SILETZ NEWS
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Vol. 44, No. 9
September 2016
Siletz News
Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians
P.O. Box 549
Siletz, OR 97380-0549
Delores Pigsley,
Tribal Chairman
Brenda Bremner,
General Manager
and Editor-in-Chief
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Join Siletz Tribal members for annual
Run to the Rogue – Siletz to Agness
The community is invited to join Siletz Tribal members and friends on Sept. 9-11
(Friday-Sunday) for the 22 nd 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. 9, or at any time on the run. The run
begins in Siletz on Sept. 9 at 8:30 a.m. at the Tribal Community Center and ends
Sunday, Sept. 11, at Oak Flat on the Rogue River. Lunch then will be served at Cougar
Lane Lodge, 4219 Agness Road; turn right when leaving Oak Flat onto Agness Road.
Please be aware of the following:
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File photos
2015 participants Shee-ne DePoe-
Aspria (above) and Mike Darcy (right)
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Volunteers are welcome to run, walk or help out with camp setup, cleanup, cooking
and other areas. You do not need a relay team to participate. Individuals are welcome.
Youth can participate but need a designated adult committed to traveling and
camping with the youth.
Camping sites, meals and runners’ support and refreshments are provided along
the route.
An orientation session will be held Sept. 9 at 8 a.m. at the Tribal Community
Center in Siletz, when Run to the Rogue T-shirts will be distributed to participants.
For more information, contact Buddy Lane, cultural education director, at 800-
922-1399, ext. 1230, or 541-444-8230; or buddyl@ctsi.nsn.us.
Youth Council
attends UNITY;
Fisher named
NW rep
By Savanna Rilatos
The Siletz Tribal Youth Council was
honored with the opportunity to attend its
third National UNITY Conference, this
one held in Oklahoma City.
Seven youth were chosen to attend
– from Siletz, Ebyn Jackson, Hunter
Noble and myself; from Eugene, Jeidah
Dezurney and Lanaya Williams; from
Salem, Sarai Gallardo; and from Portland,
Terrell Casey. SuSun Fisher from Salem
attended as an individual.
The youth landed in Oklahoma City
on July 21, explored the town, registered
for UNITY and attended a pow-wow at
the convention center where the UNITY
Conference was held.
The conference officially started on
July 22 and the theme that day was social
development. The UNITY fire was lit
and Youth Council Vice-President Hunter
Noble and Co-President SuSun Fisher
walked in the Parade of Nations holding
our Tribe’s flag.
On July 23, the theme was physi-
cal development and attendees first
participated in a one-mile walk around
Oklahoma City. The rest of the day was
broken up into sessions and we attended
fitness workshops. Some of these included
learning men’s and women’s pow-wow
See Tribal Youth on page 6
Five eagle staffs open Nesika Illahee Pow-Wow
Photo by Diane Rodriquez
The Nesika Illahee Pow-Wow is graced with the presence of five eagle staffs during Grand Entry on Aug. 12, something
that hasn’t happend in a long time according to Tony Molina, Siletz Tribal veterans rep. Following the two war bonnetts –
Steve Ruben (left) and Ed Ben Jr. – are Wayne Chulik (left), Ronald DePoe Sr., Tom Smith, David West and Nick Hall.