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Mondo's NAT # 124 - Chepenafa Traditional Cache

Hidden : 8/9/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Native American Tribe series.

Chepenafa

A Kalapooian tribe, sometimes regarded as a subdivision of the Lakmiut, they formerly lived at the forks of St Marys Creek, near Corvallis, Oregon. They were nearly wiped out by disease by the 1830's and in 1855, the few were were left were removed to the Grand Ronde Reservation, which still exists today. By 1870 they nymbered just 49 people and in 1910, only 24. The Grande Ronde Reservation, being officially known as Marys River Indians, consists of twenty-seven Native American tribes.

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