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  • Timber Industry

    Since the 1880s, long before the mythical Paul Bunyan roamed the Northwest, the timber industry has been a driving force in the economies of Oregon …

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  • Toledo Incident of 1925

    In 1925, a mob forced a Japanese labor crew to leave Toledo, a community of about 2,500 people on the central Oregon coast. The incident …

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  • Tommy Thompson (1864?–1959)

    Tommy Kuni Thompson served as the headman of Wyam (an Ichiskiin Sinwit word that translates as "echo of falling water" in English), also called Celilo …

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  • Tower Theatre

    The Tower Theatre is Bend’s most colorful and iconic landmark. Since the theater’s opening on March 6, 1940, residents have heralded the building’s Streamline Moderne …

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  • Tualatin peoples

    Tualatin (properly pronounced 'twälə.tun in English) was the name of a collection of related but independent villages whose members spoke a dialect of Northern Kalapuya, …

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  • United Bicycle Institute

    Ashland's United Bicycle Institute (UBI) is the largest trainer of certified bicycle mechanics in the United States and the only school in the world …

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  • United States v. Tom (1853)

    In United States v. Tom, the Oregon Territorial Supreme Court questioned the principle of federal supremacy over American Indian affairs in the territory and …

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  • Urban Indians in Oregon

    The Portland Metro area rests on traditional village sites of Native peoples. These include those of Chinookan-speaking (or Kiksht-speaking) peoples, such as the Multnomah, Cascade, …

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  • Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018)

    Ursula K. Le Guin, one of Oregon’s preeminent writers, was born Ursula Kroeber in 1929 in Berkeley, California, the youngest and only girl in a …

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  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Forensics Lab

    Who nailed a protected spotted owl to a park sign? Are ivory tusks from modern elephants or Ice Age mammoths? Are fish eggs sold as …

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399 results

  • Timber Industry

    Since the 1880s, long before the mythical Paul Bunyan roamed the Northwest, the timber industry has been a driving force in the economies of Oregon …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Toledo Incident of 1925

    In 1925, a mob forced a Japanese labor crew to leave Toledo, a community of about 2,500 people on the central Oregon coast. The incident …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Tommy Thompson (1864?–1959)

    Tommy Kuni Thompson served as the headman of Wyam (an Ichiskiin Sinwit word that translates as "echo of falling water" in English), also called Celilo …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Tower Theatre

    The Tower Theatre is Bend’s most colorful and iconic landmark. Since the theater’s opening on March 6, 1940, residents have heralded the building’s Streamline Moderne …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Tualatin peoples

    Tualatin (properly pronounced 'twälə.tun in English) was the name of a collection of related but independent villages whose members spoke a dialect of Northern Kalapuya, …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • United Bicycle Institute

    Ashland's United Bicycle Institute (UBI) is the largest trainer of certified bicycle mechanics in the United States and the only school in the world …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • United States v. Tom (1853)

    In United States v. Tom, the Oregon Territorial Supreme Court questioned the principle of federal supremacy over American Indian affairs in the territory and …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Urban Indians in Oregon

    The Portland Metro area rests on traditional village sites of Native peoples. These include those of Chinookan-speaking (or Kiksht-speaking) peoples, such as the Multnomah, Cascade, …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018)

    Ursula K. Le Guin, one of Oregon’s preeminent writers, was born Ursula Kroeber in 1929 in Berkeley, California, the youngest and only girl in a …

    Oregon Encyclopedia

  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Forensics Lab

    Who nailed a protected spotted owl to a park sign? Are ivory tusks from modern elephants or Ice Age mammoths? Are fish eggs sold as …

    Oregon Encyclopedia