training to more than 350
aspiring American Indian entrepreneurs.
Appreciating that many different
leaders, programs and organizations
contribute to a healthy and thriving
Native economy across the United States,
NAFOA honored an illustrious group of
individuals and organizations, includ-
ing the Confederated Tribes of Grand
Ronde, Oneida Indian Nation, Saint Regis
Mohawk Tribe and Seneca Nation of
Indians with its Deal of the Year awards.
Additionally, Lacey Horn, treasurer
of the Cherokee Nation, was awarded
Executive of the Year and the highly pres-
tigious Tribal Leader of the Year award
was presented to Principal Chief George
Tiger of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
NAFOA is a national 501(c)(3)
nonprofit that seeks to strengthen Tribal
economies through its policy work and
education initiatives. It hosts two con-
ferences a year, which have become the
pre-eminent meetings of finance, Tribal
and policy stakeholders in Indian Country
and the U.S. alike.
For more information, visit nafoa.org.
ONABEN is a 501(c)(3) corporation
headquartered in Portland, Ore., that was
created in 1991 by four Oregon Tribes to
See ONABeN on page 16.