In 1956, under the Eisenhower administration, Congress passed a bill that terminated all the tribes of western Oregon. The formal name for this policy was "termination" and under it, United States government no longer communicated with Indian tribes and the status and recognition of the tribes was dissolved. The Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw protested and opposed termination. The fight to regain federal recognition became the tribes' new primary goal. Finally in 1984, after 28 years of fighting for their rights, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw were returned to a recognized status.
The picture to the right is a newspaper article reporting on the seven criteria that tribes had to meet in order to gain a recognized status according to the Federal Recognition Act of 1978. This act is what allowed the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw to achieve recognized status 6 years later.
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