Santiam people are an indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau, living in

Oregon Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. T ...

."Indian Tribe History."
''Access Genealogy.'' (retrieved 1 Sept 2011) They are a

Kalapuya The Kalapuya are a Native American people, which had eight independent groups speaking three mutually intelligible dialects. The Kalapuya tribes' traditional homelands were the Willamette Valley of present-day western Oregon in the United Sta ...

n tribe, whose traditional homelands were on the banks of the

Santiam River The Santiam River is a tributary of the Willamette River, about long, in western Oregon in the United States. Through its two principal tributaries, the North Santiam and the South Santiam rivers, it drains a large area of the Cascade Range a ...

, which feeds into the Willamette River. Today, they are enrolled in the

Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (CTGR) consists of twenty-seven Native American tribes with long historical ties to present-day western Oregon between the western boundary of the Oregon Coast and the eastern boundar ...

and the

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in the United States is a federally recognized confederation of more than 27 Native American tribes and bands who once inhabited an extensive homeland of more than 20 million acres from northern Califo ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Santiam People Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Plateau Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Kalapuya