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A Conversation on the History and Commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
On June 14, 2004, historians William L. Lang and Carl Abbott joined Roberta Conner (Umatilla, Cayuse, Nez Perce), director of the Tasmástlikt Cultural Institute and …
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Acquiring Reservation Land
Some of the coast’s most remote and marginal land had been set aside for relocating people who had been defeated in the Rogue Wars and …
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Across the Plains and into the Oregon Country
The Expedition met no Indians from the time they left the Mandan and Hidatsa villages until they made contact with Sacagawea’s people in mid-August 1805, …
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Act to Prohibit the Intermarriage of Races, 1866
The Oregonian clipping featured here presented the language of a new Oregon law approved by the Legislature on October 24, 1866. It banned miscegenation—marriage between …
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Ada Hastings Hedges (1883-1980)
Ada Hastings Hedges, poetry editor Borghild Lee wrote in the March 14, 1926, Oregon Journal, “is an exquisite artist…one of the most finished poets …
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Adair Village
The city of Adair Village is located in Benton County about seven miles north of Corvallis along Highway 99W. The name is derived from Camp …
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Adalbert G. Bettman (1883 - 1964)
Adalbert G. Bettman was one of the first physicians in the West to specialize in reconstructive plastic surgery. His pioneering techniques won him national fame, …
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Adams
Adams is a small town about thirteen miles northeast of Pendleton on Wildhorse Creek in Umatilla County. The town got its name from the homestead …
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Adams High School
John Adams High School opened its doors in 1969 for Portland students who lived in the Jefferson, Grant, and Madison high school attendance areas. The …
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Adams-OnĂs Treaty (1819)
The oldest political terrestrial state boundary of Oregon—the southern state line with California—was set in 1819, four decades before statehood and without clear United States …
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