Tag: tualatin

Klickitat and Twality Legal battles Over Land

November 10, 2019

By the 1830s, right about the time that “fever and ague” a great plague, likely malaria (Boyd, the Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence,1999) hit the tribes of the Columbia River and Willamette Valley, Klickitat Indians began occupying parts of the Willamette and Umpqua valleys unopposed. It’s likely that they had been coming into the … More Klickitat and Twality Legal battles Over Land

Tualatin Kalapuyans and Seasonal Rounds

February 6, 2017

  The Kalapuyan tribes were about 19 tribes and bands in the Willamette Valley. The tribes and bands  in the Tualatin valley were the Tualatin Kalapuyans. Historical documents also called these people Twalaty or Atfalati. Many Tualatin villages were situated around Wapato Lake. The lake provided a vast amount of resources, reeds and sedges for … More Tualatin Kalapuyans and Seasonal Rounds