Reservation Era Begins 1850-1878

1854

Treaty of Medicine Creek

Indians on the way to the Great Council on Medicine Lodge Creek. Image: The Library of Congress
Indians on the way to the Great Council on Medicine Lodge Creek. Image: The Library of Congress

Pacific Northwest tribes cede farming land in exchange for fishing rights in perpetuity. Chief Leschi objects to the Treaty and the “Puget Sound War” or resistance follows. Chief Leschi is hanged in 1858 (Nies, 1996).

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