Siletz News

Xavier Gilbert, 15, gets bucked by the barrel he uses to practice bull-riding behind the salvaged house trailer where he lives with his family on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.

Lucy Dick is shown with baskets in this painting by A.V. Talbot. Lucy was the last known full-blooded Chetco Indian and lived in the village, shown on background map, on the south bank of the Chetco River.

To say that the anniversary of their restoration is a big deal to the people of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians might be missing the point.

Completing a shameless land grab in 1954, the U.S. government terminated federal recognition of 43 Native American bands and tribes.

Trees dwarf visitors in the Valley of the Giants in the Oregon Coast Range of Lincoln County.

The 9th Annual Oyster Cloyster Festival on the Oregon coast will be held on Saturday, November 7. Once again, the event will appropriately be hosted at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

Robert Mohr helped kill a man in 1993, but it wasn't until Oct. 1 that the 52-year-old former Siletz man faced a judge for sentencing.

Oregon's smoking ban in restaurants and bars affected establishments statewide, from the corner tavern in Baker to the hip hangouts of Portland, where patrons have been forced outside to light up.

Henry Hansen picks grapes in his backyard in Green recently. Hansen celebrated his 100th birthday on Sept.

A logo for the bulbous water tower has been proposed by the Grand Ronde and Siletz tribes.

Once again we are in fire season, and forest wildfires are burning. Fire makes city folks nervous and frightens those in the woods, but fire as we know it today has nothing on fires experienced in Oregon's prehistory.

The Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians on the central coast will get almost 3 million dollars in federal stimulus money for affordable housing and jobs.

An Oregon Department of Transportation worker with a stripe-painting crew was struck and injured on Highway 26 east of Ironside.

An Oregon Department of Transportation worker with a stripe-painting crew was struck and injured on Highway 26 east of Ironside.

A Santiam High School graduate is one of 35 students to participate in the 2009 Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program, an education program sponsored by the American Fisheries Society.

An Oregon Department of Transportation worker with a stripe-painting crew was struck and injured on Highway 26 east of Ironside.

This bike ride answers the question: Would you pedal 100 miles for a bowl of clam chowder? OK, how about 70? 25? About 250 people a year do.

A man killed his estranged girlfriend and then himself Tuesday in the western Oregon town of Siletz, police said.

The two entities will develop a mutual aid agreement. Dean Sawyer is Emergency Management Planner for the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz: Sawyer: 'it's kind of a framework to where we can use it in any kind of an emergency whether it is a windstorm an earthquake or the pandemic flu which we've been working on all summer together.

An estimated 20,000 whales pass Depoe Bay twice a year. The Whale Watching Center at Depoe Bay provides info and viewing.