Chasta Costa
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Chasta Costa |
| Ethnie: | CHASTA COSTA |
| Language: | Tolowa-Galice |
| Family: | Pacific Coast Athapaskan |
| Stock: | Athapaskan |
| Phylum: | Na-Dene |
| Macro-Culture: | Northwestern |
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| The Chasta Costa were a sedentary hunter/gatherer tribe of Oregon's Rogue and Illinois Rivers. The Pacific Coast Athapaskans arrived in the area late in the first millennium from Canada. The tribe was placed, with others, on the Coast Reservation as a result of the Rogue River Wars, and later all were removed to the Siletz Reservation where they confederated with other tribes. |
| Aboriginal Locations |
| OR Estimates of number of villages vary, but 3 is a likely number |
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| Year | History |
| 1841 | Influx of Oregon Trail settlers began, conflicts followed |
| 1847 | Measles epidemic |
| 1853 | Rogue River gold discovery |
| 1855 | Rogue River War began with Lupton Massacre followed by Capt. John Rampage killing up to 40 Whites ... the Galice attack, and battles at Hungry Hill and Black Bar |
| 1856 | Gold Beach Uprising, 12 Indians killed at Massacre Rock, up to 30 killed at Meadows Battle, Indians surrendered after Battle of Big Bend, 1,200 moved to the Coast Reservation |
| 1875 | Removed to Siletz Reservation |
| 1956 | Siletz Reservation terminated |
| 1977 | Confederated Tribes of Siletz founded |
| Year | U.S. Population | Source |
| 1700 | 300 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1800 | 200 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1856 | 153 | Official roll |
| 1900 | 50 | NAHDB calculation |
| 30 | 30 | US Indian Office |
| 2000 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Chetco, Galice Creek, Talushtuntude, Tututni, Umpqua |
| Chasta Costa Sites: |
| Chasta Costa http://www.enotes.com/salem-history/chasta-costa |
| Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians ... http://doc.narf.org/nill/Codes/siletzcode/silcode11geo.htm |
| Confederated Tribes of Siletz http://www.ohwy.com/or/s/siltribe.htm |
| Index to Siletz Reservation Documents http://www.csusm.edu/nadp/dindex.htm |
| Indians of the Coast http://boyett.tripod.com/siletz.html |
| Northwest: Oregon Culture and Ethnobotany http://www.fourdir.com/northwest_california-oregon_culture.htm |
| Oregon Indian Tribes http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/oregon/ |
| Siletz Burials http://users.wi.net/~census/lesson14.html |
| Tolowa-Galice Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TOL |
| Tolowa-Galice Linquistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=TOL |
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