Table Rock Indian Reservation

Table Rock Indian Reservation

Table Rock Reservation was a short-lived Indian reservation located north of the Rogue River in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was established by treaty with the Rogue River Indians in 1853. Following the conclusion of the Rogue River Wars in 1856, the Native American inhabitants were moved to other reservations. [cite web |url=http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/echoes/link21.html |title=Echoes of Oregon Request to Open Indian Lands, 1857 |accessdate=2007-11-20 |publisher=Oregon State Archives] The reservation was located in Southern part of the state, between Upper Table Rock and Evans Creek.

History

Conflicts between miners and Rogue River Indians began in the early 1850s, when gold was discovered in what is now Oregon. This conflict turned into open warfare and several treaties were signed in an attempt to end the hostilities, resulting in the Native Americans ceding their land. They were moved to Table Rock Reservation before being moved to the Grand Ronde Reservation and the Siletz Reservation.cite web |url=http://www.blm.gov/or/resources/recreation/tablerock/table-rock-takelma.php |title=What happened to the Takelma? |accessdate=2007-09-29 |publisher=Bureau of Land Management] [cite web |url=http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/rogue-siskiyou/projects/watershed/e-fork-illinois/efivsocial.pdf |title=East Fork of the Illinois River Watershed Analysis Social Module |accessdate=2007-09-29 |publisher=US Forest Service]

Native Americans lost most of the Bear Creek Valley in exchange for the Table Rock Reservation. In October 1855, a lack of food, a cold winter, and disease devastated the families on the reservation, so a group of Takelma Indians returned to their old village at the mouth of Little Butte Creek on the upper Rogue River. A volunteer militia then attacked them, killing 23 including women and children. They responded to this dire situation by fleeing to the Rogue River Canyon, attacking miners and settlers from Gold Hill to Galice Creek on the way. The militia and regular army troops caught up with them in the canyon, and the Indians inflicted heavy casualties on the poorly trained troops. What became known as the Battle of Hungry Hill was a major victory for the Indians. In November, the militia and army again attacked, and again were defeated. The attack was meant to be a surprise, but the Native Americans heard them chopping trees to build rafts and were prepared.

Several more battles were then fought. In the spring of 1856, a force of nearly 200 volunteers arrived at the mouth of Ditch Creek on the Rogue River, and fired on the Indians' settlement on the far shore. Up to 30 Indians were killed during the day-long assault, forcing the survivors to surrender. In the summer and following winter, "licensed" hunters killed and captured Indians who remained in the area.

In the winter of 1856, 400 Indians were marched from Table Rock 200 miles north to the new Grand Ronde Reservation in Yamhill County. The survivors of the Battle of Hungry Hill were loaded onto a steamer at Port Orford, Oregon then transported via the Columbia River and Willamette River and then overland to the Siletz Reservation near the Oregon Coast.cite web |url=http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/narratives/subtopic.cfm?subtopic_ID=234 |title=Subtopic : "Where Living Waters Flow": Place & People: War & Removal |accessdate=2007-11-21 |publisher=The Oregon History Project ]

References

External links

* [http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=66DAEAD1-94A9-2395-5558EC006580659D 1853 News Article, "The Treaty for Sale of Lands" at the Oregon History Project]
* [http://www.sou.edu/SOCIOL/arch/Fort%20Lane/History.html "The Fort Lane Archaeology Project: Historic Context" at Southern Oregon University]
* [http://www.fws.gov/pacific/ea/tribal/treaties/Rogue_river_1853.pdf The 1853 treaty at U.S. Fish and Wildlife]
* [http://www.fws.gov/Pacific/ea/tribal/treaties/Rogue_river_1854.pdf The 1854 treaty at U.S. Fish and Wildlife]
* [http://www.csusm.edu/nadp/d91.htm 1856 request to open Indian lands at the Native American Document Project]
* [http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/echoes/link21.html 1857 request to open Indian lands at the Oregon State Archives]


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