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Filtering by: Subject United States. Congress -- Influence Advisor Brauner, David R.

The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

Creator:

Van Laere, M. Susan

Abstract:

The Coast Reservation of Oregon was established under Executive Order of President Franklin Pierce in November, 1855, as a homeland for the southern Oregon tribes. It was an immense, isolated wilderness, parts of which had burned earlier in the century. There were some prairies where farming was possible, but because...

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Masters Thesis

Full Text:

. Deciding that it would be a mistake to return the land and deal with the United Indian Nations, Congress