The Clatskanie are a tribe that is not well known to many scholars in the region. There are rare documents about them, and many people, I feel, have assumed they have gone extinct. Some years ago, when I was a student at UO, I recall organizing and attending the University of Oregon Pow wows (1990s), … [Read more…]
The Willamette Valley Treaty Commission is created by the Congressional act of June 5, 1850, John P, Gaines, Beverly S. Allen and Alonzo A. Skinner appointed. They received notification about August 12, 1850 and were compensated at a rate of $8 a day and 10 cents a mile (10 cents a mile is quite good … [Read more…]
In the years following the Oregon Indian wars of the 1850s, there were continuous claims by settler for losses due to Indian depredations. The claims were many, at one point reach well above $30,000 in unpaid claims. The budget for paying these claims was not created until they began coming in. The Indian agents were … [Read more…]
Joel Palmer was an extremely busy man in 1856. In the midst of traveling back and forth across Oregon, he was ordering supplies, directing employees, and negotiating with tribes engaged in war. His reach was incredibly broad, he was at the Dalles working with the Wasco and Deschutes people to get them to agree to … [Read more…]
A subject which has had little clarity in the past is when were the Umpqua and Southern Kalapuya, the Yoncallas, resettled to the Umpqua Reservation at Coles Valley. The Umpqua and Calapooia Treaty of November 29, 1854 is the treaty of land cession for these tribes and sets in motion the removal of the tribes … [Read more…]