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  • Wapato Lake National Refuge

    The Wapato Lake National Wildlife Refuge, approved in 2007, is a noncontiguous patchwork of Pacific Northwest rainforest near Gaston, in Washington and Yamhill Counties. The …

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  • Wapato (Wappato) Valley Indians

    Lewis and Clark called them the "Wappato Indians," the people who inhabited the villages that lined the riverbanks in the "Wappato Valley," the resource-rich lowlands …

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  • Tualatin peoples

    Tualatin (properly pronounced 'twälə.tun in English) was the name of a collection of related but independent villages whose members spoke a dialect of Northern Kalapuya, …

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  • Kalliah Tumulth (Indian Mary) (1854-1906)

    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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  • Pacific University

    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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  • Peter Kenoyer (c. 1835–1886) and Louis Kenoyer (1868–1937)

    It is to Peter Kenoyer (Kinai [kʼiˈnɑ:i]) and his son Louis Kenoyer (Bakhawadas [bɑχɑˈwɑ:dɑs]) that we owe most of what has been preserved of the …

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  • Willamette Valley Treaties

    From 1848 to 1855, the United States made several treaties with the tribes of western Oregon. Those treaties cleared the way for increased settlement by …

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  • Wilson McClendon Tigard (1826–1882)

    In 1852, Wilson McClendon Tigard (née Tygart) settled in what became the City of Tigard to farm. He helped build the area's first school …

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  • Hanis Coos (Kowes)

    The Hanis (hanıs) people lived in villages along Coos Bay, Coos River, and Tenmile Lake on the Oregon Coast. Miluk-speaking villages were …

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  • Meier Site

    The Meier site, the subject of an archaeological excavation that documents an early community on the lower Columbia River, is located near Scappoose, …

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