Recently, I came upon a number of postcards of soldiers at the Grand Ronde Reservation. It was a common practice to turn photos into postcards in those days. On Ebay these images were available for purchase. Image 808 is labelled Grand Ronde 1911 on the back. And this image, I assume it could be … [Read more…]
Between the time of the formation of the Umpqua Reservation in the Umpqua basin (1854) and the removal of the four tribes to Grand Ronde Reservation, in late January 1856, Joel Palmer the Indian Superintendent had to make fast and detailed plans. The war of the Rogue River Confederacy was raging in the Siskiyous and … [Read more…]
In 1875, the United States Congress passed an act, March 3, 1875, to reduce the Coast Reservation. This act, terminated the Alsea Reservation, that section on the south, and opened the Alsea area to white settlement. The previous reduction act in 1865 (President Andrew Johnson signing the Executive Order of December 21, 1865) had eliminated … [Read more…]