"AuCoin Bill Would Restore Recognition of the Grand Ronde Indians" press release · Les AuCoin Collection

Title: "AuCoin Bill Would Restore Recognition of the Grand Ronde Indians" press release
Description: Press release from the office of Representative Les AuCoin announcing the introduction of legislation to restore federal status to the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde includes over 30 tribes from Oregon, California, and Washington. In the early 1850s, the United States forced these tribes off their lands, eventually establishing the Grand Ronde Reservation in Oregon in 1857. In 1954, Congress passed the Western Oregon Indian Termination Act, which ended federal recognition of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Beginning in the 1970s, tribal leaders began working to restore the tribe's federal status, lobbying Congress to first pass the Grand Ronde Restoration Act in 1983, which restored federal recognition, then the Grand Ronde Reservation Act in 1988, which restored a small part of the reservation. This document is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. See also PUA_MS147_73 through PUA_MS147_84 and PUA_MS147_128 through PUA_MS147_129 for further information about the Grand Ronde bills.
Identifier: PUA_MS147_79
Date Created: 1983
Date: 1983
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Subject: Press releases; Grand Ronde Indian Reservation (Or.); Federally recognized Indian tribes; Oregon--Politics and government; Indian termination policy
Spatial Coverage: Oregon
Type: Text

Item sets: Les AuCoin; Pacific University Archives DPLA

Site pages: Tribal Sovereignty

Media: PUA_MS147_79.pdf