This is something I have been thinking about for a few years, since my essays about Reuben Sander and Jim Thorpe. Since the beginnings of amateur sports in the Willamette Valley native peoples have been involved. The best records are those from Chemawa Indian school. At the school there was broad support for sports because … [Read more…]
The Willamette Valley Treaty Commission is created by the Congressional act of June 5, 1850, John P, Gaines, Beverly S. Allen and Alonzo A. Skinner appointed. They received notification about August 12, 1850 and were compensated at a rate of $8 a day and 10 cents a mile (10 cents a mile is quite good … [Read more…]
Recent work on correcting histories of settlers’ societies has been highly popular. The 2019 Exhibit at Five Oaks Museum, Washington County by Stephanie Littlebird Fogel (Grand Ronde) “This IS Kalapuyan Land” – with some help from me- has presented a way to respond to settler-derived histories in interesting and important ways. The issue at play … [Read more…]
Recently, I was made aware of another alternative story of the Battle of Battle Creek. Previously, I published an essay about stories of Klamath and Kalapuya warriors involved in the Battle Creek incident. But, as this history has been well revisited by newspaper editors and other writers over the last 180 years, there are additional … [Read more…]
In the years following the Oregon Indian wars of the 1850s, there were continuous claims by settler for losses due to Indian depredations. The claims were many, at one point reach well above $30,000 in unpaid claims. The budget for paying these claims was not created until they began coming in. The Indian agents were … [Read more…]