Umpqua

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Umpqua

*Ethnie:*	UMPQUA
*Language:*	Tolowa-Galice
*Family:*	Pacific Coast Athapaskan
*Stock:*	Athapaskan
*Phylum:*	Na-Dene
*Macro-Culture:*	Northwestern

Speakers

10 or fewer

1962 Chafe

The Umpqua were sedentary hunter/gatherer tribes of the upper course of Oregon's Umpqua River. 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 (Villages)

OR: villages?

Oregon Present Locations

OR Confederated Tribes of Siletz, Siletz, , , and

Confederated Tribe Grand Ronde, Grand Ronde

Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians, http://www.cowcreek.com/

Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, Coos Bay, Roseberg http://www.ctclusi.org/index.asp

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, many of tribe marched to Grand Ronde, many fugitives hid in ancestral territory
1857	Grande Ronde Reservation established
1875	Removed to Siletz Reservation
1918	Cow Creek Umpqua established a formal tribal government
1954	Cow Creek Umpqua terminated
1855	Some joined the Coos Reservation
1956	Siletz Reservation terminated
1977	Confederated Tribes of Siletz founded
1982	Cow Creek Umpqua restored
1992	Cow Creek Umpqua opened Seven Feathers Hotel and Casino Resort

Year	U.S. Population	Source
1700	800	NAHDB calculation
1800	800	NAHDB calculation
1856		Survivors put on several reservations, lost separate identity
1900	0	NAHDB calculation
2000	0	NAHDB calculation

Other speakers of the same language:

None

Umpqua Sites:

Champion of Indian Causes http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues02/Co03232002/CO_03232002_WayneShammel.htm

Confedeerated 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

Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians http://www.cowcreek.com/

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/

Seven Feathers Hotel and Casino Resort http://www.sevenfeathers.com/index.php

Siletz and Alsea http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~cmh18294/Siletz.html

Siletz Burials http://users.wi.net/~census/lesson14.html

Table Rocks http://www.or.blm.gov/medford/environmental_ed/table_rocks/cult_hist/tribes_near.html

Thomason Tribal Cemetery http://users.wi.net/~maracon/lesson12.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

Umpqua Question http://users3.cgiforme.com/suoregon/messages/191.html