SILETZ NEWS
Delores Pigsley,
Tribal Chairman
Brenda Bremner,
General Manager
and Editor-in-Chief
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Vol. 47, No. 4
Siletz News
Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians
P.O. Box 549
Siletz, OR 97380-0549
April 2019
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Photo by Diane Rodriquez
Dancers join singers in songs of healing and hope during the Shu’-‘aa-xu Round Dance and Youth Prevention Summit at Taft High 7-12 in Lincoln City, Ore., on March
16. Held just a few days before the first day of spring, the event served as a reminder that the sometimes darker days of winter were receding and the lightness of spring
was on its way. Participants enjoyed several hours of positive energy in the company of friends and family, and in meeting new friends too.
Siletz Tribe opposes transmission
line, Jordan Cove LNG export facility
In a resolution passed March 15, the Tribal Council of the Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians made official its opposition to the planning, approval, construction and
maintenance of the Malin to Coos Bay LNG (liquefied natural gas) transmission line
and the Jordan Cove LNG export facility in Coos Bay.
This 229-mile liquefied natural gas pipeline from Malin in Klamath County to the
export terminal in Coos Bay is being proposed by a Canadian Company, Pembina. The
LNG line and export facility will not supply energy to U.S. companies or citizen consum-
ers as the LNG would be shipped overseas from the proposed export facility in Coos Bay.
The text of the resolution is below:
Resolution No. 2019 - 122
Date Approved: March 15, 2019
Subject: Oppose Jordan Cove Projects
SILETZ TRIBAL COUNCIL
Resolution
WHEREAS, the Siletz Tribal Council is empowered to exercise the legislative and
executive authority of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon pursuant to
Article IV, Section 1 of the Siletz Constitution approved June 13, 1979, by the Acting
Deputy Commissioner of Indian Affairs, as amended; and
See Resolution on page 13
Pigsley receives Women in American
History Award from local DAR chapter
Tribal Chairman Delores Pigsley, along with three other women, received a Women
in American History Award from the Yaquina Chapter of the National Society of
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in a ceremony held at the Agate Beach
Best Western hotel in Newport, Ore., on March 18.
According to the DAR, “Women chosen for this recognition are those who have
made a contribution or a difference in their communities. They are, or have been,
intellectual, educational, social, religious, political, scientific or cultural innovators.”
See Pigsley on page 13