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No Native American group in the state of Oregon maintained a written language prior to the arrival of European Americans, nor for a considerable period thereafter. It is therefore necessary to make use of visitor accounts and the records and press of frequently hostile and poorly comprehending outsiders to reconstruct the story of the region's ...
The Native Americans were camped with their women and children [28] on the top of a hill, with the soldiers located across a narrow ravine about 1,500 feet deep. [28] Two hundred of the Native Americans were in the mountains southwest of present-day Roseburg [ 28 ] armed with muzzleloaders , bows, and arrows and managed to hold off a group of ...
The Oregon Festival of American Music is an eclectic, thematically based two-week summer music festival that has been held annually in Eugene since 1992 and has been produced by The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts. Other music festivals in Oregon include the Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland, the Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene, and the ...
A writer researching his great-great-uncles, all three born on a Chickasaw reservation, discovers they were major moviemakers in the early days of Hollywood.
Oregon map from Indian Land Cessions in the United States. At the beginning of the pioneer period the Oregon Country was the homeland of numerous tribes of Native Americans. Portions of the area were claimed by the United States, Great Britain, Spain, and Russia. From 1818 to the mid-19th century, several treaties were signed that would set the ...
The construction of dams, like The Dalles Dam, was central to the power supply of the region. The history of Oregon, a U.S. state, may be considered in five eras: geologic history, inhabitation by native peoples, early exploration by Europeans (primarily fur traders), settlement by pioneers, and modern development.
In the mid-1840s, American settlers began to arrive at Fort Vancouver, coming in on the Oregon Trail. Due to the flood of white immigrants, John McLoughlin found himself in a tight spot. [4] Travelling Americans often carried measles and other foreign diseases to which the Cayuse had no natural immunity. Cayuse children died of diseases such as ...
Chinookan peoples include several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages.Since at least 4000 BCE Chinookan peoples have resided along the upper and Middle Columbia River (Wimahl) ("Great River") from the river's gorge (near the present town of The Dalles, Oregon) downstream (west) to the river's mouth, and along adjacent ...