Siletz Tribal members enjoy the golf resort!
In addition to green fees, Siletz Tribal members can use the golf resort’s fitness
center at no charge. This provides full access to daily use of all fitness equipment,
weight room, sauna and steam room. Charges will apply for all other amenities,
such as personal trainer classes, golf cart fees, etc. Please show your Siletz Tribal ID.
Harjo, Johnson named to Native
Arts and Cultures Foundation board
VANCOUVER, Wash. – The Native
Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF)
announced in January that it has added
Valorie Johnson, a consultant, lifelong
human rights activist and former program
officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation,
and Joy Harjo, an award-winning poet,
author and musician and one of NACF’s
founding board members, to the national
non-profit’s Board of Directors.
Johnson (Seneca-Cayuga-Eastern
Cherokee) began her career as a human
rights executive with the National Edu-
cation Association in Washington, D.C.
After earning her doctorate in educational
administration, her career encompassed
leading roles in public service, including
as director of Native American Affairs
for the state of Michigan’s Department
of Social Services, counseling at the Insti-
tute of American Indians Arts in Santa
Fe, N.M., and the Kamehameha Schools
in Hawaii.
Over nearly 24 years, her program
portfolio at W.K. Kellogg focused mainly
on grassroots community organizations
and educational institutions across the
nation and leadership in the Native
American Higher Education Initiative as
well as the Minority-Serving Institutions’
Leadership Development.
Johnson also has served on several
boards, including the Americans for
Indian Opportunity, the Smithsonian
National Museum of the American Indian
and the Nokomis Learning Center.
“It gives me great joy to have been
selected to join NACF’s Board of Direc-
tors,” said Johnson. “I am honored and
excited to lend my experience in philan-
thropy and my lifetime work and advocacy
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with and for Native communities to serve
this outstanding organization. I whole-
heartedly support NACF’s powerful mis-
sion to promote and support Native artists
and Native cultures, and look forward to
participating in furthering the organiza-
tion’s reach and efforts.”
Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) holds the
John C. Hodges Chair of Excellence at
the University of Tennessee in Knoxville
and is a co-founder of the Mvskoke Arts
Association.
She has written eight books of poetry
and received the prestigious Academy of
American Poets Wallace Stevens Award in
2015 and the Guggenheim Fellowship for
Creative Arts in 2014 for her achievements.
Harjo received the PEN USA Liter-
ary Award in Creative Non-Fiction for a
memoir, Crazy Brave, and is the author
of two award-winning children’s books,
several screenplays, two plays and an
anthology of North American Native
women’s writing. She also has produced
and performed on several award-winning
CDs of original music.
“I am pleased to announce my return
to the NACF Board,” Harjo stated. “It is
almost 10 years since we incorporated to
fulfill a dream brought forth from many
generations of Native artists and sup-
porters from all over the country. What
a gift to have been part of that dynamic
team to get it started and to see how far
NACF has come from those early years,”
said Harjo. “Many communities and art-
ists have been renewed by the support of
NACF. I am honored to return to continue
serving this fine legacy of Native arts and
cultures support and look forward to the
next chapter.”
Mor ning check-in time is
Monday-Thursday from 8:30-9 a.m. and
Friday from 10-10:30 a.m.
After noon check-in time is
Monday-Friday from 1-1:30 p.m.
The Marine Mammal Institute (MMI) at Oregon State University is moving
forward with plans to qualify a new Oregon Gray Whale license plate. To do so,
the Oregon Department of Transportation requires that we receive a commitment
from at least 3,000 Oregon vehicle owners who will purchase this special plate.
The special plate will cost $40 more than regular plates initially and at renewal.
MMI will receive $35 of every $40 for each plate issued. These funds will sup-
port whale research, student training and public education. Plus, the new plate
will help celebrate gray whales and coastal tourism by both whales and humans!
Once endangered from whaling, the gray whale population is now fully recov-
ered. Each year the gray population migrates south to Baja, Mexico, to breed and
then back north to feeding grounds in Alaska. A few hundred gray whales spend
summers feeding here in the Pacific Northwest. We have gray whales off Oregon
every month of the year.
If you would like to see this new plate issued and be among the first to get one,
please register your interest online at http://mmi.oregonstate.edu/whaleplate. No
money is required at this time. When 3,000 commitments are received, we will
forward to you an ODOT payment request for a plate voucher.
Thank you so much for helping us celebrate the coast and whales!
Bruce Mate
Marine Mammal Institute
Hatfield Marine Science Center
David Gomberg
State Representative
Central Oregon Coast
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Tribal Maternal, Infant & Early Childhood Home Visiting Program
Naytlh - ‘a “We Carry the Children”
How has the Siletz Tribal Home Visiting Program helped you and your family
since participating?
“The home visiting program has helped prepare us for our new addition by letting us know what is to be
expected before and after the baby comes and how to best deal with certain situations that come up.”
– Andrea & Robert, 4 months in the program
“I’ve learned all the things I thought I should know that I did not know already with the help and support of
the program. Siletz Tribal Home Visiting Program helped me become a better mom.”
– Shyann, 1 year in the program
“I feel like Siletz Tribal home visits have helped me be more on track when it comes to my child’s development.
Home visits have also helped me keep a better schedule, helping my whole family.”
– Jennifer, 1 year and 9 months in the program
“Getting the help when you’re a new parent is life-saving, to know you are doing it right and if not, finding out
the right way.”
–Samantha, 1 year in the program
“The program has helped me to realize there are a lot of different ways to parent and there is always help if you
are willing to look for it. The Siletz Home Visiting Program has helped make my life a little simpler just
knowing I have resources to help me be the best mom I can be.”
– Chandra, 1 year and 10 months in the program
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Siletz News, a publication of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, is
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Please type or write legibly. Letters longer than 450 words may be edited for
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Please note: The general manager
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of Siletz News.
Be among the first to receive an official
Oregon Gray Whale license plate!
“The Siletz Home Visiting Program has helped me with my child’s growth, my motivation with being a parent
and I’ve also established a friendship.”
– Britnee, 1 year and 8 months in the program
“Home Visiting Program helped us better understand the developmental milestones that our child is at and
also the reassurance that each child is unique and not to be worried. The program has been helpful,
especially with different resources also.”
– Ale & Seth, 1 year and 1 month in the program
“As a first-time mom, Siletz Home Visiting Program has been a good addition to my support system, not
only emotionally, but also mentally.”
-Janet, 1 year and 1 month in the program
If you are interested in or have any questions about our Siletz Tribal Home Visiting Program,
please call Jessica Phillips, Program Coordinator, at 541-484- 4234.
Editor-in-Chief: Brenda Bremner
Editor: Diane Rodriquez
February 2017
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