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
Tag: Termination
Denial of Humanity: Pseudo-Science and Native Culture
Denial of Humanity: Pseudo-Science and Native Culture Expansion of an October 2005 essay, written originally in preparation for a dissertation about termination. “Denial of
Reservations We Choose to Live Inside
This essay is inspired by the title of the book, “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside” by Doris Lessing, I read some years ago. I
Klamath Termination: Water, Timber and Sovereign Rights
The reasons for the elimination of federal management of Indians were many. A primary reason was the tribal reservations contained the last undeveloped
Tribal Oral Histories Are History
When the western Oregon tribes were terminated, the federal government reported that we had agreed to be terminated. This story is pervasive throughout the region