"Restoration Pow-Wow returns, marking 45 years of the Siletz Indians
regaining federal recognition

By Brian Bull (KLCC)
Nov. 19, 2022 6 a.m.

For the first time in three years, a commemorative pow-wow for the
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians is coming back this weekend.

This year’s Restoration Pow-Wow marks 45 years since Congress and
President Carter reinstated the Siletz as a federally-recognized tribe.
The last pow-wow was in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Oregon.

Robert Kentta is the tribe’s Cultural Resources Director. He told KLCC
that before federal termination in 1954, the Siletz had already seen
Congress reduce their land base from over a million acres to just a few thousand.

“So we had a very quick diminishment of a once large and resource-rich reservation,” Kentta said. “Kind of the final straw was termination
policy rolling around in the late 40s and 50s.

“Here in the Siletz community, there was probably a certain amount of, ‘Terminate what? You’ve almost taken everything that we have.’”

The Siletz have since regrown their reservation base to 16,000 acres."
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https://www.opb.org/article/2022/11/19/restoration-pow-wow-returns-marking-45-years-of-the-siletz-indians-regaining-federal-recognition/

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