Installed just last week (9/4/2015) at the Ike [Box] is a new exhibit I collaborated on with the Friday Artists group from Salem. This exhibit
Tag: Willamette Valley History
We Would Prefer to Remain in Our Own Lands, The Molalla People
The Molalla tribes, North, Santiam, and Umpqua valley (southern), were traders between the Chinookans to the north, the Klamaths to the south and the Paiutes
The Grand Enterprise of Six Tribes in 1845
In 1845, before the waves of settlers had come to the Oregon Territory, a confederation of six Oregon tribes worked together to begin to expand
Review: Melinda Marie Jette’s “At the Hearth of the Crossed Races” OSU Press, 2015.
Melinda Marie Jette’s 2015 book, At the Hearth of the Crossed Races, expands upon previous historical analysis of the beginnings of the Oregon territory,
Marriage Kinship among the Willamette Valley Tribes
Much is still not known about how marriages were arranged among the Kalapuya-Mollala-Clackamas tribes. Hints appear in ethnographic literature that still needs to be tracked