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Takelma. Jennie, a Rogue River Takelma woman, who crafted the dress worn in this iconic Peter Britt portrait. The Takelma (also Dagelma) are a Native American people who originally lived in the Rogue Valley of interior southwestern Oregon . Most of their villages were sited along the Rogue River. The name Takelma means " (Those) Along the River".
There are seven Native American reservations in Oregon that belong to seven of the nine federally recognized Oregon tribes: Burns Paiute Indian Colony, of the Burns Paiute Tribe: 13,738 acres (55.60 km 2) in Harney County. Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Reservation, of Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians is less than ...
The Oregon black exclusion laws were attempts to prevent black people from settling within the borders of the settlement and eventual U.S. state of Oregon. The first such law took effect in 1844, when the Provisional Government of Oregon voted to exclude black settlers from Oregon's borders. The law authorized a punishment for any black settler ...
The term Cowlitz people covers two culturally and linguistically distinct indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest; the Lower Cowlitz or Cowlitz proper, and the Upper Cowlitz / Cowlitz Klickitat or Taitnapam. Lower Cowlitz refers to a southwestern Coast Salish people, which today are enrolled in the federally recognized tribes: Cowlitz ...
The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Indian Reservation in Western Oregon.
Kalapuyan (also Kalapuya) is a small extinct language family that was spoken in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon, United States. It consists of three languages. [1] The Kalapuya language is currently in a state of revival. Kalapuyan descendants in the southernmost Kalapuya region of Yoncalla, Oregon, published 100 copies of a ...
Klickitat people. The Klickitat (also spelled Klikitat) are a Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest. Today most Klickitat are enrolled in the federally recognized Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, some are also part of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon .
Oregon Country, a large region explored by Americans and the British (and generally known to Canadians as the Columbia District ); Oregon Territory, established by the United States two years after its sovereignty over the region was established by the Oregon Treaty; and. Oregon, a U.S. state since 1859.