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  • 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

  • Natural and Cultural Foundations

    Old photographs and rotten piers of Columbia River canneries have become monuments to a lost era. They stand as symbols of ethnic communities, gritty laborers, …

    Oregon History Project

  • Natural Resources and the Railroad

    The California gold rush served as the great catalyst for Oregon agricultural growth and commercial development during and after the territorial period. The hundreds of …

    Oregon History Project

  • Naval Air Station Tillamook / Tillamook Air Museum

    Tillamook is home to the largest free-standing, clear-span wooden structure in the world. Covering more than seven acres, the building is 1,072 feet long, 296 …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

3230 results

  • 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

  • Natural and Cultural Foundations

    Old photographs and rotten piers of Columbia River canneries have become monuments to a lost era. They stand as symbols of ethnic communities, gritty laborers, …

    Oregon History Project

  • Natural Resources and the Railroad

    The California gold rush served as the great catalyst for Oregon agricultural growth and commercial development during and after the territorial period. The hundreds of …

    Oregon History Project

  • Naval Air Station Tillamook / Tillamook Air Museum

    Tillamook is home to the largest free-standing, clear-span wooden structure in the world. Covering more than seven acres, the building is 1,072 feet long, 296 …

    Oregon Encyclopedia