72nd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2003 Regular Session
 
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                           A-Engrossed
 
                     Senate Joint Memorial 4
                 Ordered by the Senate August 23
           Including Senate Amendments dated August 23
 
Sponsored by Senators CLARNO, MORSE; Senator FISHER
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure.
 
  Urges Congress to   { - amend Internal Revenue Code to allow
individual tax deduction for payment of health insurance
premiums - }  { +  fund study of National 1855 Treaty Trail so
National Park Service may designate trail as national historic
trail for sesquicentennial of 1855 treaties + }.
 
                         JOINT MEMORIAL
To the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United
  States of America, in Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-second Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  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,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  (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.
  (2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to each member of the
Oregon Congressional Delegation.
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