This photograph depicts a group of Portland sixth graders from Cherry Park Elementary as they hiked through a forest during a week of 1977 Outdoor …

Oregon History Project

By writing a history of the state park system in 1965, Chester H. “Chet” Armstrong provided Oregon with one of the first such works anywhere …

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This photograph shows Chief George Allen Charley (center in vest and white shirt) and his seining crew in Pacific County, Washington, around 1907. Chief Charley …

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Chief Johnny Jackson, a Columbia River Indian chief, was interviewed by Piper Hackett through the University Studies program at Portland State University. In this transcribed …

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This Les Orderman photograph of Wasco Chief Joseph McCorkle symbolically breaking ground for the Pelton Dam was originally published in the Oregon Journal, on …

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This excerpt is from a pamphlet titled “Chief Joseph’s Story,” a reprint of a speech which was transcribed and published in the April 1879 edition …

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Chief Tommy Kuni Thompson (Wyam) was the chief of Celilo Village from the late nineteenth century until the 1950s. Over the course of his long …

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Childe Hassam, though not an Oregonian, created some of the best-known paintings of Oregon's landscape. A New Englander by birth (October 17, 1859) and choice, …

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Each July, the Storytelling Guild of Medford presents the Children's Festival in Jacksonville. This all-volunteer program, begun in 1967, is designed to present a positive …

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This photograph depicts an interior view of the Ladies’ Relief Society’s Children’s Home, a dormitory for impoverished and orphaned children. This institution, located in South Portland …

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