Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon
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The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon consists of five tribes with long historical ties to present-day western Oregon between the Coast Range and the Cascade Range:
- Chasta (present-day Oregon bands of the Shasta)
- Kalapuya
- Molalla
- Rogue River (a conglomerate of different Takelma, Coquille and Shastan tribes who inhabited the Rogue River area, and whose bands were split between the Grand Ronde Community and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz after the Rogue River Treaty of September 10, 1853 and the Rogue River Wars of 1855-56)
- Umpqua
Since 1996, the tribes have received the bulk of their income from the Spirit Mountain Casino in Grand Ronde. They also receive revenue from timber.
Each July members of the tribe travel to New York City, to see Tomanowos, a sky person who fell as a meteorite and is now on display at the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space. [link]
Reference
- 5 Tribes of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, Smoke Signals special publication (undated); stories written by Oscar Johnson, Smoke Signals reporter.
External links
- [Official website], including [tribal documents] and [history]
- [Spirit Mountain Casino]
- [A successful model of intergovernmental relations in Oregon], a February 1998 article about the community
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