PAGE 2 - SILETZ, OREGON February 1990
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
To Our Family and Friends,
We would like to
thank all of you for the
shower that was given us and
for all of the cards and gifts
we received for our wedding.
It made us very happy to
know so many of you thought
of us.
Love,
Brett & Kelly Lane
A Note of Thanks:
Tribal Council members?
How
many
STEDCO
commissioners resigned in
December, ,1989?
Who's
the new Chief Judge? Did
the Siletz Indian Housing
Authority succeed in its
attempt to evict a /Tribal
member from Government
Hill Housing? Where's the
new heallh clinic going?
T rib a l
m em bers
wishing answers to these and
other questions need only to
write to me, Andy Viles, c/o
Siletz News II. P.O. Box
152, Alvadore, OR 97409
for the latest issue of Siletz
News II,
Andy Viles
Dear Brothers and Sisters
and Eiders:
While I was attending
r am writing in deep
the Candidate's Fair at the
concern of the Indian publics'
Springfield Area office, my
perception and spiritual
car was broken in to, the
values of Native American
d riv e r's
side
w indow
Indian brothers and sisters
smashed and items stolen
in prisons, like the Oregon
from inside. It was a very
State Prison, Oregon State
unpleasant experience for
Corrections Institution and
myself and my daughter.
the Oregon Woman's Priêorf
However, out of most
and their, right to practice
d if f ic u lt
s it u a t io n s
and learn Indian ways and the
something good also results.
vitalness of finding in Indian
That was true in this case.
ways good morals and the
So many caring people did
spiritual fündamentals for
their best to be of help. I
s e lf-im p ro v e m e n t
and
would like to extend my
cultural rehabilitation and
thanks to Mary and Andy
becoming better Tribal
Viles who stood out in the
members and law abiding
pouring
rain
with
a
citizens in their returning to
flashlight securing plastic to
the community.
the drivers door where the
Well my brothers and
window had been. Sue George
sisters and elders, good
and Alice Werth also offered
people walking the good red
their assistance in numerous
road out there; we brothers
ways and- I'm sure there
here at Eastern Oregon
were others who also
Correction Institution who
deserve a word of thanks...i
have been walking the hard,
was in such a daze... I hope
bad road that led us here, we
that you all know how much
need to find that good, red
your help meant to us.
road and learn to be good
people too, and become better
People like you make this
member's of the Native
world a better place.
American Indian Race and the
time is now! Before we leave
Sincerely,
prison. Here we are being
punished for our crimes but
Teresa M. Miller
we need the chance to team
and grow and turn awayfrom
Dear Editor:
crime, drugs and alcohol and
What caused the
become good people too, and
firings at STEDCO?
Did,
learn to give and not take,
Tribal Council "donate"
and learn to lové and not
$5,100,00 to a logging
hate, and to live and not
^¿eenT^^yi’tjlat^erhpjeye’dTwO/'« ’•V / i3êàthyand»iéarrt*'tpv‘ gro’v/^md ' '
not waste away, and learn to
be good Indian people and not
lost children of the many
Tribal Nations, children lost
on a dark road. Help us
people to help ourselves and
to help others find the Good
Red Road....I pray to the Great
Spirit, and the four directions
and to the Earth Mother and
to all creation that you hear
my words and see the truth
and the injustice of the
Brothers here being denied
Native American Indian
R eligion
and
s p iritu a l
counciling; we need a Pipe
C arrier,
a Sweatlodge
Leader, and Drug and Alcohol
Councilor, volunteers here to
come at least once a month or
more if possible and teach us
to become Warriors and turn
away from criminal ways.
The
f o llo w in g
statements are the facts and
the truth to justify my
cause, our cause here, and
they point out law and the
Resolution American Indian
Religious Freedom, and the
injustice of this freedom
here at EOCI; and my Native
American Indian Brothers
and Sisters and Elders should
know the truth and take just
one moment ini thought and
perception and take a walk in
our mocbasins and then
understand....
;.,,ln Honor of all the
Native American Indian
Brothers and Sisters In
Prison Throughout This
Country, Your Brother Crazy
Horse,
Sincerely,
Ronald C. Johnson
A SPECIAL THANK YOU
I want to thank all of
you that took the time to
support my campaign for re-
election.
When you shoulder
responsibility and risk for
the betterment for your
tribe you are bound to make
some mistakes. Sometimes
you have to take one step
backward in order to take
two steps forward.
It takes a lot of
courage to be a tribal leader,
the river has grown deep and
wide, filled with debris and
is hard to swim up stream.
I have the courage
and wisdom to continue doing
a good job for you.
Again.d thank all of
you.
Respectfully yours,
Frank Simmons
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