Homeland of the Cow Creeks

The panel describes the seasonal round that removal tried to end: camas meadows and salmon in summer, huckleberries and deer in the high country in fall, acorns in the valleys before winter. When the government set out in the 1850s to remove the Cow Creek people to reservations in northwest Oregon, many went into the hills instead. Seven core families held on in remote country, and by the 1870s no one was hunting them. They lived on the margins, hunting, fishing and keeping small gardens, and in 1918 the elders formalized a tribal government and began petitioning Congress.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wolf Creek Inn — 18 mi
  A stage-road hotel built in 1883 for the overnight stop on the sixteen-day run between San Francisco and Portland, still taking guests under state ownership.

More markers nearby

• Canyon Creek — 3.9 mi
• Umpqua - Southern Oregon — 19 mi
• Pinot Noir — 25 mi