Testimony of Kevin Smith, Consultant for the Grand Ronde Tribes, in support of reestablishing a reservation for 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 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. On August 10th, 1987, Representative Les AuCoin scheduled a local hearing to discuss the plan to reestablish a reservation. The hearing included a pro-reservation panel of tribal leaders and an anti-reservation panel of local lumber mills. Representative AuCoin also invited members of several federal agencies, including the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to answer legal questions about the process. This document is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. Digital objects PUA_MS147_73 through PUA_MS147_77 and PUA_MS147_128 through PUA_MS147_129 represent a selection of opinions offered at the August 10th hearing.
Testimony of Kathryn Harrison, Secretary of the Grand Ronde Tribal Council, in support of reestablishing a reservation for 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. On August 10th, 1987, Representative Les AuCoin scheduled a local hearing to discuss the plan to reestablish a reservation. The hearing included a pro-reservation panel of tribal leaders and an anti-reservation panel of local lumber mills. Representative AuCoin also invited members of several federal agencies, including the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to answer legal questions about the process. This document is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. Digital objects PUA_MS147_73 through PUA_MS147_77 and PUA_MS147_128 through PUA_MS147_129 represent a selection of opinions offered at the August 10th hearing.
Photocopy of an article in the Washington Post on December 8th, 1989. The article, written by Don Phillips, discusses the role that Representative Les AuCoin played in the congressional fight for abortion rights. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives.
Speech by Sue AuCoin on behalf of her husband, Representative Les AuCoin, at the Campaign for a Hate Free Oregon Kickoff Rally on July 18th, 1992. In the statement, Sue AuCoin calls on Oregonians to vote against the 1992 Oregon Ballot Measure 9. The measure, which was defeated in the 1992 general election, would have added language to the Oregon constitution banning the use of state funds "to promote, encourage or facilitate homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism or masochism". This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives and can be found in Box 47, Folder 18.
A speech by Representative Les AuCoin at the Oregon National Abortion Rights Action League Conference. The speech, given on January 21st, 1984, references the 1984 election and its potential impact on abortion rights in the United States. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives and can be found in Box 7, Folder 3. See also PUA_MS147_69 for a list of other speeches on abortion rights by Representative Les AuCoin.
This flyer lists a sample of Congressman AuCoin's speeches and floor statements on reproductive rights between 1981 and 1990. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives and can be found in Box 51, Folder 20.
A ceremonial copy of S. 2055, the Siletz Indian Reservation Act. The act restored a reservation for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, which lost its reservation and tribal status in the Western Oregon Indian Termination Act of 1954. In 1977, after much lobbying to Congress, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz became the second tribe in the U.S. to have its federal status restored. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. See also PUA_MS147_67 for a letter from President Jimmy Carter to Representative Les AuCoin about the bill.
A brief letter written by President Jimmy Carter to Representative Les AuCoin on November 17th, 1980, marking the signing of S. 2055, the Siletz Indian Reservation Act. The act restored a reservation for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, which lost its reservation and tribal status in the Western Oregon Indian Termination Act of 1954. In 1977, after much lobbying to Congress, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz became the second tribe in the U.S. to have its federal status restored. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. See also PUA_MS147_68 for the ceremonial copy of S. 2055 mentioned in the letter.
General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev greets the congressional delegation to the Soviet Union. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.
Representative Les AuCoin presents a peace quilt sewn in Beaverton, Oregon to Minister Eduard Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union. PUA_MS147_122 offers a description of the quilt: "This quilt was stitched by students of Vose Elementary School in Beaverton. As part of the Campfire Organization's 'A Gift of Peace' project nationally, Campfire members at Vose conceptualized the making of two quilts - one to be presented to President Reagan and the other to be presented to General Secretary Gorbachev". See PUA_MS147_122 for a full description. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.
Representative Les AuCoin presents a peace quilt sewn in Forest Grove, Oregon to a group of politicians in the Soviet Union. PUA_MS147_122 offers a description of the quilt: "This quilt was stitched by the women of the Forest Grove Stitchery Group. In the fall of 1983, this group began planning an Oregon peace quilt that would demonstrate to the women of the Soviet Union, especially, that the women of the U.S.A. stood for friendship and peace between our two countries." See PUA_MS147_122 for a full description. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.
