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HOW TO EXPLORE THIS MAP: Click and drag to move the map around, then click on a red pushpin to read about any of the events leading up to the U.S.-Indian treaties in the Northwest. Or, select places and events that interest you from the 19 different links on the right.
Before Treatymaking                Loading Interface Map...
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19   Willamette Valley EARLY SETTLERS In the 1820s, Congressmen and others urged Americans to consider the Oregon Country... MORE >   49th Parallel ENCOURAGING SETTLEMENT ...The creation of new laws and the printing of new maps made it easier for settlers to cross the country... MORE > French Prairie ESTABLISHING GOVERNMENT Growing numbers of settlers in Oregon Territory created the need for a government... MORE >   Walla Walla 1844, MURDER UNRESOLVED One major turning point in the history of the region was the murder of a Walla Walla man, Elijah Hedding... MORE > Tumwater AVOIDING RACIST LAWS In 1845, George W. and Isabella Bush and their sons settle in Tumwater in a place that comes to bear their name... MORE > Washington, D.C. SETTING THE BOUNDARY In 1846, after years of indecision, the boundary west of the Rocky Mountains was finally decided between the United States and Great Britain... MORE > Mouth of Columbia EPIDEMICS Following their first encounters with Europeans, Native American villages and populations were terribly sickened by diseases... MORE > WALLA WALLA 1847, DEATH OF THE WHITMANS By 1847 half of the Cayuse people had died in the epidemics, and measles was rampant. The Cayuse were desperate and angry... MORE > Oregon City THE HANGING OF THE CAYUSE FIVE On Nov. 29, 1847, the Cayuse people attacked the Waiilatpu mission near Walla Walla, killing the Whitmans... MORE > Washington, D.C. 1848 & 1850: HISTORY OF LAND CONFLICT The Organic Act in 1848 and the Oregon Land Donation Act in 1850 had an enormous impact on tribal homelands... MORE > The Dalles WORD OF TREATIES SPREAD Talk of treaties alarmed the Yakamas and other native people of eastern Oregon... MORE > Tansy Point TREATIES LEFT UNRATIFIED The problems created by the Oregon Land Donation Act were soon overshadowed by the treaty negotiations that followed... MORE > Oregon Route 1850-54: SETTLERS ABOUND & INDIANS RESPOND Six thousand settlers moved into Oregon Territory in 1850... MORE > Monticello WASHINGTON BREAKS AWAY Washington's "declaration of independence" from Oregon was made November 25, 1852... MORE > Olympia Throughout the year 1853 the demand for a separate government had been growing. Resolutions were adopted at Olympia at a July Fourth celebration... MORE >  Cowlitz Landing Throughout the year 1853 the demand for a separate government had been growing. Resolutions were adopted at Olympia at a July Fourth celebration, calling for a convention at Cowlitz Landing... MORE > Washington, D.C. 1853: ESTABLISHING WASHINGTON TERRITORY Congress took early action and the territory was established March 3, 1853... MORE > Washington, D.C. PLANNING A RAILROAD By the 1850s, the United States government passionately wanted to build a railroad across the continent... MORE > Gr. Ronde Valley SECRECY AND THE GRANDE RONDE COUNCIL The Grande Ronde Council of 1854 was the most noteworthy gathering of Indians ever held in the territory... MORE > Please proceed to Biographies » |
