With restoration came tribal sovereignty, which gives the tribe authority to form its own government and have jurisdiction over tribal lands, businesses, and community members.Īccording to the Tribe's website, the name comes from a native word for lamprey, a staple food for the tribe. In 1989 the tribe regained its federal recognition. federal government terminated its recognition of the Coquille as part of the Western Oregon Indian Termination Act. Over the years many Coquilles returned to their traditional homeland and fought for acknowledgement of the Treaty of 1855. The remnants of the original Coastal Indian Reservation are contained in the Siletz Reservation and associated tribally owned lands. ĭisease and overcrowding were problems on the reservation, which was eventually reduced to a fraction of its former size.

The Coquille people were forcibly marched to the reservation in 1856 however, the treaty was never ratified by Congress. In 1855, Joel Palmer, Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs, negotiated a treaty with the Coquille and surrounding tribes that set aside 125 miles (201 km) of coastline extending from the Siltcoos River to Cape Lookout to form the Coastal (or Siletz) Indian Reservation near present-day Florence. Treaty with the United States Sign of The Confederated Tribes

By 1854, several dozen miners who were angry over an altercation with a native man, went into the Coquille Indian village in what is now Bandon, Oregon, and killed all the members of that tribe that they could find there, burning their houses and slaughtering all women and children. Beginning in 1847, following the Cayuse Indian slaughter of the white, Presbyterian missionaries at the 'Whitman Mission', a serious of retaliatory attacks ensued against the indigenous peoples all throughout the Oregon Territory, perpetrated by both miners and settlers.

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