Community remembers Cow Creek tribal leader

Friends, politicians and business leaders are remembering former Cow Creek tribal Chairwoman Sue Shaffer, who died last week, as a driving force behind the tribe’s rise to prominence in Southern Oregon

Dennis Whittlesey, a Washington, D.C., attorney who worked with Shaffer to get the Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians federally recognized, called her “the best tribal chairman I ever saw.”

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