Oregon Tribal Genealogy 2.0

(Updated 2015) modified and updated from the original chapter

Chapter 1, Theory, for the 2009 Dissertation. Full dissertation available at Proquest: http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb/results.html?QryTxt=&By=lewis&Title=grand+ronde&pubnum=

Transcriptions of Native written letters and association with history for western Oregon tribes.

Discussion of the history of the tribes of western Oregon using some specifics from the Kalapuya and Takelma tribes, and some problems with continued understandings about the tribal histories. An early version preparing for publication in the Oregon Historical Quarterly - Four Deaths: The Near Destruction of Western Oregon Tribes and Native Lifeways, Removal to the Reservation and Erasure from History. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 115:3, Fall 2014.

History of the SWORP research project.

Under the banner of indigenous and collaborative archaeologies, heritage professionals and indigenous peoples have developed new forms of scholarly practice. This work has begun to rectify the discipline's historical marginalization of indigenous groups but remains skewed toward academic projects. Less attention has been paid to the hundreds of Tribal Historic Preservation Offices within tribal nations. This article argues that tribal historic preservation provides needed insight to heritage managers of all stripes. Using the Grand Ronde Land Tenure Project as a case study, I discuss how tribally-driven archival research fosters new accounts of Native history and enhances tribes' capacity to care for cultural resources.

History of the OTAI project at Oregon State University, co-written with Natalia M. Fernandez

Wordpress: Don Macnaughtan's Bibliographies, 2014

The Athapaskans in Oregon originally migrated into this area over two millennia ago from northern Canada and Siberia. They are a distinct group who probably arrived from Asia in a separate, later migration from most Native Americans. They are linguistic relatives to groups in Northern Canada and Siberia, as well as the Navajo and Apache in the Southwest. Recent research has connected them to the Yeniseian (Ket) peoples of Central Siberia. Their name for themselves – “Tunne” – is cognate with the Navajo “Dine.” At some point, they split off from the southward migration of the Athapaskans, and settled into these remote pockets of land. They were found in small valleys from the Lower Columbia through the Umpqua and Rogue valleys in Southern Oregon. Their languages remained distinctive, but otherwise they shared many cultural similarities with their neighbors. How and when they found their way here is something of a mystery. Their descendants still live in Oregon today.

In 1961 the federal Indian policy known as termination ended the Klamath Tribes' federal recognition and transferred the majority of communally held reservation land out of Klamath tribal ownership. Studies of the Klamath Tribes' termination generally focus on the negative impacts of this policy and tend to victimize the Klamath Tribes. During the 1970s, however, the Klamath Tribes affirmed their treaty rights and sovereignty in federal court, reestablished their tribal council, and appointed a tribal wildlife commission. Threatened by the Klamaths' actions, the State of Oregon resisted recognizing the Klamaths' treaty rights and sovereignty but succumbed to tribal pressure by 1981. This article challenges the trope of native resistance. Rather than victimize the Klamaths and assume that their activism was merely resistance against a more powerful state, this article demonstrates that the Klamath Tribes wielded more political power than the State of Oregon. This novel approach for understanding episodes in twentieth-century American Indian history further suggests that Indian-state-U.S. relations can be more fully understood through an examination of tribal entities, such as natural and cultural resource departments.

Medics in Russian America in 1784 - 1867