Land area
Land of the Indians on the Oregon Coast in Oregon, ceded 1875 (area 578)
- 1855
Set aside as a reservation
The 1899 record: “President sets apart a reserve known as Coast reservation (which afterwards, on being reduced, was called Siletz reservation)”
- 1875
Taken back by the United States
The 1899 record: “Restores a portion of Alsea and Siletz reservation to public domain”
In the record
Part of the Coast (later Siletz) reservation set apart for Indians on the Oregon coast by executive order in 1855, returned to the public domain by an 1875 act. The area covers about 678 thousand acres in what is now Oregon.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.
Shapes come from C. C. Royce’s 1899 maps as georeferenced by the US Forest Service. They are approximate and are not legal descriptions of land. Royce recorded land the United States treated as ceded; the shape does not show a nation’s territory.
Who is doing the work
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Nation government Rocky Shores parcel near Yachats (about 7 acres, purchase pending as of Oct 2026)
- Indigenous Land Relationship Fund (Oregon Land Justice Project / Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts), allied host Native-led Funds Indigenous-led projects to reclaim and reconnect to land and First Foods in Oregon Give on their site Website
- Na'ah Illahee Fund Native-led Indigenous-led regranting for Land Back (building on E'lip Tilikum Land Conservancy), land and water protection,… Give on their site Website
- Potlatch Fund Native-led Native philanthropy and grantmaking to Native individuals and Native-led organizations Give on their site Website
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
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Sources
The record’s fields
- Area number in the 1899 record
- 578
- Dates in the 1899 record
- 1855-11-09; 1875-03-03
- Kind of instrument
- Act of Congress
- Peoples as named in the 1899 record
- Indians on the Oregon Coast
- States
- OR
- Counties
- Benton; Douglas; Lane; Lincoln; Tillamook; Yamhill
- Map sheets in the 1899 record
- Oregon 1
- Geometry
- Approximate shape from Royce’s 1899 maps
Research notes
geometry_role is 'cession' for every USFS feature: no field in the source distinguishes cessions from reservations.
- Kind
- Land area
- Confidence
- Medium