Grand Ronde Community

The Grand Ronde Community is an Indian reservation located on several non-contiguous sections of land in southwestern Yamhill County and northwestern Polk County, Oregon, United States, about 18 miles (29 km) east of Lincoln City, near the community of Grand Ronde. Various tribes and bands from all parts of Western Oregon were removed from their homes in the mid-19th century and placed on this reservation. It is owned by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. The reservation has a land area of 16.384 sq mi (42.434 km²) and a 2000 census resident population of 55 persons.

Historical summary

Since 6,000 B.C. or earlier, the Rogue River, Umpqua, Chasta, Kalapuya, Molalla, Salmon River, Tillamook, and Nestucca Indians lived in their traditional homelands
1854-1857: In the wake of the Rogue River Wars, the Grand Ronde reservation established by treaty arrangements in 1854 and 1855 and an Executive Order of June 30, 1857
1856: Fort Yamhill built next to reservation
1860's: Arrival of the Belgian Catholic missionary Father Adrien Croquet (renamed Crockett), uncle of the famous Cardinal Mercier - later followed by his nephew Joseph Mercier. The non-ordained Joseph married into a local tribe, and many present-day tribespeople are among his descendants.^[1]
1887: the General Allotment Act makes allotments to individuals totaling slightly over 33,000 acres (130 km²) of Reservation land. Most of this ends up in the hands of non-Indians.
1901: U.S. Inspector James McLaughlin declared a 25,791 acre (104.4 km²) tract of the reservation "surplus" and the U.S. sold it for $1.16 per acre ($287/km²).
1936: Indian Reorganization Act enables the Tribe to re-purchase some land for homes
1954: Termination Act
1983: Grand Ronde Restoration Act: On November 22, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed the Grand Ronde Restoration Act.
1988: Tribe regains 9,811 acres (39.7 km²). This is now about 10,052 acres (45 km²).

Grand Ronde Reservation is located near (45.061643, -123.615654)^[2].

^ Fr. Cawley Martinus, Father Crockett of Grand Ronde: Adrien-Joseph Croquet, 1818-1902, Oregon Missionary, 1860-1898
^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html. Retrieved 2011-04-23.