Willow-Witt Ranch is located on Shasta, Upland Takelma, Latgawa and Athabaskan indigenous homelands. At the end of the Rogue River Wars in 1856, these Tribes and many other Tribes from western Oregon were forcibly removed to the Siletz Reservation and the Grand Ronde Reservation. Today, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians are living descendants of the Takelma, Shasta, Latgawa and Athabaskan peoples of this area. These indigenous communities are the past, present and future caretakers of this land.
The Forest’s foundational mission is to connect our community to the land around us. We want to acknowledge that this land was not given to us, but taken from others.
