Nation
Umpqua · umpqua · Nahánkhuotana · Cow Creek Umpqua · Lower Umpqua · Upper Umpqua · NahankhuotanaUmpqua
Not yet reviewed by this nation. What follows comes from public records and research. It does not speak for the nation.
- Region
- Pacific Northwest
In the record
The United States made 3 treaties and agreements that name Umpqua as a party, from Umpqua (Cow Creek Band) at Cow Creek, Umpqua Valley, Oregon Territory (1853) to Umpqua and Kalapuya at Calapooia Creek, Douglas County, Oregon Territory (1854).
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 2 cessions of land from Umpqua between 1853 and 1854: about 1.9 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 1 of them came through treaties and agreements. The largest was Land of the Calapooia and Umpqua in Oregon, ceded 1854 (area 344), about 1.5 million acres, ceded under Umpqua and Kalapuya at Calapooia Creek, Douglas County, Oregon Territory (1854).
Today, Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians 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
Each name shows where it comes from. A nation’s own name is shown as the nation writes it.
Self-names
- NahánkhuotanaTakelma/Upper Umpqua (as printed)
Peoples within this name
Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty or agreement400 thousand
- Treaty under documented pressure1 million
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
2 cessions. Follow Umpqua through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
- Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians
- Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon
- Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians
- Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
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
These links were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Land recorded in this nation’s name 4, matched by the Forest Service, under review
Present-day governments that carry this history 4
Party to 3
Sources
- ctclusi.org/history/unclassified
2 bands of Coos Tribes: Hanis Coos (Coos Proper), Miluk Coos; Lower Umpqua Tribe; and Siuslaw Tribe.
- sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/government/Pages/national-tribes-cow-creek.aspxreference work
In 1853, the Nahánkhuotana Tribe relinquished rights to their homeland in one of the first treaties signed with the United States
- grandronde.org/culture-history/our-homelands/unclassified
Umpqua (including Upper Umpqua and Cow Creek Umpqua)
Research notes
Name as printed in NARA parties text.
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