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Kathryn Jones Harrison of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde is one of Oregon's important tribal leaders. She is known for her work as a member of the Tribal Council of the Grand Ronde and for her contributions during the Termination era, a time when the Eisenhower Administration deprived tribes of formal "recognition."

Life and Childhood

Kathryn Jones Harrison was born on March 28, 1924, and she became orphaned at the age of ten when her parents died in a flu epidemic. She was sent to an abusive household in Buxton, Oregon. After four years, she fled to the Chemawa Indian private school in Salem. In 1910, her father, Harry Jones (of Molala descent), had been valedictorian there.

At Chemawa, Kathryn Jones was trained to be a servant in Anglo homes, but she ran away after graduation instead of following that path. Because of the circumstances she got married to her classmate, Frank Harrison. Years later they had ten children, all the while following the harvesting of crops throughout the West as migrant laborers.