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Redacted for Privacy AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF M. Susan Van Laere for the degreeof Master of Arts in Applied Anthropologypresented on March 6, 2000. Title: The Grizzly Bear andthe Deer: The History of Federal Indian Policy and Its Impacton the Coast Reservation Tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877. Abstract Approved Redacted for privacy David R. Brauner The Coast Reservation of Oregonwas established under Executive Order of President Franklin Pierce in November,1855, as a homeland for the southern Oregon tribes. It was an immense, isolatedwilderness, parts of which had burned earlier inthe century. There were some prairies where farmingwas possible, but because the reservation system itself and farming,particularly along the coast,were unknown entities, life for the Indianswas a misery for years. Those responsible for the establishmentof the reservation were subject to the vagaries of the weather, the wilderness,the Congress, and the Office of Indian Affairs. Agents were accountable, not only forthe lives of Oregon Indians, but also for allof the minute details involved in answeringto a governmental agency. Some of the agentswere experienced with the tribes ofwestern Oregon; others were not. All of them believedthat the only way to keep the Indiansfrom dying out was to teach them theEuropean American version of agriculturalism.Eventually, if possible, Oregon Indians would be assimilated into the dominant culture. Mostagents held out little hope for the adults of the tribes. This thesis lays out the background for thedevelopment of United States Indian policies. European Americans' etimocentricideas about what constituted civilization became inextricablywoven into those policies. Those policies were brought in their infant stage to Oregon. Thus, the workon the reservations was experimental, costing lives and destroying community. How those policieswere implemented on the Coast Reservation from 1856-1877 concludes this study. Copyright by M. Susan Van Laere March 6, 2000 All Rights Reserved The Grizzly Bear and the Deer: The History of Federal Indian Policy and Its Impact on the Coast Reservation Tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877 by M. Susan Van Laere A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial ftilfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Presented March 6, 2000 Commencement June 2000 Master of Arts thesis of M. Susan Van Laere presentedon March 6, 2000 APPROVED: Redacted for privacy Major Professor, representing Applied Anthropology Redacted for privacy Chair of D nartment of Redacted for privacy Dean of I understand that my thesis will become part of thepermanent collection of Oregon State University libraries. My signature below authorizes release ofmy thesis to any reader upon request. M. Susan Van Laere, Author ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my husband, Mike, who has always encouragedme to pursue my interests and ideas and who has always given me confidence anda warm hand to hold. In addition, I would like to thank my professors: Dave Brauner whoseinterest in historical archaeology fueledmy own and opened new doors of inquily; Court Smith who always expected me to think anthropologically and questionedme when I did not; and Roberta Hall who spent much time talking withme, reading my thesis, and helping me to understand more thoroughly the Coquilie and Coos peoples of the southernOregon coast. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Overview 1 1.2 Research Objectives 4 1.3 Methodology 7 2. AMERICAN INDIANS AND EUROPEANS:A CLASH OF CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES 9 2.1 Europeans and the New World: From Bountiflul Paradiseto Dangerous Wilderness 9 2.2 Jeffersonian Era Beliefs 15 2.3 American Indian and European American Perspectiveson Land Use 18 3. FEDERAL INDIAN POLICY FROM COLONIALTIMES TO THE 1850'S 20 3.1 Treaty Negotiations 20 3.2 Trade 23 3.3 Tribes as Sovereign Nations 24 3.4 Quieting Tribal Land Title 26 3.5 Land Cessions and the Annuity System 28 3.6 The Push for Removal 29 3.7 Squeezing the Tribes-Concentration Policy 33 4. BRINGING GOVERNMENT POLICY TO OREGON 35 4.1 Tribal Rights vs Settlers' Rights 35 TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued) Page 4.2 Initial Treaty Making 41 4.3 The Final Solution: the Coast Reservation 47 5. FEDERAL INDIAN POLICY'S IMPACT ON THE COAST RESERVATION TRIBES 51 5.1 Overview 51 5.2 The Tribes 58 5.2.1 Athapascan Speakers 58 5.2.2 Takilman Speakers 61 5.2.3 Shastan Speakers 61 5.2.4 Yakonan Speakers 61 5.2.5 Siuslawan Speakers 62 5.2.6 Kusan Speakers 62 5.3 The Treaties 67 5.3.1 Ratified Treaty with the Rogue River, 1853--Table Rock 67 5.3.2 Ratified Treaty with the Rogue River, 1854 68 5.3.3 Unratified Treaty with the Coast Tribes of Oregon, 1855 69 5.3.4 Ratified Treaty with the Chasta, Scotons, and Grave Creek Band of Umpquas, 1854 71 5.4 Treaty Promises vs Reality 74 5.4.1Appropriations 74 5.4.2Obtaining Supplies 79 5.4.3Financial Complications 83 5.4.4Agricultural Plans 91 5.4.5Farming 95 5.4.6Intrusions onto the Reservation 103 5.4.7Tyee John 109 5.4.8The Alsea Sub-Agency 123 TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued) Page 6. UNSCRUPULOUS AGENTS? 