Location
The Burns Paiute Reservation is located in rural eastern Oregon, north of Burns in Harney County.

Aboriginal Territory
The current tribal members are primarily the descendants of the “Wadatika” band of Paiute Indians that roamed in central and southern Oregon. The Burns Paiute Tribe descended from the Wadatika band, named after the wada seeds they collected near the shores of Malheur Lake to use as food. Bands were usually named after an important food source in their area. The Wadatika’s territory included approximately 5,250 square miles between the Cascade Mountain Range in central Oregon and the Payette Valley north of Boise, Idaho, and from southern parts of the Blue Mountains near the headwaters of the Powder River north of John Day, to the desert south of Steens Mountain.

Governance and Membership
The Burns Paiute still maintain aboriginal title to much of our aboriginal territory. The Tribe is governed by a seven member Tribal Council. The Tribe currently has 402 enrolled members of which 142 people call the Reservation their home.

https://burnspaiute-nsn.gov/about-the-tribe/

Location
The Tribe’s five county service area covers 15,603 square miles of Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, and Lane counties.

Aboriginal Territory
The Coquille Indian Tribe’s ancestors lived in the lands of the Coquille River watershed and lower Coos Bay.

Governance and Membership
The Coquille Indian Tribe today has over 1000 members and a land base of 7,043 acres.

After the United States reinstituted federal recognition to the Tribe and restored its full sovereignty rights in 1989, the Coquille Tribal government created an administrative program that now provides housing, health care, education, elder care, law enforcement and judicial services to its members.

Approximately 538 Tribal members and their families live in the Tribe’s five county service area covering 15,603 square miles of Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, and Lane counties. Approximately 350 Tribal members live in Coos County.

The Tribal Council is the governing body of the Coquille Indian Tribe. As elected representatives, the Council exercises all legislative authority except that which is vested in the General Council. There are seven positions on the council: Chairperson, Vice Chair, Secretary-Treasurer, Chief, and three Representatives. All positions are elected by a majority vote of tribal members 18 years and older.

https://www.coquilletribe.org/?page_id=8012

Location
The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians are made up of three tribes (four Bands): two bands of Coos Tribes: Hanis Coos (Coos Proper), Miluk Coos; Lower Umpqua Tribe; and Siuslaw Tribe. We strive to perpetuate our unique identity as Indians and as members of the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, and to promote and protect that identity. It is our goal to preserve and promote our cultural, religious and historical beliefs while continuing to learn and grow as a part of the community we live in. We also work to promote the social and economic welfare of our members both inside and outside of our five-county service area here in Oregon. Our five-county service area is made up of Coos, Curry, Lincoln, Douglas and Lane counties.

Aboriginal Territory
The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians trace their ancestry back to the aboriginal inhabitants of the South-Central coast of Oregon. Their historic homelands extended from the richly forested slopes of the Coastal Range in the East to the Rocky shoreline of the pacific Ocean in the West, a vast region of some 1.6 million acres. They lived peacefully in an area characterized by moderate temperatures and abundant natural resources.

https://ctclusi.org/history/

Governance and Membership
The most recent publicly available membership data of the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians is from 1990 when there were 526 members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederated_Tribes_of_Coos,_Lower_Umpqua_and_Siuslaw_Indians

All tribal members belong to the general council who elect four tribal council members to four year terms and a Tribal Chief to a ten year term.

https://www.npaihb.org/member-tribes/coos-siuslaw-and-lower-umpqua-tribes/

Location and Aboriginal Territory
The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon is a federally recognized Tribe that includes over 30 Tribes and bands from western Oregon, northern California, and southwest Washington. These include tribal bands from the Kalapuya, Molalla, Chasta, Umpqua, Rogue River, Chinook, and Tillamook. The Tribe is active throughout its ancestral homelands but located in western Oregon where it has a 11,500-acre reservation in Yamhill County.

https://www.grandronde.org/history-culture/

Governance and Membership
With approximately 5,400 enrolled tribal members, the Tribe is governed by a nine-member Tribal Council that is elected by the Tribe’s voting membership.

https://www.grandronde.org/history-culture/

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde has a special Elder Committee. Members include:

• Dan Ham – Chair
• Tammy Cook – Vice-Chair
• Julie Duncan – Secretary
• Cherie Butler
• Jennie VanAtta

Location and Aboriginal Territory
The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians are the most diverse confederation of Tribes and Bands on a single reservation in the United States. Our ancestors spoke 10 completely different languages, each of which had multiple dialects. Our ancestors brought with them deep connections to more than 20 million acres of ancestral territory combined, including all of Western Oregon from the summit of the Cascade mountains to the Pacific and extending into what’s now SW Washington State and northern California.

The Confederated Tribes of Siletz is a federally recognized confederation of 27 bands that occupies and manages a 3,666 acre reservation located in Lincoln County, Oregon.

Governance and Membership
The Tribal Council consists of nine members elected by the General Council to terms of three years. The Tribal Council shall elect from its membership a Tribal Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer.

https://www.ctsi.nsn.us/tribal-government/tribal-council/

The Confederated Tribes of the Siletz includes 27 Bands, with more than 5,500 members enrolled — 70% of whom live in Oregon, the rest spilling over Oregon’s borders (Mehta, 2021).

https://traveloregon.com/things-to-do/culture-history/oregon-tribe-spotlight-confederated-tribal-of-siletz-indians/

Location and Aboriginal Territory
Before European contact, the members of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla people were 8,000 members strong. Our people lived in the Columbia River region for more than 10,000 years, moving in a large circle from the lowlands along the Columbia River to the highlands in the Blue Mountains to fish, hunt and gather food.

