It is unknown when the first stamps (actually validation stickers) were issued by the Siletz Reservation. The earliest recorded stickers are from 1985. All Siletz validation stickers are imperforate. They are self-adhesive with peelable Mactac Starliner backing in various colors and designs. All validation stickers have red serial numbers. Validation stickers were issued to tribal members only for use on their tribal identification cards. Often times new stickers were placed over expired ones. Tribal members were not required to sign their stickers so the validation stickers are only priced in two categories. Mint, which has the backing intact, and Unsigned, which is without backing or has partial backing. Validation stickers issued through 1995 were text only. Starting in 1996, a very light background design was added to the stickers. A fish on the fishing sticker and a deer on the hunting sticker.
Paper color Mint Unsigned
SI 1 1985 Fishing no recorded copies
SI 2 1985 Hunting (one copy recorded) black on yellow green ------
SI 3 1986 Fishing no recorded copies
SI 4 1986 Hunting no recorded copies
SI 5 1987 Fishing no recorded copies
SI 6 1987 Hunting no recorded copies
SI 7 1988 Fishing no recorded copies
SI 8 1988 Hunting no recorded copies
SI 9 1989 Fishing black on yellow green (fewer than 10 recorded copies)SI10 1989 Hunting black on orange 275.00 75.00
SI11 1990 Fishing no recorded copies
SI12 1990 Hunting black on fuscia (fewer than 5 recorded copies)

SILETZ INDIAN RESERVATION

The term Siletz is an umbrella for approximately 30 small bands, numbering 15,000 in all, that existed for thousands of years on or near the coast of northern California and up to southern Washington. Larger tribes from south to north were the Cheteo, Shastacosta, Makanontni, Tututini, Joshua, Six, Takelma, Coquille, Coos, Siuslaw, Alsea and Tillamook. Several other tribes no longer exist. Their languages were derived from five linguistic stocks: Salishan, Yakonan, Kusan, Takelman and Athapascan. They are located on a 3,666 acre reservation located in Lincoln County on the central Oregon Coast. In November of 1977, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz, which had been terminated in 1955, was the second tribe in the United States and the first in Oregon to be restored.

SILETZ INDIAN RESERVATION

Paper color Mint Unsigned
SI13 1991 Fishing black on yellow 40.00 20.00
SI14 1991 Hunting black on red orange 40.00 20.00
SI15 1992 Fishing black on red orange 40.00 20.00
SI16 1992 Hunting black on green 40.00 20.00
SI17 1993 Fishing black on red orange 40.00 20.00
SI18 1993 Hunting black on green 40.00 20.00
SI19 1994 Fishing black on orange 55.00 20.00
SI20 1994 Hunting black on green 55.00 20.00
SI21 1995 Fishing black on red orange 55.00 20.00
SI22 1995 Hunting black on yellow green 55.00 20.00
SI23 1996 Fishing (300 stamps issued) black on green 35.00 20.00
SI24 1996 Hunting (500 stamps issued) black on orange 35.00 20.00
SI25 1997 Fishing (300 stamps issued) black on green 35.00 20.00
SI26 1997 Hunting (500 stamps issued) black on orange 35.00 20.00
SI27 1998 Fishing (300 stamps issued) black on fuscia 35.00 20.00
SI28 1998 Hunting (500 stamps issued) black on yellow green 35.00 20.00
Paper color Mint Unsigned
SI29 1999 Fishing (300 stamps issued) black on green 35.00 20.00
SI30 1999 Hunting (500 stamps issued) black on fuscia 35.00 20.00
SI31 2000 Fishing (300 stamps issued) black on green 35.00 20.00
SI32 2000 Hunting (500 stamps issued) black on orange 35.00 20.00
SI33 2001 Fishing (300 stamps issued) black on white 35.00 20.00
SI34 2001 Hunting (500 stamps issued) black on blue 35.00 20.00
SI35 2002 Fishing (300 stamps issued) black on green 45.00 20.00
SI36 2002 Hunting (500 stamps issued) black on red orange 45.00 20.00
SI37 2003 Fishing (300 stamps issued) black on pink 45.00 20.00
SI38 2003 Hunting (500 stamps issued) black on yellow green 45.00 20.00
Although validation stickers have been issued since 2003 and continue to be issued, a change in policy no longer allows anyone other than a tribal member to own one. Tribal authorities repeatedly turned down requests not only for examples to be pictured in this catalog, but refused to provide scans or even tell the author the color of the current validation stickers.

SILETZ INDIAN RESERVATION

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