[or-roots] they're afte me! EEk (Les C.)

[TreeTrakr at aol.com]

Hi, sorry to "chime" in, but don't  forget the DOMPIERRE/DOMPIER family when 
you are speaking of the RONDEAU  family.  They are linked.  Marcella can give 
some great information on  the Rondeaus for sure.  There is also some great 
information to be had at  the Douglas County Library and the Douglas Country 
Museum.  Also, at the  courthouse they have a little geneaology place...small but 
lots of "goodies" in  there.  That is where I became aquainted with Marcella. 
 I also  visited Dompier Creek too.  And at Tiller at the ranger station 
there, they  were so nice and gave me a whole copy of the Tiller history, pretty 
interesting  especially when it told about World War II and the precautions 
they put in  effect at that time.  
Here are some things to check  
out...site...http://www.cowcreek.com/elders/rondeau_family.html
If that doesn't work let me know  and I can get you the information, would 
assume it still works.  This has  photos of the family.  Also the 
PARISEAU/PARAZOO families are linked to the  Rondeaus and Dompierre family.
The following is from a brochure I  got at the museum-
Quote-Survival of the Cow  Creeks-During the 1850's the Cow Creek suffered 
terribly.  With the advent  of the pioneer settlement in 1848 and the rapid 
filing on lands along Umpqua by  1852, the stage was set for increasing tensions 
between Indians and  newcomers.  Epidemics swept through the villages.  Treatu 
guarantees  provided no protection for the Cow Creeks, who soon became 
refugees in their own  homeland.  Settlers drove them from their villages, bands of 
self-styled  "volunteers" from the mining communities preyed on them, and local 
 soldiers-alleging various wrongs-murdered many and drove others into the  
hills.  The Cow Creeks established their campsites and, in seclution, they  
maintained a semblance of their old culture, attempting to escape the occasional  
efforts of the Bureau of Indian Affairs at resettlement.
Many Cow Creeks married French  Canadian fur traders and miners names 
familiar to the south county were Dumont,  LaChance, Rainville, Pariseau, Rondeau and 
Thomason.  Some of these family  names are quite common among the modern Cow 
Creek Tribe.
In the 1980's the Indian  population of Douglas County was nearly at the 
level of the mid-1850's-about  500.  The Cow Creeks, the Umpqua Valley's only 
federally recognized tribe,  possessed nearly 700 members on their rolls.  Nearly 
fifty percent resided  in Douglas, Josephine or Jackson Counties, Chief 
Miwaleta Park at the Galesville  Dam is dedicated to the memory of Miwaleta, Chief 
of the Cow Creek Band in the  early 1850's.
The Tribe has an administrative  office located in Roseburg.  The Tribe 
Office administers several programs  ranging from Education, Housing, Economic 
Development Grants, Social Services,  Drug and Alcohol Counseling and Nursing 
Services.  They interact with local  and state government as well as federal 
agencies.
The Cow Creeks vested their enitre  judgment fund of $1.5 million in an 
endowment from which they draw on an annual  basis, only the earned interest.  
These earning were earmarked for economic  development, education, housing and 
elderlly assistance to uplift the quality of  life for all tribal members.
Unquote
Maybe this will be of  interest-Carol Simmons Dompier
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