The US government took the land of Oregon’s native people 170 years ago this week

Oregon became a state in 1859. But nine years earlier, on Sept. 27, 1850, the Donation Land Claim Act became law. That makes this week the act’s 170th anniversary.The impact was staggering: In 1849, there were only 9,000 European Americans in present-day Oregon; by 1860, there were 50,000.But crucially, the act also led to the displacement of the people who’d been living on this land for thousands of years.Full story here