Finding a Needle in a Haystack: How an 1880 Newspaper Clip Opened Up Our Coastal Oregon Research
Finding a Needle in a Haystack: How an 1880 Newspaper Clip Opened Up Our Coastal Oregon Research 1880 article from the Langlois Tribune introducing Nellie, her family ties, and her children in Port Orford. Line-by-line transcription below: "SOLITARY AND ALONE. The Last Remaining Female of a Once Numerous and Powerful Tribe. The squaw "Nellie," who, with her two children, Louisa and William, at present occupies a house on the mill property , is the only female left of the once proud "Macanutona" tribe which once, and up to 1857, occupied a tract of country along Rogue river, four miles above its mouth. In 1851 the tribe numbered 400 warriors, in 1857 what was left of the tribe was removed to Siletz Reservation where there only now remain 14 bucks, which, with Nellie, make 15 all told, which live to recount the former glory and achievements of the famed Macanutonas. Alas! they have all gone to the happy hunting ground beyond. Nellie is the daughter of the Chief,...