Abstract The Klamath Indian Reservation was comprised of the three tribes: Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin, who historically lived in separate areas. The Treaty of 1864 merged all three tribes together into the single “Klamath Tribe” which was then placed on the reservation in the Klamath Basin. The archaeological excavation going on the site of the former reservation focused on a small cabin that may have belonged to a local family sometime between 1890 and 1915. These archaeological finds were...

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The Modoc Lumber Company was formed in 1918 by J. O. Goldthwaite. It operated in a company town called Pine Ridge, located on the Klamath Indian Reservation about 2 miles from Chiloquin. It was eventually renamed the Forest Lumber Company. Collection contains a sepia photograph from Harry Mesner collection: a Forest Lumber Company train carrying logs.

Abstract The Klamath Tribes are a merger of the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin tribes created by the Treaty of 1864. They were placed on a reservation in the Klamath Basin, where they became one of the wealthiest tribal groups due largely to the timber industry. Raymond H. Bitney joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1926 as forest assistant at the Klamath Agency. The Constitution of the Klamath Tribes was established to recognize the authority of the Tribal Committees formed by the General Council...

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The Klamath Indian Reservation became the home of the Klamath Tribes, a merger of the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin tribes created by the Treaty of 1864. The Klamath Agency was an Indian Agency established for the Klamath Indian Reservation in 1866. Collection contains memorandum sent from T.W. Sanders, Chief Clerk, United States Government, to Hale Scarbrough, Klamath Agency, Oregon, March 10, 1952.

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The Klamath Indian Reservation became the home of the Klamath Tribes, a merger of the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin tribes created by the Treaty of 1864. Collection contains petition written by the enrolled members of the Klamath Indian Reservation. It refers to the proposed changes in the Constitution for the Klamath Tribes.

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Robert W. Mezger was born on December 8, 1922 in Jersey City, New Jersey. After becoming a forester for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Robert Mezger took a position with the Klamath Indian Reservation in 1952. Collection contains documentation on the accounting and timber sales at the Klamath Indian Reservation

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The collection focuses on the connections between the Klamath Indian Reservation and the Klamath County, Oregon timber industry in the twentieth century. Laurence L. Shaw was a well-known Oregon timber man and philanthropist.

Abstract Charles E. Worden was born in Medina County, Ohio in 1849 and died in Portland, Oregon in 1923. Major Worden served as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Allotting and Special Agent of the Klamath Reservation at Klamath Agency, Oregon. The collection includes a Klamath Indian Allotment Census for the Klamath Tribes and a register of persons living in Yainax Agency area. It includes working papers, notebooks, reports, and an abstract of title for several lots in Linkville established 1867, later...

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As director of Indian education and training programs for the Oregon Department of Education in the 1950s and 1960s, A. Harvey Wright was very involved in implementing federal education and training programs, including preparations for federal termination of tribal status for several Indian tribes in Oregon. The collection consists of correspondence and documents related to federal termination of tribal recognition for the Klamath Tribes and other Oregon tribes in the 1950s.