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  • Women & Children outside Farm Labor Camp

    This ca. 1967 photograph shows Hispanic women and children standing near plywood-sided cabins at a farm labor camp in the Willamette Valley.  The photograph is …

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  • A Land and Its People

    Southwestern Oregon stretches from the high Cascades west to the Pacific Ocean, and from the California state line north to the Coquille River. Two principal …

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  • Arrogant "Anthropology" and the Dynamics of Ethnic Change

    If Indians by 1905 were strangers in their own land, the Exposition also introduced new peoples to occupy the low spot on the supposed continuum …

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  • As Long as the World Goes On, Bibliography

    Bibliography Adams, Tom. “Bibliography of Articles Relating to Jedediah Strong Smith.” Pacific Historian 19 (1975): 69-72. Aikens, Melvin. Archaeology of Oregon. Portland: U.S. Department …

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  • Bibliography

    Bibliography—Columbia River Fishery Ackerman, Lillian A. “Kinship, Family, and Gender Roles.” In The Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 12: Plateau, ed. Deward …

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  • Central Oregon Bibliography

    Abbot, Henry L. Report of Lieut. Henry L. Abbot, Corps of Topographical Engineers: Upon Explorations for a Railroad Route from the Sacramento Valley to the …

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  • Chinese Americans in Oregon

    The Pioneer Period, 1850-1860 The Cantonese-Chinese were the first Chinese in Oregon. They immigrated to America primarily from the Pearl River Delta region in southeast …

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  • Divided Waters

    The Klamath River system is unique in having Indian reservations at its headwaters, along its estuary, and astride its major tributary, the Trinity. Ever since …

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  • Eastern Oregon

    Eastern Oregon is bounded north-south by the Wallowa Mountains and the Alvord Desert, and east-west by the Snake River Valley and the Ochoco National Forest. …

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  • Facts about Snake River Valley at Nyssa, Oregon

    This map is from a circa 1911 brochure promoting the “progressive and growing city” of Nyssa, located in northern Malheur County on the Idaho state …

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