Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation, Oregon — lands ceded, 1853–1855

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1853–1855, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 11,801 km² in 3 cessions across California, Oregon.

A cession records when the United States took title — not the full extent of a homeland, and much land was taken without any treaty. The link between each cession and present-day nations is the one the U.S. Forest Service and the National NAGPRA Program’s dataset records; the nation’s own account comes first. Corrections: [email protected].

Named in the treaties as: Rogue River Indians · Chasta · Grave Creek · Scoton · Indians on coast of Oregon

Cessions

Royce no.	Date	As the schedule names the parties	Sources
312	September 10, 1853	Rogue River Indians · with Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
343	November 18, 1854	Chasta; Grave Creek; Scoton · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
479	November 9, 1855; December 21, 1865; August 15, 1894	Indians on coast of Oregon · with 4 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule

Trails across these lands

Siskiyou Trail · 95 km within them
114 km of unnamed trails in the network

Maps on Native Routes that cover these lands

Cession areas: “Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States” (USDA Forest Service, National NAGPRA Program, EPA and Claudio Saunt, 2018; CC BY 4.0), digitized from Charles C. Royce, Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899). Outlines simplified to about 1 km. Part of Project Homeland v0.5.2 — how it was made.