October 23, 2015 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 5A
Tribes make a second appeal for federal recognition
Rep. Suzanne
Bonamici
introduces
resolution for
congressional
consideration
Oct. 9. It was assigned to
the House Natural Resourc-
es Committee and is ex-
pected to go to a subcom-
mittee.
Bonamici introduced a
similar resolution last year,
but it died in the subcom-
mittee on Indian, Insular
and Alaska Native Affairs.
Diane Collier, chair-
woman of the confederated
tribes, and Richard Basch,
vice chairman, said they
are optimistic that the res-
olution will go through the
process this year.
“We were pretty disap-
pointed, but we thought we
learned a lot,” Basch said
of last year’s effort. “We’re
more organized now. It just
feels right. It just feels like
the time is here.”
Federal
recognition
By Nancy McCarthy
For the Cannon Beach Gazette
A resolution to restore
federal recognition of the
Clatsop-Nehalem Confed-
erated Tribes is making its
way through the U.S. Con-
gress for a second time.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne
Bonamici, D-Ore., in-
troduced the legislation,
known as House Resolution
3736, or the Clatsop-Ne-
haem Restoration Act, on
of the Clatsop-Nehalem
Tribes of Oregon was ter-
minated in 1954 when Con-
gress passed the Western
Oregon Indian Termination
Act. More than 100 tribes
throughout the U.S. lost
federal recognition at the
time.
Bonamici said in an
email that restoring fed-
eral recognition for the
Clatsop-Nehalem Confed-
erated Tribes would “grant
this tribe important federal
rights and bene¿ts.”
She warned, however
that the “legislative process
takes a long time, and tribal
recognition bills can take
several sessions to move
through the process. I have
been communicating about
this bill with the natural
resources committee, the
OBITUARIES
Barbara F. Shaw
Oct. 25, 1929 — Sept. 23, 2015
Barbara F. Shaw, 85, of
Arch Cape, passed unex-
pectedly Sept. 23, 2015. She
was born to the late Ralph
and Lucy Forbes, Oct 25,
1929, in Seattle, Washing-
ton. Barbara and family of-
ten vacationed to Arch Cape,
Oregon, and eventually ac-
quired property there as the
family getaway.
She graduated from
Queen Ann High School and
went on to received her B.A.
in art from Lewis and Clark
College in 1951. After grad-
uation, she married James
R. Shaw June 9, 1951, and
raised two sons in California
until coming home to Arch
Cape, as she put it, in 1978.
Barbara was very pas-
sionate about helping wom-
en get and further education,
and joined the NY PEO
(Philanthropic
Education
Organization) 60 years ago
in Redding, California. To
continue this desire, Barbara
helped charter the FB PEO
Cannon Beach, Oregon
chapter, and is the last of 13
original charter members.
Barbara was constant-
ly doing for others. Many
of us have been exposed to
her resilience and strength
in this community, always at
the right place, right time, to
solve the problem or just be a
great friend. For 85 years her
life’s passions never slowed,
from the everyday walks on
the beach, to running her bed
and breakfast for 35 years in
Arch Cape, maintaining her
vegetable garden, playing
the organ at the First Church
of Christian Science in Gear-
hart, going to the garden
club, to the book club, and
babysitting her granddaugh-
ter from time to time. This
kind of fortitude, and giving,
has left all her friends and
family knowing how much
she loved us all.
Barbara is survived by
her husband, James R. Shaw
of Arch Cape, Oregon; two
sons, James R. Shaw III
of Pleasant Hill, Califor-
nia, and Robert S. Shaw of
Manzanita, Oregon; and two
grandchildren, Benjamin D.
Shaw of Humboldt, Califor-
nia, and Emma M. Shaw of
Manzanita, Oregon.
Memorial contributions
can be made to Chapter
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Richard Basch,
vice chairman of the confederated tribes
Bureau of Indian Affairs
and stakeholders, and I am
dedicated to continuing to
advocate for this legislation
and the Clatsop-Nehalem
Confederated Tribes.”
