Rogue River is the name of a Native American

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 group originally located in southern Oregon

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 in the United States

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. Rogue River was not a single tribe, but a conglomeration of many affiliated and related tribal groups. The total estimated population of these tribes in 1850 was about 9,500. The French Canadian

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 employees of the Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

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 called them all "coquins", meaning "Rogues", where the designation comes from. The principal tribes commonly grouped under the generic name of Rogue River Indians were the Latgawa, Takelma

Takelma

The Takelma were a Native American people that lived in the Rogue Valley of interior southwest Oregon, with most of their villages sited along the Rogue River. The name Takelma means Along the River.-History:...

, Shasta

Shasta (tribe)

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 and different subtribes of the Coquille

Coquille (tribe)

The Coquille are a Native American tribe centered in southwest Oregon in the United States, where the Coos River flows into Coos Bay.-Name:The name of the Coquille is derived from the French, literally translated as "shell"...

, including the Shasta Costa, Tututni, and Euchre Creek.

After the Rogue River Wars

Rogue River Wars

The Rogue River Wars was an armed conflict between the US Army, local militias and volunteers, and the Native American tribes commonly grouped under the designation of Rogue River Indians, in the Rogue River Valley area of what today is southern Oregon in 1855–56...

 in 1856, bands of the Rogue River were split between the Confederated Tribes of Siletz

Confederated Tribes of Siletz

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 and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon

Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon

The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon consists of twenty-seven Native American tribes with long historical ties to present-day Western Oregon between the western boundary of the Oregon Coast and the eastern boundary of the Cascade Range, and the northern boundary of...

, relocating to either the Siletz Indian Reservation north of the tribe's traditional lands or to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation

Grand Ronde Indian Reservation

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. Some of the tribal members were never captured and were forced to wander.