Letter from President Jimmy Carter to Representative Les AuCoin concerning the Siletz Indian Reservation Act
Title
Letter from President Jimmy Carter to Representative Les AuCoin concerning the Siletz Indian Reservation Act
Description
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.
Creator
Carter, Jimmy
Date Created
1980
Subject
Presidents--United States
Legislators--United States
Bills, Legislative
Correspondence
Siletz Indian Reservation (Or.)
Siletz Indians
Federally recognized Indian tribes
Place
Oregon
Identifier
PUA_MS147_67
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Type
Text