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Front Cover: The Yakama Nation held a Land Return Ceremony in 2022 marking fiftyyears since it regained 21,000 acres of ancestral homelands, including Mt. Adams, in a multi-generational campaign. Left to right are Karen Meninick, Tehya Underwood, Jim Thomas — aTlingit elder who supported the restoration campaign — and Ellia Jim. Photograph by CarolCraig / Yakama Nation Review

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Back Cover: THE MINING BOOMTOWN of Auburn, Oregon, sprang up following the 1861 discovery ofgold in the Powder River drainage near what is now Baker City. Auburn quickly grew to severalthousand residents and had dozens of stores to serve miners, including this blacksmith shop.Few traces of Auburn remain today. In this issue, author William F. Willingham examines thelasting effect on eastern Oregon of the initial, relatively short phase of placer gold mining in the1860s and 1870s.

Oregon Historical Quarterly

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Frontmatter

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What Land Back Looks Like: The Yakama Nation's 160-Year Fight for Tract D
Andrew Fisher
pp. 326-359

Contributors
p. 420

Contents for Volume 125
pp. 421-422

Index for Volume 125
pp. 423-431

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