Digital Exhibits

Remarks by Representative Les AuCoin on the Grand Ronde Restoration Act

Statement by Representative Les AuCoin on September 14th, 1983 announcing the introduction of legislation to restore federal status to 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. This document is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. See also PUA_MS147_73 through PUA_MS147_84 and PUA_MS147_128 through PUA_MS147_129 for further information about the Grand Ronde bills.

AuCoin, Les

1983

Grand Ronde Indian Reservation (Or.)

Federally recognized Indian tribes

Oregon--Politics and government

Indian termination policy

Speeches, addresses, etc.

Oregon

PUA_MS147_80

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/

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