Letter: PCS Gleaners thankful for $6,000 in Siletz grants for food security program

To the Editor: Philomath Community Services would like to give a hearty thank you to the Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund f…
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This was the first time in generations that the Siletz tribe has harvested a whale …

Before anyone cut into the animal, they smudged and prayed over its body. They honored the animal for its sacrifice.

The team took most of the whale’s blubber, thousands of pounds of it, as well as virtually all its bones.

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‘An incredible privilege and a daunting task’: Oregon tribe harvests beached whale for the first time in gene

The Siletz tribe took apart the 20,000 pound humpback after it was euthanized Monday.

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