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The Kalapuyans

Harold Mackey, PhD 1974

• p19 1875 Joseph Gale letter: Walla Met == grand river

• p21 "intermittent fever" "ague" (influenza or malaria) 5000-6000 /or/ 90% of Indians died around lower Willamette and Columbia rivers
• p21 no opposition to pioneer settlers

• p22 Atfalati or Tualatin Indians, a Kapapuya tribe

• p22 "divine being" Ayuthlme-i an abstraction, like the word "miraculous"
• p23 "purchase a wife" actually indemnity for the loss of a daughter's labor
• p24 blankets and clothing and guns
• p25 slaves of same owner allowed to marry; only sold (rarely) as a couple afterwards
• p32 photo of 50 cm long stone knife (tip rounded, no point)

• p33 Wapato Lake tribes, from Willamette river west to coast range, Forest Grove Hillsboro south to McMinnville and Dayton

• p84 1849 report 60 Tualatene Indians, 30 are warriors

• p108 map showing approx. 8x8 mile "square" (tilted 25 degrees west) of Tualaty Indians, approx Forest Grove to nw of Yamhill diagonal
  • About 60 Tualaty Indians sold 2000 square miles, moved to a 60 square mile reservation

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  • The current population of that area is more than a million people

• p146 An 1861 treaty moved all 50 remaining Kalapuyans and 5 other tribes to the Grand Rhonde reservation

• p146 Sam Fern was the last full-blooded Kalapuyan, and died in 1919 at age 47