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Molala (Molel) · molala · molel · Molalla · MolalaMolala (Molel)
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- Region
- Pacific Northwest
In the record
The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Molala (Molel) as a party: Molala (Molel) at Dayton, Oregon Territory (1855).
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 1 cession of land from Molala (Molel) in 1855: about 1.0 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. It came through treaties made under documented pressure.
Today, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
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Names in treaties and records
Other names in English
Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty under documented pressure1 million
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
1 cession. Follow Molala (Molel) through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
Working with these nations
- Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Nation government Rocky Shores parcel near Yachats (about 7 acres, purchase pending as of Oct 2026)
- McKenzie River Trust Allied land trust Brokered and fundraised for Rocky Shores parcel near Yachats (about 7 acres, pending as of Oct 2026)
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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Present-day governments that carry this history 2
Party to 1
Land recorded in this nation’s name 1, as named in the 1899 record
Sources
- ctsi.nsn.us/unclassified
Clatsop | Chinook | Klickitat | Molala | Kalapuya | Tillamook
- grandronde.org/culture-history/our-homelands/unclassified
Rogue River (including Takelma and Shasta) Molalla Umpqua
Research notes
Name as printed in NARA (TLA-T-300).
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