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  • National Reclamation Act (1902)

    When Congress passed the National Reclamation Act in 1902, the measure set in motion the dramatic transformation of arid sections of the American West to …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • National Wild and Scenic Rivers in Oregon

    The world's first and most extensive system of protected rivers began with congressional passage of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act in 1968. The rivers …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Native American Agricultural Labor

    As early as the 1830s, when French Canadians associated with the Hudson's Bay Company began establishing the French Prairie farming region in the Willamette Valley …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Native American Cultures

    Then Coyote said, People shall spear salmon, they will go to get food, to one another will they go to get food; one another they …

    Oregon History Project

  • Native American Loggers in Oregon

    In pre-settlement times, native peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast harvested trees to build canoes, to make planks for plankhouses, or to create works of …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Native Americans, Pendleton Round-Up

    When Captain Meriwether Lewis passed through the Columbia Plateau in the spring of 1806, he wrote that he had not seen “a single horse which …

    Oregon History Project

  • Native American Tobacco Use and Cultivation in Western North America

    Tobacco is native to the Americas, including in the Pacific Northwest, where it was harvested and often cultivated for thousands of years. Introduced to Europe …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Native American Treaties, Northeastern Oregon

    After American immigrants arrived in the Oregon Territory in the 1840s, representatives of the United States established policies for Indigenous peoples in northeastern Oregon. By …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Native American women from Chemawa train to work in shipyards

    When the labor market opened up during World War II, more than 65,000 Native Americans worked for war industries or joined the armed forces. Historian …

    Oregon History Project

  • Native Art of the Wapato Valley

    Sauvie Island, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, was the geographical focus of a sizable body of Native art pieces in the …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

3216 results

  • National Reclamation Act (1902)

    When Congress passed the National Reclamation Act in 1902, the measure set in motion the dramatic transformation of arid sections of the American West to …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • National Wild and Scenic Rivers in Oregon

    The world's first and most extensive system of protected rivers began with congressional passage of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act in 1968. The rivers …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Native American Agricultural Labor

    As early as the 1830s, when French Canadians associated with the Hudson's Bay Company began establishing the French Prairie farming region in the Willamette Valley …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Native American Cultures

    Then Coyote said, People shall spear salmon, they will go to get food, to one another will they go to get food; one another they …

    Oregon History Project

  • Native American Loggers in Oregon

    In pre-settlement times, native peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast harvested trees to build canoes, to make planks for plankhouses, or to create works of …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Native Americans, Pendleton Round-Up

    When Captain Meriwether Lewis passed through the Columbia Plateau in the spring of 1806, he wrote that he had not seen “a single horse which …

    Oregon History Project

  • Native American Tobacco Use and Cultivation in Western North America

    Tobacco is native to the Americas, including in the Pacific Northwest, where it was harvested and often cultivated for thousands of years. Introduced to Europe …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Native American Treaties, Northeastern Oregon

    After American immigrants arrived in the Oregon Territory in the 1840s, representatives of the United States established policies for Indigenous peoples in northeastern Oregon. By …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Native American women from Chemawa train to work in shipyards

    When the labor market opened up during World War II, more than 65,000 Native Americans worked for war industries or joined the armed forces. Historian …

    Oregon History Project

  • Native Art of the Wapato Valley

    Sauvie Island, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, was the geographical focus of a sizable body of Native art pieces in the …

    Oregon Encyclopedia