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The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians have purchased approximately 2,000 acres of land within the original Table Rock Reserve in southern Ore.
The newly purchased land encompasses the largest contiguous block of private land within the historic 1853 Table Rock Reserve. The undeveloped property extends to the Rogue River and includes the probable location of a pivotal 1853 treaty signing, according to a report in the Newport Times News. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed.
“This is a historic moment that reconnects the Siletz Tribe to its ancestors, history and treaties signed near Table Rock,” Tribal Chairwoman Delores Pigsley told the Times News. “It is a great honor to return this special land to Indian stewardship.”
The 1853 Table Rock Treaty created Oregon’s first reservation and marked a historic milestone as the first treaty with an Indian tribe in the West to receive U.S. Senate approval. Following the treaty, tribal members were relocated first to Grande Rock, and then to the modern-day Siletz reservation.
Since 2007, tribal members have conducted salmon ceremonies at Ti’lomikh Falls, downstream of the property in question. The tribe intends to expand cultural ceremonies at their historic Table Rock locations.
