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The Valley of the Rogue was occupied by Native Americans (Taklema, Dakubetede, Taltushtuntude, and Shasta tribes) long before the first Europeans explored the region in the early part of the nineteenth century. In the 1820s Hudson's Bay trappers bartered with Indians in the area and trapped beaver. In the late 1820s Peter Scene Ogden traveled through and was followed in the 1830s by Alexander Roderick McLeod and John Work. |
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The United States Congress passed the Oregon Donation Land Act in 1850. Under the act settlers could claim up to 320 acres per person for free. The first claims in the Valley of the Rogue by American settlers were made in 1852. Over 9,000 settlers claimed 2.6 million acres in the Pacific Northwest. Conflict between settler and Indian quickly resulted in the massacre of many Indians and the forced resettlement of the remaining Native Americans to reservations. By 1857 most were resettled in the Grand Ronde Reservation on the South Yamhill River. |
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