This day, Friday I planned to have a number of individuals join me to visit two sites in around Salem. Lake Labish in the morning and Minto-Brown Park in the afternoon. It went just as these things always go, at least one cancellation, one conflict, several people early and some people late. But we hit … [Read more…]
The Northern bands of Calapooias, perhaps the most affected by the early settlement of the Willamette Valley, the Ahantchuyuk inhabited the prairie east of the Willamette River above Lake Labish at Salem. This is one of the earliest areas settled and became known as French Prairie because of the numbers of French-Canadian/ French-Indian employees of … [Read more…]
When a cloud shadow went along the beach the Indians had racing on the beach with a cloud shadow they could stand a stick up, and racers would see if he could get ahead of a moving cloud shadow when the “norwest” was blowing and a cloud shadow was on the ground. This was a … [Read more…]