Contemporaneous with the now famed Summers Collection, the Bureau of Indian Affairs was also collecting traditional implements from the tribes on reservations in the 1870s.
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Mott’s Special Report on Grand Ronde and Siletz in 1858
In the first few years of the Western Oregon reservations, the Coast and Grand Ronde reservations, the federal government was still working to develop a
To Improve the Status of Our First Citizens: The Irony and Fraud of Tribal Termination
“To improve the status of our first citizens” Oregon Governor Douglas McKay, July 14, 1950 Introduction McKay’s comment, is meant to be a statement of
Re-analyzing the Allotments at Grand Ronde
For years now few new details about our allotments at the Grand Ronde tribe have come to light. Our allotment system, created for all tribes