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siletz bay, oregon -- the siletz river winds through the Central Oregon Coast Range. The river, draining a watershed of 373 square miles, empties into Siletz Bay, south of Lincoln City. The Siletz (pronounced SIGH-lets) were the southernmost of several divisions of the Tillamook people speaking a distinct dialect. The name "Siletz" comes from the name of the Siletz River on which they lived. The origin of the name is unknown, perhaps Oregon Athabaskan? The only native language still spoken on the reservation is Siletz Dee-ni, which is a combination of all Athbaskan dialectic variant vocabularies spoken by several of the original reservation tribes. In cooperation with the National Geographic Society and the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, the tribe produced a "talking dictionary" of Siletz Dee-ni in 2007 to aid in preservation and teaching.
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