In the 19th century Indian Agents were obsessed with keeping liquors away from Native peoples. Whether their motivation was religious, as most were conservative protestants,
Month: September 2017
Early Counts of Western Oregon Tribal Peoples
The tribes of the western Oregon were quite numerous, previous to contact with traders and explorers to the North West Coast. Outsiders, brought numerous diseases
We Are Willing to Remove Anywhere, Where We Can Obtain Peace: Removal of the Rogue River Tribes To the Grand Ronde Reservation
The second large removal of the Tribes to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation took place between February 23rd and March 25th in 1856. (The first
Articles About Tualatins: Cedar Mill News
These are articles written about my presentations, or that I wrote, and had published in the Cedar Mill News. Cedar Mill is a small town
Encroachment of Americans into Brush Creek Valley
The following contains sections of an essay in the 1903 Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, that lays out some important narratives of the Santiam