SILETZ NEWS
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Vol. 45, No. 11
November 2017
Siletz News
Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians
P.O. Box 549
Siletz, OR 97380-0549
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Salem, OR
Delores Pigsley,
Tribal Chairman
Brenda Bremner,
General Manager
and Editor-in-Chief
Celebrate 40 years of restoration with the Siletz Tribe at annual pow-wow
File photo
Dancers at the 2016 Siletz Tribal Restoration Pow-Wow
STAHS cookbook on
sale at Restoration
Pow-Wow
The Siletz Tribal Arts and Heri-
tage Society has created a cookbook
as a fundraiser that will be available
for purchase at this year’s Restoration
Pow-Wow.
Affordably priced at $12, the cook-
book is filled with recipes submitted by
members and friends of the Siletz Tribe
and will make the perfect Christmas
gift for friends and family.
Stop by and check it out at the
STAHS booth at the Restoration Pow-
Wow. You just might find that long-
sought-after recipe remembered from
your childhood included inside.
The public is invited to join the
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians on
Nov. 18 as it holds its annual Restora-
tion Pow-Wow at Chinook Winds Casino
Resort in Lincoln City, Ore.
This free event begins with a grand
entry at 6 p.m. American Indian vendors
with jewelry, beadwork and other items for
sale will be available throughout the day.
This is the 40 th year – to the day –
that the Siletz Tribe has celebrated the
signing of Public Law 95-195, which re-
established government-to-government
relations between the Confederated Tribes
of Siletz Indians and the federal govern-
ment. The Siletz Tribe was terminated
from federal recognition in August 1954.
In the late 1960s, it became apparent
that the only way to preserve and revitalize
Siletz Tribal sovereignty, community and
culture was for the Siletz Tribe to regain
its status as a Tribe recognized by the
United States.
In November 1977, after years of
intense lobbying, Congress and Presi-
dent Jimmy Carter approved Public Law
95-195, which reinstated recognition of
the Siletz as a federal Indian Tribe. The
Siletz Tribe was the second in the nation
– and the first in Oregon – to achieve
restoration.
Dedicated to improving the quality of
life of its more than 5,000 members, the
Tribe puts strong emphasis on the educa-
tion, health and social well-being of all
its members.
Significant Tribal accomplishments
since Restoration include opening the
original health clinic in 1991 and a new
much larger clinic in 2010; building more
than 150 homes and multiple dwellings
for Tribal members, including 28 units at
Neachesna Village in Lincoln City that
have opened since 2009, 19 apartments
in Siletz that opened in
2010, and 12 homes in the Tillamook
subdivision in Siletz that have opened
since 2013; completing the Siletz Dance
House in 1996; opening the Tenas Illahee
Child Care Center in 2003; opening the
Tillicum Fitness Center and a new USDA
food distribution warehouse in Siletz in
2008; and opening the Siletz Rec Center
in 2009.
Through its economic development
division, the Siletz Tribal Business Cor-
poration, the Tribe purchased the Lincoln
Shores office complex in Lincoln City in
2001 and opened the Siletz Gas & Mini-
Mart in Siletz in 2004, the Logan Road RV
Park in Lincoln City in 2004 and the Hee
Hee Illahee RV Resort in Salem in 2006.
Tribal offices in Portland, Salem and
Eugene are housed in Tribally owned build-
ings. The Eugene office moved to its cur-
rent location in 2005, the Salem office did
the same in 2006 and the Portland office
moved to its current location in 2008.
See Restoration on page 4