Ozette Indian Reservation (Washington)

The Ozette Reservation was located in northwestern Washington, 15 miles south of the tip of the Olympic Peninsula, on the Pacific Coast


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 * Agency (BIA) --
 * Principal tribes -- Ozette
 * Population --

History
The Makah Reservation, including the Ozette Tribe, was established by Treaty of Neah Bay, Jan. 31, 1855 (xII, 939). An Executive orders, Apr. 12, 1893, established a separate 719 acres south of the Makah Reservation as a separate reservation for the Ozette Indians. That reservation reverted to the United States on Oct. 22, 1970, to be held in trust for the benefit of the Makah Tribe, since there were no recognized Ozette Indians remaining.

The Ozette Indians were a part of the Makah group who had come from the west coast of Vancouver Island and settled on the northwest tip of the Olympic Peninsula. Their population figures gradually diminished from about 1880 until 1937, when there was only one Ozette Indian remaining. The population of the tribe on the Ozette Reservation, as reported in A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest , was as follows:


 * 1870 -- 188
 * 1872 -- 200
 * 1888 -- 91
 * 1901 -- 44
 * 1906 -- 35
 * 1914 -- 17
 * 1923 -- 8
 * 1937 -- 1

Records
The 1900 census of the Ozette Reservation is available on microfilm at the National Archives and their Regional Archives and at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as at other research facilities. It is also available online at Ancestry.com as a part of their paid subscription service.