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