Les AuCoin Collection

Letter from President Jimmy Carter to Representative Les AuCoin concerning the Siletz Indian Reservation Act

A brief letter written by President Jimmy Carter to Representative Les AuCoin on November 17th, 1980, marking the signing of S. 2055, the Siletz Indian Reservation Act. The act restored a reservation for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, which lost its reservation and tribal status in the Western Oregon Indian Termination Act of 1954. In 1977, after much lobbying to Congress, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz became the second tribe in the U.S. to have its federal status restored. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. See also PUA_MS147_68 for the ceremonial copy of S. 2055 mentioned in the letter.

Carter, Jimmy

1980

Presidents--United States

Legislators--United States

Bills, Legislative

Correspondence

Siletz Indian Reservation (Or.)

Siletz Indians

Federally recognized Indian tribes

Oregon

PUA_MS147_67

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/

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