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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 , 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 , June 6th, 2020
Much has been written about the impact of pandemics on indigenous populations. Columbus and his exploratory contemporaries brought slavery and conquest to the new worlds, and that conquest…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , March 22nd, 2020
As Commissioner of Indian Affairs, John Collier was a long-term advocate for Indian tribes. In the 1920s, John Collier, a trained sociologist, led efforts in Washington, D.C. to…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , February 17th, 2020
Special Indian Agent J. Ross Browne famously came to the Northwest reservations in 1857 and wrote reports of the conditions of the tribes on the reservations. The following…
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 , December 1st, 2019
Chief John, Tecumtum, was the leader of the Rogue River Confederacy for over a year in southwestern Oregon. The Confederacy formed when tribal bands on the Table Rock…
Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , September 15th, 2019
Digging through previously collected digitized documents, I found several accounts of removal of the tribes to the Siletz Reservation. These are worthy of commentary for the historical origins…
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 , 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 , September 2nd, 2018
Reservation Health Reports previous to the 1870’s are fairly rare. there are about two reports a year for each reservation. The annual reports also have some health information,…
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 , 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 10th, 2018
Devil’s Lake is in Lincoln City, in fact it is the only such lake and state park completely contained within a city in Oregon. The Continue reading
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , April 7th, 2018
As addressed in previous essays, in about 1875, most Indian annuities for the Western Oregon tribes ended because the 20 year payments were exhausted. This Continue reading
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , April 1st, 2018
The year 1876 appears to have been a key year to discuss further reductions of the Siletz Reservation. The original Coast reservation was a Continue reading
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , March 25th, 2018
Oregon Tribal Languages have been endangered for over 100 years. From an original base of some 100 languages and dialects, the number of surviving Continue reading
David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , March 17th, 2018
In Oregon history, the settlers began coming to the Willamette Valley by the hundreds in the 1840s. By 1840s there had been a massive epidemic Continue reading