6/28/2023 0 Comments Tribes 2 mort fovSome members of that tribe have returned to Southern Oregon, notably tribal spokeswoman Agnes Baker Pilgrim, the granddaughter of a Takelma chief. There are smaller tribes not on the that list, including the Takelma Tribe, whose members lived in the Rogue Valley until they were forcibly moved to the Siletz and Grand Ronde reservations in northern Oregon in the 1800s. They range in size from the Burns Paiute Tribe, with 349 members, to the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, with 5,200 members. Those nine tribes have about 24,500 members, according to the latest Blue Book figures. ![]() There are nine federally recognized tribes with reservation lands in Oregon. Actually, we haven't either, but we do turn to it often for just these sorts of facts. Well, Billy, if you haven't seen a summary of tribes in Oregon, you apparently haven't read the Oregon Blue Book from cover to cover. ![]() Can you come up with the answers, Oh Wise Ones? There are a lot of stories about Native American tribes and tribal issues (i.e., casinos), but I've never seen a summary of how many tribes there are in Oregon.
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