Editing Josephine County, Oregon (section)

===Ethnic history===
Although several tribes of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]]s lived in the area from which Josephine County was created, most of their members had been moved to the reservation at [[Grand Ronde, Oregon|Grand Ronde]] by the end of the Rogue River Indian War. Soon afterwards all Indians in southwest Oregon, with the exception of a few small bands, were moved to the Coast reservation (later known as the [[Siletz Reservation]]).<ref name="JosephineCO" /> 

Josephine County was also the home to a large Chinese population. Most had come to the area to work gold claims purchased from whites no longer interested in working them. Even though they could not own land, they had to pay a tax to mine gold, and were usually relegated to inferior claims.{{cn|date=February 2024}}