Until recently, there was a general lack of accurate, comprehensive and readily available resources on the history, culture and lifeways of the members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and their ancestors. All, or nearly all of the past writing on western...
The 1910s began with the above mentioned financial & political pressures mounting, but our people still found time to celebrate. There were annual Siletz Indian Fairs, at hop picking time – there were always fiddle dances, if not feather dances. The people...
As soon as the 1892 agreement was signed, an effort to split the western part of Benton County off, to form a new county, went into overdrive. The result of that effort was that within 4 months, Lincoln County was established. Ever since non-Indians had moved into the...
As stated in the last article, allotment was both boon and bane to our people for various reasons. Federal policy was directed at de-Indian-izing our people. The allotment policy was an important part of that process, because it meant the breaking up of communal...
Some of the treaties of our Siletz people mentioned that parcels of land (allotments) could be assigned to individual tribal members, and there was some early, informal allotting of lands to tribal members here at Siletz. George Harney, Henry Davenport, Alex Ross and...
As stated at the beginning of last month’s article, to really understand our history is to understand each event or situation survived by our people. But, we must be careful not to look at each event or era in isolation, but holistically as it relates to the...
