Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians of 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 — 11,483 km² in 4 cessions across 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: Umpqua (Cow Creek band) · Chasta · Grave Creek · Scoton · Calapooia · Umpqua · Indians on coast of Oregon

Cessions

Royce no.	Date	As the schedule names the parties	Sources
313	September 19, 1853	Umpqua (Cow Creek band)	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
343	November 18, 1854	Chasta; Grave Creek; Scoton · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
344	November 29, 1854	Calapooia; Umpqua · 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 · 136 km within them

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.