Indian people were warned that they would soon be taken away and told to bring all their belongings, put their canoe away, and expect to return briefly to smoke-dry foods before going back to the Grand Ronde Reservation, where they were told they would receive land, a house, and various things. Not long afterward, they were taken to the Grand Ronde Reservation. One woman returned home to find that her husband had already broken up their canoe, tied up all their personal possessions, and on the following day they were taken south on the Willamette River in a steamboat, while some were carried on a flat barge as far as Dayton on the Yamhill River. Victoria Howard's mother's mother said that they did not comprehend what was happening. On the following day, cattle and hogs were killed and brought to the Indians, along with sugar, lard, potatoes, wheat flour, and many other things, but some of the old people would not eat and only cried for days.