In 1855, the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla tribes and the U.S. Government negotiated a treaty in which 6.4 million acres were ceded in exchange for a reservation homeland of 250,000 acres. As a result of federal legislation in the late 1800s that reduced its size, the Umatilla Reservation is now 172,000 acres — 158,000 acres just east of Pendleton, Oregon plus 14,000 acres in the McKay, Johnson, and McCoy Creek areas southeast of Pilot Rock, Oregon.

https://www.ctuir.org/about/history-culture/

Governance and Membership
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) is a union of three tribes: Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla. Tribal affairs are governed by an elected body called the Board of Trustees. A chairman presides over the Board, which consists of eight other members. The Board sets policy, makes the final decisions on tribal affairs, and takes a lead role in determining priority projects and issues.

The CTUIR has over 3100 tribal members. Nearly half of those tribal members live on or near the Umatilla Reservation Thirty percent of tribal membership is composed of children under age 18. Fifteen percent are elders over age 55.

https://www.ctuir.org/about/

Location and Aboriginal Territory
The land of the Warm Springs, Wasco and Paiute Native American Tribes stretches from the snowcapped summit of the Cascade Mountains to the palisaded cliffs of the Deschutes River in Central Oregon.

The Wasco bands resided on the Columbia River and were the eastern-most group of Chinookan-speaking Indians. The Warm Springs bands lived on the Columbia’s tributaries, moved between winter and summer villages and spoke Sahaptin. The Paiutes lived in southeastern Oregon and spoke a Shoshonean dialect. In 1937, the three tribes organized as the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.

https://warmsprings-nsn.gov/history/

A 640,000-acre reservation in north central Oregon is home to the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.

https://critfc.org/member-tribes-overview/the-confederated-tribes-of-the-warm-springs-reservation-of-oregon/

Governance and Membership
The governance of the Warm Springs, Wasco and Paiute tribes is a representative Tribal Council, with 11 members. Eight are elected positions representing three districts, and three are lifetime chieftain positions representing the three tribes of the Confederacy.

A 2016 Factsheet reported the Tribe had 5,216 members.

https://warmsprings-nsn.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Press-Kit-Fact-Sheet-2016.11.02.pdf

Location and Aboriginal Territory
Originally, the Cow Creek Tribe lived between the Cascade and Coast Ranges in Southwestern Oregon, along the South Umpqua River and its primary feeder stream, Cow Creek.

In 1854, the Cow Creek Tribe was one of two tribes in Oregon to sign a treaty with the United States of America. Consequently, they became a landless tribe and ceded more than 800 square miles of Southwestern Oregon. Even without a reservation, the Cow Creek people remained in their homelands. They continued to meet and hold council as their ancestors had always done.

Today, the Tribe is buying back its land and operating various business enterprises for the economic development of the Cow Creek Tribe and the communities in which they live.  The Tribal Government Office, located in Roseburg, Oregon houses not only the Tribal Government body and programs, but also the Cow Creek Tribal Gaming Commission and the Cow Creek Health and Wellness Center.

https://www.cowcreek-nsn.gov/tribal-story/

Governance and Membership
The Cow Creek Bank of Umpqua Tribe of Indians is governed by an elected eleven-member council known as the Tribal Board of Directors and has over 1,800 members.

https://www.cowcreek-nsn.gov/tribal-story/

Location and Aboriginal Territory
The six Klamath Tribes are the Klamath, the Modoc and the Yahooskin-Paiute people, known as mukluks and numu (the people). The six tribes of the Klamaths were bound together by ties of loyalty and family. They lived along the Klamath Marsh, on the banks of Agency Lake, near the mouth of the Lower Williamson River, on Pelican Bay, beside the Link River, and in the uplands of the Sprague River Valley. The Modoc’s lands included the Lower Lost River, around Clear Lake, and the territory that extended south as far as the mountains beyond Goose Lake. The Yahooskin Bands occupied the area east of the Yamsay Mountain, south of Lakeview, and north of Fort Rock.

In 1954, the Klamath Tribes were terminated from federal recognition as a tribe by an act of congress. With the end of federal recognition and supplemental human services, the reservation land base of approximately 1.8 million acres was taken.

https://klamathtribes.org/history/

In 1986, the Klamath Tribes were successful in regaining Restoration of Federal Recognition, but their land base was not returned. With restoration in 1986, the Tribes began to develop a full scope of programs which provide necessary services to Tribal members and the community.

https://klamathtribes.org/restoration-celebration/

Through an Economic Self-sufficiency Plan process, the Klamath Tribes were about to construct and open a casino in 1997. The present-day Klamath Indian Reservation consists of twelve small non-contiguous parcels of land in Klamath County. These fragments are generally located in and near the communities of Chiloquin and Klamath Falls. Their total land area is 308 acres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klamath_Tribes

Governance and Membership
The Klamath Tribes Council is comprised of four executive and six members-at-large are tribal members who have been elected by the general membership.

https://klamathtribes.org/tribal-council/

The Klamath Tribes have more than 4,800 members; fewer than 640 live in their Chiloquin community.

https://www.npaihb.org/member-tribes/klamath-tribes/