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SILETZ NewS Delores Pigsley, Tribal Chairman Brenda Bremner, General Manager and Editor-in-Chief Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Vol. 42, No. 9 Siletz News Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians P.O. Box 549 Siletz, OR 97380-0549 September 2014 Presorted First-Class Mail U.S. Postage Paid - Permit No. 178 Salem, OR Join Siletz Tribal Members for Run to the Rogue The community is invited to join Siletz Tribal members and friends on Sept. 5-7 (Friday-Sunday) for the 19 th Annual Run to the Rogue. This event is a 234-mile relay run/walk in memory of the Siletz Tribal ancestors who were forcibly removed from their homeland in Rogue River country in the mid-1800s and marched north to Siletz and the confinements of the Coast Reservation. This annual relay run is the closest today’s Tribal members can come to their ancestors’ experience on the journey from their homeland. You can register at 8 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 5, or at any time on the run. The run begins in Siletz on Sept. 5 at 8:30 a.m. at the Tribal Community Center and ends Sunday, Sept. 7, at Oak Flat on the Rogue River. Lunch then will be served at Cou- gar Lane Lodge, 4219 Agness Road; turn right when leaving Oak Flat onto Agness Road. • Volunteers are welcome to run, walk or help out with camp setup, cleanup, cooking and other areas. • Youth can participate but need a des- ignated adult committed to traveling and camping with the youth. • Camping sites, meals and runners’ support and refreshments are pro- vided along the route. • An orientation session will be held Sept. 5 at 8 a.m. at the Tribal Com- munity Center in Siletz. Photo by Jazmyn Metcalf For more information, contact Buddy Lane, cultural education director, at 800- 922-1399, ext. 1230, or 541-444-8230; or buddyl@ctsi.nsn.us. STBC needs bids for landscaping services The Siletz Tribal Business Cor- poration is seeking Request for Bids for landscaping services at the Salem trust property located at 4755 Astoria St. NE in Salem, Ore., adjacent to Hee Hee Illahee RV Resort. Please visit stbcorp.net to get more information. The deadline to submit a bid to STBC is Sept. 30, 2014, at 4:30 p.m. Please contact Michael Phillips at 541-994-2142, 877-564-7298 or mphillips@stbcorp.net if you have any questions. Young traditional dancers, including Elias Nelson (front, center) and EJ Denny (front, right) pass in front of Wilson Wewa, Carlos Calica and Chewescla DePoe (back, l to r) in their war bonnets and the Siletz Tribal Color Guard during a grand entry at the Nesika Illahee Pow-Wow in August. See more photos and dance competition results on pages 9-13. Final Confluence Project site tells story of Celilo Falls VANCOUVER, Wash. – Oregon’s philanthropic community is rallying around Maya Lin’s sixth and final Con- fluence Project site along the Columbia River system. The Meyer Memorial Trust has awarded a $500,000 capital grant to help build a curved, raised walkway modeled after the Tribal fishing platforms at Celilo Park near The Dalles, Ore. The art instal- lation tells the story of Celilo Falls, which was submerged under water by The Dalles Dam in 1957. “The Confluence Project is one that has special historical and cultural significance in our region,” said Doug Stamm, chief executive officer at Meyer Memorial Trust. “Completion of Maya Lin’s final site, the Celilo Arc, will ensure that future genera- tions will be able to experience the story and legacy of the now-submerged Celilo Falls.” The grant from Meyer Memorial Trust follows a gift of $150,000 from the Oregon Community Foundation in May, a $250,000 grant from the Ford Family Foundation in March and a $250,000 gift from the Collins Foundation in December. Last year, the Oregon legislature allocated $1.5 million to the Celilo Arc restoration project. It is scheduled to be completed in 2016. Over the next three years, the project will invest more than $8.5 million to design on three acres of land, improve the park’s facilities and improve access to both the park and the adjacent Tribal treaty fishing access site. An estimated 500,000 visitors are expected at the park annually from local communities, the region and the world. “Meyer Memorial Trust’s endorse- ment of this project is huge,” said Colin Fogarty, executive director of the Con- fluence Project. “There is little at Celilo Park that tells this important story beyond of few small signs. Maya Lin’s Arc will serve as a reminder about the profound significance of this site and the role the river still plays in our lives.” See Project on page 4.
