Zack Richard Smith Sr. – 1934-2017
Zack Richard Smith Sr. was born
June 11, 1934, and passed away with fam-
ily at his side on Aug. 28, 2017.
Zack was born in Paisley, Ore., and later
moved to Toledo, Ore., on the Yaquina Bay
Road. As a young man he moved to Logs-
den, Ore., in a very humble home where
he started his family before building the
family home on 15 acres on Logsden Road.
He was employed at the CD Johnson
Lumber Mill before starting at the GP Paper
Mill in Toledo, where he retired in 1989.
Zack was a hunter and a fisherman as
well as a sports fan who enjoyed hunting
trips with his sons and grandsons, fishing
with friends and attending sporting events
in the Siletz, Ore., area.
He was widely recognized as a hard
worker, very humble and caring to those
he met. He enjoyed his time on the Siletz
Fire Board very much.
Zack Smith and Betty Whitehead
spent the last 39 years together enjoying
their family and trips to the casinos as well
as hard work around the farm.
Preceding in passing was Zack’s
mother, Mae Sherman; brothers, Glenn
Smith, James Smith and Vern Sherman;
daughter, Linda King; son, Craig White-
head; grandsons, Richey Sergeant and
Zane Leigh Dakota Smith; and sons-in-
law Juan Medina and Vic Miner.
Zack is survived by his companion
of 39 years, Betty Jean Whitehead; sons
and spouses, Dan Smith (Darlene) of
Siletz, Zack Richard Smith Jr. (Shan-
non) of Siletz, William Smith of Lincoln
City, Terry Smith (Patti) of Toledo, Stuart
Whitehead of Logsden and Tony White-
head (Dorsi) of Siletz; daughters and
spouses, Marie Vinson (Ray) of Salem,
Ore., Teresa Smith of Tri Cities, Wash.,
Peggy Whitehead-Medina of Siletz,
Tami Whitehead-Miner of Siletz, Linda
Fowler (George) of Siletz; brothers,
Walt Sherman, Pat Sherman and Frank
Sherman; grandchildren, Danelle Smith,
Darrin Smith, Jeremy Whitehead, Travis
Ouderkirk, Tasha Sears, Tawnya Wiles,
Trevor Smith, Bryce Smith, Felicity
General Council
Meeting
Call to Order
Invocation
Flag Salute
Roll Call
Approval of Agenda
Approval of Minutes
Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017 • 1 p.m.
Siletz Tribal Community Center
Siletz, Oregon
Courtesy photo
The Whitehead and Smith fami-
lies would like to thank everyone for
the kind words and thoughts given for
the loss of our loved one, Zack Smith.
We extend our sincerest thanks
and appreciation to the following for
their assistance with the memorial
service: Tracey and Chad Viar, Marci
Simmons, Cynthia Lozano, Sonya
Moody-Jurado, Rosa Jurado, Evan
Jurado, Teila Jurado-Salas, Darlene
Carkhuff and Donnie Lunstedt, Savan-
nah and Richard, Willie Worman,
Bonnie and Jim Crawford, David
West, Ron Butler Jr., Jesse Cordova
and everyone who contributed to the
wonderful meal prepared for all.
Zack Richard Smith Sr.
Smith, Nathan Smith, Zack R. Smith III,
Preston Williams, Blaine Smith, Chelsey
Smith, Cady Smith, Clayton Smith, Jason
Mcwain, Josh Pauline, Jasmine White-
head, Nakiah Napoleon, Lilly Whitehead,
Nevaeh Whitehead, San Poil Whitehead,
Kateri Whitehead, William Whitehead,
Kahryee Whitehead, Sapphire Yarbour,
Bryan King, Ashlea Ohanesian, Steven
Ohanesian and many great-grandchildren.
A service was held Sept. 9 at the Siletz
Tribal Community Center.
Programs
Education – Higher Education Process
Change in Siletz
Clinic check-in times
Tribal Council Candidates’ Declarations
Tribal Members’ Concerns
Chairman’s Report
Announcements
Adjourn
The Siletz Clinic asks all patients
with appointments to check in 15
minutes prior to your scheduled
appointment time. This allows for any
necessary paperwork to be completed
prior to your appointment with your
provider. Thank you!
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Stutzman works with Title VII Indian
Education and Arts in Education pro-
grams throughout Oregon as a cultural
resource specialist with children as well
as with teacher in-service programs.
She is the primary storyteller for
Mother Earth’s Children, an American
Indian theatre group that has performed
for school assemblies and a variety of
events and conferences for the past 42
years. She has been a long-time presenter
for the Oregon Chautauqua History Series
and is a recipient of several Oregon His-
torical Society Folk Life awards.
