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Kalapuyan Tribes

 

 

Ethnie: KALAPUYAN TRIBES
Language: Kalapuyan
Family: Kalapuyan
Stock: Kalapuyan
Phylum: Macro-Penutian
Macro-Culture: Northwestern
Speakers 1 or 2 1962 Chafe
     The Kalapuyan Tribes were semi-sedentary hunter/gatherer tribes who lived in the valley of the Willamette River and its tributaries.  Their population declined rapidly with the arrival of Whites though they had long time been victims of slaving raids from the Columbia River tribes.
Tribes (Villages)
Ahantchuyuk (?), Aflati (24), Chelamela (?), Chepenafa (?),  Kalapuya (5 bands), Luckiamute (6 bands), Santiam (4 bands),  Yamhill (6 bands), Yoncalla (2 bands?)
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 3,000 NAHDB calculation
1780 3,000 Mooney estimate
1800 3,000 NAHDB calculation
1880 351 Swanton (Kalapuya at Grand Ronde)
1900 0 NAHDB calculation (Had confederated into other Grand Ronde)
2000 0 NAHDB calculation
Other speakers of the same language:
None
Kalapuya Sites:
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/wauhtml/aipnSubjects16.html
Atfalati Indian History  http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/kalapooia/atfalatihist.htm
Boca Cave  http://www.vrview.com/sacredworlds/artists/Tom_Wilkins/TomWil_xmov2.htm
Camus Oven Sites  http://www.or.blm.gov/culcamasoven.htm
Fire, Native Peoples ...  http://www.tidepool.org/books/nativefire.cfm
Kalapuya and US Government  http://www.ccrh.org/comm/cottage/gov.htm
Kalapuya Calendar  http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~coyotez/kalapuyacalendar.htm
Kalapuya Creation Story  http://www.archaeologychannel.org/kalapuya.html
Kalapuya Dictionary and Thesaurus  http://kalapuya.bluerider.com/wordsearch/kalapuya
Kalapuya Language  http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=KAL
Kalapuya Talking Stones  http://emc.rio.com/AboutKalStones.html
Kalapuya Treaty  http://wikisource.org/wiki/Kalapuya_Treaty
Kalapuyan Groups  http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/oregon/kalapuyan.htm
Kalapuyas of Clackamas County  http://www.usgennet.org/alhnorus/ahorclak/kalapuyas.html
Kalapuys of the Willamette Valley  http://www.salemhistory.net/ethnic/ek01.htm
Mary's River Indians ...  http://www.maryspeak.org/cosmo.htm
Native American and Early Exploration  http://www.ci.eugene.or.us/PDD/planning/eugenehistoric/to1845.htm
Northwest: Oregon Culture and Ethnobotany  http://www.fourdir.com/northwest_california-oregon_culture.htm
Trickster as a Teacher  http://www.gaylasgarden.com/trickster.htm
Tualatin Indians  http://www.cedarmill.org/history/history_natives.html
Two Will Honor Ancestors ...  http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues02/Co03092002/CO_03092002_Walking.htm

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