The University of Oregon in partnership with the federally recognized tribes and created and approved the land acknowledgment for our Eugene campus. Please work to utilize the full version, if unable to fit on print or digital format please use the short version. The university is working to have an approved Portland campus land acknowledgment.
Land Acknowledgment—Eugene campus, full version
The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon, and continue to make important contributions in their communities, at UO, and across the land we now refer to as Oregon.
We express our respect for all federally recognized tribal nations of Oregon. This includes the Burns Paiute Tribe; the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians; the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon; the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon; the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs; the Coquille Indian Tribe; the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians; and the Klamath Tribes. We also express our respect for all other displaced Indigenous peoples who call Oregon home.
Land Acknowledgment—Eugene campus, short version
The University of Oregon is located within the traditional homelands of the Southern Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855, Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon.
Land Acknowledgment—NE Portland Campus
The University of Oregon’s Portland campus was once heavily populated by Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and numerous indigenous peoples who made their homes along the Columbia River basin for millennia.
We respectfully acknowledge all Indigenous communities and the unimaginable colonial history they endured. We also acknowledge the systemic policies of genocide, relocation, and assimilation that still affect many Indigenous and Native American families today. As guests on these lands, we respect the work of indigenous leaders and families, and pledge to make ongoing efforts to recognize their knowledge, creativity, and resiliency.
The University of Oregon would like to thank and recognize the nine federally recognized tribes of Oregon; the Burns Paiute Tribe; the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians; the Coquille Indian Tribe; the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians; the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community; The Klamath Tribes; the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians; The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indians, and; the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs, who continue to make contributions within the State of Oregon, nationally and across the globe.
Land Acknowledgment—Oldtown Portland Campus
We acknowledge the land on which we sit and occupy at the University of Oregon in Portland. "The Portland Metro Area rests on traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River creating communities and summer encampments to harvest and use the plentiful natural resources of the area" (Portland Indian Leaders Roundtable, 2018). We take this opportunity to thank the original caretakers of this land.
Land Acknowledgment—Charleston Campus
The Charleston Marine Life Center is located on the traditional lands of the Miluk, Hanis, and Athabaskan people, many of whom are now citizens of the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, and the Coquille Indian Tribe.
Last updated: November 9, 2023