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About Smoke signals. (Grand Ronde, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 2008)
20 NOVEMBER 1 5, 2008 Smoke Signals Sept. 8, 1853: Treaty with the Rogue River Tribes. Sept. 19, 1853: Treaty with the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua. Nov. 15, 1854: Treaty with the Rogue River Tribes. Nov. 18, 1854: Treaty with the Chasta Costa. Nov. 29, 1854: Treaty with the Umpqua and Kalapuya. Jan. 22, 1855: Treaty with the Confederated Bands of the Willamette Valley. Dec. 21, 1855: Treaty with the Molalla. Feb. 23-March 25, 1856: Trail of Tears from Table Rock Reservation to Grand Ronde. June 30, 1857: President Franklin Pierce's Executive Order establishing the 69,100-acre Grand Ronde Reservation. 1862: Father Adrian Croquet opens St. Michael's Church in Grand Ronde. 1870s: Indians from the Salmon and Nestucca rivers join the Grand Ronde Reservation. 1872: Individual Indian families allotted farm land at Grand Ronde. 1887-89: Dawes General Allotment Act passed by federal government; reservation begins to shrink. 1901: Negotiations begin on sale of surplus, or unallotted, reservation lands. Sale consum mated by lump-sum payment of $28,500, or about $1.10 per acre or $72 per capita. June 18, 1934: Indian Reorganization Act allows Tribe to purchase land for subsistence and farming sites. April 4, 1936: Tribe adopts Constitution and bylaws under the IRA by an 83-13 vote. Aug. 13, 1954: Western Oregon Indian Termination Act signed. 1956: Federal services to Terminated Indian Tribes cease; publication of Termination roll. Dec. 22, 1973: Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin becomes first Terminated Tribe restored b; the U.S. Congress. 1975: Temporary Council of Grand Ronde Indians starts meeting in Grand Ronde Library and other sites in Grand Ronde and Salem area. Nov. 18, 1977: Confederated Tribes of Siletz in western Oregon become second Terminate Tribe restored by U.S. Congress. 1978: Oregon Legal Services starts Native American Program. May 1, 1979: The Tribe, through extensive community fundraising efforts, buys seven acres to add to the 2.5 acres left of its land base the Tribal cemetery. 1979: Oregon Legal Services' Don Wharton first visits Grand Ronde Tribal Council meet ing held at Willamina Elementary School. 1079: Tribe receives a $90,000 Administration for Native Americans grant, which allows i to hire five full-time employees. 1CG0: Kathryn Harrison, who worked on the Siletz Restoration, returns to Grand Ronde, the Tribe of her father. 1982: Grand Ronde Tribal members make trips to Washington, D.C., to enlist congressional support for the Tribe's Restoration. 3. 27, 1982: The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe in southern Oregon is restored. . Tribal member Roger Harrison designs the Tribal logo, which is still in use today. '.. 14, 1983: Congressman Les AuCoin introduces the Grand Ronde Restoration Bill. ' , 1083: Five Tribal members Kathryn, Frank and Karen Harrison, Marvin Kimsey nn :: Mercier Colton visit Washington, D.C., to testify on behalf of Tribal Restoration. ";or 1983: The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Grand Ronde Restoratic Bill and sends it to the U.S. Senate for consideration. 1083: The U.S. Senate passes the Grand Ronde Restoration Bill without amene a voice vote. It is sent to President Ronald Reagan for his signature on Nov. 14. C33: President Reagan signs the bill that restores federal recognition to the Co. federated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Nov. 10, 1984: The Tribe OKs a Constitution by a 145-14 vote. -Tovember 1985: The Tribe finishes its Grand Ronde Reservation Plan. '38: President Ronald Reagan signs the Grand Ronde Reservation Act, restorir 9,811 acres of the original reservation to the Tribe. 17, 1988: The National Indian Gaming Regulatory Act becomes law. :d Ronde Tribal Council meets in the new Community Center, the first permr nent building site since Tribal Restoration. 3ov. Barbara Roberts signs a gaming compact with the Grand Ronde Tribe.
