Siletz Indians
Allotment and the Siletz Reservation
One of the characteristics of American culture is an obsession with private property. The idea of holding land in common, as was the practice of […]
Siletz Indians
One of the characteristics of American culture is an obsession with private property. The idea of holding land in common, as was the practice of […]
By 1870, it was clearly evident that the Indian Service was the most corrupt branch of the federal government and that Indian reservations were often […]
The Siletz Room in the Burrows House Museum in Newport, Oregon, contains baskets and beadwork from the Clarinda G. Copeland (1852-1929) Collection. Born Clarinda Gertrude […]
At the time when the first Europeans began to enter into the Central Oregon Coast area, the American Indians in the area—Tillamook, Alsea, Yacona, and […]
In 1855, the Coast Reservation was established by executive order of President Franklin Pierce. The new reservation ran approximately 102 miles north and south along […]