Too small a place: the removal of the Willamette Valley Indians, 1850-1856.

The Native Americans of the Willamette Valley, including the Calapooya, Molalla, Clackamas and Chinook, were all removed to reservations outside their traditional lands by 1856. An initial round of treaties negotiated in 1851 by Anson Dart, superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon Territory, allowed the Indians to retain small portions of land within their original territory, but these treaties were never approved by Congress.

Joel B. Palmer succeeded Dart and negotiated new treaties between 1854 and 1855 which required removal to a reservation along the Pacific Coast. The Indians were ...

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