Arvie Smith, Portland:
Lifetime Achievement
Arvie Smith was born in the Jim Crow
South where he lived with his grandpar-
ents and great-grandmother, a former
slave. As a teen he moved to live in the de
facto segregated areas of South Central
Los Angeles and Watts.
These early years laid the groundwork
for his life’s work as a spokesperson for
injustices toward people of color, an advo-
cate for social justice for all oppressed
people and a painter.
Smith’s work has been shown in New
York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Wash-
ington D.C., New Orleans, Los Angeles,
Seattle, Portland and Florence, Italy.
His paintings are in collections of the
Portland Art Museum, Reginald Lewis
Museum of African American Art and
Culture, Hallie Ford Museum of Art,
Nelson Mandela Estate, Pacific Northwest
College of Art and the City of Portland.
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Smith is professor emeritus of paint-
ing at Pacific Northwest College of Art
in Portland.
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the
Arts, Pendleton: Community
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts is
celebrating its 25 th anniversary throughout
2017, culminating in a major retrospective
of its published prints at the Hallie Ford
Museum of Art in Salem.
James Lavadour (Walla Walla)
founded Crow’s Shadow on the Confed-
erated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Res-
ervation, where he is an enrolled member
of the Tribes.
Housed in a renovated Catholic mis-
sion schoolhouse, the arts center and print
studio hosts a myriad of workshops each
year, encompassing both traditional indig-
enous arts such as basket weaving and
beading, and contemporary printmaking.
The Crow’s Shadow mission is to
provide a creative conduit for educa-
tional, social and economic opportunities
for American Indians through artistic
development.
James F. and Marion L.
Miller Foundation, Portland:
Philanthropy
An independent private foundation,
the James F. and Marion L. Miller Founda-
tion was established in 2002 to enhance
the quality of life of Oregonians through
support of the arts and education.
The foundation’s mission is to enhance
the quality of life of Oregonians through
October 2017
the support of classroom education and
the performing, visual and literary arts. Its
vision is an Oregon where the arts thrive in
supportive communities and educational
systems support the effectiveness of teach-
ing and learning in every classroom.
The Miller foundation invests in strong
leaders and business models, and encour-
ages strategic approaches that enable grant
funds to have a significant impact.
Portland Opera: Organization
Founded in 1964, the Portland Opera
exists to share and celebrate the beauty and
breadth of opera with our communities.
In addition to presenting both grand
and intimate opera, from the baroque
period to the present day, Portland Opera
offers K-12 arts education programs; free
public performances in community spaces;
partnerships with local libraries, parks
and businesses; radio broadcasts; and free
events for the public, reaching 350,000
people annually across the region.
Portland Opera reaches thousands of
children and educators through a K-12
arts educational tour that travels more
than 5,000 miles across Oregon each year.
Portland Opera to Go or “POGO” presents
50-minute English-language versions
of classic operas and provides in-class
workshops and lessons about opera and
music, and a teacher’s guide.
More than 12,000 children experience
opera through POGO each year, many for
the first time.
Members of the Governor’s Arts Award
selection committee are Arts Commission
Chair Christopher Acebo, associate artis-
tic director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival
(Ashland); Lauri Aunan, policy advisor,
Governor’s Natural Resources Office;
Candice Kita, cultural work and develop-
ment coordinator, Asian Pacific American
Network of Oregon (Portland); artist Wendy
Red Star (Apsáalooke (Crow), Portland);
Dámaso Rodríguez, artistic director, Art-
ists Repertory Theatre (Portland); Chantal
Strobel, communications and development
manager, Deschutes Public Library (Bend);
Rosie Shatkin, legislative aide to Sen. Arnie
Roblan (Salem); and Arts Commission Vice
Chair Anne Taylor, violinist (La Grande).
The Oregon Arts Commission’s mis-
sion is to enhance the quality of life for all
Oregonians through the arts by stimulat-
ing creativity, leadership and economic
vitality. The arts commission provides
funding and arts programs through its
grants, special initiatives and services.
Nine commissioners, appointed by
the governor, determine arts needs and
establish policies for public support of
the arts. The arts commission became
part of the Oregon Business Development
Department in 1993 in recognition of the
expanding role the arts play in the broader
social, economic and educational arenas
in Oregon communities.
The arts commission is supported
with general funds appropriated by the
Oregon Legislature, federal funds from
the National Endowment for the Arts and
funds from the Oregon Cultural Trust.