[or-roots] Rondeau, Lavador, Bland Mountain

[Sue Steward]

This was a wonderful synopsis of this whole situation.  You are very well
informed.  Thanks for sharing it with all of us.  It does not pertain to us
but it was very interesting to read.

Sue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aloha Analanie" <yukahana at yahoo.com>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:57 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Rondeau, Lavador, Bland Mountain


>
> Connie G. and Les C.:
> First: Lavador and Bland Mountain Cemeteries are two.
> Both are on private ranch land so permission from
> rancher owners is essential.  Fire burned through
> Bland Mountain this year but I have no knowledge of
> proximity to cemetery.
>
> Second: History of Rondeau, Rainville, Lavador,
> Thomason, LaChance and other related families is
> complex and complicated by the unfortunate $$$ need
> for present descendents to show ancesstors who are
> Umpqua Indians.  An unbiased researcher will find that
> the lineage of these familes streams from the French
> Canadian fur traders and their Indian or Metis wives.
> Fortunately for historical accuracy, these people were
> Catholics and sought the blessings of the priest for
> marriages and baptisms.  Very complete records are in
> the Oregon Archives at Gonzaga University in Spokane
> and also in the Canadian archives. According to the
> archivist at Gonzaga, the priests recorded the Indian
> ancestors of these families with their tribal or place
> names in place of surnames because most had a given
> name that was a single word.  They were given English
> or French names when baptized. In this manner, the
> father of Susan Nonta Thomason is recorded as Nonta
> Algonkin at Stella Maris Mission in what is now
> Pacific County, Washington.
>
> Third: These families can be found in census records,
> know you where to look.  They are first at Champoeg in
> the 1830-40's.  By the 1860's and 1870's they are also
> in the DLC records around Kellog and Umpqua in Douglas
> County.  In the 1900's look for these families in
> Drew, Tiller, Glide, Azalea, Lavador (now Milo), Days
> Creek, Klamath Falls, and Umatilla.  Also in Cowlitz
> County, Washington and in the Klamath Basin of
> Northern California. Some branches of the families are
> enumerated on reservations in Montana and members of
> the LaChance family are at Grand Ronde reservation.
> Many of the families are in the Special Indian census.
>  You'll find when you read the census records that
> they were very forthcoming about where they were born.
>  In the Indian census, the tribal affiliation and
> blood quantum was noted.
>
> The story of the "hiding in the woods from the
> soldiers so they wouldn't be sent to the reservation"
> was borrowed directly from the Trail of Tears.  It is
> not supported by the facts.
>
> Aloha A.
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