Canemah is now a neighborhood of Oregon City, but in the 1850s Canemah was a tribal village situated above the Willamette Falls on the eastern bank. The neighborhood today is steeped in history with a number of streets named for the native families who lived at the village, like ‘Apperson’. There native people would help … [Read more…]
Last Night I presented before some 200+ people at the Kennedy School in Portland. The presentation was well received. Some very good questions, the normal comments of surprise and shock at some of the numbers I was presenting about what happened to Native peoples in the past 200 years. The presentation is here, 200 Years … [Read more…]
August in Washington, D.C. is hot, humid, and is always seen as a great opportunity to find incredible resources that are lost in the archives. I say lost because archives like NARA are so vast that the many finding aids they have for the collections can only help to a point, then researchers must rely … [Read more…]
Recently, I have a found that online research on tribal genealogy is better than before. The Internet Archive has published perhaps all of the M595 series of annual censuses of the tribes. This annual census occurred from 1885-1940. Some ten years ago I acquired the complete M595 microfilm series copies of tribes in Oregon and … [Read more…]
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 late in 1855 that there were these other Molalla people still in the Cascades in southern Oregon that had yet to be negotiated with. We see these peoples also mentioned … [Read more…]