SILETZ NEWS
Delores Pigsley,
Tribal Chairman
Brenda Bremner,
General Manager
and Editor-in-Chief
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
May 2018
PSU honors
Pigsley with
award for lifetime
achievement
See PSU on page 10
April 25, 2018 • Siletz Recreation Center
Photos by Andy Taylor
Above: Opal Butler
Right: Rebekah Jones, Tribal Sexual
Assault Services Program grant coor-
dinator with the Oregon Department
of Justice
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Each year, we publish
information on Tribal gradu-
ates in Siletz News. But we
can’t do this without you!
Siletz Community Center 10 am - 4 pm
We’re interested in graduates
from all levels:
Head Start
•
Kindergarten
•
Elementary school
•
Middle school
•
High school
•
Adult vocational training
•
All levels of college
Please email a photo and a few
details about your gradute to pias@
ctsi.nsn.us.
We will publish them through-
out the summer.
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May
19 & 20
2018
Siletz
Indian Fair
Graduates!
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The Siletz Tribal Arts & Heritage (STAHS) Board would like to invite Tribal families to share their
family regalia & traditional arts with the community.
You can have your items photographed for your own use and safekeeping with STAHS.
If you would like to reserve a FREE table, call or email us!
Siletz Tribal Arts & Heritage Society
PO Box 8
Siletz, OR 97380-
97380 - 0008
(541) 444-
444 - 8304
stahs.board@gmail.com
Siletz Indian Fair Circa 1992
Portland State University’s Center
for Public Service in the Mark O. Hat-
field School of Government honored two
women for their lifetimes of achievement
in public service – Delores Pigsley and
Jennie Messmer – at its Celebration of
Public Service event on April 28 at PSU’s
Hoffmann Hall.
The women were recognized at the
fourth annual CPS event, which this year
had a theme of “Unite, Innovate, Transform.
Pigsley began her public service
career soon after the Siletz Tribal nation
– with the help of Oregon Sen. Mark
Hatfield – was reinstated by the federal
government. Her 38 years on the Siletz
Tribal Council has included 32 as Tribal
chair – a record unmatched in Oregon
Indian Country.
She has been a Tribal delegate to the
National Congress of American Indians
and the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indi-
ans, and served as chair of the Oregon Leg-
islative Commission on Indian Services.
Pigsley’s public service career also
included 24 years working for the federal
Social Security Administration in Salem,
where she rose to the job of operations
supervisor before her 1998 retirement.
As noted in her nomination, “An
important public service challenge in the
realm of Tribal governments is preserv-
ing traditional knowledge and ways of
life. Delores has been instrumental in
overseeing the cultural revival of the Siletz
Tribe. The nearly extinct Siletz tradition
of basket weaving, including the difficult
task of gathering traditional natural mate-
rials, has been revived, as has their age-old
traditional dance, Nee-Dosh. Currently,
the Tribal Council has undertaken the
first steps toward the building of a Tribal
museum. Though none of this would have
been accomplished without the contribu-
tions of many, clearly the leadership of
Chairman Delores Pigsley has played a
pivotal role in the revival of the Siletz.”
Messmer’s lifetime of public service
work and outreach focused on Oregon’s
local governments. She was an assistant
city manager/finance director in Klamath
Falls; served as executive director of both
the Local Government Personnel Institute
and the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of
Governments; and stepped in whenever
needed to serve as an interim city manager
in a number of communities, including
Wheeler and Cannon Beach.
Messmer’s most visible role was as
member services director for the Oregon
League of Cities, where she traveled
throughout Oregon to assist cities, large
Shawl Making with the CARE Program in
preparation for National Day of Awareness
for Missing and Murdered Native Women
and Girls on May 5, 2018
Siletz Indian Fair Circa 1917
Vol. 46, No. 5
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Siletz, OR 97380-0549
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