The Clackamas Indians were a tribe of American Indians of the American state of Oregon. A Sioux in traditional dress including war bonnet, circa 1908. ... Official language(s) (none)[1] Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area Ranked 9th - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²) - Width 260 miles (420 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 2. ...
They were part of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde of Oregon. The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon consists of five tribes with long historical ties to present-day western Oregon between the Coast Range and the Cascade Range: Chasta (present-day Oregon bands of the Shasta) Kalapuya Molalla Rogue River (a tribe whose bands were split between...
Like others of the Chinook band, they practiced head flattening. From infancy the head was compressed between boards, thus sloping the forehead backward. Chinook has several meanings: The Chinookan nation of Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, which inhabited the lower Columbia River valley in what is now Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. ... Painting from 1847 by Paul Kane, showing a Chinookan child in the process of having its head flattened. ...
By 1855, the 88 surviving members of the tribe were relocated to Grand Ronde, Oregon, first to a reservation, later they blended in the general population. Grand Ronde is a census-designated place located in Polk County, Oregon. ...
Of note, they are the technical owners of the Willamette Meteorite. Willamette Meteorite The Willamette Meteorite was discovered in the American state of Oregon, and is the largest meteorite ever found in the United States, and the sixth largest in the world. ...
Northwest Indian cultures ranged from small groups of horse-riding nomads on the Columbia Plateau to large and permanent villages--typically of 30 to 100 people--toward the coast and in the rich inland valleys.
Very roughly (the Indians recognized no larger political unit than the household or village) the Upper Chinooks were divided into the Multnomah of the western Willamette riverbank and Wapato (Sauvies) Island and the CLACKAMAS of the eastern Willamette riverbank and the valleys of the Clackamas and Sandy Rivers.
Today, descendants of the first people of Clackamas County are part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, a community of five tribes (Kalapuya, Molalla, Umpqua, Chasta, and Rogue River) that preserves a common culture in a place far from their traditional lands.
The larger truth is that native lifestyles were disrupted by other Indians and by the arrival of Spanish horses well before the United States came into existence, wars and irreversible cultural changes were caused by government policies older than the Oregon Trail, and most contact between emigrants and Indians on the overland trails was peaceful.
Plains Indians were in a constant battle over homelands as migrating tribes shoved aside previous occupants, and the policies of the US government served only to further complicate this situation.
During the Jackson presidency, a policy of Indian removal was implemented and the "five civilized tribes" of the northeast were forcibly relocated to the plains.
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