Siuslaw people

Historically, the Siuslaw lived along the Siuslaw River in western Oregon.{{cite book |last=Hodge |first=Frederick Webb |title=Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico |date=1912 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington, DC |page=584 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i9c_AAAAYAAJ}} They had 34 distinct named villages in the 1880s.

The Siuslaw are closely related to the Lower Umpqua (or Kuitsh), and both group spoke dialects of Siuslaw language, a Coast Oregon Penutian language. The Siuslaw language is extinct.

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The Siuslaw people lived in their villages along the Siuslaw River for centuries until 1860, when they were forcibly removed to an Indian reservation in Yachats, Oregon.

The Siuslaw, Coos, and Lower Umpqua had signed the 1855 Empire Treaty; however, the United States failed to ratify this treaty and lost it until 1916. In 1918, members of these three tribes who were not enrolled in the Confederated Siletz Tribes sued the U.S. federal government in the U.S. Court of Claims for federal recognition.{{cite book |last1=Arnold |first1=Laurie |title=Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination |page=141 |date=2012 |publisher=University of Washington Press |location=Seattle |isbn=9780295804378 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UUaANUAKkNgC}} After two decades in 1938, the court ruled against the tribes. They filed suits with the Indian Claims Commission in 1951 and 1952 but were rejected. Despite not having secured recognition, these tribes were included in the 1954 law terminating recognition of more than 61 tribes in Oregon that went into effect in 1966.{{cite book |last1=Arnold |first1=Laurie |title=Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination |page=142 |date=2012 |publisher=University of Washington Press |location=Seattle |isbn=9780295804378 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UUaANUAKkNgC}} In 1984, the U.S. Congress recognized the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians through legislation.

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• {{cite book |last1=Arnold |first1=Laurie |title=Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination |date=2012 |publisher=University of Washington Press |location=Seattle |isbn=9780295804378 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UUaANUAKkNgC}}
• {{cite book|last1=Hodge |first1=Frederick Webb |title=Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico |date=1912 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i9c_AAAAYAAJ}}

• Leo J. Frachtenberg, "Siuslaw," in Franz Boas, ed., [https://archive.org/details/HandbookOfAmericanIndianLanguages-Part2 Handbook of American Indian Languages, Part 2.] Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922; pp. 431–630.

• [http://www.ctclusi.org/ Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw]
• [https://www.ctsi.nsn.us Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians]
• [http://lanecc.edu/library/don/siuslaw.htm Bibliography of the Siuslaw and Kuitsh Indians]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20030815081827/http://www.npaihb.org/profiles/tribal_profiles/Oregon/Coos%26Siuslaw%26Lower_%20Umpqua.htm Coos, Lower Umpqua & Siuslaw Tribes profile]

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