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Santo Cristo de Burgos
The Manila Galleon Trade and the Wreck on the Oregon Coast
Nehalem-Tillamook and Clatsop peoples, and later EuroAmerican explorers and settlers of what is …
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East Indians of Oregon and the Ghadar Party
In the early twentieth century, five to six hundred men and one family of East Indians lived along the Columbia River, from The Dalles …
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Edward Wah (1931?-2008)
Edward Eng Wah, D.M.D., practiced dentistry in both Portland and John Day. The great-grandnephew of Oregon herbalist Ing Hay (Wu Yunian; also know as Doc …
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Gary Snyder (1930-)
Many think of Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize-wining poet and essayist, as primarily a Beat writer or as a member of the San Francisco Renaissance. Certainly …
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Goose Hollow
One of the oldest neighborhoods in Portland, Goose Hollow has a history that includes roving bands of geese, the Great Plank Road, a …
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Japanese Americans in Oregon
Immigrants from the West
Resting in the shade of the Gresham Pioneer Cemetery, there is a grave marker with the name Miyo Iwakoshi. The name …
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Japantown, Portland (Nihonmachi)
Portland's Japantown, or Nihonmachi, is popularly described as having existed before World War II in the area known today as Old Town-Chinatown, between Northwest …
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Kenneth O. Hanson (1922-2003)
Poet Kenneth Ostlin Hanson lived in the Pacific Northwest for most of his life. In the nearly forty years he spent in Portland, Hanson …
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Mae Yih (1928–)
Upon her election to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1976, Mae Yih became the first Chinese-born woman in the United States elected to a …
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Pendleton
Pendleton, a city of 17,107 in the 2020 census, sits in the foothills of the Blue Mountains. The city center is built on the …
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