Lionel Youst and William R. Seaburg recount the compelling life
story of Coquelle Thompson, an Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian
little known except by the Siletz Reservation community and a
handful of visiting academics. Thompson's life spanned nearly a
century, from 1849 to 1946. During his lifetime, he worked along
the Oregon coast as farmer, hunting/fishing guide, teamster, tribal
policeman, and, perhaps most importantly, he served as an expert
witness on Upper Coquille and reservation life and culture for
anthropologists.
While captain of the tribal police, Thompson was assigned to
investigate the Warm House Dance, the Siletz Indian Reservation
version of the famous Ghost Dance, which had spread among the
Indians of many tribes during the latter 1800s. Thompson became a
proselytizer for the Warm House Dance, helping to carry its message
and performance from Siletz along the Oregon coast as far south as
Coos Bay.
Thompson lived through the conclusion of the Rogue River Indian
War of 1855-56 and his tribe's subsequent removal from southern
Oregon to the Siletz Reservation. During his lifetime, the Siletz
Reservation went from one million acres to seventy-seven individual
allotments and four sections of tribal timber. The reservation was
legislated out of existence less than a decade after he died.
Youst and Seaburg also examine the works of six anthropologists
who interviewed Thompson over the years: J. Owen Dorsey, Cora Du
Bois, Philip Drucker, Elizabeth Derr Jacobs, Jack Marr, and John
Peabody Harrington.
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