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Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , April 14th, 2022
In 1856, Joel Palmer had some 4000 Natives removed from their homelands to the Coast and Grand Ronde Indian Reservations. Up to at least April of 1856 the…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , January 6th, 2022
The Chetco Indians, perhaps more than nearly any other tribe on the Oregon coast, were repeatedly attacked by racist white settlers before their removal. In a previous set…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , November 11th, 2021
There are numerous oral histories from tribal people in Oregon about catastrophic events, fires, volcanic eruptions, floods, tsunamis. Many of these stories are fantastically imagined and are likely…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , August 16th, 2021
In numerous essays on this blog I have noted that many of the tribes considered the most violent, and those who had participated in the wars in southwestern…
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 30th, 2020
The first Rogue River War was a series of skirmishes and battles between mainly gold miners and the tribes. The miners had no regard for the tribes and…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , December 18th, 2019
Previous essays have addressed the poor treatment of the tribes on the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation into the late 1860s. In 1869 during his inauguration speech, newly elected…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , June 18th, 2019
Joel Palmer was the Indian Agent at the Siletz Agency in 1871 and had responsibilities, as emphasized in his 1871 journal, over continuing to removing Indians from the…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , June 17th, 2019
In 1874, Joel Palmer was again an independent contractor for the Indian service, after having completed a two-year stint as the Indian Agent for the Siletz Agency. Palmer…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , April 11th, 2019
The Siletz placename is something of a mystery. Leo J. Frachtenberg, the ethnologist assigned to collect native languages on the Grand Ronde and Siletz reservations in about 1913, …
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 , February 24th, 2019
1850 June, the First treaty in the North West Coast and West Coast, a Treaty of Peace negotiated with General Joseph Lane and the Takelma- Rogue River Tribes…
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 29th, 2018
In the 1860’s the western Oregon reservations were still struggling with feeding all the Indians despite promises by Indian agents, and the treaties, that when they removed,…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , August 19th, 2018
Albert B. Meacham was an Indian agent in the 1860’s and 70’s and oversaw some changes in the reservations. He attempted to give the tribes some voice in…
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 , June 19th, 2018
Lt. William A. Slacum, a Navy purser, was sent by the President, through the Department of State, as a special investigator to the Oregon Territory to investigate the…
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , May 26th, 2018
For years, I have stated that the tribes did not have bison in Oregon, so they would not have made tipis. This is why the tribes have…
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 11th, 2018
The next section map of the coastline, (770c) begins with Cascade Head and ends at the Cape Meares. Every major feature of the Coast has a Native name….
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , May 10th, 2018
In the map collections of Oregon Historical Society there is a selection of Coast Survey maps. Most of these maps date from 1874 and there are some later….
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , April 20th, 2018
William Raymond was a sub-Indian agent from 1851 until at least 1857. He administered the tribes first at the Astoria sub-agency, then later moved the agency to Tillamook….
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , April 12th, 2018
In the 1860’s, the Indians of the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation needed a route to get to the coast to gather fish. The Indian agents Continue reading