"The Willamette Valley is rich with history -- its riverbanks, forests, and mountains home to the tribes of Kalapuya, Chinook, Molalla, and more for thousands of years. This history has been largely unrecorded, incomplete, poorly researched, or partially told. In these stories, enriched by photographs and maps, Oregon Indigenous historian David G. Lewis combines years of researching historical documents and collecting oral stories, highlighting Native perspectives about the history of the Willamette Valley as they experienced it. The timeline spans the first years of contact between settlers and tribes, the takeover of tribal lands and creation of reservations by the US Federal Government, and the assimilation efforts of boarding schools. Lewis shows the resiliency of Native peoples in the face of colonization. Undoing the erasure of these stories reveals the fuller picture of the colonization and changes experienced by the Native peoples of the Willamette Valley absent from other contemporary histories of Oregon."-- Provided by publisher

History, Indians of North America, Indians of North America Colonization, Indians of North America Colonization Oregon Willamette River Valley, Indians of North America Oregon Willamette River Valley History, Oregon Willamette River Valley, Willamette River Valley (Or.) History

Decline of the tribes of Western Oregon Encounters with settlers Encountering removal The Clackamas come to Grand Ronde Reservation Resettling to the reservation Encounters with off-reservation Indians Historic events timeline