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About Siletz news letter. (Siletz, Oregon) 1989-1997 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1992)
A pril 1992 Letters to th e Editor W Are You Being Discriminated Against??? Please Write! There were no Letters to the Editor this monthl Letters to the Editor All letters received will be printed. Please type or w rite legible, no profane language w ill be printed., LETTERS THAT EXCEED 350 WORDS IN LENGTH WILL BE EDITED. All letters must Include vour name and address. Send letters to : Siletz News, P.O. Box 549, Siletz, Oregon 97380. PLEASE NOTE: The General Manager of the Siletz Tribe Is the Chief Editor of the Siletz Newsletter. The Cold Within Submitted by: Lisa Brown Six humans trapped~Byl1Spp&nstan6& In black and Bitter cold Each one possessed a stick of wood h Or so the story's Told. 1 Their dying fire in need of logs The first man held his back For on the faces around the fire He noticed one was black. The next man looking cross the way Saw one not of his church And couldn't bring himself to give The fire his stick of birch. Dolly and D an Fisher of Siletz will observe their Forty Fifth (45) Wedding Anniversary on Easter Sunday a t the Embarcadero in Newport They were m arried April 19, 1 9 4 7 in Stevenson, Washington. An extended trip is being planned for later in the spring. Dolly is a m em ber of the Tribal Council and Dan is retired. The couple have 5 adult children, 15 grandchildren a n d 1 g re at- granddaughter. CONGRATULATIONS!!! If you encounter barriers to equal services, or If you receive different treatment because of race, color, national origin, age, sex, religion, or handicap, please contact: 1-800 -3 62 -17 10 or write to: OCR/DHHS, 2201 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA. 98121-1832. Your complaint will be Investigated or referred to an appropriate agency. Please direct your calls or Letters to: Carmen Palomera Rockwell Regional Director Office for Civil Rights (Region X) Pen Pal Inquiry Several third grade school teachers in Taylorsville, Indiana teach a unit about Native Americans?* “TheV'‘ have applied for a grant to visit Indian country to expand their knowledge of the subject. In »addition, they' seek Native American Adults or children who would correspond with them as "Pen Pals". Write to: Brenda Chrlstophel P.O. Box 227 Taylorsville Elementary Taylorsvllle, IN 47280 Why not let somebody else think for you? s The third one sat in tattered clothes He gave his coat a hitch Why should his log be put to use To warm the idle rich? Who Needs This? By: Teresa M. Miller The rich man just sat back and thought About the wealth he had stored And how to keep what he had earned From the lazy, shiftless poor. The black man's face bespoke revenge As the fire passed from his sight For all he saw in his stick of wood Was a chance to spite the white. And the last man of this forlorn group Did naught except for gain Giving only to those who gave To how he played his game. The logs held tight in death's still hands. Were proof of human sin They didn't die from the cold without They died from the cold within. Author Unknown SILETZ NEWS DEADLINE April 15, 1992 mail articles and photos to: Siletz News, P.O. Box 549, Siletz, Oregon 97380 Recently the above racist message was found In Siletz attached to a light pole. It’s hard to believe that there are Individuals out there that would actually take the time to hang up something like this which represents only the worst type of demented mentality and even harder to believe that it can happen In Siletz. It's the kind of thing you see other places and we've seen It enough, we don't need It here. It's a known fact that when hard times are upon us, people either pull together or divide into groups each blaming the other for their problems rather than facing the real Issue. Maybe this Is our economic Indicator that the economy Is In a slump. Let's hope It's not an Indicator of social decline, also.
