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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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 …

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Cascadia Cave, near the South Santiam River, is one of the most significant cultural resources of the Indigenous peoples of the Cascade Mountains and the …

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The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon is a confederation of over twenty-seven tribes and bands from western Oregon, southern Washington, and northern …

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Kalliah Tumulth, also called Indian Mary, was a Cascade (Watlala) Chinook born in October 1854 to a signer of one of the main Oregon treaties. …

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Ontario, the largest city in Malheur County, is on the Snake River near the Oregon state line. As the first city that people encounter when …

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William “Bill” Chapman Bradbury III served in Oregon politics and public affairs for more than thirty years. He began his civic career in the state …

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The Coos Bay estuary is a semi-enclosed, elongated series of sloughs and tidewater streams that drains approximately 825 square miles of southern Oregon's rugged Coast …

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Poet and artist Elizabeth Woody was named Oregon Poet Laureate in 2016, the first Native American appointed to the position. Woody's roots are in the …

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Fort Vancouver, a British fur trading post built in 1824 to optimize the Hudson’s Bay Company’s operations in the Oregon Country, was the headquarters and …

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