Calapooya Mountains
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The Calapooya Mountains are a mountain range in Lane and Douglas counties of southwestern Oregon in the United States. The range runs for approximately 60 miles west from the Cascade Range between Eug
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Kalapuya
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The Kalapuya or Kʼalapʰuya are a Native American people, which had eight independent groups speaking three mutually intelligible dialects. The Kalapuya tribes' traditional homelands were the Willamett
Calapooya Mountains
…Valley and the Umpqua Valley, effectively separating Western Oregon from Southern Oregon. In the 19th century, it separated the tribal domains of the Kalapuya and Umpqua tribes of Native Americans. During the 1840s, the mountains proved a barrier to white settlers seeking to move into southern Oregon or to…
Esther Stutzman, a Kalapuya elder, leads her daughters, along with two members of the next generation, in a Kalapuya welcome song, 2009.
An engraving of a Kalapuya man, from an illustration by Alfred T. Agate, 1840s
Woodcut of a native Kalapuya man by an early explorer.
Lucindra Jackson, Yonkalla tribe, Kalapuya, ca. 1912