SILETZ NEWS
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Vol. 44, No. 10
October 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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Tribe mourns sudden loss of Siletz Tribal Council member David Hatch
David Russell Hatch was born Nov. 12,
1953, at the U.S. Military Academy at West
Point to Capt. Kenneth Martin Hatch (Siletz/
Aleut) and Althea Marion Mendenhall.
His father’s career in the Army Corps
of Engineers took the family many places
and Dave grew up in Virginia, Hawaii,
Kansas and Thailand, as well as Florence
and Eugene, Ore. – he was fond of saying
that Oregon State University was the first
school he’d gone to for two straight years.
He nearly finished a degree in math-
ematics, then decided to follow his father
into civil engineering, graduating with a
B.S. in 1976 and his M.S. in 1978. Finally
rooted, he driftboated and kayaked the
rivers and hunted the hills of Western
Oregon, cementing a lifelong love of the
home country of his father’s people.
He taught civil engineering at OSU
and then began a career designing traffic
signals for the City of Portland.
In 1981 he met and married Anna
Marina Jaimes of Mesa, Ariz. In 1989
they had a son, Peter Sugus Hatch, before
divorcing in 1993. His long years as a
bachelor were happily ended in 2010
when he married Judy Kloos.
From the early 1980s onward, Dave
sought to serve the enduring, urgent needs
of Oregon’s indigenous communities and
to protect the health of the lands, rivers
and ocean all Oregonians love.
He worked through the American
Indian Science and Engineering Society,
helped begin OMSI’s Salmon Camp
science program for Native students,
counseled OSU’s Board of Visitors and
the Howard Vollum American Indian
Scholarship fund, co-founded the Elakha
Alliance, served on the Native Arts and
Cultures Foundation and chaired the Siletz
Tribal Arts & Heritage Society.
Over the years, he served three separate
stints on the Siletz Tribal Council, begin-
ning in the doublewide trailer that made
up the Tribal offices in the early post-
restoration days of 1981-82. He most
recently was elected to the Tribal Council
in 2015.
A severe aller-
gic reaction took
him from us sud-
denly on Sept. 20,
2016. He is pre-
ceded in death by
his parents and his
brother, Herber t
Hallam Hatch, and
survived by Peter,
Judy, Annie and her
second son, Jesse
C a s t r o Ja i m e s ;
his brother, Keith
Hatch; his sister,
Aileen Frey; and
four nieces and one
nephew.
His ashes will
be spread at sea,
where he dearly hoped the entwined sea
otters, thick kelp forests and abundant fish
runs of ancestral days will someday return.
Public services, open to all, will be
held at the Siletz Tribal Community Cen-
ter (402 NE Park Drive, Siletz, Ore.) at
3 p.m. on Oct. 8. In lieu of f lowers,
please send donations on his behalf to
the Siletz Tribal Arts & Heritage Society
(P.O. Box 8, Siletz, OR 97380).
Clarification
A s we c o m e c l o s e r t o t h i s
year’s Restoration Celebration, you
may notice on the Tribal calendar
distributed at last year’s event that this
year’s celebration appears on Nov. 12.
The actual date of the 2016 Restora-
tion Celebration is Nov. 19. Please plan
accordingly and we’ll see you on Nov. 19
at Chinook Winds Casino Resort.
Courtesy photo by Debbie Williams
Nora Williams-Wood carries the eagle staff along Alsea Bay during Run to the Rogue on Sept. 9. The 234-mile event started in Siletz earlier that morning and ended
near Agness, Ore., on Sept. 11. It commemorates 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. See more photos on pages 9-13.