Mondo's NAT #244 - Kalapooian Traditional Cache
Mondo's NAT #244 - Kalapooian
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Native American Tribes series.
Kalapooian
A group of tribes that formerly occupied the valley of Willamette River in northwest Oregon, they spoke a distinct language. Little is known of their history, but they seem to have confined themselves to the territory mentioned, except in the case of one tribe the Yonkalla, which pushed southward to the valley of the Umpqua. The earliest accounts describe a numerous population in Willamette Valley, which is one of the most fertile in the northwest; but the Kalapooian tribes appear to have suffered severe losses by epidemic disease about 1824. They were at constant war with the coast peoples and also suffered much at the hands of the white pioneers. Game, in which the country abounded, and roots of various kinds constituted their chief food supply. Unlike most of the Indians of that region they did not depend on salmon, which are unable to ascend the Willamette above the falls, and at which point the Kalapooian territory ended. Of the general customs of the group there is little information. Slavery existed in a modified form, marriage was by purchase and was accompanied by certain curious ceremonials, and flattening of the head by fronto-occipital pressure was practiced.
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