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The high desert in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation with Mount Jefferson in the background. The Warm Springs Indian Reservation consists of 1,019 square miles (2,640 km 2) in north-central Oregon, in the United States, and is governed by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.
Historically splitting their time between winter camps and summer camps on the Columbia River, in 1855 the Tenino people were made a party to the Treaty with the Tribes of Middle Oregon, which was negotiated by Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs Joel Palmer. The Warm Springs bands are today a part of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs ...
Celilo Village is not a reservation but is owned by the United States and held in trust by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the use of the Umatilla, Tenino (Warm Springs) and Yakama tribes and Columbia River Indians. [3]
This is a list of federally recognized Native American tribes in Oregon. These Indian tribes are recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs for certain federal government purposes. These tribal governmental agencies and confederations may or may not correspond with individual tribes who historically have lived in Oregon.
The Warm springs and Wasco signed a treaty with Joel Palmer in 1855 after dealing with their traditional ways of life being disrupted by the settlers for many years. By signing the treaty the Wasco and Warm Springs tribes relinquished 10 million acres of land to the United States and kept 640,000 acres for their own use.
The decade following the implementation of both acts saw the signing of treaties with indigenous groups throughout the Oregon territory, including the Warm Springs and Wasco tribes (1855), the Siletz (1855), the Cow Creek band (1853), the Umatilla (1855), and the Kalapuya (1855).
Warm Springs is a census-designated place (CDP) and an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. [5] Located on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation , the community is also known as the "Warm Springs Agency".
Donald McKay was born in about 1836 in Oregon Territory to fur trader Thomas McKay and She-Who-Rides-Like-The-Wind Umatilla, a Cayuse woman from the Umatilla tribe. [1]In 1852, McKay worked as a translator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Army.