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HOW TO EXPLORE THIS MAP: Click and drag to move the map around, then click on a number 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...   49th Parallel ENCOURAGING SETTLEMENT ...The creation of new laws and the printing of new maps made it easier for settlers to cross the country... French Prairie ESTABLISHING GOVERNMENT Growing numbers of settlers in Oregon Territory created the need for a government...   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... 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... 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... Mouth of Columbia EPIDEMICS Following their first encounters with Europeans, Native American villages and populations were terribly sickened by diseases... 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... 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... 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... The Dalles WORD OF TREATIES SPREAD Talk of treaties alarmed the Yakamas and other native people of eastern Oregon... Tansy Point TREATIES LEFT UNRATIFIED The problems created by the Oregon Land Donation Act were soon overshadowed by the treaty negotiations that followed... Oregon Route 1850-54: SETTLERS ABOUND & INDIANS RESPOND Six thousand settlers moved into Oregon Territory in 1850... Monticello WASHINGTON BREAKS AWAY Washington's "declaration of independence" from Oregon was made November 25, 1852... Olympia Throughout the year 1853 the demand for a separate government had been growing. Resolutions were adopted at Olympia at a July Fourth celebration...  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... Washington, D.C. 1853: ESTABLISHING WASHINGTON TERRITORY Congress took early action and the territory was established March 3, 1853... Please proceed to Biographies » |