The bill has no co-spon-
sors.
Federal
recognition
would give the 182 mem-
bers of the Clatsop-Ne-
halem tribe more opportu-
nities for funding through
federal grants to improve
the members’ health and
education, as well as eco-
nomic development proj-
ects in Clatsop County,
Basch said. In addition, the
federally recognized tribe
would be able to play a big-
ger role in protecting the
local environment.
“Our voice would be
much louder about con-
cerns we have about de-
velopment and protection,”
Basch said.
Among the projects
Basch and Collier hope to
pursue once the tribe is of¿-
cially recognized is the Ne-
Cus’ cultural center at the
site of the former Cannon
Beach Elementary School.
The area, bordering Ecola
Creek, once was the loca-
tion of a Clatsop-Nehalem
village.
The tribe worked with
the city of Cannon Beach to
develop NeCus’ Park where
the school’s playground
once was, but the property
where the school building
and the gymnasium stand
is owned by the Seaside
School District. So far, the
city and school district have
not agreed on a sales price
for the land.
Federal recognition also
would give the tribes the
right to request the return
of the remains of more
than 200 Clatsop-Nehalem
members held by muse-
ums, mostly in Washington,
D.C., Basch said.
The Native American
Grave and Repatriation
Act, which would allow the
tribes to make the request,
is “predominantly for fed-
erally recognized tribes,”
Basch said. “That’s a big-
gie.”
The act would not re-
store hunting, ¿shing or
trapping rights, alter any
property rights or allow for
land to be held in trust for
the tribe’s use in Tillamook
County. The Clatsop-Ne-
halem tribe has already
promised it would not build
a casino.
Opposing the Clat-
sop-Nehalem Restoration
Act is the Chinook Indian
Nation, which, in a state-
ment sent to KAST Radio,
called the effort “wholly
unacceptable.”
The statement said the
“so-called
‘Clatsop-Ne-
halem Confederated Tribes’
are setting themselves up
to become a recognized
tribe at the expense of the
much larger and older Chi-
nook Indian Nation where
the vast majority of Clat-
sop people are enrolled and
continue their centuries-old
¿ght. More than 25 percent
of the 3,000 members of the
Chinook Indian Nation are
of Clatsop descent.”
The statement claims
that the Clatsop-Nehalem
Confederated Tribe was
organized in 2000 in con-
junction with the Lewis and
Clark Bicentennial. It notes
that the tribe’s members are
those who recently returned
to the area and others who
originally were enrolled as
members of the Chinook
tribe.
Basch, for instance,
became a member of the
Chinook tribe when his
grandmother enrolled him
as a child. He later left the
Chinook tribe to reclaim
membership in the Clat-
sop-Nehalem tribe.
The Chinook Indian Na-
tion consists of the Clat-
sop and Kathlamet tribes
of Oregon and the Lower
Chinook, Wahkiakum and
Willapa tribes of modern
Washington, according to
the Chinook statement. It
also represents neighbor-
ing tribes including the Ne-
halem, Tillamook, Cheha-
lis, Satsop and Cowlitz.
During the Clinton ad-
ministration in 2001, the
Chinook Indian Nation
achieved federal recogni-
tion after seeking it for 19
years. However, the Bush
administration reversed the
decision 18 months later.
When asked about the
Chinook Nation’s oppo-
sition, Basch pointed to
a new section of the pro-
posed resolution that says
that nothing in the act “es-
tablishes a precedent” or
will be “construed to affect
any decision or other action
related to restoration or rec-
ognition of any Indian tribe
other than the Clatsop-Ne-
halem Confederated Tribes
of Oregon.”
Collier said the Clat-
sop-Nehalem Tribe sup-
ports the Chinook Nation’s
efforts to also be federally
recognized. “What was tak-
en away should not have
been taken away,” she said.
But, Basch added, HR
3736 is solely about the
Clatsop-Nehalem tribe.
“Recognition will give
people a place to come to,”
Basch said.
“We feel strongly that
this is about us,” he added.
“It’s about justice and about
us.”
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