The Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians of Oregon are a

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Native American tribe of Hanis Coos,

Miluk Coos Coos people are an indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau, living in Oregon. They live on the southwest Oregon Pacific coast. Today, Coos people are enrolled in the following federally recognized tribes: * Confederated Tribes of the Coos, ...

, Lower Umpqua (or Kuitsh), and

Siuslaw people Siuslaw is one of the tribes comprising the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and a portion of the off-reservation population forms part of the three Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians located on the southwest Oregon ...

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Lands

The service area of the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians include lands a five-county area spanning Coos,

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, and Lane Counties.

Government

The Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians are headquartered in

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. The tribe is governed by a democratically elected general council, serving four-year terms. The tribal chief serves ten-year terms. The current tribal government leadership is as follows: * Chief: Don "Doc" Slyter * Chair: Debbie Bossley *Vice-Chairman: Mark Petrie * Councilperson: Enna Helms * Councilperson: Iliana Montiel * Councilperson: Doug Barrett * Councilperson: Josh Davies

Languages

Members of the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw speak English. Formerly they spoke the Coos language and Siuslaw language (Siuslaw and Kuitsh dialects), which is a language isolate. The tribe runs a language program to revive Coos and Siuslaw.

Economic development

The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw owns and operates: * Three Rivers Resort, a Class 3 Facility in

Florence, Oregon Florence is a coastal city in Lane County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It lies at the mouth of the Siuslaw River on the Pacific Ocean and about midway between Newport and Coos Bay along U.S. Route 101. As of the 2020 census, the city had ...

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Three Rivers Casino
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History

The tribes did not have contact with Europeans until 1792. In 1828, Lower Umpqua (Kuitsh) people massacred members of the Jedediah Smith Party and attacked the

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's fort in 1838.Pritzker 172 Most of their population died in the epidemics which followed European contact.Robert T. Boyd, ''The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians.'' page 132. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1999. https://books.google.com/books?id=jnWMCaFcuM4C&pg=PA132&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false accessed 20 November 2013. In 1860 the remnants of these and other tribes were forced onto the Siletz Reservation. The reservation was split into three parts, with one section being opened to non-native settlement and another becoming the Alsea Reservation, which was opened to non-native settlement in 1875.Pritzker 173 The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw formally organized in 1916. They adopted their first constitution in 1938Pritzker 174 and ratified their current constitution in 1987.

Notes

References

* Pritzker, Barry M. ''A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

External links

Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians
official website

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