Cow Creek. (Oregon State Archives Scenic Images collection)
Contact
Address: 2371 NE Stephens St., Suite 100, Roseburg 97470
Phone: 541-672-9405, 800-929-8229
About
Restoration Date: December 29, 1982
Number of Members: 1,760
Land Base Acreage: 1,840 acres (in trust)
Number of people employed by the Tribe: 1,100
Economy
The tribe was restored without reservation land in 1982. All land held by the tribe has been by purchase. The Seven Feathers Casino Resort in Canyonville, including hotels, restaurants and entertainment venues, is the tribe’s main income source. Other businesses, such as the K-BAR cattle ranch in Rogue River, have been acquired in their economic diversification program. Since recognition, the tribe has developed housing, education and social services programs, business corporations, a utility cooperative, charitable foundation and tribal court system. The tribe is one of the largest employers in Douglas County
Points of Interest
Oregon’s Interstate-5 passes through Canyonville, the Seven Feathers Resort and the heart of Cow Creek’s homeland. The area includes the Umpqua River, the Cascade Mountains, the Pacific Ocean and dunes and a growing wine industry
History and Culture
The Cow Creeks lived between the Cascade and Coast Ranges in southwestern Oregon, along the South Umpqua River. They hunted deer and elk and fished silver salmon and steelhead as far north as the Columbia River, east to Crater Lake, and south to the Klamath Marsh. Except for the purpose of the Termination Act in 1954, which called for the immediate termination of federal relations with more than 60 tribes in western Oregon, the Cow Creek’s Treaty of 1853 was ignored by the U.S. government for over 128 years until federal recognition in 1982.
Tribal Court
Tribal Judge Ronald Yockim, 2371 NE Stephens St., Suite 100, Roseburg 97470; 541-672-9405
Tribal Council
Chairman Carla Keene, Vice-Chair Gary Jackson, Secretary Yvonne Dumont-McCafferty, Treasurer Robert VanNorman, Members: Jessica Bochart-Leusch, Dan Courtney, Tom Cox, Royce Deardorff, Gerald Rainville, Susie Steward and Luann Urban