Coquille Indian Tribe

Beginning in 1847, following the Cayuse Indian slaughter of the white, Presbyterian missionaries at the "Whitman Mission", a serious of retaliatory attacks ensued against the indigenous peoples all throughout the Oregon Territory, perpetrated by both miners and settlers.

By 1854, several dozen miners who were angry over an altercation with a native man, went into the Coquille Indian village in what is now Bandon, Oregon, and killed all the members of that tribe that they could find there, burning their houses and slaughtering all women and children.

[9] Anderson was later found to have used federal funds earmarked for tribal housing to pay for personal expenses and his own home.

Parts of the communities of Bandon, Barview, Coos Bay, and North Bend extend onto reservation lands.

The Coquille Forest comprises fourteen separate parcels of former BLM timberlands in eastern Coos County.

[citation needed] In 2011, the U.S. Secretary of Interior endorsed the first component of the landscape management proposal in which the Coquille Indian Tribe and the BLM would work together to develop a demonstration timber sale pilot in coordination with professors Norm Johnson and Jerry Franklin.

This pilot will demonstrate the professors' ecological principles of variable retention regeneration harvest in the Oregon Coast Range.

[20] The Coquille Tribe owns several businesses, including The Mill Casino[21] in Coos Bay, and ORCA Communications, a telecommunications provider.

[22][23] In September 2012, the tribe announced plans for a casino in Medford, to be built in a bowling alley that was acquired for $1.6 million.