Mountain Molalla at Lost Valley
Records of the Mountain Molalla are very limited. Besides a few records of the tribe living around Pleasant Hill, at Lost Valley, there is nearly nothing known of their culture and territory. They were interrelated with the local Kalapuya peoples, of the Yoncalla…
14th Amendment, Citizenship and Voting Rights
Questions about the recent Supreme Court case Trump v. Barbara, and how a decision will affect American Indians' rights are completely valid. There is a danger that all Native people who were born on Reservations, or all Native people born in the US,…
Nestucca Move To Nechesna and Grand Ronde, the COIA record
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs' record The Nestucca native peoples lived on the central Oregon coast at the Nestucca River. They were a tribe of Salish-speaking people, one of the Tillamookan tribes, which extended from south of the…
Records of Clatskanie Resettlement to Grand Ronde Indian Reservation.
The Clatskanie are a tribe that are not well known to many scholars in the region. There are rare documents about them and many people, I feel, have assumed they have gone extinct. Some years ago when I was a student at UO I…
The Beaversoils of Onion Flat and Tualatin
Reading early descriptions of the Tualatin Valley, they are all focused on the valley’s potential in agriculture. This theme is similar throughout the Willamette Valley, settlers and farmers did not think about the valley in any other way but for its…
Returning Native History: Portland Metro Area Signs
Dairy Creek sign In the past 2 years, I have worked on signage projects in the Portland area for agencies of the city or state. In 2025, I consulted on a sign for the Dairy Creek project on Sauvie Island. Over the period of several months, I met…
We Are American History
America-the United States, is a multicultural, multi-ethnic country composed of indigenous peoples and peoples who have emigrated here from every other country and land in the world. For much of the history of the nation, its history was written as if people of color,…
Jim Kirk of Brownsville
A set of news clippings from the 1870s is helping to hone in on where the Indian encampment was in Albany, OR. Previously, it was said to be on an island near Albany. But the murder of Charlie, by Jim Kirk a native man who apparently as raising on the Kirk Homestead in…
Warm Springs Encampment on the McKenzie River, 1860
The upper McKenzie River, in Oregon, is a vast wilderness and a tourist fishing location for the past 100 years. Some 30% of the clean water in the Willamette River comes down the Mckenzie. In the latter part of the 19th century, gold mining and…
Anthropology and Government Policy
Essays written in preparation for my Comprehensive exams, nearly 20 years ago. Anthropology and Government Policy Part of the government’s role regarding Indian people was to figure out what to do with them. Historically, the European nations and formed contracts…
Woodbridge Memorial: the Initial Plan to “Help” the Indians of California
Sylvester Woodbridge, a Presbyterian pastor, may have been one of the first to suggest a plan for the initial California Reserves. This certainly helped the effort for writing treaties with the tribes in 1851. Sylvester…
Beginnings of Fort Yamhill
In April and May 1856 Joel Palmer hired 60 men to be the Grand Ronde Guards, to build a fence and control access and egress to the Grand Ronde Indian reservation. They were all laid off in early May likely due to the fact that threats from settlers upon the Indian did…
Mystery Soldiers At Fort Yamhill, Grand Ronde
Recently, I came upon a number of postcards of soldiers at the Grand Ronde Reservation. It was a common practice to turn photos into postcards. On Ebay these images were available for purchase. Image 808 is labelled Grand Ronde 1911 on the back. and…
Teddy Roosevelt Rough Rider
Folks who were around Portland in 2020 recall that there were a good number of protests in the area. Statues in several communities were being pulled down. Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Rider statue was pulled down and is now being stored and restored by Portland. Maybe we…
What is going to be the tipping point? When the nation understands Trump has to go? I cannot wait for the de-trumpification to begin.
I guess. But that seems like too much just going along with the lemmings.
The citation? Or this is just rumor and gaslighting.
Kirk you're an irony. That is your legacy.
Henry Parr Petit, Walla Walla
I was looking through the NARA electronic records and found references to a man, Henry Petit, at Umatilla. The Petit name is well known at Grand Ronde. My Great GGG Grand Father Francis Mercier (Belgian) married Mary Petit (Chinook, Clackamas, Iroquois) and this…
They need to look like criminals. It just optics and gaslighting now.
Epstein is gone so his pimp is no more
This is a surgeon general?
Oregon Tribal Curriculum
Nowadays, I get requests all the time for relevant tribal curriculum for public schools. This has been an issue for decades in Oregon. There was tribal curriculum units created in the 1950s and later by various school districts. I will try to dig up a copy of the Salem…
Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley Book Presentations
Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley Book events (upcoming and past) 2025 (upcoming) Dec 12/6 Wild Arts Festival Author Table Hillsboro Aug 8/4 Shared Stewardship 101, Benton County 8/14 Scio? 8/23 Oregon State Fair Author Table…
She needs to get on the winning side
US does not manufacture enough to justify this 19th century theory
For Noem to call this a threat is not credible! We see what happened on the video, for HS to call him a threat is one of the most winey cowardly falsehoods today, I say today because I assume Noem will have another winey cowardly falsehood tomorrow to up the stakes, or Lower them!
We see what happened on the video, for HS to call him a threat is one of the most winey cowardly falsehoods today, I say today because I assume Noem will have another winey cowardly falsehood tomorrow to up the stakes, or Lower them!
We see what happened on the video, for HS to call him a threat is one of the most winey cowardly falsehoods today, I say today because I assume Noem will have another winey cowardly falsehood tomorrow to up the stakes, or Lower them!