Photo of the western side of the Berlin wall. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.
This scrapbook page includes a photo of a table of guests at a banquet in Berlin for a congressional delegation. A label at the top left reads "Charlottenburg Castle, April 20, 1987". A label at the bottom left reads "Dinner of the President of the Berlin House of Representatives Peter Rebsch honoring H.H.E.E. the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States of America and Mrs. James C. Wright". This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.
This document describes two peace quilts created in Oregon as gifts for the Soviet Union. The Vose Quilt, created by students of Vose Elementary School in Beaverton, Oregon, was one of two matching quilts created for U.S. President Regan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The Oregon Peace Quilt, created by the Forest Grove Stitchery Group, was created to "demonstrate to the women of the Soviet Union, especially, that the women of the U.S.A. stood for friendship and peace". See also PUA_MS147_116, PUA_MS147_125, PUA_MS147_126 for images of the quilts. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.
Representative Les AuCoin speaks with Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In typed notes about the image, AuCoin writes: "Sue and I were members of Speaker Jim Wright's 1986 mission to Moscow. At the Kremlin, I talked briefly with Mikhail Gorbachev about a bill I helped pass that banned flight tests on anti-satellite weapons. It was the first form of arms control ever conceived in and passed by Congress." This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.
This scrapbook page includes two photos of Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue meeting Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. See also PUA_MS147_121 and PUA_MS147_37 for other images of the meeting. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.
This scrapbook page includes a photo of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and a memorandum about a congressional visit to the site. The memorandum, from Mark Nelson to the Foreign Desk, describes how Representatives Les AuCoin (OR), Norm Dicks (WA), and Richard Cheney (WY) were invited to visit the site of the nuclear disaster. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.
Representative Les AuCoin meets with Ukrainian politicians at a banquet in the Mariyinsky Palace in Kiev. Representative Ralph Regula appears to the left of Representative AuCoin. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.
Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue at a banquet held in the Mariyinsky Palace in Kyiv. Sue AuCoin's place card appears above the photo. The banquet was held on April 16th, 1987. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.
Representative Les AuCoin presents a peace quilt sewn in Forest Grove, Oregon to a group of politicians in the Soviet Union. PUA_MS147_122 offers a description of the quilt: "This quilt was stitched by the women of the Forest Grove Stitchery Group. In the fall of 1983, this group began planning an Oregon peace quilt that would demonstrate to the women of the Soviet Union, especially, that the women of the U.S.A. stood for friendship and peace between our two countries." This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. It originally appeared in an AuCoin family scrapbook documenting U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright's visit to Spain, the Soviet Union, and the Federal Republic of Germany in April 1987. The congressional delegation included Representative Les AuCoin and his wife Sue. Other members of congress on the trip included Tony Coelho, Dick Cheney, Jim Howard, Les Aspin, John Paul Hammerschmidt, Jim Scheuer, Lawrence Coughlin, Ralph Regula, Carrol Hubbard, Tom Downey, Norm Dicks, Wes Watkins, Mickey Leland, Steny Hoyer, Esteban Torres, and Sherwood Boehlert. The AuCoin family loaned the scrapbook to Pacific University Archives in 2022 for digitization, and the scrapbook remains with the AuCoin family.
President Jimmy Carter celebrates signing a bill into law, surrounded by clapping legislators. The photo was probably taken in 1980, based on the people in the photo. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. See also PUA_MS147_65.
President Jimmy Carter signs a bill into law, surrounded by clapping legislators. Representative Les AuCoin is the fourth person from the right. The photo was probably taken in 1980, based on the people in the photo. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. See also PUA_MS147_66.
Letter to Representative Les AuCoin from Tony Coelho, Chairman of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The letter identifies Representative AuCoin as "one of thirty-five Democratic Congressmen targeted by Republican Party leaders for defeat in 1986." In 1986, AuCoin ran against Tony Meeker in the election for U.S. Representative of Oregon's First District. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives and can be found in Box 25, Folder 7.
Letter to Representative Les AuCoin from Christopher Brown, Conservation Director at American Rivers. The letter thanks Representative AuCoin and his staff member Kevin Lynch for their work supporting the Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area Bill. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives and can be found in Box 25, Folder 7.