141 6,1Robert B. Metcalfe 147 6.1.1In Southern Oregon 147 6.1.2Moving the People North 149 6.1.3On the Grand Ronde 152 6.1.4The Coast Reservation 154 6.1.5Problems With the Military 157 6.1.6Severity of Problems on the Coast Reservation 160 6,1,7Accusations 166 6.1.8Delegate to the Democratic Convention 167 6.1.9Conclusion 168 6.2 BenjaminR.Biddle 171 6.2.1Agent at the Coast Reservation 173 6.2.2Accusations of Fraud 176 6.2.3Suspension From the Service 186 6.2.4Conclusion 187 7. CONCLUSION 192 BIBLIOGRAPHY 201 APPENDICES 214 Appendix ATribal Names 215 Appendix BR.B. Metcalfe's Debts 218 Appendix CWestern Oregon Agents, 1850-1877 223 Appendix DOregon Superintendents 224 Appendix ECommissioners of Office of Indian Affairs 225 LIST OF FIGURES Figures Page 1.1 The Coast Reservation 3 4.1 Overland Immigration to Oregon and Washington, 1840-1860 37 4.2 Joel Palmer, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1853-1856 45 4.3 Bill For Steamship Columbia 50 5.1 James Nesmith, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1857-1859 55 5.2 Historic Tribal Homelands, Oregon 59 5.3 Traditional Coquille Territory 66 5.4 Tribal Land Cessions 72 5.5 Land Cession Key 73 5.6 Superintendent of Indian Affairs Circular 88 5.7 Edward R. Geary, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 1859-186 1 93 5.8 Siletz Reservation, 1858 96 5.9 Reduced Siletz Reservation and Grand Ronde Reservation, 1877 102 5.10 Te-cum-tum or Tyee (Chief) John 110 5.11 Coquille Thompson 116 5.12Princess Mary, Daughter of Chief John 122 5.13 Benjamin Simpson, Agent at Coast Reservation, 1863-1871 134 6.1 Benjamin Robert Biddle, Siletz Reservation Agent, 1861-1862 172 This thesis is dedicated to the memory ofmy parents who encouraged my interest in history and archaeology. THE GRIZZLY BEAR AND THE DEER: THE HISTORY OF FEDERAL iNDIAN POLICY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE COAST RESERVATION TRIBES OF OREGON, 1856-1877 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Overview On November 9, 1855, under President Franldin Pierce's Executive Order, the Coast Reservation was created. By this order, Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Joel Palmer, succeeded in his goal of acquiring a reservation in western Oregon on which to settle the tribes of southern Oregon and the coastal areas. Known first as the Coast Reservation and later as the Siletz Reservation, the original land area contained 1,100,000 acres (Kentta, 1997), extending from Cape Lookout in the north, between the Siuslaw and Umpqua Rivers in the south, and 20 miles east and west between the summit of the Coast Range and the Pacific Ocean (Ruby and Brown1992:50).(See Figure 1.1) The three forts built to guard the borders of the reservation were Fort Umpqua in the south along the coast, Fort Hoskins in the middle of the Coast Range of mountains, and Fort Yamhill on the northeastern edge of the Coast Range. Of these three, Fort Hoskins played the most significant role in maintaining the Coast Reservation. Fort Unipqua was abandoned in1862,and Yamhill guarded the smaller Grand Ronde Reservation. The Grand Ronde Reservation served both as a temporary living area for those tribes later placed on the Coast Reservation and as a permanent settlement for other tribes, mainly from the Willamette and Umpqua valleys (Ruby and Brown1992:47).Fort Hoskins supplied men and equipment to a blockhouse on the Siletz.Those soldiers guarded the area where the Siletz Agencywas located, and, in addition, assisted the sub- agent at Alsea when requested.Fort Hoskins' major purpose was to keep the various tribes out of the Willamette Valley and southern Oregonand the non-Indian settlers off the reservation. The period of 1856-1877 wasa transitional period of great significance for the Coast Reservation tribes. During this time, the various tribes' cultureswere forcibly changed to meet what the federal government consideredas necessary for its "Indian children' s" well-being. Progresswas not only inevitable but desirable according to the beliefs of the time; if American Indianswere to be saved from extinction, they needed to be "civilized" (Trennert 1975:194). If segregationonto reservations away from negative European American influence was theonlyway to save them, then that was the choice to be made. The burden of fulfilling governmental policy fellon the shoulders of agents in the field. Under the supervision ofa superintendent (who often was changed if the political winds blew from a different direction), agentswere charged with helping Oregon Indians make a new life in a different place mostly against their will and with fewresources.
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