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Exonym for Native American tribes of the Rogue River Valley
Hoxie Simmons, a Rogue River Indian, c. 1870
Oscharwausha, "Rogue River Indian" before 1911
Rogue River Indians are a conglomeration of many tribal groups in the
Rogue River Valley area, belonging to three language families:
Athabascan ,
Takelma , and
Shastan .
The principal tribes grouped under the name Rogue River Indians were:
Lower Rogue River Athabascan (or Tututni) tribes, including:
Upper Coquille (Mishikwutinetunne , Mishi-qute-me-tunne - ″the people dwelling on the river Mishi″) tribe (Coquille River Area),
Shasta Costa tribe, and
Tututni tribe (Lower Rogue River Area) (including Yukichetunne or (Yugweeche , Eu-qua-chees ) band (Euchre Creek Area)) and
Upper Rogue River Athabascan (Siskiyou: Galice-Applegate) tribes, including:
Taltushtuntede , Taltushtuntude or (Tal-tuc-tun-te-de ) tribe (Galice Creek Area) and
Dakubetede (Da-ku-be-te-de ) tribe (Applegate Area),
Takelman tribes, including:
Latgawa (Upland Takelma),
Takelma (Dagelma) (Lowland or River Takelma),
The total estimated population of these tribes in 1850 was about 9,500. The
French Canadian employees of the
Hudson's Bay Company called them all "coquins" , meaning "Rogues", where the designation Rogue River comes from.
After the
Rogue River Wars in 1856, bands of the Rogue River Indians were split between the
Confederated Tribes of Siletz and the
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon , relocating to either the
Siletz Indian Reservation north of the tribe's traditional lands or to the
Grand Ronde Indian Reservation .
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[2] Some of the tribal members were never captured and were forced to wander.
^ Schwartz, The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, pp. 146–149.
^ Douthit, Uncertain Encounters, pp. 157–158.
E.A. Schwartz, The Rogue River indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850-1980. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.