The Modoc are a thriving Indigenous people who live predominantly in northeastern California, south-central Oregon, and northeastern Oklahoma. Many individuals of Modoc ancestry are citizens …

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Molala Kate Chantal (also known as Molala Kate)—the daughter of Molalla Chief Yelkus (Kil-ke), a signer of treaties with the United States in 1851 and …

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Early explorers noted plankhouse structures up and down the Southern Oregon coast and at the mouth of the Coquille River. It may have been Spanish …

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Dr. Nathalie McDowell Johnson, a dancer and physician, moved to Oregon to focus on women’s breast health and cancer education. She is known for her …

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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 …

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Modest country churches are rare on the twenty-first century Oregon landscape. The North Palestine Baptist Church in Adair Village, built in about 1883 and …

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The Oregon Anti-Sterilization League, formed in February 1913 at the East Portland Branch Library, was the first known effective political advocacy group that worked against …

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The Oregon Queer History Collective, formerly known as the  Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest, was founded in October 1994 by a small …

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Pacific University, one of the oldest universities in the American West, was founded in 1849 in present-day Forest Grove, about twenty-five miles west of …

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The Pendleton Round-Up began in September 1910 as a frontier exhibition of horsemanship and cowboy skills that dazzled 10,000 spectators with its sheer speed and …

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