Treaty with the Tribes of Middle Oregon (1855)

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The Treaty with the Tribes of Middle Oregon (1855) was an agreement in which several Indigenous groups of central Oregon, including the Wasco people, ceded large portions of their ancestral lands to the United States in exchange for reservations and promised protections.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf treaty
appliesToEthnicGroup Indigenous peoples of central Oregon NERFINISHED
Wasco people NERFINISHED
appliesToTerritorialJurisdiction Oregon Territory NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentType bilateral agreement
effect cession of large portions of ancestral lands by the tribes of Middle Oregon
creation of reservation lands for signatory tribes
imposition of United States jurisdiction over ceded territory
follows earlier Pacific Northwest Indian treaties of the 1850s
guarantees promised protections by the United States to signatory tribes
reservation lands for signatory tribes
hasConsequence loss of traditional homelands for tribes of Middle Oregon
relocation of tribal communities to reservations
hasLanguage English
historicalPeriod 19th century
jurisdiction United States government
surface form: federal government of the United States
legalStatus federal Indian treaty
location Oregon NERFINISHED
central Oregon
mainSubject Native American reservations
federal protection of Indigenous peoples
land cession
partOf United States Indian treaty system
purpose to define relations between the United States and the tribes of Middle Oregon
to establish reservations for the tribes of Middle Oregon
to obtain cession of Indigenous lands in central Oregon
regulates land rights of tribes of Middle Oregon
use and occupation of reservation lands
relatedTo United States Indigenous policy in the 1850s
Wasco–Wishram peoples NERFINISHED
history of Oregon
signatory United States government NERFINISHED
Wasco people NERFINISHED
tribes of Middle Oregon
signingDate 1855
topic United States expansion in the Pacific Northwest
dispossession of Indigenous lands in Oregon

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Wasco people treaty Treaty with the Tribes of Middle Oregon (1855)
Santiam Kalapuya treatyHistory Treaty with the Tribes of Middle Oregon (1855)
this entity surface form: Treaty with the Kalapuya, etc. (1855)
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon significantTreaty Treaty with the Tribes of Middle Oregon (1855)