Confederated Tribes of Siletz.

Siletz Indian Reservation was established in 1855 by executive order. The Confederated Tribes include the Siletz, Takelma, Shasta, Umpqua, and Tututni. The reservation was terminated by executive order in 1954.

An 1855 directive from the U.S. Federal government called for the establishment of the Siletz Indian Reservation in western Oregon. As a result of the Rogue River Wars and other Indian conflicts, the Federal Government placed several tribes on the reservation, including members from the Coos, Umpqua, Siuslaw, Rogue River, Tututni tribes, and the Athapascan, Yakima, Kusan, Takilman, Shastan, and Shahaptian linguistic families.

After the close of the Rogue River War, the Federal Government established the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation in 1856. Large numbers of the Rogue River Indians were placed there, but they were later removed to the nearby Siletz Indian Reservation because of a decrease in population. The function of the Siltez Reservation was, ostensibly, to transform the Indians into industrious and substantial farmers. The reservation originally encompassed over a million acres, but by 1892 its size had shrunk to 47,000 acres, and in 1908 the land was divided among the Indian descendants. The agency's headquarters were originally located at Siletz, near Kernville, but they were later moved to Salem. The agency was closed 1925, but the community remained. Among the superintendents was Edwin Chalcraft, who served during the early decades of the 20th century.

The Chemawa Indian School was located northwest of Salem, Oregon, in the area of Lake Labish. It opened in 1886 and was the successor of the Indian Manual Training School at Forest Grove. The Chemawa school emphasized vocational education and operated a large student farm. By the 1950s it was the largest such school in the northwestern U.S.