Land Restored, but Equity Remains Elusive The recent legislative proposal to transfer 18,626 forest acres to the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde is a long overdue recognition of their ancestral lands and rights.
This gesture, however, lies atop a complex web of historical injustices and ongoing struggles for Indigenous peoples.
Decades long efforts by the Grand Ronde Tribe to rebuild its land base have been hampered by federal termination policies in the 1950s.