Grand Ronde Indian Reservation (Oregon)

The Grand Ronde Reservation was located in western Oregon, about 30 miles west of McMinnville.


 * Established -- 22 January 1855
 * Agency (BIA) -- Siletz Agency
 * Principal tribes -- Kalapuya (Calapooya), Clackamas, Cow Creek (Nahankhuotana), Lakmiut, Mary's River (Chepenafa), Molala (Molalla), Nestucca, Rogue River (Chasta), Santiam, Shasta (Chastacosta ), Tumwater, Umpqua, Wapato, Yamhill (Yamel)
 * Population --

History
The Grande Ronde Reservation was established by Treaties of Jan. 22, 1855 (x, 1143), and Dec. 21,1855 (xii, 982) and by Executive order, June 30, 1857.

Records
Most of the records for the Indians living on the Grand Ronde Reservation are a part of the Grand Ronde, Grand Ronde-Siletz, and Siletz Agencies. Many of the historical records of those agencies are now housed in the Pacific Alaska Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Seattle.

The 1900 federal census included population schedules for the Grande Ronde Indian Reservation. The census includes the non-Indian employees of the Grande Ronde Agency, as well as many pages of Indian Population Schedules for the native population of the Reservation. They are recorded as District 182, Grande Ronde Indian Reservation, in Polk County, Oregon, and in District 182, Grande Ronde Indian Reservation, in Yamhill County, Oregon.