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Posting articles I have written in the past 15 years to this site for download. Articles span anthropology, history, archives, education and some curriculum. Follow me on Academia.edu!
Maps
People Above The Falls: Canemah Village
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…]
Research in Washington, D.C., August 2014
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…]
Gibbs-Starling Map Update
Found so much information on the map since last. I now have some great digital images of the map that were given to me by OSU Library. They have copies there and at The Oregon Historical Society Library. The new digital image has revealed another reservation that we could not see on our poor images … [Read more…]
Gibbs-Starling Map 1851
Today spend a bit of time looking for the reference to the Gibbs- Starling map of 1851. I have a copy in digital form but its full of photocopy marks and this obscures some of the information. I found the reference and its at the Smithsonian, Cartography division at College Park. We have to go … [Read more…]