WGU D189 Pacific NW History (2022- 2023) Rated A+
1853: Rogue River Treaty ✔✔Involved the Rogue River tribes: Takelma, Upper Takelma, Latgawa, Shasta, Applegate, and Galice. These tribes must give up the stolen property, firearms, and go to the reservations.
1803: The Louisiana Purchase ✔✔The acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803 that made the Pacific Northwest contiguous with the other territories and states of the union. Made it much easier for Americans to arrive to the region by land.
1846: Oregon Treaty ✔✔A treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington. The treaty brought an end to the Oregon boundary dispute by settling competing American and British claims to the Oregon Country; the area had been jointly occupied by both Britain and the U.S. since the Treaty of 1818
1847-1850: Cayuse War ✔✔An American named Marcus Whitman founded a mission in northeastern Oregon to convert the Cayuse people to Christianity and minister to white settlers in the region. Ongoing hostility between whites and Native peoples erupted into violence when a measles epidemic carried by the settlers decimated the Native population. This led to an event that became known as the Whitman Massacre. Whitman and several others were killed and 1 / 3
others were taken hostage by the Cayuse, starting a war between the Cayuse and the U.S.government that lasted for seven years. The Cayuse were defeated, forced to sign a treaty ceding most of their lands, and moved onto a reservation.
1850: Donation Land Act ✔✔This act promoted homestead settlement in Oregon Territory by offering 320 acres of land free of charge to unmarried white male U.S. citizens (and initially 640 acres to a married couple) who would commit to living on the land and cultivating it for four years. This lead to a land rush that greatly accelerated the incursion of white settlers on Native American homelands.
1854: Treaty of Medicine Creek ✔✔Nisqually, Puyallup, and other tribes of the Tacoma- Olympia region. They lost 2.5 million acres and were forced onto three 1,280-acre reservations.Key figure: Leschi of the Nisqually, leader of the revolt against this treaty and the Treaty of Point Elliot and ultimately hung (Puget Sound War)
1855: Plateau Indian War ✔✔A number of battles occurred in the wake of the Oregon Treaty of 1846 and the creation of Oregon Territory and Washington Territory. Among the causes of conflict were a sudden immigration to the region and a series of gold rushes throughout the Pacific Northwest.
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1855: The Rougue River War ✔✔Indians attacked a white person camp at night and robbed them of their money, clothing, and horses. This resulted in most of the Natives being removed from southwestern Oregon to a Coast Reservation.
1855: Treaty of Neah Bay ✔✔Makah Tribe keeps fishing and whaling rights and is forced to live on reservation
1855: Treaty of Point Elliot ✔✔Duwamish, Suquamish, and others including Chief Seattle lost the land around Seattle. When whites violated the terms of the treaty and a rebellion broke out, Seattle protected the whites from Native soldiers. He was a powerful figure in the area who had conquered many tribes in the past
1855: Treaty of Point No Point ✔✔S'Klallam, the Chimakum, and the Skokomish. The original inhabitants of northern Kitsap Penisula and Olympic Peninsula were to cede ownership of their land in exchange for small reservations along Hood Canal. Natives were to trade only with the US, to free all their slaves, and it abjured them not to acquire any new slaves. The treaty had to be translated but were translated into Chinook Jargon, a trading slang that was too simple for legal documents
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