Courtesy photos
Youngsters at the Tenas Illahee Child
Care Center enjoy Valentine’s Day
activities, including Vincent Hernandez
and Johnathan Sutherland (above) and
Cambria Stokes (left).
Chxi-Tilixam Annual Traditional Pow-Wow
Evergreen, Vancouver and Battle Ground Native American
Education Program and Native American Parent Association
of Southwest Washington invite you to their annual traditional
pow-wow from noon to 9 p.m. on March 5.
Students display their names in creative
ways on a classroom window (above left).
Grand Entry is at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Covington Middle School, 112000 NE Rosewood Road,
Vancouver, Wash.
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This is a free and sober event, open to the public with free parking.
The Tribe purchased the Imprints printing
business, now called Siletz Tribal Prints &
Gifts, in Lincoln City in 2008.
There will be arts and crafts vendors.
For more information, contact Renea Ly at 360-604-6757
or renea.ly@evergreenps.org.
Elk tag opportunity available for hunters
The Tribal Natural Resources Department will once again offer a limited number of landowner preference (LOP) elk tags to
Tribal members for this fall’s hunting season.
As a landowner, the Tribe is eligible to participate in the State’s LOP program. Based on the number of acres that the Tribe
owns, we can get six additional antlerless elk tags from the State.
These LOP tags are not related to the Tribe’s Consent Decree tags that we receive each year. They are based solely on the
Tribe being a landowner. There are a number of important differences between the LOP tags and the Tribe’s regular tags. These
are summarized in the table below.
State hunting license required?
Tribal Tags
LOP Tags
No
Yes – Tribal member must purchase both a 2015 and a 2016
State hunting license
Anywhere within the Only on Tribal land within the unit selected during that unit’s
specific t ag’s hunt antlerless elk season. Units available include Upper Siletz, NW
boundaries
Alsea, SW Alsea, SW Alsea Private Lands and West Siuslaw
Area to be hunted
Eligible for other State elk tags?
Yes
No*
Give tag to another licensed Tribal
member to hunt for you?
Yes
No
Application and selection process
Apply to Tribe for LOP Drawing; if selected apply to State
Apply to Tribe for
for controlled hunt tag (list LOP unit in LOP section on State
Tribal drawing
controlled hunt application)
Obtain tag from
Tribe
State – Tribal member must purchase tag
* Note: If you are drawn for an LOP tag, you are still eligible to apply for and be drawn for a Tribal tag.
Please note that a major difference between the LOP tags and the Tribe’s regular tags is that only the person drawn for the tag
can hunt that tag. The tag cannot be given to someone else to hunt for you. Therefore, only those folks serious about hunting
this hunt themselves are eligible to apply.
The drawing for the six LOP elk tags will be held at the Natural Resources Committee meeting on April 11 at 4:45 p.m. in the
Natural Resources Department Map Room.
Applications are available on the Tribal website and at the Tribal Natural Resources office in Siletz. Completed applications
are due in the Natural Resources office by 4:30 p.m. on April 8, 2016.
For more information regarding these tags and the differences between the Tribe’s regular tags and the LOP tags, contact Natural
Resources Manager Mike Kennedy at 541-444-8232 or 800-922-1399, ext. 1232.
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Tribal offices in Portland, Salem and
Eugene are housed in Tribally owned
buildings. The Eugene office moved to
its current location in 2005, the Salem
office did the same in 2006 and the Port-
land office moved to its current location
in 2008.
The Tribe also played a lead role in
opening Siletz Valley School in 2003 and
the Siletz Valley Early College Academy
in 2006.
The Siletz Tribal Arts & Heritage
Society (STAHS) was formed in 2013 as
a nonprofit to enhance the Tribe’s ability to
develop the Siletz Tribal Cultural Center.
STAHS also helps the Tribe with acquiring
object and archival collections.
Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln
City opened in May 1995. In June 2004,
the Siletz Tribe purchased the former
Shilo Inn adjacent to the casino and
opened Chinook Winds Casino Resort.
Chinook Winds Golf Resort opened in
April 2005 when the Tribe purchased the
former Lakeside Golf and Fitness Center
in Lincoln City.
The combination of Tribal employ-
ees and those at Chinook Winds Casino
Resort has made the Siletz Tribe the larg-
est employer in Lincoln County.
The Siletz Tribe has honored its tra-
dition of sharing within the community
by distributing more than $12.2 million
through the Siletz Tribal Charitable Con-
tribution Fund and other Tribal resources.
Chinook Winds has donated more than
$2.8 million in cash and fund-raising
items since 1995. It also provides in-kind
donations of convention space for various
fund-raisers as well as technical support,
advertising and manpower for events.
