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Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , August 30th, 2020
A good number of people have over the years shown some confusion about the identity of the tribal members at the Grand Ronde tribe. Many natives and non-natives…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , June 7th, 2020
As a native person, a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and a descendant of the Santiam, Takelma, and Chinook peoples of western Oregon, I have…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , June 2nd, 2020
The following story appeared in the Oregonian in 1900. Nicholas Day was an Indian agent who was hired by Joel Palmer to manage the Umpqua Indians. Day took…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , April 16th, 2020
Treaty between the Waukikum tribe and the United States, negotiated by Anson Dart, Superintendent of Indian Affairs. The treaty negotiations at Tansey Point on the Columbia River were…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , April 5th, 2020
When Joel Palmer was appointed to Superintendent of Indian Affairs in May 1853 he had a good working knowledge of the tribes but had never visited the southern…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , March 26th, 2020
In 1853, the former Superintendent of Indian Affairs of Oregon Anson Dart had been forced to resign as none of his nineteen treaties with the tribes were ratified….
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , January 2nd, 2020
Modeste Demers was assigned with the Oregon Territory, in 1837, at the same time as Francois Norbert Blanchet and they traveled together overland to their assignment in canoes…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , December 30th, 2019
Blanchet’s mission to the Cascades is perhaps his first visit to this location. His interactions with Tamakoun, also later called Tomaquin, are quite revealing of the tribe…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , December 30th, 2019
The following is a Notice, Notice No. 4, part of a series of reports of the Catholic missionary Francois Norbert Blanchet from 1841 to 1842 about his missionary…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , December 10th, 2019
The Nichaqwali people, a Cascades/Watlala Chinookan band, lived at the juncture of several cultural groups that lived in the larger region of the lower Columbia and who interacted…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , October 21st, 2019
Phillip Drucker’s field notes from the 1920s and 30s had him questioning many Native people from the region, from Grand Ronde and Siletz. Many of these people were…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , September 3rd, 2019
Native peoples of the America were thought of in early philosophy as being Red Indians, fitting perfectly into a color wheel of peoples of the earth, White people…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , March 28th, 2019
Presently, there is an apology bill being considered in the Oregon State Senate for the Modoc Indian War of 1872-1873. This apology is long past due to the…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , March 16th, 2019
In July 1851, Captain William Tichenor decided to begin his project to colonize and claim the Port Orford area. He envisioned that the establishment of a town at…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , December 27th, 2018
The Chinook Nation is still seeking recognition in 2018, despite having one of the oldest and longest relationships with the United States of any tribe on the West…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , December 8th, 2018
In 1907, the Indian agent at Grand Ronde began redacting, or not listing, native peoples at Grand Ronde from the annual tribal census. The agent was treating the…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , November 2nd, 2018
Removal of the western Oregon tribes to the reservations was a tumultuous affair. Caravans from the Umpqua and Table Rock reservations to place in the dead of winter…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , August 13th, 2018
I have previously written about how the coastal tribes were relocated to several river estuaries within the Coast Reservation (Siuslaw, Yachats, Alsea, Nashesne, Siletz and Umpqua). There the…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , August 2nd, 2018
The Grand Ronde Indian reservation was a sudden change in plans for Joel Palmer in 1855. When the Rogue River war began, and other conflicts with tribes north…
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , July 25th, 2018
I have spent much time on Palmer’s and other early settler’s and explorer’s letters that I have gained a good understanding of the history of the tribes. Some…
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , July 19th, 2018
In 1853, the Oregon Territorial militia commanded by General Joseph Lane was fighting a series of battles in the Rogue River valley, the main battle at Evans Creek….
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , June 2nd, 2018
Are Tribes Ready for Termination, Again? In the past few weeks a number of federal administration officials have made statements which suggest that a concerted effort is underway…
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , May 25th, 2018
Horatio Hale’s created what may be one of the earliest ethnographies of the tribes of the Pacific Coast. Remarkable as it is, Hale’s ethnography is both interesting and…
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , May 14th, 2018
James G. Swan is a legendary scholar of Native people of the Northwest coast. He is an early federal employee in the Oregon territory and lives in the…