72nd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2003 Regular Session
 
SA to SJM 4
 
LC 2699/SJM 4-2
 
                      SENATE AMENDMENTS TO
                     SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 4
 
                      By COMMITTEE ON RULES
 
                            August 23
 
  Delete lines 6 through 9 of the printed joint memorial and
insert:
  ' Whereas in 1855 Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington
Territory and Joel Palmer, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for
the Oregon Territory, conducted a vigorous campaign to make
treaties with all of the Indian tribes of northeastern Oregon,
Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana; and
  ' Whereas Governor Stevens and Superintendent Palmer and
numerous Indian leaders met and negotiated 11 treaties in 1855,
starting in Seattle, heading south to the Columbia River,
proceeding upriver to The Dalles, and ending at Judith River,
Montana; and
  ' Whereas these treaties included treaties with the Tribes of
Middle Oregon (confirming tribes' rights to the Warm Springs
Indian Reservation), the Walla Wallas and others (confirming
tribes' rights to the Umatilla Indian Reservation) and the Nez
Perce; and
  ' Whereas the 11 treaties made on the 1855 Treaty Trail remain
in force, preserving those rights of the original peoples of the
territories that were not expressly surrendered; and
  ' Whereas national historic trail designation for the treaty
route is most fitting because the treaties form the basis for the
good relations now enjoyed between the State of Oregon and both
the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation
and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation,
and the basis for the title to land throughout northeastern
Oregon, as well as most of the State of Washington and much of
the States of Idaho and Montana; and
  ' Whereas the 1855 Treaty Trail route is especially traceable
in Oregon, following the Columbia River and including the site of
the Treaty of Middle Oregon at The Dalles, a place well known to
the Indians of the region; and
  ' Whereas the sesquicentennial of the 1855 treaties is fast
approaching, coinciding with the bicentennial of the arrival of
Lewis and Clark in the Oregon Country and their transit of the
Columbia River and sighting of the great Pacific Ocean; and
  ' Whereas the sesquicentennial will be celebrated as part of
the commemoration planned by the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial in
Oregon and several Oregon communities in 2005; now, therefore,'.
  Delete lines 11 and 12 and insert:
  ' (1) The Congress of the United States is respectfully urged
to fund a study of a National 1855 Treaty Trail in the fiscal
year 2004 budget for the National Park Service and to direct the
National Park Service to proceed expeditiously with the study.'.
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