Calapooians at Kingston...both gone Traditional Cache
Calapooians at Kingston...both gone
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Calapooian (Chantkaip) and Kingston Sites
At this intersection, near this spot once stood the "town" of Kingston: Hence the roads, Kingston-Lyons Drive and Kingston-Jordan Drive. Until a few years ago a white house stood right across the road from the cache location. The owner had a large number of Indian artifacts that he had unearthed right in the small acreage around his house. This bench along the river has yielded many Calapooian artifacts.
The people who lived in this area were known by many names. Calapooian is also spelled Kalapuyan. In this area was the domain of the Santiam band, after which the Santiam River is named. Here are some details:
The group was also called Aha'lpam and the specific band living just below the junction of the Santiam forks was the Chantkaip, while generally those east of Willamette were called Chanchampenau (see book by Mackey, H. (1974), The Kalapuyans: A Sourcebook on the Indians of the Willamette Valley, p. 11).
While the specifics of the people are lost in time and translation to us, their artifacts continue to surface. My husband routinely finds small pieces of obsidian in our garden 5 miles from this site. My son, who worked moving water pipe in a field near here, also found an arrowhead. And, as stated before, the man who lived at the white house that stood on the corner "Kingston" had a wealth of artifacts recovered from his one acre.
My favorite related story comes from another land owner who lives close by. He "salted" his orchard with 6 arrowheads and the students who went searching came up with 8 (the story is something like that). He also tells of reaching for a rock to help him climb up a small hill and finding that his hand went in it...it was an upturned bowl. There were game pieces on his property from when the Chinese completed the railroad grade near here, and one of the earliest homes was built on his property as well.
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