Before settlers to Oregon, before the imposition of the names of Springfield and Eugene on the land, there were native villages named by the Kalapuya
Category: Oregon indians
“I suppose you know you are leaving us many days behind.” Umatilla Reservation 1871
On August 7th 1871, Indian commissioner Alfred B. Meacham met with representatives of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The mission was to discuss the possibility
200 years of Conflict
In the Northwest today there is an incredible historical irony playing itself out through inter-tribal politics. Perhaps the situation is such that it rates as
The Molalla Treaty: The Last Western Oregon Treaty
The Molalla Treaty of December 1855 is the last western Oregon treaty ever negotiated, that was eventually ratified. It was late because Joel Palmer heard
George Gibbs and Chinuk Wawa 1851
Years ago my research on the records on the tribes revealed to me that George Gibbs was a significant part of the history of the