This history of the native peoples of western Oregon is a systematic study of the formation, application and effects of United States Indian policy. Historian E.A. Schwartz tells how contacts with whites early in the nineteenth century culminated in the pork-barrel Rogue River War of 1855-56, in which the Rogue River peoples demonstrated superior tactics and repeatedly drove off more-numerous opponents. Schwartz narrates how the Indian peoples known today as the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation survived American expansion and coped with each federal Indian-policy initiative, from the new western reservation policy of the 1850s through termination and restoration in the 1970s

1855-1856, Chetco Indians, Coos Indians, History, Indianen, Indians of North America Government relations, Indians of North America Oregon, Indians of North America Oregon Government relations, Indiens États-Unis Oregon Relations avec l'Etat, Oregon, Oregon Siletz Indian Reservation, Peuples autochtones Oregon Relations avec l'État, Rogue River I