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July 18, 1997
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Autumn Highdesertwolf would
like to wish her father John
a Happy Belated Father's Day.
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Autumn speaks for Jesse, Brandy,
Kyle, Josiah and mom too!
"Happy Birthday, Sweet 16 Kandee"
Happy Birthday Kandee! We are
so proud of you! Kandee Little is
a junior at South Salem High
School. This summer she is work
ing part time at the Smoke Signals
office, and playing softball for the
Saxon Slyders. This is Kandee's
9th year catching for fast pitch soft
ball. Kandee lives for softball and
hopes her skill and enthusiasm help
her to get a scholarship into col
lege to play professional womens'
softball and to get a degree in ei- L
ther physical therapy or education. She would also like to coach softball. Kandee has
played on many different teams. Last year she played lead catcher for JV and backup
catcher for Varsity. Now she is on a 16 and under ASA team. She was picked at the
Bend Summer Showdown tournament as Most Valuable Player on her team. She has
been Team Captain of most of her teams, and has as high as a 500 batting average. She
is the voice of her team. Her coach, Scott McCormick is forever asking, "Is there a way to
turn her off?" She loves the sport and we are very proud to be her parents! We support
you all the way Kandee, so GO FOR IT! Love Mom, Dad, Michael and Brandi
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Thanks to Vets Coastal Indians recover lost history
Thank you Buddy Haskins and Marce
Norwest for the "New United States Flag"
flying at the Community Center. The old
one was getting a little shabby. We appre
ciate the good deed by the Vets!
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Elders from six Indian tribes came together
at the University of Oregon (UO) in Eugene
this spring in a historic gift-giving ceremony
that has already begun to renew old alliances.
The documents were unearthed at the
Smithsonian Institution and in the National
Archives through a cooperative venture
between the Coquille Indian Tribe, the UO,
and the Smithsonian Institution.
The Coquille Indian Tribe hosted the first
potlatch and the largest representative gath
ering of the coastal tribes held in more than
150 years on the University of Oregon cam
pus. They used the traditional gift-giving
ceremony to share copies of more than
60,000 forgotten government papers that
document the first encounters between West
Coast Indians and Whites.
Coquille Tribal Chairman Ed Metcalf
presented leaders of the six tribes attending
the potlatch with copies of the Southwest
ern Oregon Research Project collection,
which documents their shared history.
Council members, elders and family repre
sentatives from the Confederated Tribes of
the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw; the
Cow Creek Band of Umpquas; the Confed
erated Tribes of Siletz; the Confederated
Tribes of Grand Ronde; and the Tolowa
Tribe also attended the potlatch.
"This program gave the UO a tremendous
opportunity to add to Oregon history. The
invitation to examine materials at the Smith
sonian was as unparalleled opportunity for
UO graduate students to get first-hand ex
perience in the nations archives," says
Steadman Upham, UO vice provost for re
search and dean of the UO Graduate School.
The Southwestern Oregon Research
Project gave Wasson, his niece Denni
Mitchell, Jason Younker, and Shirod
Younker all UO students and members
of the Coquille Tribe broad access to the
Smithsonian and the National Archives to
search for their past.
"The history books have not told the true
story of the devastating impacts of white
settlement on the Oregon coast tribes," says
Jon Erlandson, a UO professor of anthro
pology who worked with the students.
Wasson wants to use the documents to
correct the very different accounts that ap
pear in history books and no historic mark
ers in Oregon. The first step was to donate
the material to the UO's Knight Library
where the information will be available to
scholars and historians.
Besides correcting the historical record,
Wasson and his colleagues also expect the
recent potlatch at which the lost records
were shared will encourage better coopera
tion among the tribes in the future.
The potlatch, Wasson hopes, also will
serve as a first step in smoothing old tribal
animosities. He views the gathering in may
on the UO campus as a beginning step in the
development of a coastal tribe coalition that
will collaborate on a wide variety of issues.
The recovered records show, for example,
that Oregon history is misstated on many
state park signs. Wasson says tribal coop
eration is already producing some changes:
A sign at Port Orford, a city which has long
been known for a skirmish at Battle Rock,
is being changed from a narrative of heroic
white setters withstanding a vicious Indian
attack to a more accurate, historically docu
mented version.
The Southwestern Oregon Research
Project uncovered more material than any
one expected, but participants agree that it
only scratched the surface of what still lies
hidden in the boxes and microfilm at the
National Archives and the Smithsonian In
stitution. Researchers believe there is much
more material about what happened after
the federal forced the tribes onto a reserva
tion at Yachats in the mid 1 880's.
weaaing ueievration
The happiness of a smile;
The embrace of a
friend or loved one;
The gathering of friends and family;
The union of two people
in marriage;
Love in itself.
Please join us as we celebrate the
union of our lives;
In the Spirit of our
Great Grandfather;
In the Traditional Indian way;
Joined on this day are
Aleta R. Roy and Deitrich D. Peters
By Don Moccasin
The ceremony will take place in
Grand Ronde Oregon,
on the Reservation.
Friday the 8th day of August
1997 at 8:00 P.M.
There will be a reception following
the wedding ceremonies,
at the community center.
Please R.S.VP. as we would like to
accommodate as many as possible.
Home address
1520 Jackson S.E.
Albany, Oregon 97321
Day time phone 926-5387
(Drug and alcohol FREE)
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