Photo by Andy Taylor
Tribal members can pick up necessary paperwork and drop off applications
at the back entrance to the Siletz Tribal administration building. This display
includes education, JOM, enrollment and employment applications as well as
COVID-19 assistance applications. This will change as programs end and others
open, so please check the display as regularly as you need.
You can also drop off any applications or forms to Tribal programs through
the gold drop-box. This box is emptied daily and items are distributed to the
correct departments.
If you have any questions about the drop-box, applications or missing applica-
tions, please feel free to call the front desk receptionist at 541-444-2532.
For more information about the
Siletz Tribal Arts and Heritage Society,
visit siletzartsheritage.org.
CTSI Jobs
Tribal employment information is available at ctsi.nsn.us.
Note: “Open Until Filled” vacan-
CTSI constantly is looking for
cies may close at any time. The Tribe’s temporary employees to cover vacancy,
Indian Prefeence policy will apply. Tribal
government will not discriminate in vacations, maternity leave and extended
selection because of race, creed, age, sick leave. If you are looking for tem-
sex, color, national origin, physical porary work that can last from 2-12
handicap, marital status, politics,
membership or non-membership in an weeks, please submit an application for
employee orgnization.
the temp pool.
How to access language materials online
Ch’ee-la xwii-t’i
(Greetings everyone)
To assist Tribal members during
this time of social distancing and the
interruption of our normal schedules,
this tutorial on how to access language
materials and recordings from the
Tribal website has been developed. I
hope you and your families are safe
and healthy during this time. Hopefully
many folks can access these materials
from the safety of their homes.
Go to www.ctsi.nsn.us. Enter in
your roll number and last four digits of
your Social security number to log on
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to the Tribal member access area. Click on
“Our Heritage.” On the drop down, click
on “Language.”
Lots of written and recorded materials
are available in this section. The Nuu-wee-
ya’ (Our Words) Language Dictionary is
on this page. You can click on the selection
A to Z to look up written English language
words and their Athabaskan equivalent.
Also on this page are Siletz Dee-ni
Volumes 1, 2 & 3. Just click on “Study
Materials” and scroll down. Volume 1
contains lessons on body parts, counting,
relatives, foods and table talk.
In these lessons, the written word on
the screen is accompanied by audio of the
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word’s pronunciation. Volume 2 contains
animals, birds, colors, fish, greetings and
goodbyes, insects, and trees and brush.
Volume 3 contains lessons on sentence
structure and word order.
Each lesson has a complete practical
alphabet sound chart. All three volumes
have a word document and audio record-
ing for each lesson. Tests are available if
you want to use them.
To access the Siletz Talking Diction-
ary, click on Siletz Language website.
Drop down three lines and click on www.
siletzlanguage.org, go to the Talking
Dictionary tab and click on it. The Siletz
Talking Dictionary Page will appear.
Just below the words “Search for”
is an empty white box. Type in the
word you are searching for and click
on the “search” button. The word and
the Athabaskan equivalent will appear
just below the search box. To hear the
word being spoken, simply click on the
red ear icon on the left side of the page.
You may have to wait a few seconds
for the page and sound to load, depend-
ing on your connectivity. Some of the
words also have pictures.
Also on the www.siletzlanguage.
org website are 14 Language learning
videos and many other culture-related
videos, materials and curriculum.