NDNHISTORY RESEARCH : Indigenous, Public & Critical Essays
Critical & Indigenous Anthropology & History | David G. Lewis, PhD | writer | researcher | educator
Category: California Natives
Sparking the Rogue River War
In 1854, many of the southern Oregon tribes were already on the Table Rock Reservation. They had signed several treaties selling their lands and were moved to Table Rock, awaiting the completion of the Siletz Agency on the Coast Reservation. The reservation was somewhat…
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When the Settlers Cleaned up their Lands, California 1850s
When settlers came to the west, the tribes tolerated their presence, many even welcomed them because of the trade possibilities. The first settlers may have been deferential and honorable, perhaps because of how many tribal people remained, but soon, by 1844, many thousands began…
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Klamath River Reservation and White Privilege, 1856
Continuing with the ndnhistoryresearch series on the massacres of the Tribes on the northern California and Southern Oregon coast, I have found a few more documents that address the removal of the tribes to the Klamath River Reservation and their rights and conditions. These…
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The Most Persistent Attempt to Exterminate the Tribes, Beginning with the Yontocket Massacre 1853
As related in my previous essay about the Chetko Massacre, there was a massacre of the Tolowa in 1853. The Palmer account suggest the previous massacre was the work of the same 8 or 9 men who destroyed the two Chetko villages in March…
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The Trail of Broken Treaties Redux
Vine Deloria, Jr. famously penned a book, the Trail of Broken Treaties in response to over 150 years of the United States breaking its agreements with Native American Tribes. The current Standing Rock action by thousands of Native American peoples and their allies is…
