FDI - Atfalati

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Atfalati

*Ethnie:*	ATFALATI (TUALATIN)
*Language:*	Tualatin
*Family:*	Kalapuyan
*Stock:*	Oregon Penutian
*Phylum:*	Penutian
*Macro-Culture:*	Northwestern

Speakers

The Aflalati were semi-sedentary hunter/gatherer tribes who lived on the Atfalati Plains, in the hills about Forest Grove, and the shores and vicinity of Wapato and extended as far as Portland. Their population declined rapidly with the arrival of Whites.

Aboriginal Locations

OR 24 villages

Oregon Present Locations

Confederated into the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde

Year	*History*
1792	Arrival of first Whites
1805	Visited by Lewis and Clark
1824	Smallpox epidemic
1829	Smallpox epidemic, combined 80% population loss
1830	Malaria epidemic
1841	Influx of Oregon Trail settlers began, conflicts followed
1850	Influx of prospectors and settlers
1855	Removed to Grand Ronde Reservation

Year	U.S. Population	Source
1700	2,400	NAHDB calculation
1780	2,000	Mooney estimate
1800	1,800	NAHDB calculation
1848	60	Tribal roll
1900	0	NAHDB calculation (Had confederated into other tribes)
2000	0	NAHDB calculation

Other speakers of the same language:

None

Coos Sites:

Atfalati Indian History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/kalapooia/atfalatihist.htm

Kalapuya Language http://www.native-languages.org/kalapuya.htm

Kalapuya Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kyl

Kalapuya Linguistic Linage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=kyl

Kalapuyan http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/oregon/kalapuyan.html

Northwest: Oregon Culture and Ethnobotany http://www.fourdir.com/northwest_california-oregon_culture.htm

Tualatin Historical Society http://www.tualatinhistoricalsociety.org/

Tualatin Indians http://www.cedarmill.org/history/history_natives.html