Les AuCoin Collection

Testimony of Frank Harrison on H.R. 3885, Federal Status for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

Testimony of Frank Harrison, Councilman of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, on October 18th, 1983 before the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee in support of H.R. 3885, the Grand Ronde Restoration bill. The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde includes over 30 tribes from Oregon, California, and Washington. In the early 1850s, the United States forced these tribes off their lands, eventually establishing the Grand Ronde Reservation in Oregon in 1857. In 1954, Congress passed the Western Oregon Indian Termination Act, which ended federal recognition of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Beginning in the 1970s, tribal leaders began working to restore the tribe's federal status, lobbying Congress to first pass the Grand Ronde Restoration Act in 1983, which restored federal recognition, then the Grand Ronde Reservation Act in 1988, which restored a small part of the reservation. Frank Harrison's testimony discusses the impact that termination had on the tribe and advocates for restoration of federal status. This document is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. See also PUA_MS147_73 through PUA_MS147_84 and PUA_MS147_128 through PUA_MS147_129 for further information about the Grand Ronde bills.

Harrison, Frank

1983

Grand Ronde Indian Reservation (Or.)

Federally recognized Indian tribes

Oregon--Politics and government

Indian termination policy

Oregon

PUA_MS147_83

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