Tag: Clackamas

Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , April 6th, 2020
Anson Dart departed from Oregon in late 1851 after completing the negotiation of 19 treaties in Oregon with tribes. Dart had replaced the Willamette Treaty Commission in June…

Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , December 30th, 2019
The following is report from a Notice, Notice No. 4, part of a series of reports of the Catholic missionary Francois Norbert Blanchet (September 30, 1795 – June…

Ethnohistory Research, LLC | David G. Lewis, PhD , December 30th, 2019
The following is a Notice, Notice No. 4, part of a series of reports of the Catholic missionary Francois Norbert Blanchet from 1841 to 1842 about his missionary…

David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , June 30th, 2018
The Clackamas were major fisher people in the Willamette and Columbia. The Willamette Falls is second only to Celilo in the lower Columbia for fishing for salmon….

David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , June 28th, 2018
The Clackamas Come to Grand Ronde Reservation Preparing to Leave The Clackamas are addressed in letters as living in small encampments near Oregon City. They likely had a…

David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , June 7th, 2018
The Clackamas (Tlakamas) lived along the Clackamas river and along the lower Willamette. Their villages and associated territorial claims extended from Willamette Falls to the Willamette Slough. Schol…

David G. Lewis' Ethnohistory Research, LLC , May 31st, 2018
Native kinships are incredibly complex. They do not follow the nice neat patterns of kinship that Americans have adopted from their European ancestors. Native peoples did not only…