Joel Palmer (Oregon Indian Superintendent) writes from Dayton April 24, 1856, after receiving a letter From Indian Agent George Ambrose. Palmer is at this time
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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
Bristow’s Proposal for the Millpoo Ilihee and Camas Swale Post Offices, Lane County,1854
In the 1850s, American settlers were just setting up their communities, and towns, throughout the Oregon Territory. The earliest pioneers had arrived in 1830s, and
Klamath River Reservation and White Privilege, 1856
Continuing with the ndnhistoryresearch series on the massacres of the Tribes on northern California and Southern Oregon coast, I have found a few more documents
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