Join the LCHS for their Annual Meeting on Saturday, May 23, at 1pm at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center. This is a great opportunity to hear from LCHS’s Board of Directors and Staff on the past year’s accomplishments, future goals, and to vote on renewing Board Member positions. We will have a talk on the history of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians by Bud Lane, Vice-Chair of Tribal Council for the Tribe and LCHS Board Member (see Bud Lane’s bio below).

We will also feature the opening of Oregon Voices, a traveling exhibit curated by the Oregon Historical Society. This exhibit explores some of the important people, industries, organizations, and laws that have shaped the state from the end of World War II to 2020. Visitors will learn about the evolution and expansion of Oregon industries, social justice movements, migration and immigration, environment and energy, and Indigenous nations in Oregon. We will also show information and objects illustrative of the diversity of Lincoln County. This event will have snacks and refreshments and is free to the public. To learn more about Oregon Voices, click the image below:

Approximate schedule:

1:00-1:30pm: Welcome, exhibit viewing

1:30-2:00pm: Updates, finances, Board position voting, and future goals by LCHS Board and Staff

2:00-2:45pm: Talk by Bud Lane

2:45pm: Snack and refreshments in our Multipurpose Room

Honorable Alfred Lane III, Vice Chairman, Confederated Tribes of Siletz

Alfred (Bud) Lane III works to restore, teach and promote understanding of Siletz tribal culture. The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians impacted by a war for their homeland, the removal policies of the 1800s and termination policies of the last century have become a great tribal Nation recognized for their government and economic development successes. For many years, Lane and his family have focused on strengthening Siletz cultural activities through basket making, teaching the Athabaskan language and helping build the Siletz Dance House and restore its ceremonial activities. He and his family are all enrolled members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.

In 2003, the Siletz Tribal Council recruited Lane to fill a newly created position, Language and Traditional Arts Instructor. This enabled Lane to leave his union job at a local paper mill and devote all his energy to teaching the Siletz culture. In this position, he focuses much of his time on language instruction, but also teaches basket weaving, regalia-making, and traditional foods gathering and preparation.

Lane has studied the Athabaskan language with the tribal elders for thirty years and is now one of the tribe’s most fluent speakers.

Lane’s basketry work is featured in collections of the Hallie Ford Museum and University of Oregon. He has served as a master artist with the Oregon Historical Society’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. Lane is a member of Willamette University’s Native American Advisory Council. In 2008, the Hallie Ford Museum will host The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon and Lane is providing guidance and assistance to the curator of this exhibit.

Since 2005, Lane has served on the Board of Directors of the Northwest Native American Basket Weavers Association and recently retired from this position. He hosted a group of Maori weavers when they visited Oregon and then traveled to New Zealand in 2005 and 2007 as part of a cultural exchange. Lane also demonstrated Siletz weaving at the Carriers of Culture: Living Native Basket Traditions exhibition at the 2006 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

Lane is currently Vice-Chairman of the Siletz Tribal Council. He has served on the Tribal Council since 2004 and previously served from 1984 to 1990. In this capacity, he oversees tribal business, legal, financial and social matters and represents the tribe on a regional and national level. After graduating high school, he went to work as logger for thirteen years and then worked for fifteen years at the Georgia Pacific Corporation Pulp and Paper Division. Lane and his wife Cheryl, also an artist, still live in Siletz, Oregon.